Do you have a demon, and can others have any in them? (page 3)

twinflame

I had a demon on my back for 22 years
I left it behind in the WTS

That reminded me of something that would be said on one of those 'priceless' commercials. Amen to that!

Rabbit

Funky D: Demons used to cause epileptic seizures, but they don't need to do that anymore since it was discovered they could be caused by a neurological impairment instead.

Silly boy...demons don't cause seizures, they have seizures !

See, my neurologist thinks it's me that has epilepsy, but, I know better...it's really my own personal demon I picked up at that garage sale. (The one at the x-dubs house where I bought that Playboy -- for the interesting articles)

Gawd...these doctors are like SO dumb...sheesh !

Rabbit

Forshary:
Don't demons cause cancer in laboratory rats?

Uh, everybody knows white rats cause cancer - in humans. duh !

daystar

I suggest you watch the movie "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. Based on the Salem Village witchcraft tirals, it does a good job of showing how "evidence" is gained for supernatural phenomenon. It's quite interesting.

Excellent! It was required viewing for us in high school.

JH

demons in us, controling us to a certain extent

I must have a demon in me, because I went to bed early, like 9pm, then got up for no reason around 11h30pm and started this thread and went back to bed again...

Hellrider

Ignorant, religious people can see a demon in the bottom of their coffe cup, or in someone they dislikes, face. My JW-mother saw Uri Geller bend spoons on TV, and was convinced he was the devil himself (really, as in Lucifer, Satan, Beelsebul). In hinesight, it`s hilariously funny. But back then, as a kid, it wasn`t that cool. Back in the 80s, the demon-paranoia was a big thing with many JWs. A "sister" -friend of my mother said her husband was posessed. He was a non-JW, and had been travelling the world, and had some African masks hanging in their house, and refused to throw them out, and the "sister" probably had a nervous breakdown because of them, because she once confided in my mother that she had experienced something demonic in her house: Some eggs had cracked while lying on the kitchen desk, and started frying by themselves, right there on the desk. They went on and on about that. It was probably just a hallusination in this insane "sisters" mind, though. Or maybe her husband playing a trick on his crasy wife, ha ha.

Anyway: I was still looking under my bed before I went to sleep, even into my early twenties. And I still get anxious/nervous whenever I have the house to myself for a night. I wonder how many JW-kids have been traumatised by this demon-crap.

searching4?

I CANNOT spend a night alone. When I was younger, I decided to try acid (stupid, I know) along with some other kids that had been raised in the truth and it was great fun for a few hours until one of the guys said to look out the window. At first we "saw" two people having sex on the park bench. They were moving in very fast motion, unhuman-like. Then one of them disappeared and the other started coming toward us. It was moving as though it were on roller blades or skates, but it was on a grass field. We were laughing and calling it over when one of the kids said it was a demon. That's when things got scary, really, really scary. Since we were all seeing the same thing, we thought it must be real. We ran into the bedroom(all 6 of us) and got out our bible.Of course no matter which page we turned to, the scripture was directly talking about us and the situation we were in. We all proclaimed that we would return to meetings immediately. I called my mom and told her what was happening (still high as hell) and that I wanted back in the truth. I was scared for two years after that, but not scared enough to go to even one meeting. I know now it was just a bad trip, but it seemed very, very real at the time. That was the freakiest shit to ever happen to me.

Michelle5480

I dont know, Im still kinda on the ledge about this one. I went through it once. I kept hearing voices and conversations but no one would be there when I'd look from where they were coming from . Ive also heard stories of other people feeling hands on them and being held down and it turned out that there was like Satanic shrine in the basement of the house and stuff. Tons of other stories similiar to have been told to me.

So I must say im not sure on this one.

Michelle

atypical

I can definitely say that I lived in morbid fear of demons as a kid because of all the stories I heard from my parents and others in the hall. I was scared even in the daytime, especially if I had to be alone. I was convinced that the demons would figure out I was so scared and decide to torment me. Even now, once in awhile that feeling returns, even though deep down I now think it is all rubbish.

Psychological trauma, anyone?

John Doe

Ignorant, religious people can see a demon in the bottom of their coffe cup, or in someone they dislikes, face.

While I don't believe in the supernatural, I think we should note that it's not merely ignorant people who believe in such things. If we look throughout human history, and even common cultures today, nearly everyone has believed in some form of witchcraft or the demonic. Beliefs are an interesting phenomenon. Lest we get arrogant and think we don't have such silly beliefs today, we are still a product of our society and belief things just as unreasonable as witchcraft. We just can't see it from the inside, or at least most of us can't.

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