A morning with the Jehova's

[tomjackson]

I've just had a morning chatting with some JW's that knocked on my door.
They get a bad press but if you are up for good debate they are very accomodating.
I think they left with a few more questions than they came with and in the end couln't wait to get away.  I felt a bit bad lecturing them at first but then I though well there was 2 of them and they did knock at my door so it's all fair game.  All in all a fun hour or so.

Now they did say that imagine how good a musician I'd be (I told them I play guitar)  if I got the offer of eternal life by signing up and studying Jehova.  This made me chuckle as I've got no better in the last 10 years! 
It would really depress me if I was still playing the same pentatonic cr@p in 1000 years!

It's not as if I could say I'd had no time to practise :D

[Philly Q]

Wow, what possessed you to do that?  I frequently get Saturday morning visits from the Jehovah's Witnesses - usually don't answer the door but I get caught sometimes if I'm expecting a parcel or something.  I always politely say I'm not interested, it would do my head in to actually talk to them.

[Copperhead]

I usually start with "Your heaven is the hell I'm trying to avoid!"
Then when they leave, I follow them down the sidewalk from a short distance, and as they knock on my neighbors' doors I'll shout out "STOP LYING TO PEOPLE!" and "WARNING!! RUSSELLITES INBOUND!"  :lol:

[tomjackson]

Wow, what possessed you to do that? 

I just love a good argument sometimes!

[DavidRees]

tried this trick once and never been bothered since...

went to door wearing nothing but a towel...

let towel drop to floor, waited for screaming to stop, closed door - job done

my address is probably on some JW banned list  8)

[tomjackson]

tried this trick once and never been bothered since...

went to door wearing nothing but a towel...

let towel drop to floor, waited for screaming to stop, closed door - job done

my address is probably on some JW banned list  8)

Even if that upset them, I bet they admired your balls

[nfe]

My opening address to any JW or other evangelical on the crusade is "I'll speak to you if you know "Jesus"' true name.

None have been successful.

[JacksonRR]

You could always just say, "No, thanks. I'm just too fond of having my life saved by blood transfusion and I really don't have the time to attend 3-4 church sessions a week adding up to 17 hrs total." I asked them once about their side project of saving the environment and the pollutants caused by their members traveling to their clubhouse so often. Cutting back on God time for clean air that God wants seemed like a good suggestion, but they didn't like it so much. I don't like being bothered at 8 in the morning on Saturday when I have a hangover though. I wish my area had laws against random solicitation or "cold calling." They fall into that category and are unable to walk around with their comic books about Jesus.

Next time I'll sing them a Tim Minchin song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUc_kATGgg

[mikeluke]

I prefer the Victor Meldrew approach...

"Hello!'.... Goodbye!"

[WezV]

most of my family are JW's.  i am not, parents left well before i was born.   

the oddest moment for me was at my gran's funeral a few years back.  the guy doing the service actually asked us to be thankful she was not born as hitler - that was the basis of the whole service!

[JacksonRR]

Yeah, they have a MAJOR thing for Hitler. They started to pick up speed around WWII with the whole impending apocalypse thing they say is coming any day now. Hitler is supposed to be a version of Satan or Santa that came down and started forcing people to mass murder the Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, the mentally ill, the mentally retarded and the nay-sayers in Germany. My aunt is one and she started calling everybody non-stop after her last yearly convention. They told her the world was ending soon(they do this every 10 years or so) and their might not be a convention next year. Their conventions are these 3 day events. I had to go to a few as a child since my mother had also been a door knocking vampire at the time. I think that's about when I decided to be an atheist, except on major holidays(free stuff and drinking).

[WezV]

i think the apocalypse predications are great, normally shuts them up for a while afterwards!

[DavidRees]

most of my family are JW's.  i am not, parents left well before i was born.   

the oddest moment for me was at my gran's funeral a few years back.  the guy doing the service actually asked us to be thankful she was not born as hitler - that was the basis of the whole service!

Wez nothing I said was meant to cause any offence to you or your family - I apologise if that is what occured

David

[WezV]

hah, dont worry about that!

[HTH AMPS]

the first and last time they knocked on me I was wearing my Morbid Angel t-shirt, they didn't come back - lost cause possibly  :lol:

this one...



I will say, it wasn't planned at all (as if I could or would), just dossing round the house on a Sunday morning tolerating the Sunday tv.