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"Carry your load." That's good counsel. Remembering that it is a great responsibility to "introduce," or recommend a sister to a certain brother, or vice versa. If someone asks for help in being introduced to someone, perhaps that would be acceptable. But if not, then it's none of our business. At least that's my opinion. Years ago, a married couple thought they were good matchmakers, and thought they were doing good to recommend a sister to a brother who was wanting to get married. And so that's what they did. But, let's just say it didn't go well! He followed up on their recommendation. In the long run, they dated for a while, but then the sister broke off the relationship with him. The brother was absolutely crushed, and couldn't bring himself to even speak to the married couple for a long time afterward. I won't go into more details.

I had never heard of the "Lieutenant Dan" effort before. I had to look it up. But I am familiar with the effect of using «blue screen» and, later, «green screen» to put things that aren't there into the picture. Fascinating! Thanks for the input.

I'm curious about how they would depict that on screen. For the first clips of the scene, this maimed person is missing a leg. Then right after Jesus heals him, he's got both legs! What does the actor have to do in between those clips?

Me too!

I agree with the above assessment. As closely as I can see, that green book is one of the old Bibles. The title on the spine takes five lines, but the title on 'Things in Which it is Impossible for God to Lie' is six lines. Taking a closer look, the last two lines seem to begin with a capital H and a capital S.

In March of 2025, Brother @Lance posted that a privacy legal case in British Columbia may go to the Supreme Court of Canada. That topic is now closed so I will continue it here, since that case will indeed be decided by Canada's highest court. These links will give a little background on the case: https://albernivalleynews.com/2025/03/23/bc-jehovahs-witnesses-privacy-case-may-go-to-supreme-court/ and https://www.scc-csc.ca/pdf/case-documents/41816/MM050_Applicant_John-Vabuolas-Paul-Sidhu-Grand-Forks-Congregation-of-Jehovah's-Witnesses-Coldstream-Congregation-of -ehovah's-Witnesses-and-Watch-Tower-Bible-and-Tract Society-of-Canada_Reply_2.pdf. Now, we hear the following news. (This was sent to me in an email, so there is no official news link.) To my knowledge, we have never had the opportunity to see a live session of the Supreme Court of Canada before. So this should be interesting, if you can follow the dense legalese language they may be speaking there. However, the Court's final decision of the case will not likely be heard until some time later.

Extreme is when you're not sure if you're supposed to knock at the front door or the back.

Oui. C'est exact. Merci. I knew someone was going to mention that, looking for articles in German. But since I don't speak German (even though I'm half-German), I didn't know what word to look for. However, thank you, my sister, for finding it for me.

You may recall this horrific news story three years ago. The sounds of the shots we imagine still echo in our minds, as we keep mulling over the question in our heads: How much longer, O Jehovah? How much longer? That topic is closed now and won't allow any more posts. So I will continue it here. A brother whom I know sent me the following information about what is happening now in the Kingdom Hall, a little more than three years after the tragedy. He wrote it all in French, but since his email is lengthy and I didn't want to translate it myself, I asked GoogleTranslate to do the honours. It doesn't appear to be taken from an article that I could find, and so contains no links. Other articles appearing in newspapers report another recent shooting in Germany; nothing to do with us. However, I was unable to find any others specifically about this Kingdom Hall. But considering how long I have known the brother who sent this to me (about 25 years), I trust him.

Hey, I love your new 'home!' Do any of the surroundings (hills, evergreen trees) in the AI pictures resemble your present whereabouts? How come your 'home' is far from neighbours?

"...the love of the greater number will grow cold..."

Be very careful, brothers and sisters, while in the ministry. Prove yourselves cautious as serpents and yet innocent as doves. It's only going to get worse as we approach the end of it all.

Interesting. For the last couple of years I have been taking the audio portion of the new original songs and converting them to mp3 format. I was customarily posting them in my Music Collection on OneDrive. That's to fill in the two-week gap between the time the broadcast comes online to the time the song shows up on jw.org. However, I was noticing now (since the last two broadcasts) that the song is posted on jw.org on the same day as the broadcast!!! Now they're getting too quick for me, rendering my efforts to help out obsolete. So this has been fun. If you have been following along, thank you for your appreciation.

Speaking of the new song—I have converted it to mp3 format for you and posted it in my Music Collection. It is indeed timely, and is called Let’s Stick Together. It's in an archive along with the official image and the lyrics. If you don't have the link to my Music Collection, send me a PM.

It's on the servers: #139. Brother Luccioni is host.