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A Visit From the Jehovah Witness -
May 28th, 2012, 06:39 AM
Gather 'round chidren, I have a story to tell!
So I was enjoying Memorial weekend, just cleaning off my carport and grilling area for the first time this year. I had my power sprayer going and I was spraying the never ending string of cob webs attached to the corners of the place. It was a never ending battle.
Well, I turn around and there were two soaking wet and mouth agape folks just staring at me. The man extends his hand and says "Hello, we're with the local chapter of the Jehovah Witness, nice to meet you." For those that don't know, I consider myself a libertine. To be honest, I do as I want except hurting anyone or their property. This was destined to end badly, I'm not one for rules and they have a lot of them.
Well I had heard of these people, by the grapevine but I'd never met any. They were a brave lot, for sure. Getting out there, meeting strangers and talking religion in this day and time. They did however and to an extent I am glad. I know about them now at least.
They told me of how there is one God and how Jesus was his son, inferior to him by nature. Then they told me the soul is mortal, there is no hell and that they don't celebrate holidays like Thanksgiving.
So it turned bad after that. I became somewhat irate as I think there are reasons some holidays exist and they should be celebrated, especially Thanksgiving. This country allows them the freedom to be the ultra moralists they are. It allows me the freedom to live and do as I will.
So I told them I'd had enough and wanted to get back to work.
Share your experiences and if you are Jehovah, feel free to explain things if you like.
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Sinners cannot save sinners, nor can sinners save themselves.
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May 28th, 2012, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Quincy
Gather 'round chidren, I have a story to tell!
So I was enjoying Memorial weekend, just cleaning off my carport and grilling area for the first time this year. I had my power sprayer going and I was spraying the never ending string of cob webs attached to the corners of the place. It was a never ending battle.
Well, I turn around and there were two soaking wet and mouth agape folks just staring at me. The man extends his hand and says "Hello, we're with the local chapter of the Jehovah Witness, nice to meet you." For those that don't know, I consider myself a libertine. To be honest, I do as I want except hurting anyone or their property. This was destined to end badly, I'm not one for rules and they have a lot of them.
Well I had heard of these people, by the grapevine but I'd never met any. They were a brave lot, for sure. Getting out there, meeting strangers and talking religion in this day and time. They did however and to an extent I am glad. I know about them now at least.
They told me of how there is one God and how Jesus was his son, inferior to him by nature. Then they told me the soul is mortal, there is no hell and that they don't celebrate holidays like Thanksgiving.
So it turned bad after that. I became somewhat irate as I think there are reasons some holidays exist and they should be celebrated, especially Thanksgiving. This country allows them the freedom to be the ultra moralists they are. It allows me the freedom to live and do as I will.
So I told them I'd had enough and wanted to get back to work.
Share your experiences and if you are Jehovah, feel free to explain things if you like.
This is a case of the blind trying to lead the blind. They both fell into the ditch, Matthew 15:14.
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Try to be civil in the face of incivility. This is a test.
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May 28th, 2012, 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Quincy
Gather 'round chidren, I have a story to tell!
So I was enjoying Memorial weekend, just cleaning off my carport and grilling area for the first time this year. I had my power sprayer going and I was spraying the never ending string of cob webs attached to the corners of the place. It was a never ending battle.
Well, I turn around and there were two soaking wet and mouth agape folks just staring at me. The man extends his hand and says "Hello, we're with the local chapter of the Jehovah Witness, nice to meet you." For those that don't know, I consider myself a libertine. To be honest, I do as I want except hurting anyone or their property. This was destined to end badly, I'm not one for rules and they have a lot of them.
Well I had heard of these people, by the grapevine but I'd never met any. They were a brave lot, for sure. Getting out there, meeting strangers and talking religion in this day and time. They did however and to an extent I am glad. I know about them now at least.
They told me of how there is one God and how Jesus was his son, inferior to him by nature. Then they told me the soul is mortal, there is no hell and that they don't celebrate holidays like Thanksgiving.
So it turned bad after that. I became somewhat irate as I think there are reasons some holidays exist and they should be celebrated, especially Thanksgiving. This country allows them the freedom to be the ultra moralists they are. It allows me the freedom to live and do as I will.
So I told them I'd had enough and wanted to get back to work.
Share your experiences and if you are Jehovah, feel free to explain things if you like.
Back in the early '70's we lived in Michigan. We were on 8 mile road about 50 miles west of Detroit in a mostly rural area.
So the Jehovah's Witnesses came to our door and I decided to listen to them. They came several times and discussed their bible with me.
Also they stated that I needed to join them soon because the world as we know it was going to end around 1976.
Well, of course the world is constantly changing! No surprise there!
