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Ah, but you missed an important detail she was making.... Yes, like I said before, fake news is a real thing here in the USA, where left-wing biased media and right-wing biased media is always trying to spin a story to slam the opposing side. But when there is literally ZERO media claiming it's a hoax, trying to play it off like it was someone else's tomahawk missile, AND the international media who has no vested interest in slamming the current administration or meddling in American politics (i.e. "reputable") are reporting the same thing, the Pentagon is investigating it and the Trump-man himself admits it's a possibility, we can likely assume that at least this one time, they are reporting the truth, lol

While fake news is definitely a thing, is common, and most people are gullible enough to suck it in, the fact of the matter is that this is looking legit. An investigation is still currently being conducted, and people in positions of authority here (including the current head honcho) are open to the possibility that it was an error on the part of the USA.

LeolaRootStew led with a link before her hidden AI summary. SteveAus followed up with a link. Then LindaViktoria provided a link. I think she did well.

At his age, that could be a short term.

Grooming is a personal conscience matter. Also a conscience matter. It's not like we can't be doctors and nurses because we might see some private parts.

Apparently the suspect has been caught.... https://www.foxnews.com/us/charlie-kirks-suspected-assassin-captured-after-fatal-shooting-influential-conservative-voice-utah?

And he would still stand by what he said had he survived. This death is horrific. It ranks up there, for me, with others such as Steve Irwin the crocodile hunter. It underscores the importance of not just political neutrality, but also being careful expressing your opinions on social issues.

Well ChatGTP is not one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and therefore doesn't qualify for membership on this forum. It shouldn't have a voice here. Artificial intelligence is just a glorified search engine. Use Google or Bing just a year or so before all this "A.I." hype and you would have found the same answers across multiple websites, because the answer it's giving you is simply how the "world alienated from God" feels about the subject. The Bible encourages us to use our "power of reason" that is trained by the "wisdom from above", and not on that of other men, or even worse, A.I. So what happens at a birthday? In the past the celebration was meant to appease a spirit. Sure, nobody thinks that anymore. But even still, people gather around and lift the birthday person up on a pedestal so that he/she is "King for a day". They sing praises to him. They bring him sacrifices and gifts. If he's an adult, there can be heavy drinking and drugs, and illicit things going on under the covers after becoming intoxicated. Can you count the number if Bible principles that have been breached, broken, and ignored? ChatGTP can't even begin to understand that Christians are supposed to be humble and "not think of themselves more than it is necessary to think". A birthday celebration flies in the face of all that.

Yes. I don't think that is even an option now. I believe Blog Entries can be 1) Public, or 2) Select members can be invited to view.

Oh I see this all the time myself among certain individual brothers or sisters in my congregation. Whenever a past president uttered the words "peace and security" there was bound to be somebody getting all excited and giddy. Even online, some brothers and sisters will start circulating or posting a video clip of that political figure trying the words, complete with a scriptural reference and some dramatic music. I should have saved them, as it would be fun to show them off right now. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden - I think they've all said it. I fathom this happens in other countries as well. What we do know according to the apostle Paul is that we 'will not be in darkness' and that it won't 'overtake us like thieves' of we have spiritual insight (1 Thess 5:4). In other words, the declaration of "peace and security" that we are waiting for will be blaringly obvious to us. It'll be unlike any one-off reference like before. When we hear the term "a declaration of peace and security" we immediately think of a single event, major act, and so we've often interpreted this to mean all the nations (or "all" the nations as represented by the UN) declaring some sort of victory. "Look, we've achieved peace!". And maybe that's true. It will be false, but that won't stop it from being "declared". But there Bible doesn't exactly say there will be a "declaration of peace and security". Paul says "whenever it is they are saying..." which is an action in progress, not complete. That's why I personally speculate that it will be something said and repeated constantly, maybe even daily for weeks or months. It might be a campaign or an effort being championed to hopefully bring "peace and security" as the end result. It has to be loud and obvious (and maybe repetitive) if we are not going"to be in darkness" about it. We will understand what's really happening. The world on the other hand will be sucking up the propaganda and falling for it. However this prophecy is fulfilled is fine with me. But yes when I see a president utter the words "peace and security" and then watch a particular brother or sister get all giddy giddy, I try to remind them to not get too excited just yet, but commend them for keeping on the watch.

So, Status Updates will be going away entirely. The core software does away with them in Version 5. However, this one developer has written an application to bring the functionality back, if we wanted it that badly... https://ipsappzone.com/file/47-ustatus/

Tell that to the branch. You know we're ripping off the color scheme from their JW Library app, right?

So far... I have a private Demo site. Upgrading that went smooth. That is where I have been playing around with the new design options and Admin area. Last night I upgraded my personal community. It did not go so smooth. Sections of the site were down for a couple hours while I worked out the bugs - most of which were in the Pages/Articles section. I use the same 3rd Party Pages Plug-in on my site as do the admins here on this one, which is not compatible with v5. I had to manually revert all the pages back to the default display, and delete the templates for the 3rd party plug-in - something I will have to do ahead of time when we move forward with upgrading here.

IPS removed Gravatar support years and years ago. It would take a 3rd party plugin application to possibly bring it back. There are some coders that would probably take on the job. If you Mouse-Over the green checkmark, the pop-up will say "Solved". Bascially the checkmark means that the topic was marked with a solution.

Unfortunately, social media introduced this idea of deleting posts. On social media, where the posted content revolves around "Me", this makes sense. But on forums like ours, the posted content revolves around the *topic* and the community as a whole. We have had people that contributed thousands of posts, and then suddenly wanted to rage-quit the community and demand all their posts be taken down. Sorry, that's not happening. The discussions/conversations would make little sense if that were possible. You have a 15 minute edit window. After that, we are usually happy to accept reasonable requests to Edit a post, such as to remove names, delete a selfie or photo of someone else who didn't like that you uploaded their pic, and more.