This was posted by me in reply to a youtube video the title of which was the question below, namely:
What to say to a JW (or Mormon or any other missionary for that matter) at my door?
My reply, learned the hard way, is this:
"Not interested"
I could argue with them on doctrinal and logical grounds.
But why bother? They will not be persuaded by me and I will not be persuaded by them.
We would both have exhausted each other for nothing.
People do not believe anything on logical grounds, but for reasons of personal need. So rational refutation might attack the validity of the belief but not the motivation for it, thus the whole rational debate skirts around the issue. This also applies to intellectual types as well, though we who are so given to this mode of thought are in our vanity the last to see that we are as emotionally need driven as the common run of humanity
Besides this whole stereotyped approach -the how to reach a JW or Mormon or anyone else- is both arrogant and foolish, as if every person thought the same way!
I could argue with them on doctrinal and logical grounds.
But why bother? They will not be persuaded by me and I will not be persuaded by them.
We would both have exhausted each other for nothing.
People do not believe anything on logical grounds, but for reasons of personal need. So rational refutation might attack the validity of the belief but not the motivation for it, thus the whole rational debate skirts around the issue. This also applies to intellectual types as well, though we who are so given to this mode of thought are in our vanity the last to see that we are as emotionally need driven as the common run of humanity
Besides this whole stereotyped approach -the how to reach a JW or Mormon or anyone else- is both arrogant and foolish, as if every person thought the same way!
