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Are the Demons Really Everywhere?

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our witness family was obsessed with demonism.. at a very early age, i was introduced to strange stories of demonism.

a brother in the congregation had brought home a souvenier doll from a tropical island as a gift for his daughter.

the daughter would talk about how the doll would come to life, but the stories were dismissed and attributed to the child's imagination.

Now I know that "Mac" stands for the MAC-inations of Satan!

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Are the Demons Really Everywhere?

by professor in

jw
friends

our witness family was obsessed with demonism.. at a very early age, i was introduced to strange stories of demonism.

a brother in the congregation had brought home a souvenier doll from a tropical island as a gift for his daughter.

the daughter would talk about how the doll would come to life, but the stories were dismissed and attributed to the child's imagination.

professor

I don't understand the Harry Potter thing. How is it different than the Wizard of Oz or any Disney movie with a fairy princess? It's just a fairy tale.

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Are the Demons Really Everywhere?

by professor in

jw
friends

our witness family was obsessed with demonism.. at a very early age, i was introduced to strange stories of demonism.

a brother in the congregation had brought home a souvenier doll from a tropical island as a gift for his daughter.

the daughter would talk about how the doll would come to life, but the stories were dismissed and attributed to the child's imagination.

professor

Too bad about the Yu-Gi-Oh cards, ivy, I work at a distribution center that carries them and they are a security item because they cost so much!

I can understand the mother's thinking. Something unusual and hard to figure out = demons!

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Are the Demons Really Everywhere?

by professor in

jw
friends

our witness family was obsessed with demonism.. at a very early age, i was introduced to strange stories of demonism.

a brother in the congregation had brought home a souvenier doll from a tropical island as a gift for his daughter.

the daughter would talk about how the doll would come to life, but the stories were dismissed and attributed to the child's imagination.

professor

Our Witness family was obsessed with demonism.

At a very early age, I was introduced to strange stories of demonism. A brother in the congregation had brought home a souvenier doll from a tropical island as a gift for his daughter. The daughter would talk about how the doll would come to life, but the stories were dismissed and attributed to the child's imagination. Then one day he heard a noise in her room and entered to find the doll climbing the wall! Another brother said that one day he cursed Satan out loud. From that day forward he had great misfortune in his life as punnishment until he called out the name of Jehovah to make it stop. It stopped!

My aunt quit smoking, and the demons would speak into her ear telling her to smoke. One night she awoke to cigarettes dancing around her head beckoning her to smoke them.

An elder told me a story about two young disturbed women that saw a horror movie. They got scared and called the elder, who came and picked them up from the theater. During that night as they prayed with them, strange things occurred. A locked car door kept swining open. A shoe picked itself off the floor and hit someone on the head. A strange figure appeared in the shower. The New World Translation of the Bible turned red hot and burned someone's hands.

Some objects that entered our home were considered to be demonized. We had inherited some of my great-grandmother's things and soon after that my mother would wake up in the night seeing "flashing lights". This was quickly attributed to the items from great-grandma and they were destroyed.

When I started to be interested in a young lady that my parents did not approve of, it was concluded by my elder father that she was demonized and was using demonic influence over me to control me.

An item I sent home as a gift after leaving the Witnesses was also, thought to be demonized.

I will admit, I was swept up by all of this talk, and when I had decided to leave, I would think at times that demons were controlling me.

That was 18 years ago. I've heard many similar stories. Is this still common in the Witnesses, does anyone know?

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