What Was I Thinking?

riz

One of my regrets about my 20 year stint of JW-dom is that I got rid of a lot of my 'questionable' music. I have always loved all kinds of music, and I've been an avid collector for as long as I can remember.

Some of the recordings I had I will probably never see again. I deeply regret my decision to get rid of some of my favorite items.

Do any of you wish you could go back and not have let your 'guilty conscience' aid you in your decision to unload some items that you wish you held onto in retrospect? I'd love to know that I'm not the only one who gave in to the ridiculous whims of the elders.

rizzy

Insanity in individuals is something rare- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Nietzsche

Skeptic

I know what you mean. The thing I regret throwing out as a JW was a bookcase full of Bibles. I used to collect different translations and some of them are irreplacable. Sigh. I had about 30 different translations.

Richard

Francois

The Borg strikes again.

This is what comes from allowing sixteen senile octogenerians in Broklynn to do your thinking instead of listening for that small, still voice within to guide you.

And I did it too. Christ, what a sap.

Francoise

waiting

Yeah, I was raised a Catholic, and they have a lot of "images." I don't care about them - but some of them belonged to my grandmother (fine old Irish lady).

I threw away her rosary (no monetary value - but worn thin from use), her scapular, prayer book, etc.

I was an art major in a Catholic hs., thus, some of the projects were religious. I won awards for them - but they hit the trash after studying.

Oh well.

waiting

Francois

No one has ever gone broke underestimating the ignorance of Jehovah's Witnesses

wasasister

My mother collected small ornate brass bells. She bought them either used at antique shops or had them given to her as gifts. Soon after she was baptized, some nosey sister told her they were "Temple Bells" and were used in Hindu worship. Reluctantly, she threw them all away. I doubt she really believed the sister but did not want to stumble anyone.

I'd dearly love to have them now. The tinkling of bells will always remind me of her laughter.

RunningMan

I recall throwing away several items that I wish I had back. Some
records that I broke and threw away included an excellent album
by Gary Neuman, the classic Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack,
and a mediocre album by Soft Cell.

As I got older, I got a little smarter. When the next wave of purges
came around, I lent my Quiet Riot album to a friend with the understanding
that he would give it back when things cooled down. The bugger still
has it.

The most disturbing jetison was a pile of baseball cards. I was only
about 7 or 8 years old. After coming back from a district assembly,
I resolved to destroy my baseball card collection because a talk had
listed them as evidences of idol worship. This was in the late '60's
and there were several cards from the original Montreal Expos. My
parents were very proud of me.

Today, I feel like an idiot. I wish I had them back.

TR

Hey Runningman,

Hate to add insult to injury, but my daughter has a collection of sports cards and just one of them I found out is worth over a hundred bucks! And that's just one Gary Payton card from 1990.

TR

"cults suck"

safe4kids

Hey riz,
Great topic...I remember when I was a kid (I'm 35 now!), about 9 or 10 years old, my mother bought me a silver ring with intertwined hearts on it from Avon...it wasn't worth much but it was my first piece of "real" jewelry and I loved it. I had it for about a week when there was an ass-embly part having something to do with hearts being something "true christians" should avoid for some half-assed reason I can't remember. My mom made me throw my ring away...within a few months, the whole "heart" fiasco had blown over but I was SOL b/c the ring was gone...
Funny, isn't it? I still remember that all these years later....

Safe

<"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.">

LDH

Safe,

Silly! The reason you can't have heart jewelry is because the shape of the heart is attributed to the head of the penis!

( I started a thread awhile ago on JW obsession with what 'pagan' things resembled a penis, ie off limits for JWs. I find it odd that in their male dominated world, not one 'image'or 'shape' has been construed to be the clitoris, BTW)

So as my dad and mom told me, you had no business as a true christian wearing a Penis around your neck!

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