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  2.    htownmmm reacted to a post in a topic: Beyond the Algorithm
  3. Barbllm
    I've not heard the term "ball and chain" used outside of dated comedy shows, but it persists as a metaphor for how men are "chained" to a woman in marriage. I guess it persists because women (wives) become the most visible reminder of responsibility. Men who refer to their wives this way aren't showing them love or respect, and seem to be resentful of having to behave like a grown up. They might complain about having to do household chores ("women's work") but there's a better word for that: adulting. I also think this terminology persists because many people get married because they think they're supposed to, and not because they actually like the person they're marrying enough to live in the same house for 80 years.
  4.    Barbllm reacted to a post in a topic: How are you dealing with singleness?
  5.    ijsvogel reacted to a post in a topic: A good joke
  6.    Jim Jam reacted to a post in a topic: 2025 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide
  7.    Guil reacted to a post in a topic: NW Scheduler/Publisher - Updates, Support, and Suggestions
  8. foghorn
    All my territories designated as Letter Writing have that same mark. I notice that it is written over the latitude/longitude fields, so maybe that is the intent: to alert the user why geolocation data is missing. Obviously not needed for mailing a letter.
  9. trottigy
    4 - unless you like eating them raw .... OR you fry them still in the shell??? Options - you know.
  10. trottigy
    You can do all 3 in a day, assuming you mean Patterson, Wallkill and Warwick. They form a triangle that is about an hour drive between each -> Here is a link to the tour information - Bethel Tours: Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Offices in the United States of America
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  12. Chris7
    Thanks Paul, that is impressive in the long term. More recently, there have been a great increase in Pioneers in Britain, with a very slight reduction this year, but after many years of impressive increase. (Thank you Jehovah) Now we have average of 14 pioneers per congregation. I am not sure if these are all Regular Pioneers or combined total with Aux. Pioneers? (2025 Av. Pio Pubs: 21,503 Congs: 1.565) Britain Pioneers, last 7 years Year Av. Pio. Pubs. increase 2019 14,706 2% 2020 15,180 3% 2021 16,294 7% 2022 19,696 21% 2023 20,744 5% 2024 21,632 4% 2025 21,503 -0.6%
  13. Sepie93
    Just a little shout-out to the friends in Sudan. In 2024 there were "just" 42 attending the memorial. Given the horrendous war which is going on over there, this in itself is allready something to appreciate. How encouraging to see that this year they had a memorial attendance of 160[emoji3590] Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-S911B met Tapatalk
  14. Guil started following NW Scheduler/Publisher - Updates, Support, and Suggestions
  15. Guil
    Good morning, friends! I'm wondering if anybody else using New World Scheduler (Windows 11, Scheduler version 7.9, #1421) is getting this odd red text glitch when adding an address into a territory? I am switching some of my business territories from In Person to Letter Writing. When adding the address, it pops the phrase "Letter Writing" into the middle of the add address screen. It has been like this through the last four or five updates - not sure when it began. The error doesn't seem to affect functionality, but it seems odd.
  16. Sheep
    I noticed that too.
  17. Doug
    On July 15, 2025, the brothers released Ramapo Construction Update #1 ~ Site Works Underway. With this October release, the brothers are apparently not keeping with the pattern of #2 , #3 etc.
  18. Sheep
    No. It was released in October of 2025.
  19. shali
    It would be a great excuse to continue the war. Whatever it takes to get what you want.
  20. shali
    It would be a great excuse to continue the war on their end. Whatever it takes to get what you want.
  21. chuck83
    Gen-Z and Alpha believe in morality over legality. Think Greta Thunberg-style Americans, Gaza Protests and BLM. Now potentially TP! They've seen institutions fail and contradict their Millennial and Gen-X parents. They've seen consequences and redlines fail. The US model of education -> job -> stability -> future model means failure and they've lived it. These young adults and kids are a large chunk of voters coming up in 2028.
  22. Hope
    This is not a new video, is it?
  23. Korotkiy
    Putin is a great lyer. No air defense sounds has been observed near his "castle" neither near regions. They has to lied that a drones were been shooted down in another places. (92?) All the anti-aircraft of Russia concentred in the Putin Valdai castle.
  24. Barbllm
    Joy is a fruitage of the holy spirit (Galatians 5:22,23). It's not joy that makes us grateful, it's gratitude that makes us joyful.
  25. Canyon_1985 started following Riddle and What's the best bethel to go to?
  26. Canyon_1985
    My husband and I want to take a trip together to bethel since we've never been there but there's 3 so which is the Best one?
  27. Canyon_1985
    I have 6 eggs, I Crack 2, I fry 2, and I eat 2. How many eggs do I have left? 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
  28. cme started following Good news for Ramapo Project
  29. cme
    Amazing is'nt it? Work for Jehovah and get away from this old world. We are building for the New World. Exciting indeed! We have many new young ones coming to our hall. They bring with them joyful expectation of being on the site. This is a true spiritual bunch of young ones. May Jehovah bless you whoever you are for coming to pitch in for the life to come.
  30. Parale
    Britain Average Publishers from 1945 through to 2025 🤔 🤔 (Note: Av Pub numbers for 2017 and 2018 not available)
  31. Parale
    Here's a chart for Zambia (previously known as Northern Rhodesia up to 1964) Passed the quarter million mark in 2025, with an amazing publisher-to-population ratio of 1-to-84 😮 (Note: Av Pub numbers for 2017 and 2018 not available)
  32. jwmanubcn started following Good news for Ramapo Project
  33. jwmanubcn
    https://www.jw.org/download/?output=html&pub=jwb-134&langwritten=E English 2025 Ramapo Construction Project Update
  34. Parale
    Yes, though that's a peak rather than average, and is still 60,000 short ... and year-on-year the number of Bible Studies being conducted continues to fall 😞 but hopefully the growth in terms of percentage increase continues to grow with the ELF book being more conducive to conducting progressive studies that get baptised (AKA quality over quantity 🤷‍♂️ )
  35. Parale
    Highest ever number of Lands (though a rather artifical construct 🤷‍♂️) Biggest percentage increase in Publishers for 15 years - since 2010 Largest number of Baptisms for 26 years - since 1999 Topped Nine Million Average Publishers for first ever time
  36. jwhess
    It was announced in the video on JW.ORG that in September they had already hit 940,000
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    • Post in 1975 End of World ?

