Throwing it all away
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1. What have you done with your TWI books?
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They're in a shrine in my bedroom, on my hope chest, next to a tube sock.0
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They're in my library. I consult them from time to time, usually as I'm putting a teaching together.2
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They're on my shelf, along with a bunch of other books I open just about never.8
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They're in a box in my garage/attic. Sealed. But I can't throw them away. Too many memories.1
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The Staten Island Landfill, or its local equivalent.16
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TWI published books? I'd forgotten.4
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waysider
I think it ALL means "something".
I'm just not sure WHAT.
edit: I think we're better off NOT knowing that we know that we know that we know and so on.
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Ham
Yeah. Me too..
Don't get me wrong Raf..
I know it was all the touch of a narcissistic, plagiarist's hand..
but etherically.. or whatever else one calls it.. it all goes somewhere..
I just hope it doesn't end up in a deep, fiery pit for following a false prophet of sorts..
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waysider
Burn The Chaff (Uncle Harry in effigy) Day
Exiled now you travel inward
Flames engulf your throne
Puppets hang in effigy
While someone casts a stone.
A lonely queen has cuckold you.
A princely sword's been drawn
The noble blood once spilled for you
Will wear your crown at dawn.
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krys
That's the size of it! I believe that speaks about that total package.
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Kit Sober
Only recently did I realize that vp's words did not have the flavor of truth in my brain.
I am one who put the "Holy Spirit usages" into any Bible I got. Had many (too many) Bibles defaced in agreement with what vp said was correct. The sounds of the poems and hyms and biblical truths still are in the frame of vp's voice because I listened to PFAL and the SNS teachings so so so very much when I could hear and now that I am deaf the only wordy sounds I hear are those from the memory of my heart. (A deaf person does have lots of whisles and squeaks and rumbles and screeches from one's brain rattling around.)
But recently I realized that The Bible itself is stronger in my. Such a nice "revelation" to have. And just because I remember something that vp said doesn't make it right. This is a big breakthrough for me.
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Ham
I'm glad for you, dear friend..
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Bramble
We had about 4-6 sets of PFAL books between hubby and I--got new sets when we took the new Craig classes, plus had our originals. We sold them on ebay a couple of years after we left the Way. Used the money for something on the car. Tires? All the other stuff--Way mags, videos, tapes, pamphlets, etc I threw away when we moved west. Those tacky posters we used to have in our living room! Trashed. I think we might still have some music cassettes somewhere, but we no longer have a cassette player to listen to them on if we wanted to. But we did have a basement flood about five years ago and lost a bunch of boxed stuff, so those cassettes might have been in that mess.
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hiway29
Just the other day, I unearthed a funky little wooden treasure chest, to put on a shelf for decoration. Opening it up , I found it was filled with old way badges-including advanced class '79, and that real stupid wow button from '76-77, that I don't even know how to describe-but remembered I never wore it unless I had to. I thought about dumping them, but realized it had no emotional effect on me, and will make an interesting conversation piece should any visitor open the chest. It felt weird seeing them, but felt good not to care.
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waysider
Might make nice accessories for a Halloween costume.
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Kit Sober
Good idea waysider. At the neighborhood halloween party I'll come as the witch of endor with all my twi nametags.
Wait a minute - No one would understand. The children would just think I was wierd, and they would be right. I have the name tags, too. Those 20+ years were not a vacuum. I did stuff, learned stuff, learned to love some. Name tags remind me of the beach I got to live near and friends God made dear. So sorry we were sold down the river for vp's "bowl of lentil soup," but Holy Spirit was there for us. Jesus Christ never left us forsaken. Like others have said, the more detached from the cult-wickedness-twi are our memories are the more we can assimilate them in a healthy manner.
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Ham
I dunno..
The more I think about it.. the Light of the World is Toxic. It will burn something off as in dead if one gazes long enough.
And it's not exactly an unpleasant experience..
throw it all away..
somehow I think it will be easier than all of that in the end..
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outintexas
The only things I have left are a couple bibles and the plate we got at PFAL '77 to celebrate the alleged 35th anniversary of the founding of twi. Now, 35 years after that, I have it under a large potted plant. :P
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excathedra
i'm praying for your plant
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hiway29
The plant will be fine with all that manure under it.
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excathedra
lol happy to hear that
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Grace Valerie Claire
Raf, I didn't know you were a former JW.
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Grace Valerie Claire
OS, I threw my TWI stuff out years ago, and it was a liberating experience.
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