JW Superstitions

TOTH

My folks joined the cult in 1968 if memory serves. I was about 5 or six when they began studying so I have heard many of the weird suppositions made and superstitions fostered by jw's. I read a post from a new member a moment ago and was intigued by something they said. They were afraid of joining this site for fear that Mister Satan would control their pc. This idea reminded me of something and I decided to share it.

While visiting my father in laws place in years past we would bring a laptop over and use a wireless connection to have Web Access. He was STRONGLY opposed. He feared that the devil would enter his home via our internet connection. WTF? He has tv's and radios in his house. Didn't the wt used to say that watching this or that would bring the devil in? LOL

Well, once we went next door to his brother's house. You know him...I call the drunken, abusive wife beater, COUNT DRUNKULA. Anyways, HE has a computer and said we could use it one time. So my son and I went over to check our emails. That drunk stood behind us the entire time we were on his computer. No doubt SECURING his home from Mister Satan's attempts to invade his theocrap-tic home.

I wonder how these people come up with this crap. If Jah is SO opposed to us using the EMF Spectrum WHY did he provide us with it? And if Satan CAN piggyback onto the EMFs can't Jah just set up a Theocratic Firewall to bounce his ass off of a jw's machine? LOL I can see it now....Angels are here to protect us and they guard our computers from random phishing and viral attacks by Satan. But if we go to apostate sites, look at porn, or do any kind of biblical research with our computers, Jehovah will consider this a misuse of his loving provision of EMF and will call back his angelic host and allow your computer...Indeed your HOME to be taken over by Mister Satan.

Smurfs, computers, tv, radio. Is there ANYTHING else that Satan uses to mislead us? LOL

ziddina

Ohhhh, man, you should have seen - heard - the great "demunzz" scare of the 1960's and 70's....

Man, the scary stories I heard!!! I should have written some of them down; they were great entertainment!!!

And a lot of people actually BELIEVED them....

TheOldHippie

Weird individuals are to be found everywhere. I would not make generalizations based on a few isolated strange utterances, though. When a community is seven million strong and there are perhaps as many "hangarounds" additionally, there are bound to be a "strange one" or two around.

ziddina

Hah!!!

I was about to say, check the older literature - the "Awake" magazines had a few doozies of "demunzz" stories, if I recall correctly....

Can't claim it's "a few isolated strange utterances" when the "demunzzzzz" scare is coming straight out of headquarters.....

mP

i heard satan loves fridges because they are cold unlike hell. get rid of fridges i tells ya!

WTWizard

And what about that playing "bad songs" can result in demon possession? I heard that rubbish. I also heard the rubbish that, if I wanted my house to be saved, I had to get rid of my music collection. Yes, from the same scumbag that wanted me to move into the apartment complex he was going to manage some 3 months later--and possibly hook me up with his 8 year old nephew.

I think I will stick with the bad songs.

truthseeker1969

That if sisters wear too short skirts all the brothers will see the promised land.

Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

I've always thought that if the demunz are real powerful spirit creatures who are out to get us:

Why would they live in a coffee cup I just bought at Goodwill?

Why do they bother terrorizing the fishing pole I got at the neighbors garage sale?

Don't they have anything better?

Wouldn’t a direct approach be more logical than living in inanimate objects waiting for some poor unsuspecting witless to stumble upon them?

You’d think after millennia of watching humans they’d be improving on what they do?

redvip2000

The people who are more susceptible to these type of superstitions, are the same people who will probably believe anything that the Org tells them. They are the ones without critical thinking, the blind believers.

Actually i remember my parents telling me that they knew some people who thought their house was possessed so to resolve this, they went through every object inside their house which was given to them by different people, and took all of the ones who seemed the most suspicious and burned them...lol..

Supposedly, that took care of it..lol.

The more i think about this issue the more i believe that there is certainly a correlation between how evolved someone is, and how prone one is to believing this type of nonsense. Just look what people believed in 150 years ago, and 300 years ago, and 1000 years ago. They believed in the most incredible things with very little critical thinking. The more evolved as a person you become, the more rational you are.

My dad still believes that you can't get a haircut after eating....lol..no matter how much i tell him that it's nonsense.

av8orntexas

When I was in my teens my mom REFUSED to buy Devils Food cake, devils food ham, deviled eggs,etc.

Not in her house.

Watching horror movies will invite demons into your house. Micheal Jackson songs will CERTAINLY invite demons into your house,lol

The ironic thing is they say they aren't superstitious, but they are the most superstitious people you could meet. Which I find quite funny.

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