James Thomas Rook Jr.

I do not agree with ANYBODY.

I look at things on the face value of things as they are, as they stand alone.

I do not agree with Witnesses.

I do not agree with non-Witnesses.

If anything .... they agree with ME.

3 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:

If i say on this Forum that you talking nonsense, but you not allow me to use your quotes and topics you published in public, that means HERE, (articles and books in other places if you published, too)  where you posted your nonsense in printing or video and voice form, but you say how i break your "intellectual property and rights", than it is really NONSENSE. :)))

Considering the fact that all Jehovah's Witnesses materials are "free" to the end user, the correct logic of your statement is inescapable.

EVERYTHING we say ... in print, video, and from the platform ..... we SHOULD want repeated as much as possible, by ANYBODY who will "spread the good news".

I believe there is a scripture that says exactly that ...that the Apostles complained to Jesus about someone else using their "material", and Jesus said it was OK. (paraphrased).

You misrepresent me:

I will copy anybodys' work under what I consider is "fair use", for non-commercial purposes.

Fair use means they do not shoot at me.

If they do, just to be fair, I shoot back.

People can be incensed WITHOUT being self righteous.

They can be incensed because they hunger for righteousness.

Everything we say, write, or do, should be completely transparent ... and further WE SHOULD BE PROUD OF EVERYTHING WE SAY, WRITE OR DO !

If not ... reparations and profound real heart felt apologies .... and public changes are in order.

I don't know about you .... but I have never heard the Society apologize about ANYTHING !!!

 EVER!!

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Caricatures!

TA-57 form?

Context?

4J:

You need to take some "memory pills".

My recognition of reality has been clearly stated for more than seven years here, without inhibition.

You are living in a fantasy world of unreasonable expectations .... one of which is that is you ask a series of questions that would take a five page essay to address ... chiefly because they are based in whole or part on false premises, or lack of common sense about the way hominoids behave in groups,, you think you are entitled to an answer that conforms to those unrealistic expectations.

You are not.

Try this:

Ask one single fact based question at a time,  not based on agenda driven false premises, in whole or in part ... and see if you get a reply.

...... also, ask for facts.

Opinions are like bodily orifices ( to paraphrase ...). Everyone has several.

There is a LOT I do not understand about Bitcoin.

.... like how wealth can be created without producing anything.

4 hours ago, 4Jah2me said:

Your questions would require a rehashing of things already identified many, many times on this forum, so I will respond instead with an observation:

Your questions would require a rehashing of things already identified many, many times on this forum, so I will respond instead with an observation:

Jehovah's Witnesses are a Nation, without territory.

Like any nation, they have to fight the good fight with the Army they have ... not the Army they WISH they had.

The Polish had to fight the Nazi Tanks, with horse drawn carriages of various sorts.

Until I could afford specialized tools, I had to use general tools for specific applications.

Those who expect perfection of others in all things, I strongly suspect will be judged by God, using those same standards... and their punishment now is having to live in a cartoon world of their own construct, and being oblivious to reality.

NEITHER ONE OF YOUR TWO COMMENTS ANSWERED THE QUESTION.

THEY MAY AS WELL HAVE BEEN COMMENTARIES ON THE FLAVOR OF BANANAS.

USELESS.

On 2/27/2020 at 3:30 AM, Colin Browne said:

Should the end of this system shortly take place, I'm wondering whether anyone in rockets, on another planet or orbiting the earth be resurrected?

Why not?

Of course, they would have to die, first.

Plenty of opportunities for that with REAL Pioneers.

Who knows .... perhaps that is the only way we will be able to travel faster than light, between the stars?

In order to understand many things, you have to look at reality to prove or disprove many theories one might have about how the Universe really works.

FACT: Mankind has escaped the Earth's gravity well, crossed 240,000 miles of hard vacuum  and been to the Earth's Moon, many times, even leaving instruments, souvenirs, and abandoned vehicles behind, and returned without any interference from God, whatsoever.

