I remember, about two or three years in the "truth", developing a curiosity for their old literature. One day I went to the back room of the Kingdom Hall where the library was and started looking at the Rutherford rainbow series books. One of the old sisters came in to the room and started counseling me against reading those books (like duhhh, why do they have them here in the first place).
On another occasion I was visiting a JW couple whose wife was a multigeneration witness. They were proudly showing of their copy of The Finished Mystery which had been passed down in her family. I held it in my hands and then did something which apparently they were not expecting. I opened it and started to read it. You should have seen the reaction from the both of them. They were flailing their arms and shouting a warning "No, no, it's different!" I barely recollect reading something about locomotives, (Leviathan representing locomotives). I gave the book back to them. I was puzzled as to why they would collect a book that they consider unworthy of being read.
My fascination with the old literature had nothing to do, at that time, with flip flops or spin control, my collection was to meager for that. It was just like someone who liked collecting coins or what have you. Later on, when I started sensing that there was something wrong I started reading "apostate" literature. That, ironically, is when I wanted to expand my collection so that I could verify the quotations.
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