Best way to get rid of Jehovah's Witnesses?

[Downward]

Maybe if they sent a couple of fit women around to spread the message there would be more interest

 

[Danny]

I just tell them that I'm a Jewish atheist, which seems to do the trick.

 

[snapper_37]

Maybe if they sent a couple of fit women around to spread the message there would be more interest

Oh dear....

You've never been to the Wolverhampton JW Convention at XX XXXXXX Lane....WV XX XXX...

 

[Chris Sirrus]

They are incorrect? Prove it then?

I don't have to prove them wrong, they have to prove themselves right. They are the ones with the claim they should provide the evidence for it. Until they can I'll remain sceptical, and make fun of them for the nonsense that fills their heads.

(I just know a mathematician is going to come along and shout at me for saying proof when I mean evidence)

As for being chilled, I am chilled. Maybe I should pepper my post with smiley faces so people don't think I'm an angry person. and my personal favourite

 

[Davidc]

Maybe if they sent a couple of fit women around to spread the message there would be more interest

Met one in the minibus from the airport in NYC - going to training at the World Headquarters in Brooklyn. She shut up when told off for talking to me!

Very pleasant young woman - my wife was on the other sied of me though!

 

[PaulB]

PB. Sit down with them and discuss if you feel you can, just don't take the piss as it is a faith. Just my pink pound.

No. I can't "take the piss as it is a faith" and therefore beyond a joke? Behave yourself. It was the faith of terrorists to fly planes into the WTC and the faith of the very Nazis you remind us persecuted the JWs to annihilate the jews. Are we to sit down and discuss their faith as though it were rational with them, too?

 

[garrilla]

You could ask them why they no longer publish the date of the Armegeddon when they used to be so sure about the date?

 

[Chris Sirrus]

You could ask them why they no longer publish the date of the Armegeddon when they used to be so sure about the date?

Which date? They revised it about 10 times.

 

[XmisterIS]

I talk to them in German and pretend I don't speak English.

One day, however, that will backfire when I meet a Jehova's Witness who also speaks German!

 

[garrilla]

Which date? They revised it about 10 times.

Yes, quite. The OP wont need to know the dates. The JWs wont discuss it with anyone who questions this. The will suffer from highly visible cognitive dissonance and leave.

They wont even discuss among themselves in private.

 

[markg0vbr]

i think i have been black balled the last lot made there excuses and left after two and a half hours discussing my quandary being raised a happy clappy Protestant with Jewish mother. going to Sunday school and then studding the (613 mitzvot) commandments. i think when they wake in the night in a cold sweat screaming it is i running at them out of the shadows.
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think i might turn Buddhist.

 

[brokenbetty]

There are a lot of evangelical missions near my house so I get the suits-n-satchels round most weekends.

I smile and say "sorry, I'm really not interested thank you" and they always leave. Don't get drawn into any specifics: the aim isn't to de-convert them, it's to get them off your doorstep with the minimum of hassle.

The thing to remember is although they may believe very firmly that God wants them to convert you, the reason their churches send them door to door isn't to make YOU a Jehovah's Witness, it's to make THEM a Jehovah's Witness. Every time they engage with someone to evangelise, it reinforces their perception of their selves as a Jehovah Witness. And the more they get knocked back, the more they define themselves against that. So, by refusing to believe you are helping them strengthen their belief.

Win-win

Liz

 

[slowmotion]

Shutting the door in their faces? Well I did that once, and it left me with an enormous sense of guilt. I tried to put myself in their position, and didn't like the idea that they would experience rudeness many times each day when they were trying to do something "good" as they saw it.

Pretending to be a "supporter of a rival team" usually works, but I do not like to have to lie, and that leaves a bad taste in the mouth as well.

I do not see them as half as bad as the "knockers" who try to sell you crap overpriced household goods on the doorstep under the pretence of "job experience".

My only advice is to get your rejection in really fast, and really politely before you have to reply to their initial question. Once you engage in debate, it's hard to get out of it.

Bless them, actually, it cannot be at all easy.

 

[swee'pea99]

I find the same response works with all cold-callers. Inturrupt them with a "No. Thank you" and close the door. Ive never had anyone knock again.

+1. Except mine is a polite but firm 'Sorry, not interested.' (watery smile, close door)

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Chill out Chris.

They are incorrect? Prove it then?

Oh no, you can't. Neither can any faith so, IMO, they have much right to theirs as you have to yours.

They certainly have a right to their faith, just as I reserve the right to consider it a load of nonsense. No religious belief is automatically deserving of unthinking respect just because it's sincerely held. I mean, if I sincerely believed that there were little people inside my radio making all the programmes for me, I'd be viewed as some kind of weirdo, yet if someone sincerely believes that there's a bloke living in the sky with a big white beard who created the earth and everything in it one week 6 000 years ago, we're supposed to respect that. I don't see why I shouldn't argue for what I believe in if they're standing on my doorstep.