Is Goa experiencing some kind of a fundamentalist revival? Just sent away two Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) who came over unsolicited (on a Sunday evening, when I was all bleary-eyed after a long siesta), and are going round house-to-house "sharing the Good News". Despite repeated statements that I was not in the market for good news, they just wouldn't go, and I practically had to force them out.
Just a few days ago I had to send away two Believers who insisted on telling my wife about the Word of the Lord or some such and how it would save her from the hell-fire that surely awaited me otherwise. She called out to me to come and rescue her. Again it took some doing to get them to go away. All these people are most welcome to believe whatever they want, but must they insist on coming and telling us about it in gruesome detail, even after being told categorically that we are not interested? Reason I was wondering about a possible fundamentalist revival was because two in a week seemed excessive. Also, another pair had landed up a month ago. Prior to that, in a ten-year period we had had only three such pairs. Have they decided that the Apocalypse is round the corner, given that they're crawling out of the woodwork in such large numbers? But a quick survey of stuff on Jehovah's Witnesses shows that for them the Apocalypse has always been round the corner, so what's so different now, that's making them so active? I'm checking the climate charts, maybe things are going to hell even faster than we thought :-) -- Question everything -- Karl Marx