I was asked a question at my door today by a Jehovahs witness, I politely closed the door,?

Question

The question--'why is the sea salty' and why does she want to know.

Answer 1

What's scary about Jehova Witnesses is that they make you hide in your own damn house.
When I was a kid, my mom would turn off all the televisions and close the curtains when she saw Jehova Patrols.
I suppose those actions gave me a habit of doing the exact same thing. It is a way to save face. This way, you don't have to sit and talk with them and you also don't have to recieve any of their reading literature which you are likely gonna throw away anyway.

The question of sea salt is most likely gonna lead into a conversation about how god designed the world. Nobody wants to sit with them for an hour and talk about that right?

Better to just no open your door at all.

I'm suprised mormons and jehova's witnesses don't use very sexy women to talk to people they are trying to convert. I think if a hot chick came up to my place to converse with me, I'd more than happily open up the door.

I hate getting solicited by old women.

Answer 2

Well, taking the rate of sodium deposition into the oceans by the world's rivers, we find that enough salt is being added to the ocean, and enough salt is being taken out by sedimentation, to suggest that the world oceans were fresh water twenty or thirty thousand years ago. This has sometimes been used to suggest a young earth.

However, it doesn't necessarily have to be so. Some of the comet strikes that are blamed for mass extinctions could have been sodium-bearing bodies. We don't really know that the fossils of sharks, horseshoe crabs, etc., evolved in salt water. It is an assumption that makes things easier for us. But, without their soft tissues, we can't know what their biology was like.

So, the sea could have been fresh water at one time in the past, and relatively recently became salt due to an infusion of salt in the environment. Species that could adapt, adapted. Species that could not either died out or relocated to the rivers, where it was less salty. Some may have tried going back and forth, until they got confused and just kept on doing the same behavior patterns over and over again, like salmon migrating upstream to spawn.

It might be that the fossil sharks (for example) were freshwater sharks and the surviving sharks are all saltwater. The fossils only show their shapes not their biochemistry. If you look, you will note that the shark and the dolphin have a remarkably similar shape, despite the fact that they are totally different species.

Does it make sense to assume that their biochemistries were similar, from their fossils...? Can we assume that the waters they swam in were all salt...?

I hope this explains what you were wondering about. Thanks for bringing it up.

Answer 3

That makes a much sense as Scientology's belief that aliens were blown up by H-bombs on the earth. I wonder how a Scientologist can believe that an alien race that has mastered space travel, would use a primitive nuclear weapon such as an H-bomb? Today's nukes are more sophisticated and stronger than the first h-bomb and we still haven't mastered space travel.

You should probably ask the Jehovah's why they believe in a religion that was started by a shoe salesman. And why haven't the predictions of the past not come true yet. It seems they keep adjusting the time frames for the end of the world.

Answer 4

They just want to start a conversation.

They've probably been trained to ask some completely random question just to put you off-balance and stop you slamming the door in their face straight away.

The longer they have got you talking the more chance they have of getting some sympathy from you and then subsequently brainwashing you.

You did right. Except you shuold not have been polite, you should have told them to f*ck off and stop wasting minutes of your precious life. F*cking religious nutters. I ended up sitting next to one on a train to London for two hours on the way to a job interview, which is really what I did not need that day, and which probably explains my abiding hatred of them.

Answer 5

Well it wouldn't matter what you answered
They would have twisted your answer or "no answer" to god,peace,love and whatever.Then they'd blabber on about their cause and such and
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I've been asked many such questions by many different JW's
I've tried to reason, argue theology,science and philosophy with them and stuff
But so far i've realised that despite what it seems, they know crap about theology other than theirs,philosophy,science et al
They just want to slam their propaganda on you and hand you their pamphlets and maybe collect donations [Eventual Aim]
I'm tired of em and now just avoid them
All roads lead to "SLAM YOUR DOOR" i guess
My answer would be
Because if sea was sugary instead of salty, then i wouldn't have to face this stupid question

Answer 6

This doesnt really answer your question, but it does tell you about my experience with JWs.
I was really busy doing housework one day, so I really couldnt be bothered to talk to them, but I am not rude so I listened to what they had to say. She went on and on for ages about how great god is and what he's going to do for us all. Anyway in the end I had to ask her this question "If god is sooo great, then why is he letting so many cruel things happen in the world?"

She didn't know what to say, she just looked at her friend and said "we have never been asked that before", then just smiled at me. I wished her a good day, then closed the door.

Bless 'em!

Answer 7

Next time tell them you have your own religion and your a satanist. Then she won't want to talk.
I think she asked that bizarre question because she was going to say 'God made the sea salty'. Or something along they lines.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses are just trying to share an encouraging thought from the Scriptures. There is no clever way to trick them or confuse them unless you happen to get two who are BOTH very inexperienced or who are BOTH having a bad day of allergies or other distractions.

Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm

Answer 9

There is nothing "polite" about shutting a door in anyones face! I certainly hope you said "I am not interested, thanks anyway" before you left her standing looking at the door knocker. I have no idea why she asked that, Jehovahs have some unusual ideas and I don't agree with their beliefs that fall outside what is in the Bible.

Answer 10

She needs to spend a certain amount of time talking to people so she can go to heaven. Her question was just a communication starter. If you do have the time, tell her you only have 5 minutes, let her talk and be happy. They are harmless: no matter if you think their religion is smart, why not help if you can?