Do Jehovah's Witnesses practice common courtesy? (page 2)

carla

Common decency should be mentioned as well. As an outsider and all I know as outsiders as well, we are appalled that jw's cruise the obituary columns and send lit or visit people trying to indoctrinate them in their grief. Visiting people who recently tried to kill themselves, are going through life changing situations and general hellish times is just as disgusting to outsiders. Even those who do not understand the cultish nature of jw's find it disgusting. I know you all will say they truly think they are 'helping' but I can assure you; people do not see it that way.

As for common courtesy in general terms, dropping by my house unannounced is just rude. Knocking on doors and continuing to knock and holler things like, 'we know your in there' is also rude.

I know a guy who was enjoying his wife in the living room one Sat morning, the knock comes and they try to ignore it, they kept knocking and said they knew they were in there, finally the guy opens the door in the nude to the shock of the jw's! the jw tells the guy he should put clothes on! why? "you came to my door and my property, refused to leave when I didn't open the door, you interrupted our lovemaking and now you are telling me what to do in my own home and how to dress?" The jw tries to argue with a nude guy in his own home! can you believe that? I can tell you that guy has repeated that story numerous times and the jw's do not look pious or godly when he tells it! They did not give a good witness of jah that day! I wonder what the younger jw man was thinking? 'damn, that's what I should be doing on Saturday mornings instead of walking around with this nutcase!'

garybuss

Do Jehovah's Witnesses practice common courtesy?

I've observed that they certainly do with strangers. When I was acceptable to the leadership, some Witness people were courteous to me, many were rude to the extreme.

Chalam

Hi,

To be fair, my JW friend is nice guy. He is honest and upright, trustworthy and such. He has good morals but unfortunately they won't get him into God's kingdom. As I have told him

Isaiah 64:6 (New International Version)

6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

He didn't seem to know that verse. Looks like they gloss over it at the "kingdom halls" :( He told me once he hope he is doing enough to have his name in the Lamb's Book Of Life. Looks like he hasn't grasped this either :(

Ephesians 2:8-9 (New International Version)

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

So yes, some nice JWs, some not so nice but at the end if the day, none of that counts with God. It is all about calling on the name of the Jesus and following Him. All the best, Stephen

AuntBee

The JW family we have come to know has been rude to my daughter, who is graduating in the same class with their son. They have been best friends over the 4 years, liked each other off and on, and spent tons of time together, mostly here. She's never been invited over there, and they dont' acknowledge her in any way when they see her at school functions. It really creeps me out, and she notices it too. Her interest in becoming JW, or going to any meetings is exactly zero. (Thank God) Maybe that's why they show no interest in her, and just hope she'll just go away after graduation.

WTWizard

You mean, like hounding people to pio-sneer when they know, or reasonably should know, that it will create an unreasonable hardship? Like singling out someone that wants the opposite sex to remain celibate, after promising to fix that problem, to use in the Value Destroyer Training School? Like trying to reach Critical Mass, usurp the rulership of countries, and plunging the whole planet into the Second Dark Ages?

boyzone

I always thought JW's were courteous until I thought about it. My courtesy was partly due to my upbringing and partly due to a "be a good witness" mindset at the time. Weren't we all made to feel very conscious of being polite so that others would be attracted to the "truth"? So as not to bring reproach on Jehovah etc?

I would say in the main, yes they're courteous, but always with that agenda.

That is, they're courteous to other people, not to me, I don't exist.

thomas15

I work with a JW and have for the last 25 years. He is not in my department but we do go out for lunch together maybe once a week. When talking about life in general he is courteous. But as soon as the Bible comes up and I ask him a question about the Bible that I know he cannot answer he gets very short. It is amazing how fast he can go from nice to a persona that totally shuts down conversation.

Also, not to change the subject, but when I go with him for lunch (he eats out every day with 2 other mutual friends, none are JWs), this guy ALWAYS drives. I think he drives so that he can claim the time as field service points, is this likely?

Do Jehovah's Witnesses practice common courtesy?