What's the deal with the "smart tags" (yellow words with double underline) that links to ads? Is that a Network 54 advertising thing that recognizes certain words and links to advertisers? They're kind of annoying!
Do you them in all of your posts? If so, you may need to check the settings in your browser. Are you using Internet Explorer or Netscape (or other)?
We don't see them. I remember seeing them a while back, but I believe it may have been a local setting on my pc, not the Forum itself. But I will look from this end anyway.
To actually have the only website promoted under the Christianity highlight proclaiming such thing is not good for any seeker coming to this forum. Surely Boyd we can stop this site being used by others to promote things that we may have concerns with.
Tevita
I looked at the website. What it is says is true, but so what? it seems to be the work of someone who thinks he's uncovered some sort of evil plot. What he's written is just "sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Of course "Jesus" was not the name by which the people of his day knew him. They didn't speak English, and "Jesus" is an English word (unless you speak Spanish, in which case it's spelled the same but pronounced Hay-sus).
The Bible originally was written primarily in Hebrew (OT) and Greek (NT), with a little bit of Aramaiac thrown in here and there. Aramaiac would have been the language of ordinary conversation in Jesus' time, but of course all Jewish boys were taught to read and speak Hebrew as well. Since Greek was the language of the "civilized" world of the day, many of the Jews of Jesus' time also spoke Greek. Whether Jesus did isn't known.
In Hebrew Jesus' name would have been pronounced "Yeshua" (identical to Joshua), and in Greek "Iesous" (pronounced approximately E-A-sous), The E and A are both long vowels. "Jesus" is how we say it in English.
All this is just something known to every person who has ever read the Bible in the original languages. It's not some exotic knowledge or secret. Today there are Christians speaking virtually every language known to humanity, and many of those languages do not contain the word "Jesus." They all know him and praise him in their own languages.
So whoever is behind the jesuswasnothisname site has invested a lot of work to accomplish nothing at all. Just ignore it.
Boyd the first page was fine but without much point however the pages further in the site looked like some conspiricy theories which I do worry about. It's not so much the fact that that site is linked theproblem I see is that this is the only site that's linked when you click onto the Christian highlight. there are far more Christian sites which I believe would assist a seeker of Christ than this one.
Tevita
I don't see them. Someone else mentioned popup ads a while back. They were very annoying until I changed browsers. I don't get popups at all since I quite using IE.
So I think Boyd is right. These local issues, related either to your browser or to settings within the browser.
They aren't pop-ups, they're words in the text of a post that turn an annoying yello with a double underline. For me they showed up a week or two ago. I haven't changed any of my settings, so it may be IE, which is what I use to browse. But they only show up on this board, nowhere else.
They are showing up in Netscape too. They started about a week or so ago and only on this board, so there's something out there scanning the text of the postings for certain key words and inserting hyperlinks into the web page. I thought it was a new pesky thing in Network 54, and it may well be, althoug I haven't seen it yet in any of the other boards that I watch.
Yes I'm finding that in manny posts I have too read the first line very quickly so that I can make sence out of what is said. I have only been getting these highlighted words over the last week and this is in Australia so that it's not just a local thing.
Tevita
