No longer interested

cluless

I had a couple of Witnesses at the door.An old man (ovbiously an elder and totally under the influence of watchtower doctrination.The other a very pleasant young sister late teens)

My initial responce was GOODBYE but thanks for calling. Then I thought of young sister. so I asked a question. Do you read the bible? bla bla bla the conversation continued and the New World Translation was praised I was assured admired by the best bible experts in the world.

A simple question I asked was "Do the translators of the N:W:T. claim they translated from the origional Greek and Hebrew". (According to page 5 of there bible they do)

The reply was yes but they are to modest to give there names. I accepted this and said I would you kindly come back when I will have the names of the translators and there qualifications of the Greek and Hebrew language.

They didnt come back. Iam glad I really am not interested in debating with witneses. But I hope the young sister questions why they didnt come back.

Its important to add my manner and approach was both open and friendly.So whilst Iam no longer interested I was saddened that people can be so afraid of honest questions.

Mincan

Yep, the most basic truth one can learn (and one of the few) is, a truth cannot be proven untrue, otherwise it is not a truth. I mean this goes without saying but if current witnesses would just understand it's implication. Unfortunately they take it as a reason that they don't have to research.

THUS, no question should be feared.

Open mind

It was good of you to take the time. Especially for the younger one's sake.

More than likely too much life-time invested for Mr. Elder to start questioning, although you never know there either.

I especially think this was important:

Its important to add my manner and approach was both open and friendly.

People who were living happy, good lives and were unfazed by our warnings of imminent Apocalypse had the most effect on me as a believing JW.

Thanks for sharing this.

Open Mind

Hortensia

I had a JW experience today. I went for a walk during my lunch hour. I passed a young man going the other way, nicely dressed, nervous look on his face, kind of odd. I heard him turn and start following me, and he was whispering "ma'am, excuse me, ma'am" it was pretty freaky but I figured it was broad daylight and a busy street, so I turned to see what he wanted. He held out the magazines and asked me if I'd like to read them - he looked so scared I felt sorry for him so I was ultra polite and gentle while saying, "thanks for the offer, but I'm not interested." Poor thing, I wonder if he was new at this? I still feel sorry for how nervous he was.

moshe

I have to practically fall over a JW to get them to "preach" to me. I probably shouldn't have had CofC tattoo'd on my forehead.- scares them off.