Jun 05 2009
Conversion
On Saturday morning, Brother-In-Law was changing my car’s oil in the driveway. My sister and I heard him talking outside and wondered if he was talking to himself. Peeking out the window, we saw it was a Jehovah’s Witness or two (they seem to travel in pairs or packs, possibly for protective reasons). We were both amazed.
These folks went to an obscure town with a population of 400 people (even locals consider Albion to be isolated), then drove miles and miles down a country road, then down a narrow, rutted dirt road, then walked down an offshoot of the dirt road to find my sister’s house.
Those are some determined would-be converters, my friend.
I have to wonder what their success rate is, if any, in a place populated mostly by people seeking an off the grid, unconventional lifestyle. My guess is that other than atheists and agnostics, most people practice some kind of paganism or nature worship. Albion doesn’t even have a church (or a bar, for that matter – in Oakland, storefront churches and liquor stores seem to go hand in hand). So I can’t believe that any of its non-conformist residents are going to say, “That sounds good! Count me in!”
Two days after I got home, I was visited by my very own pair of JWs. Oddly, it was Monday morning, and you’d think most people would be at work instead of hanging around the living room watching Jerry Springer and waiting to be converted. Again, it wouldn’t seem to be fertile ground for conversion to the cause. I saw them coming down the street and closed the blinds, thankful for once that my doorbell doesn’t work. I did a pretty convincing imitation of not being home, if I say so myself (though the car was in the driveway).
What are the odds of being visited twice in two days, in places so far apart?
Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket.
One Response to “Conversion”
These people are very determined in their cause to save the world and everybody around them. I usually like to meet them and catch them in their game. One day I was confronted by two of them, they usually come in pairs anyways. They were trying to convince me in every way possible but I caught them in their own game. There were a few questions I got them with, but the main one that made them turn around is the following. They are waiting for the end of the world and we must repent and join their sect to be saved, but there’s one thing in particular that they could not answer me. According to their master, 144,000 will be saved, then I asked how many of you are there, in the millions they were so proud to tell me, then what happens to the rest of you if only 144,000 are to be saved, with my luck, I would not be in the number anyways, so I will remain a spiritualist, I can bring that with me when I die.