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  Benny Hinn is on tv explaining Dateline

  by JT in

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  no weapon formed against you will succeed he quoted.

  he is on tbn

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  BIOS Computer Issue-PLEASE HELP

  by MrMoe in

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  my boss is running a dell inspiron 7000 laptop and i am trying to upgrade the bios (have it on a boot disk downloaded from the dell website) so that i can install windows2000 over an existing '98 os - as without the bios 2000 will not install.

  but, i keep getting this error... and i cannot install the proper bios because i get various memory manager messages... such as:

  phlash won't run with memory managers present for example emm386 or himem bio upgrade

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  Flashing the bios is a very risky business and if something goes wrong, it's all ruined. Be careful when flashing it to upgrade the bios, otherwise you may end up buying a whole new motherboard.

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  About that pesky number 666...

  by czarofmischief in

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  as a horror fan, i've seen every antichrist movie from the omen to the omega code.

  and that number 666 keeps popping up.

  so, i was thinking about that number, and how it's actually written in the bible is a bit odd.

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  Wow Yiz, great info. Did you get any of this from a site I could visit? What is the title of the book you mentioned? I'd heard the claim that SH was trying to rebuild Babylon, but never had seen any info on it. This intrigues me.

  You could hit Google and type "rebuilding of Babylon" or something close to it, or try "Pictures of Babylon", etc. There's a lot of sites that talks about the city. I've read some websites coming directly from Iraq that boasts about the city.

  As for the book, I don't remember the title, it was a long time ago either before or during or after the gulf war. I think the title was something like "Is Saddam Hussen the Anti-Christ?". I knew he's not because I recall reading from scripture the anti-christ will remain unknown until a certain appointed time. It makes sense to me because for his safety, he will keep a 100% low profile until the time is right to appear, which IMHO will be after the Rapture.

  The reason I am saying safety is because if he appeared before the Rapture and Christians who are still on this world figures him out, they could try and kill him thinking they could prevent the Tribulation from happening (of course we know it still will happen), I'm just speculating on this, but it seems to make sense to me.

  Anyway, in the book I saw pictures of the rebuilding of Babylon and one particular photo that threw me for a loop was a photo (which I am still trying to find) is a gold plaque on the wall that credits Saddam Hussen for the rebuilding of Babylon alongside with an image of him. After looking at the photos, I knew this was it. It scared the crap out of me back then. Saddam is funding billions of dollars into the project and since there's a information blackout, we don't know how much of the city is already completed or if it is already done.

  Also, concerning the antichrist. JWs teach that the Bible says there is more than one antichrists. Can anyone explain??

  There isn't more than one, there's only one anti-christ. A lot of men that came and went over the years was thought to be the anti-christ, like Hitler for example. But Hitler never fulfilled scripture that the AC will rule over the entire planet, in which case, Hitler never achieved it, despite of the odd coincidence(s?) that he was in power for 7 years and the attempted assassionation of Hitler during the middle of his reign.

  Pretty much everything that the JWs taught about Revelations as well as Daniel and Eziekal are all wrong. Try reading the bible without the Watchtower and you may find it will tell you very differently.

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  Last Post - My Most Painful Public Confession

  by Amazing in

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  my most painful confession

  note to simon: i will use some expletives, but i hope that they will be retained as this is intended to be an otherwise civil and thoughtful post to all my fellow ex-jws.

  please read on, as this is most painful.

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  Posting something negative about me, is not going to illicet feelings of good will. However, I hope he comes through with flying colors, and maybe we can talk, and resolve our differences.

  If he dies as a result of the surgery and I hope to God he doesn't. But I hope you do have that opportunity to make amends and I really do hope you won't end up regretting it if anything bad happens to Amazing.
  Having an open heart surgery is a very risky business. I'm scared for him. I'm praying for him right now.

  One big difference I see here between you and Amazing is that Amazing has opened his heart in a figurative sense to this community and we all have seen his heart and have come to know him and love him.

  You on the other hand have a closed heart and you are rude, crude and downright cruel. I'd take Amazing for a friend any day over you, TH! Hell, he's starting to be like a father to me. Someone I wish I had growing up compared to the kind of father I had. Amazing rules.

