Can the Demons infect a computer?

by Comatose 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Comatose

  No self respecting JW would doubt the demons ability to attach themselves to physical objects. For example if a JW put a poster on their wall of a pentagram or some other "satanic symbol" that's a "doorway" for the demunz. It's inviting them into your home. Your going to have one come sit on your chest making it impossible to breathe until you can yell Jehover and make it flee. Or your going to have doors open unexplained and things fall off countertops. But, the elders could come over and pray and you could throw out the bad picture and be okay.

  So I know some in here still are fundamental Christians. Here is the question.

  What about your computer? If you had looked at pentagrams and other devil stuff online then a copy is stored on your hard drive for a while. Can the demons enter through the copy on your hard drive? Or what if you saved the picture purposefully on your hard drive and made it your screen saver? Or does the fact that it involves digital and electronic technology keep them at bay?
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  Londo111

  According to some JWs, yes.

  I'd a computer fall prey to this particular demon named Vista...
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  GromitSK

  Yeah definitely - Microsoft is an anagram of Sata.
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  VM44

  US preacher finds demon-possessed PCs

  And they speak in tongues, too

  By Thomas C Greene, 10th March 2000

  Forget about viruses and malicious hackers; the real threat these days is far more insidious. Your home computer may be host to a demon, and you and your family may well come under its malevolent control, the Weekly World News reports. "While the Computer Age has ushered in many advances, it has also opened yet another door through which Lucifer and his minions can enter and corrupt men's souls," the paper quotes the Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, as saying. Demons are able to possess anything with a brain, from a chicken to a human being. And today's thinking machines have enough space on their hard drives to accommodate Satan or his pals, the paper reports. Disk capacity is an issue, however. Only a PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit, the minister explained. The Georgia clergyman says he became aware of the problem from counseling churchgoers. "I learned that many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers," he said. "Decent, happily married family men were drawn irresistibly to pornographic Web sites and forced to witness unspeakable abominations. "Housewives who had never expressed an impure thought were entering Internet chat rooms and found themselves spewing foul, debasing language they would never use normally," he declared. "One woman wept as she confessed to me, 'I feel when I'm on the computer as if someone else or something else just takes over.'" The minister said he probed one such case, actually logging onto the parishioner's computer himself. To his horror, an artificial-intelligence program started spontaneously. "The program began talking directly to me, openly mocked me," he recalls. "It typed out, 'Preacher, you are a weakling and your God is a damn liar.'" Then the device went haywire and started printing out what looked like gobbledygook. "I later had an expert in dead languages examine the text," the minister said. "It turned out to be a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!" The minister estimates that one in ten computers in America now hosts some type of evil spirit. The Reverend advises anyone suspecting that their computer is possessed to consult a clergyman, or, if the computer is still under warranty, to take it in for servicing. "Technicians can replace the hard drive and reinstall the software, getting rid of the wicked spirit permanently," he says.
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  VM44

  If the Weekly World News published the story, it has to be true!
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  bats in the belfry

  The experience sounds typical of an N ♦ S ♦ A spy program taking control.
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  sir82

  Technicians can replace the hard drive and reinstall the software, getting rid of the wicked spirit permanently

  Wait....these are demons, lords of chaos and mayhem, superhuman in strength and intellect, the essence of pure evil....

  And Billy Bob with his University of Phoenix Associate's degree can subjugate them as effectively as Jesus the mighty son of God could?

  Dayum!
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  Oubliette

  Uh, there would have to actually be demons for this to even be a possibility.
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  Comatose

  To a fundamentalist it makes sense that getting rid of the hard drive would rid it of demons. Demons supposedly attach to an object. So in this case the ones and zeros that make up the code of the picture on your hard drive would have to be removed I guess.

  Here is another question, if you accidentally stumbled onto Satanic images would you need to scrap your hard drive? Or does intent matter to demons?
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  Comatose

  This illustrates how dangerous the internets are! Even an accidental stumble onto a demonic image can infect your computer and home with demunz.