littleo
littleo wrote:What is most absurd is that ex-l would readily distribute Murlis to BK followers. But this will only reinforce the cult in them, which has to be taken out of them. Someone explain me this.
ex-l wrote:It's simple.
Do you really have it in your heart to deny some little old lady who is too sick to go to her local center something that will give her comfort? Do you really have that small a heart? I don't believe in Christianity or Islam either ... but I would not deny, to take examples from the many requests we have had, a dying Christian a Bible, or a sick Muslim a Koran.
I find it difficult to believe that you cannot think that out yourself.
In addition, I believe in greater in principles than those of the BKWSU, such as 'equality of opportunity', 'freedom of information', and other democratic standards. I do not recognise the Brahma Kumari leadership's monopoly over their god, or any other god, nor the Murlis. It states clearly in the Murlis that any BK should have the right to copies, and so they should. If it is truly "God's" word, and is going to inspire all the religions of the next Kalpa Cycle like they say, then every human being in the world should have full rights of access. I am happy to fulfil that.
It's the most obvious and elementary thing to do ... have one big open database of every original Murli so that every individual can be on an equal footing with all information instantly at their fingertips.
Why would not you?
The correct answer is, "Ha-ji! ... That's a great idea. I'd love to help the BK/PBK family. I'll do my best to collate a 'text only' collection of all Murlis". Any other response and your account is deactivated until your willing to give something back to the community.
You have decided that the Murlis have to be in text format, but whatever you have as Murlis in pdf you could sent this easily through email to people, if you wished, with no further effort. It would serve the purpose. I understand your wish and it makes sense, it is good that documents are searchable and smaller. This mailing list that you speak about and i don't know what it is maybe is also something good.
The books that I have, as you see, are very low quality. This cannot be scanned and read by OCR. I cannot type in devanagari. I am also not good in Hindi to translate them. What do you want me to do? The Murlis that are available as pdf here and on the bk-pbk.info can be very easily turned to text if you wished to do so. I don't have other supplies of Murlis. If I had, I would share that.
OK, you bargain. But what is my guarantee that if I do this that you will send this to people and not just keep them with yourself.