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I always have some deep thoughts in bed. Soon my sister is going to pioneer school. I wonder should I ask her to bring some extra food from the school back home for me? Back to bed with some more deep thoughts.

I used live captions on my iPad, and ran it through ChatGPT to try and match the lines spoken to their appropriate verses (feel free to point out any inaccuracies) Do you have faith that I can do this? - Yes, Lord. (Mt 9:28) My little daughter is extremely ill. Please, come. (Mark 5:23) Have mercy on me, Lord. Son of David. (Mt 15:22) Who are men saying the son of Man is? - Some say John the Baptist. Others, Elijah. You, though. Who do you say I am? - You are the Christ. The son of the living God. (Mt 16:13-16) Do not think I came to bring peace to the earth… - (you need to leave this place) …I came to bring, not peace, But a sword. (Mt 10:34) Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Whose father and mother we know. (John 6:42) I chose you, 12. Yet one of you is a slanderer. (John 6:70) Get behind me, Satan. (Mt. 16:23, Mr 8:33) What have I to do with you? Jesus! Son of the most high God! (Mr 5:7) Have no fear. Only exercise faith. (Mr 5:36)

Yes, but people didn’t make a lifestyle out of it. We’d go to Taco Bell once in a great while, get 6 tacos for a dollar, and split them between 2 adults and 2 children. I think he did it because all the vegetation had been destroyed in the flood.

I need to reorder/sort my tags and notes... This is a mess

I want to be clear. I'm not opposed to eating meat at all. It doesn't matter to me what people choose to eat. In fact, I would love to eat meat if I thought it was necessary for optimal nutrition, but I don't. My opinions are based on my personal experience and that of family and friends who have adopted a plant-based diet. It is also based on over 20 years of research, including hundreds of hours of reading countless books, watching countless videos, and documentaries. I'm of the opinion that Jehovah permitted man to eat animals, not because the produce was no longer suitable, but, like you said, because the survival of the human race depended on the earth being in a perpetual tropical climate needed to grow most of the produce in many parts of the earth year-round. Also, I think Jehovah knew that many individuals wouldn't always have enough fertile land necessary to sustain themselves, so they needed other sources of nutrition. While meat has some benefits, plant sources of nutrition are far superior and agree a lot better with the human digestive system. As I mentioned in my previous post, I get my blood checked every six months. I am not deficient in any nutrient. All my levels are excellent and my protein levels have only changed 0.1 since I gave up meat. My blood results improved dramatically once I switched to a plant based diet. I agree that a plant-based diet isn't for everyone. Everyone is free to eat how they choose. I just believe a plant-based diet is better for optimal nutrition in most cases. I do believe bad diets can cause body odor. When I was younger, I thought “morning breath” was normal. I Haven't had morning breath a single day in over 13 years. I read an article stating how it is caused by the body releasing toxins through the mouth, and then it dawned on me why I hadn't had it since I started eating cleaner. Although I sometimes choose to, I don't stink if I don't wear deodorant either. I don't say that to say I’m better than others, but my experience and that of others in my family have shown me that a poor diet can cause body odor. Although not showering will cause anybody to smell bad 🤪 But I'm afraid this is turning into a debate, so I won't speak on it anymore. Plus, my reason for bringing it up was to help the OP. And I appreciate you’re humility, but no apology was necessary. We were just having a discussion 😊

