In reading another post it got me thinking, do any of you remember all the stories you'd hear about Demons showing themselves at studies trying to stop our "dear brothers only doing Jehovah's work"? I'd love to share mine right now but I don't type that fast and have to log in to work in like a minute I'll be back on my break to share mine, post any of your good folklore ones please I think we'll all get a good laugh out of it.
Demon stories...
by Tuesday 3 Replies latest jw friends
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maxwell
I heard the smurf stories and various stories about demonized objects JW had unwittingly picked up at yardsales or houses some had bought.
Then there was a talk by a circuit overseer just before I got out. It was an in depth talk about demons and their capabilities. They can't read your thoughts but they can hear what you're saying, etc, etc. He told one story about a family that was studying and that had all of this supposedly demonized material, books, objects, etc. Well they gathered up all of this stuff and put it on the kitchen table and started taunting the demons along the lines of "We're with Jehovah now. You can't do nothing to us, ha ha..." Well the demons came and started choking or hurting one of the children, and they had to call the elders and run out of the house. The CO's point was that you shouldn't taunt them as they are powerful beings.
Then there was another story a little closer to home a little after I left. Supposedly a sister in the congregation that I used to attend had a demonized town house. Other sisters told my wife this and she actually talked to the sister. The elders had been there to try to "exorcise" them, but unsuccessfully. I haven't seen her particular town house, but they are usually sharing a wall with other people's townhouse and I was wondering in a joking sort of way why her neighbor's town houses weren't demonized as well. Can the demons not pass through firewalls? I have to admit I used to believe a lot of this stuff including the CO's talk a few months before I left. But now it seems like the hallucinations of people who perhaps belong in a mental institution.
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Tuesday
So now that I'm on break I'm going to relate my demon story, now this didn't happen to me it supposedly happened to my mother. Eh, she seems to believe it so who am I to argue :) My mother accompanied another sister to a bible study. When they got there apparently both of them had an uneasy feeling as if not to go inside, well of course the lady invited them in. The story changes but she tells me now that I was there as well (I was all of 5 years old). She already had three glasses of orange juice poured out and one of them was in a small glass. She offered them to us and I declined, I had asthma when I was a child and the medication I was on caused me to have an ulcer, still to this day Orange juice gives me a wicked bad stomach ache. I went off and played in the woman's house. While my mother and the other sister were studying with the woman everytime they would go to get their bags which were at their feet they would be across the room. Now this didn't give them a red flag, they would just march across the room and grab their bags again to which they would put them down and sure enough they would go to get them and they'd be across the room again.
So that night my mom is sleeping and she wakes up to someone choking her, she can't see the person and it's strong. Somehow she gets the strength to mutter the word "Jehovah" and the choking ceases. A similar problem happened to the other sister except she was thrown from her bed.
Another story I heard was that a man was studying with a person when a Demon appeared as an apperation and told him Never to come back that this person was his and could not be turned. The man undeterred contimplated his situation for a week and decided the Jehovah was much more powerful than the demons and after all he came in the name of Jehovah, he went to the house again and was struck dead in the middle of the driveway.
Now the thing about the first story that makes me laugh is that I was in the other room in my house while the attack was going on, the demon didn't try to attack me, just my mother. Was it because of the orange juice or was it because the demon knew I'd leave of my own valition. Or maybe it was the swearing in school, Satan told him "Oh leave the kid be, he's a cool guy, he likes violence and swears like a trooper, he has a long day of denying he's a Jehovah's Witness in school tomorrow just let him get his beauty sleep. The Mother on the other hand has to go."
Just a little levity for the situation
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Mary
Well I don't have any to tell myself, but some friends of mine who left the Borg about 5 years ago have certainly had some strange goings on in their house. First thing that happened was her 10 year old son saw an old man floating above his bed one night and vanish into the wall. My friend just put it down to him having a bad dream but then other weird stuff started happening. She would feel something poke at her when she was alone in the room (or even alone in the house). One day she and her hubby and kids were watching TV and the phone that was sitting in the middle of a table out in the hallway, literally just flew off the damn table and landed several feet away. The table was in full view and there was nothing there that could have knocked it. Even so, my friends' husband just dismissed it all until one day a couple of months ago. He came home (he's a truck driver), walked in the back door and went "Hel-loooo.......I'm home!" He heard his daughter yell back from upstairs "Hi Dad!" Except when he went upstairs, no one was there. Two minutes later the phone rang. It was his daughter needing a ride home from work.
I don't know if it's demons or ghosts, but there is certainly something strange going on there..............