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Actually, he's saying it's either 6:25 or 6:24.

Rights or Duties --- Which? "What is the position of true Christians who have turned around from following this world’s course and who exercise faith in the ransom sacrifice of Christ? The Bible says to them: “You do not belong to yourselves, for you were bought with a price. By all means, glorify God in the body of you people.” (1 Cor. 6:19, 20) Hence, there is very little ground for these people to talk about rights to God, because he owns them by the blood of his Son. They have a duty. That duty is: “By all means, glorify God.” We can glorify God by being peaceable, by being content, by being patient even if our rights are stepped on by someone else. We are glorifying God when we carry out our duties, not demanding what we conceive to be our personal rights, and not causing grief or upset to others in asserting such “rights.”—Prov. 11:2." "Christians, therefore, should not think, just because a certain practice is common in the world, that they may insist on such as being their right in the face of the Christian congregation and its mature thinking. Why should a Christian try to bring the world’s spirit, or the things that represent it, such as extreme styles of dress, extreme music and so-called modern practices, into his life when he is part of the congregation? In fact, why should he try to bring these things into the congregation of God?" --- w73 3/1 p. 137-138

I think it's ostentatious: "attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation." We know the world is given to extremes and likes to engage in outdoing one another with a "showy display of one's means of life." The common motto is, "If you have it, flaunt it." I'm not sure if the word modesty exists in their vocabulary or if they understand what it means, if it does!

Fast talking, fast walking, fast driving, impatient young people who only think of themselves without consideration for anybody else. I guess it's a generational thing. Oh! and did I mention, they tend to be loud with no idea what an indoor voice is?

I not only remember them, I still have them; vinyl records, cassettes and CD's. My car only has apple play and android audio besides FM radio, but I subscribe to XM satellite radio and listen to that almost exclusively, since I hate commercials!

"Six in 10 U.S. adults said the founders originally intended America to be a Christian nation, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey. Forty-five percent said the U.S. should be a Christian nation, but only a third thought it was one currently." "Among white evangelical Protestants, 81% said the founders intended a Christian nation, and the same number said that the U.S. should be one — but only 23% thought it currently was one, according to Pew." --- NBC News 5Chicago

I think the fact that this involves the government and its new discriminatory law, egged on by politicians who don't like our neutral stand, it has been turned into a political issue. Our position, however, is strictly a legal matter. "Ulf Bjereld, who is a professor of political science, chaired the working group that drafted the explanatory report. He has gone on record as saying that the legislation was contemplated because politicians want to prevent Jehovah’s Witnesses from receiving government subsidies."

Yes, and not just five or ten years, but 25 years! "Lyman Swingle began his service at Jehovah’s Witnesses’ world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, on April 5, 1930. He served there for nearly 71 years. Lyman was first assigned to the bindery, then to the pressroom, and he also helped make ink. In fact, Brother Swingle spent about 25 years in the ink room. He also served for some 20 years as a member of the headquarters’ writing staff. For the final 17 years of his life, he worked in the Treasurer’s Office." --- w01 7/1 31

You eat snacks at the meetings? You chew gum at the meetings? Just curious.

What happens if you play country music backwards? You get your wife back, your truck back and your dog back. 🙃

This clarification was said to be made to promote the unity of our brotherhood. This might seem to be counterintuitive, saying that the more Christian freedom we have, the more united we are. I suppose it's in the sense that this new-found freedom will contribute to less disagreements and arguments in these, what are now grey areas. It just goes to show, once again, that unity doesn't always mean uniformity.

That would mean that he is now 75 or 76, not 78 as brother Hess mentioned above. Clarification?

So, for those of us who still use the sterling system, that would be 41 degrees Fahrenheit.

Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1 p. 598, Second Death Rev. 20:6, 2:10, 11

PICKY, PICKY, PICKY!

If that's what you had for "lunch," I'd hate to see what you had for dinner!

Yes, and how does that attitude fit in with what Jesus said: "Now a man said to him: “Lord, are those being saved few?” He said to them: “Exert yourselves vigorously to get in through the narrow door,+ because many, I tell you, will seek to get in but will not be able." --- Luke 13:23,24 Study note: Because the background of this expression is connected with competition in the athletic games, some have suggested that the effort Jesus encouraged may be compared to an athlete’s exerting himself vigorously with all his power to win the prize, straining every nerve, as it were.

That's more like an enigma, disguised as a paradox, wrapped in a conundrum.

Mine too!