by Open mind 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
"Why hello Mary. My name's John Q. Householder..."
I swear I'll do my level best to give this a try one day if any of the local contingent shows up at my front door. Of course they don't ever come to my door. I guess I'll have to wait for some new blood to move into town.
Pub : Hello my name is annoying and yours ???
Householder : I'm not interested
Pub : " May I ask, do you mean that your not interested in the bible ? "
Householder : I'm not interested
Pub : " If you mean that you are not interested in another religion "
Householder : I'm not interested
Pub: " Is that because you have a religion? "
Householder : I'm not interested
Pub : " I can appreciate that. A few years ago I felt the same way "
Householder : I'm not interested
pub: " would you be interested if i could show you from the bible how you could see your dead loved ones again? "
Householder : My late husband was a mean old son of a bitch, no i'm not interested
pub : " Is that your usual reply when Jehovah's witness call ? Have you ever really wondered why we keep calling or what we have to say ? "
Householder : Yes that's my usual reply, what part of not interested don't you understand ? and NO !!!!! I'M NOT INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY
Publishers questions takin' from Reasoning from the Scriptures book page 16
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: How about you? If a stranger knocks on your door, uninvited and wants to know your name, how would you respond?
"Fuck off."
Well, to put a nicer point on it, I would say, "Fuck off, ASSHOLE."
Farkel
I've had this happen to me at my door and I have given my name but just because I may tell a person what my name is doesn't mean they're going to get anywhere with me.
"What are you selling?"
sooner7nc: "John Q. Householder" LOL. Good luck with that and be sure to let us know if you ever give it a try.
Just little bit off topic: Is the word "householder" just a little bit culty? I told a co-worker that JWs use that word and he thought it sounded a bit strange.
wasblind: HILARIOUS! Especially this part: "Publishers questions takin' from Reasoning from the Scriptures book page 16"
farkel: Sounds like you're in the same kind of mood I was in last night.
I'm reminded of Jack Nicholson's response to the neighbor's Bible thumping cleaning lady in the movie "As Good as it Gets".
"Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City "Sailor wanna hump-hump" bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."
mrsJones: "just because I may tell a person what my name is doesn't mean they're going to get anywhere with me."
C'mon Josie, I got some swampland to sell you. C'mon Josie, Josie, Josie, Josie, Josie, Josie, Josie, Josie.... Not working?
jwfacts: "What are you selling?"
"Oh we're not selling anything. What we're doing is part of a worldwide Bible education work. If you'd like to make a small donation I'd be happy to accept it."
om
When someone comes to my door unasked and my house is not on fire and there is not a tornado on the horizon, I know they are selling something.
I can remember a few years back when I still went to meetings, a brother had such a part, demonstrations of how to present the publications. To be realistic, he had the "householder" not be so agreeable but not nasty. After all, the Reasoning book has several responses on how to handle that, "viewpoint questions." He was counseled that he had to be "positive."
Talks on the school are unrealistic too. So many jws have programmed responses, like you hand the person at the door a script of how to respond.
In the last few weeks of my JW-ship I was actually assigned to create a demo. The WT/AW was on creation and I 'met' my householder who was a biology student and I had him list some evidence for evolution, then me the 'good' JW was going to do some research and come back to him.
The audience was dumbfounded as this was not a 'classic' placement where everything was hunky-dory and hopefully someone else listened.
I was the householder in a demo once with an elder friend. He asked me last minute because the other guy didn't show up. He told me that I was supposed to be busy and to just think of something to say to that effect.
On stage, without any rehearsal, I said, with a straight face, that I was in a hurry because I was about to go sky diving and I didn't want to miss the plane.
After he regained his composure and the audience stopped laughing at his stunned reaction, he went on with his schpeil. He always specified what I was supposed to say after that...
blondie: "He was counseled that he had to be "positive.""
I can remember trying to come up with demos that were more "realistic". E.g. real objections, a bit of verbal reparte' or debate and was told it was too controversial.
Anony Mous: Sounds like you took "controversial" to a new level.
Rocky_Girl: "I was about to go sky diving and I didn't want to miss the plane."
Gotta love working in WT-forbidden extreme sports into your objection.
om
