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  1. Brother Schafer's talk.... "So here we are, right on the 'cusp' of the outbreak of the great tribulation." Putin said "turning point"! I'm glad he is in agreement..haha!
    9 points
  2. It's Saturday here in New Zealand and we are sitting on the carts well not literally on the carts. Love how smiles are contagious lots of people being friendly. What a special privilege the carts are.
    7 points
  3. Interesting counterpoint. https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/1/17066598/putin-speech-missile-nuclear-election What Putin’s scary-sounding nuclear weapons announcement really means Hint: You don’t need to worry that much.
    4 points
  4. keto isnt about eating an over abundance or even when you are not hungry. Some days I get up and wont eat a thing until 2 or 3 in the afternoon.(Other than a pot of Coffee) Im not hungry. Then I will get some berries out of the freezer or will have already taken some out. I will have some with some heavy cream and a teaspoon of xylitol. Its really yummy and packed with vitamins. Plus you are getting enough fat from the cream. On Keto you should read the book "Keto reset Diet" by Mark Sisson. Its a great book and explains a lot on Keto diet what the fast does for you and how to supplement. People for get its low carb not no carb. If you do not eat any carbs you need to try to keep them under 20 grams but you could still have say an apple or a pear for fiber. That is if your completely clean with 0 other carbs. Apples and pears have the least amount of sugar compared to say oranges and bananas. The other thing is if you are having a craving for something have it. Chances are you will take a bite and wonder why you wanted it and throw it out. Or feed it to the dog. I find I have very few cravings. I made a mistake and had a couple croissants for breakfast last week. My lord did I suffer for that one. I thought I was passing a 10 pound watermelon. With the xylitol and Erythritol you cannot give them to pets. It can hurt them. Not sure why its in the bulk store where we buy it not to give it to pets.
    3 points
  5. Everyone: Note that this Meeting Workbook has been updated. The title of the special talk was incorrect in the original (cover page—Initial Call), so if you have a printed copy it is wrong. The correct title is "Who Really is Jesus Christ."
    3 points
  6. What stood out for me was the article "He Could Have Had God's Favor ". Wow!! The paragraph states " But to enjoy divine favor, we must first and foremost support true worship and stick to it." I have made my vow to my Father and come what may, I will continue to let Jehovah sustain me.
    3 points
  7. My wife and I are doing Keto. I have fallen off the wagon as they say only once. I feel good brain fog is reduced all good. As for sugar substitutes if you are allergic to Rag weed do not use stevia. It is from the rag weed family We use xylitol or erythritol. They are made from sugar alcohol and have no carbs and no calories. Some are mixed with monk fruit they are really good. Stay away from the artificial sweeteners because they will put you off ketosis. They affect your glycemic index the same as sugar. Here best peanut butter cookie recipe ever. 1 cup peanut butter 1 egg 1/4 cup sweetener Mix together and form into balls on parchment paper and squish with a fork. Back in the oven for 10 min at 350 degrees F. I made a triple batch tonight and it make 16 balls about 1.5" round. I like this one for breakfast too. Take 12 eggs and beat them in a large bowl. Take serrano ham and line the cups in a muffin tin with the ham. Pour the eggs into the cups and put into the oven at 350 for about 10 to 12 min. Take out and add a small slice of your favourite cheese on top. Put back in the oven till its melted. Reheat a few for 14 to 20 seconds in the microwave when you get up and instant breakfast. 10 eggs with ham or prosciutto will fill a 12 piece muffin tin. You can use bacon but you have to precook it a bit or it wont cook in the tin. My wife makes cheese cake for me. She uses a regular recipe but switches out the sugar for xylitol. turns out great.
    3 points
  8. https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/help-community/hope-comfort-elderly-portland-victoria-australia/
    3 points
  9. So, this change of our message. Isn't it based on Isaiah 61:2 "To proclaim the year of Jehovah's goodwill and the day of vengeance of our God" ? The point being there would be a generous amount of time (year of goodwill) to 'come to know God', but as that time expired there would be a rather short (day of vengeance) period of time when our message would change to one of imminent judgment. I see that we will have a talk at the RC titled "The Hailstone Message" referencing Rev. 16:21. Has the FDS given this change of our message a NAME ?? Will we be speaking of that time in the near future as the 'day of the Hailstone Message' ?
    3 points
  10. I am watching live speech by Putin. He just announced new weapons (far ..far ..more advanced than those of US) Putin said following: Those weapons will play role in ensuring Peace in the world. He said instead creating threats let's seat down and talk about introducing Peace and Security to the world United NATIONS should play greater role The world is going through turning point in the history
    2 points
  11. Russia is briefly mentioned in this clip. The most vilified religion in the world?!
    2 points
  12. Myew

    Any good Keto recipes?

