When is the most recent time you spoke with Jehovah Witnesses?

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They came around right after Easter. Since they do not celebrate it, they began by stating that they had just marked the occasion of Jesus’s death. I replied that we had just celebrated Easter, our biggest event of the year on the liturgical calendar. Then I said that unfortunately we do not have much in common since they deny the divinity of Christ, and they left. We were respectful to each other, but I saw no need to engage in a further debate. To be honest, I am surprised that they departed so quickly.
 
They carry the bible around but deliberately IGNORE what Jesus said … focusing instead on the Old Testament.

John 6 is IN "THEIR BIBLE!!

I tell them to READ it … STUDY it … read the Greek and the Hebrew.

[I recognized their car … I think they use me for practice for their newbies.]
 
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It would be several years, though I had “near miss” on Saturday. If the FA Cup final hadn’t been on (Chelsea 1, Manchester United 0) I might have made time to actually go to the door and speak with them. On the other hand, I’ve done this so often I just don’t have the interest much anymore.
 
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Maybe it is a regional thing so there are different attitudes in different places.
 
Haha funny. The last time they came around a week or so ago I was sitting in my garage smoking a stogie sitting under a picture of the Black Madonna and one Pope John Paul II.
 
As they walked away they said, “We must pray for that poor and ignorant heathen.”
 
Two JW came to my door a few weeks ago. I politely told them I could not talk with them or take their booklet.
 
My aunt, a few days ago. My dad’s side of the family are JW. They became later in life and not growing up. They are good people and I love them, that being said as a Catholic they got a lot of things wrong. Of course we have never discussed religion, they did when I was a little kid but they kinda grew out of that. They are less and less practicing JW these days. My cousin is no long an elder in the JW church.
 
It’s been years.

Now, my grandmother used to invite them in for tea and cake. She’d school them on Bible the entire time. She knew that book backward, foreword and sideways.
 
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Is that the fellow who predicted the end of the world twice and failed? Years ago I remember reading that people sold their homes and all and when the end of the world failed to happen that was a big crisis inside the watchtower organization
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They predicted it more than once; the major ones were 1914, 1925, and 1975.

1925 was the big one when people sold their homes. When it didn’t happen they were told that God didn’t let it happen because they didn’t work hard enough preaching it.
 
I don’t remember; but do they start out their visit by asking if you’re “saved”?
 
I have several copies of “Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth: The Catholic Church and God’s Plan for You” by my front door. When anybody comes by (Mormon, JWs, Evangelicals) and tries to give me one of their pamphlets, I give them of of those. If they say that they’re not allowed to take it, then I tell them that I can’t take one of theirs. That sometimes ends the discussion.

Blessings

Edited to add: Pillar is published by Catholic Answers.
 
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Some time now…

Though two LDS elders have been dialoguing with me a lot the past couple months… They are full of love and zeal for Christ, and it is inspiring and refreshing seeing young men so eager to serve God and preach the Gospel (even if their theology is… Not entirely up to par with Catholic truth).
 
I have had a few visits. I usually bring up the fact that our world is in a terrible fix with its arsenals of ICBMs with thermonuclear bombs, and I tell them that, if everyone in the world was a JW, then we would not be threatened by a global nuclear war. They usually express their appreciation for that comment.
Then I turn to my interpretation of Scripture which is that a nuclear war will soon occur and that this disaster constitutes YHWH’s judgement of mankind. JWs don’t seem to agree with me about that, but they are willing to discuss it.
 
My daughter bought me a lovely sign for my front door that says “THIS IS A CATHOLIC HOME.”
The JW’s always skip my house.
 
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