Ask one of Jehovah's Witnesses

[Won2blv]

I wrote in a little piece of paper "No cold callers please" and taped it under my door bell, because I was getting rather sick of being bothered in general. It seems to have worked, I've since been left in peace. If anyone does cold call, I'll just point to the piece of paper, flip them the bird and slam the door Nah not really. I'd be my normally polite self and say I'm not interested. Then I'd swear a lot when I'm back inside.

I'm also having a big problem understanding how knocking on my door is "waiting for them to come to you". Well, anytime you knock on someone's door you have to wait for them to come to you, right? But I'd consider it rather a loaded scenario since you just banged on their door.

Nic: you "seriously doubting" Becca is very strange. It brings up an interesting point though about scepticism, which I need to write on my website. Scepticism, when done properly, is usually applied according to both the importance and the likelihood of claims. This is a claim of relative unimportance to you, although the irritation is obviously important to Becca. The claim is not a particularly unlikely one, people can bang on doors at any time. You find it a little odd, sure. But you're taking the stance that you "seriously doubt" it. That's a lot of scepticism for a very small claim.

Now compare this to Christianity, and maybe this will benefit you. The claim that all the supernatural stuff in the bible happened, and Jesus existed and is God, and still exists, and is watching over us, and there are certain actions which lead to certain kinds of afterlives... is a claim of huge importance, and overwhelmingly unlikely when compared to what we know and have experienced. So this is at the absolute maximum on both accounts, so should require the full force of someone's scepticism. Given you doubt Becca's claim even though you have direct eyewitness and current information about it, wouldn't it be fair to say that you should doubt a whole lot more extraordinary claims in a 2000 year old book, backed by nothing but it's say so?

This is a genuine attempt to help you, as you've been asking for one. It's not meant to be a criticism, although I think repeatedly asserting how much you don't believe Becca was uncalled for.

I don't buy her claim because I have 20 plus years of experience going door to door and I have never met anyone that goes out that early. I am not saying it is impossible. I just don't buy it. Because humans remember things in a slanted way almost always. I am not even saying that if they showed up at 10am that it wouldn't still be annoying. I am on here looking for my own clarity. I can't change whether or not witnesses keep door knocking or not. So what is the point of berating me over the policy? All I can do is explain why witnesses do it. I know its hard to believe, but they genuinely want to share with people what they think could be a positive in their lives. I recommend taking 10 mins with a witness and having a respectful conversation. You'll remember that they're fellow humans, even if misguided. And maybe at the very least you could feel like you at least shook their faith