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He was great! I couldn't figure out if he was a good guy or bad guy til well into story and he stressed me out.... VERY well done, Matthew! 😃👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I Feel it's only because of the Trump administration that this is the case, i remember his last term he caused a stir with a few country's also trying to withholding money for the United Nations, he does many things that you think how does that fit in with bible prophecy both for and against. I think once the Trump administration term has ended then everything will more go back to normal with the Uk and allies.

I think Update 8 will come the Friday after Christmas.

Grant was my 'voice of danger'. Reformed sinners try to show how reformed they are, but Grant was arriving just in time for the Final Test, and was the character I selected to introduce tension.

In the security policy document (NSS few days ago) Current US administration identifies Drug Cartels as enemies - not Russia. The U.S., which has been an interventionist power globally since the end of the Second World War, is shifting its focus to the Western hemisphere, according to the document — which Peskov noted does not refer to Russia as an adversary, unlike previous iterations. The document also casts doubt on whether some European nations are reliable long-term members of NATO. The alliance was forged between the U.S. and European nations to counter an expansionist Soviet Union at the end of the 1940s. UK's enemy is Russia.. those two approaches do not align. Putin regards the UK as Russia’s most implacable adversary. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/russia-war-putin-war-hybrid-cyber-b2880798.html Allies act together and have same enemy. Something does not add up.

The perception of a nation as an 'ally' is complex. Is the relationship based on formal treaties, economic necessity or shared geopolitical interests (ex: anti-West, anti-Communist). Also, nations form alliances based on shared threats rather than shared values. The saying goes "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Nations bound to the KotS by legally binding treaties are: Canada UK France Germany Italy Poland and 23 other members of the NATO alliance. Asia-Pacific Treaty Allies: Japan South Korea Australia Philippines Major non-NATO Allies: Israel Egypt Jordan Brazil Argentina It's safe to say that the USA has differences of some kind with virtually every ally at some point in time. From what I read about the UK, it's really struggling since BREXIT. I remember a cousin from Northern Ireland saying they don't need Brussels telling them what they can or can't do. Today's UK has a high degree of public dissatisfaction and intense pressure on the Labour government to deliver quick results on inflation, NHS and immigration. As with the USA, voters in the UK shift to the opposition party in hopes of solutions. Despite their problems, however, the UK still has more in common with the USA than any other ally. KotS !

Possible mega quake according to Japanese Officials. Advisory was issued today after yesterdays earthquake. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-earthquake-megaquake-advisory-tsunami/

Shawn: It seems that USA and UK are not aligned together anymore like before .. just look at differing actions and opinions on how to end the war in Ukraine. Also recently published Security official document of White House is closely aligned with Russia , not the UK . Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd01g2kwwo So it looks like Trump's administration and KOTN are cozing to each other, while at the same time UK is sticking closer to France and Germany in relation to Ukraine conflict. Does UK and USA have the same line of thought in relation to Ukraine, the answer is "No" Maybe, technically in principle on paper they are "aligned" but definitely they are drifting apart buddies, when it comes to real decisions and real actions ..

Imagine the sign above Jesus carpenter’s shop “Joseph and Sons … Bespoke Yokes” “Measured with care, crafted with love…Our yokes are kindly.” Kindly….Not harsh, not crushing, designed with care and compassion. Yokes were always a symbol of partnership,two oxen sharing the load, just as Jesus shares his. He invites us to take his yoke, not that he would share ours, but that he provides one that is kindly and light. The emphasis is on “learning from him” ( the hard part) and finding refreshment. So it seems to me this brother in his conversation with you.. was able to help you find refreshment… but more importantly you accepted the counsel. You didn’t just hear it; you stepped into it. That’s why it brought refreshment. Well done

Although there is a lot of "noise" about USA and UK recently ... (and looks like USA and UK do not share the same view on Ukraine's conflict) Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, said he no longer considers the United Kingdom a reliable U.S. ally after reports that it halted the sharing of intelligence on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean over concerns about the legality of recent military strikes. Homan told reporters when asked about the reports, first published by CNN: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president. I don't think there's skepticism." He went on to say, "I'm not in my lane. I'm a border guy, that's a question for Pete Hegseth or the Secretary of State."https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-border-czar-says-uk-not-us-friend-venezuela-11050636

I don't expect an update 8... more like a 2026 update 1

I like Grant. It's a great character

I always think of what Jehovah told Gideon - "go with what you have". He wasn't told to try and rustle up what he didn't have.

