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I've been in the truth for about 40 years and I'd never heard we had issues with confetti. 🎉 🫢

I finally did it! (With a little help from ChatGpt). I entered on our website, clicked on the padlock icon in the address bar -which I had never even noticed- and disabled all cookies. Then I refreshed the site and accepted the cookies, et voilá!

Now I have this problem: I allow all cookies but nothing changes. It might be something with my browser, Opera, but I can't figure out what. If any of you has more savvy than I do, I'd appreciate some suggestions.

I think there is no thread for this already. I've just skimmed the report and, other than the terrific growth in Africa, it surprised me that in most Western countries there's been an increase. I mean, most of Europe, Australia, the States, Canada. I had the feeling that in most of these countries -perhaps because of the many years of preaching work and the high number of Witnesses- we were reaching a plateau, with years of increases in some of them and decreases in others. But I found this general increase in most of them surprising. What do you think?

Thank you!

I used to have JW.org in dark mode. But a few days ago I realized that it was in light mode again, and I can't find the option to set it back in dark mode. I don't remember where the option was, but I do remember that I found it easily. Perhaps they've removed the option? Can you help me? Another option is that JW.org has never have a dark mode and I'm beginning to have "mature dementia."

On a local television channel, they were interviewing several victims. Among them was a group of elderly people who shared their hardships due to the flooding and complained that they felt abandoned, that no one had come to help them, except for a group they didn’t know, a company called something like “J W something…”

There's a brother in this forum who lives near the area. He's given me some information, but I think it is not official, so please be cautious:

In my opinion, this answer by Pjdriver is spot on. Try to read it not as a correction or a reprimand, but as a sensible reflection on the topic. Also, Carlos's point was very good. Take the total number of partakers: around 20,000; substract those who partake for mental health reasons and who might not even be annointed (I know some cases, but of course we can't know whether they are annointed in spite of having mental issues, this is just a speculative exercise to make a point); substract the number of females; then substract the number of brothers who, perhaps due to health reasons, are not in a position to live in the HQ; then substract those who do not speak English fluently; then substract those who are not elders; then substract those who do not have a lot of experience in positions of responsibility in the organization (travelling overseers, Bethelites, etc.), and then the options are probably really limited. Now rejecting a very qualified brother to choose another one less qualified because of his skin colour would be not only impractical, but a form of partiality. After all, the GB is there to do a job, not to represent my race.

That idea that Tortuga mentioned appeared in Paradise Lost, by Milton. Also, here on JWTalk we have a speaking tortoise.

No offence, but I like Tortuga's version better.

The United Nations created the State of Israel after WW2, in 1948, as the Jewish national home. Approximately half of the territory of Palestine was given to Israel and the other half to Muslim Palestinians. Muslim countries rejected this decision, and immediately, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq invaded the territory, starting a war. Israel won the war, and the Palestinian territory was reduced to half its original extension and divided in two territories: the Strip of Gaza and the West Bank. A Palestinian nationalistic group called Al-Fatah, began to launch different types of terrorist attacks in different parts of the world. In 1967 there was another war between Israel and an Arab coalition. Israel won and took Gaza and Sinai from Egypt (Sinai would be given back a few years later), the West Bank from Jordan (including Eastern Jerusalem) and the Golan Heights from Syria. I think the UN considers these as occupied territories, but Israel claims that they are vital for their own security. Then, in the 1990s a peace treatment was signed with Al-Fatah. They renounced to the use of terrorism and acknowledged the existence of the State of Israel; in exchange, they could create an independent Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza, with a sort of democratic regime. In 2005, Israel withdrew all of its settlers and soldiers and dismantled its military facilities in the Gaza Strip, but continues to control its access. In 2006, the Islamic Resistance Movement, HAMAS (considered a terrorist group by some countries), won the election and took control of the Strip of Gaza, while the Palestinian Authority controls the West Bank. Israel is supported by the King of the South. The Palestinians are not openly supported by any countries nowadays, but they are somehow connected to the King of the North. This is very complicated and I might be wrong in some details, but in broad terms, this is the background of the conflict.

In the meantime, we can ask Araujo JW...

Well, Tim, I hope the only similarity is his left hand. 😁