Lance

Yep will be interesting to see what toys remain and that are useful… But we have over 144,000 superhumans with special power and imbued knowledge that will provide the big and little picture.. Stand back and be prepared to be amazed in our involvement…

Who needs the internet when the creator answers prayers .. it is his great tribulation… it is his people .. it is his judgement period ..I will take that over server farms still being miraculously powered.Think what angel means “messenger” pretty important job for a heavenly information service. Jehovahs internet knows how each animal and sparrow is doing … pretty comprehensive in my opinion. He can also write things on walls not as graffiti but as a wake up call..

The core issue is privacy is a two way street..... everyone wants it but doesn't want to give it. I guess we could do the Martin Luther way and nail the proclamation to the door...

This rather interesting.. Greek Archbishop hands Mr Trump a cross and says he is the New Constantine https://x.com/jackposobiec/status/1904268118098161887?s=48

Background these guys wanted elders notes on their judicial committee https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/bc-jehovahs-witnesses-privacy-case-may-go-to-supreme-court-7899109

In my area of Canada gas is 1.79 per litre CAD which converts to 4.73 USD per US gallon which we consider reasonable. a far cry from .20 cents per gallon in the 60's..

To keep this topic on track …I sent you a private message … on changing the KH name.. Lance

I get that … we cannot post the literal response letter from the branch here .. regarding posting a letter from the branch saved in the congregations NWS app. This is a semi public -public website.. 😎😳 Round and round we go …

We cannot post letters from the branch here.. but we can post a summary or import of what they respond….

This has been brought up many many times.. NWS does not break any of the guidelines. I am not sure of the subscription base of this program… probably 10’s of 1000’s of congregations use it.. circuit overseers who are appointed directly by the GB make use of it, most of the information used by NWS is similar but the WTBTS “forms” are not downloaded or stored. So if I store a letter from the branch on one note, excel, word, outlook, what’s app or whatever for my personal use that is no different than storing it on NWS … it is not incorporated into the program nor is it distributed as a part of the program to others..I still have control over its use and distribution with in the program framework. Btw I have no connection to NWS other than I used it in many congregations. If you still are nervous please write the branch in your country.

https://youtu.be/TgNVLr54G6E?si=sEWJTkSomLu7j6Eo a very funny Australian advertisement about a lack of agreement in the world and what eventually unites everyone.. it is not baaaaaadd..😎

Whatttttt .. wreck a really good conspiracy.. what is this world coming to…😎

It is is interesting how people/ companies etc react ...greed is good ...exercising the law of supply and demand is a smart thing... profit is a sacred right. My favourite scripture from the Message Bible is 2 Tim 3:1-5 1.Don't be naive. There are difficult times ahead. 2 As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, 3 dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, 4 treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. 5 They'll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they're animals. Stay clear of these people. That about sums it all up.

I don’t know… some things are better to act and ask for forgiveness.. later People are dying and in desperate situations being a Good Samaritan should not come with a penalty. The minimum it will give them is some place to stay until things settle down. We went through this 2 years ago .. brothers used their motor homes and travel trailers to move temporarily on to brothers properties until the fire storms passed .. technically they would not be able to set up a temporary mobile home park .. but it was an emergency and no one complained.

Elizabeth Only one site is "approved" and that is JW.org. The branch knows of our existence, and we have complied with any request that they have made to the brothers managing this site. How can you know if the person sitting next to you at convention or assembly is a "legit" Jehovah's Witness.... mostly by talking with them... are they speaking the pure language? Is their conduct something a lover Jehovah would demonstrate? Are there any warning signs? So wander around this site if anything doesn't meet the pure language test please contact the moderators, and if you are still nervous and for the sake of your conscience then if I were you I would leave, we would hate to stumble any of the little sheep. I have been on this site for many years and have visited many brothers and sisters on this site in their own congregations and got to meet their friends and family, so far I have only met lovers of Jehovah and his organization. If we do find anyone on this site that does not meet the standard expected by a Jehovah's Witness we remove their membership immediately. There are many sites that try to cater to Jehovah's Witnesses, many have no respect for the Governing Body or the brotherhood....You will not find that here... The moderators around the world try very, very hard to keep this site, a safe and upbuilding site for any lover of Jehovah. We hope you stay, but if not, that is ok too. Lance

Yep fearful sights in the heavens and drones in one place after another… almost sounds biblical. That’s it boys.... head for your bunkers... and slam the door real tight. BTW : leave the keys on the porch so I can “save” your car..😎… What next 15 foot Canadian Sasquatch’s invading Oregon .. sorry that was two weeks ago….. Boggles the mind ..