My curiosity satisfied, no need to delve further, satisfied with my status, no longer allow roving religious reporters any of my time!
I was once accosted by a "Moonie" as I was loading groceries into my car. He wanted me to buy one of his flowers to help support his leader, the Reverend Soon Yun flung dung to spread his word.
"Wellllllll!" sez I," I'm not going to support someone who turns children against their parents? And by the way don't touch me!" They try to put the flower into your hand. He was starting to get red in the face and sputtering about his wonderful leader. I said "I'll pray for you." He said angrily "You don't have to pray for me!"
I figured I'd best get into my car and get the heck out of there!
Back in the early '70's we lived in Michigan. We were on 8 mile road about 50 miles west of Detroit in a mostly rural area.
So the Jehovah's Witnesses came to our door and I decided to listen to them. They came several times and discussed their bible with me.
Also they stated that I needed to join them soon because the world as we know it was going to end around 1976.
Well, of course the world is constantly changing! No surprise there!
My curiosity satisfied, no need to delve further, satisfied with my status, no longer allow roving religious reporters any of my time!
I was once accosted by a "Moonie" as I was loading groceries into my car. He wanted me to buy one of his flowers to help support his leader, the Reverend Soon Yun flung dung to spread his word.
"Wellllllll!" sez I," I'm not going to support someone who turns children against their parents? And by the way don't touch me!" They try to put the flower into your hand. He was starting to get red in the face and sputtering about his wonderful leader. I said "I'll pray for you." He said angrily "You don't have to pray for me!"
I figured I'd best get into my car and get the heck out of there!
Wow, bybee that moonie was intense. He was definitely rude to you =/. I've never met one of them . Anyways, I did some research this morning on the Jehovah and it turns out they do alter choice words in the bible. They also have predicted the end of times more than any other group, they seem preoccupied with it.
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"Clichés are the bane of educated mankind."
-P.C. Cast
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May 28th, 2012, 07:05 AM
When I was a kid, we'd see the JW's coming about a block in advance.
My dad would always answer the door naked, with Bible in hand.
Vaya con Dios.
Dieu est l'amour.
Allah bidabbir.
“In many ways the evidence of our faith is found in our ability to control our tongue (or our keyboard)."
-Adam Hamilton, Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White
We get them about once a month. On the rare occasions where I'm spotted or answer the door by mistake I try to be polite as possible and will usually claim to be Methodist (what I grew up as). This tends to be good enough for them and they leave me pamphlets.
I remember when the whole Twilight craze started I was asked if I thought vampires existed and was given a handout explaining how vampires are servants of the devil.
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Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images. The world will not receive truth in any other way.
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May 28th, 2012, 08:15 AM
I used to invite them in for coffee (that doesn't work well for Mormons, FYI). Haven't seen any around for at least 20 or so years. You gotta give them credit though, they are out there spreading their word. That is more than you can say for 99% of other Christians.
I remember when the whole Twilight craze started I was asked if I thought vampires existed and was given a handout explaining how vampires are servants of the devil.
So they believe in vampires?
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Originally Posted by g_n_o_s_i_s
I used to invite them in for coffee (that doesn't work well for Mormons, FYI). Haven't seen any around for at least 20 or so years. You gotta give them credit though, they are out there spreading their word. That is more than you can say for 99% of other Christians.
Yea I do give them credit for getting out and meeting with strangers. It has to be nerve racking to do it, you never know if people will be welcoming of you or not. Especially when you are selling a message.
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I guess they do, Quincy. I don't know that these were Jehovahs, though. I have a hard time distinguishing door to door evangelicals from each other. From what I recall it was more than just "Twilight tempts people away from God". They seemed to think vampires were some kind of demon.
I just gave them a vague "I don't really think about that kind of stuff."
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Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.
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May 28th, 2012, 08:43 AM
My husband made the mistake of telling some JW's that he is an atheist. They kept coming back to see him but they would come during the day when he is at work. They haven't tried to talk to me about anything. I just barely open the door and tell them he isn't here. Or, I don't answer at all.
I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy,
and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole.
This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine
- Robinson Jeffers
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Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."
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May 28th, 2012, 09:52 AM
..Wait, why were they soaking wet?
"If a sheerly linguistic version of the gospel could be concocted, it would merely so be no longer the gospel. In the Lutheran Reformation’s understanding, which we believe in this matter to be correct, the sacraments make the inalienable externality of the gospel message and therefore are necessary to the authenticity of that message." (Christian Dogmatics [1984], II:302-303 as cited in Pontifications)
Because they walked under the carport and I had been cleaning the roof siding with the sprayer. It was practically raining under there. Heh, I love a power sprayer *unleashes man grunt*.
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May 28th, 2012, 06:53 AM
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