FACT: Mankind has, at my last count, 9 robots running around on the planet Mars, anfd has for many years, without any interference from God.

FACT:  Mankind has sent many robot "eyes and ears" across our Solar System, and many have landed on other planets, and asteroids, and two, Voyager One, and Voyager Two, are either in space between the stars, or headed that way, all without any interference from God.

FACT: Jehovah is Eternal, and NOTHING in this Universe is, and the Universe we live in is "only" about 14 billion years old, and had a beginning, where for the first time, "time and space" was created as one thing, and imbued with a direction of flow, from the present, to the future.  Spacetime is ONE thing ... not two things.  Time, is a property of all physical matter.

FACT: Jehovah represents himself as being "from everlasting to everlasting", a curious phrase that applies only to one that had no beginning, and will have no end ... an incorporeal being that is so powerful that multiple millions of "interface modules" (Angels of various sorts ...) were created to interface to THIS Universe, without disrupting it.

Can you point your finger an ANY direction, and if you follow that line of direction, it will run through God?

No.

He does not "live" in this physical universe at all,  never has, and never will, as the change in the laws of physics that make this Universe self sustaining, on "automatic pilot", so to speak, would make things like stars and planets impossible to exist.

Therefore, BY ACTUAL COMPLETED TESTS, and looking at the results of those tests, The "vicinity of the Earth", includes the entire physical Universe, and everything in it ..... and the "Heavens" belonging to Jehovah is somewhere or something on the OTHER side of the "Big Bang".

For his existence, and the existence of similar energy only creations, he does not need this incompatible Universe at all!

We do.

It appears that this entire physical Universe, and all the "Real Estate" therein, was made exclusively and specifically  for the sons and daughters of DNA.

NOWHERE in Scripture is it stated that after Armageddon, we are going to be sterilized, which God always viewed as tragic, and against his will, or a punishment.

To the contrary ... and that would require a Universe like ours, with a 28 billion light year diameter (....and EXPANDING!), and people that like to explore and colonize new territory .... like US!

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I don't think you have to worry too much about contracting Covid-19, the Coronavirus, or WUFLU ... all the same thing .... as much as you should be concerned about having a full blown case of BOTH Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) AND Watchtower Derangement Syndrome (WDS), at the same time.

It could only be worse if you lived in your Mother's basement with 35 cats.

Equality in humans is an unrealistic fantasy .

NO ONE is equal to anyone else.

The ONLY way to make people equal ..... is death.

How probable is it that people who collapse in a major city on any given day ONLY do it for one singular reason?

Gimme a break!

Latest News as of 1 PM today.

In the USA 57 cases of Covid-19 ... NO DEATHS.

19 hours ago, Kosonen said:

On 2/24/2020 at 11:56 PM, KevinM said:

in the final part of their kingdom, as the transgressors act to a completion, a fierce-looking king who understands ambiguous sayings will stand up. . .” (Da 8:20-23)

Is it not Donald Trump? He prefers a fierce look. That is his image.

Using your logic ... the ONLY person on Earth it COULD be ... is Clint Eastwood.

My best guess?

China knows one or more  of its weaponized viruses got loose.

They went berserk ..... because they did not know which one(s).

Corvid-19 may be the only one they are ADMITTING to.

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Perhaps the KIT could be the Society's next translation project !

.... Years ago, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, below the fold, on the right hand side (if memory serves), was a 2"x2" or so picture of Star Trek - The Next Generation's Security Officer Worf, and the article announcing the publication the KLV Klingon Language Bible.

I have forgotten many of the details if I ever knew them, as I was crying from laughter so much it was hard to see.

I do remember from the article that there were particular difficulties in doing a good job of translating, as the Klingon language is very abrupt, and there is no word for the concept of "mercy"..

I understand that the KLV Translation is somewhat like our "Silver Sword", in that it is simplified and is more like a commentary, but I think I will wait until someone puts out a Klingon Interlinear Translation of the Bible (KIT).

