i got a personal letter from the jehovah's witnesses

Subject: i got a personal letter from the jehovah's witnesses

or one jehovah's witness, who lives in the nabe. seriously. a typed letter signed with a real pen, and a little pamphlet about god. there were a stack of question in the pamplet, saying they had answers. alas, i had the answers... (one question was, what happens when you die? my answer: you're dead. see ya)

let's not discuss how i feel about the witnesses, lest i be called a bigot once again.

however, why the f* are they sending me personalized letters. from a person who lives on 8th street... want her address?

My across-the-hall neighbors were JWs and had weekly JW gatherings in their apartment. They also frequent the Grand Army Plaza subway station, handing out Watchtower pamphlets. Very nice folks. I always wondered what they thought about the gay couple with kids living across the hall. I'm sure they prayed for us constantly.

Ahh, don't take it that badly. I'm not religious, but if I got a letter I'd just toss it and not think twice. A lot of those people are really kind hearted and that's the way they reach out. If it's not your bag, just toss it out. No problem. Yeah it's a bit odd, but I'd be more amused than annoyed.

i KNEW you were gay but didn't want to ask. (seriously, mary tyler moore avatar? male with a stroller?). even online my gaydar works.

anyway... i once spent 3 months working a data entry job in a small room: me, and 24 JWs all under the age of 25. it scarred me

my gay uncle was in the jehovah witness protection program

brooklynpotter wrote: i KNEW you were gay but didn't want to ask. (seriously, mary tyler moore avatar? male with a stroller?). even online my gaydar works.

anyway... i once spent 3 months working a data entry job in a small room: me, and 24 JWs all under the age of 25. it scarred me

I liked your MTM avatar so much that it inspired me to put Gilligan in my profile

bwah

I had some ladies buzz my door yesterday (and about 2 weeks ago). Not sure if they were JW, but they were bible thumpers of some sort. When I answered, they started spewing "the truth." I asked them to leave me alone and not to buzz my door any more (I was polite, but annoyed). Then they kept buzzing! They would not stop pressing the fucking buzzer!

I went down the stairs, opened the door, and said "Leave, or I'll call the cops!" and they actually gave me lip and said they weren't breaking any laws.
I said that I asked them politely to leave and they kept pressing my buzzer so they were harassing me.

Then they asked if I liked them?! WTF, of course I said no, and then they started to give me crap about being crazy in the head?!

Wow, WTF was that all about?! How WEIRD?! Aren't the crazy bible thumpers at least supposed to be polite? These ladies were hostile!

I'd much prefer a letter to a knock on the door. I feel much less bad about ignoring a letter than a person standing infront of me.

Was the letter addressed to you by name, or just your address? If it had your name on it, that would be a lil creepy in my book. If it was just the address, he prob just prints them out en mass (less creepy but still annoying).

by name

was it from Prince?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/11/prince-keeps-it.html

nope

Flexichick wrote: was it from Prince?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/11/prince-keeps-it.html

I read that piece about Prince early today and his comments about gays, and thanks to modern technology, I have a dilemma.

Back when I was in college and had only vinyl LPs, if I got pissed off at an artist, there were many options for showing my displeasure: hold a lighter under the record and watch it melt, stick it in the oven for a while and bend it into a pretzel bowl, use it as a frisbee, etc. Even when CDs came in, you could always hit 'em with a hammer and watch 'em shatter, use 'em for skeet, etc.

But now that all my Prince music is just digital files, there's so little satisfaction in just hitting the delete key. I want to destroy something tangible.

In related news: Speaking of my college days, some friends and I used to write haikus for our campus newspaper. (There was very little real news on campus.) This was one of them (not one of my personal compositions):

Sunday morning dawns
There's a witness at the door
I get the shotgun

I saw Prince in concert ~3 years ago. While his show is great live, he doesn't do "Darling Nikki" , "Sexy MotherFucker" or lots of other songs.

His comments on gays are just so disappointing

i can fling his cds out the window the way i did with the bono ones'?

you can also send letters to his record company

I saw Prince at the Garden much longer ago than that but he did do Darling Nikki. Not Sexy MotherFucker though. Agree about his comments. I actually thought he was gay, but whatever.

Potter - why are you throwing out Bono CDs?

bono: good friends with jesse helms. while they did good things together for africa, they did socialize and both had the strong "pro-life" position as part of their agenda.

The JWs love coming to my building. I usually chase them down the stairs asking why God needs salespeople.

I was thinking that I should invite them up for a bubble bath next time they come back.
Or, when they ring my buzzer, I should breathe heavily into it and ask what they're wearing, in my most creapy "It puts the lotion in the basket" kind of voice.

they make me pretty angry when they come by, because i always tell them through the buzzer that the stoop is private property (and they always say the landlord owns it, so it's not private), and then i tell them that i *am* the landlord (ok, a coop member. whatever, that makes me 1/5th the landlord) and then they get all snotty.

these people who come preaching god are not always nice. ironic, no?

(when mendy the hasidic rabbi got into our building and knocked on my door, asking if i wanted a free mezuzah for free mezuzah month, i wasn't too nice. and i still wish i'd opened the door naked)

I like asking the questions:

1) how many people do you believe will "sit at the right hand of god"? Answer: 144,000
2) how many members do you have now? Uh....(many, many more)


I'm not into those odds

Thy just sent my made up name a personal letter.

I am listed in the phonebook under a made up name. When ever I get a call and they ask for that person, I know they don't know me. Now people who don't know me are sending mail to my house.

Also, all 56 mailboxes in my building got the same letter.

Talk about a waste of trees!

you could sell the letter on ebay

brooklynpotter wrote: you could sell the letter on ebay

"For a limited time get 20% off entrance into heaven"

it would be a coupon. Key food would also accept it.

LOL!!!

Car in front of me had a bumper sticker "Honk if You Love Jesus", I honked... He gave me the Finger. (Old Joke)

brklynborn63 wrote: Car in front of me had a bumper sticker "Honk if You Love Jesus", I honked... He gave me the Finger. (Old Joke)

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Are you sure it wasn't brooklynpotter.

brooklynpotter wrote: they make me pretty angry when they come by, because i always tell them through the buzzer that the stoop is private property (and they always say the landlord owns it, so it's not private), and then i tell them that i *am* the landlord (ok, a coop member. whatever, that makes me 1/5th the landlord) and then they get all snotty.

these people who come preaching god are not always nice. ironic, no?

(when mendy the hasidic rabbi got into our building and knocked on my door, asking if i wanted a free mezuzah for free mezuzah month, i wasn't too nice. and i still wish i'd opened the door naked)

it's cold out now.

next time they buzz you, tell them to wait right there and dump abucket of water on them from above.

mendy actually got into the building. he was at my front door. (our hallways are heated)