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My dear brother, I have not followed all of your posts here, but I have read many of them. I know a little bit about the situation with your wife's health, and the difficulties both of you are facing in trying to get her the medical care she needs. Many times those of us who have spent our whole life in just one country do not comprehend the difficulties individuals in another country face because "the way things operate" are so different from what we are used to. I can appreciate your emotional distress. I know you used to post comments about each paragraph in the Watchtower study for each week. I would "cheat" by copying your comments for each paragraph and then paste them in the space for each paragraph where the week's study article is put in the sections of JW Library for the meetings. Having feelings of "guilt" or "despair" are not uncommon when we realize that we could have done certain things in the past. Several years ago my wife's mental state began to deteriorate, especially short term memory. Thankfully, as a CPA I had several older clients and I was able to talk with them about various facilties in the area. I finally settled on a retirement facility quite cose to our house. They have "Independent Living" apartments, provisions for "assisted living" and a section for "skilled nursing." Quite by accident it is the same facility the social worker helped my mother find for my father when his dementia surfaced 25 years ago. He made a decent living for us. We never lacked for anything. But my parents did not have the resources for this facility. The social worker found a "Medicaid Qualified" bed at this facility for my father. My father was at the point that he could not remember everyone's name. He did not understand everything that was said. But, to him, it was VERY important that he be at the Kingdom Hall every Sunday for the Publc Talk and the Watchtower Study. When I would drive out here to pick him up, the staff here would have him already dressed with a coat and a tie. I did not have to get him dressed. My wonderment was: "Who does that for a MEDICAID patient?" I was very thankful for the dignity and kindness they showed him, even if he was here with MEDICAID instead of paying like the rest of the patients. So, my wife and I moved out here eight years ago. We were here together in the "independent living" apartment for about 18 months, and then my wife's memory problems REALLY surfaced. It got to the point that there were four nights in a row that I had to call my son at bedtime. He had to get out of bed, get dressed, and drive out here to tell his mother that he knew I was his father and her husband. He had lived with us, or in the same neighborhood, for over 50 years. On the fifth night she would not even believe him. I called the "wellness office" here and they sent a nurse and a security guard. The nurse finally convinced my wife it was appropriate for us to sleep in the same bed. So, we went to bed. Then I got a call from the Administrator of the facility. She said: "I want to help any way I can, but I cannot send a nurse to your apartment every night to convince you wife to let you sleep in the same bed with her. She needs to be in our memory care unit (i.e., "skilled nursing" - dementia/Alzheimers' care). When a person with the training, experience, expertise, and authority tells you that, it kind of takes the decision out of your hands. My wife was transferred to the memory care/dementia/Alzheimers' unit. When you must do something like that you always wonder "what did I do wrong" or "what did I not do right" or "what else should I have done" etc., etc., . . . When I would go to visit her, she was not the same young, energetic, vibrant, energetic young woman I married 62 years earlier. I found the visits extremely difficult. As a result, I did not go as ofter as I should have. She died February 1st of this year. So now the guilt is really there about not doing enough, or not doing the right things, etc, etc. /////After all, she had put up with me for over 62 years. She deserved some consideration for that. I can imagine how you have felt "down" with all of the things you have endured. One experience has helped me. There was an older brother in our congregation whose health had declined to the point that he was not physically able to do field service, get to the Kingdom Hall, or do anything else. He was VERY depressed. When the Circuit Overseer was at our congregation he visited the brother. The brother's son-in-law was there with the Circuit Overseer and told me about the conversation. Circuit Overseer: Ben, do you remember the very first house you called on the first time you went in the field ministry? Ben: Yes. Circuit Overseer: Do you remember the second house you went to in the field ministry? Ben: No. Circuit Overseer: What about the third house or the fourth house? Do you remember them? Ben: No Circuit Overseer: Well, Jehovah remembers that first house you called on the first time you went in field service. He also remembers the second house. He also remembers the third and fourth houses you called on. In fact, he remembers EVERY HOUSE you ever called on in the DECADES when you were regular in the ministry. And, he does not, and will not, forget all of the other things you have done in building Kingdom Halls, preparing hour talks and presenting them, the people you conducted a bible study with, the times you and another Elder went to visit one of Jehovah's dear ones who had a problem. He will never forget all of those things, even if you cannot remember them. Jehovah will never abandon his faithful ones, and he will never abandon you. Just keep thinking about him and pray to him regularly. He will NOT forget. Hearing Ben's son-in-law relate that experience he had when he went with the Circuit Overseer to visit the brother has given me considerable help. Yes, I have made mistakes. Yes, I have at times failed to do something as well as it could have been done. Psalms 130:3 is very comforting: If errors were what you watch, O Jah, Then who, O Jehovah, could stand? Jehovah does not keep track of our mistakes. He keeps track of how we have tried. About 30 years ago an instructor at an Elders' School said: "Jehovah is not praised by our success. He is praised by our efforts." I am sooo thankful Jehovah has not kept a tally of my mistakes. I am thankful that he and his son cared enough for their human creation that when Satan rebelled, they established the Kingdom Arrangement with the Ransom Provision. Even though is was extremely physically and emotionally painful for Jehovah's son, and emotionally painful for Jehovah to watch his son go through it, they went ahead and set up the Kingdom Arrangement with the Ranson Provision for us. There is not any more they could have done. It hurt both of them VERY much, but they still put it all together for us anyway. That shows the extent of the love that both of them have for their human creation. I am so VERY thankful for that. Thanks, Jim

