Hope

Not on the US site as of 11.37p June 30...

Anglo-American - as prophesied ❤️

Didn't see that coming.. 😕

My son has a ball python he's had for several years. He eats a medium sized rat about once per month. They are very interesting pets. No bother, cheap to feed and look extremely cool. When he was a kid he had a python too. We used to do The Ritual: wear a bathrobe with a hood on it, light candles, and present the living sacrifice at feeding time. Ours is a macabre family at times.. 🐍🐁☠️

Quote from AP: "The Israeli military declined to comment on Trump's statement. Iranian state media had no word on what response Tehran had to the ceasefire." https://apnews.com/live/iran-israel-war-updates-6-23-2025

Mel Brooks is producing Spaceballs 2. I'm just happy to see him still bright and hilarious at age 98!

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Due process and habeas corpus are written into the Constitution. Those rights apply to every *person* here on US soil not only citizens. According to law. An article with good explanations of the detail: https://clearwaterlawgrouptricities.com/5-rights-of-undocumented-immigrants/

For what it's worth, I wrote and had the news positively confirmed by a brother I know at Warwick... 😢

Nononononononooooooo..... !!! 🥺😢😭😭😭 Bro Cauthon's talks are my very favorite of any of the Gilead speakers. I've been missing him for awhile, although I noticed his voice and manner seemed a bit weak, last time he spoke at a Graduation. 🥺 I am so very sorry to learn this. I'll look forward to his fine teaching again in the New World soon. And I'll listen to "Sympathetic Strings" in honor of this gentle and kindly brother 🤗🥺😌

fresh strawberries are good... 😉

I really detest blocking fellow brothers and sisters. It feels cold to me. They're welcome to block me, if I'm so offensive. But all I ask is for people to scroll on if they don't like something. It's super easy. 😒😑

A brother I've known since I was 15 got after me yesterday on Facebook. He condemned my posting pics of myself and friends working a Metro shift because you could see the literature in the cart. You can't even read the titles... but that's copyright offense, in his opinion. He also was upset that I posted Adam doing the Bible reading last week. Then posted up the Terms and Conditions from our site. I informed him - for the hundredth time - that I am very well aware of what consists of copyright infringement. That the Bible is public domain and I can post my son reading it at any time I please, and that the mere sight of our literature, in a cart or on a table, does not come under that restriction, either. 😕 This brother rarely speaks to me on FB except to call out what he feels are errors... he's the same one that was upset that my photo of Adam reading the WT a few years ago had a picture from the WT on the screen behind him. And don't let me post a link, heaven forbid! I asked him to please stop harassing me about this. 😠 So many things to be upset about. Even more to be friendly about. The gnat strainers need to get another hobby. In my humble opinion...

Grok is extremely interesting, as well..

ALL of this @LeolaRootStew - including all the people at the ending. Sheesh, that bit freaked me out for days... I still think about that entire last book. I recommend this series to anyone who will listen @Thomas Walker. Your imagination, writing skills, and endeavor to keep it as scripturally based or possible are so admirable. I am grateful for your books. They really help the imagination of a more literal person... like myself. 😉

The irony is not unnoticed...

One comment I read about it was that the pope was "Liz Trussed" by VP Vance, referring to the very short-tenured Prime Minister who met with QEII, who then died two days later.

I don't think it will be like a bad storm. I just don't have a doubt that Jehovah can easily work out essential communication media for His people, regardless of what's going on outside. Whether that's keeping our physical communication channels open for us, or miraculously inspiring the men in charge with what to do, it will all be okay. ☺️

Jehovah has done waaayyyy easier miracles than making sure the power we need is available. It will be cake for Him. ❤️

I feel like it would be the easiest of work for Jehovah to allow His people clear, quick, global communications, regardless of how things might work for the rest of the world. There has never been a time in history where information can be distributed nearly immediately to the entire planet. Of course, Jehovah could blast info from the heavens like the olden days... but why not a specially secure "spiritual intranet" for the Governing Body/ Bethels to communicate instructions to the rest of us (or at least the brothers in charge)? Who could stop that? I can't see any satellite failure, electricity outage, app removals, cell tower tracking, etc., thwarting Jehovah's means of getting things done. Hard copies of things will have value for sure - but millions of us may not even have such supplies anymore. Having brothers as couriers to hand-deliver messages seems inefficient and possibly dangerous, depending on what's going on out there. Naturally, Jehovah has it all worked out perfectly and we'll have to wait and see. But we've come to see our very timely communications as lifesaving at time - why lose it?

It's been a quiet topic of conversation in every congregation I've ever attended that has a foreign language group/congregation sharing our Hall. Particularly Spanish... but there are a lot of refugees in the US. Detroit has a massive Arabic population that are probably even more targeted. It's not new or uncommon. Maybe it depends on where we live? We're just talking about it here now.

Same. Days of shopping and making lunch are OVER.

Jehovah knows that about us. That's why 1 Thess. 4:11 will be applicable in nearly any situation we can imagine. ❤️

@Tortuga - that's what happens when one is single, no dependents, no property, investments, etc., nothing beyond the standard deductions to claim, and on unemployment for nine months with no other income. When you can't afford to have 20% of the already greatly reduced benefit deducted for taxes and are praying for a job soon enough to avoid the crushing pay back. 😢 I've been here before. It's awful.

Not counting being illegal, you can get a ticket (read: crime) for at least four of those things. And possibly go to jail for one, as well.