James Thomas Rook Jr.

Bald people could use it to project hair on the top of their head.

.... that is but a small FRACTION of the amount of Vodka you can buy with 56 million dollars.

In two words ... "STUFF HAPPENS" get used to the idea.

Future generations will look back on archeological evidence and discover the 1996-1998 global layer of AOL discs.

YO MOMMA is SO FAT, she has lesser fat women in orbit around her ! Get Caleb and Sophia to top THAT joke!

You are projecting again, TTH ... nothing you could possibly do not involving high velocity lead projectiles could make me mad. It was just my stunned disbelief at your reasoning processes that prompted , as always, my response.

I hope in the New System ... we do not have to go back to dial-up modems, and dot matrix printers ....

All in all ... what historical or present time and place would YOU rather live in? I thank Jehovah almost EVERY day for THIS time, and THIS place over any I can think about or know about in the complete history of civilization. I have been at death's door several dozen times, but so far, never had to turn the knob, or been forced through it by circumstances. All in all ... what historical or present time and place would YOU rather live in?

The Baptismal Oath was changed in 1985 to eliminate that loophole. If you were baptized before 1985, you have the contractual right to demand they destroy your records, however they do not recognize you have any rights at all in that regard. If you have family and friends that are JWs ... it's a hostage situation, and they can get away with it.

..don't get 'em mixed up.

It's worth repeating ... It's a crying SHAME when civil governments have the moral High Ground.

Cos: The first resort of the incompetent is to threaten. Your threat of my having blasphemed the Holy Spirit is exactly what YOU have done, by subverting common sense truth. The reason I use movie references is that it is quite common for EVERYBODY to bend scripture to support whatever agenda they are promoting, and movie references are USUALLY quite clear and unambiguous. ... so I try to appeal to reason, logic, and common sense to define concepts, ideas and principles. If you don't understand ... It cannot be explained to you, and you will NEVER understand it. Not really. Movies often have commonly understood frames of references that few people can mess up with their agendas. If Scripture is interpreted to NOT be reasonable, logical, and be common sensical, the fault lies in the interpretation ... not the Scripture. To the best of all available knowledge, there are no three-in-one life forms in the known Universe. And for any work to be done at a distance, there HAS to be a force carrying directed field of energy. YOUR ideas are the wacky ones ... as among the BILLIONS of life forms swarming the Earth, there are NO examples of three-in-one life forms in the known Universe. ... ... and we are made in God's image. ...and your arguments completely fail on their own ... because in English, Jehovah is God's name ... Jesus is his Son's and Christ's name, and the Holy Spirit's name is NOT Casper. The Holy Spirit is a FORCE of some kind, and has no name. .

and humor goes something like this ... " ... and Jesus knew that Judas was skimming from the money box, when he saw the Rolex hour-glass on his wrist." well ... attempt at humor, perhaps.

Better lighten up, TTH, or you will give yourself a stroke and a nurse will have to lift you up when your are slumped over in a wheelchair, so you can valve out excess abdominal gasses. ( I for a very long time have thought it was amazing that the human body is a bag of water, with a valve AT THE BOTTOM, to release gas pressure ...) I noticed that once again, AS ALWAYS ... you refused to address any actual issue I brought up, this time by devolving into an absurd extrapolation about the "12 dopes". Your replies are in effect .. " oh yeah? Oh Yeah? OH YEAH? OH YEAH? OH YEAH? OH YEAH? " ... and the scintillating final conclusion .. Yo Momma!

It's a shame you did no research to reach your erroneous conclusion ... JW Insider (JWI) was an Artist at Bethel and he confirms that it is true, and that it created a scandal at the time called "The Sternstorm". WHY is it a shame? It these days of Google, it's easy enough to prove, or disprove. You remind me of a ship navigator who although the tools of his trade are made for a spherical Earth, insists that it is flat.

You know, it's like talking to a cassette tape recorder .....

The REAL reason the WTB&TS confiscated all Kingdom Halls in the world is that they are NOW ... each and every one of them... PROFIT CENTERS. With the MASSIVE hurricane and Earthquake damage in the last several weeks, in about a year ... we will ALL KNOW.

