*Fluff Alert!*

by mrsjones5 31 Replies latest jw friends

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  Eyebrow2

  I love my windchime...I just bought one last year at the Demon Depot....oh, actually it was Lowe's Demon Warehouse.

  Anyway...I am happy to report that at least 23 evil spirits have been stopped at my back patio. I did think 2 got through one afternoon...but it turned out it was just my 3 and 5 year old coming in from playing outside. They are little devils, to be sure, but not really evil spirits.

  I had a paperoute a few times when I was in college or in between jobs. I really liked being out a dawn. You got to see a lot of neat things in nature you wouldn't usually. And, people in their pjs outside that you wouldn't usually.

  I often would use this time to listen to the Watchtower & Awake! mags on cassette.

  (try not to barf hahah)
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  luna2

  That is awesome...and I'll bet it would look slightly demonic out there in your yard glowing in the dark. I wonder if it would act as a dub repellant.
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  daystar

  Gazing balls = crystal balls, such as used in divination. Gazing balls for divination just happen to usually be made of cystal, hence the common phrase shortened to "crystal ball". But the actual name for them is Gazing Ball.

  It's become somewhat of a fad to place a gazing ball in your garden. But if you are opposed to spiritism, paganism, divination, magick, etc., you might want to consider what you are doing.

  I love them myself.
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  I quit!

  When I read things like this it is hard for me to believe that I was ever a part of a religion that would waste its time printing articles on whether it was appropriate to own windchimes.

  When I was a jw I remember visiting a friend from a congregation I used to attend. He informed me that a "sister" I knew at that congregation had left the Watchtower over an article that said it was wrong to wear hearts because they were pagan. I guess she said that was the last straw and left. She had been a witness for years. Crap like this puts a lot of witness in a position where they either leave or stay and become emotionally disturbed. I think hearts are now a matter of conscience. They had better because I have bought my wife several piece of heart jewelry and she wears them.

  When you think about it doesn't it sound crazy to be discussing owning hearts or windchimes, or gazing balls as a matter of conscience?
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  Eyebrow2

  I have the urged to get a bunch of glazing balls now...and a smurf chime
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  m. kirov

  I like the wooden chimes (if you can call them chimes), but the sound of the metal "ting, bing" drives me nuts!

  But what about those PESKY DEMONS?!?! Do what I did! I hired a midget to dress up like a monster and stand on my porch shouting "JEHOVAH, JEHOVAH, JEHOVAH". As I've had no problems with demons, it appears to be working.
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  daystar

  I hired a midget to dress up like a monster and stand on my porch shouting "JEHOVAH, JEHOVAH, JEHOVAH". As I've had no problems with demons, it appears to be working.

  How very David Lynch. I like!
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  Legolas

  
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  daystar

  *wink* legs
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  undercover

  a "sister" I knew at that congregation had left the Watchtower over an article that said it was wrong to wear hearts because they were pagan.

  Never heard that about "heart" jewelry but I did hear it about "charm" bracelets. I remember my sister wasn't allowed to get a charm bracelet because of either pagan or demonic influence somehow.

  When I was a kid, wind chimes were verboten. I think I posted this once before but a family member(non-JW) was quite upset when we refused a gift of chimes. It caused quite the ruckus in our family. That was before the article in 1981, but then, in 1981, it was different, we could have taken them. Go figure.