So sorry to hear that!

2025 Governing Body Update #8 The 2025 Governing Body Update #8 is something we are truly looking forward to. And many questions naturally come to our minds: Will it still be released this year? Will there really be an Update #8 in 2025? Who will be the presenter? When will it be released? Will there be any organizational adjustments or clarifications of beliefs? For now, we do not have these answers. Let us wait with expectation and confidence.

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I've never liked when people say they will love someone to death. Not for me.

The sisters helped me out quite a bit by hosting a Funeral Repast for my eldest son (also not in the truth.) His death at age 44 is under police investigation. Oops, OT again.

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Maybe being outside of the US we have a different perspective. The US does seem to be isolating itself on the world stage and there are many news articles about the changing order. But we trust the prophecy that the Anglo American World Power will only cease to exist because it's crushed by God's Kingdom.

Hello It's a bit complex for me to explain but I will try.. It requires some effort, but please remember that none of this is necessary. Jehovah has full control..! I am just the anxious type that breath more easily in solitude, my brain is just wired that way.. I'm a jumpy person by nature, I guess. I even have full service days in the ministry with just me and Jehovah. I like the calm it brings to lock myself as much as possible from satan's system, I really despise this system, it's demonic through and through.. But I heard we also will get an updated annual meeting video soon where we will teach how Jehovah will protect us both mentally and physical during the great tribulation. So take this seemingly juxtapositional post with a balanced mindset. Let's never forget the Ephesians 3: 20, that Jehovah's arm is never too short!. Your question about security aspect. Please read with caution, as some can find this stressful!! (Ignorance can be a bliss and all of that) Both Intel and AMD have a low-level spying kernel on all of our devices since 2008 (IME and PSP). It's a hidden CPU-chip that is always on and collect data, even when our phones and computers are off. The apps on our phones talk to each other, and if you use Google, Meta, Insta, Snapchat, Tiktok, or any app that has identifiers and fingerprinting, it will collect data. Your email and contacts are also interconnected, and also calendars and cloud drives.. By eliminating these, I can use self-hosted calendars, contacts and drives via for example Nextcloud, and then only host this data myself at home.. It runs in a containerized system called Docker. Meaning that Nextcloud think it is the only app on your system, contained (think of a ship with containers). I then always sync the calendars and contacts home, instead of giving it to Google. Microsoft Windows Recall and Copilot is a disaster, it uses TPM (Trusted Platform Module) via this IME to spy on everything. Now they have rolled out the mentioned Recall, this takes a screenshot of your screen every 3-5 seconds and sends it to Microsoft servers for AI training on Copilot. This is a client-side scan that will be mandatory in the near future, a statement said my their CEO directly. They also last month removed our ability to run local accounts on Windows, meaning you will always have to log on to Microsoft servers and let them see everything you do to train their AI and AI agents that will be used on all system apps (even the calculator and notepad asks for internet connection). Small and easy tips for general security. Use an open source router like Flint 2, or anything with OpenWrt. I sold my ASUS router, because I got a TOS a few months ago that basically said that "we will push updates to your device if laws and regulations says so, without notifying you".. The same with my Samsung phone that severaly locked down our rights to even monitor what type of traffic they gather from our phones. They explicitly said in the latest TOS that they will gather data from our phones, but we are not allowed to intercept or even watch what kind of data they harvest. This is one of the core enshiftification turnarounds I've seen with my own eyes that made me want to just throw it all in the ocean. On your router, be it whatever you have, segment your network so that your WiFi cannot see your management network. Isolate it.. Disable Wifi Sense on your router, this is spyware of high technological advancements in air pressure and can calculate where you are and what you do based on pressure. Use DNS ver TLS, a setting you can find on all of your browsers. Don't use Google search, use startpage.com or duckduckgo. It reduces fingerprinting. Or use dockerized SearXNG where you host your search engine yourself. More on Dockers below. To the point of self-host I've been building this self-host for about 5 months now. First thing is that I obtained a NUC server, I used a NUC I ordered from Novacustom with libreboot, eliminating IME risk that is a very hot topic with Microsoft going completely off rails on surveillance nowdays. Having libreboot makes it so that I can only run Linux, but that's ok, we really want Linux for stability and longevity anyway. List of what I needed was as follows: Server with Linux, NUC from Novacustom with PopOS or any other distro that people are comfortable with Installation of Docker and Docker Compose software on the server. Docker will house all the apps you want to use. You can even download the whole Wikipedia with kiwix-serve app, for example. We use Portainer, this is a GUI implementation of Docker. We need to make Portainer with the command-line way first Tip: Use a note-taking app with markdown and code-formatting to document your way through it all. Obsidian, Joplin or any note taking app you prefer. How to deploy Portainer? (The GUI variant of Docker) First create