01Organization and GodEssay · 95 min readOrganization: 1) Preparation, arrangement, order. 2) Establishment, organization. Organized: 1) Organized, grouped. 2) Orderly, arranged. To organize: to arrange, to organize, to set up an organization….. Basic Turkish…→02Why Hypocrisy?Essay · 10 min readThis — being «whole-hearted» — is a quality God earnestly desires in a person's relationship with Him, after seeking God and after supposing one has found Him. What does this state of being whole-hearted mean? How is a person to…→03Where Should We Go?Essay · 22 min readI should like to ask this right away: In the place we go to, what and whom will we seek? After reading these writings, this question “where should we go” is one many people will ask. Many a person supposes he cannot be saved…→04Whom Does God Use?Essay · 23 min readThere are words, expressions, sayings that we use without paying much attention, without being aware. We say them just as they come to our mouth, as we feel them from within. I am not writing my text dwelling on periods, commas…→05Religion and AuthorityEssay · 12 min readImagine you are standing before God and are asked why you did this or that, or rather why you believed in this or that. Would you then say: Because that is how I learned it? – Learned from whom? – They taught it to me that way.…→06Ah, Those “Them”Essay · 15 min readIf you were standing before God, and God asked you a question: “Why did you do this or that in such a way, why did you believe like this?” — would you answer with: “I did it that way because They wanted it so; only because They…→07LoyaltyEssay · 54 min readLoyalty: heartfelt attachment, firm, strong friendship, faithfulness. Loyal: 1. Right, true. 2. One whose friendship and attachment are heartfelt; faithful. Did you also know that this word loyalty, whose meaning is beautiful…→08Belonging to somewhere.Chapter 33 · 42 min readAbout twenty years have passed. In this time, from the day I first came to know the Witnesses until today, I have felt compelled to learn a great many things. Actually, I had already believed in the existence of God in the very…→09The ability to make decisionsChapter 34 · 104 min readThis ability, which God created and gave to every intelligent creature, is something that all the organizations on earth work extremely hard to dull, destroy, and annihilate. The thing Satan hates most is for a human being to…→10Security and Safety, or Happiness?Chapter 41 · 76 min readIn someone who has read this entire book, perhaps this image may arise: “To belong to no religion, to be free, to bear no one’s yoke.” Even though I advocate being free, shedding needless burdens, and refusing to submit to the…→11Equality or Freedom?Chapter 44 · 59 min readIf someone put a choice before you: “there is a country where there is only equality but no freedom, and there is another country where there is freedom but no equality.” And you are forced to choose one of them—which would you…→12The thing one can never get enough of!Chapter 49 · 13 min readHave you ever thought about it? What, in your opinion, is the very first and greatest problem of a religious organization? Just think about it for a moment: what could it be? That its members are weak in faith? No. That their…→