Thanks for that, Danny.
Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000 plus plus plus...
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Gerard
*** Watchtower May 15, 1957 pp.313-315 Appreciating Basic Christian Publications ***
…Their zeal for knowledge may even prompt them to dig back into things that were published long before they came into the truth, expanding and deepening their understanding, and ever growing in Christian maturity... Do you dig out older publications to expand and deepen your knowledge on subjects about which questions arise? Have you really studied these earlier publications?... How is your background of knowledge? ... Never think: "Oh, I know most of that." For you will find, indeed, that you do not and that you will be strengthened by your additional study...once you have completed your study of them you can then look to even older publications... Only by studying earlier publications and digging back through previous issues of The Watchtower kept in the library at your local Kingdom Hall. There is much in the way of spiritual riches and aids toward mature knowledge in these earlier publications, and their study is most certainly worth your time. http://quotes.watchtower.ca/verify.htm -
Scully
Mulroney "devastated" and "betrayed" by Newman's tell-all book
ALEXANDER PANETTA Mon Sep 12, 7:01 PM ET
OTTAWA (CP) - An ailing Brian Mulroney feels "devastated" and "betrayed" about a onetime friend's release of a tell-all book that has the former prime minister spewing profanity and musing extensively about his own greatness.
A spokesman said Monday that Mulroney was stunned to turn on his television and learn that his private and often R-rated reflections would be on store shelves this week in a book written by Peter C. Newman. "'I was reckless in talking with Peter C. Newman,' " Mulroney said, according to spokesman Luc Lavoie.
"'This was my mistake and I'm going to have to live with it.' "
Mulroney was at home in Montreal, where he is undergoing physiotherapy and still recovering from surgery following a serious bout with pancreatitis months ago.
He is not challenging the accuracy of Newman's book, The Secret Mulroney Tapes, and has no plans for legal action.
But Lavoie said the former prime minister is feeling betrayed by the way his old friend, Newman, gathered the material.
That material includes a series of remarks from the 1980s and '90s that would have produced incendiary and potentially career-ending headlines at the time.
They include references to the anatomy and the love life of his successor, Kim Campbell, startling admissions about the Meech Lake accord, vicious outbursts at the media and anyone else he felt had deprived him of his legacy as the country's greatest prime minister since John A. Macdonald.
He unloads with particular force on former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau, former colleagues Lucien Bouchard and Joe Clark, on Clark's wife Maureen McTeer, and on ex-Newfoundland premier Clyde Wells.
But it was just supposed to be two old friends chatting, says Lavoie.
"Brian Mulroney is a very colourful, entertaining man in a conversation that says things that are said because they're entertaining," Lavoie said.
"For a man like this to tape him without his knowledge and use it this way is nothing short of betrayal."
He was cautious when asked whether Mulroney's fragile physical state worsened when he learned of the book.
"He's too proud a man but I know it did (hurt him physically)," Lavoie said.
"He's quite devastated."
Mulroney met the veteran journalist over 40 years ago and the men became close - so close that Newman wrote a key speech for him for the 1976 Tory leadership convention, says Lavoie.
He said the men signed a deal when Mulroney finally became Tory leader in 1983: Newman would have unlimited access to him, would produce a biography following his days in office, and would let Mulroney have an early peek at the book before it was published.
In the end there was no biography, only a collection of interview transcripts. And Mulroney's first glimpse at the book came Monday when some of its saltiest snippets flashed across television screens.
Mulroney was completely unaware he was being taped most of the time, maintains Lavoie. According to their agreement, Newman would have a monthly recorded interview with the prime minister.
But the phone calls were supposed to be off-the-record, he said.
If only the WTS had the courage to admit to their own mistakes, they would likely not need to pursue the Quotes site in court. If they had the courage to admit their own mistakes and their own recklessness, it would not be necessary for Quotes to even exist.
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Jim_TX
Mary, I like this... "non-prophet organization"
hahahahaha - you need to trademark this one... it's a keeper!
Regards,
Jim TX
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littlerockguy
There is absolutely nothing on those CD-ROMs that was not peddled from door to door. Every issue of the Watchtower and every book on the CD ROM was offered at some time, so I dont think it would be so confidential. What would really be embarassing is if they had all the Kingdom Ministries included on the CD-ROM.
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zev
What would really be embarassing is if they had all the Kingdom Ministries included on the CD-ROM.
they do
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glitter
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El Kabong
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richard
There is absolutely nothing on those CD-ROMs that was not peddled from door to door.
No entirely: 'Our Kingdom Ministry' is on the CD's
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ashitaka
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