a main docker folder where you will have all your app's configuration files. It will house all future apps you choose, like for example, Nextcloud, Linkwarden, Vaultwarden, Joplin, Jellyfin, Paperless, tubearchivist, navidrome, gitea, searxng, kiwix-serve (download the whole wikipedia) or any other containers you want to self-host. Just look up these names followed by "docker" on a google search, if you want to know more about those apps.. You'll quickly fall down the rabbit hole, I promise It's so fun!!! Install Docker and Docker compose: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/ and https://docs.docker.com/compose/install Like mentioned; first create the Docker mother-folder: `sudo mkdir /home/youruser/docker` on your Linux-server. Then make them writeable by `sudo chown youruser:youruser -R /home/youruser/docker/` and also ``sudo chmod 775 -R /home/youruser/docker/`. Do the same with the portainer folder inside here aswell, before next step, like so: `sudo mkdir /home/youruser/docker/portainer/{portainer_data}` and chown/chmod these folders aswell). Then deploy in terminal by pasting this: docker run -d -p 9000:9000 \ --name=portainer \ --restart=always \ -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \ -v /home/youruser/docker/portainer/portainer_data:/data \ portainer/portainer-ce Now we have a working Portainer you can reach from http://localhost:9000 (or 9900 if you deployed it with 9900:9000 just as an example, to make it clear that the left side of the colon-sign is your NUC host side, and the right side is what the Portainer sees inside it's containerized environment). Now you want a place to watch Videos from JW, Let's first create the environment, the app where we will be watching it from; Jellyfin Before we deploy Jellyfin via Portainer, let's create the folders that Jellyfin needs, namely folder for Jellyfin's config files, and also bind map for the video files so it can see them. If you read the github page at https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-jellyfin, look for the docker-compose.yaml file, and you will see it's "volume structure": `sudo mkdir /home/youruser/docker/jellyfin/{media,library}`.. After this make the folders adhere to your user by `sudo chown youruser:youruser -R /home/youruser/docker/jellyfin` and also ``sudo chmod 775 -R /home/youruser/docker/jellyfin` Do this for all apps you want individually. Some apps need data folders only, others need data, configs and other stuff, but you can see this on their respective github pages, look for a file called docker-compose.yaml on the github and check the volumes bind-mount to see. Jellyfin looks like this: `/home/youruser/docker/jellyfin/media:/media`and `/home/youruser/docker/jellyfin/library:/config` The path before the colon sign is the path on your NUC, the path after colon is what the Docker app sees in it's containerized environment. Then go to your Portainer, create a local docker.sock environment, Portainer will guide you through this. And then go to "stack" and "create new stack". Here we will create our first Jellyfin stack. The Jellyfin stack will in your case look like this: --- services: jellyfin: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest container_name: jellyfin environment: - PUID=youruser - PGID=youruser - TZ=Europe/Amsterdam - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=http://192.168.0.5 #optional volumes: - /home/youruser/docker/jellyfin/library:/config - /home/youruser/docker/jellyfin/media:/media <---- Wait with adding this until you've read the NAS- section further below. You might want to add the NAS folder instead... ports: - 8096:8096 - 8920:8920 #optional - 7359:7359/udp #optional - 1900:1900/udp #optional restart: unless-stopped Now deploy the stack in Portainer, and you can find your "jellyfin" container under "Container" section. Click on the ports to access your Web GUI and create a user login. Great! But you have need for more space, here you can use a NAS and create a network-folder mount that your Portainer apps can see and use. I use a NAS with RAID 6 or SHR-2 setup. Five HDDs with two hot swap for redundancy. I run Synology, but I have disabled internet connectivity entirely on this, and removed all remnants of "phone home" codes in `sudo nano /etc/synoinfo.conf` (that's the command to get in to the file and edit away stuff). On the NAS I have seperate folders that I want to reach from my NUC, folders like "media" and "personalmedia". I made these mounts NFS-mountable, by going in to the NAS' operating system's folder properties and adding my NUC's IP address to the "NFS-permissions" page. Then back to the NUC (server), I created mountable shares on my NUC that points to the two folders on my NAS. I did so by first creating empty folders on my NUC to house the NAS-folders. The command to create those two empty folders is for example `sudo mkdir -p /mnt/nfs-media` and `sudo mkdir -p /mnt/nfs-personal`. (In Linux the /mnt/ folder is where you make mountable folders) Then give the folders admin rights by commands `sudo chown youruser:youruser -R /mnt/nfs-<yourfolder(s)>`, much like what you did with the docker folders Then add these connections to boot, by appending `sudo nano /etc/fstab` and add to the bottom the following;, "192.168.18.224:/volume1/media /mnt/nfs-media nfs rw,hard,intr,noatime,nodev,nosuid,vers=4.1,async 0 0" This adds the connection from your NAS to your new empty NUC-folder. Change the IP and path to the one matching your NAS. After all of these are done, you need to tell the NUC to mount the new shares, do so by this; `sudo mount -a` Check that they are mounted by `df -h | grep nfs`. Side note; If you ever lose connection with your hard drive after a boot or a crash, the `sudo mount -a` will re-mount everything. In the case of Jellyfin, that would in my case look like this: `- /mnt/nfs-media/jwvideos:/media`. It's getting late here now, I might edit this post and fine-tune it later and add more to it. Hope it helps anybody

