RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses

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LordODiscipline -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 3:28:37 PM)
Um *- why would you assume I would think and/or believe otherwise?* *Wonderingly:* ~J quote: ORIGINAL: sophia37 You're kidding yourself if you dont think they have skeletons in the closet. Jehovah witness or any ess for that matter are just plain folk like the rest of us. Sometimes they're worse. They used to come over and we'd talk for an hour or so. They stopped coming over when I had an issue with the town. Seems the good people are related and suddenly taking sides was more important than jesus.

Lashra -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 4:14:01 PM)
We don't have Jehovah's witnesses that come to our door, instead we have the Mormons. They seem to avoid my house, I'm not sure if its me or the pitbull or both that they seem to want to avoid interacting with.[;)] Either way, its good with me. ~Lashra

reverendtorres -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 4:21:56 PM)
chuckling I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, so I know firsthand how dangerous these people can get, just like those of any other religion that warp their belief system to fit the person questioning them at that particular time. True, there have been a few (a VERY few) nice ones that I have run into over the years, but such an experience has been extremely rare in my case. I do miss the lady I used to study with in my old neighborhood, though.......

TreSwank -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 4:23:43 PM)
Ahhhhhhhhh! The divine and gorgeous reverendtorres makes a special guest appearance. I am very honored!!!!!

happypervert -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 4:24:43 PM)
AWAKE is ok, but I far prefer The Watchtower. I keep a stack of them by the door, and when the Mormons come to visit I greet them warmly and then ask if they would like to read my religious propoganda. I wonder why they don't stick around after that?

ScooterTrash -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 4:28:59 PM)
Now if I could just find a group who would leave a free copy of "Easyriders" by the door every month...then I would be moved....lol.

jdtallfem -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 4:32:34 PM)
Door to door religious zealouts? My ex's answer was to bring out the dog's and answer the door naked. They always ahem and ahawed when they saw him naked with the barking Norwegian Elkhounds.

fergus -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 4:47:28 PM)
While I find AWAKE and the JW's humorously entertaining, I think Jack Chick tracts are a riot. http://www.chick.com/default.asp I think the Landover Baptists have to be the downright funniest (although, unlike the above forementioned, they are at least kidding!). http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ fergus

Sinergy -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 5:11:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: TreSwank Apparently our concepts of "histrionic" must differ in quite a few ways. PPS.- Sinergy; can you even mention the name of that DK song on this site? (I really dug the Kennedys in my teenage years) I was using histrionic to describe literature that said DO THIS OR ELSE! As well as setting out long lists of all the bad things which will happen if you dont do what they recommend doing. Wasnt it "I Kill Children" by the Dead Kennedys? The mods can delete it, but I am just giving the name of a song. My favorite song of theirs, which is such a description of my childhood, was "Stealing People's Mail." Sinergy

LordODiscipline -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 5:57:17 PM)
*I don't mind people prostelyzing for their God... I never find that offensive, as it is something I can shut the door on, or, simply tell them to get away from me.* *However, I do mind exceptionally the idiots from Landover Baptist....* *They go beyond being "dangerous" because of their belief in raising children or because they steal innocent's savings...* *IMO they are the antithesis of the very essence of any Christian based faith...* (I had the opportunity to speak with them in person - because I could not believe that people could believe what they state - They do believe it - and, they are sincerely violent in their denunciation of all things I find dear.) ~J quote: ORIGINAL: fergus While I find AWAKE and the JW's humorously entertaining, I think Jack Chick tracts are a riot. http://www.chick.com/default.asp I think the Landover Baptists have to be the downright funniest (although, unlike the above forementioned, they are at least kidding!). http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ fergus

fergus -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/5/2006 6:04:06 PM)
No, it is a joke site. If you contacted them, they were having you on. The guy that runs the site is actually a pagan an gay. lol, I'd be more afraid of the Jack Chick crowd - they're serious. fergus

TreSwank -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 10:44:39 AM)
http://www.watchtower.org/ If the Jehova's Witnesses ever step into my slummy, cesspool of a neighborhood, I'm giving em' milk and cookies.

SusanofO -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 1:06:59 PM)
There are Jehovah's witnesses that come to my door at least every two weeks. I've told them I am a Catholic and not switching religions anytime soon, but they keep coming back (and I guess I am "too nice" to tell them to get lost for good). I have back-issues of "AWAKE!" if you need them for research purposes (or anything else). I was going to toss them out, but can sometimes find them weirdly fascinating if I am bored with everything else I've got laying around to read. I just can't "get into" a religion that actually believes only X number of people (no more and no less) is going to be allowed into heaven. It just strikes me as outright ridiculous. I sometimes think they should be arrested for false adverstising, because surely as a world-wide organization, they've reached that number already (I forget, but their max-out getting-into heaven number is in the 600 thousands, I think). Maybe they have some explanation for this. If they do, I'd love to hear it. I am going to ask them next time they land on my door-step. - Susan

MizSuz -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 2:18:34 PM)
Have you seen the youtube spot for landover? Totally irreverent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-jk3VvjGoE quote: ORIGINAL: fergus While I find AWAKE and the JW's humorously entertaining, I think Jack Chick tracts are a riot. http://www.chick.com/default.asp I think the Landover Baptists have to be the downright funniest (although, unlike the above forementioned, they are at least kidding!). http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ fergus

popeye1250 -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 2:40:29 PM)
I tried to read that "Awake" magazine once. After 5 minutes I was "Asleep."

spankmepink11 -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehovah's Witnesses (12/6/2006 3:00:13 PM)
Years ago i befriended one of the door to door "witness's". She would pop in every Thursday for a little holy bull session for several months. She was always unfailingly polite and answered all my questions , which of course she always had the patented answers to. While it was not an unpleasant experience per se, it really did support my belief that all organized religions simply "interpret" the Bible, gospel...what have you, in a manner that supports their particular religions beliefs.

TreSwank -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 3:02:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 I tried to read that "Awake" magazine once. After five minutes I was "Asleep". In today's techo-wired, psychotropic drug-fueled, porno-hungry world, it's hard to keep the average citizen's attention without the aid of "shiny things", or Britney Spears' snatch (yes, I've seen the Britney/Paris Hilton pics).

SusanofO -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 3:06:42 PM)
They have to be over-recruiting. They've been around for so many years. If only X number of Jehovah's really do get into heaven, then that kind of makes me mad. I wonder if they are giving "rain-checks" out, or what? - Susan

TreSwank -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 3:11:01 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SusanofO They have to be over-recruiting. They've been around for so many years. If only X number of Jehovah's really do get into heaven, then that kind of makes me mad. I wonder if they are giving "rain-checks" out, or what? - Susan Well, out of millions of minority children currently residing in the ghetto, about 5% of those are actually going to be successful, socio-economically secure members of society............so why bother educating them? Same principle, right?

popeye1250 -> RE: "Awake" Magazine and Jehova's Witnesses (12/6/2006 3:11:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: TreSwank quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 I tried to read that "Awake" magazine once. After five minutes I was "Asleep". In today's techo-wired, psychotropic drug-fueled, porno-hungry world, it's hard to keep the average citizen's attention without the aid of "shiny things", or Britney Spears' snatch (yes, I've seen the Britney/Paris Hilton pics). Tre, there could have been $100 Bills stuck between the pages and it would still be boring.

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