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I've used red light therapy.
https://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/is-low-level-laser-therapy-for-tinnitus-really-effective/
https://www.amazon.com/Luxe-LLC-BioNase-Sinusitis-Therapy/dp/B08M9ZHQM2
I break these apart and stick them in my ears.
I have another for my nose. Works good for allergies.

I think the diplomatic way to put this is that ‘it can readily be seen that the organization does not use paid actors.’
Boy, oh boy, did the crazies ever go bonkers on that one! Still, for a people who carry on about choosing just the right word as the palate tastes caviare, it was sort of a clumsy statement, necessitating a reply:
https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2022/07/little-enemies-of-god.html

Whoever this moron is, it doesn't know what a rebuttal is.

@AraunaYou're right w/all you said above. My response to any of the "Nothing is Impossible for Jehovah" is rather all things that are possible, Jehovah can accomplish. It is not possible for Jehovah to make a square circle, because a circle is by definition not square. With regard to his "existence" in 3D land, Jehovah could animate a being to do and say what he would have him do or say (like Balaam or his ass) but he could never truncate his existence so as to be encapsulated by the kind of existence we humans experience. 

I feel for you that you would like to physically "see" Jehovah but unfortunately we do have our physical and spiritual limitations - especially that of imperfection. Also, the 144,000 (24 elders) are so in awe of Jehovah when in heaven that they fall down before Jehovah.  “And out of the throne there are proceeding lightnings and voices and thunders.” (Revelation 4:5a).  They will be so grateful just to be allowed in his presence.    
We are imperfect and cannot even speak to Jehovah directly without mediation through the ransom of Christ. The ransom was paid and covers anyone who lived before Christ as well.  Therefore Jesus was called the Word, as he was often the messenger between God and man... as well as between Moses and Jehovah. 
Acts 7: 53  you who received the Law as transmitted by angelsv but have not kept it.” Galations 3: |"19  Why, then, the Law? It was added to make transgressions manifest, until the offspring should arrive to whom the promise had been made; and it was transmitted through angels by the hand of a mediator.
This is an excerpt from a watchtower: "
Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Daniel, Jesus, Peter, John, and Paul are among those who were ministered to by angels. Righteous angels executed God’s judgments and transmitted prophecies and directions, including the Mosaic Law. (2 Ki. 19:35; Dan. 10:5, 11, 14; Acts 7:53; Rev. 1:1) Since we now have the complete Word of God, angels may not need to convey divine messages. (2 Tim. 3:16, 17) Behind the scenes, however, the angels are very busy carrying out God’s will and supporting his servants.
9 The Bible assures us: “The angel of Jehovah is camping all around those fearing him, and he rescues them.” (Ps. 34:7; 91:11) "
Jesus came to earth because Jehovah cannot die; and Jehovah is so "almighty: that he cannot enter into a physical universe - even if it is as big as ours. He is a Spirit person and the highest heavens cannot contain him. " 1kings8:27  “But will God really dwell on the earth?h Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens, cannot contain you;i how much less, then, this house that I have built!j" 
Our earth is like a little speck of dust on His scale.   It is like trying to climb into a Chikwawa dogbox which you have made for a small little adult dog.   Jehovah uses his  dynamic and "projected" spirit to do his bidding.... or his ministering angels, all who function by his Spirit.  Jehovah's chariot is moving forward in any direction and between the four creatures and the wheels which are all full of eyes and there is something like lightnings going to and fro between then. As earthly creatures we just move with the chariot as Jehovah directs. 
BUT we can see Jehovah with eyes of faith - as if all his prophecies have already been fulfilled and we are so in awe of Him that we will just be happy to survive Armageddon- let alone feel that we have the right to literally see him. Paul said that flesh and blood cannot see God and live. 
Only those who have received the final seal, have died and resurrected with a heavenly body will have the opportunity to go into his presence/royal court.   ..... So many of the scriptures which are quoted were just quoted without context.......Not deeply scrutinized. 

I can imagine Jehovah sticking his "hand" up a meat puppet and animating it and I can imagine him doing the same with a so-called spiritual body, but what it is that is Jehovah is always and forever beyond encompassing the understanding by any creature. We can get the fringes of his ways and we can have our senses filled as well, but we might as well be climbing on our roofs to get a closer look at the moon for "getting a better look at Jehovah".

I can imagine Jehovah sticking his "hand" up a meat puppet and animating it and I can imagine him doing the same with a so-called spiritual body, but what it is that is Jehovah is always and forever beyond encompassing the understanding by any creature. We can get the fringes of his ways and we can have our senses filled as well, but we might as well be climbing on our roofs to get a closer look at the moon for "getting a better look at Jehovah".

This is what I think of when we start talking about apostates.
All the parties involved are a bunch of ineffectual, fat corgi's.

This is what I think of when we start talking about apostates.
All the parties involved are a bunch of ineffectual, fat corgi's.

This is what I think of when we start talking about apostates.
All the parties involved are a bunch of ineffectual, fat corgi's.

This is what I think of when we start talking about apostates.
All the parties involved are a bunch of ineffectual, fat corgi's.

