Hira-Hira - Journal of a Former Jehovah's Witness by Ryan Sutter (2008).pdf

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Ryan Sutter
Journal of a Former
Jehovah’s Witness
Hira-Hira:
Tasty Rerun Books
©2008 Ryan Sutter
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Dedicated to Sydney and Esther.
In loving memory of Rhett.
I love you all
and I would choose you
for my family again.
READ ME FIRST!
Hi there. Thanks for checking out my book, Hira-Hira. I know a lot of people
don’t read “introductions” or “author’s notes” so I decided to take a cue from
the world of software development and have a README section at the
beginning of my book.
Why did I feel the need to have such a thing at all? Quite simply to explain just
what this book is that you’ve got in your hands (or on your screen). In order to
understand how to properly read and understand this book, it might be helpful
for you to have a little background on how it wound up coming into existence.
As the subtitle indicates, this is basically a journal, kept by me, over the course
of several years. The original content this book is based on is drawn from my
blog at
http://ryansutter.net
where I have (as of this writing) just shy of 900
posts spanning about 7 years. As may be no surprise to you if you’ve ever
kept a journal or blog, the writing covers a range of topics and exhibits a range
of styles and levels of quality. Most of the posts were written on buses during
commutes, in coffee shops or at my desk at work. This means that in general
they are undisciplined little bits of writing and I have beyond annotating them I
have tried to do only minor cleaning up. If there were punctuation and spelling
errors or perhaps strange grammar, I let those things stay for the most part. I
wanted to generally preserve the journal entries as written. I have removed a
lot of the original entries and tried to keep entries that build a particular
narrative. Because these entries were not written to tell a narrative in the first
place, they may seem to jump around sometimes or may seem to include trivia
that doesn’t mean anything to you. Just stick with them, however, and I think
you’ll see how it all falls together. I hope.
Allow me to explain why I decided to take these blog entries and turn them into
a book. These writings in the Internet incarnation have had a powerful
(although, admittedly unintended) effect on quite a few people’s lives already.
My blog has helped many people move from fundamentalism to free-thought
and it’s been deeply satisfying to me to see that happen. I didn’t write to help
people, I just wrote to get things off my chest, but that is what has happened
and I’m thrilled about it. Sadly, though, as time goes by and the Hira-Hira
portion of my life moves further into my rear-view mirror, these posts are buried
deeper and deeper in the archives of my blog. What’s more, in their original
form they suffered from missing information and gaps in the story, sometimes
important ones, because I wasn’t always up for blogging. It seemed to me that
this experience and these writings could do more good by being brought
together in a cohesive format, fleshed out, condensed, and turned into a book
than they were doing buried in a blog archive. I hope you agree.
Ryan
ryan@ryansutter.net

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