chickpea:
there is a spiral bound isaiah book with notes
yep..both of those.....and a "daniel" book..and something else...all in the pile
you can almost use the book layers like an archeological dig ....to determine the beginning of the end, in terms of our drifting TM ...
dog-eared books heavily studied to convention releases never opened
hadn't thought of it that way, but absolutely. I found probably 2 reams of copies of convention notes I or my mom had typed, tons of transcripts of various CO talks my mom had transcribed (part of her way of "studying")...all of that went into the burn pile. I went through tons of pics of a bethel trip I organized back in 1991.... and tossed out all of the pics and negatives, with the exception of pics that were of my mom and I and pics that were non-WT properties... (ie, World Trade Center, Toronto, Niagra, etc.)....
When I was done going through most of my storage bins, I had rid myself of 4 bins down to 1/4 of a single bin. The rest of it is on the pile and I will burn it later when it is a bit cooler outside....maybe we will have a wiener roast....LOL.
snowbird....I know you was messin' with me....The "secular" reference was both "tongue-in-cheek" and to distinguish from WT literatrash. We wouldn't call it anything other than just a Bible reference book otherwise. All of my WT "reference" books (aka brainwash materials; i.e. Insight, Concordance, etc.) are now gone.
heaven:
Fire is very cleansing.
I love fire, maybe a bit too much.... lol.
WTWizard... I couldn't believe it but I found a whole bunch of duplicate Kingdumb Miseries in all of that crap I threw out.... it is so brittle it should burn nicely....
and just further comment on what snowbird and chickpea said...my life is taking a good turn.....the process of them moving in combined with work pressures on both of us is taking a huge toll on our sleep right now...which in turn is causing minor health issues for each of us...all stress/sleep deprivation related.... we get past this month, get them completely moved out of their old place, get all of my projects around the house finished, and we hope it will calm down.... we took this moving in step pretty damn fast.... but it is not a road we want to, or even could, go back around. Kinda like ripping a bandaid off....short term discomfort to get to the more relaxed times.
Snakes (Rich )