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Excellent Broadcast, as usual. The new song is a little kicky... not sure if I love it yet.. 🤔 Brother Liang's wig was a bit unfortunate, but his experience was outstanding!

It's sad to read some attitudes about it, that if we can lay off 300,000 that means we don't really need them. I can think of a whole bunch of jobs that people do that *I* don't personally need in order to live my life but being so crass as to say that 300k citizens losing their livelihood is no big deal is simply awful. Love of the greater number is stone cold these days... The only slightly upside is that many government workers are paid monthly, at the beginning of the month. If they were paid for October, they may be okay until the end of the month.

Anthony Morris is not reading 1 & 2 Peter..

Nah... there are plenty of people who've never had any sort of romantic relationship who are just fine living a single life.

For the people who cannot homeschool (I was one), these days must be truly horrific.. 😢

I get highlights from the NY Times every day. I admit, I do like to hear what's going on out there... but my news is not from social media sites, as a rule.

His manner of death is merely ironic to me.. I do not share his morals. Other than that, I'm more sad about the three more children shot at school in Colorado yesterday 😢 I am deeply glad I don't have children in school..

Any death is tragic. He did, however, claim that some gun deaths were a necessary price to pay... I'm sorry for his young family... 😕

It is truly tragic.. 😢 https://igberetvnews.com/1487795/trailer-collision-claims-15-jehovahs-witnesses-imo-state/#forward

Sisters can be assigned to conduct a "recovery" study with sisters who have been reinstated; I've had that privilege (on both sides of the table.. ), but no one studies with df'd ones except elders.

There was a demonstration on a circuit assembly some years ago about a couple either being assigned to or determining on their own (I can't remember; this was back when I lived in Chicago) to serve a congregation in the Deep South/ Bible Belt in the United States. The couple discussed the challenges of dress and grooming they would face moving there; they were from a big, metropolitan city. Their dress and grooming - particularly the sister's hair, make-up, and jewelry would be considered immodest and inappropriate where they were headed, even though she looked perfectly chic and well put together in the city they currently lived in. The brother's suits were a bit too slick. She expressed concern about her own preferences and what she'd be comfortable with - even where she'd get her hair done (she "takes her glory to the beauty shop EVERY week" ) vs. the opportunity to assist a congregation/ area that really needed their help. There was no decided conclusion in the demonstration, but the message stuck with me. Sometimes - maybe even many times - we need to reign in our own sense of style and propriety in order to be effective and represent Jehovah without getting in His way. Sometimes, we can't bring all of our culture with us.. Of course, we can ALWAYS do whatever we want, right? We just need to be prepared for the consequences and repercussions.. that's just life..

I'm hoping for a chance... I talked to a sister this weekend who has been to NINE international conventions!!! 👀 I wanna go.. 😢

Wanting to change the name Department of Defense to Department of War doesn't sound peaceful.. And hasn't he already met Kim? They're like, besties or something

One of the brothers in the UK congregation I meet with on Wednesdays knows him - they were in Elders School together years ago 😊

I listen to Spotify, my downloaded Kingdom talks & music, and two local public radio stations- which are supreme: KMHD.FM Jazz Radio and KQAC.FM Portland's All Classical station. However, I miss simply throwing a CD in the player and listening to that on repeat. Streaming is not as handy for that.

I remember records, reel-to-reel (my Dad had one), 8-track, cassette, CD, mini-CD, and now streaming. I'm old. I miss having hard copies of music and movies.. but cars don't even have CD players anymore, so.. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is a fantastic article about AI, written by an experienced therapist: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/chatgpt-therapist-journal-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE8.SFyV.4Bk1Qye1ScYl#commentsContainer I've been using AI (mainly Copilot) to help me navigate the touchy circumstances surrounding my son's engagement, among other personal problems. It is quite good... I ask it to use jw.org, wol.jw.org, and other complementary resources for reference. It's given me a lot of solid food for thought. I used the prompt below for my latest queries today. I simply plugged in everything written within the quotation marks and, wow -- good stuff. Give it a whirl. You might be happily surprised ❤️

There are talking animals and trees in the Bible. Our previous translation of the the Bible even has a story that begins, "Once upon a time..." (Judges 9:8)

JP - that link is BRILLIANT!!!! Thank you so much for it. I wish Copilot (the Microsoft product I use because I work for Microsoft.. ) is not nearly as flexible and intuitive. It's "okay"... but it's not as responsive to building out agents for one's personal use. It would be wonderful if it's decided to add something like this to WOL or the website. This is going into my bookmarks, STAT! ❤️

Alice is having a dream about Wonderland.. it's not actually happening. Personally, I don't mind dreamed experiences in films.

It's because there is nothing else important to worry about or issue an Executive Order about. Everything is fine.

AI can have it's uses. However, for topics like this, I will request it use jw.org as the reference to find agreeable information. It works pretty well; still have to review before passing it on or using ourselves. Otherwise, it will search secular sources and it will not be encouraging to us or others.

Whoa! You need to cut them off to remove them??? Yeah, no way.. Plus it's so expensive and labor intensive. I REALLY hate fooling around with my hair. Besides, I don't think my hair is the right texture for that. It's 3B - curly not kinky. No worries about haircuts. I just sorta trim it myself and wear it up in a bun 99% of the time. The person who normally cuts my hair wants $100-$150 for a bob cut and blowout, so I'll just keep my rubber bands and bobby pins at the ready 😎

Don't those (I had to look them up) require professionals - at least for starting them and removing them? The maintenance looks a bit stressful.. https://www.regirlworld.com/blogs/beauty/sisterlocks-the-complete-beginner-guide My ideal hair wouldn't need anyone doing much of *anything* to it (including me!) except a haircut every now and then. I don't have hair money - as it is, I haven't been able to afford a haircut since February 2024.. 😕