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Mary, who are you referring to?
Jim

Their pamphlets are such garbage. I won't let them in either!
Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't want to bash anyones religion, but they are the flakiest.

They also beleive if you aren't one of them you won't go to heaven.

there are lots of relgions that believe that. Wont they be surprised?...lol...

They have angered me plenty before. I will not associate with them any more either. I asked one once where he thought The Holy Spirit is. He said in New York City where there leadership was.

They have their own "inspired" scriptures written by their founder. They believe that when you die you are silent in the grave where there is no work, devising, etc. Only the 144,000 are allowed to take sacrament and they know who they are, you don't. So you pass sacrament and no one takes it because it's only for the elite. Their buildings don't have windows so they won't have to watch the rest of us be destroyed. But never fear, they will come out when it's all over and bury the remains. I was one of them at one time. Then a Baptist lay preacher told me if I would give him 4 hours he could prove the falshood of the JW's beliefs using only their own literature. He did it in less than 2 hours! When I asked for my name to be removed from their rolls, I was shunned, and my children were told that it was too bad that their mother was going to hell. I get rid of them easily simply by telling them I was one who left. And yes, about once a year we have some stop by, even way out in the boonies where we live.
Sincere, yes. Caring, very! Brainwashed, most definitely. Just feel sorry for them as they are basically very good people who have been horribly misled. As for their leadership, I won't be so generous with them.
These people are brow-beaten to get them to go door to door like they do. The guilt trip they are put on is terrible. I know because I experienced it. I spent a very long time purposely trying to unlearn all the falsehoods they taught me.

I grew up as a witness... and though I don't follow the religion anymore, I don't practice their beliefs or talk to anyone... it is there right to believe what they want to believe.

I'm not defending them at all... I was pushed aside by most people there, my dad wasn't part of the religion, and I wasn't like the other kids. No one really wanted their kids to hang out with a possible "bad influence"... believing that my dad fed us opposing info and we would therefore pass worldly views on to their kids. When I went to college, I was avoided entirely... no one has talked to me since... because I chose worldly learning over going door to door and preaching.

I was a very depressed child/teen/young adult, as you would imagine... I was feeling constantly guilty, left behind and not good enough... I had dreams of armagedon and nightmares of not making it to paradise with the rest of the good people...

My personal view now, is that people put too much stock in "religion" and the leaders of them rather than more stock in GOD... I've found god on my own... I don't need a group of men to tell me how to find god or talk to god... When it comes down to it... its your personal relationship with god, and how you carry yourself through this world that will matter in the end... not what group you belong to.

Well said Rose.

My Granpa & I were dicussing the multi million dollar church there were building down the road from him. I said I don't think God cares if I pray in a shack or a castle. Money won't get you closer to God. He agreed.

I had an aunt that was a jehovah witness. She was the kindest person I've ever known, but yes, misled, but she probably knows that by now. God has his plan laid out for all of us to follow, and it's not always in a Church.

God gave us the beautiful sky filled with stars by night; sun by day . Even overcast or raining it is still magnificent. Praying in the mountans or at the ocean or lake are enlightening and peaceful. I don't need a group name or a roof over my head to talk to God. I know by being outside that I can praise God, cry to God or thank God anywhere I choose.

AMEN, to that stillwaitin