A VERY PECULIAR FEELING (and a pleasant one at that) (page 2)

trevor

roach droppings, mold, ancient dust

That's the best description of JW books I have yet heard. Sound like a hell of a dump - Terry! .

Country_Woman

somehow I did the same after my mum died: threw all the books and magazines in the recycling bin....

felt a bit guilty cos there was only 1 (official) JW in our village and I was sure that those recycling guys would notice and gossip "have you heard ? they got rid of all the books and magazines" surely a great testimony.....

Terry

Terry,
So that I stop going nuts wondering...Does the copyright date make it any more of value. I have these really old books someone gave me. 1907, 1928, 1901...

No.

That is one of those myths that people (all of us, really) hold dear.

There is NO intrinsic value to age.

We get many many old books going back to the late 1800's. We look each and every one of them up. About 97% aren't worth the paper they are printed on.

Sigh.

Just like oil paintings. Most are completely worthless.

T.

Terry

I think you should make choices with your head, instead of your heart. You could have gotten some big bucks on E-bay for these items........

Oh, that was the FIRST THOUGHT, that entered my mind. Believe me.

But, there was something deeper in all of this consideration.

It is not unlike KKK or Nazi related paraphenalia. It reeks of human misery.

I just wanted to make a moral decision that transcended $.

Today I'm really happy about it.

T.

sweet tee

Congratulations T. I believe you did the best thing one could possibly do with that garbage ... put it in the trash!

Yes, I know some of it may have been useful in researching and refuting current dubs, but there's are many other places one can get that info. without re-selling the WTS- BS.

Tam

Odrade

Trash trash trash. I know what you mean Terry. Right now I have 3 completely stacked full grocery bags of WT books sitting in the back of my linen closet. Some of them are books that have fetched a good price on EBAY, but I just can't bring myself to inflict that misery on another person.

I've thought about sending them all down to Randy Waters for him to sell for his site expenses, I still have the address, but I can't even make myself drag them out and do that. Ugh. talk about a millstone.

JamesThomas

Your feelings are probably similar to those of a hospital worker throwing contaminated items into the incinerator. Of course what you disposed of could be considered far more harmful than most organic pathogens.

j

Rod P

Way to go, Terry.

This is not about making money by selling old JW publications. It's about making sure they do not get into the hands of the unsuspecting public who become potential converts.

Somebody buys one of these apparently innocent books about the Bible, and takes it home and actually reads it. The next thing that could happen, he/she starts thinking, "Wow, I didn't know the Bible taught all that. How can I learn more?"

Then, out of interest, he/she contacts the JW's, which then leads to Bible studies in his/her home and invitations to their meetings. Then this leads to conversion and dedication to Jehovah and field service.

And Voila!!! Out the other end comes another JW convert.

The world doesn't need another newly converted "JW Propaganda Robot" walking around trying to make more "JW Propaganda Robots". Let us spare the world from this by not indirectly and unwittingly supporting their cause (i.e. enabling access to more of their publications, all for the sake of a few dollars on ebay or wherever).

Terry, you did the right thing, and I say "Hooray for the Apostate Home Team! To the extent that you have done it for you, you have done it for the rest of us too!"

Rod P.

kazar

I hope I haven't posted this twice. Terry, you made my day with your post. I had a similar experience yesterday. I decided to make room in my closet. I had Jehovah's Witnesses' books stored in boxes on the shelf. Bound books, Watchtower and Awake magazines going back to the '60's. As I watched the trash truck haul them away, I felt sad, like I had lost something. I had kept them so long. I had always rationalized I was keeping them for reference to dispute their present claims. However, I think at the bottom of this was this nostalgia that maybe Jehovah's Witnesses were right and in time Jehovah would correct their thinking. But, I threw them away. As one of my schoolteachers used to say, "good riddance to bad rubbish."

Reading your experience helped me to feel OK about it. I am glad I did it. Glad you did too.

Es

Congratz :) es

A VERY PECULIAR FEELING (and a pleasant one at that)

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