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  How to loose a customer in two emails

  by Elsewhere in

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  today i noticed my personal website was hacked again.

  over the last year my site has been hacked by several different worms that try to infect your web browser when you view my site.. these hacks are all the result of poor security measures and a gross lack of applying security patches to the hosting server.. today i had enough and emailed my hosting company to let them know that, once again, my site was hacked.

  here is the email exchange:.

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  As A JW Did You Care About Old JW History, Old Light & Flip Flops?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i used to look at the old stuff as info that the witnesses were progressively understanding.

  i didn't hold it against the witnesses if they changed understandings because after all the 'light was getting brighter and brighter".. as time went on, it did start effecting me.

  there were too many things i'd let slide by when i was younger that i just couldn't ignore any longer.

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  Time to come out

  by whatistruth in

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  still in, married.

  but i'm coming out really soon.

  you get one chance on this earth and i ain't about to waste it.

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  Proof the GB does not really believe the end is comming.....

  by Albert Einstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you were a leader of a small group that should survive a worldwide disaster and will be left on their own, not being able to use now common services would you:.

  a) encourage your members to learn all possible skills and to get all possible today available education, maybe even organized "who will learn what" to cover really every aspect of future life and to be really prepared ..... or.

  b) discurage your members from education, letting them just sit home or at meetings and keep repeating: "the end is comming, the end is comming ... be ready, the end is comming...".

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  CO visit this week

  by JerkhovahsWitless in

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  for the first time, i didn't attend the meeting when the co came.

  my family went, which i figured would lead to them being questioned about me.. i thought for sure the cultists would be knocking on my door with the fat old wind-bag co to "encourage" me.

  unless they stopped by this week when no one was home, it looks like no one wants to save me from armageddon.

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  Ever have a part on a convention or assembly?

  by Frog in

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  i played a role in a convention drama when i was 14. it was a really poxy modern day drama.

  something about catching my bigger brother puffing on a cigarette lol.

  i had to practice the part for months in a dogey american accents.

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  Jonah as Fiction

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the book of jonah contains one of the most famous stories in the ot: the account of a cowardous prophet who was swallowed whole by a giant fish.

  the only other mention of jonah in the ot however is absolutely silent about this remarkable story (2 kings 14:25), and there is much evidence that the book is a late tale written after the babylonian exile.

  the book is unique among the twelve minor prophets for being mostly narrative and it has much in common with post-exilic haggada (such as the first-century lives of the prophets, which added considerably to the jonah legend), the "great city" of ninevah is little more than a distant, vague memory (as evidenced by such things as the anomalous title "king of ninevah" and the non-mention of the king's name in jonah 3:6), legendary touches like the giant fish and the magical growth of the castor-oil plant, and especially the late aramaisms rife in the book (such as spynch in 1:5, ht'st "to think" in 1:6, stq in 1:12, mnh in 2:1, and so forth).

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  Whatever happened to those "asteroid bombs"????

  by Leolaia in

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  how coherent and fear-mongering is this passage?

  33 since 1914 we have gone through two world wars, the second being worse than the first.

  we have seen atomic power introduced into modern warfare, under the shield of the most powerful nation of christendom.

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  Rutherford's Views on Women

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "the women make monkeys or dupes of men.

  the men have before effeminate, soft and easily influenced and have lost their real manhood and sturdiness in the affairs of state and home.

  for instance, when men are sitting at a table and a woman approaches, all the men arise and pay her homage and thereby elevate her to a place above men.

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  Revelation 22:14-15 and its Relation to a Lost Gospel

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  oxyrhynchus papyrus 840 , an excerpt from an otherwise unknown narrative gospel of jesus dating to between a.d. 100-200, contains a story about jesus arguing with the pharisees in jerusalem over the issue of ritual purity which is paralleled in theme but not in content with mark 7 and matthew 15. the story is translated as follows:and taking the disciples along, he led them into the inner sanctuary itself, and began walking about in the temple precinct.

  yet in a defiled state you have invaded this sacred place, which is ritually clean.

  " and the savior stood up immediately, with his disciples, and replied, "since you are here in the temple, i take it you are clean.

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