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  HTTPS (SSL security) Now Available

  by Simon in

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  i've setup an ssl certificate so you can now use https to browse the site.

  this creates an encrypted connection between your browser and the server which is more secure and prevents urls visited from being shown in router logs, content can't be eavesdropped etc.... there are also some performance benefits but they won't kick in until i make some more changes.. consider it experimental for now but at some point it will likely automatically redirect you to the secure version of a page.. you can try it by adding 's' to the http part of any address or just goto the home page and browse from there (some mixed content means you may not get the fully green https status in your browser just yet though).. let me know if you have any issues using the site..

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  Well, yeah . . . it works, sort of.

  The main page, is encrypted.

  When clicking on any of the subpages, such as Forum, Topics, etc., it reverts back to an unsecured environment (using Opera v36).
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  "well beyond the intent of the scriptures" 7:44

  by biblexaminer in

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  2. scandals

  if you have the jw app running on your tablet, watch the latest (may) governing broadcast and hear tony the jackass, and when you get to 7 minutes and 44 seconds ...hit the pause button.. read the words at the bottom of the screen as per the jw app close captioning.. "well beyond the intent of the scriptures" .

  he is describing the governing body past, like the ghost of christmas past.

  yes, the governing body past were a bunch of freaking yahoo's violating 1 cor.

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  Let's not forget of TOMOs advise to elders penned down and approved by the executive board.

  It's a prime example of going beyond the things written:

  
  

  "A sound rule is found in the words of the apostle Paul: “Do not go beyond the things that are written.” (1 Cor. 4:6) Elders do not go beyond the things that are written in the Bible. And by extension, they do not go beyond the Bible-based counsel written in the publications of the faithful and discreet slave."

  2008 The Watchtower, April15, p. 7, par. 19
  

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  So can you pray for others that are not JW's ? Or only JW's

  by tor1500 in

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  i'm a witness, so i need to know...can we pray for someone that isn't a jw.

  reason i ask, once a friend of mine was going for an operation.

  i asked an elder could he pray with her before she goes into the hospital.

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  Hell, yes, you can pray with and for whoever you like. . . . Pray for Obama, Putin, Merkel, Cameron, Holande, and the like. Then show him the urge to do just so in 1. Timothy 2:1-3.

  That elder probably got farther in reading the "Flock"-Book than reading the Bible.

  
  

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  Apathy carts in NoCal

  by kaik in

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  i spent couple wonderful days in napa valley and sonoma with visits to san francisco.

  what hits me was the number of apathy carts in the city.

  they were at powell station, embarcadero, fisherman wharf, etc.

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  bats in the belfry

  . . . it's due to the memorial season drive, perhaps?
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  2016--Medical Documents & BOE!

  by Atlantis in

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  2016 medical documents!..

  re: simplified advance decision document.

  .. https://we.tl/sj94l0wsir.

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  bats in the belfry

  The dpa-E Bi Medical Directive document in part reads:
  
  

  I consent to my relevant medical records and the details of my condition being shared with the Emergency Contact below and/or with member(s) of the Hospital Liaison Committee for Jehovah’s Witnesses.

  Now I, for one, would not want to have "my relevant medical records and the details of my condition being shared with the HLC.

  They tattletale for sure.

  
  

  
  
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  Is it true: the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away?

  by FinchAndWeston in

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  i heard that the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away ... is this information true/false?

  just curious.

  it's secondhand.

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  bats in the belfry

  He then said that after that when the 144k are all in heaven the memorial will no longer be observed.

  . . . so, then, the memorial celebration will come to a finish before Armageddon. The latest teaching says that the 'remnant' will be called to heaven - raptured - before the big A.

  Correct?
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  FEB 2016 broadcast

  by Grey Goose in

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  it might be the craziest one yet..

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  Sheesh, . . . . is he trying to explain the deeper things of God’s Word?

  Growing to maturity requires that we learn to draw nourishment from solid food, the deeper truths of God’s Word. Otherwise, our perceptive powers will necessarily remain limited.
  

  w05 7/15 p. 24 par. 15

  
  

  . . . after all, it appears the perceptive powers have remained limited with them.
  
  
  
  
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  2014-12-17-BOE-Children Give Up Your Pocket Money!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. bible

  petra!

  2015-12-17-boe already, you dear brothers have done so well, sending gifts both large and small.

  for in-stance, two children, five and seven years old, sent their pocket money to help build our new bethel instead of going to the circus, writing, "this is much better than that!

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  bats in the belfry

  The WTBTS knows exactly how to suck them:
  

  If you donate £100 per year to us, the government will give us, currently, a further £25. Cumulatively this is very significant.

  Source: cp-E Bi (12/15)
  

  
  
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  The power of elders gets eroded further

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for instance:.

  once the elders have determined that the bible student qualifies to engage in the field ministry, he is eligible to receive his own copy of organized to do jehovahs will.. 2015 organized to do jehovahs will, page 71. .

  now online for everyone - without interogation..

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  bats in the belfry

  Jeffro, isn't there somewhere on their website a login needed - elders only access?

  
  That's where I think a mole will do.
  
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  The power of elders gets eroded further

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
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  for instance:.

  once the elders have determined that the bible student qualifies to engage in the field ministry, he is eligible to receive his own copy of organized to do jehovahs will.. 2015 organized to do jehovahs will, page 71. .

  now online for everyone - without interogation..

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  bats in the belfry

  Do I have to login to get that question asked? . . . I am not a member - is that for membership personnel only?

  Jeffro, one way of circumventing their foolproof protection system:
  

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