This topic went from a very innocent and appropriate question of human need and desire. To the forum is racially profiling members comments. We are a Jehovah’s Witness discussion site… not a JW dating or match site.. If you would like to have such a site start your own site. If two members on this site want to privately communicate, that is entirely up to them and none of the moderators business..period. That been said we want all members to feel safe here, spiritually, mentally, and freedom from any harassment. We have had comments mostly from sisters who were receiving unwanted personal messages, mostly from brand new members who thought it was open season on any sister who is a desirable candidate for their aspirations. … that is why the moderators clamp down on “any” member in the whole world no matter of ethnicity…who gives “any” indication that this is a JW match site.. and would like to let everyone see their “want ad”. You may not agree with that direction.. that is fine…so if this site is not meeting your needs move on and find someplace else that meets your needs. Also we will not tolerate members who love to unpin and throw grenades for their own jollies ..and then proclaim you misunderstand me. Jesus was a peacemaker and so are his followers. Peace disturbers will be asked to leave.

I cannot get onto Jw Talk since Sequoia update. I have no problem accessing any other site like Jw.Org or any news site YouTube etc I cannot access the site through my router on the iPad but I can connecting to my hot spot on my iPhone. i have tried connecting to my hot spot from iMac but still have same issue i have unplugged everything and back forth again a few times. i have cleared the cache ..many times I have tried 4 browsers safari, edge, duck duck go, Firefox , chrome basically they all come back err_connection_timed_out. i have turned off and on my fire wall.didn’t help i have checked for restricted access to sites.nothing i have run wireless diagnostics … no issue coming up with nothing… any suggestions?

A primer for Mpox .. I found this interesting since I didn’t know much about the latest warnings from the branch. New Scientist Aug 31 2024.. A new variant of mpox is surging in Central Africa, raising concerns about how quickly it could spread further afield. A new mpox variant called clade Ib that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year has now spread to several neighbouring countries. Sweden and Thailand have also each detected a case in individuals who travelled from this region. So, how serious a threat is it? It is clear that mpox clade Ib is nowhere near as transmissible as respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, and thus it almost certainly won’t cause a pandemic on the scale of covid-19. However, initial evidence suggests that clade Ib is significantly better at spreading from person to person than other mpox variants, such as clade IIb, which has caused nearly 100,000 reported infections worldwide since 2022. Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, normally infects rats and squirrels. There are two main types of mpox, clade I and clade II, with the former circulating in Central Africa and the latter in West Africa. These viruses occasionally spill into people, but the resulting outbreaks have usually been small and limited to households, because the virus isn’t good at spreading among people. Most infections involve close contact, including, but not limited to, sexual contact, says Susan Gould at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK. People can also be infected by touching contaminated objects, such as bedding, but this is rarer. Gould detected the virus in air samples in one study, but this doesn’t mean it can spread via the air, she says. “There is no evidence of any cases where there’s airborne transmission.” The ongoing outbreak of clade IIb, a type of mpox clade II, is the biggest and by far the most widespread, but it has been limited almost entirely to men who have sex with men. In Europe, 98 per cent of cases have been in men. Genetic studies revealed that IIb had been circulating in people for several years prior to its detection. Now, Ib cases are surging. Reports state that Ib is even more transmissible than IIb, with signs of increased spread outside of households. However, because of limited testing, it is not clear how many of the 20,000 reported cases in all affected African countries so far this year are due to IIb. Whether it really is more transmissible isn’t yet confirmed, says Brian Ferguson at the University of Cambridge. “There isn’t any hard evidence.” The picture will become clearer as any Ib outbreaks outside of endemic regions are studied. In 2022, the expectation was that standard measures such as contact tracing would halt the spread of IIb, which turned out not to be the case. One reason for this may be that people infected with IIb can become infectious several days before showing symptoms or even without showing any symptoms at all. But offering vaccines to those at high risk has greatly reduced the virus’s spread in wealthier countries. “They were highly effective,” says Paul Ananth Tambyah at the International Society for Infectious Diseases. “They brought down case numbers to really very low levels.” It remains to be seen whether Ib can be contained by measures such as contact tracing, not least because we don’t know if it can spread before people show symptoms. It is possible that countries with effective healthcare systems will manage to contain outbreaks, but other nations may not. “There is a potential for that to happen,” says Ferguson. If Ib does spread widely in some countries, there is also a risk of mpox becoming established in animal populations outside of West and Central Africa, which could lead to future outbreaks starting in non-endemic areas. On the plus side, mpox evolves more slowly than viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. It is therefore thought to be very unlikely that it could evolve to evade existing vaccines. But Ferguson stresses that such conclusions are based on probability. “There’s a chance that it can change in a way that we can’t predict,” he says. Assuming Ib doesn’t change much, vaccination campaigns should be able to bring any wider outbreaks under control. But vaccine availability is an issue and could become even more of a problem if Ib isn’t limited to a relatively small high-risk group, as with IIb. Read more How to tell if your immune system is weak or strong “There aren’t currently 10 million shots of vaccine available,” says Ferguson. That is the number estimated to be needed to halt the clade Ib outbreak just in Central Africa. Manufacturers are ramping up production but it will take time. Because of limited testing and not all cases being reported, there is a lot of uncertainly about the fatality rate of Ib, with one report that the case fatality rate is as low as 0.6 per cent. In countries with better healthcare systems, it could be even lower, as with IIb. Tambyah thinks Ib will behave similarly to IIb, but it is unlikely to spread to the same extent if countries act quickly, given that they have dealt with mpox before and people may have someimmunity. But if nothing is done to stop mpox outbreaks in West and Central Africa, more variants will emerge, he says. “And we’ll go through this whole cycle all over again.”