I use a number line to help steady myself. If I was at negative 30, I would have to fold the number line around zero, (no kicking,) and find myself at a positive map spot. No kicking, just integrity. Integrity is from the word integer which means a whole number, no fractional parts. Bed, stretch and think of positive experiences like your second paragraph above and feel the folding of that number line. Still posited at a negative spot?, multiply, don't add more negatives, but multiplying a negative by a negative yields a positive result. Someone messaged me that one of my math examples was emotionally helpful. Math has always been emotionally comforting to me. Keep sharing your expressive, transparent thoughts. Helpful to all of us. YS, the mathematically comforted one.

Roses are often used as decoration or to cover a misplaced hole when installing a ceiling fan or light fixture.

All of the dating assumptions based on "half life" of something are based on less than 100 years of knowledge of changes in atomic structure over time. From the standpoint of statical sampling procedures, a sample of 100 items (in this case years) would not necessarily result in a high degree of reliance of projecting the "occurance rate," or whatever else one is looking for, when the total population is claimed to be hundreds of thousands (as many evolutionists want us to believe the years it took for their theory to work out). I believe that the current level of lack of understanding and real knowledge of "half life" theory and how environmental factors change the result is such that any dates derived by that method are more likely to be wrong than they are to be right. Candidly I only think about that when someone tries to use the "half life" timing theory to establish that something happened to mankind 100,000 years ago. Whenever that comes up and I remind them they are attempting to extrapolate to 100,000 based on a sample of only 100, they soon give up their argument (that is if they have any understand of statistical sampling and error rates of various sample sizes based on total population sampled). Thanks, Jim

I don't understand, finishing your job at 4pm gives you plenty of time to preach in the evening everyday. In my congregation, people preach from 6pm because they finish their work at 5pm

Since you use multiple AI in this manner ... you might enjoy this Suno song I made about using AI https://suno.com/s/8hYUN579i1ag1qz2

And we should stick with Luke or the Bible account because it makes more sense. The worlds account divides people or nations believing that they are better than one another.

I am really confused brothers and sisters to choose a job I am actually a pioneer but I want to apply for a receptionist job in a clinic, they are ready to take me or accept me, I should work from Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 4:00pm in the evening and I want to use enough time in the ministry two days is not enough for me I have prayed about to choose the job but still I am confused I don't really understand what to do again weather to leave the job or not because I want to leave the job and started a small business😞

Agreed, and my issue isn't so much the assumptions made regarding classification or discovery of bones and if they were human-adjacent. Rather, my problem is the dating of when these get placed in the timeline of earth. If we view the lineage information (specifically in the case of Jesus in Luke's account) to be comprehensive regarding direct parentage, then regardless these "humans" found in unique locations that seemingly defy our timeline require further information to determine the way they got there.

Unfortunately it is not free -- It's one of Anthropic's Claude models. What makes it worse is that it requires Usage Credits (which have to be replenished once balance reaches zero). I happen to use AI personally and professionally, so I have to stay current as I can with research into the various platforms.

Don't know about others, but when someone dies that appeared to me as a *good person* by the public life they lived, I Iike to think they now have a surer chance of entering into the NW

Thank you for your answer we are starting to use HourGlass right now

Races that I prefer include The Kentucky Derby aka run for the roses.

Cars definitely do not participate in sack races.

I guess when you love performing it's hard to stop.

Really cool to hear! Is it free? Got a link?

Being widowed is beyond heartbreaking; some times it breaks the whole life.

