Jehovah's Witnesses

[DisappointedOne]

Our local JWs have a habit of knocking on doors on Xmas day. (We don't actually celebrate anything on Xmas day so have plenty of time to engage them in a scientific argument conversation that can potentially last for hours.)

I'm happy for anyone to believe anything they like, but don't come pushing it on my doorstep.

Not sure how friendly a welcome they get at other houses. TABU, aren't they?

I thought our address must have been blacklisted - no visits since last Xmas day - but it seems not!

We had them one year two young american men, it was monsoon like rain so DP invited them in and then squashed sat them into the dinner table and we fed them along with the 16 others (of all dominations) I am Irish so said where I came from politics and religion were not allowed at the table. It was fun. DP dropped them home later and they called back a few times bzt we seemed to have been removed from the need to be converted list.
I think they realised it was pointless when they saw a methodist minister get legless

My friend is a JW and often goes knocking on Christmas day. I have said to her to her she is welcome to my home any day except Christmas. Fortunately she nor any of her brethren don't knock my door. I think she has told them we are devil worshippers do something

Is it especially Christmas day?

'See that big celebration you are having to mark the birth of your saviour? It's a pile of crap. Merry Christmas kids!'

Cheeky buggers!

My late granny was a devout JW. A few years before she died she had a hip replacement a couple of days before Xmas. Her Elders had her out in a wheelchair on Xmas Day going around the doors, it almost killed her. My mum was brought up JW so knows all the doctrine, she used to have a great time arguing with them until they put her on their do not call list, she could run rings around them as she had been taught all the counter arguments, used to be fun to watch. 😀

DH is talking about installing a whiteboard just inside the front door so he can point out the flaws in their arguments visually

My DH wholeheartedly agrees with your DH's sentiment. If we got them around here he would actually go through with it

I think that's extremely cheeky and insensitive. I haven't heard of any doing that before. I can't imagine it's very typical. Or I'm sure it would have been in the Daily Mail.

I've never had JWs on my doorstep on Christmas Day. I rarely get JWs on my doorstep at all, in fact, because I've told that my numerous JW relations have tried to convert me away from the C of E and failed, so I'm not worth their time.

The JW I do get on my doorstep is my cleaner, and she is lovely, and she never tries converting me.

I've had them on mine. Very rude. Homey got told to leave .

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Argh

I got told to shut up by JWs the other day. Well not quite, but they did cut me off and why ruin a good slogan. I'm going to have a t-shirt made.

Unreasonable Betty......are you a JW then?

JWs believe it is their absolute duty to save everyone else from everlasting damnation, and since they think the only way to do this is to get everyone believing in their doctrines asap, that's why they feel the need to go door to door. They're not trying to be rude. They're trying to save you.

I'm an atheist, but I'm as polite to JWs as I am to anyone else who comes to my door, so long as they are civil and take 'no' for an answer. They're just doing what they believe is right.

Unreasonable Betty can't be a jw as they don't do Halloween either

That's what I thought Wantagoodname but she said earlier that she considered herself to be a jw.....

They don't usually try and get out of the ministry either......

My parents used to take me out on Xmas day. I'm sat in a hotel with my family today having just eaten our Turkey and I honestly don't know what they were thinking. I don't really understand my childhood at all

What gives them the right to knock on doors anyway?
Fuck off.

unreasonablebetty - dh had been reading up on the JWs anyway as he was watching someone's life being destroyed by someone who claimed to be a JW. I think the clinching moment was the argument about the JWs faking smallpox vaccination which DH knew more about than the JWs knocking at the door. He has also had some extremely good sales training and is very good at taking on an argument and clinically dissecting it, pointing out any inconsistencies and fallacies and insisting that they be answered. He is scary.

I don't know much about it, but apparently the order was that the JWs could not be vaccinated against smallpox and JW doctors even used drops of acid to fake the marks of innoculation. Then the order was changed and they were allowed to vaccinate.

I've never had a JW at the door since I put an inflatable Jesus in the window.

I have had some good discussions about science over religious doctrine in the past though.

First time they came calling here 8years ago I told them I and dh was blood donors. We have never had a visit since.

JWs, Mormons, whatever ... I used to tell them all I was a satanist

They don't come any more; funny, that

I put a blood donor card in the front window, havent heard from them since!

The magnet is to scare off the Mormons.

I think the only day I would invite them in is Christmas Day. Im home with food, they could chat with MIL.

The last time a JW came she invited me to something, but I said I couldn't go because it was during Holy Week, and as a catholic I was very busy that week. She seemed really pleased to meet someone with faith. I'm not sure if she considered me potentially "saved" or beyond saving.

Anyway, I'd invite them in for a mince pie. Tis the season of goodwill to all