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Original poster

To get pissed off at Jehovah Witnesses haressing me?

209 replies

Thingumy · 14/10/2010 11:12

2 times this week they've knocked on the door and 2 times I've not answered it.

About 2 months ago,I got caught out and answered the door in the daytime,I was quite firm in telling the lady I am NOT INTERESTED,so why come back?

I'm sick of them peddling their religion at my doorstep.

Do they really think they will convert people on the doorstep?

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Original poster
Thingumy · 14/10/2010 12:32

Right, I've got it now...

We have to ask to be put on the 'no contact list' instead of saying I'm not interested.

Hmm
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ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 14/10/2010 12:39

Yes, because the fact you aren't interested now doesn't mean you won't be interested in a couple of months, but the no contact list is a legal thing. I think they are still allowed to come back every two years to see whether you've moved out and been replaced by someone else, though.

GlendaTheGrizzlyPiggy · 14/10/2010 12:49

YABU they have knocked on your door 3 times in 2 months. That's hardly harassment Hmm.

We live round the corner from a JW Kingdom Hall. They knock on the door maybe once a month. They are always polite & pleasant and usually once we've established that I'm not interested in joining we have a friendly chat.

Live and let live. They're not battering your door down twice a day.

maduggar · 14/10/2010 13:01

Im going to have to stop reading threads like this, as it really upsets me to think people would treat my dear old grandparents in this way :(

lisad123isgoingcrazy · 14/10/2010 13:11

dont be sad maduggar im sure his used to it, I know I am :( People can be very rude and tbh I am shocked by what comes out of peoples mouths, infront of my kids!!

Yes ask them to put you on the "do not call list". Easy enough.
Honestly Im shocked!!

FrogmellaMoonbeam · 14/10/2010 13:27

If you dont answer the door they will just keep coming back until they get someone in. All you have to do is say you're not interested and shut the door emphasis on the shut the door!!

Imagine how it is for me as my parents are JW's as was I until I was 18. I now have them trying to get me to come back whenever they see me I cant shut the door on them as they are friends of my parents and my parents try and shove it down my throat at every opportunity!

MaryBS · 14/10/2010 13:33

I invite them in, we have some great conversations! Don't think that would be everyone's choice though :o, and it really does depend on how pushy they are. They know I'm a C of E minister and they still try to convert me :o

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Thingumy · 14/10/2010 14:04

Frogmella- I told them I wasn't interested the last time they called on me,how many times do you need to tell someone? I'll be sure too tell the lovely old ladies to put me on their' do NOT call' list though now I know this is the way to stop being bothered

Maduggar- I wasn't rude Hmm

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babyicebean · 14/10/2010 14:08

My mum had them and they asked her if she had a bible in the house.She asked them which one they wanted as she has a few due to the fact she is an A-level R.E. teacher.

They came to me and we havent seen them since because when we answered the door there were three Catholic priests in the kitchen.One was the local parish priest and the other two were visiting.

BarringtonWomble · 14/10/2010 14:14

Get one of these polite stickers for your door then no-one feels awkward.

We have loads of JW's here but since I stuck this up about a year ago no-one has knocked and if they did (which they haven't) I can point at it and look witheringly at them. Works o people flogging stuff at the door too (another bugbear of mineHmm)

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Thingumy · 14/10/2010 14:16

Thanks for the link Barrington,I will have to buy one.

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GraveyardMistsAreYellow · 14/10/2010 14:20

We used to live near a Kingdom Hall and I got so fed up that I eventually rang them and demanded the addresses of the people who kept knocking at the door so that I could visit them at a time which suited me so that I could explain my beliefs to them in return.

In the name of mutual tolerance you understand.

I wanted to explain about my beautiful DD who would not be alive today without frequent blood transfusions several times a year.

They refused of course Hmm

twirlymum · 14/10/2010 14:26

I admit that I am intolerant of any religion, and think they are all cults that prey on the vulnerable, but I do find it particularly annoying, especially when they have children with them. (brainwashed children)

girlywhirly · 14/10/2010 14:33

I had JW's call at 1pm one Christmas Day. They started telling me how Christmas was a time for families to be together to celebrate Christ's birth, so I explained politely that I was celebrating with my family, and they were waiting for their meal which was being held up! They mumbled an apology and left.

But Christmas lunchtime, honestly!

Original poster
Thingumy · 14/10/2010 14:36

Christmas Day?

I'm sorry but I wouldn't of been polite to the lovely people.

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Rosedee · 14/10/2010 14:43

I just say not iinterested thank you to jw. It's the salesmen and chuggers I'm rude to!

lisad123isgoingcrazy · 14/10/2010 14:43

would you rather they left the kids home alone?

HerbWoman · 14/10/2010 14:46

Girlywhirly - are you sure they were JW? I don't think they celebrate Christmas or anyone else's birthday for that matter. I am good friends with a JW, and fortunately she had never tried to convert me. In fact she hasn't ever queried my pentacle either which I'm sure she must have noticed.

lynniep · 14/10/2010 14:48

I dont mind ours actually. Its usually a young woman with a super-cute baby, and a twinkling eyed granny. The woman just stands there smiling, and the granny asks me if I've had concerns about a number of things (war, famine etc) and I say 'well not right now I'm doing the washing up' and she gives me a leaflet and off she goes.

pointissima · 14/10/2010 14:58

One of the nuns at school used to live in a little cotttage at the end of the drive. Whenever the JWs came, she used to invite them in and give them a few hours of Catholicism. None of them called twice.

The alternative is to say "ah heretics!, how nice, we're just having a bonfire"

girlywhirly · 14/10/2010 15:21

Perhaps it was an angle to keep me talking! I guess they hadn't had much luck that day, if they celebrated Christmas they would have understood why it was such a bad idea! I don't think that their meaning of celebrate was the same as mine. They probably meant be with or pray or something. Was definitely them as they handed a leaflet.

glastocat · 14/10/2010 15:29

The no contact list thing works. My mum is an ex-JW and is blacklisted. I remember my granny going round the doors on Xmas day (in a wheelchair) but there is no way they would have acknowlweged it being Xmas day, as they don't believe in it, its just another day to them.

Oh, and I was one of those 'brainwashed kids'. I remember a lot of people being very rude, and one guy pulling a shot gun on us! Needless to say he never got bothered again!

ivykaty44 · 14/10/2010 15:36

so religious people preaching at religious people - how does that work?

twirlymum · 14/10/2010 15:38

No, I don't expect them to leave the kids home alone. Stay at home, simple. Just don't bother me with their nonsense.

SecretNutellaFix · 14/10/2010 15:42

We were left alone after they called on the day of my father's funeral when I was 10. It took my uncle, our social worker and a macmillan nurse to get them to go away.