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Definitely. AI is convenient to look for verse/words, but it's absolutely garbage for interpretation

They migrated from Siberia

a little lesson The test isn’t what we have, but how we view what we have—and what we prioritize. Jehovah provided for Israel in dramatic fashion—raining down quail until the camp was overflowing. But the miracle revealed more than just divine generosity. It exposed hearts. Some gathered obsessively, driven by selfish craving. The issue wasn’t the meat itself. It was the mindset. That lesson still holds. Greed isn’t exclusive to those with wealth. It can grip the poor too—those who are constantly longing, constantly comparing, constantly discontent. Jehovah didn’t condemn the act of collecting quail; He condemned the spirit behind it. (Num. 11:31–34) Whether our fridge is full or our bank account is bare, greed whispers the same lie: “You don’t have enough. You need more.” But Jesus flips that script. He urges us to store up treasures in heaven—to measure wealth by closeness to God, not by abundance of things. (Matt. 6:19–20; Luke 16:9) Greed is never just about money. It’s about trust. Do we trust Jehovah to give what we truly need? Reference The Watchtower (Study Edition), March 2025, Article 13, ¶8 👉 Read on JW.org

Hey Greg, a penny for your thoughts? Oh, wait, never mind...

388, I hope.

How many pages will this thread become before that announcement?

Before, we said we might not know if the cry of P&S was real until BtG was destroyed, but now we are also looking for the UN to get power. With both signs being fulfilled all but together, we might legitimately have time for a special campaign before the destruction of BtG. This sounds exciting! I wonder if they already have a magazine written up and ready to print.

Yes brother, those dead people there are the living in the new world.

I read that as Payless, and then remembered that payless is gone and got a bit sad :/ lol

That will make pennyless people less depressed 🤣🤣🤣

@Sheep dont yall have a dollar coin instead of a dollar bill, or is that another weird country

The Bible says Jesus is the judge of all the dead, not just those who died after Jesus lived. No one comes to Jehovah except through Christ. All those in the memorial tombs wlll hear Jesus voice. (John 14:6) 6 Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=43014006&srcid=share (John 5:28) 28 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=43005029&srcid=share (Acts 10:42) 42 Also, he ordered us to preach to the people and to give a thorough witness that this is the one decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=44010042&srcid=share (Romans 14:9) 9 For to this end Christ died and came to life again, so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=45014009&srcid=share (2 Corinthians 5:10) 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of the Christ, so that each one may be repaid according to the things he has practiced while in the body, whether good or bad. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=47005010&srcid=share (2 Timothy 4:1) 4 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his manifestation and his Kingdom: https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=55004001&srcid=share

Canada got rid of pennies back in the late 1990s, and we've never looked back. Yes, it was hard to get used to at the beginning, since your total to be paid at the cash registers was rounded to the nearest 5¢. It's still that way today. If you pay by credit or debit card though, the exact amount is used. As far as I remember, no one was hoarding pennies or trying to make them collectors' items. Anyway, it was the end of an era, and we all said goodbye to our last pennies as they were traded in at the bank, although no one had tears in their eyes. Either way, I think banks will still accept these copper pennies if you still find some lying around as they are still worth 1¢, and put the exact amount in your account. No, I don't miss them.

