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Forum Terms & Rules
Please take a moment to review these rules detailed below. If you agree with them and wish to proceed with the registration, simply click the "Register" button below. To cancel this registration, simply hit the 'back' button on your browser.
IMPORTANT: Do NOT skip over this information! It contains vital information concerning your registration and participation on this Discussion Board.
Do NOT register for an account if...:
- If you disagree with our fundamental belief that Jehovah's Witnesses are God's people;
- If you dispute or intend to undermine our doctrinal understanding on the anointed, the 144,000, the heavenly and earthly hopes, the New Covenant and the Memorial [Argumentation over the doctrinal teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses will not be tolerated.];
- If you believe that this Discussion Board is apostate.
Registrations require the following steps before they can be activated:
- Register for a user account.
- Proceed with the second step of the registration process by sending an email to Registrations@e-jehovahs-witnesses.com and include the following:
- The username that you registered.
- A statement to fact that you are not a former member of this Discussion Board who has been banned or suspended OR a former member of Jehovah's Witnesses who now rejects Jehovah's Witnesses as God's people. If you ARE a previously banned or suspended member, you MUST include explanation for why you should be allowed to register and participate in the discussions, and why you believe you were previously banned or suspended.
- That you have fully read these terms and rules and agree to abide by them, and that you will request the immediate removal of your account should you no longer agree to abide by them.
- That you fully understand that your obtaining an account will be used for discovery and clarification purposes on your part and that you are not here to "prove Jehovah's Witnesses wrong," prove that "Jehovah's Witnesses aren't Christians" or to otherwise debate our beliefs.
- That you fully understand and agree that any and all posts made by you are subject to moderation and may be removed without explanation if they appear to not be within the purposes and guidelines of this Discussion Board.
- An explanation of why you are registering for an account.
- Wait for the email to be reviewed. This may take as long as 72 hours in some cases. If you have not heard anything in 72 hours, please submit a follow-up email with the same information as was sent in the initial request for an account, along with your request for a follow-up. However: if your initial email excludes required information as specified in these terms and rules, we will automatically reject your email and ignore subsequent requests until the required information is sent.
- Once your request for an account is approved, you will be sent an email confirming that an account was activated.
- Failure to follow ANY of these steps will result in your registration request being deleted after 24 hours.
Do not register for an account if you are not going to participate in the discussions. New accounts that do not have posts associated with them are removed after 7 days. Accounts that lay dormant for 30 days or more may be deleted, at the discretion of the board owner or his assigned administrators. We are looking for participation, not membership numbers.
Again, you assume all responsibility for the reading of the terms and guidelines for this Discussion Board, and by registering you affirm acceptance of said terms and guidelines, and that you will be honest in all your activities on the Discussion Board.
Registering for an account to use this site's facilities must include written acknowledgment that you are aware of and agree to operate within the framework of this site's focus and purpose, and to continue to be aware of any future modifications or changes to that framework.
This site is for those who adhere to the faith of Jehovah's Witnesses, including the personal conviction that Jehovah's Witnesses are Jehovah's modern-day people. While some views expressed will differ from those published by the Watchtower Society when it comes to prophetic issues, doctrinal deviation will not be allowed.
Accounts are a privilege, not an entitlement. We reserve the right to cancel, without notice, any account that we believe is being used contrary to the purposes and focus of this Discussion Board.
If you do not share our faith as Jehovah's Witnesses and or belong to a non-Witness group, your account will be activated on a case-by-case basis. All final decisions are to be determined by the board owner, or by those whom the board owner assigns the responsibility for new accounts. In no event may any member engage in the following activities:
- Presenting or arguing in favor of views that this site does not represent or condone. This site's focus is on Bible prophecy, especially as it applies to Jehovah's Witnesses. However, we will not tolerate doctrinal deviation, including alternative, non-Witness views on such topics as the anointed, the 144,000, the New Covenant, and the heavenly hope for Christ's brothers (and sisters). We hold that these are clear, intractable teachings taught in the Bible and correctly understood by Jehovah's Witnesses, and therefore are not subjects for "debate."