    You need to make sure that you are not mineral, vitamin or electrolyte deficient in order to bind with oxalates and pass them out of the body. Calcium, Magnesium and Potassium are very important in general, as well as vitamins B, D and K. I supplement some Magnesium and Potassium Citrate, because no matter how much organic vegetables I eat, it will never be enough with how damaged the soil has become. I drink some bentonite clay and diatomaceous earth with the electrolytes in herbal teas (the citrate helps break down the clay clumps too), as well as eat soft bones from bone broth for calcium and trace minerals. Get your fat soluble vitamins from grass fed or pastured animal fat and meat, grain fed or grain finished will not have enough. Also, organ meats are the most dense 'superfoods' by far.
    2 points
  13. Musky

    Well my Laptop is dying

    Has anybody noticed that the problem Greg posted about his dying laptop was almost three years ago? The said laptop is probably dead and buried by now.
    2 points
  14. Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
    2 points
  15. This made me jump out of my chair . .haha I just began looking into Uruguay as a possible retirement area. So far, I've only found the one English congregation in the capital city of Montevideo. There must be others? I'm assuming I need to type in the name of a specific city on jw.org to get an answer. It doesn't just list all English congregations for the whole country by typing in Uruguay. In any case, I was also going to post the question on the forum - "Anyone from Uruguay here" ?
    2 points
  16. I must express my gratitude for the new study edition. Having spent some time going through the Bible book of Luke, I've come to Appendix C, which does not appear in the printed editions of the Bible. It's all about Jehovah's name and the restoration of it. Jehovah's name does not appear in the manuscripts to the Christian Greek Scriptures as we know them today, so how do you know where to insert it? This Bible explains it in simple terms. Let me take an example. Whereas in the old reference bible, the footnote to Matthew 1:20 reads: Appendix 1D contained this: Useful, of course, if you knew how to use it. But here's the information as it's presented in the new study edition. The study note reads: The commentary in appendix C reads: Easier? Better? I'm happy anyway. So, happy digging. Let's see what you can find. Johan
    1 point
  17. njwinans

    Well my Laptop is dying

    I know the feeling. It stinks. I've done ok with buying and selling computers, everyone wants the latest and greatest but don't want to pay for it. Ce la Vive.
    1 point
  18. Old

    Well my Laptop is dying

    Actually, I tried but computers are so common here everybody seems to want the latest even though the average user doesn't even come close to using 50% of the capabilities of a late model PC. I had a beautiful IBM notebook, I used it for accounting and the contribution boxes dept. at DCs. Performed flawlessly. I tried to give it away when simplifying. No takers, even though it easily handled all common tasks, and was loaded with programs. Finally, I pulled the hard drive and it went into the recycling bin. When I moved from Washington state to Oregon I junked 3 working pcs plus monitors and manage to give an HP Plotter to a brother that 'really' wanted it. 6 years later he still hasn't bothered to set it up, $600 down the drain. Why because they weren't the lastest and everybody seems to want the latest. Now when 75% of the congregation seem to be happy with tablets, a PC is very hard to give away. This unit that is sitting in the guest room easily handles the CAD programs for Kingdom Hall design. It is a little slow to deal with CAD for a 777. It may be if I lived in a big city someone would lower themselves enough to accept something that wasn't the latest. When my mother in law moved in with us I had to move out of my computer room. No place to put a size D color inkjet plotter that I had just given a $500 tune-up and repair. Tried for several months to sell it, finally gave up and got it out of the living room by saying it was free to the taker, at that price it still took a week to give it away. I am considered an expert at buying high and selling low.
    1 point
  19. The Watchtower—June 2018 https://www.jw.org/download/?issue=201806&output=html&pub=w&fileformat=ALL%2CMOBI%2CPDF%2CRTF%2CTXT%2CBRL%2CBES&alllangs=0&langwritten=E&txtCMSLang=E&isBible=0
    1 point
  20. Dages

