Jesus rang again

[foulpost]

Can someone explain to me the Jehovahs Witnesses? I mean what is it with these people that they feel perfectly comfortable going door to door annoying the shit out of 9 of 10 people who answer it? And that 10th person is either a Jehovahs Witness or incredibly lonely. Yes, it happened to me again. The lord called and I clomped down two flights to

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[a_chara]

Next time this happens I'm going to answer the door in a leather manthong, a whip, and a bottle of gin and invite them right the hell on in.

perfect.

[planga]

My cousin is a Jehovah's Witness, and one of my best friends was brought up as one. But that doesn't change the fact that they are annoying bastards.

We can't really hold the 144k survivors thing against them, because they didn't make it up. It's in the Book of Revelation. All saved are virgin Hebrew men, and they get resurrected after the Apocalypse to live in New Jerusalem. Everybody else goes into the Lake of Fire.

Still, an eternal Johnny Cash concert would be awesome.

[foulpost]

I cannot fathom any rational human devoting their lives to this fairy tale. I guess I just have a thing about the devoutly religious going out of their way to fuck with the rest of us.

[planga]

I blame the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[judevenn]

I knew a young teenager who tried to escape the Sect. He did have such a hard time poor guy. He was marginalized at school of couse too.

It's brainstorming at it's fullest. (plus money from their pays of course),from the few people I knew anyway.

"I think therefore I am" said René Descartes. No such things are encourage in these sects.

We are doomed Douglas, we are not the few thousand who will be saved... Dammed we are! (yea!)

[wonderpanther]

The Mormons go door to door, too.

[mr_ed1966]

The JWs origins lie in the Millerite movement of the 1830s/40s. William Miller, their leader, predicted the Second Coming would occur in 1844, on a specific date in October. Thousands of followers waited on that day (many of whom had sold off their property or left their fields untended in anticipation of the apocalypse). The Millerites numbered something near a million by this time, and historians refer to that date as "The Great Disappointment." After Jesus didn't show up, Miller retired as a laughingstock, but two of his followers took up the cause. One, Ann Lee, founded what has grown into the Church of Seventh Day Adventism. The other, Charles Russell, formed the Watchtower Society, which grew into the present day Jehovah's Witnesses.

On an interesting side note, David Koresh's Branch Davidians originated within the Church of Seventh Day Adventism, and he saw himself as the Seventh Chosen One (Ann Lee was the first), who would lead the Church into the fires of apocalypse.

I do love me some o'that old time religion. ;-)

[vanillabeani]

that will only fuel their fervor. i tried something similar once, and i ended up with more of them afterwards.

[foulpost]

Now I have to ask what you wore.