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Old 10-11-2014, 09:20 PM
 
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Has anyone heard of this book~? Moderator cut: inserting title "They Thought for Themselves". For some odd reason I got this in the mail anonymously.

Last edited by mensaguy; 10-12-2014 at 05:47 AM.. Reason: inserting title
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:19 AM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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fwiw the book is online, so others can comment on it.

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fyi the company that puts it out is Messianic.
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Old 10-12-2014, 05:12 AM
 
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I have not however am curious after reading the title. My first thought was from the Principia Discordia, with their suggestion to Think For Yourself, *******. What's it about?
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Old 10-12-2014, 10:33 AM
 
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fwiw the book is online, so others can comment on it.

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fyi the company that puts it out is Messianic.

It's not there and I get a page that says "Error 404".

Edit: Now it's coming up. Why did they send it to me and how did they get my info~? I'm not associated with anything Messianic~!
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Old 10-12-2014, 12:46 PM
 
Location: Logan Township, Minnesota
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It's not there and I get a page that says "Error 404".

Edit: Now it's coming up. Why did they send it to me and how did they get my info~? I'm not associated with anything Messianic~!
As to how they got your info, I suspect It came from an advertising spider. the internet is very far from being private. Advertising firms use google to find key words to find potential "Interested Parties" Your email address was probably sold to advertising firms if you ever filled out an online survey or registered on a site run by an advertising firm.

Another possibility

I find that some Messianic groups are very sneaky. They even start forums and sites that they claim to be Jewish in order to get contact info about Jews.

While the "Messianic Jew" movement is an extremely radical form of Christian Evangelism, that specifically targets Jews I do not consider them to represent the majority of Christians. May our Creator protect you from such people.

I disagree with Christianity, but most Christians I know would never use underhanded tactics like the Messianics use.
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:59 PM
 
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As to how they got your info, I suspect It came from an advertising spider. the internet is very far from being private. Advertising firms use google to find key words to find potential "Interested Parties" Your email address was probably sold to advertising firms if you ever filled out an online survey or registered on a site run by an advertising firm.

Another possibility

I find that some Messianic groups are very sneaky. They even start forums and sites that they claim to be Jewish in order to get contact info about Jews.

While the "Messianic Jew" movement is an extremely radical form of Christian Evangelism, that specifically targets Jews I do not consider them to represent the majority of Christians. May our Creator protect you from such people.

I disagree with Christianity, but most Christians I know would never use underhanded tactics like the Messianics use.

This came to my home address
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Old 10-12-2014, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Logan Township, Minnesota
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This came to my home address
Good Grief!!!!!

That is freaky.
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Old 10-12-2014, 04:21 PM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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Edit: Now it's coming up. Why did they send it to me and how did they get my info~? I'm not associated with anything Messianic~!
If it came in the mail, then some company you dealt with in the past sold their mailing list. And once that mailing list is out there, it exists forever (and each time it gets sold, it picks up errors on the way). For example my father has been deceased for more than 25 years and has never lived with me but once in awhile I get garbage mail for him.
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Old 10-12-2014, 07:14 PM
 
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Good Grief!!!!!

That is freaky.

Yes it was Woodrow~! And at the time it came in was freaky~! I did not read it until recently and only a portion of it recently. But this came in last year during a time when things were happening in my life (and you and a few people know what I am talking about).

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If it came in the mail, then some company you dealt with in the past sold their mailing list. And once that mailing list is out there, it exists forever (and each time it gets sold, it picks up errors on the way). For example my father has been deceased for more than 25 years and has never lived with me but once in awhile I get garbage mail for him.

Ii don't think so, Pruzhany~! I have a feeling that someone I know had it sent to me.
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