- Encouraging through suggestion, insinuation or otherwise, that others should or must leave the organization. This includes presenting argumentation that the Watchtower organization is "Babylon the Great." If you voluntary end association with Jehovah's Witnesses, whatever the reason, you are expected to keep that decision private.
- Recruiting to other sites or presenting the views of non-Witness individuals and or groups. Use of this site in any manner to engage in this activity will result in your account being banned.
- Providing falsified information to obtain an account. This includes obtaining multiple accounts even though you are an individual, in order to appear as multiple persons.
- Accounts registered from the same IP must notify Administration immediately to prevent their account from being deleted. You will be required to explain your situation, and final decisions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
- Registrations using "free" email services can and will be restricted, with or without notice, at the discretion of the board owner or his assigned representatives. This includes "Yahoo," "Hotmail," "GMail," and several others.
While disagreements have and do arise from time to time between board members, we will not tolerate:
- personal attacks (insinuated or otherwise),
- name-calling,
- twisting of words,
- or other ploys that some have used in order to create dissension and conflict,
- profanity--including euphemisms and abbreviations.
Disagreements are expected to be done respectfully and according to Christian principles. It may become necessary for disagreeing members to take their dispute off the board, to settle it privately.
FINAL REMINDER. This site will often differ from the "official" Watchtower's position on Bible prophecy as it relates to Jehovah's Witnesses. This includes the teachings regarding 1914, the coming of Jesus, the captivity to Babylon, and similar prophetical views. However, that does not mean that the board owner has rejected the accurate teachings, such as (but not limited to) the New Covenant involving and being limited to the 144,000 anointed Christians from among mankind, the heavenly hope of the anointed, an in-gathering to Jehovah's organization of the "Great Crowd," and similar Bible-based Truths.
Questioning, debating or encouraging others to reject these Bible truths is disallowed.Violation of a site policy/guideline may result in one of the following, at administration's discretion:
- Warning (generally, two warnings are allowed, and are accumulative);
- Suspension of posting privileges (may or may not be temporary, at the discretion of the board owner)
- Banning of user (permanent, at the discretion of the board owner)
Decisions regarding limiting or prohibiting participation are at the discretion of the board owner and or his assigned moderator(s). Disputes concerning decisions must be handled privately, via email. Public debate and "rallying" others against said decisions are disallowed and result in suspension of privileges or banning of account.
All administrative decisions are final.
Please remember that we are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this bulletin board. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this bulletin board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this bulletin board.
LINK/URL Policy
It is this site's policy to NOT allow external links without first obtaining permission from the board owner. This includes providing links to other message boards, and anti-JW sites. We will occasionally allow links that are from well-known newspapers, collegiate and scholastic sources, and research sources--provided that they are in keeping with the focus and purpose of this site and that they do not either dominate the discussions nor create a prevailing negative, critical atmosphere. Links may be removed without warning or notice by the board owner or his assigned administrators.
Violation of the site policy on links will result in an administrative warning point for each instance of violation, and not on a per-post basis. It is the responsibility of the member to respect and observe the terms of use and guidelines for the Discussion Board.
Email requests that omit ANY of the above will be disregarded. If, after a few days, you have not received confirmation that an account has been created for you, check to make certain that you did not leave out any of the above-requested information. If you did, re-submit your email, fully completed. You will NOT receive an email requesting missing information: it is your responsibility to provide it, and it shows whether you read the instructions thoroughly.
CANCELLATION OF ACCOUNT
If, at any time, you wish to have your account removed from the site, simply submit your request via email to registrations@e-jehovahs-witnesses.com and we will promptly follow your request. To prevent misunderstandings after a person registers and THEN realizes that the Discussion Board is not what they expected nor what they want to be affiliated with, we ALWAYS encourage everyone to review the board until they are satisfied that they really do wish to participate in the discussions here.