Got this latter in my mailbox today. I’ve been in Ireland for 6 years now and never received anything like that by mail.

I guess they have a list of addresses and spams these messages using the post service.

Anyway, should I just ignore?

29 comments

  2. Jehovahs. They started this craic during lockdown. Not 100% sure if they got some kind of legal finger wagging about it, but no – it’s not normal, and yes – ignore it.

  5. If I was cynical I’d say that you’re a Jehovah and instead of knocking on doors or writing 1 letter per house you’ve worked out it’s more efficient to falsely construct a post on Reddit that conveys the same message and even advertises your website.

  6. I got a handwritten letter from them but it was during lockdown, it was extremely predatory, making reference to being isolated and alone etc. It went in the bin. I was disgusted! I don’t think it’s normal, like not a regular occurrence, but they just have obviously written these letters and posted to hundreds of addresses. The fact it’s handwritten is a ploy to make it feel more personal I guess.

  11. Don’t know if I’d call it “normal” but I got a similar, hand-written letter like that a few months back.

    He reckoned Jehovah’s witness – binned it and I haven’t thought of it since!

  13. Nice writing. Door-to-door preaching seems to over for the JWs. I used to be one of them. If you’re ever tempted, don’t do it.

  15. I guess they post nowadays instead of calling to the door. That said, I had a Jehovah’s Witness call to the door last Saturday. I actually feel sorry for them. They seemed like a little lost lamb.

    The penmanship looks like a child’s writing. Maybe it’s something they have to do for their schooling? Anyway…bin!

  16. JW’s HAVE to spread the gospel in order to get into heaven. They used to go door to door but with the pandemic they are now using mail.

    I think it’s the weirdest thing that any religion does because JW’s also believe that only 77,000 people will be allowed into heaven. Like why the hell would you decrease your own odds by going out to recruit potential rivals?

  22. I mistakenly answered the door to some Jehovah’s Witnesses and now they won’t leave me alone.

    They seem like pretty nice people, but they just don’t seem to understand that I have no interest whatsoever in converting to Christianity

  23. Mate of mine gets them regularly enough. They put some effort into many of them, with hand drawn pictures and flowers etc but ultimately, entirely mental stuff.

    The ones that piss him off are the ones that are aimed directly at children to try to convince their parents to bring them to a fun day which is usually all about pushing the narrative.

  24. I used to have a doll that called to the house, nicknamed her Jehovah Fitness. I wasn’t buying what she was selling but damn she was some advertisement!

  25. I received a similar letter recently too, some jehovah witnesses based in Rathgar..I don’t live near there so found it weird they sent a letter out of the blue to my address.

  26. Never, ever respond to these people, even jokingly. Once they think they have an in with you they will hound you relentlessly. It’ll pass normal social barriers, you can tell them to stop, it won’t work. In their mind they are trying to save you from the worst possible fate, so it justifies whatever they need to do to get the job done.

  27. I’ve gotten a few of these from Jehovah’s witnesses myself. The lady next door is one, I eventually had to have a chat with her and tell her to stop. There seems to be a growing numbers of Jehovah’s lately

  28. I’ve told this story many times and I don’t think there’s any harm in me telling it again, it’s my experience with one Jehovah’s Witness congregation and why it convinced me that they are a nasty bunch

    When I was at university there was a guy who stood out because of his age. He was 55, so starting a computing science course at that age seemed a bit odd given that he wouldn’t have much working life left in which to exploit his qualification.

    Early on he let us know he was a Jehovah’s Witness but he didn’t really bother us about religion. That being said he would occasionally say stuff like he knew he was going to to Jehovah’s Kingdom because he believed in the truth. Even with that most people liked him and got on well with him.

    One day he pops out of class early and later on when we were in the Union bar chatting he mentions that he went to his son’s inquest. He seemed on usually happy for someone who been to such an event.

    Turns out a few years earlier he caught his son with a joint at the age of 13 and he threw him out on the street. His son fell in with some bad people, this lead to more severe drug abuse and he ended up dead in a homeless hostel at the age of 18 after a heroin overdose.

    Not only did this guy not have any regrets for doing this, he was actually quite proud and he genuinely believed that he did the right thing by throwing his son out because he wasn’t following “the truth”and therefore was a bad influence in his home.

    Reading the newspaper the next day, it was reported that the coroner pretty much ripped him a new one and told him that his son would still be alive if he had been a better parent. His wife a died a few years earlier so therefore his son was totally reliant on him. He reportedly told the coroner that he had nothing to feel guilty about because he was following the truth.

    Pretty much the entire local JW congregation was there to support him, they actually believed he had done the right thing.

    You read about crazy things these religious cults do, but you never actually expect to experience them first-hand.

Leave a Reply