Bad things in JWs eyes

by rebel 10 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • rebel
    rebel

    Joy2bfree's post on cults got me thinking.

    Was anyone else told that certain harmless things (harmless in my eyes) were satanic.

    I know you have all mentioned smurfs, but I was also told that the 'My Little Pony' toys were demonic because they were designed by a wizard????? Did I really believe this rubbish - my daughter always wanted one but I wouldn't buy one for her cos I thought I would be inviting demons into my house - I feel really rotten now!

    Also wind chimes (which I always wanted cos I love the sound), anything written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (and I love Sherlock Holmes and felt so deprived), The Beatles, John Denver - can't think of any more at the moment but there were quite a few. It may not have been a society thing - it was just that I was warned about these things by individuals who were more 'experienced' and more 'spiritual' than I was.

  • RandomTask
    RandomTask

    Anything anyone felt like demonizing

  • Aztec
    Aztec

    I wasn't allowed to watch Scooby Doo!

    ~Aztec

  • Robdar
    Robdar

    JW's are so busy looking for demons. I think that they get off on denying themselves pleasure so that they look more pious to the congregation and to Jehovah.

    But, I have to ask, if you are always seeing Satan the Devil or demons in simple pleasures, who are you really serving? We find what we seek, after all. And if a person is always seeking or finding the devil, when do they have time to search for and find Jehovah?

    Robyn

  • Matty
    Matty

    I wasn't allowed to read the Thomas the Tank Engine books because they were written by a vicar - Reverend Wilbert Awdry. I guess my parents were scared that he might have sneaked some Anglican propaganda somewhere in there! "Thomas was a very naughty engine because he didn't believe in the Trinity, so the Fat Controller but him in the siding to repent" I don't think so!

  • Englishman
    Englishman

    Walls ice cream contained blood. So did meringues. Mini skirts made sisters legs fat. Doctor Who was Satanic.

    Englishman.

  • heathen
    heathen

    How about sports cars , T- shirts ,blue jeans ,masturbation, the internet, rock music rated r movies . pornography, people that don't agree with them, sports ,vacations that don't include attending an assembly ,coffe , ciggarettes , alchohol young men and women who want to get married over being a pioneer, holidays well there are a few

  • DevonMcBride
    DevonMcBride

    If you ask the JW's in a Kingdom Hall near me they will tell you I'm demonized. I only went to one meeting with a friend, just to see what all the hoopla is and they treated me like I was Satan himself.

    They knew I had been asking my friend too many questions prior to attending this meeting so there was no love bombing, just bleak stares.

    Edited by - devonmcbride on 15 December 2002 17:24:3

  • Utopian_Raindrops
    Utopian_Raindrops

    [email protected] are the 1st to not be loved BOMBED!! My childrens father had to RUN RUN RUN out of KH this morning as the LOVE BOMBING began!! hehehehehehe I realy think he diserves all the POSITIVE attention as he is a negative person

    But in all honesty at another hall we were attending when he and I were married he himself was considered Demonic by one of the brothers studying with him as he told the brother he felt christians had to be kind and loving to homosexual people!! He made it clear he did not suport homosexual activity...hehe.......but that he felt no matter what a person was doing all christians were to be loving and good neighbors to them. This came out years later in the liturature but at this time it caused this brother to start yelling in our house about **FOTS** and how we're to hate them. Funny thing...don't remember Jesus teaching To "Hate Thy Neighbor" but, I always had thought it was this bros and a few other's personal view.

    Also, everyone stated and as QUOTES has a new thread at his site......music as a JW is limited even in style. To be JW it is not enough to just make sure the Lyrics are clean for a christian but music style and prefrence is dictated. I went about maybe 8 or 9 years of my time as a JW listening to nothing but,Clasical,Oldies,KS,and of course...**Barny Is A Dinosour...From Our Imagination**...never ending Kids Music. I have been so happy for my new found freedom in music enjoyment....which I claimed for myself long before I was dissed.

    The other thing that got me was the constent ridicule of my daughter's art work.....openly Bro's and Sister's would call her work DEMONIC and it realy hindered for sometime. Fourtunatly for her...I kept encouraging her to continue with her work no matter what anyone had said. But,still she almost stopped drawing compleatly when a Kitty Cat she drew for a young girl at KH was very loudly for all to here and passed around and viewed by all...as you guessed it...DEMONIC....a Kitty Cat!!!

    She does ANIME style art as well as others and it was realy because she draws and paints in a few different Japanese style art forms.

    We were told not to buyor recieve any dolls second hand as you never know what they were used for and jewlery with crystals or stones....semi-understandable but,still paranioa.

    I realy don't think the Bros' and Sister's mean to hurt and hinder others in this way...but, it can be almost a Witch Hunt in Old Salem fashion.

    I think what it is...is that even though JW's are not isolated in that they do socialize as a group.....they are an ISOLATED community.This means they become supersticious and fearful of "The World" outside thier imaginary boarders and any influance it may rub off in thier mists.

    My 2 cents..no refunds

    agape,

    Utopian_Raindrops

  • nativenyr23
    nativenyr23

    I can't remember what year (sometime around the 80's) there was a huge deal about using Proctor and Gamble stuff. It turned out to be just a rumor that spread REALLY REALLY FAST. It was about the company being demonic because there was a moon, stars and a funky face in the logo. In any case, there was TONS of P&C stuff in everyone's household; i remember having to throw away a brand new bottle of shampoo! mom insisted.

    Eventually, they had to make an announcement in the congregation about it just being a rumor, and about how we should beware of spreading falsities.

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