To of laughed loudly when dp said this...

[Wheresmygalaxy]

Door bell goes and as im sat with ds on my knee feeding him i asked dp to get the door (secretly already knowing it was Jehovah's Witnesses), so off he goes thinking its his dad popped round.

He opened the door and was faced with 2 older gentlemen whose first words to him where " Hello, Can i ask do you have a question you'd like to ask god?"

My dp thought for a few seconds and goes, " yes, how can i get rid of this flu? Ive tried beechams and lemsips but nothing shifting it!"

The 2 men stood stoney faced and persuaded him to look into his sole for meanings of being unwell i could see them through the window and just couldnt stop laughing

There is a whole lot of liars on this thread. Or a whole lot of people in the world pretending to be JWs

I suppose they didn't tell me the devil caused my son to die and God merely didn't stop it happening because I had a blood transfusion after his birth either.

ps. do counterfeit JWs have a slightly misprinted nose? Will we be seeing them on Watchdog?

I should have asked the religion of the woman who told me the devil was waiting gor me due to my sins. I think tbh she was just a wandering loon

Who would pose as a Jehovah's Witness? Conmen? Surely it can't be that lucrative? It's not like meter-reading, where the faux reader gets the chance to grab something. Practically everyone shuts the door on JWs. They don't get let in to roam the house at will.

Bizarre conmen, they gave me stuff for free!

I suppose JW's are as capable of saying something silly about the length of a woman's skirt or an "offensive" t shirt as any other religious person.

I've only ever spoken to them in their door to door capacity with regard to their religious beliefs. And they are so painfully polite I do find it hard to not just stand there,listen and then take the magazine. Though as I said earlierl,it's been a while since any knocked on the door and i now have questions!

I haven't come across any in their day to day lives who feel the need to comment. But then again,they don't wear special badges,how do I know whether that old bitch woman who tutted at my dress at a train station was a JW,a Christian,Muslim,an atheist or just miserable?

Oh the old "I'm not racist or sexist, I'm very liberal. But it's funny to bash Christians." very respectful.

I'm not racist or sexist, but have no time for religion. Nothing wrong with that.

I think I once had some people who said they weren't Witnesses (in response to my suspicious question, "are you Jehovah's Witnesses?") and then gave me a Watchtower. So not sure what they were.

poocatcher How about, "I'm not racist or sexist, and I dislike cold callers of any sort, especially those who hold offensive views and try to convert me".

I'm not particularly religious,though technically CoW. I lean more towards being an atheist. I don't have any problem with other people being religious as long as they don't use to as a reason to be a general dick (some people do,it happens,no point denying it),that goes for all religions. I think some atheists use their lack of belief as an excuse to be grossly offensive and derogatory of other people's beliefs and often,way of life related to those beliefs.

I do however think that JW's leave themselves open to be criticised far more than any other branch of Christianity or indeed religion. I have never known any other religious group go door to door,invading others private time and space to spread the word of their religion. This can and does get people's backs up.

U get more than a funny or sarky comment if u turn up at my door promoting any god.

And don't bring kids with u either thinking that'll keep me sweet n kind. Ill quite happily roar at them too. My property, my rules.

Grrrr....

(Cofe if wondering. Just HATE god botherers!)

ghostship~ if you knew anything about JW's you would know that they don't attend a community hall?

its a... KINGDOM hall.

5/10 for effort though!

If you don't know if they're JWs or not because you have no proof.

Shouldn't you just believe that they're JWs even though there isn't any evidence?

But I think all organised religion is tosh, so what would I know.

I once had the JWs visit our offices and I immediatley engaged them in a deep and complex discussion about Evolution versus Creationism and my grand unifying theory that God created the rules that drive evolution and that Creation was merely the writing of the rules that created the world and everything in it including the process we now call evolution.

The JWs were backing out of the door with fixed grins by the time I had finished. They left a leaflet.

Feminine - So I'm lying again am I? No, it is a community hall. The jehovas dont own it, they use it once a week. As do the beavers club, slimming world etc.

TBH if religious people knock on my door, which they have done and asked me questions about their god, I don't tend to enquire which religious section they belong to - they could be mormons,, JW or other sections of a religious order,, I have never heard of.

So could it be that some of these religious preachers on your doorsteps who you thought were JW - where in fact other religious orders. Or did you ask them which section do you belong to? So was it just a case of mistaken identity over short skirts etc?

I'm going to demand ID cards if I ever have a JW visit again. Round here, it's normally Elders of the local Mormon congregation (who do indeed carry ID cards on their suits). Imagine it:

Me: before I can listen to anything you have to tell me, I need I'd.
Person claiming JW status: of what, please?
Me: that you're really a Jehovah's Witness. You might know nothing about their faith. Prove you're a member. What training have you had?

Next time I get any at the door I'm gonna get straight on MN and start PMing Feminine to check their credentials. Or I might record our conversation and upload it so that she can check that I am i) telling the truth - there are JWs at my door! and ii) make sure they are proper ones and not those crazy fake JWs that are wandering the streets critiquing people's wardrobes.

They were Jehovah's witnesses.

No mistaken identity. Why would you even ask that

how to stop witnesses

The only time I have seen pure evil has been when instigated by a JW. My family is irreversably damaged due to her actions presumably in Gods name.

Why would you even ask that I don't ask that is my point - I wouldn't though know which religious order or whatever they are with, so I guess you know which are which by some way or form, is it how they dress or how they speak?

No, I know because they tell me.