I agree with 97% of what you're saying there, I just want to elaborate on one point a bit. Don't forget that Jehovah is the one who changed the dietary guidelines. He is the one who put the fear of man into the animals and the desire for animal flesh into man and the ability to digest it with a stomach pH of 1 and less than 5% waste as stool. I believe that he did this because we could no longer get much of what we needed from the trees or bush, since he cursed the ground and changed the climate. (Genesis 9:2) "A fear of you and a terror of you will continue upon every living creature of the earth and upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that moves on the ground and upon all the fish of the sea. They are now given into your hand." (Deuteronomy 12:15) “But whenever you desire it (“in all the desire of your soul.”), you may slaughter and eat meat, according to the blessing that Jehovah your God has given you in all your cities. The unclean person and the clean person may eat it, as you would eat a gazelle or a deer. (Deuteronomy 12:21) If the place that Jehovah your God chooses to put his name is far away from you, you should then slaughter some of your herd or some of your flock that Jehovah has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you should eat inside your cities whenever you desire it ("in all the desire of your soul.”). ...I did end up going off on a bit of a tangent here, I apologize. For many people, especially mothers and babies, ones in recent generations born with chronic illnesses due to the nutritional deficiencies in their mother and suffering from the herbicides killing our microbiome and gut lining such as myself, or ones dealing with chronic serious metabolic disorders as in this thread's case, the conversion ratio of nutrients in plants into the forms that our body actually uses are so low and the amounts needed to thrive are far beyond the 'recommended daily allowance', it's often unattainable for such ones even with a balanced vegetarian diet, even if eating to excess or juicing. The simplest methods to get what our body's need to grow or heal is to eat an excess of bio-available fatty acids, nutrition, and minerals that are in a ready to use form, which is primarily found in fatty fish and ruminant organ meat. It's somewhat ironic that one of the fastest ways for obese individuals with diabetes to lose weight is to eat only a high fat diet. This allows your body to learn to adapt to processing and metabolizing ketones efficiently, it reverses the state of metabolic slowdown and constant hunger by providing satiation. In the cases where someone has an acetone body odor when you're referring to detoxing, fasting, herxheimer reactions, or the 'keto flu', that isn't a toxin, but excess ketones that should pass once the body's cells have adapted to using them as the primary fuel source instead of glucose in the absence of glucose. This is healthy and essential to healing from metabolic illness, provided that you have already reduced the insulin resistance to the point where you don't maintain high blood glucose levels, which could lead to ketoacidosis. Fasting helps do that before you change your diet itself.

The only sport I'll watch it the Soccer world cup next month

10000 km away

I watch MLB occasionally, especially California teams and the World Series.

College football isnt too big in my area. havent really considered how NIL factors in, besides the insanity of it all. Curling is too close to cleaning for me so I havent tried to watch it yet

Do you remember your first time at the Kingdom Hall? How were you greeted and your first impressions? That is what this latest song is about: That Simple Loving Welcome

We've seen several notification issues for a while. One for instance is when a brother has a duty that gets reassigned (even weeks prior), they still get notified for the duty. This is happening for meeting assignments as well. It's been confusing for the friends for sure.

Yeah, there's a list of reasons why people react negatively when you mention you’ve adopted a plant-based diet. I think some people resent the fact that they see vegans/vegetarians as possessing some special willpower that they themselves don't have. Like they think we’re doing something they can't. But in reality, we’re human, with food weaknesses just like them. My suspicions are confirmed when, after saying passive-aggressive comments, they follow it up with, “I can't live like that. I got to have my meat.” I have heard some people say that a vegan diet made them feel worse. But since humans originally ate plants and our bodies, teeth, and jaw mechanism suggest we are meant to, I think failure on a vegan diet usually results from 4 things: 1 failure to wait out the detox phase. 2 eating a poor “vegan” diet. 3 not getting a variety of nutrients 4 expecting the impossible When you go from eating the standard American diet to a healthy plant-based one, your body will start to detox. You won't feel good for possibly weeks. You may even have bad breath and body odor as your body expels these toxins. When I went vegetarian, I had a detox headache for 3 weeks straight, although I was still eating some processed food. Many people go through detox symptoms and give up. When they start back eating unhealthy food, the detox symptoms end, they feel better, and that causes them to think the plant-based diet was bad for them. Not all vegan diets are the same. Oreo cookies and potato chips are vegan. But eating an unhealthy vegan diet can be bad for your health as well, and cause some to think vegan diets aren't good for you. I know, because my old job required a lot of energy. I thought my energy levels were going down because I was getting older. I then cut out all processed sugar and junk food, and now, although I turn 40 this year, I have more energy than when I was a teenager. Some vegans fall into the rut of eating the same thing all the time. This can create nutritional deficiencies. It is possible to get all the nutrients you need from a plant-based diet, except vitamin B12. It used to be easy to get by eating produce and drinking water. Now, because of commercial farming, the land is so depleted of nutrients that it's extremely hard to get B12 in some areas. Also, water processing plants remove B12 from water through purification processes. The only reason meat has it is that the animals are given supplements, whereas they used to get it from bacteria on plants. And lastly, some expect too much from a vegan diet. Although a plant-based diet has the power to cure a lot of diseases, and I would argue even most, some are so severe that they can't be treated this way. This leads many people to become disillusioned with this way of eating.

Hey, David - that blues number has a really catchy tune. Nice lyrics, too. Well done!

