Posts by besty

http://www.christianpost.com/news/jehovahs-witnesses-hit-with-another-lawsuit-alleging-child-sexual-abuse-organization-has-paid-over-13-million-in-damages-130490/.

besty

http://www.opb.org/news/article/suit-filed-against-jehovahs-witnesses-in-hillsboro-for-alleged-abuse-in-1980s/

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My Breaking Point -- 11/9/14

by game1914over in

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friends

i have enjoyed reading your comments during the past four years.

deep down inside, i have always been agnostic.

the first few chapters in genesis are contradictory and differing.. no one has ever been able to answer my question: "why was satan ever created?".

besty

That is not an official service level agreement though! :p

hehehe Simon - the villagers are demanding an SLA now :-)

oh and welcome to the OP - good job!

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BTTT / Marked topics

by Simon in

i've noticed a lot of topics being bumped recently with "bttt" (back to the top) comments or "marked" as the reply.. i'd appreciate if people think twice before doing this.

simply forcing topics back to the top even though there is nothing to say on them is not helpful and negates the usefulness of having an active topics view.

if everyone did this with every topic they want to push then things would quickly deteriorate so i don't believe some should be allowed to do it for whatever reason.. by all means post new and relevent comments to a topic but short esp single-word non-comments that are simply used to push certain topics back to the top are likely to be interpreted as spam and removed or blocked if necessary.. .

besty

Perhaps an 'add to my favourites' button would help...

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Kate Hudson set to star as JW painter Margaret Keane a JW.

by whereami in

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friends

another email going round the jw community.

there all excited about this saying it's going to be a great witness to others.

yeah right.. .

besty

wow this has been doing the rounds for 6 years now...

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Humourous DA letter

by besty in

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right- we've been thinking about this.. .

it seems that most da letters are: doctrinal, personal, emotional or or major issues such un etc .

and completely understandably so..but.. .

besty

still here y'all.. :-)

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Taking on Jehovah's Witnesses fake Child Safeguarding Policy in the UK

by Watchtower-Free in

found this on youtube.

this is louise goode .

shes also on facebook.

besty

not wishing to get off topic here but the CC have denied status to other similar religions in the past, notably Plymouth Brethren, in connection with ostracism of former members

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/271691/1/Plymouth-Brethren-have-their-application-for-Charitable-Status-accepted-finally

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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?

by Jim_TX in

howdy!.

it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

i am, and am having fun doing it.

besty

With the price seemingly on a steep decline, how do the ecomonics of mining still work out?

I read an article saying that the increased mining power may be the reason that the price is dropping as miners convert the minted coins into cash

I think a lot of miners would find it uneconomical below $250 fiat at current difficulty. It would be interesting if the exchange rate to USD drops below that general range. Miners have various cost inputs - the capital cost and electrical efficiency (hash/w) of mining rigs, the cost of electricity, staff and space costs etc. Of course 'the short-term price' of Bitcoin is where a lot of media attention goes, but the bigger picture is the long-term value of blockchain technology.

There was also the fraud of the mining machine maker who used the new machines to mine themselves and then delivered them to people who had paid and were waiting for them once they were effectively near useless and past the price / performance ratio required.

Yep Butterfly Labs take a bow. Bad actors in the BTC space will be dealt with by traditional law enforcement.

The other thing that seems strange to me - most of the companies offering services and hyping up bitcoin actually don't want bitcoin themselves, they seem to want to sell bitcoin to you in exchange for your fiat currency. For all the pro-bitcoin / anti-fiat rhetoric they seem pretty keen to get *real* money. If people really though a bitcoin was going to be $10m one day (ha, that seems laughable right now!) then surely no one would ever let go of them? Which then means they will be valueless as they couldn't be used for currency - is this the problem? Everyone wants everyone else to spend theirs so that their own appeciates in value?

It would be a hard sell to ask for Bitcoin in exchange for...erm...Bitcoin :-) that would be kind of pointless?

In the case of services related to Bitcoin I agree that any company in this space should be accepting Bitcoin as payment, and if they don't then perhaps you need to ask them why not.

So, I guess I'm still a sceptic for now.

That's the only rational position to take until you see enough evidence to change your mind, which I'm sure you will over the next few years as the dust settles.

I'll leave you with this little gem from Steve Jobs, 1985:

PLAYBOY: Those are arguments for computers in business and in schools, but what about the home?

JOBS: So far, that’s more of a conceptual market than a real market. The primary reasons to buy a computer for your home now are that you want to do some business work at home or you want to run educational software for yourself or your children. If you can’t justify buying a computer for one of those two reasons, the only other possible reason is that you just want to be computer literate. You know there’s something going on, you don’t exactly know what it is, so you want to learn. This will change: Computers will be essential in most homes.

PLAYBOY: What will change?

JOBS: The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people—as remarkable as the telephone