I don’t have the three fold cord either but I’m extremely happily married for well over thirty years… those sisters sound extremely mean and I’m glad that they won’t be doing the judging of either you or I!! I also know of several so called perfect three cord marriages that have split up, it is NOT a guarantee of anything ! I was so sorry to hear of the passing of your husband he sounds like he was a lovely man… remember Jehovah reads hearts and not those vicious sisters x

Wednesday, December 10 Be obedient to those who are taking the lead among you.—Heb. 13:17. Although our Leader, Jesus, is perfect, those whom he uses to take the lead here on earth are not. We may struggle to obey them, especially if they ask us to do something that we do not want to do. The apostle Peter once hesitated to obey. When instructed by an angel to eat animals that were unclean under the Mosaic Law, Peter refused—not once, but three times! (Acts 10:9-16) Why? The new direction did not make sense to him. On the other hand, the apostle Paul obeyed when the Christian older men in Jerusalem directed him to take four men to the temple and cleanse himself ceremonially to show that he was observing the Law. Paul knew that Christians were no longer under the Law. And he had not done anything wrong. Still, Paul “took the men the next day and cleansed himself ceremonially along with them.” (Acts 21:23, 24, 26) Paul’s obedience promoted unity.—Rom. 14:19, 21. w23.10 10 ¶15-16

Thanks for the positive response. This is a trying time for me, as it is for most. My first born son died 3 months ago and my only son that lives in the same state as I has illegallly drained my life savings. I wish I could talk with my husband about what to do next. Overwhelmed and trying to make sure I am prepared for part on midweek meeting, Thurs. Glad I have an assignment b/c I feel very distanced from cong.