by Latte 19 Replies latest watchtower bible
Me and hubby stopped attending around 2000, and for some strange reason I have stored all the books we were using at that time.
I am so tempted to light the barbeque ...and burn the lot...as it is soooo CCCOLD here in the North West of England! LOL
What do you think I should do with all my old JW books?
Thanks for your suggestions!
Latte
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Store then away for posterity. You never know when they might prove useful for demonstrating the teachings of the cult.
When Mother and I decided to be done with it, we put all our books in a box and dropped them off at the house of a brother and sister we liked while they were at the meeting. We had no idea at the time of all the lies the WTS told, just that there was obviously no holy spirit present in the religion. I regret now not keeping one or two of the items for comparison and research purposes. All I have now is my old NWT Bible and they have that available online.
From time-to-time someone will come on here and ask for a particular publication for research. You might offer your items individually or as a group for such people. You could probably use a site like ebay and just sell it for the shipping costs.
Or you could burn it all. I did that once with a lot of crappy old romance novels someone gave me. It was fun.
This is what we did with ours.
Boxed them all up made sure our name was not in any by ripping out the pages with any clues to who we are and dropped them off at a local KH with a scripture taped to the top of the box in large font.
Eccl.
To the making of many books there is no end......
LD
I throw them out in small batches. Otherwise, it would be "work", and I'm done working for free for WT.
I burned mine.
Mine are still sitting on bookshelves, collecting dust. Once or twice a year, I'll look up something in them. It's not worth keeping around when everything of note is on the Internet...and I have JW family that has more of a "theocratic" library than I do.
It I clean them out, I'll probably just dump them in a recycle bin. My only fear there is that some poor bin scavanger will find them and they'll become one of those experiences you hear about at the conventions..."I found a magazine in a trash heap and was captivated by the message on the cover, so I wrote the address on the back..and here I am..." and everyone applauds as a new member is accepted into the cult.
I burned mine too all except the WT Library CD. Good for comparison.
Burning Man is "just around the corner" so you can pile them up by the man and let the burners have their way.
