Smurfs - need information please

by AlphaOmega 18 years ago 11 Replies latest 18 years ago jw friends

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  AlphaOmega 18 years ago

  Hello all,

  I am after some information about the "Smurf ban" of the 1980s...

  Does anyone have anything in writing / scans or mp3s (even hinted at) ???

  Thanks all

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  AlphaOmega 18 years ago

  Oops,

  I'm not sure how this topic ended up in this category.

  I guess that it got a lot to do with me being a Newbie !!

  Smurfageddon ?

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  Mystla 18 years ago

  I don't remember anything in writing, I do remember an assembly where they mentioned "blue cartoon characters" that should be avoided

  Misty

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  SacrificialLoon 18 years ago

  I've seen this mentioned here before too, and I thought about posting the same thing. I was raised in "the truth", grew up in the 80's, and I watched the Smurfs almost every weekend. I never heard of them being bad before. I do remember He-Man being frowned upon though.

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  AlmostAtheist 18 years ago

  I can't recall ever seeing anything in writing. The Smurf thing seems to be more JW legend than anything else. The stories circulated (generally prefixed by "A circuit overseer said...") about a smurf toy that got up and walked out of a Kingdom Hall. Sometimes he said something profane, sometimes he said something that a demon would be expected to say. But the story in one form or another seems to have reached almost every JW at some point.

  Dave

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  crazyblondeb 18 years ago

  My stepdad, who was a MS, was told by the elder's during a meeting that the smurfs were demonized. That's when all the stories were going around. But I don't remember anything in writing. We were told we had to "follow the directions of the elders' at all times, no matter what the situation".

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  Leolaia 18 years ago

  I was an avid watcher of the Smurfs and never heard anthing anti-smurf in the cong or elsewhere...

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  fokyc 18 years ago

  Thread here from 2002, didn't seem to get anywhere then, no mention in Watchtower library

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/19896/1.ashx/Darn+Smurfs

  

  fokyc

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  LynnA 18 years ago

  I once heard two pioneers telling a sister she should toss out the box of Smurfberry Crunch cereal her kids liked because Smurfs are demonic. As if a breakfast cereal could possess her kids... what a lot of nonsense!

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  themonster123 18 years ago

  I'm too young to know about the smurf thing, but I do know that when I was a kid in the 90s, I wasn't allowed to have those troll things (kupees or so mething???) that were really popular...they were little plastic figurines with brightly colored hair coming out the top. I was always scared of those things cuz I thought they were demonized.

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