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Originally posted 10.04.11
By Smaktakula
Although They Don’t Celebrate Holidays, Every Day Is A Party For The Witnesses.
Admit it, you don’t know much about the Jehovah’s Witnesses other than that you fear them. For many, the sight of a well-dressed, smiling couple patrolling the neighborhood can instill the same fear that a gang member would. Unlike that gang member, whose interest in your house is only a possibility, the Witnesses are guaranteed to knock on your door, copy of The Watchtower in hand.
Unlike Jews Or Muslims, The Jehovah’s Witnesses Exist For You To Mock.
You may know some of the more peculiar details of the Witnesses’ faith–the failed doomsday predictions, their lack of cool holidays or Witnesses’ refusal to salute the flag. Moreover, they refuse blood transfusions and military service. Most peculiar of all, like Jews and Seventh Day Adventists, Witnesses choose to ruin their Saturday with church, rather than the accepted Western tradition of Church on Sunday.
Pull The Curtains And Turn Off The TV Unless You’ve Got Three Hours To Kill.
But most people don’t know the price the Witnesses have paid over the years for their anti-militaristic views. Their refusal to serve in World War I angered fascistic governments in Germany and the United States, resulting in persecution and imprisonment. During the Holocaust, Jehovah’s Witnesses paid with their lives, sent to the camps along with Gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, communists and common criminals. But unlike many of the others, whose offense to Nazi Germany was tied to some immutable condition, all the Witnesses had to do to save their own lives was to shut up about the Holocaust. Contrarians to the end, they refused. Their devotion was such that SS captains implored their lethal stooges to be as fanatical as the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
You Had No Fucking Idea, Did You?
Lastly, everyone must agree that given the Witnesses’ literal belief that only 144,000 souls will be admitted to heaven, it’s pretty generous of them to go door to door every week. With such a small number of the elect slated to make it into heaven, a Jehovah’s Witness puts his or her spot in jeopardy with every knock on the door.
The Witnesses Politely Told The Nazis To Enjoy Relations With Themselves.
Promethean Times 
Okay, okay, you’re not fond of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Got it.
Still, you gave them credit for the courage they’ve shown when the whole world went to war. I appreciate that.
So, with respect, I’ll answer you’re last point. You’re not the first person to raise it:
Jehovah’s Witnesses are unique among Christian groups in that they entertain no hope of future heavenly life. Instead, they look forward to everlasting life on this earth when it is ruled over by God’s Kingdom, the same Kingdom people know from the ‘Lord’s Prayer.’ Should they die before that Kingdom comes, the hope is to be resurrected to that paradise earth. God first put humans on earth. He didn’t put them there because he wanted them somewhere else. Life on earth is not “second class.” to JWs. It is God’s original purpose for humans.
Revelation 7:9-17 tells of a great crowd of persons gathered from all “nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues” who would survive the “great tribulation” and live on into the “new order,” life under Kingdom rule on earth. Almost all of Jehovah’s Witnesses claim to belong to this group.
The Bible also speaks of a “sacred secret,” (Colossians 1:26) a “secret” first made known to the early Christian congregation, that there would be some from humankind, a comparatively tiny number, who would share in this heavenly government. Their ultimate destiny would be in heaven, not on earth. Since this “secret” was made known shortly after Christ’s resurrection, and there are only 144,000 of these who will serve as “kings and priests,” very few of them are on earth today. Most, we maintain, have long since lived their lives and been resurrected to heavenly life.
Thanks for your comment, TS&G. In our own way, we have much love for the Witnesses.
The first scripture I learned as a child was Psalms 83:18; “That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth.”
That was in every bible I saw: The King James, American Standard Bible, The Gideon Bible, etc. It has been since taken out of most bible publications.
I will always believe that Jehovah’s Kingdom rule will take place in my lifetime, and that it is the ONLY answer for humankind. I will always trust that Jehovah sent his son Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s first creation, as a ransom sacrifice for all mankind. And I trust that Jehovah will keep his promise of making all things new in a paradise on earth, and that it was his original purpose for humans.
I love Jehovah’s Witnesses, and I love Jehovah God, the TRUE GOD.
Hey, it’s all good.
Well said! People always mock what they don’t understand.
Thanks, Trenton. We like to think of ourselves as equal-opportunity offenders. There’s LOTS that we don’t understand.
Jehovah’s Witnesses beliefs:
A) They are at your door to recruit you for enslavement to their watchtower corporation,they will say that “we are just here to share a message from the Bible” this is deception right off.
B) Their ‘message’ is a false Gospel that Jesus had his second coming in 1914.The problem with this is it’s not just a cute fairy tale,Jesus warned of the false prophets who would claim “..look he is here in the wilderness,or see here he is at the temple.”
C) Their anti-blood transfusion ban has killed hundreds if not thousands
D) once they recruit you they will “love bomb” you in cult fashion to also recruit your family & friends or cut them off.
There are many more dangers,Jehovah’s Witnesses got a bad rap for good and valid reasons.
99% of the world has rejected the teachings of the Watchtower Jehovahs Witnesses, the darker truth is they are a destructive and oppressive organization.