I guarantee NOBODY will fall asleep at the Klingon speaking Kingdom Halls, as the speakers are VERY loud, and they have a tendency to yell and spit at the same time.

You may want to sit at least three rows back.

Covid-19 NOT being life threatening is a challenge?

To do what, count legs still standing up, and divide by two?

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t's NOT a pandemic because (  .... so far .... ) the Corona virus,  Covid-19, or Wuflu, by whatever name it is called daily, has affected about 80,000 people as of today's date, and "only" killed about 2700 people.

This means the death rate is about 3% ... even including the worst countries where treatment to keep you alive is minimal, while your body mounts a defense ... and the very old and infirm  are included in those statistics

It has symptoms like the common cold, or at worst, the flu .... part of the Corona family of "common cold" viruses, this one being labeled No. 19.. 

It's a respiratory disease in humans.

So far, that number of deaths .... is "reportedly" less than the "regular" variants of the flu.

Please feel free to check what I think I know, as my sources may have a hidden agenda.

The WHO (World Health Organization) has stated that as of today it does NOT meet the criteria for a pandemic.

To put this in perspective, Malaria, caused by mosquitos, KILLS ABOUT 100,000 PEOPLE A MONTH, continuously, worldwide. And has ... for a very long time.

My guess is that if you treat Wuflu with a CONSTANT barrage of treatments as you would for someone with severe asthma, who also has the "normal" flu, it is VERY survivable.

Statistics are made up of mostly those who do NOT have these resources, and by lack of resources, and education, are relatively doomed in advance.

THis whole thing reminds me of when William Randolph Hearst, once the owner of the nation's largest newspaper chain, artificially created news to sell newspapers, and eventually convinced the American people to demand Congress to declare war against Spain, who owned Cuba at the time.

He telegraphed his reporters in Havana, who had nothing to write about the supposed atrocities of Spain against the Cubans, to provide photographs, and he would make up the atrocities,

His telegram stated " "...you supply the pictures, I will supply the war".

In the newspaper business " If it bleeds, it leads!" ... and headlines sell papers.

... same thing.

16 hours ago, admin said:

Explain away for weeks in front of incontrovertible evidence of a pandemic happening.... WHY it isn't a Pandemic....

It's NOT a pandemic because (  .... so far .... ) the Corona virus,  Covid-19, or Wuflu, by whatever name it is called daily, has affected about 80,000 people as of today's date, and "only" killed about 2700 people.

This means the death rate is about 3% ... even including the worst countries where treatment to keep you alive is minimal, while your body mounts a defense ... and the very old and infirm  are included in those statistics

It has symptoms like the common cold, or at worst, the flu .... part of the Corona family of "common cold" viruses, this one being labeled No. 19.. 

It's a respiratory disease in humans.

So far, that number of deaths .... is "reportedly" less than the "regular" variants of the flu.

Please feel free to check what I think I know, as my sources may have a hidden agenda.

The WHO (World Health Organization) has stated that as of today it does NOT meet the criteria for a pandemic.

To put this in perspective, Malaria, caused by mosquitos, KILLS ABOUT 100,000 PEOPLE A MONTH, continuously, worldwide. And has ... for a very long time.

My guess is that if you treat Wuflu with a CONSTANT barrage of treatments as you would for someone with severe asthma, who also has the "normal" flu, it is VERY survivable.

Statistics are made up of mostly those who do NOT have these resources, and by lack of resources, and education, are relatively doomed in advance.

THis whole thing reminds me of when William Randolph Hearst, once the owner of the nation's largest newspaper chain, artificially created news to sell newspapers, and eventually convinced the American people to demand Congress to declare war against Spain, who owned Cuba at the time.

He telegraphed his reporters in Havana, who had nothing to write about the supposed atrocities of Spain against the Cubans, to provide photographs, and he would make up the atrocities,

His telegram stated " "...you supply the pictures, I will supply the war".

In the newspaper business " If it bleeds, it leads!" ... and headlines sell papers.

... same thing.