    Well my Laptop is dying

    Give it away to a brother or a sister in your congregation.
    1 point
  21. Old

    Well my Laptop is dying

    Augh I hate the blue screen. Had one unit that lasted thirty days after the warranty was over. Nothing I could do to bring it back to life, a very nice all in one unit. When My new computer arrived I picked up the dead unit to get at the cables and low and behold it booted up as I was unplugging it. I had checked all the connections many time previous. I now have two Windows 10 computers, one of which sits in a room nobody every uses. At one time I wanted to send it to one of our members in Africa, but shipping exceeded by my purchase price by far. Anybody PM, me if interested.
    1 point
  22. Once in a Blue Moon ...there is a Blue Moon LOL
    1 point
  23. Starting to look a lot like the old pushing and shoving between the US and the Soviet Union.
    1 point
  24. Let them put together whatever weapons they feel they need. When they go to wage war against the Lamb, they will feel confident in what they have against an army of horses. (Revelation 19:19) . . .And I saw the wild beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the one seated on the horse and against his army.
    1 point
  25. Friday, March 2 We do not give up.—2 Cor. 4:1. We must endure, not for a time, but to the end. To illustrate: Imagine a ship that capsizes. To survive, the passengers must swim to shore. The swimmer who gives up only a few yards from shore faces the same fate as the swimmer who gave up much earlier. Similarly, we are determined to endure until we reach the new world. Our life depends on our enduring. We have an attitude like that of the apostle Paul, who twice stated: “We do not give up.” (2 Cor. 4:16) We can be absolutely confident that Jehovah will help us endure to the end. We share Paul’s conviction as expressed at Romans 8:37-39: “We are coming off completely victorious through the one who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor governments nor things now here nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God’s love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” w16.04 2:17, 18
    1 point
  26. Advanced weaponery .. persecution of God’s people Marks of KON
    1 point
  27. https://www.jw.org/download/?issue=201806&output=html&pub=w&fileformat=JWPUB%2CMOBI%2CPDF%2CRTF%2CTXT%2CBRL%2CBES&alllangs=0&langwritten=E&txtCMSLang=E&isBible=0
    1 point
  28. I was also trying to quote Saffron's statement above: Those weapons will play role in ensuring Peace in the world. World Peace and Unification church - speaking of world peace ... Not wanting to start a dedicated thread to this - I found while I was reading the other links noted above. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43231638 But Yikes?!! these people are someone's neighbour - this thought lives amongst us. I had heard of the Moonies as a teenager - Had no idea that this was alive and doing well.
    1 point
  29. Wow. Spelled out just like that.. This is quite interesting. Thanks for posting this as I usually lack the patience and attention span to listen to these kinds of things. Bet you almost fell off your couch when you heard the above quote! LOL
    1 point
  30. Trusting in the gods of war. Threatening the world to obey. Building up trust in the UN. Traits of KoN
    1 point
  31. Wow! I just put the tele on and caught the tail end but was too late to get much.
    1 point
  32. 1. On the video page, press F12 to open the Dev console, then click the Network tab. (Works on most PC browsers.) 2. Under the Filter option, type in VTT. 3. If there are no results, press F5, then start playing the videoq. 4. This should bring up one result under the Network tab. If you right-click that entry, you can copy the direct link, download it, and open it with Notepad or any text editor.
    1 point
  33. It could be set off by something seemingly small. (Just an excuse to show the picture really.)
    1 point
  34. Don’t think. Trust. Pray, concentrate on what Jehovah is giving us to help. I think of those Israelites, at the edge of the Red Sea. You and I both know they could be problem children for Jehovah, yet look what He did for them!
    1 point
  35. Hope the whole thing crumbles just that quickly. Tribulation #1 lasted a bit longer than I can bear to think about at the moment. But yes, we have been warned, and I am so grateful. Time to push forward and stay awake!
    1 point
  36. Sunday, our public talk...he talked about those who spend lots and lots of time setting up dominoes. Lots of time. When that first one is touched, it is over, quickly. He compared that to how fast this system can start going down. Needless to say, we have been warned!
    1 point
  37. Mine isn't until August.. but hey, I'm perfectly willing to attend it in a basement if necessary.
    1 point
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  39. I think I’ve watched it 6 times already! Indeed serious & yet exciting times just ahead.....
    1 point
