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A few years ago when I lived in a largish city I had some visits from a JW. She came by my apartment and tried to proselytize to me. She seemed nice so I was reluctant to be rude and I just explained that I was atheist but to get her to leave, she was welcome to leave some literature. She gave me a pamphlet that I chuckled over for five minutes and threw away. The problem was she came back several more times. The second time I saw her she was by herself, and I told her that I was sorry but she was wasting her time. Basically I said that I understood it was very important to her spiritually to witness to people, but that I had a pretty solidly defined life philosophy and I just wasn't a good prospect for her. The third time she came by with another woman for support, and we had much the same discussion. She visited one more time, with a man who seemed much more confident and authoritative, like he was in charge of her, and finally I felt like I just had to be blunt and told her to stop coming around, it was never gonna happen, use your energy on somebody who will go for it, good luck, don't come back. So I guess my question here is, what was going on, on her end? Maybe I was sending mixed messages the first time, but from her second visit I felt like I was very clear that I had no interest and she was wasting her time with me. Why did she come back with more help? Is there some kind of system where you mark down prospects and you come back with a supervisor? I was kind of worried that I was screwing her up with her church elders or whoever, by not being bluntly clear from the beginning that I wanted her to leave me alone.
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Benne posted:This isn't rocket science -- JWs are on the same level as Mormons when it comes to graciously turning down offers. Part of my problem was I used the same techniques I had previously used to turn down Mormons, but the Mormons hosed away off while the JWs kept coming back.
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