The witnesses knew I was thinking of moving to Norfolk. An elders daughter approached me and told me to be careful when buying a house as Norfolk is quite a common place for witchcraft. What on earth would being careful entail when buying a house? Perhaps you need to ask the owner if there are any demonic spirits living there. Even if the owner believed there were, I doubt he'd say yes.
Name Things JWs Try To "Demonize"
by minimus 83 Replies latest jw friends
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katiekitten
If I was a Demon, I'd find better things to do than attach myself to a Pyrex dish or fish-slice.
LMAO at Midwich! If only you had said that to me 15 years ago. It all seemed to have a certain kind of logic back then. I used to have nightmares about demonised objects that would get stuck to my hand and I couldnt get rid of them (usually a tape casette of Led Zeppelin).
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Arthur
Anything and everything can be demonized. All one has to do is slap the word "worldly" onto it; and presto! Instant No-No.
With the word "worldly", a C.O., or D.O. can demonize anything that doesn't suit his personal tastes. There is worldy dress, worldly grooming, worldly books, worldly magazines, worldly websites, worldly entertainment, worldly attitudes, worldly philosophies, and worldly thinking.
The word "worldly" is extremely powerful. It is one of those powerful thought-stopping cliches, that cult experts have written about.
The JWs use the word "worldly" in the same way that Senator Joe McCarthy used the word "Communist" back during the "Red Scare". It is a most powerful tool to shut off critical thinking skills and rationality.
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Moomin
I was told yoga was bad as you can get so relaxed that you were in a state where spirits can get to you!
I've heard that too. My mum wanted to go to yoga classes with me but I turned her down as I thought I'd be disobeying God. :(
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SirNose586
Stuff like anything from a charity shop or a car boot sale
Car boot? Could you clue me in on the limey lingo, please?
Yeahhhhhh....I can add a few more. Dragons on clothes, temples on clothes, Asian symbols on clothes, Bruce Lee on clothes. I have an overshirt that has Bruce Lee, a dragon, and some Chinese symbols on it. My parents think it's a main conduit for the devil!!!! LOL Of course I never bring it out in public; they just might make me burn it one day.
But my folks aren't the only ones who trip on this. There is a pioneer family in my hall who feel the same way about dragons on clothes. Because obviously, any clothes with dragons on them are a portal for Satan to come and destroy you.
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katiekitten
The word "worldly" is extremely powerful. It is one of those powerful thought-stopping cliches, that cult experts have written about.
That is so true Arthur, and its so powerful I still catch myself thinking in those terms sometimes. I have even (to my eternal shame) caught myself categorising ex dubs as 'more worldly' or 'less worldly'.
I was told that studying psychology at college was worldly, but it was too late I had already started the course and had no intention of giving it up. I just stopped mentioning it.
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blondie
Midwich, demonizing secondhand goods is a regional thing in the US. Heard of others in other areas but not here. It tended to be confined to one or 2 individuals who wanted to be "special" more holy than the rest of the congregation. I knew COs who shopped garage sales.
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apfergus
I played a bit of Dungeons & Dragons in high school, and my mother threw out my D&D books because she thought they were attracting demons to the house.
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katiekitten
Cat boot sale is like a garage sale, only you bring your 'garage' in the trunk of your car to a site usually on a Sunday morning, so theres loads of people there selling crap out of the back of their cars at the same time.
Im doing one this Sunday. I have loads of demonised stuff I need to offload. I cant cope with it floating round the house anymore (although levitation has its uses when you need to dust).
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MidwichCuckoo
Charity Shop = seen in every town. Shops which we donate unwanted items to which are sold and the proceeds go to that charity. In my town, there's an Oxfam, Help The Aged, NSPCC and a few more.
Car Boot Sale = Loads of people gather at 6am on Sunday mornings in a field (where they pay a farmer 5 quid to park their car), then they open their boot (the back bit of the car), take out a pasteboard and pile it with unwanted junk - hoping to sell it to people who have nothing better to do on a Sunday morning but wander round a muddy field rummaging through stuff that should have been binned a decade ago. Great British passtime.