How do you handle unwanted evangelists who knock at your door?

[saddina]

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Of course I did ,that was the whole point of calling in the first place. unfortunatly i'm a 2 minute walk from thier front door, so we seem to get "extra attention".

The funny thing for me is, I'm WAY out in the middle of east... well way out here, and they're probably wrecking their nice cars on my dirt road just getting here. I honestly don't even know where the local hall would be. We're miles from anything.

Laura, um... have you considered that maybe you're getting them um... *sent* to you? I know you and your family split, perhaps you're on some "parochoial son" list?

*sorry for the typos, i've taken my pills, and spelling goes to heck.

 

[NYRIR]

well folks...this goofball is going to bed!
And to the OP....sorry for hijacking the thread...I have offered some ways to keep JW's anyway from calling on you.Sometimes it works,sometimes apparently not ....as for me to your original question? They aren't unwanted...they're my friends

 

[saddina]

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Oh beating them has come to mind....

Yeah....ummm....no,please

I really wouldn't. nut maybe if they *thought* I would? Sadly for my local group it seems telling them not to come by just gives them the signal that the house is occipied.

 

[Laurajean]

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The funny thing for me is, I'm WAY out in the middle of east... well way out here, and they're probably wrecking their nice cars on my dirt road just getting here. I honestly don't even know where the local hall would be. We're miles from anything.

Laura, um... have you considered that maybe you're getting them um... *sent* to you? I know you and your family split, perhaps you're on some "parochoial son" list?

*sorry for the typos, i've taken my pills, and spelling goes to heck.

Well if they're fighting in my mothers' honor, they're really backwards. She is a lousy witness! She does everything witnesses aren't supposed to do. But there could be some well meaning aunts and uncles behind this..... no, in all seriousness? My mother doesn't know where I live. I made sure of it.

 

[Laurajean]

On that note I'm going to try and get some sleep before an early morning knock wakes me up!

Nighty Nite All.

 

[saddina]

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Laura, um... have you considered that maybe you're getting them um... *sent* to you? I know you and your family split, perhaps you're on some "parochoial son" list?

*sorry for the typos, i've taken my pills, and spelling goes to heck.

Well if they're fighting in my mothers' honor, they're really backwards. She is a lousy witness! She does everything witnesses aren't supposed to do. But there could be some well meaning aunts and uncles behind this..... no, in all seriousness? My mother doesn't know where I live. I made sure of it.

I could be wrong, i don't know if they have a list... but if you're out in no mans land and getting hit up as often as I am a 2 min walk away... well that's the only logical thing i've got. To be fair my mother does know where I live, she also knows that one toe outta line, and she will not see her grandchildren, period. (Last time it was 2 years, she missed her GS being born, she says she doesn't get how I can be so cold, ummm duh, who do you think i learned this from?)

 

[HHandbasket]

I once asked a coworker of mine who was a JW and a really, really sweet young lady why they feel the need to go to people's private homes and impose their beliefs on others. She said it is a calling that they feel they must do, that they are taught by the church elders that that's how you convert people. I asked her how many years she had been a doorknocker... she said almost every Saturday for about 15 years. I asked her if she had gotten even one person in all that time to convert. She said no. I asked her if, when she was a young girl still living at home and would go doorknocking with her parents, if she ever saw her parents convert even one single person. She said no. I asked her if she knew anyone within her church who had actually, successfully gotten even one person to convert by going to their house. She said no. I then asked her why she felt it so necessary to waste her youth and beauty and her Saturdays knocking on people's doors and invading their homes, walking in the heat in a nice dress and heels, only to be constantly turned away at almost every door they knock on. Again, she said it was something they all do, that is how they convert.

I told her, "I can understand that that's what you are told, but the physical evidence points otherwise. I would think you could figure out after 15 years of futility that it doesn't work." She looked at me with the blank stare of a deer caught in the headlights. She said, "I don't know, I never thought about that. I'll have to ask one of the elders...."

It's easier for some folks to digest what they're spoon-fed in church than think for themselves with the wonderful brain the Good Lord gave 'em.

 

[Dunkopf]

Wow, busy night on the JW thread.

We haven't had any visitors for around 5 years. They came by a couple times and then called it quits.

I bought a retail store back in 93 and ended up hiring a contractor who was JW. I needed some additional sales staff and he recommended a young man and an older woman. They of course were JW. They knew I was Atheist but respected me enough to not push me on things. We had a lot of interesting theological discussions. The older woman was kind of a pain to deal with. Not because of her religion, she was just full of herself and was difficult to work with as an employee. The kid was great and ended up being a very good salesman.

Things were great until they all went to Fresno for a JW conference. They came back and they were pumped. If they were selling Kirbys instead of redemption they could have gotten rich.

One thing I did pick up from them was that when you die you will not go to hell. However only a select few will go to be with God. Only those that lead a life as close as Jehovah as humanly possible. From what I gathered Jehovah was a big time Evangelist. So you have to do a lot of door knocking to meet God.

 

[CupOJoe42]

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Actually, I WAS just kidding, although I have had some really pushy people actually attempt to come in the house when I didn't answer the door fast enough. When you're home alone, that can be a bit scary. It wasn't my intent to offend anyone!!

 

[gmendoza]

1. dont answer the door
2. if you do answer...lie to get out of your foolishness
3.if lying dont work,tell them that your cleaning puke off the floor and ask if they want to help. (noone in their right mind wants to help with this)
4. if they say "yes we will help" yove gone too far. too late to close them out now. thats what you get for lying.