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Importance and earnest are in the title of a play called The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

Generals outrank Majors yet, when it comes to importance, something of major importance outranks something of general importance.

As brother Lett stated at the annual meeting …..We have AI - ALMIGHTY INTELLIGENCE Im comfortable sticking to the information the GB provides! 🤔 even that makes my head spin when I dig!

Yep. I remembered something about the angel who became Satan may have had oversight of the garden of Eden. I could have done a keyword search at wol.jw and eventually found what I wanted. Instead, I just put the question to Gemini and bam, I had the scripture, Ezekiel 28:11-19. From there, I can go to the scripture and see the study notes and related articles. It's a major time-saver. Would love to see the brothers incorporate it into our library. Just type your question and the references come up and you're on your way!

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Just learned how a Russian man, a mason, saved several of his neighbors in 1860's because of his knowledge of building a Pech, pronounced pech ka. A masonry wood stove built with 8 inch bricks. You cooked in it and slept on it. I love it, it's amazing. Russian stove - Wikipedia https://share.google/wikCpv6aV6i5t2H0a

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Awards may not always reflect the opinions of people, in general.

FDRPR Funny drones repeat poems rhetorically. DRONE

Short People was a song by Randy Newman, who has been accomplished in numerous music fields and won many awards.

I am not sure if they recommend using NW Scheduler on two different devices. NW Publisher works on the phone.

I hope so. I found it exhilarating. I felt Jehovah lending me his courage.

Yes, we use JW Conf for phone tie in and have for years. The discount codes we got access to expire in 2028. Mine is Sept 1, 2028. But I am just thinking ahead and making some broad assumptions.

Continuous guttering looks really strange as they pull long pieces out of a truck that looks too short

JWConf is the new name for KHConf that the Branck has owned since just before the pandemic However, since the Branch made a 5-year deal with Zoom that is only 2-3 years old, I don't think they plan to move away from it soon

What is JW Conf? I always thought if we ditched zoom for our own solution, we’d just use JWS Studio (which the branch developed itself) I also know Apple TV supports Zoom and FaceTime (which is technically available on all platforms), although it requires setting your iPhone on the mantle to create the camera input…

Series, on tv, is often a comedy that is not continuous.

Opposite sides of a typical (6 sided) die add up to 7. A set of Dominoes will make a complete circle when laid out . Take out all the doubles, then challenge someone to take a domino and not show you. :ine up the ones left, the unattach ed ends will match the one chosen.]

Sunday, December 14 Keep on, then, seeking first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you.—Matt. 6:33. Jehovah and Jesus will not give up on us. The apostle Peter was at a critical crossroads in his life after he denied Christ. Would he quit, or would he persevere as Christ’s disciple? Jesus had supplicated Jehovah that Peter’s faith would not give out. Jesus told Peter about that prayer and expressed confidence that Peter would later be able to strengthen his brothers. (Luke 22:31, 32) How it must have reassured Peter to think back on Jesus’ words! When we come to a crossroads in our life, Jehovah may use caring shepherds to provide the assurance we need to remain faithful. (Eph. 4:8, 11) Just as Jehovah provided materially for Peter and the other apostles, He will care for our material needs when we put the ministry first in our life. w23.0924-25 ¶14-15

Klingon are a species of aliens seen on Star Trek, initially a TV series then movies then series.

That's not possible at this time. There is a note saying the developers are working to add that feature but they don't know when it will be available.

Studies show or suggest that humans don't age at a consistent linear rate. They find that we age the most at two different points in life. The first accelerated aging process happens at age 45. Then we age normally again for about the next 15 years, and the second accelerated aging process happens in our early 60's. After that, depending on what we do, or don't do, to try to stay healthy and take care of ourselves, barring hereditary diseases or conditions, we can either lengthen our lifespan or shorten it. Some make it to 70 and others to 80 and beyond. Dick Van Dyke just turned 100 years old today. Your mileage may vary. 😉

Paul, I agree we have some very useful tools, but they have some important limitations. If you wish to find a scripture or an article you need to type the exact literal words. Oh, yes, you can use some logical operators, but those are not for everybody. My parents are not even able to type without spelling mistakes, so they hardly ever find anything. Not to mention languages with diacritics or where words change depending on their role in the sentence. A couple examples from real life of how AI can be of help. I was recently trying to remember a scripture about listening to both versions of a story. I can never find that scripture because I don't remember the exact words. So I asked ChatGPT: "What scripture in the Bible says that you need to hear both versions of a matter to be able to make a good decision? Please quote it from the New World Translation." The reply? "A commonly cited Bible verse that teaches this principle is Proverbs 18:17 'The first to state his case seems right, Until the other party comes and cross-examines him.'" This is what I mentioned before about semantic search. Instead of looking for the exact words, it understands what you are talking about and finds relevant information. Another example. I asked ChatGPT "Please find some article exclusively on wol.jw.org about comforting someone suffering from old age". It gave me links to four excellent articles with a very brief summary of every one of them. Sure, I could have used the index, look up Comfort, then go down several pages of concepts until I found "the elderly" but this way it's much easier. I think a tool like that would be extremely useful to spend less time searching and more time studying.

The number 4 is the only number to have the same amount of letters as it’s numerical value