Mine is actually a club name... Once a month we would get together and take our 4 x 4's out on the desert and conquer (or make) a trail up a mountain. Since I moved across the state- I guess the name no longer fits now.
Desert Rat
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I had my first encounter with JW's at my door! I was called an apostate!
by Desert Rat inso, i am getting ready to move across the state.
we bought a home there, and have taken a couple of loads over, with the main move being this next week.
i went over this last week cause i wanted to paint the kitchen and dining room before we moved in (a lot easier to do without grandkids and dogs under foot).. anyway... here i am painting away when there is a knock on the door.
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Thank you all for your remarks. I hope I did make her think, even if just a little bit Flipper!
My hubby says its time to box up the computer, (about the only thing left) we are pulling out tomorrow on our big move. I will be so glad when its over, I am sick of packing! Amazing how much junk one can aquire. See ya all in a week or so!
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I had my first encounter with JW's at my door! I was called an apostate!
by Desert Rat inso, i am getting ready to move across the state.
we bought a home there, and have taken a couple of loads over, with the main move being this next week.
i went over this last week cause i wanted to paint the kitchen and dining room before we moved in (a lot easier to do without grandkids and dogs under foot).. anyway... here i am painting away when there is a knock on the door.
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Billy... I was thinking about telling them that they're apostates and God would be displeased if I talked to them.
LOL Now thats an idea!!
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I had my first encounter with JW's at my door! I was called an apostate!
by Desert Rat inso, i am getting ready to move across the state.
we bought a home there, and have taken a couple of loads over, with the main move being this next week.
i went over this last week cause i wanted to paint the kitchen and dining room before we moved in (a lot easier to do without grandkids and dogs under foot).. anyway... here i am painting away when there is a knock on the door.
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I'm sure I could have handled it much better. Maybe if I had seen them pull up, I could have given myself a moment to compose a conversation, rather than shooting from the hip so blatantly as I did, being put on the spot as I was. I have to admit, it was fun staring into her eyes as her mind was scrambling trying to figure out how to answer the question I had posed. I enjoyed telling her she was screwed with either answer she did give me!
I left almost 20 years ago. But back when I went door to door, I felt like if I asked a question, I'd better be prepared to listen to, and refute the answer I got! Not label that person and run! After all, the purpose for being there, was there to change that persons way of thinking about my religion and bring them into it.
Ding... The sign would work on some--but not all I am afraid. There was a house back in the day that had a sign that said-- "Trespassers will be shot. JW's will be shot twice for effect!" We had one gung-ho person that loved to call at that house just because of the sign!
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I had my first encounter with JW's at my door! I was called an apostate!
by Desert Rat inso, i am getting ready to move across the state.
we bought a home there, and have taken a couple of loads over, with the main move being this next week.
i went over this last week cause i wanted to paint the kitchen and dining room before we moved in (a lot easier to do without grandkids and dogs under foot).. anyway... here i am painting away when there is a knock on the door.
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I disagree with your analysis Steve! I was in my home, they approached me. I did state that I was very familiar with their teachings and told them NO THANK YOU! She was the one who persued the issue by asking what I was 'at odds' with. I gave her the first of many of my reasons for knowing that her religion is full of crap!! If she had not wanted to hear what I had to say- then she should have kept her mouth shut and moved on!!
I agree Nugget-- They took the role of God, because they pronounced judgement on me!
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I had my first encounter with JW's at my door! I was called an apostate!
by Desert Rat inso, i am getting ready to move across the state.
we bought a home there, and have taken a couple of loads over, with the main move being this next week.
i went over this last week cause i wanted to paint the kitchen and dining room before we moved in (a lot easier to do without grandkids and dogs under foot).. anyway... here i am painting away when there is a knock on the door.
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I was amazed to be labeled as an apostate so quick in our conversation! Kind of shocked actually! But, if that is what is being crammed down their throats right now, I can see where they would jump to that conclusion and 'judge' me. Guess we'll see if they come back, or if they skip the 'evil apostate' next time!