From: New Scientist Sept 7 2024 newscientist.com Interesting article about why we find gold nuggets in quartz veins .. This article sparked my interest 😎 Quartz crystals produce electricity when they are deformed by mechanical stress, which may explain how enormous chunks of gold can form in inert rock Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced up from deep underground. Enormous gold nuggets are often associated with quartz, a ubiquitous but chemically inert mineral. The world’s largest gold nuggets can reach weights of nearly 100 kilograms, but until now no one has been able to explain how such valuable lumps of metal were formed. The mystery has been how do you make a large gold nugget in a single spot when there’s no obvious chemical or physical trap,” says Chris Voisey at Monash University in Melbourne. Voisey and his colleagues have now discovered a possible mechanism. When quartz is subjected to pressure, it produces a voltage that attracts gold that is dissolved in water. The secret is in the structure of the quartz, Voisey explains. Quartz is the only abundant mineral whose crystals lack a centre of symmetry. This means that when these crystals are distorted or subjected to pressure by seismic activity, their internal electromagnetic configuration is altered and they produce electricity. Electricity generated in response to mechanical stress is known as piezoelectricity. Gold-bearing hydrothermal fluids from Earth’s mid to lower crust, 15 to 20 kilometres below the surface, are driven up through fissures during seismic activity. However, the gold is so dilute that it would take the equivalent of five Olympic swimming pools of this hydrothermal fluid to produce 10 kilograms of gold. Voisey and his colleagues hypothesised that gold is concentrated into nuggets within veins by the piezoelectricity of the quartz during repeated earthquakes. To test this idea, the team conducted experiments with quartz crystals placed in a solution containing gold and subjected to moderate pressures from an actuator. Quartz samples that weren’t subjected to pressure didn’t attract gold, but those that were subjected to force generated a voltage and attracted the metal. Some of the samples were coated in iridium, which accentuates the piezoelectric response of quartz, artificially mimicking greater seismic activity. These samples grew larger pieces of gold – upwards of 6000 nanometres – compared with 200 to 300 nanometres for uncoated quartz. Once gold started depositing on the quartz, it rapidly attracted more, says Voisey. “Because gold is a conductor, there’s a preferential bias for gold in solution to deposit on pre-existing gold,” he says. “It becomes like a lightning rod that attracts more gold.”

Font heads of the world unite …😳😇 most people don’t spend much time looking at a typeface or font as a subject .. but for those who do, it makes all the difference in world in the quality and ease of attention and reading. It is the difference between speed bumps on the highway or cruising along on fresh smooth pavement … ahhhhh My favourite is the lower case “g” the 1000’s of different artistic expressions that have gone into just that letter. I used to be in the graphic design business and it would drive me crazy driving down the highway and see the absolute garbage design and lettering that people would use to convey what sort of business they were in … Please can I just clean up your design .. what you don’t like my 5 year olds artistic expression ..😳🙈… nope.

Yes ...JW's are encouraged to follow what ever the local custom is when it comes to things like this... many parts of the world tipping is not a common exercise. In other parts it is the custom. For example when we have conventions we are encouraged to follow the local custom... for hotel maid service and restaurant service.As Paul admonished if it is not against biblical principle follow the local custom .

Humility is a beautiful thing…

Absolutely… No problem.. As long as we are all on the same page… I am sure among or long time members we can find a good fit.