CONJURING at the Watchtower (Old Dogs with their New Tricks) (page 2)

blondie

As a jw I could do a card trick that made it appear that I was pushing the cares through the table....one jw thought it was demonism even though I showed it in slow motion...still, the other jws could see it, but in his mind I was in league with Satan. But it did show me how easy it was to manipulate certain suggestible people.

dgp

Marked.

Slayerbard

HAHAHA I always did slight of hand tricks. Once I was out in door to door, and actually got into a really good discussion with someone. I was trying to prove some lame point about how satan can trick us and blind us to what is really happening. I saw they had a can of soda in a in a cooler. So I did the quater through soda can trick. Well I sold my point..and my door to door partner about had a stroke. It went as far as to meet with an elder..adn SHOW HIM THE TRICK..UGH then got a lecture that we don't do magic. I EXPLAINED that the proper term is Illusionist these days. Hence it's an ILLUSION AKA not real. The whole thing is REALLY funny now, but I remember being REALLY ticked at the time.

designs

WHAT! you mean the Miracle Frosty Flakes aren't aren't ooooono

Scully

I'm reminded of someone who only began studying with the JWs to prove them wrong. This individual, who never went to church and was a nominal christian at best, believed he was going to out-smart the trickster JW Pioneer™ who had decades of manipulative training in the art of religious deception and double talk under his belt. He was wrong. Not only did he not out-smart the JW, he dragged his whole family into the JW mire along with him.

Broken Promises

No comments?

Hmm, it’s possible you didn’t receive as many comments as soon as you wanted because your post rambles and is written in such a way that discerning readers would wonder if you were trying to convince us of something that wasn’t true (we’ve learnt since leaving the JWs not to believe everything we read).

Take into account many of us are of the Sesame Street generation – we like things to be presented to us in small, direct packages.

Frankly, I’m not really sure what the real point of your post was. If you want to write it again more succinctly, perhaps you’d get more replies.

Terry

I can remember showing an active JW how spoon-bending is actually accomplished (you bend it back and forth until it heats up in the center and stop just short of it coming apart. It is now prepared. After you show the spoon is "intact" you rub the center (where it had been bent repeatedly) and apply just enough pressure......and it.....bends!

Well, my friend, (the Elder!) was horrified as I demonstrated the bending!!

He couldn't wait to get out of the room!!

I kid you not.

I explained it was A TRICK and not actual magic (as though there could be "actual" magic!).

He only repeated over and over: "You don't know that....you can't know that for sure!"

Superstitious idiot! I guess Satan was doing the bending!

Mad Sweeney

Speaking of being like children, Jesus said at Matthew 19:14 that the Kingdom belongs to those who are like children. Perhaps one has to be able to see through the magic trick before one can truly follow The Way.

Tao te Ching, Chapter 55: He who is in harmony with The Way is like a newborn child...

CONJURING at the Watchtower (Old Dogs with their New Tricks)

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