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  • I just told the Jehovah's Witnesses I was cooking my lunch…
  • teasel
    Free Member

    It can be bloody amusing getting them to attempt an explanation for all the times the prediction of Armageddon went unfulfilled. Unreliable prophets are never a good thing for PR. I hope they were disfellowshipped for that.

    We keep forgetting that some people have to live through this not through their own choice.

    Destroyed my family and my school life. I wasn’t allowed to sit in on assembly in the mornings because they recognised the wrong version of god, I guess. Got me kicked to shit on an almost daily basis. That and being ginger, of course. Didn’t stand a chance… 🙂

    Another gutting story was a young girl, probably around 18/19, happened to become attracted to a young guy probably about 5 years older. From what I could work out they had a little night of passion that somehow came to light and the guy was disfellowshipped, and when an elder explained it to the congregation he was accused of raping the girl, probably because she was an elder’s daughter. Her father stepped down as an elder after that and I always felt he was a broken man, such was their wrath and judgment.

    Just typing that has made me slightly angry; using words like elder and disfellowship – the bloody arrogance of these ****. The way they told my mum that only men could wear trousers. The way the son of the elder would look down his **** nose at me. It’s little wonder I thumped that prick and scragged a few others before I too was asked to no longer attend.

    Probably best to step away from the thread, eh…

    nach
    Free Member

    Their attitudes to sex are so massively **** up there could be books on that alone. There were occasional shotgun weddings. We had an elder who’d often grope women (because of their interpretation of Matthew 18:15-17, JWs require two witnesses to any kind of sexual assault, so many instances go unreported or unpunished). Eventually a woman cheated on her husband with the sleazy elder. She got disfellowshipped*, he got a slap on the wrist and was back in a position of authority within six months.

    ( * Most JWs won’t even say hello to ex-believers, and heavily discourage any kind of socialising outside of the religion – once you’re gone, so are your friendships along with any kind of support network you had).

    teasel, martymac, I hope you’re both doing okay. I did pretty well at unpicking it in the five years or so after I left. I didn’t have to endure the kind of secondary school bullying you did, but being a JW drove me into extreme social phobia for a while. Sixteen years on it all feels very distant, but still affects some of the ex-JWs I know quite badly 🙁

    plumslikerocks
    Free Member

    From the JW that I went to Uni with, i got the impression that the door knocking was more about occupying otherwise spare time than genuinely hoping to convert anyone. Having heard her stories about being verbally abused and having dogs set on her etc i swore i’d always try to be nice.
    Unfortunately, a big crowd of them turned up on my doorstep once and rang our too-loud doorbell just as I’d got jr down for his afternoon nap and was about to set off on the bike. I’m a bit ashamed that I carried on shouting until the front gate closed. I’m also annoyed that they probably took some perverse strength and pleasure from my over-reaction.

    My gay co-worker tells me that declaring a fondness for “sucking tail” gets them off the doorstep fairly rapidly!

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    I told them they shouldn’t really be knocking on people’s doors and going into their houses as they never know who they might be dealing with

    The next morning?

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    They should try to bring a big friendly dog with them to encourage people to talk to them……

    I’m really glad that they don’t do this. I’d get converted on a weekly basis if they did. Who’s a big friendly boy, yes you are, yes you are

    simmy
    Free Member

    There is a really rough housing estate near me, the kind were Jeremy Kyle sends his team to look for guests.

    I was teaching a young lad on there who really shouldn’t have lived on that estate as he worked and didn’t have a neck or face tattoo.

    JW’s were knocking on doors on the estate. At 9 am on a Saturday……

    We left before the action kicked off.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    They should try to bring a big friendly dog with them to encourage people to talk to them……
    I’m really glad that they don’t do this. I’d get converted on a weekly basis if they did. Who’s a big friendly boy, yes you are, yes you are

    So, you prefer doggy style to straight missionary?

    integerspin
    Free Member

    I had a mate who was a normal biker, long hair, why wash your jeans they are only going to get oily again, same for his hands. He wasn’t around for a while and one night leaving a pub some one tells me there is a bloke who looks like Bob standing
    on the other side of the road. But the bloke is wearing a suit and has short hair! We all go over and it is Bob and he’s with a rather hot girl, so we take the piss out of the suit and have a bit of laugh, he turned down a smoke and I thought he had got all lovey with the bird, it was only later someone told me he was now a Joey and he had been out door to door. We didn’t see him again.

    I can only think of one time they knocked on our door. We just happened to have a born again cousin staying, she dragged them in and gave them a lecture about the bible. I felt sorry for them.

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    So, you prefer doggy style to straight missionary?

    😆

    teasel
    Free Member

    teasel, martymac, I hope you’re both doing okay.

    Yeah, I’m fine these days, thanks. It has to be noted that this was all a very long time ago – started in ’74 when I was 6 years old and I only did a stint of around a decade. I think they’ve changed quite a few views since then so maybe they’re not all bad. I met some genuinely nice people in my time with them, it’s just a shame they get tarred with the same brush as the tossers of their sect.

    Also, I remembered – the ‘elder’ that stuck pins in his son’s leg went by the name of Brother Duck.

    heh

    teasel
    Free Member

    As for thinking the OP was weird for cooking lunch at 10:30 or indeed, bullshitting – I doubt they were as presumptuous as me when I did a very short stint as a postie. When on a walk with the regular guy I spotted a guy sat in his lounge heartily quaffing a can of beer at around 7:30am. As we walked away I asked if the other postie had seen the bloke drinking and what a shame alcoholism was. He smirked and informed me that it was the beginning of they guy’s evening as he’d just finished night shift.

    I know; cool story, right…

    Coyote
    Free Member

    A polite “no thank you” usually suffices.

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    My Grandad was Vicar. He used to invite the Jehovahs in and try to convert them. 3 or 4 hours of cups of tea and I’m certain they wanted their world’s to end right there.

    ratnips
    Free Member

    The JW’s would bring cake and biscuits to my wife’s grandmothers house and spend afternoon’s talking to her. We never knew who was coming round for ages until we found a magazine in the bin as she was well gone with dementia.

    Kept them from bothering someone else and she enjoyed the company.

    martymac
    Full Member

    teasel, martymac, I hope you’re both doing okay.

    Thank you.
    Yes, doing fine thanks, i didn’t realise that such behaviour was actually really weird, it was only when a (nonjw) friend who I’d hung around with since school, told me in my mid 20s what he really thought of my religion, that was a real eye opener.
    I still have a few witnesses on my fb, but their choice of religion never gets mentioned.
    Its a free country, they can choose what they want to do, just like i do.
    I dont engage in any kind of conversation when i see them outside buchanan st bus station, and I haven’t had them round my door in a decade. Im never rude, something I can’t say about ‘some’ of the witnesses I’ve met.
    Interestingly, all of the ex witnesses I’ve met have been properly polite and never tried to convert me to their way of thinking..

    redthunder
    Free Member

    I have a pair of huge, spiked and locked gates at the start of my drive.

    Keeps everyone at distance.

    🙂

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