They were just here !! (page 2)

Legolas

Great job!! Maybe you planted a seed or two. You never know!!!!

Seeing as they caught you off-guard like that, I think you did just fine. Unfortunately, the second you tell a Witness that you used to be one, the defense signal go up around the Witness-part-of-their-brain and I'm amazed they didn't go screaming off in the other direction yelling Jehovah's name.

What you said was good though. I notice that the 40 year old had no reply to what you said, just the ever predictably lame "we have a right to believe what we want to". Duuuuuuh.

Way ta go........

freedom96

Hey, anytime that one has the opportunity to tell witnesses the way it is, I am all for it. Maybe a little seed of doubt crept in, and maybe they will ponder what you had to say, if not now, maybe later.

delilah

Funny that the older JW would retort with ,"We have a right to believe what we want." But they don't give it a second thought when someone they call on says the same thing. They ignore the comment and bulldoze right on with their message of "hope"...not.

Delilah

Doubtfully Yours

You planted a seed. That young person will soon be searching JW in the Internet.

Hopefully, that young person will keep the good learned inside the WBTS, but will actively pursue a career and open his mind and heart to other people rather than looking at the world as "Them against us"-type deal.

Well done.

DY

Momofmany

Way to go!

undercover

I told them that we use to be jw's and that they should be ashamed of themselves for telling people that Amageddon was coming soon,

I hope you got through to the youngster at least, but I have a feeling that once you said you were once JWs, their brains shut down, the ears closed and they quit listening.

At that point it was the older brother's quest to protect the younger brother from the evil facing them. Nothing you had to say was going to make a dent. Once they got away from you, the older brother would go into damage control and paint you as a terrible, evil, diabolical tool of Satan, placed in their way by Satan himself that morning to sway them from serving Jehovah. They probably went back to the car and told the car group how Satan was trying his best to thwart them that morning.

I think that if you want to engage a JW and see if you can get them to question their own stance, you have to feign genuine interest, get their guard down and as they try to convince you of their beliefs, hit them with questions they can't get out of. Once you knock them back on their heels, they'll recover enough to label you uninterested or not worthy of the truth, but the issues raised will lodge in their brain. Sooner or later, it will resurface and give rise to doubts.

jaffacake

The encounter, along with others, may have some effect on the young lad. You never know, he may already have questions in his own mind.

I have lived at my address for 14 years and not once has a JW came knocking at my door. I do so hope they will one day. I lived at my previous address (10 miles away) for 11 years, and only once got a visit.

I will be ready for them, if they ever come, but I don't think they ever will.

hubert

I think you planted some good seeds, too.

After hearing all the horror stories at the N.E. Apostafest, I think you did a good job. It got you in the right mood.

Hubert

AK - Jeff

I think mentioning that you were once witnesses was the only mistake you made here. For most witnesses that raises a red flag.

But you may have broke thru to the young guy - hope the seed landed on 'furtile soil'...

Jeff

They were just here !!