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How do I get Jehovah's Witnesses to leave me alone?
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Is it possible to report the Jehovah's Witnesses for harassment?
They've been coming to my house once every few weeks at the moment and it doesn't matter how often or how firmly I tell them that I'm not interested, they keep coming back.
I think they've targeted me because I'm young (and look much younger than I am). I get the impression that they think they just need to keep trying and that I'll eventually bend, but I wish they'd just go away.
I always try to be respectful of other people's religion but I think it should be against the law for anyone to try and force their religion on you, which is what the JWs do. I don't care if they're doing it because they genuinely believe in their "cause". It's harrassment, IMHO.
Is there anything I can do that might help stop them from coming? Like, is there someone I can write to? I'm usually quite a patient person but I've had enough.
They've been coming to my house once every few weeks at the moment and it doesn't matter how often or how firmly I tell them that I'm not interested, they keep coming back.
I think they've targeted me because I'm young (and look much younger than I am). I get the impression that they think they just need to keep trying and that I'll eventually bend, but I wish they'd just go away.
I always try to be respectful of other people's religion but I think it should be against the law for anyone to try and force their religion on you, which is what the JWs do. I don't care if they're doing it because they genuinely believe in their "cause". It's harrassment, IMHO.
Is there anything I can do that might help stop them from coming? Like, is there someone I can write to? I'm usually quite a patient person but I've had enough.
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Or tell them that you consider their constant calling to be harassment and that you have advised your solicitor with a view to an injunction. (Or other legal sounding stuff). You could use your PC to write a legal sounding letter and hand it to them!
Do you think if I told them they might loose interest and get lost?
I'm sure they'd leave you alone then:).
Jason
Does anyone remember that scene with Dot Cotton and the JW's a few months back on EE?
Talk about meeting your match, she played a blinder they were desperate to escape.
Hopefully!
I really hate having to be that way with anybody though, which is the trouble. Otherwise I would have told them to bugger off years ago. I was brought up to be very polite and considerate and I dread it when I have to be less than nice to strangers. I'll try it though. I can be horribly ruthless when I have to be, even though I don't *like* doing it.
If so, just tell them you can't stop and you need to get back to your girlfriend.
I don't know but it might at least make them think a bit. I think you should tell them.
As everybody else says, telling them that you are with another religion will normally work. They are looking for the unaffiliated and will generally avoid anybody who has already thrown their lot in with another mob.
I don't think you necessarily have to be rude, just assertive really. When I used to live in London we had the politicians coming round every so often bothering us..one of them was on question time the other night..rude git...
Anyway, I'm going off tangent here..what I'm trying to say is I found that if I just told him I wasn't interested in anything he had to say and that he should stop calling at my house, he stayed away:).
Straying off-topic again, this guy is one of the reasons I stopped voting nu-labour.
Jason
Of course, the fact that I've just come down with a cold and was in bed feeling sorry for myself when they called this morning really didn't help the JWs cause. If I'd known who it was before I'd got up and pulled on some jim jams, I wouldn't have bothered at all.
Why is it that they don't believe in giving blood??
LOL! Very good. Sometimes I get so tempted to try something like that, just to see the reaction.
beleive it contains the life-essense of a person ( there is a section somewhere in the Old Testament about this; but maybe they forgot that the New testament exists? );
they ARE allowed, if the are having an operation to have their own blood taken PRE opertaively and it is gvien BACK to them after
as to preventing them from calling
why do you answer the door in the first place?
It's not always easy to tell that it's them. Especially if they turn up when your still waiting for the postman/delivery person or expecting another kind of vistor. The peep hole doesn't always help distinguish everyone.
I might try asking who it is before opening the door though, and then just tell them "no thanks" if it's a JW, charity collector, or salesperson.
OK ;when you open the door and see if IS them, tell them you are NOT interested and shut the door immediately ; simple