  Yizuman

  Edited by - Yizuman on 30 December 2002 2:1:12
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  Board wars :(

  by LyinEyes in

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  seems like tension is high right now, and i really hate tension, especially when i get right in the middle of it...........lol..... i swear i am not a troublemaker ,,, for the most part.... i enjoy this board because i have alot of good friends here, i have learned alot and this place will always have a special place in my heart because of that.. i like moe and randoms board because they are my friends and i like it there too.. i even lurk at jwo because i am nosey and i am interesting in certain ones and what is going on in their world.

  i worry,,,,,,,,,,, because i do care too much of what people think of me,,,,,,,,,, that by going to these other boards that i will be lable as disgruntled.

  i am not in anyway.........i go to different boards because i have friends that go there.

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  Yiz, I don't deactivate people *just* for what they may post elsewhere ... it also comes down to what they post here and what it appears to me that they are trying to achieve with their posts. Are they trying to stirr things up or drive people away for instance? Do they create an unpleasant atmosphere? etc ... A recent example is Imbue's comments that teejay has pointed out. Sometimes it isn't one 'big thing' that does it but the culmination of lots of little things.

  There are serious topics discussed here, there are disagreements, there are emotive issues ... but we can do without the unnecessary personal attacks IMHO.

  But some people are saying that you did just that. Am I misunderstanding what they're saying? 
  Ok, lemme explain what I am understanding as a scenerio and you tell me if I am wrong 
  and explain to me what really went down and I'll leave it at that.
   Moderator: Hmm, I wonder what's up with the other boards?
  (Visits another forum)
  Moderator: What the...??? Why that little stinker! That's full of crap! 
  Hmmm, I know that person has an account on my forum. I'll fix'em good!"
  (Deactivates person's account and deletes all their posts dating back to the beginning)
  Moderator: There, that'll teach'em!

   Now, this is what I am understanding as what they are saying. 
  If I am wrong and I am misunderstanding, please help correct me. Thank you. 

  Btw, I was on another forum and read that some folks are nuking their posts 
  for fear of having their account deleted from here. Some folks are saying 
  they're scared that they could lose their accounts just simply because a 
  board owner won't like what he or she has said on another forum. 

  I haven't been on other forums for a long time except for today and won't again for a long time. I've decided that I am sticking to this forum since this is where I visit most often.

  Yizuman

  Edited by - Yizuman on 29 December 2002 18:59:41
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  If this happened, what would you do?

  by whyhideit in

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  you have been following the news for weeks on iraq and wonder, "when will we attack and get this thing done?

  " finally we invade and the war is in full swing.

  the economy, which has been struggling for months now, finally caves in and major retailers fold as of the results of an extremely poor holiday shopping season.

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  In my opinion, Saddam should have been killed during the Gulf War a long time ago. This mess would have been resolved right then and there and we would not have to deal with this again like we are doing now. Plus this would have saved the US Military dollar today if Saddam gotten offed last time.

  Now we're spending crapload of money again like we did last time and it's costing us taxpayers more money that is unneccesarly needed to be spent. *sigh*

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  Board wars :(

  by LyinEyes in

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  seems like tension is high right now, and i really hate tension, especially when i get right in the middle of it...........lol..... i swear i am not a troublemaker ,,, for the most part.... i enjoy this board because i have alot of good friends here, i have learned alot and this place will always have a special place in my heart because of that.. i like moe and randoms board because they are my friends and i like it there too.. i even lurk at jwo because i am nosey and i am interesting in certain ones and what is going on in their world.

  i worry,,,,,,,,,,, because i do care too much of what people think of me,,,,,,,,,, that by going to these other boards that i will be lable as disgruntled.

  i am not in anyway.........i go to different boards because i have friends that go there.

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  Hey Yizu. I was at a party once at someone elses house and this woman started bad mouthing me to my face in front of everyone. I didnt do anything. After i went home i got woken up by people talking in the lounge, and I go out there and this woman was there. In my lounge. Well she got a face full . If you cant understand WHY she got a facefull..... what can I say?

  I can see where that is coming from and you're right. Whew! This mess is hard to figure out. LOL! I guess from what other people's preferences is that they stick to one forum and that's it. Sounds like a good idea to me.

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  Board wars :(

  by LyinEyes in

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  seems like tension is high right now, and i really hate tension, especially when i get right in the middle of it...........lol..... i swear i am not a troublemaker ,,, for the most part.... i enjoy this board because i have alot of good friends here, i have learned alot and this place will always have a special place in my heart because of that.. i like moe and randoms board because they are my friends and i like it there too.. i even lurk at jwo because i am nosey and i am interesting in certain ones and what is going on in their world.

  i worry,,,,,,,,,,, because i do care too much of what people think of me,,,,,,,,,, that by going to these other boards that i will be lable as disgruntled.

  i am not in anyway.........i go to different boards because i have friends that go there.

