Were You Fearful of The Demons? (page 2)

my fear of demons was introduced
to me as a child growing up in a
largely hispanic catholic community
where medals, scapulars, bleeding statues,
cuanderos, malo ojo and dias de los muertas
were threads of the tapestry of every day life....
and yes they scared the crap out of me!

i was well over it by the time i drank the kool-aid
and by that time i was pretty immune to the sell....
same with angels..... just cant get there

cantleave

As a kid I liked Led Zepplin, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and other Heavy Metal music, but always felt, fearful that I was letting the demons in. I bought Paranoid 3 times and kept throwing it out. My mother asked an elder to speak to me about my music and he said, that Satan was always going to have the best music, so he could draw as many away from Jehovah as possible. That explains why the Kingdom Maladies are so crap - can't wait for new song book, new super dooper songs to learn.

WuzLovesDubs

I am MORE afraid of the people who are AFRAID of demons! They are more likely to shoot you and ask questions later!

BLAM!!!!! Oh....my bad...thought you were a demon from that dresser I bought at the garage sale over the weekend.

Tired of the Hypocrisy

I was terrified of them. I used to wake up in the middle of the night with a feeling like I was out of breath and being smothered. I could not call out for help or even say the magic word, "Jehovah" to get the feeling off me. The elders came when I was out and had my folks tear down my posters.

It kept happening anyways.

Turns out I had sleep apnea.....

CPAP is stronger than Jehovah I suppose

HintOfLime

I remember my ex and I bought the game "Morrowind" 3 times in all.. We'd buy it, play it a ways, have a ton of fun, and then run into something 'demonic'.. and have to throw it away.

Then a few weeks later, the craving would set in, and we'd decide "Well, the game is huge, we'll just not go into any more tombs with ghosts in them". A few days later, we'd run into a Dwarvin ruin with vampires in it.. and throw it away.

Eventually we lost interest in JW crap, and just bought the game and enjoyed it. It's only 1's and 0's on an optical disk, creating a bunch of triangles/pixels to be rendered via your video card. Looking back, it was pretty stupid. If I downloaded the game online, do the demons follow the 1's and 0's through the internet, across routers, optic fibers, and telephone wires to your house?

Sheesh, the "spooky" places aren't even spooky when you realize the area is clumsily designed, and the 'demonic monsters' get hung up on doors and walls just like every other dumb AI in a game.

- Lime

NINfan05

I was terrified of them. I used to wake up in the middle of the night with a feeling like I was out of breath and being smothered

i had the same thing happen to me but i just turned out it was my anti-depressants giving me vivid nightmares...went away as soon as i forced myself off them...they did more harm than good.

WTWizard

The witlesses continually tried to make me afraid of the demons. Threatening me with possession, blaming demons for problems that it is now blatantly obvious that Jehovah Himself was causing (and so I could fulfill His nefarious purposes, at that), telling me to get rid of music that was any good--all to get me to be afraid of the Devil and the demons. And they had littera-trash that tells me that demons are waiting to attack people without provocation. Doing things for Jehovah (who was causing all the problems in the first place) was supposed to be the way to end the demon "attacks". Needless to say, since that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag had something to gain, He would quit for a short time, attack again, and then tell me that I needed to do even more.

These days, I realize that all the demons wanted was to have some fun. Satan wanted mankind to be free from Jehovah's tyranny, so we could have lived up to our full potential. Given the chance, Satan would have taught us how to solve our own problems permanently, and to prosper. That Almighty Pig didn't want that for us, so He punished Satan and made people afraid of him by slandering Satan. Looking back, I never had problems with Satan or the demons--which is a lot more than can be said about that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag Jehovah.

Gram

Still have nightmares where I am saying or dreaming in my sleep "Jehovah" "Jehovah" -- supposed to get rid of them immediately. Sometimes wake up in a cold sweat, trembling, and I am 62 years old! This is crazy. I am seeing a specialist about this. Is it guilt because I no longer go to meetings? Super head trip or brain washed, if you will.

cameo-d

How many demon threads have you started now, Minimus?

Minimus, I know this has affected your psyche since you were a very young child. You know now that it was done in ignorance and under manipulation and pressures from others. I hope you can someday forgive the injustice and let it go. I am sorry for the traumatic experiences you have had because of this nonsense teaching!

Besides don't you know that god himself sends the demons???

Spirits which cause mental disturbances are mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures. But they were not dispatched or controlled by Satan; they were sent by God to torment people:

Judges 9:23 "Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem..."

1 Kings 22:23 "...behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets..."

1 Samuel 18:10 "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul..."

1 Samuel 16:14 "But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him." (KJV)

1 Samuel 19:9 "And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul..."

Were You Fearful of The Demons?

minimus

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