J. Hofer

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  How I recently handled JWs at my door

  by Christian guy in

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  the jws stopped by my house a couple weeks ago on a saturday morning.

  i knew that with others most likely waiting for them out in the car they probably did not then have much time to engage in any serious conversation.

  so i let them talk while i feigned interest in what they had to say.

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  yeah, it's a hard place, because not everybody pats you on the back for being a complete carricature of a JW.
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  How I recently handled JWs at my door

  by Christian guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jws stopped by my house a couple weeks ago on a saturday morning.

  i knew that with others most likely waiting for them out in the car they probably did not then have much time to engage in any serious conversation.

  so i let them talk while i feigned interest in what they had to say.

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  J. Hofer

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
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  How I recently handled JWs at my door

  by Christian guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jws stopped by my house a couple weeks ago on a saturday morning.

  i knew that with others most likely waiting for them out in the car they probably did not then have much time to engage in any serious conversation.

  so i let them talk while i feigned interest in what they had to say.

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  J. Hofer

  i'm all for sharing opinions and i actually enjoyed christian guys topic starter. but his follow ups show that it's all just a matter of "my god is better than yours, na na na na na!" and when someone objects he'd go "i can't hear you lalala, you pig and dog, sorry for calling you that but you actually are!"

  just sharing my opinion ;)
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  How I recently handled JWs at my door

  by Christian guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jws stopped by my house a couple weeks ago on a saturday morning.

  i knew that with others most likely waiting for them out in the car they probably did not then have much time to engage in any serious conversation.

  so i let them talk while i feigned interest in what they had to say.

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  J. Hofer

  if "i shouldn't have called you swines and dogs, sorry for that, but i still think you are" is an apology in your book, good for you. to me it just makes it worse.
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  How I recently handled JWs at my door

  by Christian guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jws stopped by my house a couple weeks ago on a saturday morning.

  i knew that with others most likely waiting for them out in the car they probably did not then have much time to engage in any serious conversation.

  so i let them talk while i feigned interest in what they had to say.

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  J. Hofer

  oh boy, another self righteous christian taliban who thinks he's better than the JW.
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  im turning in my letter friday,

  by unstopableravens in

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  J. Hofer

  I suppose he presents a good example of how we can all fall for obvious tricks if they support our worldview and we want to believe.

  ^ this
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  im turning in my letter friday,

  by unstopableravens in

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  J. Hofer

  cofty says (he believed) he was born again, because he experienced the holy spirit in those 9 years. now he believes/knows it wasn't the holy spirit.

  you think that being born again means something so special that noone ever could stop believing it. so someone who stopped believing it, wasn't REALLY born again.
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  im turning in my letter friday,

  by unstopableravens in

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

  No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. [1] When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing").
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  im turning in my letter friday,

  by unstopableravens in

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  i'm as unbiased as it gets on this one. the difference is, that racing visible unicorns is something different than feeling some invisible force.

  it's closer to this one: A believes for 9 years that xenu dropped alien souls into a volcanoe in hawaii before humans existed, now he doesnt believe it anymore. B says A never really believed it, because A now doesn't believe in xenu. the reason B thinks A never really believed it is because of cognitive dissonance. it just can't be right, because it wouldn't fit B's beliefs.
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  Irony: JWs who refuse to answer their door on Halloween!

  by adamah in

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  with halloween fast approaching, it struck me looking back how ironic it was when the worm turned every year on halloween, when jws turn off the porch light, draw the curtains, stumble around in the dark, etc.

  when the worldlies come to knock on their door, lol!.

  on the other hand, i remember the family escaping from the fortress at dusk to go to a movie, bowling, etc.

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  J. Hofer

  helloween isn't traditionally celebrated in my country. in recent years kids are inspired by american films and tv shows to go door to door asking for candy. i'm not playing along, sorry. in fact i don't even know how to deal with it the "right" way.