Mine will go out in Monday's mail. It would be nice if all those sending the checks would mention it here so we could have an idea how many are being sent.
PS- If you have Microsoft Word or Powerpoint, you should be able to use that too. Right click on the check, click "copy. Open the other program, click "paste" button. Click on the image and drag the corners to make it smaller. If you open it in a portrait layout 8.5" sheet, make it slightly smaller than the page to end up with a check approximately the size of a real check.
Idea for letter writing campaign:
As we all know, the WTS Headquarters is in New York City. Why don't we all write letters to the New York Times?? Here is the email address: [email protected].
If anyone wishes to write a letter but doesn't feel like composing it, here is one I wrote. Feel free to change the wording or use it as you wish: [email protected]UGH--my letter keeps getting cut off.
Subject: Watchtower files suit against webmaster for quoting its literature
Dear Editor:
The “quotes” web site is a popular, succinct, user-friendly database of select quotes from Watchtower literature. Quotes are organized by topic, to enable the reader to find Watchtower stance on issues over the course of its 100+ years of publishing. The quotes are provided with little or no commentary. The reader is encouraged and allowed to interpret the Watchtower’s own statements for himself.
Some of these quotes reveal contradictory and even bizarre statements made by the WTS. Those publications have subsequently gone out of print and are no longer available to the public nor to Jehovah’s Witnesses themselves. As described elsewhere on this site, the WTS claims to be God’s one and only true organization. Jehovah’s Witnesses firmly believe that God is infallible and all-good. Therefore, it stands to reason that revealing errors in past literature would dispel the belief that the WTS is truly led by an infallible God.
The stated purpose of the site is as follows: “This research and information web site is devoted to collecting and preserving interesting and/or significant quotes from the publications of the Watch Tower Society, without additional commentary or editorial, for the purpose of scholarship and research. The quotes are accurate and verifiable, however this web site is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Watch Tower Society.” Also stated at the top of the home page: “Warning: If you feel that reading direct, complete, well-researched quotes from Watch Tower Society publications threatens your spirituality then perhaps you should be
on your way
.” A link to the official WTS site is provided.
Has the “quotes” site violated
copyright laws? No. Copyright laws allow fair use of small portions of others’ work for research and critique. The “quotes” site does just that; it provides small quotes from various publications. Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html#howmuch. See also this list of resources on Internet free speech: http://www.factnet.org/Free_Speech.html.
The WTS consistently claims it makes no profit on its literature, a curious statement in light of its billion dollar annual profit in the
and
alone. If it makes no profit on its literature, why is it a problem for a non-Jehovah’s Witness to share quotes free of charge?
The remaining question is why does the Watchtower Society wish to quash preservation of their literature? To harass those who provide negative information about it? To keep secret the embarrassing flaws in its literature?