I love AI - but I have thought about this a lot. You can't entrust spiritual matters to AI. The key reason is that it works as a fancy 'text completer / auto complete'. It creates the most plausible response based on it's training data and has the freedom to 'mix it up' and combine it's training data with reasoning to generate what it thinks 'matches best'. It's super confident in it's data - it's 'puffed up'. 1 Cor 10:21 - We know that AI is trained on a large subset of data - including publications from all sorts of spiritually dark places. It is reasonable to assume it won't contaminate what your trying to produce as it reasons on it's training knowledge? I will give an example, using Gemini 2.5 Pro. It correctly quotes Psalm 83:18, including KJV, acknowledging God's name Jehovah. When then asked what God's name is, it says Jehovah but then says that God has other names too. It says "various traditions and texts use different terms and titles out of reverence or to emphasize particular divine characteristics." When asked if King David and Ruth followed such traditions, It says no, they didn't, and correctly identifies the habit of not pronouncing Jehovah's name as being in the 3rd century BC. When asked if Jesus used God's name it thinks "Jesus most likely adhered to the common Jewish practice of his day and did not regularly pronounce the Tetragrammaton". When confronted with evidence on Mark 5:19, it likes to hedge it's bets, putting the onus on you to prove otherwise, and using it's extensive data to argue with you. When presented with evidence that invalidates it's claims, the best you will get is "that's one valid view". It won't commit - should you ever succeed, it will run out of context knowledge, and will start to forget parts of the conversation. If you start a new chat, all your "gains" have been lost and it's back to it's former ignorant self. Worse, you've had to put yourself through scrolling through pages of faithless academic drivel produced by philosophers and scholars who don't know Jehovah (Prov 6:27). I do enjoy using Claude notably for writing. Unlike Gemini, you can load the project knowledge with data that it can use to understand what you want. Again - be careful, it likes to create homosexual relationships / marriages when creating characters. When confronted about why it did that, it said that my writing seemed so nice and inclusive, it thought that was what I wanted. You see the problem of course. I had to explicitly instruct it on the relationships I expected - then it adhered. But it was a fight against it's training data all the way. Again - it's a super powerful text predictor. It uses it's extensive training data to predict what it thinks should 'come next'. If you had clean reasoning training, then trained it on how to reason on scriptures and filled it with all the knowledge at wol, well, then I'd be excited to use a nice tool! But there is no clean model, and it searches the web also, so you don't know what your going to get. A lot of people are looking to AI - I remember the CO's special talk a few years back, explained that certain breakthrough's could conclude people to think they are close to solving human problems - it creates more resistance to accepting God's Kingdom. Well, they are trying to build "super smart humans" with AI - who knows - perhaps they are building their own electronic substitute for God's kingdom? Time will tell.

I feel sad kinda that they’re doing away with them. I know it costs more to make one than they’re worth, but still .

She sure loved it! It tastes like a mix of chicken and fish...especially when cooked in soups or stews, where spices can soak up the meat . Yeah, some turtles aren't worth eating... just let it pass...😪

Sunday, May 25 He does not need to offer up sacrifices daily.—Heb. 7:27. The high priest was authorized to represent the people before God. Israel’s first high priest, Aaron, was appointed by Jehovah when the tabernacle was inaugurated. However, as the apostle Paul explained, “many had to become priests in succession because death prevented them from continuing as such.” (Heb. 7:23-26) And as imperfect men, those high priests had to offer sacrifices for their own sins. Herein lies a sharp contrast between Israel’s high priests and the great High Priest, Jesus Christ. As our High Priest, Jesus Christ is “a minister . . . of the true tent, which Jehovah set up, and not man.” (Heb. 8:1, 2) Paul explained that “because [Jesus] continues alive forever, his priesthood has no successors.” Paul added that Jesus is “undefiled, separated from the sinners” and that unlike the high priests of Israel, “he does not need to offer up sacrifices daily” for his own sins. w23.10 26 ¶8-9

I put this under fun news because it's not really important or depressing, just kind a fun topic So, it seems that they are going to stop making pennies in the US next year when all of the blank pennies run out. Do you think this will make pennies now rare? Do you think people will start hoarding them? I know other countries don't have pennies, but it'll be weird. I mean I know most people use cards and not cash....Do you guys think the government will just eventually call out the penny as a whole and get rid of it, like older bills they take out of circulation? Will we talk about how back in the day we had a one cent piece, and our grand kids will be like "Sure thing grandma/pa time for your medication" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5407493/no-more-pennies-one-cent-treasury-stop-minting

Hi 👋 Sure you can ask. Although the information I have is also on the website haha

Do you know what Elvis had for lunch every day? He ate nothing but a hotdog, frying all day long...

“And when it comes true—and it will come true—they will have to know that a prophet has been among them.” Ezek. 33:33. “As for them, whether they listen or refuse to listen…they will certainly know that a prophet was among them.” Ezek. 2:5.

What do you call a snail with a sail? A snailor!

Except this time the message will carry even greater weight and force. All living then will be forced to acknowledge that extraordinary events are happening. However, as the Bible shows, even all this will not be enough to convince most people to change.