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  New layout feels very chaotic

  by EndofMysteries in

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  i don't really know how to describe the feeling but i'll give examples, but the new layout to me makes it feel tiring being on for too long.

  1. there is the top menu, then a big add between that and the next part, a big ad between the bottom and where you reply, then on the right column you either have 2 ads on top or some type of summary, then ad, then either related posts or other areas.

  there are no borders, the adds have the same color and text type but larger font, and it all seems chaotically merged into one thing where you need to constantly sort out what you are viewing.

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  AnnOMaly

  BTW, Simon; how do you get the "quote" function to work?

  Copy, paste, press the double quote button. :-D

  
  
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  what is 'the arrangement' exactly?

  by sowhatnow in

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  2. beliefs

  we often hear the phrase.

  its used to accuse.... they did not follow j's arrangement, you have to live by j's arrangement.

  or to brag.... its all due to j's arrangement , we work with his org, and according to the arrangement.

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  AnnOMaly

  "Jehovah's arrangement" = "theocratic order" = meeting/congregation/WT corporation procedures. 

  (1 Corinthians 14:33) . . .For God is a God not of disorder but of peace.. . .

  (1 Corinthians 14:40) . . .let all things take place decently and by arrangement.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  WTF... what happened? or - I'm old and hate change

  by undercover in

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  2. friends

  i leave you people alone for one holiday, and you go and change the whole dern place around.

  i can't find anything, don't recognize anything, i'm lost... wait, i sound like my grandfather... .

  why, would you look what you've done to the place.

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  At the moment I visit much less often as I used to like the 'active' page having, what was it, about twenty thread titles with just the titles and not the post included. 

  Ahh TC, depending on the layout you have (I'm on Chrome), you should, on the 'Active' page, be able to see a right hand column toward the top that's headed 'Snippets' where you can select 'None.' (Opera Mini on the phone doesn't give the 'Snippets' option so I'm stuck with lengthy previews on there, unfortunately.)

  At the bottom of the 'Active' page, you have a choice of viewing 5, 10 or 20 posts/headings at once. It defaults to 10 but you can make it 20.
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  Please post new forum feedback or questions here

  by Simon in

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  2. tech-support

  well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

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  OUTLAW!

  Good to see you but I miss Mutley.

  Coloring shows up in the reply box but does not transfer to the final post :( The highlighting seems to work, though.
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  New Understanding of Slave Class

  by mrquik in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good morning all (good evening to those on the wrong side of the world);.

  could someone explain the new arrangement with the "anointed"?

  is anyone other than the gb in this class anymore?

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  AnnOMaly

  Re: prologos' 1st post on this thread:
  

  only the Governing body gets the reward when they are raptured before Armageddon

  Well, yes and no .... All the 'anointed' get raptured before the Big A and get the same reward - even though all but 7 or 8 of them don't comprise the appointed 'faithful and discreet slave' class. IOW, the vast majority of 'anointed' get the same lofty reward as the 'faithful and discreet slave' for having no responsibility whatsoever! Neat that, huh? 

  w13 7/15, p.25

  19 Does the faithful slave receive a
  greater reward in heaven than the rest
  of the anointed? No. A reward promised
  to a small group in one setting may
  ultimately be shared by others. For example,
  consider what Jesus said to his
  11 faithful apostles the night before he
  died. (Read Luke 22:28-30.) Jesus promised
  that small group of men that a fine
  reward awaited them for their faithfulness.
  They would share his throne of
  kingly authority. But years later, he indicated
  that all of the 144,000 will sit on
  thrones and share his rulership. (Rev.
  1:1; 3:21) Similarly, as stated at Matthew
  24:47, he promised that a small group of
  men—the anointed brothers who make
  up the faithful slave—will be appointed
  over all his belongings. In reality, all of
  the 144,000 will share his vast heavenly
  authority.—Rev. 20:4, 6.
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  Question about the HLC and medical records

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the hlc was established after i left the jws.

  here in canada, the hlc was piloted back in the early 70s and that is when i had a personal encounter with the men in white shirts and shiny black shoes who took away my right to make medical decisions.. i am not very familiar with the internal doings of the hlc, other than that they hold the jw patient's life in their hands.. when the hospital liaison committee becomes involved in a jw patient's health care, what type of information is sent to the watchtower headquarters, and does the watchtower society receive copies of the patient's medical records?

  if so, does the society maintain a database/library of historical medical cases that the hlc has been involved in?

