Outed today by the Jehovah Witnesses.

[Laura823]

My wife does not have a problem with my GID.  She has said that she enjoys being around me more after beginning HRT.  The only condition that she has asked for is that I not wear skirts outside the house in the neighborhood.  Not a problem.

Well today, I was dressed in a nice skirt, pink T, 1-1/2 heels, ear rings, and my ever present cancer hat. (I am severely folicly challenged) Working around the house.  The door bell rings.  I walk to the door and open it. Outside are 2 young ladies.  One has a bible and starts with her pitch.  The other is pushing a baby carriage.  The 1st girl only stops when I ask if I can come to church wearing my new skirt.

Yes, I was clocked.  But I don't think our doorbell will be rung again in the near future.

Laura   

[AnnieE]

But I don't think our doorbell will be rung again in the near future.

Sounds like when my Pagan friend set up a devil worshipping event as a joke when the JW were coming through her neighborhood.

I don't like them knocking on my door, it's annoying. I just feel like going to their church to hand out Atheism and Evolution packets.

[LynnER]

I used to play pranks to get rid of the jehova witnesses.... but then learned the one true way to keep them away... and unfortunatly being a CD or TS isnt it LoL....  Im sworn to secrecy on the way to keep them away but lets just say they will never approach my door step EVER again.

[Hazumu]

That's the MO, all right... Two well-dressed women, one pushing an infant or a toddler in a stroller, as if the child is a talisman to ward off evil.

One time they left a WATCHTOWER on the front porch.  We left it there through five seasons, and never got bothered during that time...

Karen

[tinkerbell]

I just feel like going to their church to hand out Atheism and Evolution packets.

LOL    I do not agree with Jehovah's Witnesses, nor do I appreciate it when they show up on my doorstep and ask "have you found Jesus, yet?".  Nevertheless, I am mindful of the fact that they have the right to believe and worship as they so choose, I just wish they wouldn't be so pushy in trying to "save" us all. 

tink

[Suzy]

nor do I appreciate it when they show up on my doorstep and ask "have you found Jesus, yet?". 
tink

I just tell them I didn't know he was lost.

[Dennis]

Ya know. Not to cast aspersions on anyone of any religion, but I must say Jehovah Witnesses are the only people who routinely leave pamphlets stuck in my storage room door. It's an obvious storage room and I've never had any confusion other than JW's. But one of them asked me once, when I answered the door, who lived there. I said, my freezer. I keep the dead bodies there. They still left a pamphlet in the door.

Can't recall. Do JW's believe in resurrection?

Dennis

[Rachel]

they are kinda irritating, i hate it when others try to "save me".  im sorry, i dont believe in any christian religeon, i am of spirituality with the planet around us, or mother earth.  I hold much reverance for that which gives me shelter and food, and one day i believe that i will become one with her.  So i just hate having people save me from a big man in the sky that is going to send me to a burning place that i dont even believe in.  it is just irritating.....grrrrr.

[cindianna_jones]

A car full of JW's drove up my long driveway one day. My dog immediately placed herself at the driver's door with a protective stance and menacing growl.

The driver rolled down his window part way and asked: "Will she bite if we get out of the car?"  I said "I don't know... she's never tasted a Jehovah Witness before."

I could see him quickly decide that he and his troupe would remain in the car.  He attempted to pass me a pamphlet through the open window.  Pepper dog flew through the air, mouth open, ready to tear the guy's hand off. That fellow pulled his hand and pamphlet in so quickly that he left skin on his window.  Pepper dog turned and gave him the most terrifying response I've ever seen from her. The hair down her spine stood straight up, her jaw appeared a foot wide, and the devil himself must have shown his face in hers.

That was three years ago and they have not returned.  Pepper dog loves to chase my neighbors cars. But they put up with her.  In fact, they all love her.  For the JW's have not passed my place to visit theirs in those three years.

Now, if they bother you.  Invite them in for prayer.  Ask them to kneel and offer a prayer of your choosing.  Tell them they can come back anytime to share prayer with you. You'll not see them again.

