So when Jehovah’s Witnesses showed up at your door... What did you do ?

[REDEYE]

Not answer the door.....

answer the door and tell them to get lost

engage in a dialogue with them

invite them into your house

or get brainwashed .....I mean converted..

and I always wondered if they had any success with the door to door sales pitch ,where anyone would say,," hell yes I'm in "

worst was when they would bring the brainwashed kids to the door to work on you...

any stories ?

 

[Betallsports]

Tell Wilbur to go home

 

[pathologist]

Laugh them away

 

[festeringZit]

Many times I'll engage them, because I know their doctrine inside and out.

They have their own version of the Bible from the Watchtower Society, where they change the text to say that Jesus wasn't God, but the archangel Michael come to earth as a man.


They also have a long list of failed predictions of Jesus's returning:

• 1897 "Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present, since October 1874," (Studies in the Scriptures, vol. 4, p. 621).
• 1899 " . . . the 'battle of the great day of God Almighty' (Revelation 16:14), which will end in A.D. 1914 with the complete overthrow of earth's present rulership, is already commenced," (The Time Is at Hand, 1908 edition, p. 101).
• 1916 "The Bible chronology herein presented shows that the six great 1000 year days beginning with Adam are ended, and that the great 7th Day, the 1000 years of Christ's Reign, began in 1873," (The Time Is at Hand, forward, p. ii).
• 1918 "Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old, particularly those named by the Apostle in Hebrews 11, to the condition of human perfection," (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, p. 89).
• 1922 "The date 1925 is even more distinctly indicated by the Scriptures than 1914," (Watchtower, Sept. 1, 1922, p. 262).
• 1923 "Our thought is, that 1925 is definitely settled by the Scriptures. As to Noah, the Christian now has much more upon which to base his faith than Noah had upon which to base his faith in a coming deluge," (Watchtower, Apr. 1, 1923, p. 106).
• 1925 "The year 1925 is here. With great expectation Christians have looked forward to this year. Many have confidently expected that all members of the body of Christ will be changed to heavenly glory during this year. This may be accomplished. It may not be. In his own due time God will accomplish his purposes concerning his people. Christians should not be so deeply concerned about what may transpire this year," (Watchtower, Jan. 1, 1925, p. 3).
• 1925 "It is to be expected that Satan will try to inject into the minds of the consecrated, the thought that 1925 should see an end to the work," (Watchtower, Sept., 1925, p. 262).
• 1926 "Some anticipated that the work would end in 1925, but the Lord did not state so. The difficulty was that the friends inflated their imaginations beyond reason; and that when their imaginations burst asunder, they were inclined to throw away everything," (Watchtower, p. 232).
• 1931 "There was a measure of disappointment on the part of Jehovah's faithful ones on earth concerning the years 1917, 1918, and 1925, which disappointment lasted for a time . . . and they also learned to quit fixing dates," (Vindication, p. 338).
• 1941 "Receiving the gift, the marching children clasped it to them, not a toy or plaything for idle pleasure, but the Lord's provided instrument for most effective work in the remaining months before Armageddon," (Watchtower, Sept. 15, 1941, p. 288).
• 1968 "True, there have been those in times past who predicted an 'end to the world', even announcing a specific date. Yet nothing happened. The 'end' did not come. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing? . . . Missing from such people were God's truths and evidence that he was using and guiding them," (Awake, Oct. 8, 1968).
• 1968 "Why are you looking forward to 1975?" (Watchtower, Aug. 15, 1968, p. 494).

 

[DrunkenHorseplayer]

Keep some white supremacist literature in the house. When they arrive, show it to them and start trying to "convert" them.

 

[MikeB]

I send them to my neighbors house, two houses down. I explain that I am all set, but that he has been a little depressed and he doesn't seem to have any direction lately....I watch them skip the house in between us and walk directly to his door.

He's a very large Cop.

That is very true and I laugh my ass off while waiting for my phone to ring every time.

 

[REDEYE]

I send them to my neighbors house, two houses down. I explain that I am all set, but that he has been a little depressed and he doesn't seem to have any direction lately....I watch them skip the house in between us and walk directly to his door.

He's a very large Cop.

That is very true and I laugh my ass off while waiting for my phone to ring every time.

freaking love it.....awsome

 

[cloverleaf]

If its a hot summer day...I usually give them a cold bottle of water and wish
them well. I have only let them in my home once back in the 80s because
I wanted to hear their pitch. One of the guys had played on BYU's football team.

 

[DesertDevil]

If its a hot summer day...I usually give them a cold bottle of water and wish
them well. I have only let them in my home once back in the 80s because
I wanted to hear their pitch. One of the guys had played on BYU's football team.

Sounds like you had the Mormons. Slightly different breed.

 

[loomis41973]

They can't get to my door.

 

[Daigo23]

My two aunts are JW and it's a f'kn cult. They was converted when they was down on life and got a knock at the door. They pray on the weak and it's sad really

 

[JustinCruise]

No reason to be rude to them imo

I had to do door to door sales in a past life and it's fucking brutal. So I guess I have a little sympathy for them even though they are total idiots.

 

[JustinCruise]

My two aunts are JW and it's a f'kn cult. They was converted when they was down on life and got a knock at the door. They pray on the weak and it's sad really

Is that different than any other silly religion?

 

[festeringZit]

Is that different than any other silly religion?

It's about as silly as believing that the universe came from nothing, and there was a bunch of rocks out of nothing,
and suddenly some swamp goo turned into life, and the goo evolved into people.

 

[bounceback]

It's about as silly as believing that the universe came from nothing, and there was a bunch of rocks out of nothing,
and suddenly some swamp goo turned into life, and the goo evolved into people.

lol

 

[bounceback]

Is that different than any other silly religion?

+1

 

[loomis41973]

I guess if they could get to my door...... i would sneak out the back door and take a shit in their minivan.

 

[Willie99]

I'm always doing something that needs my immediate attention, tell them to have a nice day

 

[TheRealSouthner]

I hate those guys. Last time they came to my house, I was playing basketball in my driveway when all of a sudden this ancient van makes a horrible turn into my driveway, going into the yard quite a bit. I ran into my garage to get a baseball bat, and they asked me if anyone was home. I said yes, thinking that would deter them from trying to attack me. After they left I went inside and my parents showed me what they had given them. To me it is worse than robbery, to make a fake bible.

 

[tatehill2000]

the one thing that I find special about their religion is that they
all. every single kingdom hall,,, have the exact same sermon,,, I find that really interesting, and special,,

having said that, I do not believe in organized religion, it is the devil,,