courtnek Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 there is an uncontrollable BARKFEST GOING ON HERE!! I CANT even THINK with all the damn neighbrohood dogs barking, growling and baying... The JW are here, going door to door, and the dogs are freaking out! every dog in the neighborhood is up in arms!! Including my Foxhound, who's bay is just annoying enough to be painful... ggrrrrrrr.... :o :o :o :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mutts4Me Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 [quote name='courtnek']every dog in the neighborhood is up in arms!! Including my Foxhound, who's bay is just annoying enough to be painful... [/quote] Sorry :( I've always said I could never have anything that bays. After living next door to beagles (in varying numbers), it drives me crazy. I can't imagine being in the house with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Well you know what they say about dogs being good judges of character... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtnek Posted February 23, 2004 Author Share Posted February 23, 2004 LOL@Guest!! yea, they dont like people wandering around in the neighborhood.... and Amber, yes, I agree. We have Beagle neighbors as well... the bay is loud, and ear-splitting...good for protection..NOT GOOD when the JW's are around.... It's WORSE when the Foxhound is baying and the Lab mix is barking... aarrgghhh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peng1zrule Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 wow, is all I can say...did you never think Jehovah's Witnesses go online? I say this because I am one. The jokes about dogs being good judges of character crossed the line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crested Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 [quote name='K']But Peng that WAS a "Guest" not us..... :( ...sorry if you were offended...[/quote] I agree with K. It was a guest and not one of us... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtnek Posted February 25, 2004 Author Share Posted February 25, 2004 I apologize. I was not trying to be offensive, I was just irritated. I have nothing against the JW except that my neighborhood has a dog in practically every house, and they all go ballistic when people go door-to-door. The noise was the issue, not the JW themselves... :oops: :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bk_blue Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I don't like people who try to preach at me- unfortunately this applies to every single JW that has come to my door. :-? I don't care if one is religious- that's fine- but I *do* care if it's shoved down my throat (and I can't think of any other religion than the JWs who doorknock). Appreciate that we are all different and that's what makes us all special, including the right to decide ourselves if we're religious or not. I don't think guest being a "guest" and not "one of us" has anything to do with it either ie. of one of "us" had said it, it would still be offensive to some. However, IMO political correctness has gone too far; it will one day get to the stage where we'll have to seal our lips up to avoid offending anyone :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I agree with bk 100% on this one. I find it incredibly annoying when my doorbell rings and its someone trying to push their beliefs on me!! Its great you have your beliefs but please leave me to my own. (this is not being said to you, peng1, just to anyone in general trying to push their beliefs on me!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crested Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I'm with bk and hmmm on this one! It's fantastic that somebody believes strongly about somthing, but it's not nessecary to try and push their beliefs to somebody else. I'm in the Lutheric church myself and even if I don't go to the church that ofter or pray every night, I still believe. I don't need anybody else pushing their beliefs on me. I have my own, they have theirs and it's fine just like that. :) And this is not directed to you peng1 in any way or the Jehovah's witnesses. I mean religions and beliefs in general. Not a specific religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtnek Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 I agree. My beliefs are my own, however, I want you Peng to understand that my irritation was not with the JW's themselves...they have the same right to believe what they want...but with the noise that their door-to-door visits cause in a neighborhood like this. I only object to the few that will not take "sorry I'm not interested" as a reply and insist on talking over me. So as I said, if I unintentionally insulted you, I apologize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I think that is great that they have beliefs and do like the bible says and go to the masses but there are limits. I am never rude to them, mind you, but i do let them know in no unceratin terms that i have a religion of my own, that i believe very solidly in.... and for them to come and push thier faith on me is equally wrong. one day i was out walking Daz and dotchie(a little pit bull/ boxer mix) and was approached by two JW. Dotchie was barking up a storm and very aggitated which in turn gets daz going, I am correcting and pulling the dogs away as he is continuing at me to give me one of those damn fliers... It made me so mad. Its like you see my dogs are not happy... with you, as they are barking and growling at you, yet you continue to approach them... '"No, stop, dont come over here, stay back." I felt bad for having to snap at him but its like "dude, what do you think is going to happen if you come walking over here?" sorry about the rant but when i sa the subjest it brought it back to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsefeathers! Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I hate door to door peddlers of any kind. My husband and I actually had to move once to get rid of some religious zealots. We had ordered one of those "free" Mormon book of something or other and they NEVER left us alone after that. No amount of begging, pleading, cajoling, threatening got rid of them. They came at all hours wanting to talk about that freaking book. We actually moved and changed our phone number to get away from them. It's not to pick on religion, though I find that especially reprehensible. Religion is such a private issue and to have someone come to my home to discuss it with me... I'd just as soon have someone show up at my door to ask about my feminine hygiene routine so they can tell me how I'm doing it wrong. It's that personal to me. Still, I'm just as annoyed at the people who, at the start of the school year, let their children virtually assault me with pleads to buy candy, candles, calendars and all kinds of other crap to support school programs (which usually gets me started on a rant about my taxes supporting schools, though I have no children to utilize those "services"... that's all you're getting from me, now shoo!). I find that as annoying as religious peddlers, door to door salespeople and, heck, telemarketers. Anything that involves someone coming to or calling my home to "present" something to me is invasive and unwelcome and, after the problem we had with the Mormons, I don't use niceties to get rid of them. I blatantly tell them I am NOT interested and that does NOT mean I'll want to hear about it later, so do NOT come back later. Around here, the Southern Baptists and Methodists are just as bad. Whenever they get on a kick to drum up membership, they resort to canvasing neighborhoods and handing out literature and wanting to just "chat." Maybe I'm just not a people person. :o I can't wait until I live sooooooooo far out in the boonies, they can't find me. :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendalyn Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 [quote]We actually moved and changed our phone number to get away from them. [/quote] wow :o [quote]I'd just as soon have someone show up at my door to ask about my feminine hygiene routine so they can tell me how I'm doing it wrong[/quote] :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsgalore Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Our church(Baptist) goes door to door but if the person says they are not interested we respect that and just leave them with a tract if they want it. After all, if a person isn't interested what is the point of staying and talking right? It's just wasted talk after that as far as I'm concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_Debbie Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I can agree that I don't like door to door solicitors either...... we never use our front door, everyone that knows us comes to our back door. So , when the front doorbell rings, I peek out the window and if I don't know them, I don't answer the door !! Simple as that. :P My SIL is a Jehovahs Witness and it's wonderful for her, she never tries to jam it down our throats. I have 2 brothers however that are Southern Baptists and they have no qualms about telling you , you won't go to heaven if you're not one of them.... :-? :roll: My statement to them is I live my life in a good manner and I'm kind to other people and animals. I believe in God, and I don't have to go to church to do it. :wink: I also say this to them..... :agrue: And what makes YOUR religion the RIGHT and ONLY religion ?? How about the Muslims, Catholics, Buddists, ect..ect...ect....???? I'm sure they all think they're religion is the best too !! Sometimes (like my brothers), religious fanatics are the biggest HYPOCRITS !! :evil: Everyone should be free to believe what they want to believe without any guff from anyone else. That's what this country was founded on. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 We get them so bad here in this military city I live in. My husband has an injury from being a paratrooper. His parachute didn't open all the way and he came down on his head...giving him a brain injury which we've been dealing with for 8 months. Everytime the door bell rings or someone knocks on the door and the dogs go crazy he about loses it. I put a note on our front door....so they actually all the sudden started going to the side door and then they'd say that they didn't see the note on the front door when I said something about it :roll: I ended up putting notes on both doors that if they were selling or promoting ANYTHING at all that because of the abuse and lack of respect we've taken in with this problem being around here we didn't want anything and weren't interested. Every once and awhile one will still be ballsy enough to knock or something but for the most part we don't get too many visitors anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bk_blue Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 KP- how sad that you actually have to resort to sticking notes on your door to keep people away. Why can't people just get the message... piss off... :roll: :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtnek Posted February 29, 2004 Author Share Posted February 29, 2004 I HAD signs on the front door that said "no soliciting", "no peddlers" etc... I was told by the Town that I needed PERMITS to display them.....The only sign I could display was "Beware of Dog", and it had to be on the front door and on the fence, wherever the dogs could be seen or heard.... however, I took those down because of all the trouble people have had with that particular sign if their dogs seemed mean in any way...not taking the chance on that one...when I asked why I could not display no solicitor signs, they said the solicitors have the right to try to sell their wares..and I didnt have to answer the door, etc...except you cant get to my back door unless you come through a locked fence, so basically, you cant get there at all.... This is a very religious cultured community, we have 4 or 5 different types of churches in this one neighborhood...I dont know if they complained about the no soliciting signs or not.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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