Jehova's WitnessesFollow

Wow! Almost like normal humans then!

Women past 30.

Shador... are you a Jehovah's Witness?

I'm an athiest, but while I'm firm with JW's, I'm also not rude or disrespectful. I think they they really *truly* believe that they are attempting to keep my soul from eternal damnation, from suffering for all eternity and while I don't believe that for a single moment...I think they do. I don't see any reason to ridicule or punish them for that. Sure, for some of them, it may be a forced going through the motions but I think that many really do believe that and I know that for myself, I'd find no satisfaction in creating misery for someone who believes in their heart that they are trying to help me...not only in this lifetime but forever. Punishing someone for something so selfless, regardless of how naive, is childish at best and cruel beyond reasoning at worst. A little tolerance goes a long way.

Nexa

I don't ever remember having one come to any place I lived. But, one time I was walking across town (probably getting a coffee while at the laundromat) when some young black fellow who was walking along the street started talking with me. I wasn't sure what he was on about at first, but it was all pleasant enough as I yes'd him to death and waffled noncommittally about my own faith.

Bury enough of them in the back yard and they eventuallly stop coming. Seriously though, I've never met one. I've occasionally found a pamphlet stuck in my door, but I've never actually been home when they visit.

Edited, Sep 5th 2010 10:26pm by Turin

You know Mormons have no concept of rape, right?

Those poor students are probably scarred for life.

They've also got three failed predictions of the apocalypse under their belt already.

Dammit! That was *my* line.

I work out on a Sheep farm and Fiber shop in the middle of bloody nowhere. One Sunday a whole wagonload of the lot showed up, there was 3 old ladies and two 20 something guys who really looked like they didn't want to be there. Sundays are totally dead out there, no customers and once the sheep are fed and watered, there's nothing to fucking do except clean. Seeing as I was bored as hell, I spent the next couple hours cleaning the shop and shooting the shit with them. None of them knew a damned thing about philosophy or other religions, which annoyed me to some degree, I mean, if you do this on a regular basis, you'd think you'd try to buff up a bit and be ready for what people throw at you. Anyway, they leave, I close up shop yadda yadda.

Next Sunday, who shows up but the two 20 something guys that looked like totally lost. Turns out that they were brothers. Older brother starts chatting me up. We go on like last week, which was mostly me feeling out what they actually knew about religion in general while ignoring their questions. After a lull in the conversation I asked you guys really don't want to talking to me about this, do you? Younger says yes, so I turned on the Packer game and told them they could chill as long as the shop was open. We get to chatting again and as it turns out, their family was pressuring them into evangelism and all that. I told him that if they wanted they could hang out at the shop on Sundays and still log that they'd been out evangelizing. Long story short, they came out every week or two for the next couple months before one Sunday the older brother shows up and says that he and his younger brother were going to be moving away and cutting ties with their family. He thanked me for giving them a place to get the pressure off, then took off. I never saw them again.

Next Sunday after that, I didn't work, but my boss who is a distinct hater of the JWs was. A new batch of JWs had shown up and got ran off by my boss. She must've done something right, because I never saw a JW out there again.

Shame the brothers had to cut ties with their family, but from all the former Mormons and JWs I've ever met, it seems like that is the only way to really get away from it.

That's why it's true, duh.

Nothing was said here.


Edited, Sep 27th 2010 7:01pm by ShadorVIII

You are kidding. I hope. Mormons can get raped same as anyone can so of course we understand that concept.

The shunning JW do, always bothered me too. There are other religions that do this too, sadly enough. My grandfather was Mennonite, met my grandmother and that was the end of that even though he seemed to follow the teachings, otherwise, all his life.

Someday maybe the practice will end.

Something else JW do that bothers me is the "I am saved. You are not so I dont have to be nice to you" concept. A man who worked a previous shift from my husband always left things undone everyone else did for the next shift. My husband asked why and he was told this was the reason. My husband, sweet that he is, showed him his fist and asked if that fist would be a reason to do things right. It was.