I only have a leather bound bible left, and the next loser who comes to my door inviting me to the lords evening f*ckf*st is going to have it offered to stuff up their A$$. Give them something to talk about back at the hall.
30 years of bound volumes make it to the curb .....
by troubled mind 23 Replies latest jw experiences
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DagothUr
I'm an expert when it comes to burning JW literature. Yes, they are a royal pain in the butt. They take a lot of time and effort to ignite. They burn harder than newspapers and you have to shuffle them with a stick or something in order to bring some oxygen between pages. While they burn they tend to break into black ashy patches the size of a fingernail, or even larger, and they fly on the lightest air current. My literature's ashes landed in an area of around 50 meters around the burning place because there was a little wind last time. I obtained better results when I left them slowly burning in a pile under some vegetal remains. It took the whole night, but in the morning they were consumed and the wind could not ravish them.
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aSphereisnotaCircle
Some of them are valuable, some are not.
The 1934 yearbook is worth about 80-90 dollars. And is even being reprinted by someone and they are selling them for about $25.
Any of the studies in the scriptures have some value.
And please, please, Im begging you, if there is any older pamplets, single (not in bound volumn) magazines, assembly badges, assembly programs, blood cards etc, ANY bits of JW paper, or odds and ends, please please do not throw them out.
I will buy them or help you sell them.
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aSphereisnotaCircle
And just to prove Im not completely nuts, when I exited I filled two garbage cans with lit and set it by the curb. All newer stuff, I kept the old.
The only thing I regretted throwing out was our blood cards.
The day I realized I would have let my children die because of that religion was a very bad day, I tore my kids blood cards into the tiniest of bits, then I set them on fire, then I stomped on the ashes over and over grinding them into the dirt. All the while my poor never-JW hubby kept reasuring me over and over that I never would have let my kids die. But he is wrong, I would have.
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willyloman
All the while my poor never-JW hubby kept reasuring me over and over that I never would have let my kids die. But he is wrong, I would have.
I know, right? This speaks volumes about how "lost" we were before we saw the truth about the Truth, and why this cult is so dangerous to parents' mental health -- to say nothing of the lives of their children.
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Cagefighter
I did the same thing a few years ago. Had a few books that made it in the moves since I left home. Kept the NWT though it is such a ridiculous translation.
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nugget
our house has been purged too of all our bound volumes. The space these things take up is unreal. When I realised that the articles had little intellectual value and were advertortials for a cult it was easy to part with them. Started filling my bookcases with books of merit.
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nugget
our house has been purged too of all our bound volumes. The space these things take up is unreal. When I realised that the articles had little intellectual value and were advertortials for a cult it was easy to part with them. Started filling my bookcases with books of merit.
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Morbidzbaby
A did this a couple of weeks ago. Any and all "litterature" that was mine was trashed. I've purged myself of all of it, save the NWT reference edition. I don't know why I haven't chucked it. I liked my NIV better, even though I'm a non-believer. I like to read certain passages because, while I don't believe the bible was divinely inspired, it does hold some good ideas. Wisdom can be found in the oddest of places.
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TotallyADD
Because we are moving soon we had 40 years of those things in our shed. They have been sitting in boxes for over 7 years. You are right they are heavy. Since we live out in the country we have a place in our back yard for burning. Five or six big boxes plus all kinds of other stuff. Had some used oil so we poured it on them. Within few hours they were nothing but ashes. My wife and I say we burned them in effigy. Sure is fun to get rid of all that dead weight. Totally ADD