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In the movie Titanic, Rose's mother is being shown things in the exercise room; the stationary bicycle, the electric horse, etc. But when she's shown the rowing machine, she says, "I can not imagine a skill I should likely need less." And later in the lifeboat, she's not rowing. No, Molly Brown is doing that! Yup. She was determined to never need that skill, and she stuck with it no matter what.

Jeffrey Winder: "Worldwide, there was a 1.6 percent increase in the number of Bible studies conducted last service year." Unfortuntely no number is provided, just a percentage increase. I don't think we really normally look at this percentage 🤷‍♂️ but as it is all we've currently got, lets do it anyway .... 😎 .... because I think I can see why the FDS are promoting finding/starting Bible studies 🤔 ....

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Jeffrey Winder: "We rejoiced to see an average of 9,047,083 publishers. That represents a 2.5 percent increase. What’s more, out of the 241 lands where we preach the good news, 96 reported all-time peaks in the number of publishers." Wait! I wanna repeat that: "That represents a 2.5 percent increase." I'm repeating it because that is the biggest percentage increase in publishers for 15 years 😮 - since 2010 - and that's even after an impressive 2.4% increase last year, in 2024 Even if the simplified reporting procedure - AKA the 'tick box' reporting - had some part to play in this, it still seems pretty impressive 😎 (FWIW a bit of rounding is involved, so the 2010 increase was 2.533%, and the 2025 increase was 2.480%.) Jeffrey Winder: "We rejoiced to see an average of 9,047,083 publishers. That represents a 2.5 percent increase. What’s more, out of the 241 lands where we preach the good news, 96 reported all-time peaks in the number of publishers." Hmmm, 96 out of 241 is less than half. Not sure if they mean a peak of 'peak numbers', or a peak of 'average numbers' - a quick perusal of last year's figure indicates that it was a 'low/mid-90s' (dependig how counted) out of 241 that reported 'all-time peaks', so likely a similiar figure last year, compared to this year. (And can't check the '33 other countries')

To get over a fence, there is often a stile, but to get over offence a Christian style is needed.

We’ll understand everything at the right time brothers 🤠 As Jesus said, It does not belong to you to know the times or seasons that the Father has placed in his own jurisdiction. (Acts 1:7) We can guess, yes. But we should not forget that it's Jehovah and Jesus only that knows everything what will soon happen. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Weapons easily assault small towns. SNWOT

Uncle, I cried out to the man in the boxing ring, I'm going to uncle out, please don't hit an octogenarian.

Relationships with other people are often simple and direct especially close ones like aunts and uncles.

Leaving Alabama is often upbuilding W E A S T

Good point, Carlos. I guess if you've never had something, the lack of it may not raise issues, whereas if something is taken away from you, it could raise issues about why, and maybe even discredit Jehovah and his organisation in the eyes of some.

As the expression goes ... "Let's put some meat on those bones" 😁😎 Jeffrey Winder: "The 2025 yeartext encouraged us to 'give Jehovah the glory due his name.' Jehovah’s people all over the world did just that. We rejoiced to see an average of 9,047,083 publishers. That represents a 2.5 percent increase." Below we see that average publisher number in context ... I've added a red chord line joining 1947 to 2025 to help contextualise the nearly 80 years of growth ....

It would be so great if it would be possible to change audio stream (which you say is streamed directly from jw.org) from english to any other available language, but I assume it would be technically difficult?

Thanks for posting that. I love reading things like this. It was an encouraging reminder that the end is near. I haven’t studied gw much outside of what we all hear in the media, but it’s fascinating and it would be terrifying if we didn’t know Jehovah was going to step in.

There have been some great comments so far. I just want to mention that what the Swedish government is contemplating is to stop giving the branch money. I think "persecution" is a bit too strong word for that, they are not banning Jehovah's Witnesses or sending us to prison. While it's convenient for the branch to receive those funds, we have managed many years without them, in fact in most countries we don't receive any funds from the government. In Spain where I live, Jehovah's Witnesses don't receive any grants from the government, while the Catholic Church and others do. Unfair, sure, but not really persecution.

Except when it doesn't 😎 .... for example 2021 was a decrease .... but for recent years, that was an outlier .... in the meantime, as we await the 2025 figure ....

My subjective take: phase 1: 4-8 weeks phase 2: at least a few months for people joining us after BTG destruction can get strong enough spiritually. phase 3: 1-2 weeks with Stmagefon only a few hours.

A bloke rang me today to sell me a coffin. I said, that's definitely the LAST thing I need.

interesting how on one mornbing breakfast show the presenter said she had a "Moralty Clause" in her contract, ie she must do nothing to bring shame on the show or station, and then off course there was a case of a royal navy submarine captain who was having an affair with a woman crew member - regulations do not allow this and when they got to port were taken off . Yet if jw s have standards of conduct then its "wrong"!!

This highlights an important point people seem to be overlooking when they compare the destruction of Jerusalem with the great tribulation. The Bible does not say thar every aspect of the destruction of Jerusalem has an equivalent to the great tribulation. Years ago when discussing our new understanding on types and anti-types our thinking was adjusted on trying to fit each and every detail from a past event to a future event. Unless the scriptures specifically state there is a connection to a past event to a future event, we should not try to make prophetic connections. When the scriptures do present a past event as a warning or type/anti-type to what is in store for us, we limit our connections to what the Bible says. Where the Bible is silent, we are silent. This raises the question in what way does the Bible connect the destruction of Jerusalem to the great tribulation?

in 70. They flew after the roman army went away in 66

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