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When evangelists knock on your door...

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
I tell them with an annoyed face that I REALLY don't care for religion. Go bother other people and don't come back.

I get even more annoyed when they bring kids with them to do their speeches. I'm tempted to challenge the kids on why they're doing this work and how they've come to their belief system.
Why being rude? Just say no thank you is enough.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Why being rude? Just say no thank you is enough.
I think that being nice to them might bring them back even though he has said, "I'm not interested". Nice people are good people and so they need to be saved by the Jehovah's Witnesses. But, please don't think it is my opinion. It is just how it works. Mean, snarky people go to hell which just means dead.
 

David J

Member
You are right! I have heard about the many hours the group has put in to make only one convert. I was a convert and I suspect that at least some of their leaders know that using the door to door order is so that their people will make strong their opinion of the theology of the Watchtower because their converts are supposed to be teaching it to more people. And another reason and a good one, I think, is to learn discipline. It is not easy for most people to talk to strangers and to spend days trying to do it with what really amounts to other strangers as they travel in a group usually. I have had an experience with one JW sister who seemed to be one thing which was an excellent person but once when I disagreed with her while proselytizing she got angry which is something I never would have predicted about her. I think that the JW organization is about putting on a false front, which I think is novel worthy because they actually have the nerve to call themselves "the truth".

You are realizing that it's hard to start a business.
 

Nyingjé Tso

Tänpa Yungdrung zhab pä tän gyur jig
What do you say when members of a religious group (such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses) knock on your door, evangelising?

I currently politely say “sorry, I already have a religion” and leave it as that

But the next time it happens I think I’m going to say something outrageous such as “I don’t need religion, I have a direct line to God” (don’t worry, I don’t believe I have a direct line to God!) or make up a religion and tell them I belong to that


I actually did that, telling them "sorry already got a religion have a good day !"

... Only to have them come back the next week. Then again the week After.

Trouble is : they rang every sunday SUPER EARLY and sunday morning is my holy day for sleeping and waking up late.
So every sunday for a while, I was woken up by loud doorbell, forced to jump out of bed, take any cloth lying around to cover up just to open the door, see the same JW guys outside and tell them again "pls bro stahp"

Then the next sunday the doorbell rang again at the exact same Time... But it was a time too much.

I stormed out of bed, opened the door and stared at them as they basked in the infinite glory of my absolutely naked angry-sleepy person.

They never came back.
Sunday is for SLEEEEP DAMMIT ! :D

Aum Namah Shivaya
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
I think that being nice to them might bring them back even though he has said, "I'm not interested". Nice people are good people and so they need to be saved by the Jehovah's Witnesses. But, please don't think it is my opinion. It is just how it works. Mean, snarky people go to hell which just means dead.
Personally i speak to them out of respect for their view.
 

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
I've only had a few bad experiences, otherwise it's been fine, and most people have been nice about everything.

A couple LDS guys, calling one another "elder", spoke with me at great length, and several times. Though never once did I let on that I bought into their ideas. I only had questions for them, and they had very few, and no sufficient answers - even though they said they'd "Take the questions back" to their superiors in the church to gain insight on how to respond several times. Nice couple of guys.

Some JWs came to the door a few times, but they were not pushy. They asked a few questions, keeping it all polite, and then left - I assumed because they saw no "in-road" to converting me.

A local church-going girl (probably 19 or 20) was out with her younger sister (probably 12 or 13) and knocked on the door. She cut right to the chase and asked if I knew where I would end up when I die. I told her I didn't think there was anything after death to be worried over. This really got her upset, and she informed me promptly that "hell" was the place I would be going. Better keep looking for someone who actually gives a crap.

A few other experiences where I don't remember the denomination or church represented - but the people were nice about it. They questioned me, and I answered honestly, from my stance as an atheist, and they never tried to take it to a personal level.

And then a few more instances where I was confronted out-of-doors. A man walked up to me on the street, commenting that I had nice dogs (I was walking them at the time). He tried a few paths in to his points, which I shut down each time with questions he couldn't answer, or refutations to his ideas. Eventually he told me to read The Bible and that I would "learn how vile you truly are." Way to captivate your audience, champ. Looking back, I should have asked him how many times that particular tactic had "worked."
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
None of the JW i know has harmed anyone. No kids or adult.
So none of the JWs you know have taught that God forbids blood transfusions?

I'd be surprised; it's a major position for the Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole... and it has a huge cost in literal lives.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Yes i know of it. But i do not stop them from follow the teaching.
I'm not talking about stopping them; I'm talking about recognizing what they're selling for what it is.

Any person who comes to my door wanting me to accept that I should leave my child to die even when normal medical care could save her should:

1. Be ashamed of themselves.
2. Count themselves lucky if the response they get is only "go **** yourself and the horse you rode in on, you child-murdering *******."

... even if they give their sales pitch with smiles and a soft demeanor.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
I'm not talking about stopping them; I'm talking about recognizing what they're selling for what it is.

Any person who comes to my door wanting me to accept that I should leave my child to die even when normal medical care could save her should:

1. Be ashamed of themselves.
2. Count themselves lucky if the response they get is only "go **** yourself and the horse you rode in on, you child-murdering *******."

... even if they give their sales pitch with smiles and a soft demeanor.
So if not agree it must be bad or evil?
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Personally i speak to them out of respect for their view.
Do you mean that you listen to them out of respect for their view? Because I think it is a cold, hard fact that they will never pay heed to your speech. They listen only to plan for what they can do to contradict you.
 
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