Danny Haszard Jehovah’s Witness X 33 FMI http://www.dannyhaszard.com
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#1: Shmible.
#2: Stop toying with my emotions: in one short post you make me laugh at them, pity them and finally, still not care very much. I may need to adjust todays mood stabilizing meds 🙂
I love when they come to the door because they always look like such preppy, clean-cut motherfuckers, and always so young – it’s fun to say, in my customary monotone, “There’s no such thing as God, duuhh…” before unceremoniously closing the door.) Oh, the horror on their devout little faces. On another note, does anyone ever convert after a door-to-door? I’d say not. I’d also say those 144,000 places are pretty safe for the ‘chosen few’.
I’m glad we could affect you so profoundly!
As a person who who spent a few years in the sales trenches, I don’t imagine that there are too many first-time conversions–would you really want as a convert someone who wants to join up right away? It gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
I suspect that they return with greater frequency to households who are receptive (or at the very least not mean). I imagine that their kill ratio (the amount of contacts vs. conversions) is still pretty low. But souls are high-dollar sales.
Uhm, yeah, two of my friends are JW’s, religion-wise. I never ask them anything about it as long as I can help it. I gave up on trying to understand religion long ago. Maybe I never would. We’ll see.
Eh…that religion earned my disgust long ago when I happened on one of my JW friend’s handbooks on “How to Avoid the Temptations of Masturbation.” Sorry, but anyone who gives a book like that to a teen, discouraging and making them feel guilty for normal sexual urges, is someone I doubt I could get along with.
It takes all kinds. It’s not for me, either, but as long as somebody doesn’t try to force me to believe as they do or try to correct my (lawful) behavior.
My Grandpa (a WWII Army veteran) had a creative way of dealing with JW’s. He knew they don’t believe in saying the Pledge or saluting the flag. He had a small American flag on his dresser. When he saw them coming he would answer the door, and when they asked if they could share their interpretation of the Bible with him, he would ask them to wait a minute, come back with his flag, and say,”I’ll listen to you when you salute this.”
The JW’s always turned around and beat feet from his porch.
Ha ha! People are so mean to the JWs. They’ve got it pretty rough already, what with no Christmas. They don’t even get coal.
I don’t much care for the pledge of allegiance, either, to be honest. And no, it isn’t the ‘Under God’ thing.
My grandfather’s generation was a lot different as far as the things close to their hearts- they were a lot more idealistic about our country than most people see reason to be today- but the net result is the JWs learned that Grandpa wasn’t a very good target. He got quite a jolly from it too.
And why on Earth would anyone pick a religion that doesn’t celebrate holidays or birthdays and makes you go door to door to harass your fellow man? I have strong beliefs on things spiritual, and theology is a passion of mine, though I admit I’m not the greatest at being a good example. But as to the spirituality of others, live and let live. Until you bug me.
I hear you–I won’t go door to door unless there’s a fat commission in it for me.
I’m not sure that the older generation were any more idealistic–idealism doesn’t die, it just transforms. In their own way, angry kids in balaclavas who bash in the windows of Starbucks to “bring down the man!” are pretty idealistic.
I think the older generation were more patriotic/nationalistic. As a culture, we’ve become increasingly suspicious of such sentiments in the wake of Kennedy/Vietnam/Watergate etc. But there’s still very much a divide among Americans about this notion in a way that there isn’t among the rest of the West, where nationalism is almost instinctively something to be ashamed of.
flag represents you’re nation, right? JW’s are no part of this world as Jesus is not part of this world. Invite JW’s to clarify.
Well, I’m not nutty about flags myself.
Reblogged this on Promethean Times and commented:
So when the Witnesses come a’knockin’–give ’em a break, why don’t you?
I prefer a live-and-don’t-bother-me-while-you-live approach to dealing with most religious conversation. It’s not high on my list of priorities, and if god really needs me for something, according to all the literature, he/she/it knows where to find me.
I am impressed by their devotion though.
My my, Smak. You really opened up a can of worms today. That’ll teach you not to stray too far from the freaks who dress their little boys like Hitler and the dad who dressed his little daughter up like an anatomically correct mermaid.
Personally, I won’t open the door up for anyone other than my wife, the postman, the UPS driver, and maybe my kids. The rest of them can just leave me the fuck alone.
Oh the Booooredom. It was so hard not to be rude to them when I was young.
We had an intern in my office last year who was a closet JW. I say closet because when we prepared to celebrate The Boss’s birthday, she refused to sign the card. I asked her why. She said, “I don’t sign cards.” My knee-jerk response was wanting to strangle her, but instead, I emailed my gf at the time and blew up at her about it. She emailed me back, “Your intern’s a JW.” Ironically, when we did celebrate the birthday, I had gotten the intern a separate pastry (this kid had 153,000 food allergies), she had no problem eating that. My assistant probably had her summed up perfectly: “She’s too young to know what she is.”
I find the Bible and most religions about as credible as a rule book to any standard Dungeons and Dragons game. It’s full of magical beings and male-dominated hierarchies. If only Jesus had had elf ears and carried a bow and arrow!