by LovesDubs 23 Replies latest jw friends
LOves Dubs,
Good for you! I read somwhere that the Universe responds positively to displays such as yours.
I actually set a specific dumping date and counted down the days to the disposal of my old WT literature, which I dropped in the bin.
Now I hate to have the stuff in the house, it gives me the creeps almost as though the Judges shade is looking for a niche.
Englishman.
Duncan LOL! The good news is that they use REALLY good ink on those, like the Wall Street Journal so it leaves no er..."chocolaty" mess on your hands or anywhere else.
:) My husband is still in...but he had so many of those freaking tapes of the magazines laying around NEVER listened to em...I picked em all up and hurled em. I hold out hope for him yet..but you know how it is, we all had to decide for ourselves and no amount of coercing was going to move that JW box we had for a brain.
You said:
"and Im not REQUIRED to be "over" them or to "forget" them".
Oh, I think you are over them all right. Something tells me that even though you can't forget them (which is good), your efforts will ensure they won't forget you.
Where can I read your 9 page letter?
hawk
ever hear of e-bay?
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Less Religion and more Jesus!
As for my nine page disassociation letter...four years later and a whole LOT of research more later, it was way too emotionally written. I wish I had had the ammo I have now. I sent copies of it to everybody I loved and was close to in the Org before I said anything to the elders hoping it would enlighten somebody else. Im sure the local elders never got past the subject line "This is to inform you that effective immediately, I am disassociating myself from the Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society and as a member of the Sch..... Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses."
I put a whole lot of legal stuff at the end too basically saying I would sue their sorry butts if they slandered my name or even TRIED to approach or speak to my children without me present. They didnt bother me after that. My husband personally delivered that letter to the presiding overseer which I thought was really odd. He didnt seem to mind that I did it...I just cant figure him out. 14 years married to the guy and I cant figure him out.
The letter isnt online anywhere...just this is:
http://www.freeminds.org/aftrhour/waiting.htm which I believe has been FAR more effective in reaching the sheep
>>"I wish I had had the ammo I have now"
I am not nor never have been a JW but I know how you feel.
>>"I put a whole lot of legal stuff at the end too basically saying I would sue"
Interesting. I felt the same way and recently I put a whole pile of legal stuff together too. I am not a lawyer but I do know a little about the law. So I gave what I know to a someone who hopfully knows how to use it - we shall see what happens.
WRT sending stuff to other people like you did. Bx showed me that JWs don't react very well to the truth about the truth. But they do keep what you send them (I know this for a fact - I have done it 15 times now and counting). And soon (within a couple of years or less) it does comes back into their lives.
hawkaw
Now LubsDubs,
we just hope that when you trashed the Litter-A-Choo!'er
(can I get a big "Amen!"... uh, I mean "Gesundheit!" ? ...
that you were sure to take it to your nearest
Toxic Waste Dump.
There are laws out there, you know.
And the comment about eBay... which the Tallyman hisself uses...
nawwww, NO amount of Moolah$Made@Auction
could have bought you that kind of
S-A-T-I-S-F-A-K-T-I-O-N !
TT
An interesting and very vivid account, luvsdubs. But personally, I don't agree with the approach.
What you did was undoubtedly theraputic, but I consider it to be destruction of evidence. The
Society would like nothing better than to gather up all of the incriminating old material that they
printed over the past 120 years and destroy it, leaving only the present truth.
I will keep my JW library, all 9 shelves of it. As each year passes, it becomes more embarrasing for
them.
Hey RunningMan,
I'm doing the same as you. I keep getting my mags in the mail and I get the new books. I have the books I accumulated over the years, and when I find the *really old* ones in used books, I buy them.
Evidence of existence and I can say to another - "yes, I have looked up that direct quote in the WTBTS *real* literature."
I threw away all duplicates, however.
waiting
I get bragging righta, I have EVERYTHING the Society has ever published in one form or another, even the Russell [pre-WT] writings. WItnesses come to my door, I let them in, we start to talk, I make a point, they deny it, I take them to my study, which is wall to wall books, some 6,000 and their jaws fall to the ground, and ... I never see the same two witnesses again, until next time, when my subscription is expiring. Ten years later, I still have my subscription.
Of course it pays to have friends in the org and bethel, who keeps my account active.
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Less Religion and more Jesus!
