you can ask them to put you on the ‘do not call’ list. they mark your house with a hilighter (they have territories of neighbourhoods/houses) and you should be fine. you may have to be pretty firm about it though. not hostile, but firm. most people say no thanks im not interested and they look at that as ‘maybe they’ll change their mind tomorrow, let’s try again another day because we have to liberate them’
i have no long-term friends as a result bc you were only allowed to associate with other JWs and so when i left you’re essentially ostracized and deemed ‘worldy’ and i wasn’t allowed to hangout with kids from school so my ability to maintain any kind of social relationship past superficial interaction is weak as shit. not to mention i’ve never worn a costume in my life and my dad started up xmas and bdays again when i was like 16 which was Real weird to have. it destroyed my parents’ marriage and my whole family life having one parent part of such an extreme all-in kind of religion and one not.
god bless the internet and video games and online lives.
edit: that costume part was weird idk why i threw that in there as extremely relevant, but im sure most of y’all went out for halloween. maybe it wasn’t dope. idfk, i dont see the enjoyment of the concept