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I loved this from the education thread - I'll plagiarize it here: As the situation of the governments of the world deteriorates with increasing power grabs, how grateful are we for the divine wisdom to grant more freedom and trust to Jehovah's servants worldwide to serve Jehovah with their "power of reason" (Rom 12:1). This is bringing us closer and closer to that position where each one can truly "carry his own load" (Gal 6:5). May you all carry your load well and keep Jehovah's principles clearly in mind Under His yoke, the load is light, but without it ... It may be too heavy to carry.

Nothing in my post discussed faith or a lack of it. Are you bringing up faith because you're noticing there's a connection between a person's faith and their appearance? It seems you regularly connect these two things together. Do you feel there's a deep connection between these two? The guy described with the body armor, with the guns and the grenades, he may have a deep and abiding faith and a deep love for his God as well. Who am I to judge. But if I'm the attendant - I'm not letting him in the door!

You know what we need is a magazine that clearly discusses an end to war & violence .... And then we should have a global campaign to distribute it .....

Well it is true the elders don't need to tell you how to dress. It is also true that it's up to the body of elders to decide whether you're exemplary and qualify to auxiliary pioneer, pioneer, be in any type of appointed position, etc. So, work closely with those tasked to help you make it through the greatest tests mankind has EVER been through. We will need our elders. It's good to learn how to cooperate with them now as you won't be able to learn later.

And of course your local body of elders.... (See Heb 13:17)

It is important to note - having standards is not judging someone. No one would want someone to walk into the Kingdom Hall with full body armor, guns and an AR-15 strap to their back. Nor would anyone want someone in the Kingdom Hall that wore a stinking meat dress like Lady Gaga did. So, there must be some line somewhere that your local body of elders is going to have to establish between what is decent and what isn't. That's not judging. That's having an acceptable Bible based standard. We all remember that "decency is the boundary of tolerance." The definition of decency is going to change based on the area you're in but not go beyond Bible principles. PS for the body armor, I don't draw that line until they add hand grenades hanging on the outside to their kit.

We can't share until it's announced at the Kingdom Hall and that doesn't happen until next week

Unfortunately, our county assessor doesn't list individual apartments as they are not individual APNs. For condos I could get that, but not apartments

Okay next couple questions as we start practicing with some territories. 1. Is there a way for the territory servant to be notified that a new do not call has been added? I'm just wondering about accidents. 2. And what about apartment buildings? I see that there's a way to right click and add the number of them, but short of driving to every apartment building and counting up how many units are in each one? Is there a simpler way to know how many units there are?

Did you have to enter every address in the system to make that work?

Yes, over 400 pages of discussion of "is this it?" Or "might this be it?" And the answer has always been the same "NO" and how do we know it's "no" so far? Because Babylon the Great is still standing. Globally, she has not been attacked. This tells us what? We will know "this is it!" ONLY when we see BtG attacked globally. So, keep on guard OF YOURSELF, stay awake and pay attention TO YOURSELF that you don't get distracted by this one world. And of course help your family. Jehovah has got the rest. But hey, talking about the news is always fun, right? PS have you noticed that public talks have changed? In the past, we spent the first 15 minutes discussing the news and how bad everything is (and even depressing some people) and then we spent the next half hour saying how the kingdom will fix it. Now, we spend LESS than 5 minutes on "the news" and the remaining time on how the Kingdom is the solution. Hmm, there's a lesson there I think.

Don't you think this is more a case of we won't know which statement of "peace and security" referred to in 1 Thessalonians is THE ONE until after the attack on Babylon the Great? So, we really should be looking for the attack on BtG rather than the cry of "peace of security". Edit: and since it's all supposed to happen suddenly without much lead up, really looking for that all out attack has to be the main thing.

Being "on guard" doesn't mean looking at every news article and jumping every time we hear someone says "peace and security". It means making sure you are watching YOU and that YOU are not drifting, getting materialistic or sleepy spiritually. It's just like what Jesus told his disciples... "Keep on the watch and pray continually, so that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit, of course, is eager, but the flesh is weak.” Matt 26:41 Note: he wasn't telling them, "Keep on the watch so you can see when the enemy approaches." He was saying "keep on the watch so you don't enter into temptation." He was asking them to keep on the watch of THEMSELVES not necessarily outwardly - as in looking for an enemy or an event. Take a look at the context of every time we're told to "keep on guard" or "not sleep" or "stay on the watch" and you'll note the reference to looking inward not necessarily outward at some news event. Edit: here's another example alt Luke 21: 34 “But pay attention to yourselves that your hearts never become weighed down with overeating and heavy drinking and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day be instantly upon you 35 as a snare." What are we to "pay attention" to? The news? The world? Things going on around us? Or ourselves? One more ... What happened to Peter while he was walking on water and he started focusing outwardly on the storm instead of his walking towards Jesus?

This announcement thing reminds me of a very funny TV show we used to love watching called Dinosaurs and the announcement they had ...... Enjoy Meteor.mp4

Knowing how much Trump loves California I can see him adding CA as a deal sweetener.