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I had my first encounter with JW's at my door! I was called an apostate!
by Desert Rat inso, i am getting ready to move across the state.
we bought a home there, and have taken a couple of loads over, with the main move being this next week.
i went over this last week cause i wanted to paint the kitchen and dining room before we moved in (a lot easier to do without grandkids and dogs under foot).. anyway... here i am painting away when there is a knock on the door.
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So, I am getting ready to move across the state. We bought a home there, and have taken a couple of loads over, with the main move being this next week. I went over this last week cause I wanted to paint the kitchen and dining room before we moved in (a lot easier to do without Grandkids and dogs under foot).
Anyway... Here I am painting away when there is a knock on the door. I opened it up, not knowing who to expect to be there. Wearing dresses and packing book bags I realized right away who it was! As she started spouting about encouraging Bible reading or something, I thought back to the thread I had just read about all those great one line comebacks. My mind went totally blank! I couldn't think of any of them!! What did my paint fume filled up mind, put on the spot, come up with to say?
I said you're JW's aren't you? She admitted they were. I said I was I very familiar with what they had to teach and no thank you. She asked what it was I was at odds with. (everything!!) But then I spouted how I knew they had taken worship of God and Jesus out of the equation and replaced it with worship to a publishing company.
Of course she denied that! So I asked her that if I told her I was Jesus in the flesh, would she believe me? She said no- that his return to earth would be an invisible return-not a fleshy one. So I asked if her magazine were to publish that Jesus had returned and was living as a 50 something woman at this address, would she then believe it to be true? She just stared at me for a minute (probably only seconds), and I jumped back in. I said well, if you say Yes-that you would then believe it- then that proves to me that you worship the men running the publishing company, not God. If you say No, that you wouldn't believe it, even if your magazine printed it, then you have just gone against the teachings of your religion and you would be disfellowshipped or kicked out from your religion for having a view other than theirs!
At that point, the older woman exclaimed She's an apostate! Let's go! They hastily retreated from my doorway.
I'm not even moved in all the way, and have already been 'marked' as an apostate! I guess you can attack them- but don't say anything about their beloved magazine company and the men who run it! Must have been a dead give away? Or maybe the use of the word disfellowshipped? Oh well, if I have the pleasure of going another 20 years without talking to another one, I'm fine with that!
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"Cemetery Witnessing" on Memorial Day
by Morbidzbaby ini've been wondering if this is just something that's done in my area, or if people do it all over.. every year on memorial day, a lot of people meet for fs and then when they break into groups, they all discuss which cemeteries they are going to "work".
every major cemetery in the city is divvied up.
the idea is, they take a stack of small tracts (usually the what hope for dead loved ones) and they basically park the car in the cemetery and walk around handing them out to the mourners.
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Desert Rat
None that I know of ever did this sort of witnessing, I certainly never would have myself, so tasteless! I went to the Veteran's Cemetery this morning, watched the Honor Guard perform. Had anyone approached me with a tract or anything, while I was putting out flowers for my Father, who spent WW2 in a POW camp in Germany, or my Brother, who served in Vietnam, or my Father-in-Law who was on a destroyer in WW2, I'd of hit them both barrels, and chased them back to their cars!! But then again, they probably would not have the courage to go to a Vet's resting place.
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2 elders came to my home!!
by dawntodaylight inhello to all my friends here!!
i want to tell you that i am on this site everyday!
i just don't post very often.
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Make a wooden cross, paint on it "here lies the last JW that came to my door" then plant it in plain site! Maybe then they would get the point?
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Special Blue Envelopes
by Marvin Shilmer inspecial blue envelopes.
watchtower has elders communicate judicial matters in writing to its headquarters (or designated branch office).
elders are instructed to send this written communication in what watchtower terms special blue envelopes.
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Teel-- The lines on the bottom right are the postal code for that address, usually printed on the mail peice during sorting/machining. They help keep the letter on the right track to where it is headed. Most business's have their envelopes preprinted with 'their' postal code.