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Coming home from the meeting tonight we were n the middle of 2 thunder storms. One coming from the North and this one coming from the South. Lightening in both cloud systems. The poor sister I ride with got a terrible migraine from the low pressure, poor dear.

Has anyone here had an issue with creating a backup in JWL from a MAC? Ive tried multiple times but it crashes the second i click create backup.

Archive.org has several old bibles in foreign languages. I have Biblia Sagrada - Joao Almeida 1903 (27M). Codex Vaticanus in its 3 columns of Greek (17M). Diatessaron (1867) (.5M). Latin Vulgate -Gutenberg 1462 (1.2G ouch)

Thanks! Happy to be here. I've usually always avoided JW chat sites because historically they tend to be apostate magnets. But couldn't think of how else to spread the word about my app, so decided to join up. Hopefully it can help some brothers and sisters who speak languages not supported by the established apps.

Thanks. It's been that way for years so I never questioned it, but you are right. SFG 9:11. I'll ask the SO about it. Thanks.

Wednesday, August 12 By means of him we have the release by ransom through the blood of that one, yes, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his undeserved kindness.—Eph. 1:7. As a perfect man, Jesus was the equal of the first man, Adam, before he sinned. (1 Cor. 15:45) So by Jesus’ death, he was able to atone for Adam’s sin, that is, to replace what Adam had lost. (Rom. 5:19) Jesus thus became “the last Adam.” There is no need for another perfect person to come and pay for what Adam lost. Jesus died “once for all time.” (Heb. 7:27; 10:12) What, then, is the difference between the atonement arrangement and the ransom? The atonement arrangement is the action God takes to restore a good relationship between him and mankind. The ransom is the price paid to make atonement possible for sinful mankind. This price is represented by Jesus’ precious blood poured out in our behalf.—Heb. 9:14. w25.02 5 ¶12-13

We do not have direction to label locations as 'brothers only'. The branch direction is that they be labeled 'do not calls' and nothing else. in our territory, It overlaps several foreign language congregations territory. They provide us the addresses that are their return visits or rather their territory because their territory is limited to just those addresses. And it's best that a person learns the truth in their mother tongue, even if they do understand English. So whether a person has requested that we not call or the branch has given direction to label something as a do not call. or they are foreign language territory. We label them all as do not call because it's the same instructions for all of the publishers. You don't call where it's labeled, don't call. As regards location where the branch has directed us to label as a do not call and they direct the elders to follow up periodically. We just keep a list and the list is handled by the service overseer as it's his responsibility to oversee that. As I mentioned, in our case and in our territory, this is what works.

I'm reading Son of the Century (about Mussolini/fascism) by Antonio Scurati. Volume 1 of 5. About the years 1919 - 1924. Captivating. Criticly acclaimed. I'll be starting on 1921 tonight. The fifth volume ends in 1945

Update: 24 languages, and what's new A few things have shipped since I last posted, almost all of it language work. Three new languages recently: Hindi, Indonesian and Romanian. Before those, Chinese, Vietnamese and Hungarian. That brings the site to 24 languages: English · Español · Português · Français · Deutsch · Italiano · Русский · 日本語 · 한국어 · Filipino · Svenska · Cebuano · العربية · עברית · Українська · Polski · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · 粵語 · Tiếng Việt · Magyar · हिन्दी · Bahasa Indonesia · Română Every one of them is complete, not partial — the merge app, Study Explorer, Study Stats, Note Sharing, Library Doctor and the Reading Companion are all translated, along with all 37 guides. Arabic and Hebrew are properly right-to-left throughout. Two things I took some care over: Chinese is three separate languages here, matching how jw.org itself publishes — Mandarin Simplified, Mandarin Traditional, and Cantonese. Cantonese is genuinely written differently (嘅 唔 係 喺 咗), so it isn't just Mandarin in traditional characters, and a converter can't produce it. The Bible chapter links in the Reading Companion now open jw.org in the right language for all 24. That sounds like a small thing, but jw.org quietly serves English for any language code it doesn't recognise — no error, the page just loads in the wrong language. Every code has been checked against the live site rather than guessed. If something reads awkwardly or plainly wrong in your language, I'd really appreciate hearing about it — even one sentence. That's the part I can't check myself, and I'd much rather fix it than leave it sitting there. Same for any bugs. jwsync.org

I just finished spoke one of the Infinity Engines. It's called The Anachronist by Andrew Hastie. I ordered book 2

Just went to the library yesterday and got: Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer (DC graphic novel) The Bookshop of Second Chances, by Jackie Fraser Rough Country (short story collection), edited by Reavis Wortham The Midwife's Confession, by Diane Chamberlain The Venom Business, by John Lange (early alias of Michael Crichton)

NOAA says the contiguous United States (the lower 48) had the hottest month ever in July 2026. What are we expecting the differences for winter in North America to be based on a super El Nino? Is it warmer? Warmer and wetter? Tons of snow in the northern states?

He figured it out. There is a way to add additional information to the DNC designation for the location, so now the Brothers Only locations say "DNC-Brothers Only" and show up on the map colored as a DNC.

Welcome to the site, Jared, and thanks for your very helpful input. It may be useful for many.

Yes I think thats the correct expression. Im old. 🤣

Antarctica now at 2nd lowest. Massive Ice losses for 3 days straight during refreeze season. Melting season starts around Nov 1st. Ocean are at its hottest ever since record keeping began.

Record breaking El Niño, +2.76C now. we are going to have a really dangerous winter coming up, forecast models are calling a very dangerous winter this year.

Does anyone here have old Bibles in PDF format, in Latin, Italian, or other languages? If you have any, could you please send them to me by email? Thank you!

So, the territory servant had enabled the DNC button, so that's why a new location had been marked as a DNC by someone working the territory recently. He has just disabled the DNC button so that won't happen again. The good news is that existing DNC are still labeled and locked. 😁 He is using one of the custom buttons for "Unable to Work". We'll see if that works. We are still looking for a way to label the Brothers Only locations. Any suggestions?

I live in South Wales not too far from the fire that has been burning for several weeks. I heard some people have been arrested for starting one. Another started yesterday on another mountain nearer Pontypool. Sad to see this happening. Weird to have such a strong smell of smoke for days at a time in the summer. Locally we have experienced some really bad floods in the last couple of years and now fires. Nevertheless, we are fortunate that neither is to the extreme. It's heart breaking to see videos in other far flung places to see flames and floods engulfing homes knowing there has been loss of life. It is devastation to Jehovah's creation all around but a wildfire in South Wales is nothing compared to the fires that have raged in places like California, for example. Awful knowing they are continuing in France, Spain and Greece at scale.

Without saying you have to get an A-2 ... They are almost sounding that way. It is already being rolled out by the various LDCs in the US. Talk with your LDC contact person. They should have already scheduled training for the KHOC people. PS It is a great way for the branch to see what type of work is being done at various halls and if the maintenance is being done. This is especially important now that the branch pays the bill.

Tuesday, August 11 Since Christ suffered in the flesh, you too arm yourselves with the same mental disposition.—1 Pet. 4:1. “You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole strength and with your whole mind.” (Luke 10:27) Jesus acknowledged this as the most important command in the Mosaic Law. Notice that our love for Jehovah involves our heart, which includes our desires, feelings, and emotions. It also involves our whole-souled devotion and our strength—including our energy. However, loving Jehovah also involves our mind, which includes the way we think about matters. Of course, we can never fully understand all of Jehovah’s thinking. But we can better understand God’s thinking by studying “the mind of Christ” because Jesus perfectly reflects the thinking of his Father.—1 Cor. 2:16. w25.03 8 ¶1