Brandon

I think San Diego is actually November 27-29 🤔 makes me wonder just how many of these dates were hallucinated

edit: ChatGPT got at least one wrong (which makes me think it could get others wrong) corrected: Calgary, Canada — July 31-Aug 2

I asked ChatGPT to gather the languages as well: 🇧🇷 Curitiba, Brazil * Portuguese * English * Brazilian Sign Language 🇨🇲 Douala, Cameroon * French * English * Pidgin (West Africa) * Cameroon Sign Language 🇨🇦 Calgary, Canada * English * Russian * Tigrinya 🇨🇦 St. John’s, Canada * English 🇪🇨 Quito, Ecuador * Spanish * English * Ecuadorian Sign Language 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany * German * English * Polish 🇱🇹 Vilnius, Lithuania * Lithuanian * Russian * Latvian * Russian Sign Language * English 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands * Dutch * Papiamento * English 🇵🇦 Panama City, Panama * Spanish * English * Guna * Ngäbere * Panamanian Sign Language 🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines * Filipino (Tagalog) * English 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland * Polish * English * Polish Sign Language 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal * Portuguese * Portuguese Sign Language * English 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania * Romanian * Hungarian * Romani (Romania) * Romanian Sign Language * English 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa * Zulu * Sepedi * English * South African Sign Language 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden * Swedish * English * Swedish Sign Language 🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, Taiwan * Mandarin (Traditional Chinese) * Taiwanese Sign Language * English 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand * Thai * English * Thai Sign Language 🇺🇸 Milwaukee, United States * English * Spanish 🇺🇸 San Diego, United States * English * Tagalog

I thought it would be fun to try and crowdsource the exact dates for the conventions. Our official site, jwevent.org, only lists the month. This way, we can better search for online news (or social media) about specific convention cities, so long as we gather the dates. edit: apparently you can just ask ChatGPT for the exact dates and it’s able to fetch them (except for the months in the past). I’d still appreciate anyone willing to help fact check the precise weekend dates. June 2026 Douala, Cameroon — date? Bucharest, Romania — date? July 2026 Calgary, Canada — July 3–5 Warsaw, Poland — July 3–5 Porto, Portugal — July 3–5 Stockholm, Sweden — July 3–5 Hamburg, Germany — July 3–5 Kaohsiung, Taiwan — July 10–12 Panama City, Panama — July 10–12 Milwaukee, USA — July 17–19 St. John’s, Canada — July 17–19 August 2026 Vilnius, Lithuania — August 7–9 Utrecht, Netherlands — August 7–9 Quito, Ecuador — August 7–9 Johannesburg, South Africa — August 7–9 September 2026 Curitiba, Brazil — September 4–6 October 2026 San Diego, USA — October 2–4 November 2026 Manila, Philippines — November 6–8 December 2026 Bangkok, Thailand — December 4–6

Most likely pulling the official RSS feed. we have 2 official RSS feeds in english (actually more); one catches everything in the “what’s new” section except videos. The other catches only new videos. and then I made a third one which pulls from Instagram 😁

In this case they shared it in the “What’s New” section, but many other recent cases (like Italy) are not there at all 😢 to make it worse, there’s no RSS feed for the Global Communications section

I doubt I’d want my child in regular Bible debates in front of the class (especially without proper preparation from the WOL). I also wouldn’t want my kid being taught “the bible” by a non-witness. On the other hand, as kids grow, not only will they have their own questions but they’ll also have to give a defence of our beliefs to schoolmates and possibly even teachers at times (although the power imbalance in that situation might be less fair). As with anything, there are risks and potential rewards. If they had a junior apostate in their class it could be very dangerous.

You’re not wrong. Telegram is a lot like Discord; calls are the only things that are e2ee by default. But it has a lot of social features but without ads (except in channels, but you can pay a small monthly fee for “premium” and all in-channel ads are gone) of course Discord only allows like 10MB attachments for free users whereas Telegram allows up to 1500MB files for free! That’s why it’s an ideal tool for sending files; unlimited file storage!

Well… they’re bringing ads to that so I’d suggest switching to Telegram or Signal. But good on you for not having a Facebook or Instagram account.

Doesn’t it seem a little ironic that they announced the pilot would be exclusively in english, but now they posted at least 2 German language articles 🙊

That’s interesting. So where are the speakers located?

It’s a messaging app with some light social features built in. https://telegram.org

@Sjustice you can follow it on telegram and you won’t get any other accounts or recommendations

Are most of you guys who use ig/tt reposting the jw_pressroom posts? how do those in your congregation feel? I’ve noticed many in my cong have not even looked at our official socials yet

Not sure when this happened, but our TikTok account reposted someone else’s post: