Tween went Christmas Caroling, Knocked on JW Door

by skeeter1 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • skeeter1
    skeeter1

    My tween went Christmas caroling with a small group through our neigbhorhood. They didn't know where some JWs lived in our neighborhood. By accident, they knocked on the JW door. A woman answered. The householder stood there, blankly staring at the carolers, who were singing. She went back into the house. The kids thought it was to get someone else to enjoy the carolers or to get a treat. A man came out, and told the kids to "Go Away!" Apparently, he said it in a mean, nasty way. (There was no "Thank you, but we don't celebrate Chirstmas...", which had there been it would have gone a long way with these kdis.) The man's nastiness and the woman's coldness made an impression on the tweens, and one of them said in that scarcastic 13 year old voice, "Weeeellll, Thank you very much!"

    My tween (and some from the group) came home and told me all about it, and had figured out that this house might be a JW house. So we talked about it. I said, "The funny thing is that this JW couple knock on other people's doors, trying to push the Jehovah's Witness religion by proposing a Bible study. When I was a JW, we talked about people who were not receptive to us at the door, and I really thought those people were not liked by God because they were mean to us." The kids then talked about it and said, "Well, do onto others as you would do to yourself." In other words, they all "got" how the JWs were, a one-way street. I'm pretty sure these kids will slam the door on JWs who come to their house now. LOL.

  • carla
    carla

    Sometimes jw's are their own best anti-witness!

  • happy@last
    happy@last

    I'd class them as a return visit for around Halloween time

  • skeeter1
    skeeter1

    It could be a Halloween visit, but I heard that their house was being auctioned by the bank. Of course, they are fighting it. Now, the auction is scheduled for March 2014. I think many in our subdivision are counting down the days. The "grown ups" in the neighborhood don't like them for various reasons.

  • joyfulfader
    joyfulfader

    I imagine that if their house is being auctioned they are extremely stressed. While their rudeness was uncalled for it is no reason to hope they lose their home...JW or not.

  • Bruja-del-Sol
    Bruja-del-Sol

    I agree with joyfulfader. We've lost our house to the bank this year and before we definitely left it every time the doorbell rang was a moment of stress and fear of who might be at the door. So I can imagine that this couple is stressed out just from hearing the doorbell ring and the fear of opening the door to i.e. debt collectors. Of course it's not very nice to treat innocent children the way they did, but I know that fear can make you do strange things you'd normally wouldn't think of. Add the fact that they're JWs with the twisted believes around Christmas and their behaviour isn't as strange as it appears at first sight.

    And it's a good thing this experience will prevent those children to ever listen to door knocking JW's in the future

  • EndofMysteries
    EndofMysteries

    He's a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

  • skeeter1
    skeeter1

    The adults in the neighborhood wish him good riddance for other reasons. Their losing their house is of no concern or joy to the neighborhood. It's totally for other reasons. Only that the auction gives the neighborhood an end date for the neighborhood.

  • Julia Orwell
    Julia Orwell

    Could have been any of the non Christian religions. You'd get a similar reaction if you went to the door of a Muslim.

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    I hope the next time those witlesses do field circus, they get tons of people that are vehemently not interested and downright rude.

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