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Loyal association strengthens faithful decisions, and Jehovah always notices unwavering loyalty.

Sunday, July 5 Zadok the priest . . . anointed Solomon.—1 Ki. 1:39. Zadok remained loyal to Jehovah despite High Priest Abiathar’s choice to support David’s son Adonijah, who planned to seize the throne. David never doubted Zadok’s loyalty. When Adonijah’s scheme was revealed, David turned to Zadok, Nathan, and Benaiah to anoint Solomon as king. (1 Ki. 1:32-34) Being with loyal worshippers of Jehovah, such as Nathan and other supporters of King David, must have strengthened and encouraged Zadok. When Solomon became king, he “appointed Zadok the priest in place of Abiathar.” (1 Ki. 2:35) How can you imitate Zadok? If someone close to you chooses to leave Jehovah, make your choice clear. (Josh. 24:15) Jehovah will give you the strength and the courage you need. Rely on him through prayer and by staying close to fellow loyal worshippers. Jehovah treasures your loyalty, and he will reward you for it.—2 Sam. 22:26. w24.07 6-7 ¶16-17

Dumb question.... Is there like a universal recording or a zoom meeting where people that work during their meetings can attend or rewatch a prerecorded meeting? Im goong to be going back to work in August and to keep our financial situation decent im going to grab a second shift job so i'll be missing my weekday meetings :/. if not, bros/sisters that are in a similar situation what do yall do to replace it? I thought of just watching a few talks but idk.

Still in a heat wave. Two fans broke, I went out and got one new fan, Have one window air conditioner, where my dog is now. I want to make sure she is okay when I get picked up for meeting tomorrow. I will try one call on the way home from meeting.

I have used Claude Code, Antigravity, Hermes Agent, Openclaw, and Codex. I have a couple of days to use my 50% anthropic subscription for the use of Fable 5 the most powerful single LLM model ever released to the public. This model is absolutely amazing and just gets the job done when it comes to building things. I have created loads of apps and tools with these agentic ai coding systems. From a mixed clone of Lovable, Cursor and Claude code that I can plug my Ollama cloud subscription into. To Openclaw and Hermes agents that are on my Linux headless server at home so my agents are totally private. I would say for agentic work Hermes is the best. It has a very good memory system so it remembers things about me and what I speak to it about. I would say Claude Code is the best for straight up coding. For Antigravity if you create a skill that teaches it to make Awwward winning websites It can make beautiful websites. For me though it’s the LLM models that make the difference. I was practicing some red teaming pentesting with GLM 5.2 and the free juice shop website that you can practice on and GLM 5.2 was able to find all of the 100+ vulnerabilities. That is amazing for an open cheap model. Two of the best use cases I have used AI for is that I watch Reolink cameras for the LDC. I got gpt 5.5 to create a tool that emits a beep when a person icon comes up on one of the 14+ cameras to notify me when people are on the screen. Another really cool thing I have done is create a cron job with Hermes agent that parses the days text of the day along with the comment and then provides me with 3-4 principals, 3-4 points for meditation and 3-4 ways that I can apply the days text in my life. I send that cron Job every day to 3 people and they love it. I can control my Hermes and openclaw agents through telegram while I am out. I can literally build things when I am out and about anywhere as they are on my always on server at home.

Good website to quickly compare different models is arena.ai It used to have some paid models as well, now it's a bit limited but still quite useful

now dilip, my brother, let's fight this together for all of us trip so let's keep our grip too bad if around us says: What is the fuss it's easy you see so why do you plea? but we know it's tough and it gets quite rough our secret is sure love God in our core ask daily for aid though we are afraid beyond all their stings we soar on Jah's wings

I only bring food for myself. Now that we meet at our Assembly Hall which is near several food spots, I've taken to just going to McDonald's or getting a sandwich from the nearby supermarket. Many friends do that in order to avoid the fuss of packing lunches. @LeolaRootStew you just gave me a good idea for one of my lunches next week! 🍣 🍚🥟🍤

If I search for Bible Students meetings on youtube they broadcast in-person conventions and worship services

While looking into this, it was the first time I head of Perplexity. I might have to give it a look ...

