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  Is Watchtower's position on smoking consistent with its position on masturbation?

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower considers masturbation to be a form of uncleanness but not a disfellowshipping offence because the bible says nothing about masturbation.

  a jw who masturbates is likely to face no more than losing privileges in the congregation.. like masturbation, smoking is considered by jws to be a form of uncleannes and like masturbation, the bible says nothing about it.

  but a jw who smokes faces disfellowshipping.. yes, smoking is known to be deleterious to a person's health whereas the jury is still out on the adverse health effects of masturbation.

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  Who ever said they were consistent!  Nothing makes sense in the cult.  
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  Going out with a bang

  by LittleToe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after much deliberation, i decided to go "out" at the end of a public talk.

  it didn't go down too well, but at least i was able to give some of my reasons for leaving.. i've put some of the details on my homepage.

  i'll update it more when i get the time and the strength.

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  Bumping this to the top for the newbies and people still trying to see some old posts!  This is a winner!
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  Site issues: Jan 02 Update (Sign In)

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i've deployed a fix for people affected by sign-in issues caused by having multiple accounts associated with the same email address.

  here's how to activate the fix:.

  you must attempt to sign in using the email address associated with your account (not a username) and must have access to that mailbox.. if there are multiple accounts associated with the email address then you will be shown a warning message with the option to have an email sent to repair your account.. the email will contain a link to a page showing all the accounts associated with the same email address and allow you to select the one you want to be active (it will disassociate all the other accounts from the email address).. once you have completed the process then you should be able to sign in as normal.

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  Note to stillin:

  A few of us really love to browse the archives and I have a small work around; go to the home page find the 'best of" section.

  You have days of reading ahead of you.
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  Site issues: Jan 02 Update (Sign In)

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i've deployed a fix for people affected by sign-in issues caused by having multiple accounts associated with the same email address.

  here's how to activate the fix:.

  you must attempt to sign in using the email address associated with your account (not a username) and must have access to that mailbox.. if there are multiple accounts associated with the email address then you will be shown a warning message with the option to have an email sent to repair your account.. the email will contain a link to a page showing all the accounts associated with the same email address and allow you to select the one you want to be active (it will disassociate all the other accounts from the email address).. once you have completed the process then you should be able to sign in as normal.

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  Top of the page, on the black line... about center of the line.
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  New layout feels very chaotic

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  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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  While I am loving a lot of the new features, I also miss the threads, when I click on a particular forum from home page, the mix of old and new is nice and exasperating at the same time. So finding an old thread is available from search but if I know how long ago it was I could just jump back a few pages of threads and be pretty sure to find it quickly.

  I have found interesting old threads but it is a crap-shoot.
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  Site issues: Dec 30 Update

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  first of all, some apologies - i had planned to spend the last couple of days getting everyone signed in to the new site and sorting account issues out but i wasn't getting over the flu as i thought, i got worse.

  i've probably had 4 hours sleep in the last few days.

  anything that requires too much thinking isn't going to happen right now.

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  Simon when will the "previous" buttons work?  
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  Where is Everyone????

  by truthlover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  missing a lot of the oldies and goodies -- is this site so new, no one has signed on yet?

  i am confused... but then, i will have to wait and see what happens.. somehow - change is not the best option but we adjust..have most of the users gone to other locations?.

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  Like Magnum said, till we get a FAQ on how things work it will be slow going for some things.

   BUT I was able to change my avatar and I do like the look of it.  Thank you Simon!
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  New forum 'parousia' is upon us! (software version)

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  the time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.

  of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.

  i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.

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  I really would like to return to my reading of the archives... I had started on active topics and worked from page 4 or 5 to somewhere in the 300's.  Is there a easy way to get this done?  I know that it should be possible.  

  Technology is wonderful, but I do need detailed instructions.  FAQ's, whatever I am doing now is not working.
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  How Do I Change Avatars?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  i've been looking for ways to change mine, but i haven't found the way.

  can anyone help??.

  thanks.. .

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  Click  your name at the top of the page, it goes to your profile page... Which you can now enter info about yourself.  About halfway down is the option to change the avatar.  You can do this!   

  
  
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  My dub aunt thinks Obama is mentioned in the bible.

  by Jehovah lol in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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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  Welcome to the forum.  Were you subject to this weirdness when you were a kid?