Posts by JAFO

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Steven Unthank's Recent Freeze Update

by mind blown in

to keep all comments on one thread, please go to original post for update.

thank you..

Appearance for meetings

by kohedlo in

i have one question.

very important for me yours viewpoints.. .

acceptable for congregation meetings to clothe with necktie ascot?.

JAFO

Wouldn't it be amusing to show up at the local hall in the rural midwest in full Scottish dress, complete with the little purse and no underpants?

Do please try it.. report the results in this thread. Bonus points if you get video..

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Is my marriage worth saving?

by sacdfan in

long story - will make it short - i was a jw for 4 years.

hy husband took to it straigt away and has been a jw for 20 years - we were both converted by one of his workmates.

our 4 kids were all baptised jws and thankfully 3 escaped (2 disfellowshipped, one fading) - so my eldest son is still in with his dad.

JAFO

Totally OT but what the hell...

Re djeggnog.. As Superintendant Chalmers said about Principal Skinner: "I swear, the stick up that man's ass has a stick up its' ass..."

@ sacdfan: No, it's not worth saving.. you deserve a life. Next question?

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Circuit Leasing selling on JW.ORG ????

by yknot in

so i was poking around jw.org a lil recently...... noticed this advertisement was still present in the 'privileged' section (ie you gotta have login access).

this was posted on jw.org a little over a year ago (as shown in pic) but since it is still viewable......figured it is fair-game for jwn fodder.

thoughts?????.

JAFO

Yknot, speaking of being under a rock, you have a PM from me.

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got hotmail hacked...anyone help me?

by Aussie Oz in

jw
friends

my hotmail got/is hacked.. i have no idea how, i never open links or downloads i dont trust etc etc.

started when i noticed i couldnt open hatmail in ei and had to use firefox.. it sent emails to all my contacts (i have multiple accounts with their own passwords, so i dont know if went thru them too) and i know my dad opened one and it shut his pc down so bad he's had to take it into a shop.. i ran a scan and removed one trojan win32.. i went onto a different pc and changed all passwords then logged off and back on, checked emails.

sent emails to warm my contacts.

JAFO

A long time ago, I read a suggestion (I can't recall where) to protect your friends from being inadvertently virus-spammed by you: you add a fake email contact at the beginning of your contact list (alphabetically speaking), so I created a fake email address with lots of aaaaa's in the name part and a fake domain (test it to make sure it's fake). Apparently the virus will launch a test on that first email address and when it bounces back, the virus shuts itself off and does not proceed to your other contacts.

A long time ago, this used to work.. but it depended on a weakness/flaw within Micro$oft Outlook Express, whereby it would abort on sending to a non-existent email address. Virus writers caught onto this trick very quickly, and created their own email-engine routine within the virus itself (it's very easy), so as to avoid depending on Outlook Express to do the job for them.

Result: modern viruses do not abort if email errors are encountered.. they will send to everyone in your contacts list regardless.

Instead of such simple stunts, you are far better off relying on a good anti-virus such as Avast! or AVG (personally I prefer Avast!) and making sure it updates at least every day. You should also install a good anti-spyware program such as Malwarebytes Anti Malware. The free version needs to be manually updated and run at least once a week. If you buy it (a lifetime subscription, so it's good value), it provides real-time protection, the same as anti-virus software. It is safe to run an anti-virus and an anti-malware together, but you should not use two anti-virus or two anti-malware programs together, as there can be conflicts between them.

@ Gromit: no, it wasn't just a phishing attack.. somebody had gained access to his accounts and had messed with his passwords.

@ Honesty: I've never seen a paid-for anti-virus at the top of the scoresheet of independent AV tests.. the best of the free ones (see my recommendations above) consistently out-perform the commercial offerings.

Oh yeah.. for those wondering, I helped Aussie check that his machine was truly cleaned of all traces of virus/trojans (using some much more powerful tools than AV & AS, but which are too dangerous for use by the non tech-savvy), then helped him get into his locked Hotmail accounts. We next transferred all of his contacts and important emails to his new gmail account. After which I helped him send a warning & address update notification to all his contacts. Right now he's busy updating every website etc where he has a membership, with his new email addy..

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An interesting comparison between my reception at a K.H. and a Baptist Ch.

by outlander in

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friends

been a while, long while indeed, since i last posted here but i just had to share an interesting.

observation my wife and i made last sunday.

before i do that though, for anyone that remembers any of my previous posts and the stress i was under a year ago, a lot has changed!

JAFO

Geez Oz.. if you do, wait 'til I'm there visitng, ok? I'd kill to see that..

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Are we living with the last generation of Scientologists?

by Gayle in

http://www.thevine.com.au/news/current-affairs/know-this-tv-binging,-immaterial-products,-scientology's-end,-italian-tears,-the-kickstarter-scam20120122.aspx.

are we living with the last generation of scientologists?

over the past decade, membership has dropped in the us by 20,000. in an article for lrb titled "religion, grrrr" rachel aviv reviews one of the only academic studies of scientology to date.

JAFO

The future (and current) rulers of the world are the ones using xtian-based religions as a control mechanism, bro. (Including the Dubs.. who have some serious financial backing coming from a rather unusual source.)

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How to punish the WT over the WWC act situation

by Aussie Oz in

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friends

talking about this case the other day, she came up with the thought that would it not be good if they are found guilty that a public apology for disobeying the law etc had to be printed in the public edition of the watchtower magazine.. now that would be better even that a massive fine i reckon!.

oz.

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JAFO

Tater-T, I didn't know that.. that alone is reason enough to insist that they print an apology over the WWC Act violations in the public WT.. worldwide..

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Thinking Without Words

by DT in

jw
friends

is it possible to think without words?.

i've heard many people claim that it's not possible.

recently another thread about evolution was sidetracked by this question.. i personally spend a lot of time thinking without words.

JAFO

I'm told that some mathematicians can think in pure numbers..

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my wife saw shunning first hand

by Aussie Oz in

well the other day we dropped daughter back to her mother, after what was a fabulous whole week with me.. sitting on the verandah of the house is grandpa jw, about 80 and recently widowed.

now, he is my ex father in law and we got on very good back in the day, even helped build his house.. anyway, i drop daughter off and i am looking at the man, who in the whole 10 mins that he sat there, gave one cursory glance our way as i stood on the footpath opposite the house talking to my kids.. this is a guy who will talk the leg off a chair, a guy who will start a conversation with a total stranger in the street, the man is a talker.. i mention to wife as we departed..."poor bastard, not even 'allowed' to say hello the father of his grandkids''.

if i was not d/f i know he would have come over, no doubt whatsoever.

JAFO

So that's why you weren't here for a week.. I'm glad you had such an excellent reason for avoiding us all..

Say g'day to the missus for me..