> I can't engage JWs on a philosophical level, I get way to pissed off....

I think the reason i'm compelled to engage them is that i feel i owe a debt to a guy we called on at an indian reservation when i was young. when my dad was talking to him about paradise, the guy, who came out shirtless and lit a cigarette, said that he had been called on before and that he had chosen death, because it sounded peaceful. It was such a small thing, but it was so foreign to the way i had been taught to think that it stuck with me and ultimately got me thinking in another direction. I feel like i owe it to the people calling on me to at least try to inject some kind of subversive ideas into the conversation. I get especially emboldened if theres a young kid with them.

Thats probably just the evangelical part of me leftover from my upbringing. I think, "Maybe god sent these witnesses to ME for a reason..." ;D

Travis and I both, still have dreams about being a witness, and usually we dream about being at a convention. Weird.