• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    71·
    7 days ago

    Where’s the other one? I thought they always did missionary stuff in pairs. Unless this is a Jehovah’s Witness she personally knows, I guess; the text made it sound like she snagged one off the street.

    Edit: wait, I might be thinking of Mormons. Do JWs also do pairs?

    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
      721·
      7 days ago

      JW are also sent out in pairs. Much like the Mormons, it’s a way to make sure that they can spy on each other because if your partner falters or strays away, it’s also your fault.

      Sorry, I mean because of Luke 10:1.

      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        7 days ago

        There’s also the human response of feeling safer talking to strangers when you’re with a friend. It’s legit scary talking to someone you don’t know and likely about a topic they have already formed strong opinions about.

        • exu@feditown.comEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          Shouldn’t they come in threes to provide me my safety friend supporting my every argument when I answer the door alone?

      • Tuukka R@piefed.eeEnglish
        12·
        7 days ago

        if your partner falters or strays away, it’s also your fault.

        Haha, this reminds me of what happened to me when I was around 15 or 16-year-old :D I had just stumbled upon the pages of Union of Freethinkers of Finland (Link to Wikipedia) and had read most of their relatively long page of “Critique on bible”. Here’s that page on Archive.org. (These should translate very well if you copypaste them to DeepL )

        So, I had spent a couple of hourse reading about ways how the Bible contradicts itself. Then my doorbell rang. And I kept asking these “the Bible is supposed to be interpreted literally” people explanations for why the bible says that “X = 1” here and “X != 1” here, and “Y = 10” here and “Y = 50000” here. Eventually, I think it must have been at least 20 minutes, possibly closer to an hour - hard to say quarter a century afterwards - the chin of one of them started visibly shaking and he started looking really scared. And the other one was starting to look really bad as well. And they basically just abruptly stopped the conversation and without much of “bye!”, just turned out and got away from my door with quite some pace!

        I did not know to look for one of them being the “boss”, so I do not know what happened for sure, but now I’m figuring out it probably went so that the more experienced person of those two started to seriously lose their faith and initiated an escape maneuver.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
      7·
      6 days ago

      Mormons are the duos, JWs bring as many people from the Kingdom Hall as they can, normally a family or two together, maybe some assorted old people.