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IMO, the principles have always been clear. It's their application that raises doubts. I mean, every Christian understands we don't celebrate Christmas, and no Christian has a problem with covering his mouth when yawning, even if they both originate with false religion, because those are extremes. It's more difficult to understand, and to some degree arbitrary, why some practices that have lost their religious meaning are acceptable while others are not. Wedding rings are ok but toasting is not (well, until now). Piñatas are acceptable but throwing rice to the newlyweds is not. What is the reasoning? I don't know. Some decades ago we were unbearably strict. We were a stick in the mud, looking at everything with suspicion and finding traces of false religion everywhere. The same as a child matures until he becomes a man, our organization is constantly maturing and learning to apply Bible principles better. When I went to pioneer school at 16 my mind exploded with the chapter about Bible principles. I remember chess being avoided by Witnesses because it was a war game. I remember articles quoting Christendom fundamentalists saying rock was Satanic and an article quoting an idiot claiming E.T. was a parody of Jesus. As an organization we have come a long way from then. We recently understood that we cannot tell Jehovah who should be saved and who should. We understood a more logical, loving and Christ-like way of treating those who were removed from the congregation. We understood beards. I'm sure our application of Bible principles will continue to be refined in the future.

Randall, the understanding by the Slave is that the image is about world powers that had something to do with Jehovah's people. There have been other huge empires in history (the Mongol empire was had the biggest extension ever, the Spanish empire, and so on) but they are not in the image because they didn't have anything to do with Jehovah's people. In the past our publications understood the 7th power came into existence in 1763 when the UK took over most French and Spanish possessions in North America as a result of the Seven Year's War and became the foremost commercial power of the world. Yet more recently that view was adjusted, since at that time there was no Jehovah's organization on earth that empire could interact with. That understanding was improved in 2012. It was understood that only at World War I the US and Great Britain started to cooperate as a world power. Besides, it was at that time that they opposed Jehovah's people and caused them trouble. I agree the dates are not really relevant as they don't indicate anything about the closeness of the end. But I think it's an interesting detail to share.

We don't have that point in Spain either. Data entered in the publisher record, aside from the publisher name, is: date of birth, date of baptism, address, gender, other sheep or anointed. You don't really need to enter any of those for NW Scheduler to work. A name is enough. You could keep the cards in paper or in whatever form you find acceptable and copy the report from NW Scheduler to them. You can even delete it from NW Scheduler once it's copied. Anyway, I would suggest contacting your CO or the branch directly. Our body of elders had some doubts, then we asked our CO and he was familiar with the app. He said many congregations in our circuit are using it and the branch is ok with it. So it's likely your CO is already aware of this software and can give you an authoritative answer from the branch.

Marcel, I understand your point but I don't think it fits the facts nor can be used to calculate any deadline. Please, have a look at Appendix B9 in the NWT: Babylon became the head of the statue in 607 BCE when it destroyed Jerusalem, until 539 BCE when it was conquered by the Persians. That means the Babylonian world power lasted only 68 years. The US and the UK, on the other hand, became the 7th power during World War I, between 1914 and 1918. That means it has already lasted between 107 and 111 years, almost double than the Babylonian power.

I only know that the friends in China are very active despite all the opposition. When you talk to friends serving in China, they never say a word about their activities there. It's too dangerous.

That's a good point. If you ask straightforwardly whether using AI is acceptable, then you are not cheating. Maybe they are interested in your AI abilities. On the other hand, while AI is very useful for many tasks, it really needs to be supervised. At work we asked ChatGPT to write an article about a less known architect. It composed a quite good article with all kinds of interesting details and even linked to some photos of his buildings. The problem is it was all made up. As credible as it all was, all the data was false: dates, places, buildings... So while using an AI can save you a lot of time, never take for granted anything it tells you.

I agree. I would never ask AI to write a talk for me. Spiritual subjects need to be explained by spiritual Christians after prayer and research. On the other hand, I may use AI to reformulate a paragraph from my talk, to find a word I am looking for but can't remember, or to suggest some example. Another way I use AI: to suggest scriptures. Yesterday I visited a student who is severely sick and very depressed. I asked ChatGPT to suggest some scriptures to encourage someone sick, based on contents from JW.org. It came up with several useful scriptures and I picked the one that applied best. Of course, I would typically have used for this the book "Scriptures for Christian Living", but I was in a hurry and ChatGPT gave me some quick suggestions in a second.

I think this is the video you have in mind: Jehovah Helps Us To Make Changes https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=share&wtlocale=E&lank=pub-lffv_121_VIDEO

Thanks, Marky. Yes, one of the elders is her group overseer. I am contacting the developers about this and will share their answer.

Our COBE mentioned one issue today. NW Scheduler automatically generated a task to visit a publisher who was baptized one year ago. The problem is it automatically selected which elders will make the visit. We can't find the way to change those brothers, or even better, to prevent the app from automatically assigning this task to specific elders. How can we do that? I set up myself as the COBE assistant so that I can see what he sees, but can't find a way to change this.

If JW Library is installed on a Windows computer you can follow the method described in this topic: https://jwtalk.net/topic/46226-moving-jw-library-to-new-computer/ I don't know how to do the same in an Android or IOs device, though.

Erin, I will show you how to research this: Go to wol.jw.org (that's the Watchtower Online Library, but the steps are similar if you are using JW Library). Go to the Bible > Revelation > chapter 13. Click on the verse number of the scripture you wish to research. In this case it would be verses 16 and 17 (and maybe 18). When you click on that verse number, several references will appear on the right with recent publications that explain those scriptures. In those references you will learn what the beast is and what its mark means. Then in the next chapter, Revelation 14, verses 9-12, you will find what happens to those who receive the mark of the beast: SPOILER: They are destroyed forever together with Satan's system. For this to work on JW Library you need to go first to Library > Indexes and download the most recent Study Guide. After that the references will be there for you to read. if you are using a device with a smaller screen the references may not appear directly, you may need to click on the diamond icon.

Chloe, congratulations! I am not sure if you mean the meeting with pioneers before the circuit assembly, your pioneer school, or something else. But the advice is the same: The quality that characterizes pioneers is joy. Any activity where pioneers are involved is always joyful. You will feel really well. Now if you refer to your pioneer school, that's something really special that you will remember for life. You will receive your book one month in advance so you will have plenty of time to prepare all the lessons. Then during the school, you can review them again. You will be fascinated by the explanations of the instructors and the comments by others. The same as our regular meetings, you raise your hand only when you wish, nobody is pressured to comment. But you will be happy to share with others the gems you find. Pioneer school is like one week in paradise. Just relax, prepare well and enjoy it.

Tony, as others have mentioned, it's not only you but all brothers who enter data into NW Scheduler need to be in the same main version. Most syncing issues come from someone entering data from an older version of the software.

Tony, a couple months ago there was an important update that required to update the mobile app too and in most cases choosing a region and entering your user details again. Please make sure you have the latest version of both NW Scheduler and NW Publisher. If your NW Scheduler is correctly set up to your region, try disconnecting your user in the mobile app, selecting the proper region and entering the details again.