What was your most embarassing WTF experience with a fanatical witness??

by Reality79 76 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Reality79

  We've all known those fanatical witnesses who are guilty of PDF (Public Display of Faith) and always have to make a big song and dance to the whole world and let everyone and their dog know they're a faithful witness of jay hoover!

  For myself I can think of two:

  1) When my mother first came in 'da troooof' this wacky, over zealous 'sister' was studying with her - you know the type. This woman was one of those not so subtle individuals who would always talk loud in conversation and say the name JEHOVAH a million times even when the conversation could have been about basketball. I remember we were out somewhere when I was about 10 years old and I ordered a chicken burger and fries from the kids menu and this crazy loon blurts out "Yes Reality those are JEHOVAH'S chicken burgers!!" in fron of the whole damn place with the waiter and everyone staring at us like WTF?! Jesus!!!!

  2)This 'brother' who used to take our group insisted we all meet RIGHT IN FRONT of Greggs Bakery for afternoon service! Of all the places we could have met, this fool was so sure that a bunch of people dressed in their monkey suits holding litter-ature standing outside a bakery on a main road was going to give a 'fine witness'. WTF?!
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  sinis

  I hate to ask, and race aside, were any of these black brothers? The reason I ask is in my old cong we had a few who were straight out of holy roller baptist churches and were VERY colorful, for lack of a better word. I always chuckeled when the black brothers and sisters would go on about Jehovah, this and that - I swear it was like hearing a revival!!!!!!!!
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  blondie

  I remember the sister who had a short fuse, at work and at the KH. A man came to the door and said that jws were cowards not willing to fight for their country like he had in WW2. This sister was with me and started yelling at the man who yelled back and followed us out to the sidewalk. She went and got in the car with the other sisters and I went back and apologized to the man explaining that my father too had fought in WW2. I talked about how jws had spent time and some died in the concentration camps because they would not fight the Allied soldiers. He calmed down and gave me a hug.

  The sister was still yelling in the car to the sisters. I got in the car and told her never to do that again and that I would never go door to door with her.

  Some years later the elders let her regular pioneer...she still yelled from door to door.
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  Found Sheep

  The 1st story that comes to my mind when I was about 10 years old a newly converted French brother and I went to a door and a very nice lady comes out and nicely stated she was not interested and the French man just wouldn't let her go for about 45 min (felt like years) he did the hard core JW talk... she kept looking at me like "i feel so sorry for you" I would smile trying my best to make it go away and tried to walk away but the French man just kept going...
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  sabastious

  It just goes to show that the Witness rank and file's personalities are fighting to stay alive while being spoon fed indoctrination so often. That fight is translating oddly into the Watchtower world and it's a phenomenon I am sure the leaders are well aware of.

  The brain is always trying to "brand" to concepts, and if we don't watch it, it will find something suitable and, quite literally, attach itself to it. The brain seems to be like other organ's in that it has an "auto piolet". I think the Watchtower's indoctrination process, at some point, puts you into that state and then works behind the scenes that ultimately tells the auto piolet basically where to go.

  -Sab
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  sabastious

  Of course the brain controls all the oragans, but it also controls itself as a separate organ, right?

  -Sab
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  fade_away

  I have a good one. I went with a pioneer forty something year old sister to give a study she had. I was around 14 years old. I wasn't baptized yet but she still felt like she needed to put some rag or something on her head since she was with me (a not-yet-official-brother). Since she didn't have one, she asked her study to get her something for her head. She said a paper towel will do. She put the damn thing on flat on her head! Now she is sitting up-right trying to balance this paper towel that would occasionally fall off. She eventually decided to hold it in place with her left hand the entire study (which was the longest hour of my life!)

  Meanwhile, the study (who was a gorgeous girl around my age by the way), was on the verge of laughing and I was red as a tomato and humiliated beyond belief. What must've this girl been thinking at the time? I'm sure she must've been saying "what a f#%$ed up religion!!!!" Anyway, believe it or not, it gets worse. I had never done a public prayer at the time, and she decided to let me do the closing prayer. I panicked, stuttered, and repeated the same sentences several times. All the while the beautiful girl was holding her laughter. At one point she laughed but tried to make it come off as a cough. I stopped half way through and let the sister finish my prayer.

  That should've been enough to scare me from getting baptized, but no. Like an idiot I still got baptized at 17, cause "everybody was doing it". I hope it was enough to scare that study away.
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  NewYork44M

  I was always embarrassed by those witnesses who insisted on making a public prayer at a restaurant. Or the sister who came to my place of employment and called me Brother.
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  exwhyzee

  There was this young guy ,16 or 17 who came to work where I did as a seasonal helper one summer. He was a pretty chunky kid and seemed a lilttle odd to me. My heart just about jumped out of my chest one day when I heard him talking about Jehovah and asking people about thier view of "world conditions" He was one of these Witnesses that you'd wish would keep his mouth shut because everytime he opened it, he undid all the good the rest of the Witnesses may have done. I took him aside later and told him I too was a Witness and that it would be best to keep quiet about God at work...people weren't taking his Witnessing too well.

  Out in the Mechanics shop there was a big bulletin board on the wall above a tall set of storage shelves. Pinned up on that bulletin board were a whole bunch of Porn centerfolds. A bunch of us from the office had to go out to the Mechanics shop for some reason and when we walked in the door, we saw this kid teetering high atop the shelves . He appeared to be taking one of the centerfolds down off the wall. Out of surprise, he jumped down from the shelves and in the process of doing so, a few of the centerfolds he had already taken down, fell out of his jacket. Some of the guys laughed and others were totally pissed off. The kid started appologizing and blubbering all the while looking at me while saying he shouldn't have given into Satan's temptation and he said he would ask Jehovah for forgiveness. People were looking at me as if to say "why is he saying this to you ?" They somehow hadn't made the JW connection between he and I thankfully didn't even know what he was going on about.

  Later when things had settled down, I told him to calm down...it wasn't that bad....just stop talking about religion and just do your job and hopefully the whole thing would blow over. It was too late, they let him go... he was just too odd and it was clear he wasn't going to work out.
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  Kudra

  Well- I wasn't present for this one but it fits the bill...

  This JW friend of mine was having trouble at his job- they were wanting him to work more than he wanted to (I *suppose* the work schedule was interfering with some assembly or service or something). So he was discussing things with his boss (he was ~30 at the time) and his boss wasn't budging on the time and ws not going to give into this JW guy's demands. So the conversation is getting more and more high-strung and finally my friend starts screeching, "This is just SATAN, SATAN, trying to keep me from serving Jehovah!!"

  I think the boss eventually was just like, "Whoah, ok dude, just take the time off."

  Seriously, W... T... F...

  I think another one of my friends may have been there to relate this "experience" back to me or perhaps the JW himself told us. I forget. But seriously, what a nut job.