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That was a GREAT movie. Alan Rickman was a British Shakespearean actor (he has since died), and they made him speak with a Southern accent (!!) in order to play Alfred Blalock, one of the first surgeons to perform heart surgery on infants, and Mos Def (a rap singer, now called Yaslin Bey) played a black mechanic with a talent for adjusting tools to fill the doctor's need for specialized instruments. The characters that they played obviously took some time to learn to respect one another's talents, but after some expected profanity, they eventually did, and the surgeon even got the mechanic some specialized training and upgraded his position, and they worked together for many years to save a great many infants. I mentioned it to some teachers that I worked with, and they put a poster on the break room wall. And, as one might guess, it is a true story, and the hospital where they worked have honorary portraits of both of them on the walls.

I have a feeling that the brothers already have the money. They won't bankrupt the organization.

I really believe that the thousand year period, where there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous, was designed to straighten out the "what if" s. All of the stuff in this system that makes it difficult to get Jehovah's message of salvation will be done away with then - the poverty, the sickness, the handicaps,the twisted religious ideas, the sinful philosophies, the wicked world leaders - all of the awfulness of this world - and not only that, Jehovah will arrange for all to be taught the truth with no obstacles, except the ones that we have in our hearts. And we will be judged by how we respond. Still, reading how when Satan is doing to be let loose after the thousand years are over, and those who will be taken by him will be like the sand of the sea even then, tells us that we all need to examine and reexamine our hearts, and not fool ourselves into thinking that we are ok. Look at Solomon - Jehovah gave him tremendous wisdom, and what did he do with it? At first, he built the most magnificent temple in the history of the nation, he raised the reputation of Israel among the royalty of the nations with his problem solving abilities, an we got three magnificent books of the Bible. Then...oh, no...

Because pre-born babies can't walk.

I had been going through the series of talks from the GB Brothers. I was so moved by Brother Losch's and Brother Herd's talks - they were very warm and informative. They both spoke with insight knowledge about what the congregations are going through and their concerns about COVID and the new war begun by Russia - the KOTN - and the likely involvement with the KOTS, and how we must trust in Jehovah and Jesus for our salvation during these perilous times. I haven't finished - I stopped when Brother Morris began, but intend to go through all of them at least twice.

There was an Awake article that said that if there were intelligent beings somewhere else, and they did solve the issue of universal sovereignty in their civilization, then there may not be a need to take humanity through it again. We have discussed that either here or in Deep Space Zone before it closed. Frankly, I would prefer that we are the first with this issue, and when those who choose to, will take their stand to serve Jehovah, THEN we can visit life friendly planets, solar systems, or even multiverses, if they exist, and perhaps even populate them, if Jehovah allows it.

This came from a posting on LinkedIn by an Elder in CT whose family I have known and admired for many years. If anyone knows how to open it here, please do. https://lnkd.in/etYTFeik Comment More updates

Amazing!!! It is almost like a time capsule!! I read some of the other articles, and one of them referred to a number of organ transplants being made. It reminded me that transplants were novelties way back then. There is a movie that came out that was about that time, called "Something the Lord had Made", and it was about a US southern surgeon who enlisted the help of his black lab technician to create new surgical instruments to put transplanted organs into babies and children, and their true story won all kinds of awards in medicine - and the movie also got an Oscar I think. Seems like the literature of that time reflected those events, and also how the light got brighter about how to deal with prophecies, like the one that it quoted from Isaiah. Now we are reexamining the Ezekiel prophesies about not seeing types and anti-types about who the man with the secretary's inkhorn is, and is not.

That is a great idea!! Many sisters and brothers also use the zoom for working in the phone or letter writing ministry. We get to catch up on me another this way as well.

I remember this question from readers that refers to guns: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/402017484 Seems to me that Jesus wanted to fulfill a related prophecy that applied to him, that he would be counted among the evildoers, or suchlke, so he told his apostles to have a sword in hand before the soldiers arrived. His purpose wasn't for the apostles to defend against them, because he indicated that when Peter cut off the high priest's servant's ear. I have heard brothers and sisters who would keep a small siren device that one can keep on their purse or belt loop that, if turned on when attacked, can make a very loud noise and scare a burglar away, or a silent alarm if a dog attacks. I am inclined to shy away from using guns, because of this later article, and discouraged our son from playing like he had a gun.

Joshua 18:11 The lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin by their families, and the territory of their lot was between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph. 18:15 The south side was from the extremity of Kirʹi·ath-jeʹa·rim, and the boundary extended westward; it went out to the spring of the waters of Neph·toʹah. Or'nan the Jebusite

But their minds were dulled. For to this present day, the same veil remains unlifted when the old covenant is read, because it is taken away only by means of Christ. In fact, to this day, whether Moses is read, a veil lies upon their hearts. But when one turns to Jehovah, the veil is taken away. 2nd Corinthians 3:13-15 wasting

Yes, Brother. I am looking forward to finding out what improvements they made over zoom.

The brothers recently announced a new zoom-like application that will likely fulfill the unique needs of the congregations. I have no idea what goodies it will include, but I have met Bethelites who had, and have, a great deal of the technological know-how that have made possible the current theocratic and educational provisions that would not have been possible fifty years ago. The JW Box, for instance, will allow access to congregations that are in areas that do not have the internet. And we have passed 1000 languages in which spiritual food is available now!