To get pissed off at Jehovah Witnesses haressing me?

[Thingumy]

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?

I used to politely tell them thanks but no thanks, I'm a Catholic, blah blah, and they kept coming back, in threes, all polite and dressed to the nines and smiling beatifically. What sent them packing never to return was when I told them in a fake accent that I was Russian, on the advice of my Russian friends, who never saw them after the first time they came a knocking.

When I was in my early twenties we had a visit from JWs at about 10 am. Visible from the door were 6 of us sat around the dining table. We had been up all night and were drinking whiskey, smoking cigars, playing poker and looking very disheveled (this is not the way I generally live!). They politely suggested another time might be better and did not come back. Which I appreciated. Years later the memory makes for gales of laughter when the 6 of us get together.

In general I think attempts to convert people, especially by visiting them unannounced in their own home, are pretty rude. The message that what someone is or believes makes them bad/unworthy/unchosen/etc. is inherently offensive (however true you believe it to be). When you are not being impacted by that other person trying to change them is fairly intolerant. I don't particularly try to be rude back, though if I have time and am in the mood I occasionally try some of the turning the tables conversations.

Am not sure they are actively trying to convert anyone. Maybe making people aware that that JW exist if people are interested? I used to have 2 elderly men turning to mine weekly with booklets, they were really nice people and interesting to have a conversation with even though my beliefs (or is it believes?) aren't theirs.

Recently had 2 young ladies (early 20's maybe) asking me to comment on a verse, I complied but it must not have been to their taste as they never came again.

Have JW friends and they are really nice people and never talk about their religion to me unless I am asking a precise question.

mathanxiety, I do not understand how you/your friend being Russian could put them off. Is there an explanation? or maybe they just did not come back because it was obvious neither of you were interested rather than the nationality?

I work with jw's who don't talk religion unless you ask (i do as as a person with no faith I'm fascinated by religion and what people believe)
T dohey not believe in heaven or hell, they believer thay when you die you die but one day the righteous will ride angry live again on earth together without any heathen lol.
They do not have a target of doorstep conversions and see no difference in thst method of preaching than public church services

Gah stupid phone, should be they do not believe lol

Just seen even more mistakes, I hate my phone ignore the angry bit, bloody phone, grumble grumble

We don't get any religious callers here anymore :( It's a shame, I used to really enjoy arguing discussing the inconsistancies with them, very theraputic

yep just say you worship the devil or simon cowell and they'll run for cover!

i had them on christmas day once! i found that VERY disrespectful - they are entitled to their own religion and thoughts but they have NO respect for anyone else and especially by knocking on xmas day

i told them to FUCK OFF!

"Am not sure they are actively trying to convert anyone. Maybe making people aware that that JW exist if people are interested?"

The couple we met were trying to convert us. Hopefully they aren't the norm though.

I'm more than happy to argue talk with them but when I told them dh is a curate they never came back

Coming round on Christmas Day is well out of order.

the last time they called on me I told them to fuck off with liberal use of F and C words...I'd told them on at least a dozen other occasions that I wasn't interested and to stop knocking.

foul language delivered at high volume may make you sound like an old fish wife but it does the trick.

The point of the door to door, friendly chats, graduating to bible study, then attending a meeting is to convert people. There are witnesses who choose to do it full time, called Pioneers who are financially supported by their congregation.
If you want some company then by all means invite them in but conversion is the reason behind it so you have to bear that in mind.

Nancy66 you sound nice

The point about the religion is no-one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes. If you repent your mistakes, then you're accepted. Doesn't matter about your blood transfusion.

BelaLugosiSDED I'm not sure they are financially supported, but yes, they are Pioneers.

Live & let live, eh girls ?

I am nice - but if somebody knocks on my door trying to indoctrinate me into their cuckoo religion, after I have explicity told them not to on numberous occasions, then they get what's coming to them.

I managed to frighten a couple of JWs out of our offices by engaging them earnestly in a deep conversation about the evolutionary aspects of spontaneous DNA mutation and my absolute conviction that mechanism must have indeed been 'created by God'.

They couldn't get away quick enough.

You got to learn to say " I dont speak INGLISH"
Works everytime.

I have relatives who are JWs and I have to say that whilst they really appreciate it when people give them a listening ear, on the whole they know that the majority of people aren't necessarily going to listen to them and they expect this. They are also used to people being rude to them. Going out and talking to strangers isn't easy and doesn't always come naturally to them, but they feel that sharing the gods word with people is part of the duty of christians. I never used to understand it, but I do think we've all become so busy and caught up in our increasingly secular lives to stop and think about other things. I really don't think it's necessary to be rude, and find it quite sad that people think it makes them look clever being as rude as they can.

I for one am fed up to the back teeth of the monthly visits from the JW. I live in a small flat with an entry phone and have no control over the volume or location of it in my flat. The buzzer is very loud, my DP works nights, my DS is a toddler and has naps during the day.
So every month, just as I've put him down for his nap, BUZZ, do I answer and risk waking them up, or not answer and risk them buzzing again? They are my most regular non-solicited visitors.
For 2 years, every month, I have explained the situation and asked them to not call.
I am not proud of what I said last time they called. But who is ruder, me for what I said, or the JW for ignoring my repeated requests?

Gory, I don't think it was a case of them taking a hint. Apparently JWs are banned in Russia or will be soon.

Bit naughty but I find "I'm frightfully sorry but we are practicing catholics and I must go because I'm expecting Fr McManus for coffee" keeps the calls to about once every five years.

I would never be downright rude, but have had 2 of them approach me in London and I've said to them 'Oh, sorry, God wouldn't want me'. They say 'Oh, I'm sure that's not true, why do you say that?'

Me: 'I'm gay.' Always said with a friendly smile (and it's true, by the way).

All would be fine if they said, Okay, and went on their way, but they've both then said 'It's okay, you can change, we can change you' That's when I start to get harumphy.

look at the scrip in matt 24v14 which says, "and this good news will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations and then the end will come" it is a direct command in the bible to go out and preach.
JW'S dont score brownie point for doing this work, they can do as much or as little as they like, its all voluntry and they dont get paid for it. if someone says no thanks, thats fine, its an individuel choice that everyone has the right to make.

I doubt that he told you that you would be going to hell.... as they do not believe in hell as a place of punishment.

We are blacklisted. They knock either side now and skip my house completely

I stopped them calling by telling them that we are atheists, and every point they could make, we would love to disprove with science. They wouldn't even come in and haven't bothered us since, despite visiting the street fortnightly.

Last time they called, I just took a leaflet and they left - no harrassing took place. I filed the leaflet in the bin