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I work with a Witness, he's such a miserable bastard that we reckon he only became a Jehovah so he doesn't have to do Christmas. He always makes a fuss that they do the meeting room up like a grotto that they're forcing Christmas on him, even the Muslims don't have any issue with it, in fact one of them uses it to pray on his lunch break

Yeah Jehovah's are probably the weirdest religious group i have actually encountered on a day to day basis. An old friend of mine is a jovie, and i still feel sorry for him to this day. he had been raised as a creationist, so he thought the world was something like 6000 years old, and didn't understand evolution- but he was actually pretty sharp apart from all that rubbish- didn't hate homosexuals, accepted atheists as friends, that kind of thing. When he started hanging out with our college friendship-group, after an entire life of only being allowed to see other witnesses, he big-time began to question his religion, which eventually resulted in him dropping off the face of the earth for a few months. When we next saw him he would constantly preach at everyone, and not even from the nice parts of the bible, he even went so far as telling my girl-friend she was a sinner for not marrying a guy who had raped her in the past. he would outright bash any gay or bi people, myself included, in our group at the slightest opportunity (claiming to not be judging us, but trying to free us of sin) and would constantly try to debate things like evolution with me, only to report me as a bully and accuse me of mocking his beliefs if i answered back to anything he said. one time he even refused to speak to me for a few days because he over-heard me explaining how crude oil is formed to my little brother, and decided i was doing Satan's work because the process took longer than he believed the earth had existed. In the end it turned out His mum had gotten worried by the kind of questions he was bringing home, and had literally taken him out of college for a term, to spend it brainwashing him. Scolding him for being indifferent towards gays, forcing him to do hours of bible study every night before he could have food, cutting off all access to the outside world, that kind of thing. all the while threatening to kick him out if he didn't co-operate (but wording it so it was more like "im not kicking you out, by disobeying Jehovah, you are choosing to leave this house."). It was absolutely messed up.

Oh man, the evolution and young-earth thing. I remember one time I was teaching a mixed biology/geography class (In Danish educational system, all the sciences are one class up until 7th grade) on the age of earth and age of humans, and this one girl just put in "God made Adam and Eve. God created the earth 6.000 years ago. Put on Earth by Satan to test our faith" as all the answers. I, not wanting another Christmas-music-in-classroom disaster, just told her to write in the answers as they were given by the book. She got mad at me.

I fucking hate Jehovahs. My grandparents on my mothers side are, and they're the meanest, most judgmental motherfuckers that have ever existed.

What a dumb broad What part of "being a jury" did she not understand?

[QUOTE=katbug;43626289]My dad answered the door with an open bathrobe once to some jehovas witnesses.[/QUOTE] I have a buddy who just started putting on giant devil horns when JW started harrassing him.

[QUOTE=fulgrim;43628719]Yeah Jehovah's are probably the weirdest religious group i have actually encountered on a day to day basis. An old friend of mine is a jovie, and i still feel sorry for him to this day. he had been raised as a creationist, so he thought the world was something like 6000 years old, and didn't understand evolution- but he was actually pretty sharp apart from all that rubbish- didn't hate homosexuals, accepted atheists as friends, that kind of thing. When he started hanging out with our college friendship-group, after an entire life of only being allowed to see other witnesses, he big-time began to question his religion, which eventually resulted in him dropping off the face of the earth for a few months. When we next saw him he would constantly preach at everyone, and not even from the nice parts of the bible, he even went so far as telling my girl-friend she was a sinner for not marrying a guy who had raped her in the past. he would outright bash any gay or bi people, myself included, in our group at the slightest opportunity (claiming to not be judging us, but trying to free us of sin) and would constantly try to debate things like evolution with me, only to report me as a bully and accuse me of mocking his beliefs if i answered back to anything he said. one time he even refused to speak to me for a few days because he over-heard me explaining how crude oil is formed to my little brother, and decided i was doing Satan's work because the process took longer than he believed the earth had existed. In the end it turned out His mum had gotten worried by the kind of questions he was bringing home, and had literally taken him out of college for a term, to spend it brainwashing him. Scolding him for being indifferent towards gays, forcing him to do hours of bible study every night before he could have food, cutting off all access to the outside world, that kind of thing. all the while threatening to kick him out if he didn't co-operate (but wording it so it was more like "im not kicking you out, by disobeying Jehovah, you are choosing to leave this house."). It was absolutely messed up.[/QUOTE] JW's don't believe in a 6,000 year old earth, in fact they bash YECs for being silly (they don't believe in evolution though so its a bit odd)

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;43628988]I have a buddy who just started putting on giant devil horns when JW started harrassing him.[/QUOTE] I remember a story where somebody kept getting doorknockers, so one day he opened the door dressed as Jesus, spotlights shining behind him, speakers blasting Hallelujah. Then told them to fuck off and slammed the door

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43628996]JW's don't believe in a 6,000 year old earth, in fact they bash YECs for being silly (they don't believe in evolution though so its a bit odd)[/QUOTE] that's odd because Dan definitely did. I think that might have been more to do with the fact he formed all of his opinions based on what he heard said around his kingdom hall, he would come into college with a really racist outlook some days, and it turned out that one of his mums friends there was a massive bigot and Dan just listened to anyone there over a non-witness because "nobody but a witness is trustworthy".

[QUOTE=fulgrim;43629344]that's odd because Dan definitely did. I think that might have been more to do with the fact he formed all of his opinions based on what he heard said around his kingdom hall, he would come into college with a really racist outlook some days, and it turned out that one of his mums friends there was a massive bigot and Dan just listened to anyone there over a non-witness because "nobody but a witness is trustworthy".[/QUOTE] Sometimes opinions can vary between individuals and you might find some who believe in 6,000 year old earth, but the religion itself believes in an old Earth rather than young, so if they do believe it's 6,000 years old then they're going against what the governing body (ie the guys who decide all the doctrine)