Good point. Whatever it is.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/28/thornton-jehovahs-witness-murder-suicide-update/

https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/28/thornton-jehovahs-witness-murder-suicide-update/

It’s when we read that the congregation all suddenly ducked down in the toll booth that I’ll know someone’s been holding out on me.
When a guy shoots his wife to death, I’m beyond wondering what he was trying to say. Had it been only himself, maybe.
But even then, not especially so. Suicides are endemic today. Some spill over into the congregation, many members of whom were like the fellow Jesus refered to, ‘those who know they are sick and need a physician.’ He means spiritually sick, of course, but there is an overlap between mental illness and spiritual sickness.
Do I have to know the details of a suicide? No more than I have to know the details of someone smitten with cancer. Will I hear either out if they come my way? Yes. Do I feel I must seek them out? No.
These days in the overall world it’s common to hear that people ‘died of depression.’ Always it is a tragedy, but there is no particular ‘shame’ in it anymore, nor is there usually a hunt to find ‘guilty’ parties, even when such parties exist. 
Do I feel deprived when it doesn’t make the website? Are you kidding me? Even the miscreants @Amidstherosesmentions are only there because they directly impact the line leading to the Messiah or the apostolic spread of the good news. If every troubled soul and experience was specifically written of in the Bible, the book would be heavy as the Titanic.

FYI - In my congregation we had two suicides, and our sister congregation had a couple who drove off to Florida and gassed themselves. One of the suicides was a fellow young elder and that was really hard and I didn't see it coming. The other one was a young man who took some sleeping pills and drowned himself. The couple I didn't know other than in passing and I got a mental vibe off them like there was something wrong with them before it happened. The young man who took some sleeping pills was a missed opportunity. I felt bad about him because he kept "making up" stuff to confess to and I tried to explain to him that the things he was doing weren't great, but didn't rise to the level of judicial intervention. At the time I was just really exhausted. I was working full time, pioneering, handling the school and I was just used up. I didn't have the band width to deal w/needy. Maybe I should have made room, but he had another brother who was doing OK and his parents and it's not like I was the only elder available. He wasn't even in my book study.

Often this happens when the person has reached a resolution to follow through, given their first opportunity. Their paralyzing dilemma resolved, they can give the appearance that all is completely well.

In both cases there were women involved. One was married recently and they were having issues that no one knew about. The pool incident was just a depressed young man who felt rejected by another sister (not her fault because he was frankly a bit odd).
Logically neither of these situations merited these responses, but having previous to becoming a JW known two other people who committed suicide, the idea that you can see it coming is incorrect. You never see it. Nothing ever rises to the level of "This behavior = a suicide". In fact both seemed cheerful the weeks previous, so after these I gave up the illusion that you can spot it. Sometimes it's just young men who have an impulse and then they act on it. I think that's more likely in these situations locally. When you get older you learn how to manage your emotions better. 

In both cases there were women involved. One was married recently and they were having issues that no one knew about. The pool incident was just a depressed young man who felt rejected by another sister (not her fault because he was frankly a bit odd).
Logically neither of these situations merited these responses, but having previous to becoming a JW known two other people who committed suicide, the idea that you can see it coming is incorrect. You never see it. Nothing ever rises to the level of "This behavior = a suicide". In fact both seemed cheerful the weeks previous, so after these I gave up the illusion that you can spot it. Sometimes it's just young men who have an impulse and then they act on it. I think that's more likely in these situations locally. When you get older you learn how to manage your emotions better. 

FYI - In my congregation we had two suicides, and our sister congregation had a couple who drove off to Florida and gassed themselves. One of the suicides was a fellow young elder and that was really hard and I didn't see it coming. The other one was a young man who took some sleeping pills and drowned himself. The couple I didn't know other than in passing and I got a mental vibe off them like there was something wrong with them before it happened. The young man who took some sleeping pills was a missed opportunity. I felt bad about him because he kept "making up" stuff to confess to and I tried to explain to him that the things he was doing weren't great, but didn't rise to the level of judicial intervention. At the time I was just really exhausted. I was working full time, pioneering, handling the school and I was just used up. I didn't have the band width to deal w/needy. Maybe I should have made room, but he had another brother who was doing OK and his parents and it's not like I was the only elder available. He wasn't even in my book study.

Any way you look at it the murdered one is a ‘former member.’

You know that "former member" and "was not one of Jehovah’s Witnesses" is the same thing in our eyes, and only depends on who is saying it. I.e a news reporter will say "former member" and someone at the KH may say "they were not Witnesses". 

Other sources say these were former members. I'd be interested to find out more from anyone local.

I received this joke today from my sister in Afrikaans - I hope it translates ok. 
Peter passed his driver's license and said to his father that he would like to have his own car.  His father said: "fine",  if you push up all your school marks from a symbol C to an average of B; read the bible daily; and have a haircut.
A few months later his son comes back and says that he had pushed up his school marks and read the bible daily.  So his dad said: what about the haircut? 
Peter started talking about his bible studies and mentioned all the Bible characters who had long hair: Samson, Absalom, Moses, John the Baptist and said that he is just about sure the disciples of Jesus also had long hair.....  so could he now have the car?
The father replied:  Did you notice in your bible studies that all of them walked where they wanted to go?🤣
 

And that is the point I was trying to draw out. If we are going to use the third clause to identify whom the Word was, there are more accurate ways. No matter what identity is used, it is not totally accurate in the sense that the third clause is supposed to be used to express the Word's divinity.
Examples of identity could be one the following;
and the word was a god and the word was godlike and the word was a messenger and the word was a son and the word was the son of God and the word was of God  
Examples of divinity are in the feminine sense
and the word was Divine and the word was a deity and the word was a god Strong's Concordance theos: God, a god Original Word: θεός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine; Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: theos
Phonetic Spelling: (theh'-os)
Definition: God, a god
Usage: (a) God, (b) a god, generally.