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  Complaining over post dislikes / downvotes

  by Simon in

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  let's be clear: people have the right to like or dislike what they want - that is why the option is there.

  as long as they are not doing it in a malicious way to retaliate or game the system, there is no policing the votes.

  if you get a down-vote, live with it.

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  slimboyfat

  Can I just say, you are all behaving like elders and anyone who dislikes this post is clearly a Nazi.
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  Openly converting to another religion but not disfellowshipped

  by R Franz Ferdinand III in

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  odd.... friends of mine recently became members of an evangelical church.. up until they got baptised in this church, they still were visiting the jw meetings on a regular basis.they weren't really fading in the true sense of the word.. they came out of the closet about their new conviction quite publicly and even didn't shy away from getting in debate with the elders on biblical topics.. the elders are obviously very aware about their position and as they still were attending the meetings not so long ago, they clearly can be considered as people associated with the jw organisation.. as far as i know it seems they won't get disfellowshipped.

  as long my friends don't harrass fellow witnesses with their 'renegade ideas' and 'false religion', elders seem to comply and leave things as they are.. this puzzles me as defecting to babylon the great always has been one the most worst offenses a jw could possibly commit.. could this be a case of local elders interpreting/applying things their own way or is there a (new) general policy trending ?.

  anyone who knows about similar cases ?.

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  slimboyfat

  Ah, Netherlands?
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  Complaining over post dislikes / downvotes

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  let's be clear: people have the right to like or dislike what they want - that is why the option is there.

  as long as they are not doing it in a malicious way to retaliate or game the system, there is no policing the votes.

  if you get a down-vote, live with it.

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  slimboyfat

  What happened to the idea of making the forum self-moderating through voting?
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  Openly converting to another religion but not disfellowshipped

  by R Franz Ferdinand III in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  odd.... friends of mine recently became members of an evangelical church.. up until they got baptised in this church, they still were visiting the jw meetings on a regular basis.they weren't really fading in the true sense of the word.. they came out of the closet about their new conviction quite publicly and even didn't shy away from getting in debate with the elders on biblical topics.. the elders are obviously very aware about their position and as they still were attending the meetings not so long ago, they clearly can be considered as people associated with the jw organisation.. as far as i know it seems they won't get disfellowshipped.

  as long my friends don't harrass fellow witnesses with their 'renegade ideas' and 'false religion', elders seem to comply and leave things as they are.. this puzzles me as defecting to babylon the great always has been one the most worst offenses a jw could possibly commit.. could this be a case of local elders interpreting/applying things their own way or is there a (new) general policy trending ?.

  anyone who knows about similar cases ?.

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  slimboyfat

  Very strange. Is it California?
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  slimboyfat

  I think it just means being open to the possibility that things can be perceived differently at different times for valid reasons. There is always the spectre of the undefinable "other". I like this late comment from James Lovelock too.

  "One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don’t know it."
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  slimboyfat

  Why should an assurance count as a meaningful comment?
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  slimboyfat

  Of course I agree. Why should we suppose our view of reality is more truthful than a dolphin for example? Douglas Adams pointed that out in his inimitable way. The new atheists don't have a fraction of his wit or intelligence.

  I would mention the favourite subject about the earth not being round to a worm, except to say that it might neither be round to a super intelligence that grasps other dimensions. Wait for the typical anti-worm rhetoric.

  But I think Morris makes good points about convergence. Because if there is a plan there are still different ways of describing it. Mary Midgley says it's like reality is strained through a device that produces a certain form. Back to Plato!
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  slimboyfat

  Otherwise how do you explain convergence and human intelligence/consciousness?

  https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/does-evolutionary-convergence-prove-god/
  
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  cleveland ohio rc stats and observations

  by nowwhat? in

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  7200 peak attendance 31 baptised.

  on par with less than 1/2 % growth.

  david " zzzz" splane gave talks.

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  slimboyfat

  You can't infer growth from baptisms at a convention because 1) people get baptised at assemblies too 2) publisher numbers and baptised JWs are two different measures and 3) growth is the net effect of people joining and leaving, and the number baptised says nothing about the number leaving.
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  Network / Datacenter issues causing high latency

  by Simon in

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  that means "the site is slow but it's not my fault and there's nothing i can do about it".

  well, i've upped the instance configuration to see if that will help.. i'm sure google are working on the issue.

  probably not by randomly wiggling cables and turning things off and on like i solve network problems but hey, they're the experts..

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  slimboyfat

  I think certain gifted former posters left the forum at least in part because they liked the old format. So that's why I was asking.