If that's your garden it's beautiful ❤️

Never once. If you don't bring food you can always go out and buy some.

Looks like you prepare food for only yourself Sis? What do you do when the person next to you doesn't have what to eat during the program? haven't you ever experienced that?

No,Bro Richard,this is one of our Sisters doing the cooking at the time when it was done for the general delegates in convensions. I got the picture from the Internet just to show what is still happening at family level now, Sisters still have to prepare so much food to serve a lot of brothers in conventions just like before.

Sushi. -It tastes fine at room temperature or cold. you just need an icepack in a refrigerated lunch pack - you don't have to worry about heating anything up. -Soy packets are closed until you eat it so there's very low risk of liquids leaking out everywhere. -disposable chopsticks and throwaway containers for easy cleanup. -easy to eat in the confines of a car or anywhere with limited table space. The container it comes in is its plate and it's pretty solid.

Just a micro-annoyance for font-nerds ... 😁 The WTL app's font (at least in Android) uses a sans-serif font, with one exception: In title headings the character "i" is with serifs. I guess to distinguish the character "i" from "1" or "l", maybe(?) for readability reasons. If so, I wouldn't want it any other way (can relate, had severe problems with my eyes myself). But in Dutch language the "i" in combination with the "j" is considered one character "ij". Like in "ijs" (ice in English), its 3 glyphs but 2 characters. Handling the 2 characters like 1 (a digraph) is pretty visible with capitalization. For example the country Iceland is IJsland in Dutch and not Ijsland (the capital being IJ together). So this example looks rather wonky. (Dutch WT, study this weekend). It only happens because using a serif AND a non serif WITHIN one character looks a bit weird.

Petunias, Geraniums, Million Bells. Petunias: Geraniums: Million Bells:

We use ChatGPT, ChatGPT-JWPUBS, Microsoft Copilot. We use them for different enquiries, but might try some others you mention John.

A little background: I have been enjoying creating songs with Suno AI. I use the free version so there are limitations. It seems to do a nice job at creating legitimate sounding songs. If you want, you can simply type a prompt like, "I want a blues song about changing the oil in my car." and it will write the lyrics and the music, complete with a singer. It will sound fairly good. You can also write your own lyrics and have Suno provide the music. In playing with this, I have found the Suno AI, while it is great at the music, the lyrics are a bit generic and predictable. So, I tried other AI engines to help in writing lyrics. So far, I have tried ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Of these, I have found the GPT works best for lyrics. With that in mind, I did a little checking to see what the Internet said ... Here is some of what the Internet told me: AI tools include ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft Copilot. Choosing the right alternative depends on the specific task you want to accomplish: Best for Writing & Coding: Claude is highly regarded for its natural tone, reduced hallucinations, and strong coding capabilities. Best for Google Ecosystem: Google Gemini natively integrates with Google Workspace, making it ideal for summarizing emails, docs, and calendar events. Best for Web Research: Perplexity AI acts as an AI search engine, providing direct answers with cited sources With that in mind: Do you use AI? What has been your experience? Which AI engine do you prefer? Do you use more than one AI? Feel free to chime in on what your personal experience has been and why you use the particular AI you use. Please, do not try to turn this thread into an, "I hate AI" topic or other disparaging comments on the evils of AI - those types of comments will be removed from the thread.

I would like to see this multiple-instance on Windows

I wonder if it’s possible to flip a switch somewhere in the code so that JW Library auto-updates on my Mac (using Continuity) when making edits on my iPad. (Should probably be optional.) Maybe that’s more suited to Sidecar. (As a brother used to say when giving encouragement: “The sugar on the cherry, on the icing, on the cake.”)

Is this someone you know? Is it your wife?

Actually,this type of preparation may sometimes come at a cost as sometimes some Sisters could get sleepy,but it is very rare to see that happen because the excitement of the convention events keeps everyone up and alert. What i described is at individual family level and it is still being practiced till now.

During the Great Tribulation, the GB and we ourselves, with Jehovah and Jesus' backing, will still be focussed on plucking some from Satan's grasp, in whatever little time there may be.