When the Jehovah's Witnesses come to the door...

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I have it bad enough without the door one of my customers likes giving me pamphlets

Yes they don't like for anyone to get Biblical on them - especially if you know what THEIR doctrine is. They can be pretty creative too and not just go door to door. One time there were some who were handing out their literature at the gas station - after people started filling up their tanks. Or standing by stop signs in the street.

When I was in high school, I somehow ended up on their list. I was an unrepentant agnostic at the time, and they would show up every wednesday at 6:30. You could set your watch by it-- my mom started having cookies ready. Every week a different group of about five or six kids would show up with a youth counsellor to talk about Jesus. The interesting part is that they weren't very good at it-- they kept throwing out these metaphors but losing track of their references.

After several months of this, one of the youth counsellors pulled my mom to the side and asked her why she didn't do anything about my unrepentance. She explained that she raised me to think for myself. Shortly afterwards, they stopped coming.

Are you sure it wasn't some other group - I don't think JW's preach about Jesus.

I've only had Mormon missionaries come to my house. My friend at the time was Mormon, and they came once when she was over. They ended up talking in the driveway for about an hour.

i once knew a Jehovah's witness who had the misfortune to knock on Richard Dawkins' door ... panicking, he said "Oh... Mr Dawkins! ... we're Jehovah's Witnesses!" and that was as far as he got before Professor Dawkins' door came slamming straight back into his face!

*looks at richarddawins.net* wow, my father would get off at this website...

Yes they do

Actually, upon further reflection, it wasn't the JWs... it was a Southern Baptist Church.

Somehow it all got lumped in as "People Who Come To Your Door To Preach".

I thought maybe it was another group because the JW's focus on Jehovah (hence the name of their group). A couple of my husband's friends are JW's but you wouldn't know from their behavior (lol).

Jehovah was Jesus's name in the pre-mortal existence

That's just magic underwear fantasy stuff. Jehova comes from the ancient hebrew name for god. It was four consonants stuck together because they believed the name of god was too sacred to pronounce.

I've not seen any for a very long time, but I plan to tell them that I work in a blood bank... and JW's believe that God forbids blood transfusion... so if that doesn't convince them I'm Satan's little helper, I dunno what will.

I play mind games. Most JW's have only a passing knowledge of their own insane holy book and use it againist them. Quoting passages that contradict any other one. Or if I'm not in the mood to argue I pick up the phone and pretend to dial someone and pace around the front window making hand gesture like I'll get there in a minute. My record my most enduring fanatic is 30 minutes. It more fun then shootin' noobs in BF 2142.

ROFLMAO
Wish I'd been there to see that.....

I generally don't try to disprove anyone's religion to them... not my job... but if they get really obnoxious I will ask them first to confirm that the Bible is the literal, non-symbolic truth... then make them explain the contradictions in the concept of "original sin" and the story of Genesis, which clearly indicated man and woman being created before the eighth day, which is when Adam was made. The moment that they try to modify information or provide additional information not in the Bible, I shut off the conversation and walk away.

The last time I was approached by a fundie who was Witnessing (though not a JW), I actually had, on my person, a Pagan tract done as a joke in the style of a Chick Tract. It goes into a little more detail about Genesis and points out a few other inaccuracies. Unfortunately, I was there as a representative of the Pagan Leadership Skills Conference, and thus felt that being antagonistic would poorly represent my Pagan brethren.