"Aid to Bible Understanding" online?

by glenster 15 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Satanus

  The aid book has some old light that was removed from the new and improved light in the insight books. One example is the origin of the name jehovah.
  
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  glenster

  Nobody posted anything about it having to be a pirated copy--you're okay,
  fokyc. I've seen older JWs leaders' literature sold on CD for years without the
  seller being brought to task legally. If it's different in this case, one in-
  stance of person to person sharing wouldn't be a legal problem given that the
  way the material is supposed to be spread encompasses that. I wouldn't give a
  nickel to organized crime, but the "profiteering..." sword shouldn't be put
  away--the ethical obligation is to point out that it cuts toward the JWS leaders
  since their deceptions for literature sales have even gotten thousands of people
  killed, so for the JWs leaders to make a moral matter of it would be ironic. So
  thanks for helping, and the original request stands.
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  Nathan Natas

  Hey Glenster,

  What do you you think about the part of fokyc's quote of my private PM to him that said,

  "The Aid book was scanned and burned to CDROM several years ago by a team of apostates who never intended to sell the CD for any price - it was meant to be distributed for free to anyone who wanted one by anyone who had one. All they would have to do is duplicate their own copy of the CDROM and give it away. "

  Did you happen to read that explanation of why the "profiteering scumbag pirate" label is appropriate?

  The person who is now selling copies of the CDROM got their own copy FOR FREE.

  Some people find it easy to whine about so-called "harsh language" as long as the ox being gored is not their own.

  For the record, there are three things that I hate, yea, three things that move me to furious wrath: a profiteering scumbag pirate, a person who defends the acts of a profiteering scumbag pirate, and anyone who says "this is not my problem."
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  betweenworlds

  I'm in the process of uploading it to a site now. I'll give a holler when it's done.

  Cheers

  Betweenworlds
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  glenster

  We're on the same page that people shouldn't be unethical--over-indulge the
  self at another's unnecessary hurt or expense. I didn't specify the method of
  getting the material as needing to be from a copy of the book they might sell
  cheap, or large or small scale file sharing, or claim to know whether or not the
  rights for the Aid book were in public domain (like older JWs leaders' publica-
  tions?) or not, although now I'm guessing they're not for the Aid book. Point
  about large scale file sharing duly noted. A couple of articles about the de-
  bated matters of the legalities and ethics of person to person file sharing are at
  the next links.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_file_sharing
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_file_sharing

  I don't think even the harshest negative side of that coin puts one instance
  of one individual sharing one file of even copyrighted material, a possibility on
  a forum which includes a lot of people with PC copies of the literature and
  which amounts to one person selling a 2nd hand item or giving another a gift, on
  anywhere near the same moral plane as big business legally selling lies that
  cause thousands to die, or even has a case that one instance of it would be made
  any moral or legal matter, or that the harshest negative stance is based on
  weighing the use of one instance of it against it being done to provide evidence
  about big business lying that misleads people to unnecessary death, etc., but
  I'm satisfied ethically about how it would be silly to me if they did.

  An expose of JWs leaders lying for the sake of phoney elitism that causes harm
  or even death should be evidential more than editorial (let alone about just
  hating the JWs leaders, which could just seem like an ironically cranky and
  intolerant 'centric view). While there's already more than enough evidence,
  there isn't as much on the Internet for the Aid book or that period as there
  might be. Please help if you'd like. Without encouraging anything genuinely
  unethical, if anyone has a copy of the Aid book and can help me get one in clean
  conscience regarding legalities and ethics, and friendly, let alone without pun-
  ishing themself that they're to be an object of hate, for heaven's sakes, please
  let me know.
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  glenster

  Got a copy on CD.