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  There was a version of the 'no blood' card some years ago that had a clause permitting the HLC to access your medical records!

  (Somebody posted a scan on this forum but imageshack have blocked a view of it other than a piddling little thumbnail on Google images.)

  
  

  
  
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  My dub aunt thinks Obama is mentioned in the bible.

  by Jehovah lol in

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  she's not even american and doesn't live in the usa so it's not even her area of political awareness really.

  she seems convinced that obama is the prophesied wolf in sheep's clothing mentioned in revelation.. it's unusual for non-us dubs to hold the weirder beliefs, so this is a new one for me.

  she also said that the end is very close now and that things are a foot with north korea; it's clearly the king of the north.. she said exactly the same thing 5 years ago about china, and exactly the same thing 10 years ago about iraq.. derp derp..

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  I think North Korea is evidently the 'king of the north' because both are baddies and both have 'north' as part of their description. 
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  Site issues: Dec 27 Update

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  here's the current status:.

  performance improvements have been made to make things slicker.. the "remember me" issue should now be fixed.. sign-in captcha can be affected by ad-blockers so consider disabling those.. sign-in email is case-sensitive - until i update this consider using your forum username instead.. ie stalls on "queued for processing" when posting a topic or reply but the post has been made (just navigate to active or refresh the topic if replying).. i will be working through issues today and contacting anyone who had sign-in issues to check if they still have problems.. many thanks again for your patience while we work through these teething problems..

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  I miss the old feature that, for each post, showed the post # out of total posts - for example, post #365 of 399. Could that be added here?

  Actually, Magnum, some kind of post numbering system would be very useful in keeping track of responses in a thread - especially a lively, busy one - and navigating/cross-referencing between other threads and posts.

  If you, Simon, do not want to reintroduce the dates on posts, a post numbering system will be vital. Both dates and numbering would be helpful, though. It isn't always practical to quote every bit of text you're replying to and it would be handy to say which post is being referred to.. 

  For instance, which is easier?

  "Regarding Simon's post he made approximately 9 hours before this one on this thread - the one 10 posts down on the first page (or 5 posts down on the 2nd page if your page is set to 5 posts per page) ...."

  Or,

  "Regarding Simon's post #10 ...." 

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  Regarding some of the reasons I think reintroducing dates are important. See THIS THREAD and a comment I made approximately 2 days previous to this post, 14 posts down on the first page (using the 20 posts per page setup).

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  It makes it a lot harder navigating through this massive site without a numbering (or dating) system in place. If individual posts could be hyperlinked to as well - even better!
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  New Site Problems

  by The Searcher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi simon - i'd sent you an email regarding this problem;.

  i cannot see the captcha facility to enable me to prove i'm a humanzee and log-on.

  so i could not gain access to my account and participate - despite trying numerous suggestions provided on the internet.. i tried one last thing - i downloaded mozilla firefox (never tried it before) and it by-passes the captcha function and gives me access now.. i look forward to getting acquainted with the new-look web site.. thanks simon..

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  Greener: Given all the problems that so many have had on here now with the new site etc..can we conclude that this has all been a horrible mistake?

  
  

  Nah. Glitches are normal for a massive site change-over like this. 
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  User sign-in issues

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  just a heads-up / status update - i'm still working on the issues so please don't think i've abandoned you if you still can't sign in and i haven't replied to your email.. i will get things sorted out and then we'll have the old gang back together.. thanks again to you all for your patience and perseverance while the teething problems are being ironed out.

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