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  2. lmcnultyn
    Thank you, but please don't worry, my sister. You did nothing wrong, and I am not in any way hurt at all, so there's also no need for an apology here ☺️
  3. Pabo
    I found the Boxing Day Test disaapointing. I had to do some work around the house for 3 days since it too was over in 2 days.
  4. Pabo
    Well, we went from hot to cold the past week, whilst we had our CO visit last week. However, January was like all month.
  5. LeolaRootStew
    I wonder how accurate the renditions will be proven to be. If people are going to be resurrected looking like that, they aren't going to be cough cough highly attractive from our perspective; of course, I know these renditions are often wildly wrong, so hopefully… We'll probably laugh at this with them some day.
  6. Witness1970 started following Six More Weeks
  7. Witness1970
    My calendar is the same as yours. It's about 6 more weeks of winter or about 6 more weeks until spring.
  8. Witness1970
    A person gets 50% of their DNA from each parent. Over generations the DNA becomes more and more diluted. If you could check the DNA of one of your actual ancestors from 1,000 years ago (about 30 generations) you will probably find little to NO evidence that that person was your ancestor. I am not sure how to apply this to the topic, but it just came to mind while reading the other posts.
  9. LeolaRootStew started following Song from Video Drama 2018? Regional Convention
  10. LeolaRootStew
    I don't think anyone is seeing this news as a negative, but rather a reason the UN could gain power soon. I personally don't think there's room in prophecy for a complete collapse of the UN, but a restructuring? Maybe. A panic from the Nations? Sure.
  11. Jim Jam started following Song from Video Drama 2018? Regional Convention
  12. Jim Jam
    the brother who decided to add it to the drama must be an Audiomachine fan
  13. Miss Bea
    JW. Org Period. I’m not worried. Jehovah does things with class. A mere diversion. If the UN has to be resurrected, so be it!
  14. tmm
    So true, David. That struck me too as an important realization: Christ is still making efforts for the kingdom beyond giving his life as a ransom, massive as that gift is. He still does so much to draw both the anointed and the great crowd, and to oversee what is happening in the congregations.
  15. tmm
    I read your post, Richard, and thought about how often that key point needs to be remembered: the four winds are being held back until the last of the anointed are sealed and only after that will the end start happening. So that is not just because most have had enough of the struggle to keep on top of things and are longing for relief, though Jehovah sees and cares about everyone individually
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  17. Percy
    I wonder how much thought they gave it?
  18. jrnievas
    It is Jehovah who fulfills prophecies. If that so-called “imminent collapse” were an indication of a false prophecy about the UN, then Jehovah would be made a liar. But who wants to make Jehovah a liar? Is it not Satan? Whatever happens to the UN, Jehovah has things in mind, and in his hands he can maneuver events at the right time. So whether the UN collapses or not, we will see. Let us not allow others’ predictions about the UN to affect our trust in Jehovah’s power. What does the Bible say about the UN? First, when the League of Nations failed, Jehovah showed that it would become a powerful organization again and would later go to destruction (Revelation 17:8, 11). This understanding came about two to three years before the rise of the UN, when Jehovah’s Witnesses understood this prophecy. Now, when did we come to understand the one thought about the empowerment of the UN? Was it in 2024? 2025? Whatever the time, Jehovah always gives us understanding of prophecy before events happen—although sometimes, this understanding becomes clearer while the prophecy is already in the process of being fulfilled. So whether the UN may collapse or not, again, Jehovah has everything in mind and in hand. He is in control (Proverbs 21:1). (Translated using ChatGPT)
  19. Shawnster
    The Neanderthal from Altamura was human. Glad they agree
  20. LeolaRootStew
    I don't think that's possible according to the scriptures. We still believe the UN is the scarlet-colored wild beast because it was struck down and rose again from the League of Nations. It is this beast that eats BtG, not just any old coalition. We had an article that came out with the new understanding about the one thought (right after the Annual Meeting a few months ago) and it clearly describes the UN as the means of destruction. I don't think there has been or will be an update on this. https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/false-religion-will-be-destroyed/
  21. Percy
    I call it EVOMAGINATION. haha.
  22. Dages
    Reminder that fossil are static item of an individual. "Evolution" is a transition process happening over populations. Finding a bone that matches a "prediction" is not an experiment; it is post-hoc rationalization and confirmation bias. So they can show some fossil, that won't demonstrate their evolution theory.
  23. kejedo
    weather broke 32 for a bit, but not long enough to melt anything. many deaths in NY due to deep freeze.also, large flu outbreak.
  24. Percy
    This showed up recently in some News. One gets the feeling they are looking for ways to make news. Sigh. The first preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record: The Neanderthal from Altamura https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426309122
  25. cricket246
    Plot twist : He’s blind 🤣
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  27. LeslieDean
    Maybe they will use money from false religion and all it's properties as a reason to destroy
  28. Brandon
    Al Jazeera is actually considered very high quality in terms of both investigative and in-depth journalism. It has won numerous prestigious journalism awards to support its reputation. I’ve noticed in recent years they’ve said “a coalition of nations” rather than the UN, allowing the possibility that a new alliance or group would be doing the ‘move’ against religion.
  29. dljbsp
    I’ve always loved the thought that Jehovah puts our sins as far away from us as the sunrise is from the sunset. You can’t see both at the same time. When one is in view, the other is completely gone. (Psalm 103:12) That helps me understand how Jehovah sees us. He doesn’t keep dragging our past mistakes back in front of us. When he forgives, it’s real forgiveness. From his point of view, our past sins are not standing right there accusing us over and over again. We don’t see things that way, though. Our imperfection keeps putting our mistakes right in front of our face. We remember them. We replay them. Sometimes we even punish ourselves long after Jehovah has already forgiven us. Jehovah doesn’t love us less because we’re imperfect. He loves us enough to let our sins go completely. And he doesn’t just ask us to do the same for others — he requires it. That shows how serious learning to love like Jehovah loves really is. Not pretending nothing happened, but refusing to keep someone’s past sins in front of us. Putting them out of view, the way Jehovah does. If Jehovah, who sees everything, can choose not to hold sins against us, then we have no excuse for holding on to the sins of others. Real forgiveness isn’t weakness. It’s love in action.
  30. Anniebea
    That’s a great analogy Bea! And I do agree with the speaker, it is close… things have changed so much this past 6 months, the underlying tension in the world just seems…. Different, somehow! You keep doing what you’re doing Bea, you bring comfort to all of us 🥰
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      A little boy wants to make his father happy. He wants to buy him a gift, but he doesn’t have any money. So he turns to his father and asks him for a few coins. Now he has money, but the gift he wants to get is in a store, and the store is in town. Again, he needs the help of his father. Once in the store, he finds that the gift is way up on the shelf. The father has to lift him up. Same thing at the register. Having returned back home, the son, beaming and proud, hands the father his gift.

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