What is the worst experience you have ever had with a Jehovah's Witness?

Question

A Jehovah's Witness pestered my household on a continuous basis for just short of five years. As I recall, about the first time she made her appearance was during Christmas dinner. She came back on a weekly basis soon after that encounter. We told her we were not interested and asked her not to come back. I admit that we may have made criminal threats, because of our extreme level of frustration and exasperation. However, shortly after, she would be back at our door, staring us brazenly and defiantly in the face.

Finally, one day someone in the household said to her, "I know why you're here, and I know why you're here on this day! I know who sent you here too, the one who showed up at the same time as you."

That display of words frightened her, and she never returned.

It is true that she showed up about the same time as a convert relative who had visited after a long absence. As for the date, all I can think of is the autumn equinox. Could she have been a Druid?

My question is a brainstorm. I am therefore wondering what others think and letting it go to a vote.

Some of the answers are really funny! I do not know, however, whether the average person catching up on sleep on Saturday morning would have the extra time to put on their birthday suit or Druid robe before getting to the door. LOL

Answer 1

I have never had a bad experience. In fact, the last time I was visited by JW's an entire van of them showed up at my house. I was having a yard sale because we were moving and instead of preaching to me we talked about our religions a little bit and they actually knew what my religion was about. Then they bought a ton of baby stuff that I was selling. They left me with a paper about parenting teenagers, since I had one, and took the stuff they bought. They smiled and shook hands with us. They didn't judge us to our faces and were very pleasant. They were so nice and bought so much stuff that I even came down on some of the prices for the stuff they got.

Answer 2

In all my years in the Ministry, going from house to house, I have never encounter a hostile disagreement face-to-face, as in your explanations that you give when a Witness comes to your door. You people have a fantasy mind, Hyponym: bubble, dream, fairyland, fantasy life, fantasy world, ignis fatuus, phantasy life, phantasy world, pipe dream, science fiction, will-o'-the-wisp, wishful thinking. Most of your explanations are nothing more than untruths. Which you have never said or did, you just like to toot your horn.

When I go from house to house, someone may tell me that they are on the phone, busy, or not interested, I simply say, “maybe some other time” and have a nice day, go to the next home, there is always someone that is nice & wants to talk about God's Word.

For those that say they come to the door “nude” all I would say is “you must be missing some brain cells” because no one in their right mind would deliberately come to the front door because of a Religious Organization knocking or ringing doorbell. By the way, each State has facilities, a building or place that provides a particular service, that take care of people like this, they are called a “Mental Institute.”

Answer 3

I was horseback riding on the back roads in a small group of women and teenage girls. I was a teenager at the time. We were talking about annoying things, like telemarketers who call during dinner. I complained about how much I hated it when "those damned Jehovah's Witnesses showed up and annoyed the heck out of me with their stupid Watchtower mags and tried to convert me".

One of the women that I considered something of a friend since I was just getting to know her suddenly stopped talking and stared at her saddle horn. She didn't say anything much for the rest of the ride. Turns out that she was a Jehovah's Witness and I hadn't known it. My worst experience with a Jehovah's Witness was hurting her feelings by belittling her beliefs. She had never done anything wrong and the JWs that did try to convert me were doing what they thought was loving kindness.

Even though she did forgive me and forgot the event after a sincere apology, I never did.

Answer 4

This question seems designed primarily to insult and demean the Jehovah's Witness religion. In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses work hard to maintain records of those householders who specifically ask to not have future visits. Frankly, this supposed behavior makes no sense because the Witnesses try to visit all the homes in their territory several times a year, and there is no incentive to waste time at a house which has shown no interest.

If this description of behavior is accurate, then this person was probably impersonating a Jehovah's Witness. Phone the local JW congregation and ask them about this person. Consider displaying a "No Tresspassing" sign.

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

Answer 5

They can be bizarre and hard to deal with. One of my father's family members converted to JW back in the early 1960s. Eventually, everybody within that particular group converted. It meant that they tried to get everybody else to convert, and they would not stop with their pestering. When it didn't work, they eventually stopped associating with the rest of us -- for which we were thankful, although we were sad that it divided the family.

In your case, I wonder if the Christmas dinner had something to do with it since they are so against recognizing Christmas. The words that were said to them certainly were effective.

If it happens again, how about using these words: "would you like to witness to the police, because I am going to call them and report you for trespassing on my property."

Answer 6

I was one...that was until I was of legal age to choose my own religion and out of my parents house! I don't want them at my door...so I just don't answer the door or if I do I just shut the door in their face. You don't have to listen to their bullsh*t, you do have the right to slam your own door. Oh by the way my parents are still JW going on 35 years now. But I love my parents for who they are and not what religion they are, which is unlike how JW are, they only love their kind!

Answer 7

Oh PLEASE do not compare US DRUIDS to the JW!!!!!

I've GIVEN a JW a bad experience, and probably one they'll never forget as I never saw them at my door again - they must have told the whole congregation about me!

I got so tired of them bothering me and trying to convert me that I once answered the door in a full length black druid's robe with my black cat cradled in one arm and a very large dagger strapped quite visibly to my hip. I looked them up and down and said with a perfectly straight face and in a very matter-of-factly voice, "Are you the sacrifice?"

The look on their face was PRICELESS - they never came back. I never laughed so freakin' hard in my life.

Answer 8

I had a jehovah that used to come to my house often and I was always polite but let her know I wasnt interested, but she kept coming back. One day she knocked when I was in the bathroom and my brother was downstairs so we werent answering the door and she walked right in to my house my dog was freaking out on her barking etc and I came out of the bathroom and was like WTF! then she had the audacity to say my dog was "cross" and that he was mean... I told her then and there that she was an idiot because my dog was not cross but was trying to protect me and our home from people who are not invited in and I told him he was a good boy and gave him a treat right in front of her...LOL
After that I never answered the door when it was her and I kept it locked when I was in the bathroom!! She doesnt come around anymore because I refused to open the door for anymore jehovahs.

Answer 9

tell you my best expereince. didn't know it was them at the front door, answered it wearing nothing but my boxers. these two girls were virgins so that was as naked a man as they had ever seen. realizing this I asked them to talk, tell me why you are here? they spent every other 10 minutes looking at the ground while trying to convert me. the other times they would catch a glance at my packge. I would scratch my balls every once in awhile knowing this would bother them. and it did. started to talk to them about THEIR personal life and had they any boyfriends and such. once I hit that "sex" talk, both bolted and ran away. after that never had a problem with them knocking on my door again

Answer 10

I refuse to have a bad experience with door-to-door salesmen of any sort. I have a peephole and I don't open the door to anyone unknown and/or unexpected.

I was raised that you don't show up at someone's house without either being invited or calling ahead to announce your intentions.