by badboy 42 Replies latest jw friends
One time a guy pointed out how the bible likened Satan to a fierce lion and how gawd cast this lion down to earth during the "last days". He then asked me why a gawd of love would send a fierce lion into the place where he was keeping his children. He added, "What kind of a father would intentionally do something like that?"
I told him I would get back with him after I found an answer... I never returned.
One of the reasons I absolutely loathed going out in 'service', so scared someone was going to ask me a question that I couldn't explain. My usual sermon was Rev. 21:4 about paradise, beyond that I pretty much sucked at preaching the good news of the Kingdumb.
How the WBTS arrived to the 1914 date. I cannot explain that for the life of me!
DY
I knew what my answers were supposed to be.. but I also knew they were bullshit. If on the off chance somebody brought up something about blood transfusions I just said, "So you arent interested then?" I felt like such a knob trying to explain my retarded "beliefs" to people.
GBL
I was waiting at a door with this elderly Scottish ‘Brother’ who used to be a tap dancer. He was demonstrating the knack of shifting weight between feet but was taken by the spirit and went into full dance mode.
Oblivious to the door opening behind him he started to provide sound to match. I looked at the man standing watching and he looked at me. I realized that he did know for sure who we were. I slowly lifted the hat I was wearing off my head and held it towards him, upturned, with a hopeful look. He shook his and slowly closed the door with look of amusement, mingled with amazement.
The Scott finished his dance and we moved on - unaware to this day that he was seen doing the Highland Fling!
LOL GBL, that's exactly what i had been doing for the last few years too. i was not interested at all in getting into discussions at the door. even if i was with an elder, i always controlled the conversation to only "want the mags or not? i have more people to call on." and the couple of elders that i worked with, never pushed me. i guess they could tell i was at a snapping point. kudos to them. too bad we weren't in the same BS group. ;)
I was asked when going to someone else's return visit:
"So let me get this staight. You are saying that the prospect for someone who leaves your religion, say, because they are addicted to smoking/nicotine, is the same as the punishment for hitler, who was responsible for killing millions of people????? That doesn't make any sense and doesn't sound fair."
My response was a pathetic "well, that is what the bible tells us, and blah blah blah" (I don't even know what I said, because his point was valid and reasonable, and struck me to my core.... but I couldn't let *HIM* know that!
Trevor - thats a brilliant story!
I was doing the pioneer hours one summer with a friend when I was 12 or 13, an elders daughter who was a few years older than me was in the middle of a lengthy explanation of a generously appendaged man called King Dong when the householder opened the door at the moment she was demonstrating with watchtower and awake spread wide to indicate the length and saying
"And it was this big!"
If the householder hadn't heard anything else it was clear from our blushes what we'd been discussing!
the theory of relativity
I sucked at the doors. That is probably why I started off showing them the WT in order for them to say no.
Purza
