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I am not feeling at the peak of health today. I've had a sore throat for a few days, and working from home is great in that I don't really have to "look presentable" to do my work. However, it means that I am home all day. Today, a well dressed man holding a briefcase came up to my door and rang the doorbell.
I did not answer the door because I am not dressed for company, and wasn't expecting anyone. He then knocked, and I ignored him some more. Then he toddled off down the street to the house across the street. He did not even approach my sane neighbors (likely home with the twins). But he left something on my door, that I stealthily retrieved.
He was - wait for it - a Jehovah's Witness, and he left me with an invitation to go to Assembly Hall of JW in a town near mine for Easter - although they are very careful not to call it that... Let me see (and I quote):
"This year, the anniversary of Jesus' death falls on Saturday, March 22, after sundown. Jehovah's Witnesses invite you to remember this event with them and to examine why Jesus' sacrifice was the demonstration of a love beyond compare."
Um. Yeah, not so much. Personally, from the JW's I've met I think they're all a little barmy. Some more so than others.
Kinda glad I'm doing the hermit thing this morning and did not get dragged into a theological discussion about what sorts of insane things he believes (and did you ever notice the JW each have a specific thing they harp on over and over, and it is never the same specific thing two JW in a row? Yeah. I have far too much experience with this specific bunch of religious mixed nuts).
Now, I am not against religion. I think as a whole it has done a whole lot of good for a whole lot of people. But it has also done a whole lot of wrong for a whole lot of people too.
I don't believe in organized religion. Mostly, I don't believe in organized religion *for* *me.* As long as you don't bother me with trying to get me to see religion just your way (the right way, they always think and never say), we'll get along just fine.
*tosses invitation into the recycle bin* Not for me.
I did not answer the door because I am not dressed for company, and wasn't expecting anyone. He then knocked, and I ignored him some more. Then he toddled off down the street to the house across the street. He did not even approach my sane neighbors (likely home with the twins). But he left something on my door, that I stealthily retrieved.
He was - wait for it - a Jehovah's Witness, and he left me with an invitation to go to Assembly Hall of JW in a town near mine for Easter - although they are very careful not to call it that... Let me see (and I quote):
"This year, the anniversary of Jesus' death falls on Saturday, March 22, after sundown. Jehovah's Witnesses invite you to remember this event with them and to examine why Jesus' sacrifice was the demonstration of a love beyond compare."
Um. Yeah, not so much. Personally, from the JW's I've met I think they're all a little barmy. Some more so than others.
Kinda glad I'm doing the hermit thing this morning and did not get dragged into a theological discussion about what sorts of insane things he believes (and did you ever notice the JW each have a specific thing they harp on over and over, and it is never the same specific thing two JW in a row? Yeah. I have far too much experience with this specific bunch of religious mixed nuts).
Now, I am not against religion. I think as a whole it has done a whole lot of good for a whole lot of people. But it has also done a whole lot of wrong for a whole lot of people too.
I don't believe in organized religion. Mostly, I don't believe in organized religion *for* *me.* As long as you don't bother me with trying to get me to see religion just your way (the right way, they always think and never say), we'll get along just fine.
*tosses invitation into the recycle bin* Not for me.
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Although, I do wonder who he expected to encounter at home mid-day and middle of the week. I mean, I'm only home then when I'm so sick my coworkers are threatening to hose me down with lysol if I don't go home and stop trying to infect them all. (Which, by the way, if you got what I had, it'll be two weeks before it really goes away).
I'm sure there are stay at home mothers, people who work from home, the night shift and graveyard types. But really, I am thinking the well dressed young jedi was hoping not to run into anyone. Doing his part for his faith but not having to work too hard to do it. Or get drawn into those lengthy discussions that he couldn't win anyway.
As a lapsed catholic, I thought the JW's were going door to door as some sort of penance. A way to make up for some sin they'd committed by humiliating themselves by getting doors slammed in their faces or having pointless discussions that went nowhere. And I still think that to some degree.