irondork postulates:
You mean mom was lying to me when she told me about the time she took the teddy bear she got for me at a yard sale when I was a baby and had to throw it in the burn barrel out back because it kept trying to smother me at night. My mother finally figure out it was the bear because it kept staring RIGHT AT HER. She picked that bear up and it tried to maul her all the way out to the back yard where she burned it.
Silly JWs: anyone who knows ANYTHING about spiritualistic objects knows that the WORST thing you can do to an object that demons associate with (they cannot possess inanimate objects, BTW) is to BURN IT! That just makes the demon mad, and it'll just associate with another object or possess a near-by human (ie usually the one holding the matches). Since JWs have been doing it all wrong for decades and NOT becoming possessed, I think we can safely say that demons don't exist, but the fear of which offer an opportunity for control by OTHER non-demonic evil forces (and I'm not naming names, cough <Governing Body!> cough!)
ST conjectured:
Solomon...was your poster demonized? Is THAT why it caught fire during the book study....
Nope, it was one of those velvet black light posters.
Wait: on second thought, yeah, I guess it could've been demonized. That actually would make more sense: the demon committed suicide, as it got absolutely bored hanging around some 10 yr old's bedroom, trying to induce him to sin to win his immortal soul.... :)
PTN preached:
I said to her "You do realize that is an urban legend, don't you?"
She probably looked at you with eyes that screamed, "SHUT UP WITH ALL YOUR DAMNED RATIONALITY!!" Snopes is like the worst nightmare of a JW. :)