by lavendar 6 Replies latest jw experiences
I was wondering this........at your (former or present) Kingdom Halls, do you ever have people (from off the street) attend a meeting? I mean, do people (that nobody knows at the hall) just show up to see what a meeting is all about? If so, how is that person(s) received? Are they welcomed?
Thanks,
Lavendar
Hi Lavendar, the witnesses are usually delighted when a stranger shows up to check out the meeting. they will be all over you -- seriously, your new best friends. people refer to it as "love bombing" and you can be assured that you will get a lot of that if you seem at all interested and positive toward the witnesses.
Yeah, they love you until they find out you don't believe in the lies that they believe in. Then they turn it off just like a switch!!
nj
Never experienced it personally, but I'm sure everyone would be running around like headless chickens drooling over "new meat".
I showed up at an out of town (Iwas on a business trip) kingdumb hell once in street clothes.
Man, you talk about suspicious people.
I got thirty questions inside two minutes.
Many years ago I showed up at a Sunday meeting in a Houston suburb and was totally ignored. I even got up the nerve to answer a WT question. After the meeting I took my time getting my things together to leave. One brother smiled at me. No one spoke. I left and never went back.
In the nearly 20 years I have been a Witless, I can count the number of times I may have seen new people in the Kingdumb Hell on the fingers of my left foot. I don't think people just walk off the streets and go into these buildings without someone inviting them.
In a church, this is much more common. People are much more likely to walk into a church uninvited than into a Kingdumb Hell. I wonder if this is because the churches are more mainstream and the Witlesses are a cult.
