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Concerning sources, evidence, and honest invitations

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9 Let a person act alone, alongside others, or together by agreement; none of these requireth the family as a sacred unit.

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10 Preserve real responsibilities and negotiated commitments while declining invented claims over another’s existence.

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READING CONVERSATION Letters 3, 13, 15, 17, 21, 25–26.

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BOOK IV / OBSERVANCE 6

Concerning sources, evidence, and honest invitations

1 When the Society honors a writer, let the writer’s actual argument remain visible.

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2 Name the source, the adaptation, and the disagreement.

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3 Lewis’s eternal and knowing Creator shall not be presented as though Lewis had taught the Society’s account of God.

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4 A fictional voice may reveal a pattern without proving the existence of an invisible agent behind thy neighbor.

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5 Let joy and distress receive the same care in separating experience, interpretation, and evidence.

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6 No intensity of feeling alone establisheth the cause that an observer assigneth to it.

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7 Let the website make its invitations clear and its endings available.

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8 Offer a next door; do not manufacture fear of closing the current one.

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9 Do not make curiosity into a hidden subscription, reflection into a required disclosure, or membership into a claim of superiority.

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10 The reader who leaveth to enjoy their life hath not necessarily been lost.

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11 And let no attribution be improved by pretending its author agreed with us.

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READING CONVERSATION Preface; Letters 22, 25, 27, 30.

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BOOK IV / OBSERVANCE 7

Concerning the certificate and its limits

1 Let a Certificate of Independent Thought be a freely chosen keepsake, not a test of spiritual worth.

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2 Let it acknowledge a liberty; let it not pretend that a liberty began when the seal was printed.

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