Well, for the first time in at least a year, JWs came to my door this morning. I was in the backyard, watering my baby quince trees --- drought conditions even here in beautiful VT --- when my beautiful dog started to bark like crazy, inside the house --- I can't let her out by herself, she would disappear --- So with my empty watering can in one hand, in my best gardening outfit (dirty white tank top and dirty beige shorts, torn out sandals) I came to the back door and here they stood, in their sunday's best, bags and magazines and bibles and all...
One was a younger Philipino lady, the other an older american woman, in the car in the driveway were the husband and son of the Philipino lady...
They show me a mag. titled "The Government That Will Bring Paradise" and the Awake! from August 8. I ask them if they have the latest Watchtower, (somehow I kind of remember reading something here in this forum, but I couldn't remember waht it was about...) So the older lady goes back to the car and comes back with a WT titled "What has happened to Hellfire?" So I said I'll take this one and the 2 others, just curious... So how much do they cost... Well, they're free, but if you want to make a donation, blah blah... So I say, well, you had to pay for these, I just want to reimburse you... the older one jumped, we didn't have to pay for them... So I say, Well, you made a donation then,... Yes that's right... the Philipino was giggling at all that...
While the older one was at the car looking for the WT, the other lady showed me the Lord's prayer in her Bible... As a Catholic, I told her, I know this prayer by heart... So I ask her : do you say this prayer during your meetings ? After all, Jesus asked us to pray this way... The older one is back and tells me that Jesus said we should pray in this manner, but not exactly like that... I say, well, if Jesus says that we should pray this way, it's good enough for me. She repeated that it said : in this manner, is not repeating the prayer in the Bible, word for word...with the usual contemptuous tone of most JWs. The older one also emphazised that God's name should be sanctified... Do you know God's name ? Yes, Yahweh... Well, Yahweh is the Hebrew name, the english name is Jehovah...
I said sanctify God's name doesn't mean we have to worship a name, but have great respect for the person behind the name and what He does... Well, she says, it says we should sanctify His name... blah, blah...
She said that they would be back in a week or so... I didn't say anything about all the current controversies. Maybe next time.
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