TTH: Your reading comprehension skills are at their usual nonexistent level, TTH. clouded by a fantasy agenda. The Kingdom Hall I grew up in had Brothers that stole from the contribution box ( they said they were going to pay it back ...) and had two Elders who later ... much later ... were found out after they faded out to be screaming homosexuals. One was seen in a "Gay Pride" parade by my sister, and the other contacted me when I mentioned him by name in an internet posting, and he contacted me, wanting to know where the first ex-elder was these days. And if you know JW History, you know that there were two members of the Governing Body that were removed for homosexuality, and even today, the upper echelons of the Organization is riddled with spies, covert apostates and "hangers on", which leak every manner of confidential document to the Internet. Often INFO is available globally faster to ANYBODY on the Internet, than Elders can get copies in the mail. (By the way, in my opinion, this leakage is a GOOD thing ... as Organizational change is ONLY done by outside forces MAKING the changes happen ... the crime is that in the Truth, there is NO SUCH THING as fiscal or spiritual transparency). We should not have to "steal" information that common decency and a clean conscience, and basic fiduciary responsibility says we are ENTITLED to have, out of respect, and common sense. It stuns me but not surprises me that you are comfortable with anonymous men in the upper echelons, handling perhaps 60 million dollars a month, and having total faith that NOBODY is skimming. All it takes is the checkers to be in cahoots with the counters, and MILLIONS of dollars a month could be skimmed off ... and nobody but NOBODY would be the wiser, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS A SECRET.... to those lower on the totem pole. The "higher ups" have to believe what their minions tell them, and those lower on the chain of command have no access to the information, and are NOT told. Secrecy breeds tyranny and corruption in ALL religious organizations. This has ALWAYS been the case. Oh, and TTH ..... GROW UP! .

I hope JW Insider will not mind me quoting his words from over three years ago, here on the Archive, about which came first ... the Mormon Chicken or the JW Caleb ..... JW Insider • 3 years ago " If you look up lds dot org and find their "friends" and their videos section you'll see that their site almost mirrors ours with ALS videos, childrens videos, "Matt and Mandy" etc. But a look at the "wayback" machine internet archive shows that they have had most of these features going back to 2009 and even before. That's several years before we had them. I've never had a Bible study with Mormons but I did have a string of return visits that continued for a couple years in 2005-2006. When I saw their own "children-oriented" publications I thought it would be nice if we would do something like that, too. A lot of them looked like Caleb and Sophia. We were still a bit Internet-averse in those days however. On the issue of the Book of Mormon however, yes, Joseph Smith was a deceiver who copied huge portions of the KJV version with a little bit of ad-lib "scripture speak" from his own imagination. In fact, there are places where we know now that the KJV had mistranslated the Hebrew, and it makes no sense that the "angel" from heaven that spoke to Smith would have given him the same mistranslations that King James' translators made. There's another great story about when Smith's printer for the Book of Mormon lost a chapter of the handwritten manuscript dictated from the angel. Smith realized that he couldn't reproduce it himself, and knowing there was no REAL angel to repeat it, was afraid that if he tried to reproduce it, that the original would show up again. If the original was ever compared it would prove him a fraud, so "the angel decided" that the world no longer needed that chapter, but that it should be replaced it with a new one. How convenient!!" Uh...... statements of absoluteness work better when proved BEFORE posting ... with actual ... Uh .... FACTS.

Looking at the photos of the fire damage was very helpful. I understand that the late comedian George Burns put a claim to his Insurance Company for the loss of the cigars he smoked. They paid the claim ... but had him charged with arson.

It applies equally to all subjects of Australian law. The Society has been fighting this for YEARS. Just as in the United States ... the Society's Lawyers in Australia, their main job is to OBSTRUCT Justice ... NOT promote it. That's why my wife and I cut our contributions back by 75%.

I see by that comment that billions of dollars in contributed money to the Society, with ABSOLUTELY NO ACCOUNTING WHATSOEVER to the contributors is agreeable to you. I scare a lot of people, TTH ... but YOU are one REALLY scary Dude. That even scares ME ... that someone can even THINK like that.

As far as I know, it was the only alleged porn star, and PLAYBOY model ever featured in one of the Society's publications.

After carefully examining BOTH photos .. both are in color, as the carpet behind the black and white leaflet is in color ... one does not appear to me to be a counterfeit of the other. If you went to the grocery store and got your change in Monopoly Money, you could not make the case that it was a counterfeit of REAL national currency, either ... unless of course you thought Monopoly Money was REAL money, which would only mean you need to get out more. There is a magazine in Germany called STERN, which in August 1991, had a stunningly beautiful photo of a model named Petite Pascale, who had also posed for PLAYBOY MAGAZINE sometime before that, on the cover . When the WTB&TS stole this picture from the cover of STERN magazine, and put it on page 93 of their book "You Can Live Forever On A Paradise Earth", that was not a counterfeit ... either. It was plagerism. It was theft. It was incredibly clueless and STUPID ... but it was NOT "counterfeiting" If you had a USA One Dollar Bill with a picture of ex-president's wife Barbara Bush ... instead of George Washington ... THAT would be counterfeiting.  Â

May the FARCE be with you! ( another nuanced parallelism of many ideas ...) That is a heavily referenced and nuanced statement. If you don't understand ... It cannot be explained to you, and you will NEVER understand it. Not really.