Co-Existing with JW Neigbours - Ideas?

by jgnat 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  jgnat

  You can spot 'em at Christmas. The spare, neat house with no Santy Clause out front. The JW neighbour. You can't avoid 'em forever. Chances are you will pass them on the street coming back from a meeting when you are popping out to return a movie to Blockbuster. How can we make our JW neighbour feel at home?

  Ideas?

  - Put up all-clear Christmas lights in your trees and leave them in year-round. Tell your neighbour they have inspired you not to put up seasonal decorations anymore.
  - Package up discarded Awake and Watchtowers from the neighbourhood and leave on their doorstep to recycle.
  - Rename your dog, Satan, to Jehovah.
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  simplesally

  • Offer to babysit so the parents can have time to do their personal study?
  • Make sure to only give dresses to the girl children for their birthday present parents anniversary.
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  CyrusThePersian

  How about a noisy, outdoor Apostafest say, about once a week?

  CyrusThePersian
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  Sassy

  For me it would be to never tell them I or anyone I know has ever been affiliated with the WTS..........that way they can smile nice and think when they cross the street in front of me, that I am one who just have never learned the "truth" yet, so they will think they need to set the neighborly example of love to this worldly person..
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  garybuss

  
  
  If they are good neighbors, I'd treat them like good neighbors. If they are bad neighbors, I'd treat them like bad neighbors. I have never ever had a bad neighbor.
  
  
  
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  A Paduan

  Jw neighbours are the reason I started posting here - to find out about jwism - they were THAT bad (but still dressed neat and went preaching of course) - we didn't get it, we didn't know (about jwism), but we did basically know right from wrong - now we realise that they were trying to please themselves as it fit in with the appeasement and rules of an imaginary beast (who is going to kill us, with their approval).

  The nastiness - never known the likes of it - they've gone away for now - I told my wife, "They won't just go, they'll make sure they have their way with you first" - like a one-up-man-ship thing they've always had - sure enough, loud all night parties and 'donughts' in the street - we said nothing, and kept "heaping those coals", but the rest of the street totally got up them.

  The "good news" is that no one here will ever be a jw.
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  shotgun

  Nude sunbathing on Saturday mornings.
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  jgnat

  Doughnuts in the street???? JW's?????
  I thought JW houses were the beige homes with no decorations, bare lawn mowed just often enough to be decent, and the neighbours that NEVER came to the block party.

  Simplesally, I love the babysitting offer! A Paduan, I am a big believer that food can melt hearts of ice, also part of that "heaping coals" concept.
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  concerned mama

  jgnat, I know just what you mean by the "blah" house. I was surprised because their yard was kind of unkept and with half done gardening projects. It really surprised me as she talked about an interest in gardening, but she said she never had time. Now I know why she never had time. I don't think that they were "bad" neighbours, though.
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  gitasatsangha

  just treat 'em like you'd like to be treated by them. If they see that "apostates" aren't fire breathing dragons (well, possibly before I use mouthwash in the morning), it will be a good "Witness" and "Informal Witnessing"