Hortenzie

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

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  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  Adamah, everybody has just his/her own narrow view.

  And, as for the rest of your post - WOW

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  Little light cleaning and even my mind is refreshed.

  After thinking much about the issue I'm back to my original plan. I will rip the tract but with an explanation. I will tell them that I have nothing against them personally, but I don't want the tract, and the reason for ripping it up is to protect the next person from their unprovable information and false promises, of course, as a purely symbolic gesture. I will emphasize that coming to people's door and make promises they cannot keep and make statements they cannot prove is unhelpful and unkind.

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  This feels like being naked in a hornet nest (I thought I find more understanding) and a highway to nowhere (talking in circles) so I'll better go and do something useful... like wash my dishes or take the garbage out.

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  nonjwspouse - I thought that's what I just said...

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  Powerful1 - now you are just assuming, and jumping to conclusions. I left sometime ago. In my time Internet was Devil's tool not WT's friend... I guess, the light got brighter since then.

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  redvip2000 - I hate sentences that start "What if..." and continue with an unprobable scenario. It's reminds me of JW's far fetched illustrations. So, no, I don't see your point.

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  nonjwspouse - read #2 above.

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  Buy everyone, I have to go now.

  Thanks to those who had useful suggestions (namely Robert), they helped me to modify my approach:

  When JWs come, I'll take the tract, write on it www.freedomofmind.com, and hand it back with a greeting of a nice day.

  I'm not very fond of grandiose gestures (ripping the tract), anyway. And this approach will accomplish what I wanted:

  1 - they can't count it as a placement

  2 - they can't give it to anybody else

  3- It will show them what I think about it

  4 - it will make me happy

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  LostGeneration, I am an opposer; no matter what I say or do they will think they are right, and chosen by God; I don't want them to escape - their life, their choice; and I will not thank them for the tract, the same as I wouldn't thank somebody who gives me a flu.

  Thanks.

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  Waiting for the JWs to come to my door...

  by Hortenzie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  11 years ago

  i read about the new tract distribution and thought to myself how should i react, when they come to my door.

  finally today, after finishing my morning coffee, i got an idea!

  i'll take the tract, look at it, look at them, and with a nice smile rip it up and hand it back to them with :"have a great day!

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  Hortenzie 11 years ago

  Loveyourneighbor, it is hard to take you seriously. Saying you are a JW and being on this site is inconsistent, to say the least. But thanks for your input anyway - I lost my faith in God and religion because JW took my innocence. I believed them 100% and they destroyed my trust in people and their ideas. And without trust it is impossible to believe in anything. I go to church, I read the Bible, I pray, I want to believe so much, but I can't... God is suppost to give me faith. That is the only thing I'm asking of Him but no answer. What to do now?

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