Jehovah Witness sending letter

[Maggiesgirl]

I recieved a letter today, addressed to 'The xxxxxx Family' at our address. Opened it to find a handwritten letter from a male, asking to visit to talk to me about becoming a Jehovah Witness!

Seeing as I was born Jewish and am now an atheist i wont be taking him up on his offer.

But is this the Covid Secure way of them knocking on our door now!

I got one too.

A whole A4 page of lined paper, beautifully handwritten rambling about nothing with the bible thrown in. I imagine because they can’t door knock they have been tasked with letter writing.

Mine was posted with a stamp, but no addressee on it. Just a hello neighbour introduction,

Actually I haven't seen my JW neighbour much for weeks, she is probably busy writing a load of letters, I imagine this will be a woman's job

It's better than them.turning up at your door I guess. Once your polite to them, they never go away. They didnt care that I told them I was a born again Christian and not changing religion.

Tbf they have to do this to get into the chosen who live in heaven on earth. I did tell them.that I dont believe in any form of life after death. That's a major selling point of religion and I'm turning back into various elements and compounds.

Even that didnt stop them. It's like brownie points for heaven. Converting the unenlightened like me.

I got one too. I signed the email address on it up for Stonewall, Anthony Nolan, and a few other bits and pieces in that vein. Some might say childish and petty but I don't like proselytising, bigotry or other people trying to force their views on me. So I shared a few of mine with them.

@RollaCola84

I got one too. I signed the email address on it up for Stonewall, Anthony Nolan, and a few other bits and pieces in that vein. Some might say childish and petty but I don't like proselytising, bigotry or other people trying to force their views on me. So I shared a few of mine with them.

Brilliant!!!! I will definitely do this as my son is alive due to Anthony Nolan.

Yep, we got one recently too. The handwriting was beautifully neat at the start and a right scrawl at the end. I wonder how many they write in one sitting??

We must be special as we've had two, written by different people weeks apart. Gave us a giggle.

@MyDcAreMarvel

I'm sure Jesus or god would prefer they help with the poor or needy They do , they are very active in shipping for elderly people, mowing lawns doing DIY for people who can’t afford handymen etc

👆Mormons or missionaries for the church of jesus christ of Latter Day Saints are as said encouraged to do a lot of service. Again if you look on your Facebook market place you will likely find them offering service with the hope they after they have done serve you will feel obligated to listen to their message.

In addition, these young adults pay for those missions, out of their one pockets and spend between 18 months and two years "serving".

However, I'd imagine they could do those things at home and donate the money to a homeless shelter or some other cause, they would do more good in the world that way. The point is, they do good thing but the reason is for proselytising not do serve the communities. They aren't in service mission and even service mission have that same agenda.

The staggering amount of wealth the church has they could actually do something amazing with it. 120 billion could literally wipe out world hunger!

So they do serve, but again it's simply another foot in the door approach and often they prefer service to proselytising so they will actually pursue opportunities to serve.

@bellropes

I caught one talking to my teenage son who has aspergers. He's very gullible and believes what people tell him. I went through the JW like a dose of salts, phoned their head office and threatened hellfire and brimstone if they ever darkened my door again. Not a peep from them since. I educated ds about cults and their tactics and hope he's taken it on board. The last thing I need to deal with is brainwashing, life is hard enough as it is.

They target vulnerable and newly bereaved people as well. I don't have words bad enough for them.

That's scary isn't it? Glad you were able to put a stop to that before he got sucked in.

My mum got one addressed to my (not recently) deceased father so we reckon they got the address out of the phone book

It was the scruffiest, dirtiest letter and envelope we'd ever seen. It even had what looked like a blood smear on the letter. My mother burnt it 😂

Are you sure they are handwritten? We had one today, the envelope was definitely handwritten, but the letter inside was, I think, a good print from a handwritten letter.

Ds and I spent ages looking at it carefully in the light, and that was our conclusion

Then we binned it.

If it is handwritten you can feel the print from the back, mine is long gone in the bin to check

Mine was printed, and in a normal font, not a handwriting one. Envelope was handwritten, and they had coloured in a cartoon of a bee.

our whole street (76 Houses) have all had a hand written letter by one guy! Its taken him 10months to write to everyone!

I binned mine

I am very close to a JW , she is now 100 years old and has been writing some of the letters. She is so sweet and has been a witness for 50 years now. Yes she believes in things like homosexuality is wrong but she has been brainwashed and can only live by what is in the bible. I know people get angry with them for their beliefs, I did but when you understand why they think that you don't feel so annoyed with them. I find it very sad really.

@HHSchultz

I am very close to a JW , she is now 100 years old and has been writing some of the letters. She is so sweet and has been a witness for 50 years now. Yes she believes in things like homosexuality is wrong but she has been brainwashed and can only live by what is in the bible. I know people get angry with them for their beliefs, I did but when you understand why they think that you don't feel so annoyed with them. I find it very sad really.

When children die from lack of blood transfusions I think it's justified that people get angry.

Worth looking at the child sex abuse court cases by the way. There's been a big one happening in Australia.

Captpike, yes of course that would be a reason to be angry. I don't think the parents have absolute rights over medical decisions for a child do they? It would always be challenged legally I think.

I received one of these letters a few weeks ago. We also had one addressed to our office which was a couple of pages long. Both binned.

Thing is, the doorstep campaigns are all about indoctrinating the poor schmuck who knocks on 100 doors and gets told to fuck off 100 times. Then the leaders say, 'Yes, the world is a cruel and dangerous place, but we'll look after you'.

So I see the person knocking on my door as the victim, the person stood behind her as the manipulator, and me as just the mark. I decline, but politely, to make the point that the world is not a nasty ignorant place full of hatred. Hopefully the message gets through to the victim, but who knows?

We got one. We are Muslim. Read it as it was handwritten and they put effor it into it and then recycled it

We had the same 🙄

A friend of mine is JW and she does this with her kids. Great handwriting practise but otherwise I feel bad, such a waste of time and pretty stationary when I know they'll just get binned.

I had one too. Straight in the bin. I saw a documentary recently about women growing up in the sect and being groomed for SA by their "Elders" and no one does fuck all about it except shun the victims and keep records of who it happens to. Utterly repugnant. It's on hayu.

I had a a handwritten latter through my door a while ago signed by a married couple. I can't remember if it was addressed to me though or just my house number.

When my town started that stone painting thing where children painted stones and then hid them around the town for people to find the JWs even started painting stones with the JW initials and the website address on them and leaving them around.