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  1. That's another option! It's been 20?years ago since I visited Walkill Brooklyn.wnd for so reason I am remembering we were told that they rotate most individuals through each department except for specific ones (doctors, dentists lawyers etc for obvious reasons) and give them a chance to learn to area. I recall my husband saying they would not need to be more selective else the laundry come out pink. He was referring to 20 yr old me who had never done laundry , was never taught, so never sorted clothes . I through all his white shirts in with my red dress in order to do only one load. It proved to me that Jehovah would have taught me this step before letting me loose with others possessions. Just imagine the detail to learning we will receive..I may have to start at base and telearn all I think I know.
  2. It's so hard for my imagination to go too far. So intend to think of the future as similar to what we have now except PERFECT! I THINK of being trained on every job there is then rotating assignments every few hundred years. A barrista (surely we will still have lovely coffee shops to visit/relax/enjoy with friends. Two hundred years. Then go to learn and sew fashion. Two hundred years. Then go and study about horticultural --two hundred years. Captian a yacht --two hundred years. I want to do every job and experience it all.
  3. Since Jehovah knows me best I will be excited to learn where he uses me..I have been a nurse for 40 years and retired for three. I can't wait to learn a new course . I can come back to the study of our physical body but want to do something completely different.. even cosmetology excites me. Massage therapy. Cooking..painting study of color. Every aspect of study I want to encounter .
  4. @SofiaI understand your hurt feelings as I also felt the sting of his reply. But I did pause when I reread, several times in fact, why he questioned you for a reference link. The only thing different was I understood you wrote it in error as.i know your stance. A misunderstanding for sure. Yes his wording was indeed hurtful no matter how polite, but I am sure you know him to be a loyal , respected brother who oversees with caution even if it may have felt veiled harshness. I know you both to be strong pillars for Jehovah and in your hearts have already forgiven I love you all immensely.
  5. It's like a couple down to their last dime with no end in sight. One turns to the other and says 'Desperate times call for desperate actions. You may die if you rob that bank but I'm willing to take that risk.'
  6. Maybe they will use money from false religion and all it's properties as a reason to destroy
  7. Thank you! I will post how how reading and studying helped me come up with my theme for the dinner party. I'll have to post under another topic so as not to take up space here. I'm so excited to share it.
  8. I started studying our new publication Walk Courageously with God yesterday with two sisters. We spent 3.5 hrs talking to get to learn about each others past, as two of my sisters had never met. One from the cart I met and one from my congregation. The first chapter was on Enoch. Upon starting to discuss the chapter we realized we have already been walking Courageously and started to see ways we could improve. For the first time in 30;yrs I studied not to learn facts but simply through the eyes of bonding with my spiritual family. I am starting a dinner party this Saturday afternoon....oops I'm late for appt but will write more later.
  9. Over time, Jezebel stopped being treated as a name at all and became more like a warning term, similar to how Pharaoh or Herod function symbolically. Just googled this thought. Interesting
  10. August 2025 “Questions From Readers” in The Watchtower A more recent article discusses when the preaching work will end and clarifies that the good news of the Kingdom will continue to be preached right up until Armageddon, rather than being replaced entirely by a doom-and-gloom judgment message. This is an adjustment of earlier understanding and shows the Society’s current stance on the timing of any judgment-focused message.
  11. Worked cart at court house yesterday. About 45 mins into our shift a group formed carrying red, white, green flags and the American flag. No one knew the striped flags country of origin because Mexico and Iran same colors, ones stripes are vertical and one horizontal. I googled it. Iran. Then the news cameras started rolling in, more people arrived to the 'peaceful' protest then loud chanting is forgien language started. We were instructed to pack up and leave quietly. A sister said that Monday a Spanish brother was 'picked up, handcuffed if front of his wife and small children by Isis and taken away. The sister said he was prepared with all legal paperwork but it did not matter. They said the brothers/elders knew he was legal and it was a concern but still relied of having the legal documentation kept their hope up. It is evident documentation will not prevent deportation so now the Spanish brothers are all quiet anxious as well as their spiritual family.
  12. I like reading the different responses. It's like watching a tennis match. Someone poses a question or thought that may have never occured to me, then one gives a reply, I see and like the response, then the next person gives a different reply. It allows me to consider the many different ways that things may happen but I know only Jehovah will reveal the correct one. It keeps my curiosity high.
  13. I use it to verse map. How would I use a verse map format in jwlibrary or on our authorized web site to perform this research please?
  14. I hope so. I found it exhilarating. I felt Jehovah lending me his courage.
  15. I don't understand your statement. I hope it is because I'm sick with high fever and flu and not just dumb. Should it read can instead of can't? And second paragraph sounded like sci-fic to me.. sounded like information is installed to actually mislead. Please expound.
  16. Thank you. I did set up my AI to reflect clearly ONLY JW publications and official site is to be used--NO SECULAR/OUTSIDE SOURCE TO BE REFERENCED! NO CONTAMINATION! Unfortunately I did not set up only most recent understandings to be used.
  17. I have encountered this twice. I was researching a clearer understanding of marriage partners after the resurrection and the possibility of remarry each other. First response was based on my understanding from when I first began to study in 1997 which was no. But I recalled the updated information of we can not be dogmatic. I called it out on that and it immediately corrected to say it referenced outdated information. The second time was it used the crucification of Christ and stated it used that term based on original words. Instead of my explaining I will give the answer Ai supplied. I was upset and asked how I could trust their response if they used a word JWs do not use. I just found the reply and copied to paste here. 'Yes. Before the 1930s, the Watch Tower used the common biblical terms of the King James Version, including: “crucify” “crucifixion” “crucified” This was because the early Bible Students used the KJV widely, and the word “crucify” is a standard translation of the Greek word stauróō. The terminology changed only after the doctrine was clarified — that Jesus died on a stake, not a cross. But the word “crucify” continued to appear in quotations, historical descriptions, and dictionary definitions.' I have had a brother explain on our Egypt trip in May that the writing committee uses AI for research and compares closely it's findings. I try to inspect things carefully too. Thanks for all your help.

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