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

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The last time some JW's came to my door, my friend behind me said "Do take it, we're just running out of something to wipe our bums on." Strangely enough, they've not been back since....

Another Aspie friend of mine tends to chuck a bucket of water over them from a top window.

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The simplest thing to do is study up on what they believe, which is quite different from mainstream Christianity, and simply talk to them about those things. You don't have to be nasty, or mean. Just ask about this and that, they'll take you off their list, and bingo! no more visits ! !

When I lived in Whitefield, I had a day off from work, and two Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door. A man and a woman, in their late fifties or early sixties. They may have been married, but they equally may have not. They were very kind.

I answered the door and spoke to them for the best part of an hour. They tried to convince me of many things. But I asked, that if every time they used a quote from the Bible in English, they knew what its meaning was in the original language. Also, I asked them if they only believed what was written in the standard Bible, and not in the apocryphal books, or even religious material found since then, such as the Gospel of Thomas.

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I'll just stop now, Emma.

I wouldn't mind talking about chatting about the differences in religions if I wasn't so nervous about a confrontation. I do admit that when I am being polite and am trying to politely get away. I sort of don't know what to say.

Personally, I still think Eddie Hitler (from Bottom) had the right idea. Tell them "Yes, I have", and biff them in the face.

---I always THOUGHT they had something of a list, because I would try to be polite, and they kept coming back over and over and over ad nauseum...
It's not that I'm anti-religion, just that I already had it all settled in that department and I wasn't looking to switch from "Brand X" to their "new and improved"....but they never seemed to get the point.

Finally one day my rather cynical friend was over, and sure enough the doorbell rang, and I found myself hemming and hawing while they did their spiel. My "fiend" heard it, figured out who they were, strode down the hallway and bellowed "GOD IS DEAD AND YOU'RE OUT OF A JOB", and slammed the door.

After staring nonplussed at the door for a moment he explained that if you didn't blow them off they'd start showing up so often you'd never again have a minute's peace.

I asked him if that was his stock answer when JW's came to the door and he replied that he also ripped off a line from....(think it was George Carlin?) and would ask them if they'd like to start delivering the mail. He said that usually worked pretty well also.

I just didnt have the heart to be so rude, but to his credit they never showed up again.

Yep.

Hit 'em with the flame thrower. It gets rid of them and burns their bible all in one go.

apparently some jehovah's witnesses passed by while i was at school and no one was home. they left us a All Suffering SOON TO END! pamphlet. soon god will intervene with our wickedness and destroy this entire unsatisfactory system of things! when he eliminates all the evil we will live in happiness and good health!

i would have loved to speak with the jehovah's witnesses.

so, let's see...no more arguments? debates? actual individual thoughts? hmm...

once to get rid of them i said i was a satanist, and that made matters worse, they wouldnt leave.. i live in brasil and the jehovas witnesses dont go door to door in my neighborhood, but they hand literature out in the center of town, i say no thanks.. the mormons do alot of door to door here, i tell them no thanks, i got my religion, but i take some time to chat with the american missionaries in english, talk about american stuff, college basketball and the like..

I simply wouldn't answer the door.

A friend once shared this story about J.W. She and her boyfriend were hanging out one afternoon, and she spotted two of these people approaching her front door. She groaned, "oh, no, they're back!" Her boyfriend said he'd handle it. So saying, he stripped down to bare skin, lit a joint, and answered the door. He began urging the J.W.'s to "Come on in, the orgy is just beginning." They NEVER came back!

Don't answer the door.Most of the time I will not answer the door if I am not expecting a visitor.I consider it an invasion of my privacy if somebody comes to my house unannounced.I think it is rude to go to somebodies house unannounced.Some people say I am anti-social.I believe it it my choice and I am allowed to decide. Does anyone else share this view or am I a weirdo?

I feel exactly the same way. It's your door, your privacy, your prerogative. If you haven't invited them, what are they doing there?

I throw rotten tomatoes at them.

Technically, after you've asked them to leave, they're trespassers if they're still there.