  40. Remember this 'unification' of nations for the declaration of p&s is part of Satan's last effort to destroy God's people before Jah intervenes at Armageddon. Satan wants a unified "gog" that will be hell bent on his wicked agenda to do it...
    1 point
  41. Cusp: Mathematics: A point at which the direction of a curve is abruptly reversed. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cusp We are often told that Jehovah's day will come suddenly This system of things can and will be abruptly reversed. This is not a time to be sluggish in our service to Jehovah.
    1 point
  42. This system is sure getting primed ...for the “biggest show in history “ The actors have their scripts... What is truth... the drumbeat of this system is that there is no truth in anything ... it is all fake. ”the operation of Satan with every powerful work and ‘lying ‘ signs and wonders” ”False Christ’s “ or fake ones The truth is we have an Identity as ..a part of the family of Jehovah and the worship of him alone. But the world will try to make us believe that is also fake.... where is your God when try and stomp on you...perilous times we are living in
    1 point
  43. Or the Middle East. Talked to a man a couple of days ago that served in Lebanon as a Un-soldier in the 1980-ies. He said, muslims were shooting at muslims and christians at christians, so it wasnt a religious war at all as you would think. It will never be peace in that region. Not in my lifetime, its too complicated. (He was in his 50-ies)
    1 point
  44. Wow what a great talk! Truly rings some bells for us. Btw this just came to my mind, so thought of sharing it here. I remember, long back during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, led by Saddam Hussein, an Arab reporter asked him (Saddam) what prompted him to invade Kuwait and his reply was that "allah" appeared to him in a dream and repeatedly told him to do so. Since we know that Satan has entrusted his demon princes to share with him in ruling the earth now just like back in Daniels time when the "prince of the royal realm of Persia"...stood in opposition to the angel commissioned by God, could it be that the p&s be initiated through a gathering of world leaders at the UN alongwith the relative bad guys like kim and rouhani and they make 'peace' with trump? If so then that would mark a great portent by Satan's princes, acting together for the final war, and deceiving the masses to believing that the elusive world peace is now a reality. Thats my 2 cents there... we can wait and see how things unfold...
    1 point
  45. Cusp. -- Yes, I had seen this word before but had to look up again last night. A synonym for cusp is "apex", which denotes "the uppermost point" or "the highest or culminating point". Either way, Brother Schafer brought the critical point home: the Great Tribulation is now imminent and we must be spiritually prepared! (Jehovah, save us, please, we beg! -- Ps.118:25a.) Side note: A relative once mentioned a couple of years ago that one would have to be "deaf, dumb, and blind" not to realize that we are in the "last minutes" of this old system of things. As in the days of Noah nowadays masses of the population are doing the same: i.e., eating, drinking, men marrying and women given in marriage and taking no note -- until it's too late! I believe it's not a coincidence that the theme of each regional convention from the last 5 years (including this year) ties in with what we, as Jehovah's people, must do in our lives to win the race. Do we not all fondly remember the grand theme in 2014 to "Keep Seeking First God's kingdom", a life-saving work that we are commissioned to do as we "Imitate Jesus", our Exemplar? By fulfilling this divine commission, we also in turn, "Remain Loyal to Jehovah" and He will be loyal to us. And by their shining example and having the "peace of God that excels all thought" our Russian, Eritrean, Korean, and Venezuelan family is telling us "Don't Give Up", we're so close; now is not the time to shrink back! Do not tire out...keep running towards that finish line! And soon, our message of good news will turn into a message of judgment. Will we "Be Courageous" like Jonah when that time arrives? For me...I pray so!
    1 point
  46. I've listened to this three times so far. No doubt, I will review many more times because that's what it seems to take for me to digest and retain the deeper things... and yes, that above section is what I am fixated on at the moment. A fairly clear picture is emerging of what we can expect.. Thank you Jehovah for always preparing your servants!
    1 point
  47. Thanks for the transcript. This is the part I found most interesting and it seems others did too: EDIT: Greg - thanks for pointing out to me the part about "God's backing"
    1 point
  48. Praise Jehovah! After much praying, schedule debating and budget planning, I finally threw all my troubles to Jehovah and turned in my Auxillary Pioneer Slip for March! I'm so happy!!!!
    1 point
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