Saturday morning, long weekend = partly inevitable. I saw them around the corner so had a few minutes to prepare my thoughts, and I got a lone guy in his thirties doing a magazine presentation. His mags were about world unity so he asked if I thought that mankind will ever unite and I said 'yes absolutely, I think that we're growing, I'm looking forward to it'. He said that the mags talk about how God is going to bring it about and I said 'being atheist I don't think God's going to have anything to do with it, but to be honest my mother became a Jehovahs Witness, and it destroyed her life and broke our family apart' (that happens to be true). I should have made him account for that little episode in my familys life, or at least driven the point home with '... so I don't think you guys have the answer to world unity', but I let him go with 'anyway you have yourself a good day'. I think he's forgotten it already.
A JW just visited
by sass_my_frass 5 Replies latest jw friends
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Wordly Andre
you bad apostate! thats what he was thinking as he walked away, just another story to tell over his donuts and coffee
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sass_my_frass
Such a big issue to take up with a stranger on a Saturday morning!
They back walked past the house later on, very, very slowly. Soooooo slowly, just chatting about whatever. Got to kill that time. They're back at the cars now just outside our house, it's 11:30, got their two hours, they're calling it a day. Good on you guys, you really made a difference today.
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penny2
Aren't you glad you're not doing it anymore! On the rare occasions that I see them, it's usually a slow stroll. A couple of times they spent ages standing in a group under the tree in front of my place. I call that "street witnessing".
I actually feel sorry for them because they think they are doing the right thing.
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moshe
One of the most cutting remarks ever made to me when I was a dub was from a lady who asked me if I was happy being a JW. Yes, I said. " you need to stop lying, you're not fooling me"- and you know as I was walking away, I had to admit that she was right. Who knows, what you said might have made an impression on him.
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sass_my_frass
There's no way of knowing exactly what is going to reach any particular JW, and I think that we only get one shot. I was probably a little too mysterious to that guy, in a way that he'd work out that there's much more to my story than what I'd said. Frankly I don't give much of a stuff - he's an adult with a full set of intellectual tools and I'm not his mum. I delivered my lines and got him out of my face.
I'm glad that we have here the freedom for people to hang onto whatever delusion fits them best. I pity them, but not enough to make a life of converting people.