Scooby Doo is EVIL ! ! ! ! !

by nicolaou 6 Replies latest jw experiences

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  nicolaou

  For the first time in nearly two years, we were invited out for a meal by a bunch of dubs from the cong'. The former PO, his wife and mother-in-law and a couple of single mums and their kids. Frankly I could've done without it - all the pretence etc. Still, some of the teens are a good laugh and I know my wife has really been missing the JW social life so I went.
  
  (I'd prefer to have been duck taped to the sofa and forced to listen to a continually looped tape of Kingdom Melodies but I love my wife and I'll still do anything for her.)

  So anyway, we're at the restaurant and I'm trying to make with the small talk while tactfully sidestepping any 'theocratic conversations'. The chat gets round to movies and I ask if anyone else enjoyed the Scooby Doo movie. I thought it was hilarious - honestly!!

  You could hear the grass growing. I expected to see tumbleweeds pass through the foyer.

  It was one of those Matrix moments when the whole tableaux freezes and you can take in every detail around you. The looks of surprise and disappointment. The ever so slight increase in the amount of 'personal space' I was now given. How was I to know?
  Yep, Scooby Doo is demonic. It's full of voodoo motifs and disembodied spirits. Other world monsters devour your souls and assume your identity and it's all run behind the scenes by the greatest Satan of them all . . . . . SCRAPPY DOO!

  The whole episode spanned about 4 or 5 seconds - a 'mature' sister steered the conversation round to something more suitable. I glanced across the table to my wife who was dying from a combination of embarrasment and heavily suppressed giggles. Don't think we're gonna be asked out again for another couple of years at least!

  Nic'
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  Brummie

  Scooby Doo is demonic

  Oh purleeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

  I thought it was great too!

  a 'mature' sister steered the conversation round to something more suitable

  suitable as in The photo drama of creation? Great bolckbuster film.

  Brummie
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  seedy3

  It is interesting that you should bring this subject up. My second oldest sister (11 years my senior) is still in the borg, and going strong. One year we made a move to the city she lived in and stayed with her for a little while until we found a place of our own. One day my kids were watching Scooby Doo, and she came in to me and third degreed me about how demonic that show was and how it should not be watched by true christians. Well, I asked her if she had actually ever watched the show to it's full, and she said "No" why would I watch a demonic show as that. That is when I made it clear to her that it is far from demonic, IN FACT, I said, they set out to prove that the spirits and gouls that are in the show are nothing more then people trying to fool the rest of the world/community, by posing as creatures/spirits. Well It's still was on the ban list in her house. Such closed minds they have. Hmmmm makes me wanna get all smurfy, LOL.

  Seedy
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  Beans

  Ah the old "Scooby Doo Trick" yes it is now up there with playing you Mickey Mouse records backwards and hearing Walt getting pagan and satanic smurfs!

  Beans
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  Utopian_Raindrops

  You know when I was a JW one thing I was PROUDof was we were suposed to be FREE From SUPERSTION.

  Instead there seems to be an UN-HEALTHY fear of anything that MIGHT be Demonic to the extreem!

  There was this family at our old hall that were always seeing demonic things they claimed.

  Once they said a clock they borrowed from worldly neighbors was dancing around thier house! Thier kids were afraid even if a bush swayed in a breeze! Thier youngest son would run screaming DEMONS!!!

  Odd thing is they are the most respected fam in that cong. Now that I look back it doesn't surprise me that the husband was the elder on my judicial commity.

  I actually feel sorry for them though and have even prayed for them sometimes.

  The wife has a chemical embalance and grew up in an abusive family...how can i resent them...you know.

  Back to subject......

  POKEMON is considered a real Demonic show by alot of JW's and then I read an article in a Schoolastic mag that said the creator got the idea for them because he used to collect bugs as a child!! and POKEMON just means Pocket Monsters.

  I had actually tried realy hard to avoid a harmless cartoon for years! I used to get so mad at Burger King cause they kept giving out POKEMON toys in thier kids meals. All the friends had told me to stay away from them and protect my kids.

  I felt so STUPID when I read the interview with the creator that I decided to investigate on my own and not take others advice on what my kids should see or not see.

  Besides some of the same people who gave me this advice about a simple cartoon let thier kids watch such ADULT movies made for older teens and grown ups.

  I think it comes down to you have to use your brain God gave you and not let OTHERS control you!

  Well bye bye 4 now

  agape,

  Utopian_Raindrops
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  TresHappy

  I absolutely loved Scooby Doo when I was growing up (still do and watch the reruns on Cartoon Network). I also loved the Brady Bunch (still do and watch the reruns on TV Land). I never thought Scooby Doo was demonic, just fun stuff. I guess I can't watch old TV shows and live vicariously my childhood. Now Scooby Doo's demonic, what's next...I suppose "Schoolhouse Rock" songs were written by Anton LaVey.