Fed up with Jehovah's Witnesses calling at my door

[Sparkleandfizz]

I am fed up of having Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on my door. I mean each to their own, but you don't get people from the church of England knocking on your door trying to recruit you. I just think it's out of order that they go around trying to recruit people into some weird cult.

I saw two in the park today. They had a wheelie thing with leaflets for people to take. They were talking to two men who looked like they'd had a few (this was about 10am), hadn't seen a shower for a while and had a fair mental health problems. One of the men asked if he could hug the JW and the other was saying something about being accused of shoplifting. The hugged woman was telling the man to pray to Jehovah.
Not sure how successful these tactics are but you've got to admire their commitment!

What I really dislike about the ones who knock on your door is that there's one friendly one and one who stands back and stares. It's a bit creepy. They don't come anymore but they did regularly at one point and I'd tell them, you know what I'm going to do, don't you? And I'd shut the door.

I ended up phoning their head office and asking them to please take me off their list..they said they'd try.
It was triggered by them sending a letter through my door addressed to my long deceased dad in Portuguese?!
It worked for about 6 months then they were back. 😕

That must be awful to have to witness a situation like this 😭

They must have been desperate to recruit people, hugging a drunk bloke who hadn't showered!

It's so frustrating 🙄

I know this might be a controversial take (ish) but having listened to podcasts about women who have left this cult, they are under immense pressure to do the door knocking - and brainwashed into doing it. I’m therefore always as nice and patient as I can be (as an atheist) with female Jehovah’s who knock - but I have zero sympathy or patience with the men (elders) who orchestrate this

@Sparkleandfizz all you need to do is tell the next one that calls to put you down as 'a do not call'..........then they won't bother you again.

We had some today for the first time in years! They were very polite and went away quickly when I told them thank you but it’s not for me!

I know this is fiction but on holby city the parents said they didn't want to give consent to a blood transfusion but the mum was happy to go off and let the drs do it without consent. It was like if she hadn't consented, the church and God would see it as not her fault.

I have certainly heard similar accounts from colleagues.

Can we just take a minute to think about the victims of this cult (young women) and how we could show them that we are listening or here as an escalation point?

Ask to be put on their "no contact" list.
I don't know if all JWs have this but our local group does and we've been on the list for years.
They knocked recently and I said we're in the list, they apologised and said they were just checking we still wanted to be on it 😂

Sorry for posting again - but I just want to put in people’s mind that women may need help when they knock. The elders make them knock in pairs so they can’t ask. If you frequently get visits, maybe google local help for women in cults and surreptitiously pass those leaflets back.

i know I keep reiterating this - I’ve never been in a cult, but I have been victim of other violence and tried to get help and failed.

I know someone who actually converted one!

Two men would knock on her door every week and they would debate their respective views on religion, and over time, he became more interested in her faith that he converted! So that probably did backfire on the whole JW movement, where they actually lost a member!

I always engage if I have time to do so. They have a setup like the Sith, always a master and an apprentice. The game is to ask the master difficult questions such that the apprentice can see they don't have answers for them. Why has god decided there should only be 144,000 spots in heaven, why does he waste everyone's time with fake fossils, etc.

They've never knocked into me but over the years I've got a few handwritten letters in through the door, I'm always amazed by how neat and tiny the writing is, how many of those letters do they write? 😐 must take forever!

One day last week 4 walked past my door. One pointed to my house and said "not there" They spotted

Ring door bell
CCTV cameras and warning notice
Stern warning that I do nt indulge in religious or political chat, buy or contribute at the door or open to unsolited callers.

I live in a largely Muslim/Hindu estate so I dont think they did much business here.

Everybody knows about the door knocking, no blood transfusions, not celebrating Christmas etc., but a lot don't know that letter writing is a massive JW thing to do - even in the age of email and texting.

Sometimes it's done strategically to cause trouble. There have been cases in the past (maybe still ongoing?) where orchestrated mass letter writing has been used as deliberate way to paralyse the postal systems of towns and cities and even whole countries, when they have some kind of beef with a leader or prominent person - or want to 'influence' them in some way to make the decision that they (the JWs) want them to make.

It sounds far-fetched, but if you can mobilise all of the JWs across the world to each write and send a handful of letters to the same address, that adds up to millions and millions. If a postroom is used to receiving X amount of items a day and they suddenly start receiving a hundred times that number each day over a few weeks, they literally have mountains of the things to have to deal with one way or another. You can't just 'select all' and 'delete' like you could with a million emails - even notwithstanding the fact that legitimately people have paid for a service and it's probably very illegal to not deliver it.

Then, of course, even if the postal service does eventually manage to deliver them, the problem is passed straight on to the recipient. It's a great way to make what at first seems like a charming little gesture into a really nasty, aggressive threat and large-scale sabotage.

We have a JW hall not far from us, so I often see them out. I told them politely to leave my property and not ever come back or it'd be trespassing. They never have, even after parking in front of my house recently. They saw me, but didn't approach.

They're lucky as DH would give them a huge serve. They converted his best friend and wife, who preached at us, refused to partake in our traditional wedding rituals & then blamed me for the friendship falling apart!!

We had issues with Mormons for a while, they were worse than JW's. I remember two good looking US blokes 'on pilgrimage to spread the word' (their words) moved in next door to a friend. She fell for their nice guy attention & couldn't be told. Only realised after they convinced her to go to church and tried to get her baptised. She finally woke up & realised what they were really after & it wasn't sex! I saw it unfold and they were very good at luring her in without crossing boundaries. She was only about 18, they were early 20's so quite horrible.

I had a family member who was a JW. She left and ended up becoming Pagan. I'm happy to chat to them as they are (in my experience) pleasant to talk to, but I haven't had any come knocking in years.

A blood transfusion saved my wife's life several years ago. If they came back, I'd probably tell them that and say I'd always choose to save a life than let someone die.

Better move broom and cauldron before the run up to Halloween.
😉😁😁.

Print some Church of Satan pamphlets and tell them you'll read theirs if they read yours.

I had a jw friend long time ago whom I asked this too...would she let her child die rather than receive a blood transfusion. She would not say yes, just that often people only need water not blood.

I had handwritten letters, I wrote and asked that in accordance with GDPR and the right to be forgotten to remove me from their list. Never had another knock or letter since.

The JWs always launch into conversation with an open question (ie one that doesn’t have a yes or no answer). Whatever they say, I always reply by saying ‘ I am not interested and don’t wish to discuss it thank you. I’m closing the door now’. And I do close it, promptly.