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No worries. It's not as though a giant computer hack is going to thwart Jehovah's purpose. The New System will come along anyway.

Actually, Antesaka is the name of the people in southeastern Madagascar, and also the name of the dialect spoken by them. Malagasy is the main language of Madagascar, and Antesaka is one of many dialects of the language.

"All things . . . that you want men to do to you, you also must do to them" If we treat our hosts at the hotel in a good way... that good way will come back to us.

BBQ'd pizza?

Me? A lot!!!

See the PM I sent you.

Sort of the same for me. But I wasn't baptized yet. I was studying, but with a brother in a different territory. (That's a long story.) And I had never been to the local congregation for the territory I was living in, so these two Witnesses at my door didn't know me. So the brother launched into his presentation. And I just let him continue! His whole presentation! About 2 or 3 minutes! I was listening patiently, pretending to enjoy it. Actually I was enjoying it, but just to hear how he would "sell it" to me. And then, after all that time, I just said, "Very good presentation, brother! I go to another congregation in your hall!" Well, the brother was with his wife at the time, but neither one of them chided me for letting them go on. They just laughed. Actually, the brother did do a good job on presenting the Good News to me, but that's what I was listening for. Yeah, I used to do dumb things like that.

I found the 2016 election surprising. I was thinking that it was the first US election that everyone who voted did so to keep someone else out of office! Usually, people vote someone into office, not to keep someone out! People didn't want Trump in office, so they voted for Clinton for no other reason! Everyone else didn't want Clinton in office, so they voted for Trump so she wouldn't get in. It was the weirdest thing. Me too, almost. I'm not even an American citizen! I live in Canada, so why would I care about a US election?

I got a special invitation to . . . a regular Convention in Montreal!

Is that the brother who took a video of the plane hitting the tower? The video was posted publicly on jw.org for a while. I saw the video and wondered, "What's that doing on jw.org?" Shortly after, the video was taken down.

I have noted the same thing. It's just an indication that there shouldn't be any reason to refrain from wearing a ring. Of course, we can only imagine that Governing Body members likely receive all kinds of gifts from fellow worshipers, including rings and other small items. It would probably be too much for a given GB member to wear virtually everything given to them, but I've never looked closely enough to see if they wear the same rings every time they are seen. If that was the case, then the giver might become so proud as to think: "Hey look! He's wearing the ring I gave him!" It would not be the kind of attitude a GB member would be wanting to teach by example. Anyway, just a couple of disjointed thoughts I had on the subject.

My congregation used to have our territory map posted on our electronic bulletin board (which were just a couple of Google docs pages). But now that the congregation uses NW Publisher, that map seems to have disappeared. I'd have to ask one of the elders what happened to it.

I've heard that line plenty of times... (I'll pray for you). I usually just say something like, "That was quick! Your prayer has already been answered!"

A brother in my congregation is visiting Calgary, Alberta, Canada at the moment. He was at the International Convention there, and said Stephen Lett told them about the brother playing Jesus. He had been serving where the need is greater in Türkiye, and the brothers brought him back to Australia while they're filming the series. So he's only temporarily in an Australian congregation. Brother Lett said the brother really is a carpenter, just like the real Jesus.