Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Why being rude? Just say no thank you is enough.
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When evangelists knock on your door...
- Thread starter Eddi
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In the case of a group like the JWs, their religion kills kids (and others, but the kids are what anger me the most).
What's the harm in Jehovah's Witnesses?
A Secret Database of Child Abuse
Jehovah's Witnesses silencing techniques are as terrifying as child abuse
They're selling harm... potentially life-ending or life-altering harm. There's nothing wrong with responding to them accordingly.
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 realizing that it's hard to start a business.
Somebody's talking to me, but sadly I have no idea what it means
Nyingjé Tso
Dharma not drama
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 !
Aum Namah Shivaya
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
None of the JW i know has harmed anyone. No kids or adult.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
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."
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."
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.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Yes i know of it. But i do not stop them from follow the teaching.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Not now
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
So if not agree it must be bad or evil?
I have no problem with not making people feel comfortable if they're selling something that hurts kids.
Usually a 'mission' is directed at non-believers, but I have noticed even after stating your membership to a faith there is a persistence that 'their' Scripture and their interpretation is the only true one.
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.
Out of curiosity: do you really think that killing kids isn't evil?