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Does anybody in London know anything about this???

by brizzzy in

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i'm a californian, but a good friend in london just texted me saying there's a blitz of about 50 jehovah's witnesses in croydon right outside of where she's eating loaded up with watchtowers and setting up a stall and a speaker with a megaphone.

she also says that some of them are women in wheelchairs and that they're rolling in front of passers by and blocking them when they try to ignore them.

she says all of the pedestrians are telling them to fuck off and leave them alone because they're not interested in a cult, haha.. is this something new that the society is encouraging over there (or even more scary, everywhere?

activeJW

Hi and thank you for your replies:

Ambersun: "I wonder who they were" - after checking they were an Islamic group who do this in two other local places.

Soldier77: "I bet you think you can get away with counting your time that you post here" - Not at all, not 1 second of my time is recorded here, wouldn't that be a a bit tragic? If you wish to view me as an apostate for viewing this board then that is purely your decision, if it makes you sleep better, all power to you.

Laverite: "I though what on earth would they be doing in Croydon" - Croydon has 7 congregations

Hairyhegoat: "why would you want to drag this post up again?" - As AnnOMaly writes, I happened upon this thread while looking for something else just recently as I was not aware of it before. I wrote my comment simply to correct what I see as an alarming error (shall we call it?). No one is perfect, whether they be a former or current JW or someone who never cared about JWs. Put it this way, if this post happened (FOR EXAMPLE) to be on a different website saying that Harrison Ford played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, I might of been prompted to add a post and say in fact it was Mark Hamill. If people want to doubt everything, mock everything, be unsure of everything (or be sure of everything without actually knowing then fine I just thought I could give some background information on this thread, perhaps more so than the posters who answered it, not because I know everything but because I am in the location the thread talks of. Hope that answers you...and lastly, does it matter when someone replies to a post?

Curtains: "figment of someone's imagination or an embellished account" - I checked back, they were working different areas that day doing door to door and only 5 people did extra street work later that day in the Norbury area. With many things as I am sure you'll agree, some people may well be disgruntled with the JWs for whatever reason and it is true they speak perfection but are far from it but when I read something so clearly 'embellished' as you say, I just had to comment. I have also read on this site that JWs are not allowed to play Chess...next I am sure someone will post that regular publishers, aux pioneers and pioneers go to school to learn what speed to walk at...fast, medium, slow LOL I just see it as if it is true - fair enough, if it isn't - say it isn't.

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Does anybody in London know anything about this???

by brizzzy in

jw
friends

i'm a californian, but a good friend in london just texted me saying there's a blitz of about 50 jehovah's witnesses in croydon right outside of where she's eating loaded up with watchtowers and setting up a stall and a speaker with a megaphone.

she also says that some of them are women in wheelchairs and that they're rolling in front of passers by and blocking them when they try to ignore them.

she says all of the pedestrians are telling them to fuck off and leave them alone because they're not interested in a cult, haha.. is this something new that the society is encouraging over there (or even more scary, everywhere?

activeJW

Oh just another thought:

Why could your friend not take photos of these 50 or so Witnesses? I do not think the person who took a snap would be tracked down and shot.

There are no sisters in Croydon or the other 7 local congregations in motorised or manual wheelchairs plus other outside congregations as you know do not invade the territories of other congregations.

Croydon is not mainly Asian or African, in fact it has as its demographic 89% white British.

I know of no Brother who does his ministry by randomly quoting the Bible for no reason

Croydon is in London, not a big town 10 mins from London

As I said, legally the cannot preach on the mall or the areas leading to it and I doubt the JWs would of broken the law to do this - plus the fact no ministry was done from end of September 2009 to January 2010

Finally, I have no issue at all if someone has questions, doubts and opinions, for or against as I also have many but your friend seems to be mistaken on a massive scale, I am trying hard not to say the word fabrication because they may well of mistaken them for the Muslims and one more thing, if Croydon ever gets 50 out on street witnessing then it will be truly amazing as I think the record for Street stuff is 11.

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Does anybody in London know anything about this???

by brizzzy in

jw
friends

i'm a californian, but a good friend in london just texted me saying there's a blitz of about 50 jehovah's witnesses in croydon right outside of where she's eating loaded up with watchtowers and setting up a stall and a speaker with a megaphone.

she also says that some of them are women in wheelchairs and that they're rolling in front of passers by and blocking them when they try to ignore them.

she says all of the pedestrians are telling them to fuck off and leave them alone because they're not interested in a cult, haha.. is this something new that the society is encouraging over there (or even more scary, everywhere?

activeJW

This is quite untrue. In Croydon for a start you cannot by law set up a stall and practice your trade (or religious stuff) on the forecourts of the train stations and shopping malls unless you have written permission. Street Witnessing is also never done this way in Croydon and is unheard of. However, in East Croydon near the station and tram stop, Penge High Street and West Croydon (by the hospital) you often see the Islam group set up their stalls, with their literature and mega phones with the slogan "One way to God" splashed in huge letters on their stall. Perhaps your friend saw these people? In fact Street Witnessing in Croydon is pretty minimal, for example, two weeks ago (last time it was done) there were just 4 of them on the street for 1 hour handing out tracts.

Therefore, sorry to burst anyone's bubble but it was not the JWs, certainly not in Croydon as I am there and would know if this was even partially true. As the poster on this thread "The Gladiator" said QUOTE "Only Muslims are allowed to voice their opinions publicly" Whilst not strictly true, they are as a religious group generally given more lee-way to do 'this sort' of preaching...the JWs (certainly in Croydon) have never even requested this sort of witnessing, knowing them well, they would consider it rude and distasteful.