RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF THIS

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wHERE i WORKED BEFORE IT was common for colleagues to ask each other home for dinner etc I asked a younger colleague and thought she would refuse being 10 years younger etc she would have more to do,She immediately asked if she could bring a friend but gave no details. This girl came along -also much younger and nothing in common with me -nothing against her but little in common re intersts, background etc HOWEVER she was keen to meet me I asked why she had been broughtt here and the reply was "the Church* but the girl was an atheist.Other family members/friends did not like her. I could not have invited her to my home as I did not know her could I?But the girl said I had been told about her and that is why I invited her Rubbish I was told nothing about her As these 2 were close friend I think the likelehood was she was told about me and the other one wanted to meet me otherwise she would have refused the invite: please adjudicate on this .

Lady - did you read my take on it, just before your post? I think I got it, at least the essential bits!

I honestly and genuinely do not understand this post.

Innit, tho!

hi G! it's amazing how something daft draws you in and makes you spend time on it, but i think I understood in the end. does it make sense, what i said on prev.page(I hope mine doesn't sound confusing!)?

I bet the OP comes back and says "Oh that's not it. That's not it at all"

But then doesn't say what it really is....

We tested it out and the uninvited girl had no social life or anything actually

How did you test the girl OP was it a written test?

Oooh, was it multiple choice, I love those

Please post it here so that I can take the test and see how I score. I know it will be low, I obviously don't have a social life as I'm here like a saddo trying to work out what your point is

well..i can't see any other explanation. the only thing open to interpetation is whether the invited one wanted to offload her friend (as she failed to convert them) - or was it actually she wanted to show her friend how NOT to be by the example if OP , rather than show OP as a role model.

interpretation*

example of OP*, I meant

so it's un-Christian really of both of them haha, one for using Op as a 'bad example' or to offload friend (which I now I think IS what she meant by 'social work, not friemdship' - i.e. the Christian doing the converting of her atheist friend at the expense of OP)

..and the friend is un-Christian but on possible conversion course, being taken to dinner parties of atheists who are unfriendly/uncharitable !

So which one is getting off with the OP?

And did the test include aubergine like/dislike?

Ok I think I've got it.

The OP lives in a church and invites young people around for moussaka and multiple choice social networking tests.

The dish of choice is moussaka although an uninvited Christian guest then tried to get off with the OP even though she was atheist.

The OP is annoyed as she wanted to get off with the other atheist who is a social worker.

The OP has now disappeared to sleep it off as she had clearly had a schooner of sherry too many, leaving us more perplexed than we should be on a Bank Holiday Monday?

Do I win a prize?

haha the OP is asking 'why bother with an atheist' (i.e. why the Christian brought the friend to the atheist OP's dinner) - I think she'll be shocked to find out that she was picked as an 'uncharitable atheist' example, not hospitable but also not making an effort to like that friend, along with all herfriends/family. Funny!
Then the Christain takes ger friend to as Christian household and she's getting a warm welcome, haha! devious, so OP has a point in that .

'a', not 'as'

OP did say it was almost a duty at her work to invite colleagues, so she didn't 'invite young people' out of choice - she was hoping that they refuse! not very nice is it.. She's an obvious example really of un-christian attitudes, but your explanation Rhino is a funny fantasy option, so not as dull as the reality..

We have missed something here, people

The OP was asking about the RIGHTS AND WRONGS of this - we have only focused on the WRONGS

What about the right things here? Will no one think of the RIGHTS?

I've got it! The op is an atheist - who works for the Jehovah's witnesses!!

Explains the whole must-invite-people-round-but-what's-the-point-if-she's-also-an-atheist thing and the 'because of the church' comment

Do we even have confirmation that it was moussaka that was served?

And what about pudding?

Nope, moussaka was never more than a guess - much like the fishes and loaves. I feel certain magic mushrooms must have put in an appearance somewhere during the evening.

As for pudding, I'm not sure what's fashionable in atheist dining circles these days when inviting the Christians over. Heretic flambé?

PMSL at this thread. Seriously.

WTAF?

Where the hell is the op? We NEED more details.
Menu?
Drinks?
Guests?
Christian to atheist ratio?

So. Hang on....let me get this right....

You invited a colleague you have nothing in common with for dinner.

(even though you didn't expect her to say yes because she's much younger and you have nothing in common with her. )

She asked if she could bring a friend - you said yes.

You didn't like her friend. None of your other friends and family liked her friend.

Now you are cross with the colleague for bringing her. If she had been nicer it would have been ok.

Is that it? Or is there something I am missing?

Is it only Christian to invite people round for dinner if you have loaves and fishes? Or how was it un-Christian?

This is genuinely mind-boggling, btw, and I am currently spending my bank holiday trying to understand the rather weird Latin doodlings of a fifteenth-century bloke called Fisher so my tolerance level for mind boggling is set quite high.

Hilly, you have forgotten that some or all of the colleague's behaviour was unChristian somehow. The OP suspects the colleague only accepted the invite cos the friend wanted to meet the OP. Perhaps for her unique approach to story-telling?