It depends on who they are, I usually avoid them if I can help it.
When You See A Witness What's Your First Reaction?
by minimus 43 Replies latest jw friends
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ekruks
My first thought is to get away from them fast, hope they didn't see me.
Also, feel sorry for them, and wonder how grown-ups can believe this stuff. I fell for it as a kid, but when I left home, it suddenly seemed so stupid so spend hours knocking doors when I was struggling to pay rent. -
maksym
I feel sorry for them.
I pray for them and if the occasion arises I show love for them as human beings. They are trapped and lost in an alternate universe without a clue as to what they've gotten themselves into.
It's taken a couple of years but I have no fear anymore from them. I have true peace in my path.
Lord have mercy on those people
Peace
Maksym
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MrMonroe
Mixed feelings: revulsion and pity. While driving home one Tuesday night a couple of weeks ago we saw a family of them leaving their home in their suits, obviously heading off to the meeting. I just look at them and think, "What a waste of their time." And they just don't realise it.
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transhuman68
If I ever saw a Witness... (More chance of being struck by lightning where I live) I guess I would start laughing- I'm really a fully-fledged 'worldly' now... and after 2 years of research I could slap them down with many unpleasant facts...
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WTWizard
I like to get out of there as quickly as possible. First, I know they are going to waste my time on rubbish about why I need to attend the boasting sessions and do field circus. Second, where there is one, there are likely to be others. Let one witless know where I am at any given time, and before long they blab it to the whole damn Kingdumb Hell. Next thing I know, the scumbag that dragged me into the cancer in the first place drags me right back to the Kingdumb Hell.
About the only safe place from them is on the other side of the world. Yes, I know there are other witlesses in New Zealand--but, chances are extremely poor that they know that I ever was one of them. Also, so long as I never let them know I was a witless, there is no way they would ever be able to connect to the Kingdumb Hell I'm supposed to be attending. To them, I would be just another worldly person that knows a lot about different religions (theirs included) through independent research, and I am not interested.
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designs
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lisaBObeesa
I guess I'm the only one who feels angry when I see them...
I try not to...I know they are just people trying their best to be 'good'....but anger really boils up pretty quickly...
I can't talk to them.
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Morbidzbaby
WTWizard, I agree with you about being somewhere where no one knows you or that you were once a JW. I haven't actually run into ANY where I am, although I know they are around. I live in a complex that doesn't allow door-to-door work by ANY church (we did have a new church that was just handing out slips with their meeting times, but they were neighbors who live in the complex and were just inviting people), so the most I get at my door is a menu from the new pizza joint down the street. Certain people know I was a JW, but only because I mentioned it in the negative...and they are more than happy to assist me in adjusting to REALITY.
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Scott77
Whenever I see them, I say to myself, 'brainwashed lot'. One of my apt laundry is usually placed with Awake and Watchtower magazines during the weeked early mornings. They do that when people are still sleeping and the apt complex has a warning notice to all unsolicited materials. Sometimes, I look way back to the old days and compare myself how I did those kind of work before I left them. Ideally, its a kind of lesson learning experience for me to compare my present status as a nonJW and that of their own.
Scott77