What Is The Most Successful Way To Get Rid of Jehovah's Witneses?

by minimus 65 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  Gretchen, does your doorbell work?
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  garybuss

  
  
  I never started out to keep them away. November of 1992, I had been out of town for the day and it was Sunday and circuit assembly was in town. It was afternoon and I thought I'd meet up with my wife there and take her out to dinner. I thought I was arriving at the end of the meeting but I was mistaken and came into the assembly at midway point.
  
  I grabbed a chair on the side by the wall well away from the designated blocks of seats and sat there till the meeting was over. What followed was not like any assembly ending I had ever seen. As I stood on the side, after the end of the meeting everybody stood up and filed to the front of the room and double filed out the door. On one stood and visited or jumped into cleaning or anything. They just got up and filed out.
  
  It reminded me of people leaving a crowded movie theater after the movie.
  
  I stood by the side of the line filing out to try to spot my wife and all 300 + people filed past me. I knew many of them. Many were my relatives. No one looked at me or spoke. It was weird. That was my first experience of being snubbed by the Witness people. There were to be many, many more.
  
  It turned out my wife was not there.
  
  I went to them to try to get my unanswered questions answered and the reaction was always the same. They had no answers for me and the rejection stepped up one level and another level. In the end some of my relatives, my inlaws and two of my sons started to shun and snub me. I wondered how many other people they had done this to so I ran an ad in the local papers.
  
  Over forty local people who had been involved with the Witness people contacted me. The religious editor working for one of the papers I was running ads in contacted me and he wrote an article that was printed on the front page of the daily paper.
  
  The Witness people had been long shunning me, but after the article, they quit contacting my family too. That was very wise of them. I had a figurative loaded gun and the other shoe was ready to drop. Now they stay away and I am very glad. I am not interested in any connections whatsoever with any Witness people of the type that told my sons to shun me.
  
  So to answer the topic question, I guess I went on the offensive. That does a nice job of keeping them away for me.
  
  
  
  
  
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  minimus

  Is that it??
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  avengers

  The Dubbs are a bunch of sheep. (That's what they call themselves. So don't get on my butt for saying it.)
  Without the "shepherd" and his "sheepdogs" the sheep will be scattered.
  The obvious is to shoot the dog and the shepherd.
  Problem solved.
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  minimus

  I take it the "sheepdogs" are the elders??
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  avengers

  The shepherd is the GB and the dogs the elders.

  I'm just messin' around, so don't mind me.

  The truth is though that every time they were here at the door they've managed to
  upset me. Every time I think they won't, but in reality they always upset me.
  So next time I'll just politely ask them to leave. If they don't well,
  then it's their responsibility.
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  minimus

  Funny---how JWs---just the sight of them, can make us feel upset.
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  badboy

  I heard from one person that he told them that he was looking for recruits for his witches coven,they were off like a shot!
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  avengers

  Funny---how JWs---just the sight of them, can make us feel upset.

  I live in a town where the Branch Office resides. On bookstudy evenings and meeting-evenings I see lots of Bethelites
  on bikes riding together. They upset me first, but not that much anymore.
  There's a lot of preaching going on here in this town, mainly by Bethelites.
  I guess I'm getting used to seeing them, or just toughening up?
  If we can get the Branch Office to shut down maybe?
  But how? Now we're back on topic. lol.......Andy
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  Jim_TX

  I live in a mobile home park. I was told by the manager that they don't allow solicitors here *pause* except religious people. (Great! I am thinking! JWs will be door-knocking.)

  Well... I am here to tell you that I have been here for almost 3 years, and not one door-knocker. I even installed a doorbell to make it easier to get me to the door.

  All kidding aside - I have told friends that the sure-fire way to get them to flee from their door is to tell them that you are either DFed or Apostate.

  It's funny though... folks whut aren't JWs have a hard time remembering words like 'disfellowshipped' or 'apostate'.

  So I tell them... just tell them you're devil worshippers.

  The way I figure it... you have to make their experience at your door memorable - you have to start a 'JW-legend' - one that they will remember and spread far and wide. You all know the ones... the "There was a man once... he was demonized! You could see it in his eyes. He lives right in our territory, too!"

  Otherwise - they'll be back. And back. And back.

  As for answering the door sans clothing... I know of a gal who did that. The JW fella whut knocked on her door, got an eye full. He liked whut he saw, so he made a return visit. She is now a JW - and his wife... so I wouldn't recommend that... even for 'same-sex' door-knockers.

  So, you have to make them believe that you are off your rocker.

  Staring into the distance, drooling and mumbling works too. Of course... that also works for pre-arranged meetings with 'elders'. They don't know how to take things that are out of the ordinary.

  They have lots of superstitions - for a religion that supposedly doesn't believe in superstitions.

  Regards,

  Jim TX