      jwhess posted a post in a topic,

      Modern references to creative days:
       
      *** w15 6/1 p. 5 How Science Affects Your Life ***
      The Bible fixes no duration for the six creative “days.” Instead, it opens the door for modern scientists to study them and assign accurate time spans to them. We know that the creative “days” were much longer than 24-hour days.
       
      *** g21 No. 3 p. 12 What the Bible Tells Us ***
      So each of the six creative “days” during which God prepared the earth for life and created life on it could represent extremely long periods of time.
       
      *** g 1/14 p. 12 Creation ***
      WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS God created the universe, including the earth, in the indefinite past—“in the beginning,” as Genesis 1:1 says. Modern science agrees that the universe had a beginning. A recent scientific model suggests it to be almost 14 billion years old.
       
      *** lc pp. 26 Science and the Genesis Account ***
      A careful consideration of the Genesis account reveals that events starting during one “day” continued into one or more of the following “days.”
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      Barbllm  »  just1-4all

      I just noticed on your profile that you write the Bitter Winter blog. I love reading it. There are a few posts or links to it on another site called "Quora" (it's a basic question and answer site) that I'm active on. Please keep writing. 
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    • Jim Jam

      Jim Jam

      The 22 doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses
       
      I broke down what defines our religion in 22 doctrines:
       
      • Jehovah is Almighty God.
      • The Holy Spirit is His power.
      • Jesus Christ is His holy Son.
      • The purpose of life is to enter a loving relationship with God by worshipping none other than Him.
      • The Bible is His inerrant revelation.
      • God’s purpose is to sanctify his name by fulfilling His promises of everlasting peace in the world.
      • Salvation is based on exercising faith in God through the Messiah’s ransom sacrifice.
      • Christ has been resurrected from the dead and ascended to Heaven to sit at the right hand side of God and be crowned as King for all who submit to him.
      • The earth will become a perfect Paradise for righteous mankind.
      • 144,000 chosen ones will reign in Heaven alongside Christ.
      • The resurrection of the flesh is a sure hope to come.
      God will bring destruction upon evil.
      • We must feel and show love to all people.
      • We must value life.
      • We must preach the Gospel of God’s Kingdom as best as we can.
      • We must remain politically neutral.
      • We must respect the authorities.
      • We must act in unity with our spiritual brothers and sisters.
      • We must abstain from blood.
      • We must abstain from sexual immorality.
      • We must abstain from idolatry.
      • We must abstain from associating with the wicked.
       
      If I missed anything please tell me
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    • Miss Bea

      Miss Bea  »  Heather mcbride

      No, I don’t. I do have a daughter, Debbie. She lives in Brantford, Ontario. Thanks for asking. Your sis, Bea
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    • Loopy

      Loopy

      Here in the U P of Michigan we are now under a blizzard warning for Sunday the 28th into Monday. Very high winds and not inches but FEET of snow predicted. Not sure if it’s Ross’ or my area (county) but winds as high as 65 mph are also in the forecast. 
       Will definitely be watching Storm chasers on YouTube. 
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    • kejedo

      kejedo

      Broher called today. He and his wife will take me to oncologist Weds. Other brothers came by and took my mail in and cleared snow.  First week of winter and dosn't look good. I put dog's food aside for the rest of the day and she got into amd finished todays food. I had it set up for several days. Hope you had an exciting day.
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      Lori

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      JayMusicGirl

      Posted a thread but no replies yet... I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for good places for first time international travel especially for solo travel? Also how would you go about connecting with friends who live in that area? I have more questions on my post but I'll keep it brief here
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      Xtian

      According to Bible time-line, is it reasonable to conclude that Rebecca was 3 yrs old when she was married to Isaac? Pls help me out with other Bible references regarding appropriate marrying age.  Thank you!
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    • Dages

      Dages

      I'm doing the special talk in 2026... and thinking about it encourages me to ask/be selected in 2027 to do the Memorial talk itself...
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