(September 15, 2019 at 5:03 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Why do Jehovah's Witnesses do what they do when they must know that doing what they do has a breathtakingly remote chance of achieving what they have set out to achieve and yet knowing this they still persist in doing what they do?Easy. They believe that their shining god will make converts. Because it is so obvious what god is and wants and does. To them. Thus when it is not obvious to others, those must be enslaved by satan. It is self reinforcing.
(September 15, 2019 at 5:03 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Is it simply to 'tick a box' in their belief that they are required to convert as many people as possible and if so are they not just insincerely going through the motions instead of trying a variety of other, potentially more successful techniques to achieve what they have set out to achieve?Yes and no. Yes, they have to tick the boxes, but No they genuinely mean it.
(September 15, 2019 at 5:03 pm)Darwinian Wrote: After all, if you were charged by the creator of reality itself to go forth and convert and it turned out your success rate was about 0.00001% you might think that The Almighty might get a bit miffed if you just carried on doing the same thing, year in, year out, decade in, decade out, with a bit of a rethink.JW's are the masters of the "re-think". Just look how many apocalypse dates got swept under the rug.
Whenever they call to my door, I generally dismiss them, but occasionally I engage them. If I have time. They become troubled when I can cite chapter and verse at them to argue against them.
