Got my first visit by Jehovah's Witnesses! woohoo

5uspect

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Sorry for the bump but a new batch of Jehovah Witness's were doing the rounds in my neighbourhood this morning. Two came into my garden just as I was leaving my house to go to the shop. They asked me for my time to discuss a pressing issue in today's society. They go on to show me the title of the new Alive magazine. The pressing issue? Prescription drug abuse. Now I'm not saying people don't have an awful time trying to deal with prescription drug addiction but a pressing issue? I think weaning people off the smack, cocaine and alcohol would be a priority myself when it comes to drug addiction.:pac:

Wasn't Michael Jackson a JW? Didn't he die from prescription drug abuse?
Don't some consider him greater than god?

Join the dots people!

DublinWriter

A family member converted to JW a number of years ago.

We're not allowed buy the kids birthday or Christmas presents.

They are one of the wackiest and dangerous Christian sects, and you wouldn't believe how big they are silently getting here in Ireland.

One of their beliefs is that only 144,000 people will eventually make it into heaven. Them's bad odds, considering that there are a couple of million JW'ers world-wide!

epik

aw...

They visited me twice there recently. The second time I had a longer frank and honest discussion about my beliefs/opinions... and since then nothing!

Guess some souls are more prone to Salvation, eh?

bnt

If you've heard Julia Sweeney's Letting Go Of God, she says that it was a JW visit that got her to question her "standard" beliefs. and the rot set in ...

edit: just checked again - it was actually Mormon missionaries who spun her a story about Lehi, gold plates, and Palmyra NY, which was a bit out there.

Well, at this point I wanted to give these two boys advice about their pitch. I wanted to say "OK, don't start with this story". I mean, even the Scientologists know to start with the personality test, before they start telling people all about Xenu, the evil Intergalactic Overlord.

Otaku Girl

Dave! wrote: »

Finally

Had a 5-10 min chat about god, the bible, and creation, with a nice English lady and a sexy younger lady! :eek:

They're coming back next week to give me some creationism book.

I hope this doesn't mean they're gonna pester me for the rest of my life

Solution= Answer the door bollock naked with exception of an ill fitting Tarzan thong.:pac:

Zillah

Dades wrote: »

Not to mention the 'opium' of the people!

Opiate!

Dades

what EVA!

Goduznt Xzst

Otaku Girl wrote: »

Solution= Answer the door bollock naked with exception of an ill fitting Tarzan thong.:pac:

I get a fair few of them around my way. My cousin being a JW though I'm usually prepared for them.

Seriously, this is the best way to mess with their heads. Usually a bunch of them will drive into the area, get out and get assigned different streets so that they aren't all calling on the same doors. So when they call on your door, say something like "em... your friend Dave/Peter/John just called here, we said we weren't interested"

They'll look puzzled and turn around and apologize for calling again. You can then go to the window and watch the confusion set in, because they won't know if they are to go forward as those doors might of also of been done, and they can't go back because those doors where done by themselves. They will now have to search around and ask the other JW's where Dave/Peter/John is to see which doors he's knocked on and which ones haven't been done yet.

Seriously try it. They will probably leave your door then stand at the end of your driveway turning in circles trying to compute what just happened.

Quint

I hope they knock so i can try that!
Actually, I live in an apartment now, so it won't be the same. They did "knock" in a month or 2 ago. They used the intercom and rang every apartment and asked if they would speak to them. It's a big complex, about 200 apartments, it must get boring getting 200 people telling you to piss off.

5uspect

I wonder if that works with Mormons...
Religion is religion right?

davej

I've only come across JW's at my doorstep once years ago. Similar to what some others have mentioned, one of them was an attractive young female. Maybe this would be a good question to ask them: Do they use sex to try to sell their religion ?

davej

Dave!

Hah, got 2 more visitors just now! This time baptists or something...

The guy could really bloody talk too. I tried several times to end the conversation: "well that's food for thought", "thanks for stopping by", etc.

He was undeterred

I spoke to him for about 15 minutes, pleasant enough chap, I gave him some slight resistance, asked him about Islam, Adam and Eve, etc. He asked could he pray for me, I told him he can if he wants, if he thinks it'll help. Sure prayers always helps, don't you know! I was gonna start asking him about dinosaurs but my folks came back from walking the dog, so I saw that as an opportunity to end the conversation

"Careful of the dog mate, nice talking to you"

Nice folks these Christians