I just got invited to a speechification by the wandering mendicants. I tried to be nice, take the books and send them away, but the senior mendicant handed the junior one a flyer-slash-invitation to an induction ceremony.
I told them I've been to a Kingdom Hall, listened and I'm way past all that.
Asked what that meant, I said that they read from the Watchtower book, ask a question from the book, get an answer back that quotes the book, and that's not a teaching that can teach me anyway.The mendicant said, "But if you have any questions..." anf I cut it off and said "I have no questions."
"You have no problems, no faults, you're satisfied with everything as it is?"
"No, but that doesn't mean I have questions."
The mendicant's watcher or trainer or whatever, the one that gave junior the flyer was standing back from the door. Asks me, "But you do believe in the Bible, don't you?" I said, "I don't believe in anything. I don't need to."
And that was the end of the discussion.
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My niece's best friend is a Jehovah's Witness. She was raised that way. Sadly, in high school she got knocked up by the head of the Kingdom Hall's son(she was a good student who was offered a full scholarship to major in Education but her mom made her pass on it because she got pregnant) ... She got kicked out for a while. His punishment, naturally, wasn't as harsh.
Since she isn't supposed to celebrate birthdays, she conspired with my niece to go out and party when she turned 21. I'm not sure how committed she is to the faith. When she and her group patroled my sister's block, she went into the house under the guise of providing more information (she visited and ate).
I rarely have issues with the different faiths themselves ... I always find the people who are supposed to believe crazier than the belief system.
Not Funny
One of my sisters is a Jehovah's Witness. She is a good and kind person but I consider her involvement with this group to be a sign at some level of mental illness or arrested development.
I Usually Say Something
along the lines of...
"You may certainly come in, muwhahahahaha, but you may not leave." Â I find that works really well.
Actually, I did let them in once while in grad school and had a bit of fun at their expense. Â I don't have time for such trifles these days...I may do it again when the babies are of age so that they can see crack out of the pot once in a while.
"You may certainly come in,
Normally I don't mess with them...they got enough issues.Â