Anyone else had a handwritten letter from the JW recently?

Chris Wilson · 10 Sep 2022 at 14:56

FBi7 said:
The 'h' in 'he', when referring to God should be capitalised. Unnecessary comma after 'tears'. So much unnecessary capitalisation. I suppose we should Praise the Lord there's no unnecessary apostrophes. Half the forum could learn from the JWs

You should write back to them stating '4/10, see me'

I think that's their aim....

Feek · 18 Nov 2023 at 12:35

Got another hand written one today.

Werewolf · 18 Nov 2023 at 12:50

I had a couple actually come to the door for about the first time in 3 years a week or so back, I answered it in my boxers as I'd only just pulled myself out of bed and thought it was a delivery.

I think I ended up with 3 or 4 of the letters in the end.

ShiWarrior · 18 Nov 2023 at 12:51

Feek said:
This came through a few days ago addressed to 'The householder'.

I assume that because they're not allowed to go bashing on doors, they're writing letters to people.

If any of them knock here, they just get a polite "No thanks" and I close the door but I wonder how many people have received similar letters recently.

Please don't turn this into a pro or anti religion thread, I'm just interested to know how widespread this practise is.

/edit - I've also not used the full name so that if they regularly search for mentions then they won't find this thread

Feek said:
Got another hand written one today.

Err, I think they found you, you didn't hide it enough

Terminal_Boy · 18 Nov 2023 at 12:53

Isn’t it the JW’s that believe that only 144,000 will be saved?

Second only to the Scientologists in terms of bat**** bonkers Sky Pixie worship.

Feek · 18 Nov 2023 at 13:07

ShiWarrior said:
Err, I think they found you, you didn't hide it enough

I posted the unexpurgated version of that original letter later in the thread

Stu999 · 18 Nov 2023 at 13:15

Feek said:
Got another hand written one today.

Too many exclamation marks, do not convert.

SexyGreyFox · 22 Nov 2023 at 13:07

Werewolf said:
I had a couple actually come to the door for about the first time in 3 years a week or so back, I answered it in my boxers as I'd only just pulled myself out of bed and thought it was a delivery.

I think I ended up with 3 or 4 of the letters in the end.

Two knocked on mine on Saturday.

Diddums · 22 Nov 2023 at 13:13

"Oh hi, I'm so glad you popped round, please do come in, I'll go and put the kettle on"

"Two sugars? Milk?"

"Please, have a seat, I just wanted to take a moment of your time to tell you all about satanism, have you heard of it?"

Werewolf · 22 Nov 2023 at 14:15

Child Killer said:
"Oh hi, I'm so glad you popped round, please do come in, I'll go and put the kettle on"

"Two sugars? Milk?"

"Please, have a seat, I just wanted to take a moment of your time to tell you all about satanism, have you heard of it?"

lol

you say that, I still had a couple of Halloween decorations in the hall. My great niece (~2) visited just before Halloween and liked them, and then came round and was looking for them so I pulled them out of the spare room and they're sat where she can see them at least until i get the box of bits into the loft.

SexyGreyFox · 22 Nov 2023 at 14:19

Child Killer said:
"Oh hi, I'm so glad you popped round, please do come in, I'll go and put the kettle on"

"Two sugars? Milk?"

"Please, have a seat, I just wanted to take a moment of your time to tell you all about satanism, have you heard of it?"

Been there, they just laugh.
They have heard it all, you can't be original

HungryHippos · 22 Nov 2023 at 14:27

SexyGreyFox said:
Been there, they just laugh.
They have heard it all, you can't be original

Tell them you're thinking about starting a cult, and they are clearly the type of gullible people who join cults, perhaps they'd be interested in joining?

Freddie1980 · 22 Nov 2023 at 15:35

C4 partnered with Rebekah Vardy to make a documentary detail her experiences while she was a JW. It's on their Youtube channel if anyone is interested.

SexyGreyFox · 22 Nov 2023 at 18:02

HungryHippos said:
Tell them you're thinking about starting a cult, and they are clearly the type of gullible people who join cults, perhaps they'd be interested in joining?

They have heard everything, there really is nothing you can say to them.
Anybody would think they run off waving their arms in the air

tribz · 22 Nov 2023 at 18:09

SexyGreyFox said:
They have heard everything, there really is nothing you can say to them.
Anybody would think they run off waving their arms in the air

If you want to get close to that reaction, tell them you used to be one. They're programmed to think that former disassociated or disfellowshipped members could be apostates.

LeeUK · 22 Nov 2023 at 18:16

I've had them before where my address has been handwritten but the letter typed.

I suppose it depends if the individual JW has access to a word processor and printer.