Morning Visitors

It has been a while since I've posted.  In the past month, I've house-sat for multiple homes, gone on a trip to Cape Cod, worked massage jobs, been a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding, and tended my garden.  Today, I woke up in a beautiful mansion, fed the 7 cats, sat down to a breakfast of tea and biscotti, and then answered the door to Matthias and Hezekiah or something like that.  Jehovah's Witnesses.

I have to say, this is the first time in my life I have actually talked to a Jehovah's Witness (not counting the one in Italy who thought I would still benefit from hearing his speech even though I hadn't yet gotten past a 4th grade understanding of the language).  Not that I have turned them away at the door, its just that my street is too dangerous to have witnesses walking around on it.  They've never come to our house.  Mom says it is because God keeps them away, but I like to think they are human too, and just don't want to die in a pedestrian-car accident.

Interestingly enough, Hezekiah didn't say anything I disagreed with.  I didn't fully understand the connection between the two topics he discussed but he opened with an explanation that evolution is being taught in schools (duh) and that creation is also being taught in schools (duh) and that it is a controversy (duh duh).  Do I have any opinion on that?  I replied no, I don't.  I didn't share the idea that I can accept- that the creation account in the Bible describes the big bang theory and the theory of evolution precisely as they would have happened and that neither account excludes the other from happening.

I didn't share those thoughts because in actuality, I don't care how we got here.  Arguing about the creation-evolution debate is like finding yourself at Six Flags, and instead of riding the rides, you stand around arguing with people about whether you came by car or by bus.  Six Flags was created so that you can ride rides; by standing around arguing, you are negating the entire purpose of the amusement park's existence, as well as your own purpose in being there.  The same is true for the debates about the end of the world.  In my opinion, it doesn't matter HOW we go, what matters is that someday we will leave the amusement park, and it would be a total waste to stand around and argue about how or when that time will be.  Why not just forget the argument and do what you came for?

But anyway, Hezekiah then jumped into an explanation that the kingdom of God is coming, and though I'm not sure quite what that has to do with evolution, I couldn't disagree.  The kingdom of God is coming, though no one knows the day or hour.  I suppose in some ways, though there are points in their belief system with which I disagree, I should definitely give them kudos for making the most of their time here.  There is no other church or religious creed that proselytizes to the extent that the Jehovah's Witnesses do.  At any rate, they were quite polite and well spoken, though I felt a little self-conscious standing at the front door of a mansion with neighbors I don't know, wearing my pjs with no bra on underneath, and Matthias a good-looking guy roughly my age.

On another note, for someone of a Protestant background, is it within my duty to try to convert them as they are trying to convert me?  If so, I failed at that part.  However, I accepted their polite behavior and returned it in kind, and hopefully we each represented our belief systems well to the other.