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    Governing Body update #2 March 2024

    Last month I was in Belgium and the congregation I visited, they actually had sisters doing the AV department.
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    Whacha doin?

    Option 1 for me. The food might be junk but the association is mostly genuine and helps me
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    Who is PIMO?

    I'm having the same issues. Being a PIMO for such a long time, it would be nice to be able to meet others in person. I've tried similar approaches by touching on some specific topics hoping someone would react in a kind of 'PIMO' way, but up to now without any results. In the roughly 20 years of...
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    Wednesday, Jan 24th - A note to Jehovah's Witnesses

    I have a kind of mode where I just let it all go over me....😎
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    Wednesday, Jan 24th - A note to Jehovah's Witnesses

    I've found Roberts website in the beginning when he started publishing and had the initial board. It's not always been easy, but at this time I'm still in good standing in the congregation after about 20 years of knowing about this. The love for the friends helps me to stay and be there when...
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    "The Great Taking" - Interview

    That depends on where you live. Here in Canada renting is extremely difficult and expensive. I live in a rural town and often I see new people asking where to rent and IF there is something available it's like a small basement apartment close to 2000$. In the cities it's just impossible. The...
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    What do you wish to do in paradise?

    I love hikes in the mountains. I mostly hike alone and I'm always a bit nervous to encounter bears or mountain lions. I'm looking forward to do these things without having to be scared and just enjoy the majesty of the creation and look forward to seeing wildlife.
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    Never leave the "Spiritual Paradise"

    We have the CO visit during the first article about "strengthen your appreciation" so it will be a quick one :)
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    JWs abandoning 1914?

    It was said it was a convention in Puerto Rico. I checked on the jw.org conventions page and there are no conventions scheduled that early in the year in Puerto Rico. Also the program for the conventions is not available yet. I guess it must have been an older convention. I remember a couple of...
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    Beards allowed for all brothers

    I tried a beard several times in different congregations, but it doesn't fit me. It's too patchy.
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    Beards allowed for all brothers

    Acts of the GB 15:28 - "For the Governing Body and the holy spirit have favored adding no further burden to you and to allow brothers to wear a beard and to abstain...." 🙂
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    Whenever they are saying "peace and security"!

    I've been mentioning this to my stepdad as well, that the UN currently doesn't have the power to do that. But the reply is that for Jehovah all is possible and Jehovah uses whoever He wants to use.
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    No more field service reports

    The beard issue is really local. When I was still in Europe over 10 years ago beards were already rather common in both Belgium and Netherlands. In both countries I had elders with beards. Moving to Canada, Ontario it was completely different. No beards at all. Now I'm in BC and there are lots...
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    All about Covid

    British Columbia
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    All about Covid

    Here in BC they are announcing new mask requirements for health related settings. It seems from next week it will be required again to do continuous masking in health centres etc 😵‍💫
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