Actually, this is what I see when I follow the page link: As you can see, there is not an option or place to enter any email or download the songs Thanks for the direct link - it seems to work as it should ... I am d/l them now BTW - here is a link to my latest Suno song https://suno.com/s/f75uFSYEnW1G8Sb1

I used to watch the NFL but lost interest over the years. I still sometimes watch a Jaguars game from time-to-time. I also used to watch college football and basketball ... particularly the Florida Gators. However, since NIL, I have lost interest. My daughters watch some NHL, particularly the Tampa Lightning I never watched MLB I do enjoy watching Curling when I find it on TV

Saturday, May 16 Keep on the watch.—Matt. 25:13. With each passing day, our ministry becomes more urgent. Why? Because time is running out. Consider what Jesus foretold about the preaching work in the last days, as recorded at Mark 13:10. According to Matthew’s parallel account, Jesus said that the good news would be preached in all the inhabited earth before “the end” comes. (Matt. 24:14) That expression refers to the complete end of Satan’s wicked system of things. Jehovah has set the “day and hour” for the events that will soon unfold. (Matt. 24:36;Acts 1:7) Each day brings us one day closer to that time. (Rom. 13:11) Meanwhile, we must keep preaching until the end comes. As we reflect on our ministry, we do well to consider a soul-searching question: Why do we preach the good news? Put simply, love motivates us to preach. What we do in the preaching work reflects our love—our love for the good news, our love for people and, above all, our love for Jehovah and his name. w24.05 14-15 ¶2-3

That must be why the Roman soldiers wanted it so badly.

When Judgment Becomes Peace — Part Two — Soon Babylon the Great will fall. Not quietly. Not symbolically. Not as some slow fading of religious influence. Jehovah will act. False religion has spoken in God’s name while staining that name with blood, greed, cruelty, politics, fear, and manipulation. A terrible disguise. Though history kept applauding it for centuries. But Revelation shows something remarkable — even during judgment, mercy still breathes. Some witnessing her destruction may finally awaken and turn toward true worship. That says something beautiful about Jehovah. He does not search desperately for reasons to destroy. He searches patiently for reasons to save. Even now. Even this late.

James Webb Space Telescope maps our universe's largest structure in unprecedented detail By Robert Lea published 7 hours ago "JWST has completely changed our view of the universe." The large-scale structure delivered by COSMOS-Web provides a wealth of information greater than that provided by earlier maps of the same region of sky captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Team member and UCR scientist Bahram Mobasher explained that comparing Hubble and JWST shows that many cosmic structures had been "smoothed over" in data from the JWST's space telescope predecessor. "The jump in depth and resolution is truly significant, and we can now see the cosmic web at a time when the universe was only a few hundred million years old, an era that was essentially out of reach before JWST," Mobasher said. "What used to look like a single structure now resolves into many, and details that were smoothed away before are now clearly visible." The impressive leap in detail provided by the JWST and COSMOS-Web is the result of the unification of two of this powerful new space telescope's key strengths. "The telescope detects many more faint galaxies in the same patch of sky, and the distances to those galaxies are measured far more precisely," Hatamnia said. "Each galaxy can therefore be placed into the correct slice of cosmic time, sharpening the map's resolution." The team's research was published on May 6 in The Astrophysical Journal. Article link: https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/james-webb-space-telescope-maps-our-universes-largest-structure-in-unprecedented-detail Pic Description: A slice through the COSMOS-Web cosmic-web map, showing galaxies across nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history. The vertex on the left marks the present day; moving outward, each galaxy is placed at its distance in cosmic time, reaching back to when the universe was less than a billion years old. Bright yellow regions show the dense clusters and filaments of the cosmic web, while dark regions mark the near-empty voids in between. (Image credit: UCR/Hossein Hatamni)

The publishers are getting final reminder notifications to submit their reports, even though they have already done so. This is confusing the publishers. Some are resubmitting their report. And since the congregation report has been submitted to the branch, its marking them as Late.

Cadbury made a reduced sugar version of the dairy milk chocolate bar by replacing the sugar with plant based fibres. It did not sell well and was discontinued. In my effort to reduce my chocolate intake, it was recommended to me to eat dates. It is a good substitute for a sweet treat.

Anyone here follow any sports teams? Alot of the friends in my area get together for NBA, MLB or NFL games. I dont watch hockey only because Ive never really played or followed as a kid. I tried not to get to emotionally invested but when my team loses I think "I hope the brothers from that city are happy." But I dont really mean it. Sports talk? Anyone?

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