by Pahpa 34 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Welcome pahpa!
Gary Buss said:
Every meeting was a campfire ghost story.
That is so good! lol
Yes, the demons were everywhere. Though I do remember a CO once gave a talk about not becoming superstitious. He gave the example of how many of us drove used cars opposed to new ones (like him). He said that we have to put things in perspective. Just because something came from a "worldly" source didn't mean it was demonized.
Juni
A sister in the congregation received the sewing machine of one of our dead family members. She gave it back, saying it was demonized. We shrugged and took it back, thinking she was pretty much cracked.
Plugging the sewing machine in later, I quickly spotted the issue. The sewing machine had two plugs, one for the light on the machine (stayed on) and one for the foot pedal (which of course only got power when you depressed the foot pedal.) She had the plugs in the wrong sockets. When I plugged the machine into the wall, it immediately started sewing furiously at top speed. Man, oh man. Switched the plugs and all was well.
Sweet of her to think something from my family was demonized. Oh well, glad we got the machine back.
Oh my goodness. My good JW friend told me back when he was 10 or so that his train model was flying around in the air and they tried to burn it and it wouldnt burn! It only burned when they uttered the name "Jehovah". ROFL what a joke
Cheers
Matt
A lot of Witness urban legends were born from that. In time though, the Witnesses changed their thinking on demons. To basically erase all connections to the spirit realm being so manifested. In time, I actually started to forget that Witnesses actually at one time, thought you could see demons and angels.
Hell yes! I remember throwing out anything and everything that non-dubs ever gave me. I was so terrified that they would float themselves in from the trash can. It was emphasized constantly. Sure wish I had some of that stuff today. Would be worth a fortune.
DEEEMUNZ?
I remember it well.
It kicked off again in the mid-80s, after they had a magazine giving the experience of a Satanist who had become a JW and sufferend "demon trouble".
There was a big thing about Sinnead O'Connor, when it came out that she was a practising witch. I recall us all gathering around the fire as my brother burned one of her singles. We were spooked out when it burned all around her face, without burning the face itself, then erupted in a flash.
My dad was and elder and PO during the 70's. He gave quite a few 'out' talks and I would always want to go with him when he gave the talk: 'Deliver Us From the Wicked One.' It was about demon possessed people and objects and how important it was to know the history of each item in our homes. Got troubles? Immoral thoughts??
Must be dem ddemons.
-Aude.
Yes....(sigh) I recall all that flap too! I was baptized in 1972 and had studied for almost two years, so I heard all the stories and nonsense about "the dreaded demuns". They really went overboard with this stuff back then!
I knew of one sister who had to get rid of an old floor lamp that a nonJW relative had given her.....it was said that it brought these "dreaded demuns" into the house. We heard this type of stuff often......and I have never SEEN such a bunch of superstitious and seemingly "unprotected" from harm, worshipers than the JWs are!
They are afraid of their own shadows for Pete's sake!
Annie
I remember those days. My father still insists he once saw a demon in the corner of the bedroom just as he was waking up. I laugh at him whenever he brings it up now. I used to enjoy reading those WT demon stories -- they were far more entertaining than the rest of the articles.
