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I was born and raised a Jehovahs Witness. I haven't been to the meetings or been out Field Service in a long time though. I guess if the guy was being pushy, but you gave him something pertaining to the devil?
For the past few weeks while stopping at the local gas station to grab my morning can of Full Throttle, I’ve been approached by a man and woman. They have tried to hand me the notoriously known Watchtower booklets that Jehovah’s Witnesses hand out. It has become sort of a challenge I guess for them to get me to take them.
So this morning while I was gassing up the SUV the man approaches me with that sly grin on his face (like yeah I’m gonna get you this time). He looks at me and extends the booklets out and asks me if I would like some literature. I look at him and say, “Sure I’ll take your booklet, if you take mine.” He looks at me confused and says, “Sure, I guess.” I open the center console and pull out the booklet I made at work about the Devil and hand it to him. He looks at it for a second, looks at me, then pulls the booklets he just game me out of my hand and says, “I’m sorry sir, we won’t bother you anymore.”
I know some people are going to say those people are just trying to do God’s good work and spread the message. But these people knew me by now and they knew I didn’t want their damn booklets.
It made my week, am I going to ?
BTW, I hope I didn’t offend any Jehovah’s Witnesses here.
I was born and raised a Jehovahs Witness. I haven't been to the meetings or been out Field Service in a long time though. I guess if the guy was being pushy, but you gave him something pertaining to the devil?
Once when I was still asleep, they knock on my door and I was just trying to get back to bed so I took the book and thought that was it. He stays standing there and I was like um yes? He goes on to say that a donation is usually given to re coop the cost of printing and so on.
So I go well here is the book back, and he says no it's ok in a pissy way, so I said. NO take it back to tell you the truth it would go straight into the trash when you leave. He took his book back super fast.
Most if the time during the presentation of the book or literature you are supposed to mention that if you wanted you could contribute something t-wards the worldwide work it would be appreciated. But if the person didn't have anything to donate, as long as you wanted to read the book then you could just keep it. It might have been someone new. You have to realize that people ignore Jehovah's Witness'es alot. So it's far and between sometimes when people even come to the door sometime.
if you believe in God, the only literature you need is the gotdam bible!
but to21, tell us more about your devil booklet!
did you draw the red guy with horns and tail with the pitchfork?!
that was funny.
lol awesome.
Nah. It was a bunch of pics I got from the net and sent to the printer to come out as booklet.
Kinda reminds me of the time I said "Hey wait!" to the little old lady trying to scam me for a dollar with her "I'm selling pens because I'm deaf and need to eat" note. She turned around. Deaf my ass.
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That's funny florige, I was too.I was born and raised a Jehovahs Witness. I haven't been to the meetings or been out Field Service in a long time though. I guess if the guy was being pushy, but you gave him something pertaining to the devil?
You were? I thought your dad was like a minister or something?
Well I say you got to take your hats off to them. Yeah they are pushy at, but they don't get paid to go out and try to spread their faith. They also don't ever ask for donations. There are several Witnesses in my family and they get all of those publications and books without paying for them so that is odd that he asked for a donation. Im actually surprised he backed off when you showed him the book of the devils. All the witnesses I know would have seen that as a challenge and not backed off.
Talk about nothing better to do...
I thought this would be about Stephen King...
He's the leading Elder of his congregation.
My other half of the family is another denomination.
Like your mom's side?
They're good people. They're really not fakes, like most other so-called Christians. But, I always had a problem in believing most of the concepts.
Yea, I know . . . surprise, surprise.
My mom's side is part 7th Day Adventis, part Baptist, and part Pentecostal(sp). They are all wack jobs.
Yeah really. Either the person may have thought it was a waste of time because they knew to wasn't going to take them seriously, or it might have been someone new.
So your dad is the presiding overseer? Cool!
Yea.
Try growing up like that.
Check this out, he used to give us daily bible homework assignments. We couldn't leave the house to hang with our friends until we finished our biblical assignments. He also taught us all to read (in english and spanish) strictly using the bible.
We had to recite verses from the bible to him, as a show of our progress. I must have read the entire bible 10 times over.
NO wonder pee wee doesnt have any friends hahahaha.
Yeah I agree, they are not fakes and are good people. Most are very loving and embrace all new comers. Yes some concepts are a little outrages, but I take my hat off to them standing by on what the believe.
Yeah I can imagine being a Po's kind how rough you probably had it. My mom never really came to the meeting either except when I had a part on the school or something. My grandmother was a regular pioneer and she used to get on me all the time about personal study and increasing my field service time. I was never one for personal studing though. If I ever had a talk to do I would normally get it out the day of.
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