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Thanks John, I checked this morning and there was nothing. So it must be new! Now I'll have to go and see what's new on WTLib. However, we have a service group in a few minutes.

And...? If you want to post an article you found interesting, that's good. By all means, share! But rather than just post and leave, why not share with us what you found interesting about it. So, you find an article that seems to support some Biblical accounts. What about it? What are your thoughts on it? If you told us a little about that, it would give us something to look for, something to contemplate, and to see if we agree with you.

No. I got this from a French brother whom I have known for over 20 years. (His email was in French, naturally.) The things he sends me are always well researched and vetted on his end. His original email says, "Les Témoins de Jéhovah ont mis en ligne un nouveau site web", which I would translate literally as "Jehovah's Witnesses have launched a new website". I translated it the way I did because I'm not personally certain it is run by the Canada Bethel. I will check with him to see, and let you know.

Me too! But then the brother thought it better that I change to "Things in Which it is Impossible for God to Lie." (My overworking mind was demanding more detail than what was provided in the Truth book.)

I have heard exactly that. Someone asked me if I was gay. And I said no. So, his response was: "Why not? You got a problem with that?" Any excuse to be confrontational...

A new website has been launched: https://pteg.ca/, apparently by Jehovah's Witnesses. The site originates in Canada. The Purple Triangles Education Group (PTEG) is a collective of educators, authors, researchers, historians, and speakers committed to preserving and sharing the history of Jehovah's Witnesses who suffered under the Nazi regime. The website contains many interesting documents to download, including the PowerPoint presentation: https://pteg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PPT-Stand-Firm-and-Speak-Out-With-Video-Links.pdf. I also noticed a new biographical book on the site, published in May 2025, titled: Lucy's Story: My Four Years as a Hidden Child in Wartime Netherlands.

Actually they were posted on jw.org some time ago. The time stamp on Episode 2 is January 30, 2025, long before the convention! (It was uploaded before it was made available publicly.) Episode 3 was uploaded May 2, 2025.

Sad to hear that David Silver is going offline soon. His hosting expires in July of 2026. I always enjoyed the leads he gave to good assembly/convention notebooks, wallpapers, etc. The end of an era!

In reality, Quebec French is not so unlike standard French that the two cannot understand each other. The expressions used and the pronunciations of some words may be different, but they can still talk to each other without any difficulty. The words are mostly the same, but other nuances can be accommodated. Supposedly, Quebec French is the same French that was spoken in France at the time of Louis the 14th, but the French in France has evolved since then. The Quebecois here pride themselves on that heritage. However that story is debatable. But the real problem is that when an English-speaking person learns French in school first tries to speak, almost no one can understand them! They aren't used to the English accent, and that throws them off. It can be the most degrading thing when an English-speaking person speaks French to a French householder, and the householder says he doesn't speak English! (I know; I went through that phase.) In a couple of months, it will have been 30 years since I came back to an English congregation. I've lost a little bit of my French from lack of use, but I can still handle it pretty well whenever I need to. It's still a joy to visit a French congregation for a meeting once in a while. After all this time, I can understand everything, but I still hear the difference between the English and French brothers: The French sing louder!

Trump looks to be desperate to get Greenland, whether they want to submit to that or not. I don't follow the news too much, so I don't know why he wants it so badly. But whatever it is turns him into a bully.

We usually start a new topic for the new JW Broadcasting, which will appear tomorrow. But we already know what this month's JW Broadcasting will be: (99.9% likely) the Annual Meeting! However there is already a topic for the Annual Meeting: https://jwtalk.net/topic/59094-2025-annual-meeting-parts-1/ It's already 45 pages long! So just scroll to the end, and we can continue our discussion of it over there. So I'm not sure what we'll use this topic for. You can decide.

Of course, it was COVID that put us on the road to using Zoom instead of going to the hall. Our congregation has about 45 to 60 on Zoom at all meetings. Most of us there (yes, myself included) cannot get around as easily as we once could, simply because of age. We do all our service on Zoom too (maybe ten of us), writing letters or making phone calls. Once in a while, a snow storm prevents some of us from being at the hall. Because our hall is on a little used street, the city doesn't remove the snow for a few days after a big snow storm. No place for parking! So the hall becomes off-limits to everyone, and all of us meet on Zoom. @carlos used a very good illustration above. It's like IV fluids. Not very appetizing, but necessary.

I noticed that too.