Handwritten Letters from Jehovah’s Witnesses



Just remembered actually, used to always bump into the same pair when I was wandering to the Borough before they butchered it. Always issued a cheery hello to me.
 
I know a couple. One lad decided he wanted out and challenged the church on some of its teachings: the church instructed his family to disown him. His children are still young so there's no compulsion on them to do so until they reach a certain age.
 
heroesof73 said:
Their bairns must be ower the moon that they dont get dragged round door to door atm.

Poor little souls, it`s an awful tactic they and Mormons use to try and buy more time on the doorstep
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A good friend of mine her mam became a JW after divorcing her dad who was a bit of a drinker, gambler, all round hedonist.

She got dragged round door knocking etc. As soon as she was allowed she left the JWs and now loves the drink, casino, horse and football betting, tabs and a bit of beak on special occasions.

Surely they must be close to dying out.
 
Keawyeds said:
We got one a while ago. It had more sellotape on it than anything else. And "Danny" I believe, had written the entire thing in pencil.
Strange buggers
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Hard or soft ? The pencil, not you.

Edit. I've got a niece who is a JW, i think. Its either them or Mormon.
 
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Like all cults it has a real problem with child sexual abuse - as an organisation they won't report cases to the authorities, but want to deal with them in house, and to deal with any kind of rule-breaking in house they have a rule that there must be two witnesses (which comes from some Biblical interpretation of theirs) to wrongdoing, which in most child abuse cases is impossible. So...the abusers can just get on with it.

In one case, a JW was sent to prison for historic abuse of two girls aged five and ten. After he came out of prison, he appealed against being kicked out of the JW, and so they made the women he had been convicted of abusing as kids sit in a room while he cross-examined them and said things like "Give me one reason why I would touch you?" and "What was I supposed to have done to you that night?"

Bearing in mind the women were FIVE and TEN years old at the time of the abuse another church elder in the hearing asked "Did you ever egg him on?" Just think about what someone must be like to ask a question like that.

Writing nice letters and being polite on the doorstep doesn't make up for covering up noncery and denying victims justice for me.
 
Do you remember when they had conventions at Roker Park. They took over everywhere - boardroom, lounges. Had to stop them coming into the offices. One called me "brother". I just stopped and said " I am not your brother!"
 
Once had one turn up on a Sunday Morning, I was feeling happy (maybe we must have drawn a game) anyway we were about to have our Sunday Dinner and invited him in.

Starter was home made soup which he said was his favourite and tucked into the bowl, then Sunday Roast, Beef all the trimmings, as I poured on the gravy which he commented was lovely. Followed by Apple Pie and Custard.

It was only when I poured him a coffee. I asked him politely what’s all this Jehovah Witness thing about then?

He said, “I don’t know I have never got this far.”

😀
 
Patch said:
I know a couple. One lad decided he wanted out and challenged the church on some of its teachings: the church instructed his family to disown him. His children are still young so there's no compulsion on them to do so until they reach a certain age.
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I know of a lass who has no further contact with her family after she started seeing a fella who wasn’t a JW. Must be very strange to believe in something so strongly it’s more influential in your life than family. Certainly, your own kids.
 
I think they must have a blacklist, a few years ago two male Jovvies knocked on our door, told them in no uncertain terms to f*** off.
They have never knocked the door anymore even though I have seen them in the street at other doors
 

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