Cindi

[michael 19 jones]

I have it bad where I live with JWs. They tend to come once a month and try to get me to go to there church. When I was younger they stop for two years after my late uncle answered the door as a Klingon. He came over just tell my father how his trip to Las Vegas Klingon convention went. The JWs started going on about if he continued being a Klingon that he would go to hell. So my Uncle started to act like one. It was funny. They left after getting tired of hearing my Uncle (who is a big Christian) speech in Klingon. I still laugh about even to this day about 6 years latter.

by the way I have nothing against JWs except that the sell there religion.     

[Suzy]

Can't recall. Do JW's believe in resurrection?
Dennis

No they don't.


Kristi

[Dennis]

And there I was thinking that maybe they thought the meat in my freezer was going to resurrect and read their pamphlets. Now I don't know why they're leaving them there.

Dennis

[katia]

jehovah witnesses?  oh yeah, that's what [dante] is for.  btw i dont mean
dante alighieri, im talking about my great dane. >

[JaneX]

Now, if they bother you.  Invite them in for prayer.  Ask them to kneel and offer a prayer of your choosing.  Tell them they can come back anytime to share prayer with you. You'll not see them again.

Cindi

I lived on a small five acre lot when I had a JW experience.... Being very much the "naturist at heart" and it was laundry day anyway, I answered to door naked.....go figure they left without so much as a howdy dooo....

JaneX

[cindianna_jones]

I don't talk about this much... but it seems appropriate in this thread for some reason.  I grew up in a Mormon family.  And I did the Mormon mission in Chile for two years when I was 19. So, like the JW's, I went around from house to house, knocking on doors and selling religion. (Can you imagine me doing that?)

I can remember that towards the end of my two year imprisonment (and when the GID was worst after being cooped up with another man for all that time), we knocked on a door and two young lesbian women answered wearing practically nothing. We had caught them in the middle of a romantic interlude.  I was terribly embarrassed and wanted to leave. My companion wedged his foot in the door so he could get a better look.  He kept wanting to go back there.  I kept wanting to die.

Cindi

[littlegreenfly]

I said "I don't know... she's never tasted a Jehovah Witness before."

Cindi... I just about fell off my chair....

Dennis... I just can't even begin....

JaneX... ditto of my comment to Cindi...

Kristi, I'll have to remember that one!


LGF

[Attis]

This sorta reminds me of a funny a fellow atheist told me. The best way to get rid of a JW is to answer the door nude.  >

-- Brede

[Suzy]

Well to be very truthful I always talk to them.  I know how to push their buttons and the sadistic streak in me gets the better of me sometimes.  It usually takes me about 10 minutes to confuse them so badly that they never come back.  True confession time:  I once found out where this one guy lived and went and knocked on their door.  Said I had to follow up on what he started.  Never heard from them again.

BTW, what do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness with a Methodist?

Someone who keeps knocking on your door but has nothing to say.     
(Of course insert your favorite denomination in the first part.)

Kristi

[chunk]

I heard the worst thing you can do is be polite, clear and firm. I read somewhere that they expect rude behaviour from our kind. They are trained to respond to that. But being respectful and direct really throws them. Seemed to work for me.

I asked this one guy, "Can you people not come here anymore? We have our own religions here that we are happy with." He said alright.

A month later another set of people came to the door. I said, "I asked the previous person that we didn't want to be bothered anymore. What is it that I have to do to get you people to stop coming to my house? Do I have to call someone? Is there a list?"

She almost started to cry. She and her kids left.

No one has been back since.

Chunk 

[Maebh]

Now, if they bother you.  Invite them in for prayer.  Ask them to kneel and offer a prayer of your choosing.  Tell them they can come back anytime to share prayer with you. You'll not see them again.

Cindi

It reminds me about how Agnes Brown deals with them in Brendan O'Carroll's "Mrs Brown's Boys III (Believe it or not)". She invites them in and wreak their heads by asking silly questions about the Bible.

Pretending to be dead keen and interested I did the same once.  > I still see them from time to time in the neighbourhood and the Mormons in pairs with their suits & ties, tight crew-cuts and bicycles but they haven't knocked on my door since.

LL&R

Maebh