Are you a Jehovah's Witness? Why might you not knock at my door?

[sara11272]

Is anyone who is a Jehovah's Witness or knows about Jehovah's Witnesses, able to clear up a mystery for me?

Jehovah's Witnesses often come down our road, but they never knock on my door. To the extent that they even saw me in the house the other day, but passed my house to knock on my neighbour's, who was blatantly out - no cars, no lights on.

Is there any reason they would avoid my house - might the previous occupants have told them not to knock? Would they take notice of this? - it's ten years since the previous occupants lived here so I'd be surprised if any 'ban' on my house lasted that long.

I don't have a lot of time to chat as I work from home, so am reluctant to ask them myself, plus I usually don't see them in time to ask...but I'm intrigued to why this is, it bugs me every time! And I'm a little bit nervous about asking in case my house is on some sort of a blacklist for some weird reason I don't want to know about!!

If anyone is a Jehovah's Witness I'd be very grateful for any possible answers. Thank you.

I have no idea myself. Do you have a burning, upside down cross in your front garden? My husband sometimes has a chat with them. Not long ago we had one on his own. While they were talking I opened the back door which, as is always the case on a windy day, causes the front door to slam shut, which it did. DH opened it again apologising for the draft, the JW was quite intrigued 'does that usually happen, how strange' etc. We reckoned he saw it as spiritual warfare or something which surprised me as I didn't peg the JW as being into that sort of thing.

headinhands ah! - the burning cross, yep, that'll be it. Silly me.

Strange, isn't it? I've no issue with them, other than not having the time to have a conversation at the door. Your poor man and your slamming door!!

headinhands Lol. I can't help but notice some of your other posts. I bet you would give them a run for their money metaphorically speaking! Spiritual warfare, hmmm perhaps...

You're not missing much op. I had one knock earlier, but kindly told him he was wasting hus time in our little close as we're all Catholic. Well my neighbours are Irish Catholics, I'm Catholic but not Irish, dh is of no fixed religion except rugby.

The previous occupant must have answered the door holding a goat with a pentagon dangling around their neck.

Maybe they did, deepfriedsage! I know, longdistance, but it does niggle me!! What's wrong with my house?!

They're clearly using reverse psychology on you, you know, like when you deliberately ignore the new hot guy in Personnel so he'll wonder why and then set out to get you to notice him and then 12 years later you're washing his skid marked Y-fronts and spending every other weekend listening to his Mum complain about the weeds in her neighbour's garden? And I see it's working beautifully. You'll be down that Kingdom Hall quicker than you can say 'blood transfusion'.

Not a JW

BUT

You can ask them not to call again, which I have done. My address is on the list of places not to knock. Maybe your address has got on the list too.

How long have you lived there?

Like sash said your house number is probably on a list of house numbers not to approach. I think you just ring your local Kingdom Hall and request not to be bothered by them.

Yes, I suspect you're probably right, sash and bakingaddict.

We've lived here ten years , I'm just surprised that any kind of 'please don't knock here' would be taken notice of for that long - but having met the previous occupant I imagine he could have put his point across quite forcefully! We probably have a big black mark next to our house number.

I've been on the 'do not knock' list a couple of times as I was well and truly ignored for many years. The first time was when I told them that I was studying theology and waved a copy of Alistair McGrath's standard text book at them. That deterred them for years.

When a brave soul finally did come knocking I did a version of the spirit filled Christian woman who enthused about how much joy and love being a Christian brought to my life. This was calculated as they are salvation by works not by faith, so I achieved another few years of without knocks on the door just as I was cooking the children's tea.

If these approaches fail then I have a friend who opened the door covered in blood after slaughtering chickens and that put her on the black list very effectively.