Wednesday, August 26 Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you.—Matt. 5:44. We can only begin to imagine the pain Jesus felt as well as the indignity and the injustice that he endured. Yet, he was not conquered by the injustice he suffered. Instead of cursing the soldiers who had nailed him to the stake, he prayed: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34) When we pray for those who mistreat us, it can lessen our feelings of resentment and anger and even change the way we view those who offend us. There is no telling what injustices we may yet face before this system ends. Whatever comes our way, let us never stop praying to Jehovah for help. Also, may we imitate the way Jesus responded to mistreatment and continue to apply Bible principles. If we do, we can be sure of inheriting a blessing from Jehovah.—1 Pet. 3:8, 9. w24.11 6 ¶16; 7 ¶17, 19

For my use case, it simply flies with very little correcting. Last year's model worked fast, eager, needed everything broken into small pieces, and would quietly lose the plot on anything long (strugglebus was real). This one works like someone who's been on the job three years. You hand it the messy thing and it comes back with the answer instead of forty questions. One of the main reasons for this is that the older models "skimmed". You could feel them pattern-matching on the shape of your input rather than the content. Fable on the other hand reads the whole thing (including the parts you forgot were in there, lol). It used to take four rounds of me correcting it. Now it's usually right the first time, so it stopped feeling like I was managing it and started feeling like I was working with it.

The digitizing was a game changer for us who organize the ministry and for the publishers as they now feel more engaged in working a territory by changing the status of homes. In addition what I have done is in the scheduler for each territory under the information tab you have 2 fields you can assign links to. The 1st one I labeled Directions. From the Satellite of Google maps I selected a spot that allows for parking of a few cars, that way you go straight from the meeting for field service into the territory and not have another meeting place where again rearranging what was already done after the conclusion of the meeting for field service.

ED: Busy weekend for Space watchers: How to watch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's launch NASA is broadcasting the event live on August 30. By Mariella Moon 24 Aug 2026 The Nancy Grace Roman telescope is heading to space in a few days. It's set for launch on August 30, no earlier than 7:26AM Eastern time, with NASA's live coverage to begin at 6:20AM. The agency's engineers completed the final inspection of the telescope's primary mirror in late May to make sure it hadn't been damaged during testing. In early June, NASA announced that the telescope will launch earlier than the September schedule it had previously planned. Article link: https://www.engadget.com/2243391/how-to-watch-the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescopes-launch/ Saturday, Aug. 29 9 a.m. | Science briefing on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on YouTube 10:30 a.m. | Prelaunch news conference on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on YouTube Sunday, Aug. 30 6:20 a.m. | Launch coverage of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on X, Discovery+, Amazon Prime, YouTube, NASA+ 9:30 a.m. | Postlaunch news conference on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on YouTube NASA Live - NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/live/ Note: While NASA programming is free, obtaining it through third-party streaming services may require equipment purchases or subscription fees. These links are provided for your information and do not constitute NASA’s endorsement of any goods or services. NASA events: https://www.nasa.gov/event/nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope/

Galactic Gems Glisten New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra By Megan Watzke 25 Aug 2026 Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety. Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like our own Milky Way with arms emanating from their cores, ellipticals that are older and likely the results of mergers, and irregulars that can encompass a wide range of galactic phenomena. Note: There are 16 new images in this galactic gallery. Each one contains X-ray data from Chandra that has been collected across Chandra’s decades in space. This high-energy data has been combined with data from telescopes such as NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes, IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), and others both on the ground and in space. Article link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/galactic-gems-glisten-in-new-gallery-from-nasas-chandra/. Pic Description: This gallery displays a collection of 16 galactic images from Chandra and other telescopes. Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like our own Milky Way, ellipticals that are older and likely the results of mergers, and irregulars that can encompass a wide range of galactic phenomena. All types are represented in this collection. Each galactic image contains X-ray data from Chandra combined with data from telescopes such as NASA’s Webb, Hubble, IXPE, Swift, and NuSTAR, and others both in space and on the ground. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO ED: 16 Hi-res images can be individually downloaded from the article.

I liked her movies "Steel Magnolias" 9 to 5 and countless others! And I liked her songs as well. One could just feel that she was truly a sweet person, who truly cared about others!

Made me so sad! I met her in person once, she was recording her "Halo and Horns" Album at the recording studio my son-in-law owned. She came out of the recording booth and spoke to my Sis and Mom and me for awhile. She was so sweet, my daughter made her special kind of cookies to give her. We shared some of her last batch, she said she took them home and put them in the freezer to enjoy with her hubby. She was such a good person, hopefully Jehovah will remember her in the resurrection, along with my daughter and her husband, both are now deceased.