by Dark Fader 21 Replies latest jw friends
So we had spent years building our "theocratic library" of bound volumes, books and other materials. Personally, I boxed everything, taped the boxes closed and threw them in a dumpster at a construction site.
I did actually feel bad though. That was a lot of paper which could have been recycled!
When it was officially time to bail on the borg what did you do with all of them?
recycled them 11 years ago
Well well well. I see some things never change, FSP..... >:O
I threw them on the KH doorstep.
Every time I "place" magazines, they go directly into the trash ( recycle bin). Same for books. Some books I have given away. A lot of them I have kept. "Throwing away" the soft covers are easier. I've thrown away Cassettes and VHS from the WTS. That's what I usually do with garbage.
I burned all mine on my log fire. I 've noticed that with all WT literature, they don't burn very well at all. The WT and Asleep magazines actually put out my fire if I use a lot of them at once. Poor quality paper. At least they're consistent in every way.
Very easy. I left them with my ex-husband when I left him and the Borg in one fell swoop. Of course, in a misguided attempt to get me to reconsider leaving the organization, he sent me my Pioneer School book. I threw that in the trash.
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I kept a few gems. The rest went into the dumpster. I thought about recycling, but figured the GB crap had already been recycled enough.
recycled most of em. Wish I had kept certain ones though. Ones that have damning doctrinal points that do not exist on the CD-ROM WT library
So if anyone is thinking about trashing an entire library, ya might wanna check around and see if anyone is willing to take at least part of it off your hands first.
I still have the Concordance and the Reference Bbile that i use for reference cause I still think in jw.
We had quite a collection going back to the original Russell period. My great uncle was an early Bible Student. My father inheirited the collection when my uncle died. The lit stood for repression and emotional and physical abuse. The day my father died, the family made a joint decision to get the books and mags out of the house asap. Not wanting to wait for a reply from JW relatives, my mom called the local KH, which had almost no literature. They came within a few hours.
Before the Internet, I heard some academics on Tv discussing the Witnesses and saying how difficult it was find to certain books. They believe the WT had a systematic program of burning old lit or disposing of it in some manner. One of the scholars was a professor at my university. It would have been nice if the books were devoted to a useful end. Also, a tax deduction would have been nice.
We discussed our dismay as a family. Everyone came to the same conclusion. If we could have had an open fire in the city and burned the books, we would have done it. Getting them out of the house was so important to all of us.
I felt tons lighter when they were removed.
Recently, I purchased the orange Paradise Lost book of my childhood. The book responsible for childhood terror. It is a hoot to read now.
