Pop. 200,000, which makes it the 2. or 3. largest in Finland, I don’t remember which. Does your friend work for Nokia by any chance? 
I honestly don’t know. I haven’t spoken to him in many years. He was an exchange student in high school 15 years ago.
To the OP:
Relax man, don’t let the blood go to your head. Tell them to leave if necessary and then go back to whatever you were doing. People like that are not worth your anger.
jjimm, yours is my favourite story, absolutely priceless. I figured him being a classics teacher that it would have been something like that. Still, wish I’d been there
When I was 4, I used to be the first one up in the morning on Saturdays (as I loved the cartoons). I still remember the time when the JWs knocked on the door (my parents were still asleep). I opened the door and am standing there in blue Dr. Dentons and asked what they wanted. They pushed themselves inside and started preaching to me in our dining room. I remember saying something like ‘you can leave pamphlets, but its not a good idea for you to be here.’ Eventually they left, and when my parents woke up and came downstairs, I got the beating of my life for letting them in.
Still, can you Imagine someone barging into a house when a little 4 year old opens the door to find out what you want??? Have they no Comon Sense or Decency? (And they said that I’d be going to Hell…)
Quiet man - Why did you get a beating, and why didn’t your parents go beat them? Had I found two JW’s preaching to my kids telling in my house unbeknownst to me…I’d give them the whopp’in of a lifetime and then call the police!
Porcupine - the cat’s coming tomorrow, and I will train it to eat stray JW’s coming in my yard.
Oh and I got yelled at by my wife for being so vulgar to the nuts.
You folks in the country! 
If I was so rude to two ladies who came to my door offering nothing but ideas, and threatened them with a dog when they had committed no crime whatsoever, the next knock I’d hear would be from the police, with the ladies glaring at me over their shoulders.
OK, the ones who push their way actually into the houses are quite wrong, but what’s so bad about politely saying you’re not interested and closing the door? I did that several times in Boston and got taken off the list, never getting the same denomination twice. Although there was the time my Dad talked to the Mormon for 1/2 hour in Harvard Square, arguing nicely about how it was impossible to be a Christian and believe that Jesus was not the final revelation…
Because some of them won’t take “not interested” for an answer.
And I could see the look on the cop’s face.
TL (two ladies): We walked up to this guy’s house.
C (cop): Did you know him?
TL: No.
C: So, you were uninvited?
TL: Yes, but we went up there and he said to his dog “Satan!! Come here boy!!”.
C: So, he sent his dog after you?
TL: No, he was inside the house and the screen door was closed.
C: So, then he came after you and attacked?
TL: No, we walked away and he came on the porch and said “There was a time when religion ruled the world Ladies. It was known as The Dark Ages” and he threw our papers back at us.
C: So, you left some papers at his house?
TL: Yes.
C: So, you were trespassing and littering and you want him arrested?
TL: Yes.
C: To the loony bin with you.
My favourite Grandpa story (I can’t for the life of me remember if I’ve told this one on the boards before or not):
At one point several years ago, Grandpa was at the top of a tree in his yard, pruning the branches. Only way up or down was the ladder leaning against it.
So he’s sitting up there, taking a small break or something, when a couple of JWs come up and start preaching to him from the bottom of the ladder. They basically treed the poor fella.
Grandpa let 'em go on for a while, listening politely, but showing no active interest. Finally, when they stopped to for a quick breather and ask him what he thought, he gave a deep, exasperated sigh, thought for a moment, and then proclaimed from the top of his tree:
“Gentlemen. As of right now, I am closer to Heaven than you can ever hope to be.”
He never had any problems after that.
::shyly raises hand::
I can honestly state that I have never had any people of any religion come to my door and try to solicit me or convert me or whatever they try to do.
Can anyone else that lives in San Francisco chime in here? Maybe they think we’re all so totally doomed that they stay away from the City all together? Maybe it’s b/c I live in the Haight and they fear approaching Satan’s Maw? Maybe the Steal Your Face banner in the stairwell outside my gate scares them away?
Maybe I’m the luckiest man on Earth and I shouldn’t question this?
One time I answered the door and when I saw there were Witnesses on the other side, I simply showed them the cross hanging around my neck and said, “We’re already going to heaven. You can move along now.” My dad was disappointed, as he likes arguing with these people.
In fact, his favorite thing to do with them is to go grab his Greek Bible and ask them to read it to him. When they say they don’t read Greek, he says, “Then who are you to tell me what the Bible says?”
We must be on the “do not visit” list now, since they haven’t come around in a while.
LDS members can be quite helpful. A pair once helped us move in an entertainment center then we politely sent them on their way.
I went to live in a very remote fishing village in the far North of Japan and on my first weekend there, imagine my surprise when I got a knock at the door and it was the JWs!! I thought I had got away from them because at that time I didn’t speak any Japanese but on the following weekend I had a visit from them again, only this time one of them spoke English.
Also, they are so prolific in NZ, I don’t consider them fundamentalists.
Just a thought,
Fundamentalist --> Under Mental Fist
JW’s are a PIN in UK too, but they deffinately have a no-go list for houses beyond redemption, since they never called again after I told them I was Satan and thanked them for their good work on my behalf.
I must admit I never thought of them as fundamentalist in any sense, so I guess UK does have some fundamentalist Christians, but we laugh at them for being silly, so it isn’t all bad.
I just saw this story on the Globe and Mail’s website. One town in Quebec is trying to pass a bylaw to get JWs (and other religious groups and charities) to buy a permit to do door-to-door canvassing. It would cost $100, they would only be allowed to hold one for two months out of a year, and they would be limited to weekdays from 9 am - 7:30 pm.
I’m somewhat torn on this. On the one hand, it would be nice to know that you wouldn’t be bothered on the weekends. BUT one look at the time restrictions made me realise that they would just wind up interrupting people during dinner, which is even more annoying. I tend to lump them under the “silly but harmless” category and do my best to ignore them, which is admittedly easier since no one can find the entrance to my place so I never have to deal with them. Well except when they call me (twice now!) but telemarketers are easy to deal with.
No we folks ain’t in the country.
They were trespassing. Plain to me and my dog. And proselytizing to a man who has made up his mind to be a good honest man true to his wife and family and to himself. That is the religion I choose to abide by. Simple.
Did you see Penn and Teller get killed?
Where one guy asks Penn if if he could talk to him about his religion? Penn said “Sure. But let me tell ya about mine first!”
I’m living in Saudi and had a drinking buddy from Scotland move away to Perth. Anyway, I heard from him again a year after he left and he’d been recruited and gave up his evil ways. He wanted me to get him a visa to Saudi so he could convert the heathen. He would have wound up a martyr if he’d tried that shit here so I declined. S That JW shit is nasty and infectious.
Testy