Just curious if JW urban legends are the same all over the world...? I remember growing up in Canada, there's two that really stand out in my mind. 1) the smurfs walking out of the KH. this one seems to have traveled all over! for those of you that are unfamiliar with it, it goes something like, there were these smurf stuffed dolls that were in the KH, i think they were there b/c they were left in the lost and found or something. anyway, one night they walked out of the hall b/c smurfs are demonized!!! oooooooo....ahhhhhhh :-p and for those that don't know what a 'smurf' is www.smurf.com 2) the UL of a school bus driver, who was picking up kids from a catholic school (of course). one day the kids boarded his bus and wanted to show the bus driver what the the nuns and taught them that day. the kids proceeded to levitate!! well, the bus driver being the good jw he was, simply had to udder the words "oh, jehovah jehovah" and the kids dropped right to the ground and could never float again. i take it the moral being that demons are even afraid of hearing god's name aloud. those are the first two the come to mind for me....anybody, please feel free to correct/add to the either of these UL i'd love to hear some more!!
JW Urban Legends...
by ThisGuy04 35 Replies latest jw friends
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RunningMan
They must have confused Catholic school with Hogwarts.
Along that line of thinking, the other day my wife and daughter got into the subject of religion with one of my daughter's friends while travelling to a school function. The other girl wasn't sure what religion she was. She claimed that her father was Catholic, but her mother was Publican (because she went to public school).
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Redneckgurl
They must have confused Catholic school with Hogwarts.
OMG, that is so funny!!!! rotflmao!
I have heard so many that I can't hardly remember anything specifically, but there are always the older people who have the stories about the demons, with things floating around the room, or people acting crazy and the elders praying for them, or going through their house to find anything that could be connected to demons. My husband said that in his congregation, they didn't go to garage sales because anything they bought could have a demon in it. But he told me a lot of stories that have been passed around since his childhood and they are very similar to the things I have heard, but with some differences. It's pretty funny though, since I started learning about mental illness, I wonder how many of those poor people that were accused of having demons were actually very sick people? How sad, hah?
Oh yeah, the Smurfs......lol......was that just a JW thing though? I remember looking at my cute little smurf figurines, waiting for them to start talking to me, they never did........I gave them to my own kids!
Krissy
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prophecor
Something about a building that was about to fall on a Kingdom Hall after an earthquake or something to that effect.
This building that loomed over the KH was alledged to have remained suspended in mid air until it was that all members, at least those in good standing, were able to get out and once they did, the building fell on the Kingdom Hall. Kinda' Scary EHHHH???
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BrendaCloutier
I wonder how many of those poor people that were accused of having demons were actually very sick people?
My dad, when he was still an elder (he's now very elderly and I don't think he's an active elder anymore) told me that there was one sister that used to come up to him after the meetings and tell him that the angels really like him, and stuff like that. He and everyone else thought she was demonized. Well, her worldly family took her to a doctor, where she was diagnosed schizophrenic. She was given medication and the "angels" went away. It gave my dad some food for thought that supposedly demonized people just might have an illness. (I suggested he remember it wasn't that long ago epileptics were thought to be demonized.)
I wonder if she missed the angels?
Peace
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Elsewhere
i take it the moral being that demons are even afraid of hearing god's name aloud.
No, they are afraid of the South Park bus driver, Mrs. Crabtree.
http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/sounds/207/207_bequiet.wav
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Mulan
No one is telling the Avon Lady Story.
I don't have time.................cooking dinner. I'll let someone else do this story.
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MungoBaobab
Some Witness youths defied the
Watchtower'sBible's counsel and went to a KISS concert, which, everyone knows, of course, stands for Knights in Satan's Service. Well, the band, in full regalia, bursts onto the stage to the frenzied excitement (which is idolatry) of the croud.And none of the equipment works.
So Gene Simmons says to the audience (I guess they must have quieted down quite a bit, since NONE OF THE EQUIPMENT IS WORKING), "There must be some Jehovah's Witnesses in the audience!"
Busted.
And so, the Witness youths have learned their lesson and leave the evil Satanic concert, and sure enough, the concert proceeds as planned. And of course the story is true, it comes straight "from platform" at the Janesville Assembly Hall!
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Amazing1914
I have heard of demonized Smurfs ... but levitating Catholic school children is a new one. I wish I had gone to that school! The only thing I got from Catholic school was an excellent education.
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Narkissos
I recently mentioned a typical French one (apparently unknown of anywhere else):