How Did You Deal With Weirdo Witnesses? (page 2)

NewYork44M

I had an uncle Paul who was obsessed with going out in service. When he came to visit us he would start knocking on the doors in the neighborhood after dinner. I really liked him. However, I never liked going out in service with him because he was a little embarassing. He had a very strong "foot in the door" sales approach to field service. He died of old age and lived his life fully expecting to be transported into the new order long before he became an old man.

Seeker4

I usually ended up adopting them! Really. I always treated people pretty well no matter how odd, so I ended up attracting a lot of strange folks!

Min, did you ever know Neal Dewey from Massachusetts?

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hillbilly

hehe.. sorry Minimus... i used to give YOUR phone number to all the weirdos....................

Hill

White Dove

What if it's a parent who is the embarrassment of the cong. and kids? It's a bit difficult to be so forgiving when it's a parent who is embarrassing you in front of the entire congregation for your entire life in the org.

NewYork44M

When I am reading all these replies it seems that the weidros made life a little interesting. They would give the elders problems but they certainly added character to a congregation. Long live the wierdos!

snowbird

You're right about the "different" ones being the most unselfish and loving.

There was one old brother from Barbados in our congregation. (Don't ask how he got from Barbados to here).

Anyway, he always wanted to work with me in FS. Others avoided him because of his intimidating intellect and his strong West Indian accent, but I loved him! Using only the Bible, he would engage the householders for hours. They didn't seem to mind; I certainly didn't because he could quote blocks of Scripture from memory. It was a pleasure to be in his company.

He let it be known to anyone who would listen that he was born the same year that the American Standard Version of the Bible was released - 1901. When his health began to decline, his son came from New York and took him back with him. I really missed him.

Sylvia

WTWizard

We had one in my former hall that was rather emotionally sick. This "brother" had trouble with marriages (I wonder why). He would tend to go out in field circus and not do much in the way of placement, and he was rather cheap when it came to being set up with motel rooms at a$$emblies. Of course, he didn't make that much money, so one could not blame him for not being able to support his own way, particularly with the houndings to put money into the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund.

Of course, this is nothing compared to telling me to just meet men. Cheapness and weird ways are more tolerable than hounders telling me that I should just meet men after setting me up to be rejected by all the "sisters". And trying to set me up for the Value Destroyer Training School.

ninja

there was an old guy at the hall with the biggest ears you ever saw........he caused a lot of gossip when kids hula hoops went missing exactly at the same time he got his ears pierced......last time I heard from him he was working for SETI.....(disclaimer....all this may not have happened..............but his ears were big)

Layla33

I knew one pioneer sister who was so zealous, she stopped on a highway and backed up to witness to road construction workers. She was always doing crazy things like that. Other jws made fun of her and always rolled their eyes behind her back, but I liked her. After getting to know her, I realized that she was so zealous, because she really did love God and was desperately fighting sexual urges since she was unmarried and apparently not good enough for any of the "brothers" at our hall. I recently heard that she was df'd for fornication.

Passion will do it to you everytime. Never bottle it up, you must live!

ataloa

There's always one weirdo in every kingdom hall...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....I couldn't find him.

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