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I really enjoyed the reminders in this policy. I hope some of the AI users in JWTalk take them to heart. Personally, I have never used AI. And I hope I never will. It doesn't make sense to me to use something artificial when the real thing is right at hand!

Hhmm... Are you still here, Pauline? You weren't feeling up to coming on to our Zoom chat tonight, but you're here? Okay, just ignore that.

FIve study articles. That's all. But as @Dolce vita affirms, they're extra-good ones!

The story of Kimihiro Nakata is in the Watchtower of October 15, 1959, pages 637-9: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1959766#h=1:0-15:0 As for older recordings, see the PM I sent you.

We'll see. We've been getting eight GB Updates since 2022.

It is now! And yes, it's 133. ...and it's almost an hour and a half!

I remember once when some JW-hater in one of Russia's anti-cult groups said something like: 'if we throw enough JWs in prison, all the rest will get scared and leave their religion.' When are they going to learn it doesn't work like that?

I am updated. But you could go on to jw.org and download the update if you don't want to wait anymore.

Me too. I'm not nearly as dead as it's been reported. At least... not yet.

Mine is updating right now...

I'm very sorry to hear about this, as I am always sorry to hear about one of our friends passing. On Sunday I was at a funeral close to home, a former brother I knew when I attended a French congregation. I only went for the sake of his daughter, the only one in his family still in the truth. I'm hearing a lot about friends, and friends of friends, passing, and it's so much to bear. It looks like Linda was only about 66, so not really that old. So it reminds us: any of us could become a victim of death, which is a sobering thought. I see that Linda wrote one of her earlier posts about herself shortly after joining the forums. https://jwtalk.net/topic/3790-new-members-introduce-yourself-warm-welcomes-d/page/6/#comment-65670 We look forward to seeing her in the new world.

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.

You did post part 2, in the OP. Part 1 was not posted. Here are all four articles in the series: https://bitterwinter.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-state-subsidies-in-sweden-1-the-historical-context/ https://bitterwinter.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-state-subsidies-in-sweden-2-a-law-designed-to-exclude/ https://bitterwinter.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-state-subsidies-in-sweden-3-the-october-blow/ https://bitterwinter.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-state-subsidies-in-sweden-4-institutionalized-discrimination/

I remember the days when the news media made sure that what they said, wrote, or broadcast, was unbiased and impartial. Their rule was: report the facts, not an opinion. Then, gradually, newspapers added a column from the editor clearly labelled Opinion, where personal opinion was expressed on some subjects. However, now, it seems that such a thing doesn't exist anymore. Now, it's more like: "Read the truth here; every other news network is fake news." May it rest in pieces.

Yep. It was the first day of snow for us too! A very thin layer.