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  The only thing that bothers me is when people spread lies about me. I suspect most people would be a little aggrieved to see things being said about them that were untrue. Of course the people doing it know they are untrue but they seem to think that if they repeat them often enough, it wil eventually be accepted as fact.

  While I understand that this is YOUR forum and I respect that. Since you lay the ground rules on this forum as far as what is acceptable behavior on your forum and expect people to comply to the rules of your forum. No one has the right to tell you how you run your forum because you run it however you see fit. I have no problem with that at all.

  However, I have some disturbance within me in regards reading other people's forum and seeing what they say about this forum and what they say particularly about you. What bothers me is that if someone expressed an opinion of you no matter what the level of the negativity may be whether it be a light negativity about you or downright nasty and possibily a blantant lie.

  Now the opinions you read is from someone else's board, the reaction you had to other people's forums and the action you have taken afterwards on this forum. Please help me understand why you think it is neccessary for you to delete or deactivate someone's account based upon the fact you read someone's opinion on someone else's forum.

  Let me put it this way, where do you draw the line as far what level of negetivity that is acceptable to you and what is not? If I said for example, "Simon has a funny haircut", how much of an acceptance is that? Next level I go down to like this, "Simon is a homo and I think he gets off on the power trip on this forum."

  Now you weigh what these two comparable negativity I have given as an example. How far would you go to the point that you would come back here and nuke someone's account and ban someone from posting here based on after you read something from someone else's forum?

  If you can help us understand where you draw the line from there, I think it may help smooth out the rough edges on where, why, how you think from the perspective of Simon the Moderator.

  Forgive me that I am trying hard to convey my thoughts into words and I am looking at my writing here that it looks like I may be confusing some readers here as to what I am thinking, I hope I am making sense.

  In any rate, I think one other point is that do we as board owners (let's pretend we each have our own forum, for the sake of the arguement) have the right to deactivate and ban someone based on the fact that someone made a comment about someone no matter how light or heavy the negativity is on someone else's forum?

  If it were me, I just ignore them and not visit the forums at all. Screw it. I won't look at them. If someone emails me about some other forum, I won't look at it. Unless someone posts here with a link in regards to some other forum for other people to read what they're saying about me, I will delete it. I don't know personally how much it is worth to make a comment what was said about me in another forum. I guess it would depend on what it's being said. I don't own a forum, so I have no idea how I would react and what my actions would be.

  Edited: Here's another thought I had, I never owned a forum, so I have no idea how difficult running a forum can be. However, I have seen from another forums where there is absolutely no censorship is involved and the board owner said that he doesn't want to censor the board because it's a major PITA for him to do so. It's too much stress on him as well as the co-moderators helping him moderate the forum. So basically he's letting the people judge the fruits of the posts and let their actions speak for themselves. He said he's seen enough smart people to know what not to fall for trolls and other stuff. So, he's trusting us to use proper judgement on a person who is posting and moreso getting to know how the person thinks and feel after being around them for a period of time.

  I have mixed feelings about that, but then again, what do I know? I don't even own a forum to get enough experience to understand what it is like.

  Yizuman

  Edited by - Yizuman on 29 December 2002 17:59:12
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  Last Post - My Most Painful Public Confession

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my most painful confession

  note to simon: i will use some expletives, but i hope that they will be retained as this is intended to be an otherwise civil and thoughtful post to all my fellow ex-jws.

  please read on, as this is most painful.

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  I'm praying for you Jim and I do care about what you are going through.

  Please be in good health and I'll be thinking of you.

  Yizuman
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  I know I am addicted to jw.com because....

  by Yizuman in

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  ) i hit "refresh" to see what replies are to a topic or what new threads come up between every 5 to 15 mins......

  ) i hit this forum as soon as i wake up, read forum as i am eating breakfast, read forum again after i finished showering, hit forum while i am getting dressed, hit forum last minute before leaving for work and hit forum when i get home from work.. *passes on thread to the next poster*.

  from the "hitting the refresh button" class.... yizuman.

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  your 10 year old comes up to you and asks to play her new RUGRATS computer game,

  and you tell her "No, hunny, I have to respond to the "Blood coming out of my ass" thread!

  Ewwwwww!!!!

  Yizuman

  Edited by - Yizuman on 29 December 2002 0:40:53