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Gaaahhh!

I had some watchtower types show up at my apartment one time years ago. They wanted to give me some magazines. Since I had just finished two bowls of chili and some old chicken wings not fifteen minutes before, I was definitely in need of some reading material -- anything. So idiotically, I took the magazines.

The problem is, they came back the next day and the next, wanting to discuss what I had read. I finally told them I was on my way out on a business trip but I would for sure get back to them.

"What do you do?" one asked.

"I work for the government investigating dangerous religious cults."

Needless to say, they never came back.

posted by strat on October 27, 2006 at 11:27 AM | link to this | reply

i agree

but i don't like anyone pushing any belief on me - especially at my home. i'll believe what i want to - and if their belief is so strong and poweful - why do they have to peddle it door-to-door?

posted by ladychardonnay on October 27, 2006 at 6:31 AM | link to this | reply

ladychardonnay - what I find the most offensive about these people, aside

from the fact that they are intruding, is the message itself.

The message in their literature was nothing more than a long winded way of saying that they are the one true religion, while everyone else is wrong. Further they go on to say that everyone else will pay for being wrong. I often wonder if these people can count. There are approximately 6.5 million Jehovah's Witnesses on this planet of a total populace of 6.5 billion people. This would mean that .1% (1/10th of 1 percent) has it right while everyone else has it wrong. Aside from being incredibly ludicrous to think that one little group, obscure in history, has it right, this idea has much broader implications. It also suggests that mankind has nearly no hope of salvation, unless of course you join them.

posted by gomedome on October 27, 2006 at 6:20 AM | link to this | reply

I'd say "did you find your nose yet?"

to me these people are an intrusion into my privacy. my little street gets them constantly and we warn each other. i wonder how they would feel if i showed up at their door pushing my life on them - now that's sounds interesting.

posted by ladychardonnay on October 27, 2006 at 5:49 AM | link to this | reply

I wish I had their schedule.

I would have liked to grab some snacks and a lawn chair and watch the show.

"Save 'em boys, save 'em. The sinner is inside."

I think traveling in two's is also supposed to keep them from being, uh, distracted, when they run across a lone female. It's menage or nothing, I guess, with missionaries.

You would think missionary style but what does the other one do, read the bible out loud while his buddy is wielding the rod of righteousness on the harlot?

posted by SuccessWarrior on October 26, 2006 at 7:11 PM | link to this | reply

ladychardonnay - can you imagine if that plastic faced weirdo showed up on

your doorstep?

posted by gomedome on October 26, 2006 at 6:56 PM | link to this | reply

darkmuser - I view them as entertainment on the hoof

I have zero sympathy for anyone who holds such disregard for the privacy of others.

posted by gomedome on October 26, 2006 at 6:55 PM | link to this | reply

cantey_1975 - aside from safety reasons as I'd imagine that more than a few

Jehovah's Witnesses have had the turds pounded out of them . . .

There would have to be an aspect of one watching the other. To make sure he didn't throw his literature in a ditch somewhere, then come back to the kingdom hall and claim that he had faithfully handed it all out.

posted by gomedome on October 26, 2006 at 6:51 PM | link to this | reply

Xeno-x -- talk about creating and imprinting an image

They attempt to use the description in the bible as symbolic instead of literal but I wonder where the lines are drawn in doing so.

posted by gomedome on October 26, 2006 at 6:48 PM | link to this | reply

Micheal Jackson is a Jehovah Witness

where do you think he got the song "Beat it" from - get off my porch

posted by ladychardonnay on October 26, 2006 at 5:38 PM | link to this | reply

They wish to appear as non-threatening... Though being told that I am too

stupid to know what's good for me is very off putting to say the least.

darkmuser

posted by darkmuser on October 26, 2006 at 4:57 PM | link to this | reply

why is it always two of them?

what is the significance? why not just one? THere is something just plain threatening about two of them confronting me on my porch, as opposed to just one. I would probably be more receptive to a single person because to me it is more balsy. I wonder if they ever go into poor crime ridden neighborhoods.