The Street Is Crawling With Jehovah's Witnesses

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I wonder what happens when the Jehovahs turn up at the Mormons houses and vice versa? Do they exchange excuses?

 

[summerdays]

Our old next door neighbours who we still see gas a granddaughter living with them who is either Mormon or JW. She is really nice but we stay off the topic of religion!

 

[Saluki]

Have they gone yet? Or dare you not look out of the front window in case they are waiting outside the gate to pounce?

 

[buggi]

Last time I took my dog to the park I accidently got talking to one but once I explained I was brought up with born again Christians and, if anything,I believed in that but I respected her views I didn't have any problems sitting and chatting to her for a while, and not just about religion.

 

[User33236]

We have a note on our front door politely requesting no cold callers etc. Should wnyone be rude enough to disrespect ths, JWs included, the door is simply closed without a word being said.

The local JWs adopted a new tactic round hear a few years agos on buying a monthly ticket for the bus and riding the routes all day and sitting down beside some poopr, trapped indivual. They tried it on with me one day and I politely asked that they refrain from talking to me and lave me to enjoy my journey. They ignored this request to which I vented my annoyance at this new, intrusive, tactic. The round of applause this rceived was likely the catalyst that made them leave the bus at the next stop.

Th tactic also never lasted long.

 

[jefmcg]

JWs have always been able to drink tea and other caffeine based beverages. It's the Mormons that don't. JWs can't do yoga. (At least according to Deborah Hyde White on the wireless the other day).

JW can't have blood transfusions or organ transplants, so maybe ask them to come in and have some blood will work.

I remember LDS coming to my door when I was still my jammies and had a hangover. "How are you today?" "Fine. Go away". They looked at each other and at me, and then said "OK" and left. I feel a bit sorry for Mormon missionaries, who are dumped in foreign countries when they are too young to say no, and have to cold call strangers in what has a fairly insulting subtext ... "you are ignorant, but we know the truth". I don't want to mean, but I don't want to engage.

 

[pawl]

I haven't seen any for ages and now the street is full of them. I always tell them I'm an atheist before they get going but I'm too polite to tell them to just naff off. This time I did tell them I thought creationism was bobbins and had to threaten to read from The God Delusion before they'd go.

Cameron would have said swarms.

 

[Tim Hall]

There's an old boy lives (or lived, it was a few years back) down the road from my Mum and Dad. He's a JW. It's all very friendly where my parents live, and he knows not go door knocking. Except one day there's a ring at the door and he's standing there. Mum starts to remind him of the informal "no doorstep conversions" rule. "No" he says, "it's not that. You've left your car lights on."

 

[stephec]

There's an old boy lives (or lived, it was a few years back) down the road from my Mum and Dad. He's a JW. It's all very friendly where my parents live, and he knows not go door knocking. Except one day there's a ring at the door and he's standing there. Mum starts to remind him of the informal "no doorstep conversions" rule. "No" he says, "it's not that. You've left your car lights on."

So he'd seen the light?

 

[andytheflyer]

I recall getting that knock on the door one June day when I was in the middle of my Geology BSc(Hons) finals at Leeds, many many moons ago. Opened the door and they asked me if I knew why it was such a beautiful day.

Having twigged who they were I felt a bit sorry for them - I was right on the ball with planetary science, evolution, the development of the atmosphere, the oxygen cycle, etc etc. They gave up and went away.

One up for Darwin, the scientific method and Mr Dawkins......

 

[andyfraser]

Cameron would have said swarms.

Luckily I'm not a shiny headed tw@.

 

[Davidc]

Last pair I had here were 7th day adventists. They left when I told them they had two choices, they could leave or carry on talking to a closed door. The JWs pushed a leaflet through the door this week inviting me to a talk in Exeter, more for the recycling collectors.

 

[User16390]

When answering the door to the local JW's I told them I could not speak for long as my medication had not kicked in yet but if they insisted I could invite them in and show them my shoe string collection

 

[andyfraser]

I got caught out by some Mormons once. They came cycling towards me (on the footpath!) as I walked to work (so quite a number of years ago) and waved and were talking so I stopped thinking they wanted directions (I had earphones on). Then I saw their credentials hanging round their necks! They wouldn't leave me alone! I ended up saying something about satan, the null hypothesis of god and proving invisible elephants didn't exist or some such rubbish before running off!

I'm better prepared now having read Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchins!

 

[lee1980sim]

Apparently when I was younger my dad used to invite them in and have them talk to us, selective memory I've blocked it out, but now we just have a sign on the door for cold callers, including Jehovahs Witnesses and charities