Many years ago some JW's came round as I was underneath the car trying to undo the sump plug to drain the oil. The shock caused me to bang my head and my language caused them to go away and not come back.
They left pretty sharpish when ESG answered the door in his towel yesterday too...
If I see them doing the rounds of the street I normally don't answer the door.
If I don't get a "warning" and happen to answer the door, I ask them if they've made a prior appointment - to which they look a tad surprised. I then tell them that we don't accept sales calls at our home - to which they respond that it's not a sales call and mention something about God. To which I respond with something along the lines of "I respect your choice of your religion - and would be most appreciated if you would respect my choice of my religion and for my privacy". They then get the hint and move on.
I haven't had many that were really pushy of late - but those who have persisted I have then had to be more blunt and say that they obviously don't respect my choice and that I'm not available - and close the door.
Well, it's no mean achievement for a normal hearer to learn signing. So if a number of people are able to sign this does suggest that your local JsWs group includes a deaf person within its number and group members have taken the hard path to be inclusive. That is admirable. But to utilise their new skill to target a minority grouping is perhaps a little less admirable.
. I think it is brilliant that they are using their skills to become communication support workers at Colleges as it really help the interpreters shortage that we have. But to target a minority group to talk about their belief can be scary.
The Jehovah's Witnesses do have some deaf people that goes to their meetings etc as i know some deaf people who are actively a Jehovah's Witness but they never push their beliefs on us as they know everyone is different.
I was only merely commenting on how scary it is to open a door to total stranger and having them sign without me saying hello.
I receive a lot of phone calls at work from cold callers trying to sell me things.
I've found an excellent solution. As soon as I realise that they're cold callers, I explain that I'm at work and in a meeting and if they would give me their phone number, I will call them back. Gets rid of them every time.
Sorted.
Daisy
(An Untruthful Little FLower)
Whenever I get sales calls I always ask the caller (male or female) to marry me! They are obviously a little surprised at this and start stuttering and stumbling. I then say "well you can't expect me to give all my personal information to a complete stranger." They normally hang up
Don't watch it Barry, it's too harrowing.
The reason they will not enter into a debate with you is that they are taught set standard text answers to most points you would be likely to raise.
I found this out around the early 90's. because I enjoy a religious debate.
They definately seem to be brainwashed.
I do feel sorry for their kids.
A friend of mine never had any birthday or Xmas presents when he was a kid.
Suppose it would save parents a packet if they converted.
Please don't lump all religious callers as equally obnoxious. Whilst Mormons never do caffeine or alcohol, I've always found them personable and reasonable. I may disagree totally with their point of view, but can at least respect them for how they behave, and would happily give them a cup of tea and a sitdown for a break.
However JWs are just plain weird - just tell them that you are a blood donor/a close relative is only living due to a blood transfusion, and they tend to leave you in peace.
I don't agree.
There has been reports in the media of girls as young as 13 being forced to marry guys in their 60's who already have 5 wives and 20 children.
If they refuse they are "cast out"
One wife was unhappy that her teenage daughter was betrothed to an old guy with 5 wives and all their children living in one house. She had to smuggle her daughter and other child out of the house and leave the state.
You can't just leave , get a divorce and stay in the same town. You have to uproot and non of your relatives will speak to you ever again.
So it would seem that most religion has draw backs of some sort or other. What a surprise that organisations run by imperfect humans have flaws
In the scheme of things though, I would take someone knocking my door as a downer over kiddy fiddlers, forced polygamy, suicide bombers and rolling around on the floor with poisonous snakes... just my take on things you understand
Touche!!!
Whoops - I'd have the cup of tea, and offer them lemonade/water. Mainstream LDS/Mormons renounced the multiple wife thing a long time ago. I have admiration/surprise for anyone who can manage without caffeine or alcohol. I guess that I could manage for quite a while without coffee or beer and wine, but managing with the restorative cuppa sounds just impossible to me!
There's no difficulty in managing without caffeine or alcohol. It's just that there's no point in denying yourself simple pleasures because a bunch of long-dead humourless gits thought that there is something wrong with having fun.
Incidentally, as well as their hysterical episode about Scientology, South Park did a hilarious one about Mormons. It has quite a subtle ending, too.
SouthPark is occasionaly, absolute genius
They may be in the minority, but how many Mormon fundamentalists are there?
I hardly ever watch TV, but I used to enjoy South Park a lot.
Have not seen the 2 episodes mentioned.
Liked the Gay Animal Rights one.
Then there's the next door neighbours in the Simpsons.
Americans seem to be obsessed with religion.
Guess what? Too many.
Here's something I found, which happened yesterday. Seems like somebody in the US authorities has finally smelled the coffee.
Though if you read Jon Krakauer's book Under the banner of heaven you will see that on some occasions even two or three fundamentalist mormons are 'too many'.
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