Brandon

Second question: will those of us with Tuesday meetings have the announcement (this Tuesday) for our next year’s convention assignment? I think that was also first week of September last year

Last year they were posted to JWevent.org on September 1st If it’s same pattern this year, that means this Tuesday.

“He gave Adam authority over other living creatures, even assigning him the enjoyable and challenging task of naming the animals.” — The Watchtower, January 15, 2014. Insight on the Scriptures similarly says that Jehovah “granted to the first man Adam the privilege of naming the lower creatures.” “Every family in heaven and on earth owes its name” to Jehovah God. (Eph 3:14, 15) see also: https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/Insight-on-the-Scriptures/Name Why am I posting this in secular news, you may wonder? Well, remember last year Google Maps had to publish an entire article to explain the three different Gulf of Mexico labels displayed to users depending on where they are from… Today, we find ourselves in a similar predicament… https://globalnews.ca/news/12035032/trump-threat-lake-ontario-history/

If any witnesses died in Tibet (China), would our website report on it, or keep it quiet? I’m asking due to the fact that we usually don’t talk about that country

They announced in the congregation that you will have no electricity next winter? Seems odd

We have a small group from the forum on Telegram. I can add you if you want. There are probably millions of witnesses around the world who have Telegram. I think second only to WA, but without all the Facebook/Meta Inc. junk

I’m pretty sure all the bethel commuters have some kind of contact app because I’ve seen them use it. They can search for any bethelite in the whole world, I think. I assume they can send messages through it.

Telegram has the ability to set a password that must be entered every time a new device is added to the account, or when switching to a new phone. Does WA have anything similar?

Wow. Really eh

WhatsApp is making phone numbers optional, and users will be able to make their phone number hidden to everyone they message. They are replacing the phone number with a username (telegram and signal already did this a while ago). i’m not sure if it will help or hurt in the situation you just mentioned

I remember in late 2019/early 2020, most congregations in my country had their boundaries changed. A google map link with QR code was posted on the bulletin board. Anyone could save this link and easily share it. Some KHs had as many as 10 different congregation QR maps posted on the bulletin board. The links continued to work for a year or two before they all went offline. It would be nice to have more official info on our website, both for publishers and for the public. Currently, if someone (even a non witness) wants to know which cong a specific address belongs to, they can call bethel, but why need to bother the bethel workers there for something that be done easily and automatically with technologies we’re already using?

it seems strange, the trend over the years has been more and more info available to everyone. Example: at one time only witnesses were allowed to have copies (even digital ones) of the study watchtower, then later it was just online for everyone. Same with Kingdom Ministry later, and now even the Organized book is available to read online at WOL. at one time meetings times were not public, now they are. and also assemblies. Yet with this, congregation boundaries, it seems many KHs no longer display the cong map, even though the direction from 2000 says to. and considering everything is digital now, why not make such a map available to all publishers, or even the general public (since the public would be able to see the wall map inside the KH anyways and could easily copy it by taking a photo) many publishers probably have no access to their own cong map, even though years ago anyone who visited the KH could see it!

We have some direction here, but it’s 26 years old: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202000289 is this still relevant? Has anything changed? has there been anything new, perhaps about providing a digital map?

Why?

Why respect theocratic arrangements?