James Thomas Rook Jr.

For general concepts and ideas ... that is good enough ... but if they were translating Aircraft Maintenance Manuals ... I would take the bus.

 It's not that Astronomers have no personality ... it's just their jokes are not easily understood. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) . . . . . . . . . A spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex real life phenomena. The implication is that theoretical physicists will often reduce a problem to the simplest form they can imagine in order to make calculations more feasible, even though such simplification may hinder the model's application to reality. The phrase comes from a joke that spoofs the simplifying assumptions that are sometimes used in theoretical physics. "Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum".  HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAhahahahah !!!  good one !

Of course. At the KH today (Saturday) the speaker gave an incredibly good talk ... but from the seat during the WT study, he made the comment "Astronomers have no personality ... Jehovah has personality ..." I am STILL trying to figure THAT one out ... and it was in English.

..there can be ... only ONE. nothing to lose your head about ....

Years ago, I was in Norway, and a Brother who like to play guitar and sing American Country Western music told me the elders had jumped on his case for singing about "Son of a gun, gonna have big fun, on the Bayou ...", and he asked me what the expression "son of a gun" really meant. I had heard that expression all my life, and never thought about it... so I did ... and realized it had no meaning whatsoever .. it was just an expression of exclamation ... like if someone told me "My dog can jump over my car", I might reply "SON OF A GUN!" ... the rough equivalent of "WOW!:. YIKES! .... I forgot the point I was leading up to make ..... ... sigh .... Son of a gun!

It's only a joke .... a takeoff on the line "Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone." Not everybodys' ... often not ANYBODY'S motives are altruistic, good, and noble. When they appear to be good, wholesome, noble, and righteous ... make them pay CASH! ( .... from her laughing emoticon reaction , Alexa apparently got the joke.)

I would like to hear what you have to say about that specific investigation ... your hard data would of course trump my guessing what the outcome of YOUR actual experiment was. Remember however, if you use my qualifying criteria, the qualifier was that my experiment basis was that the Greek speaking person person had to be educated enough to understand the uses of Greek predicate positions, etc., specifically the anarthrous predicate as it was used in context of the complete sentence being considered. Please provide as much detail of your experiment as you can remember ... I wallow in enjoying long detail accounts.

Mr. Rook, There is nothing wrong in gauging a person perspective. I remember that you at the start of this thread put forward your own quite readily. <>< I agree. That should have been clear ... because that is exactly what I just did.

... AND THEN SHE SHOWED HIM THE RADIATION BURNS ON HER HANDS ....

Owls eat live mice ... AND OWLS CAN FLY!

If I am there, I want to find out what Moses and David's last names were.

and for YOU TTH: You see, I understand you were were just playin' around, but the mule, he just doesn't get it. Course, if you were to apologize... [TTH Laughs] I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

You gotta lot of moxie, JWI .... even Jesus did not slander Satan.

Yeah ... exactly ... salt-water cockroaches! ..and isn't "Large Shrimp" a contradiction in terms? I mean .. like "Act Naturally", or "pretty Ugly", or "small crowd"?

Actually, most "Climate Scientists" directly and indirectly work for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, (NOAA) which runs the U.S. Weather Bureaus .... and these agencys have evolved over the years into bastions of liberal "groupspeak" ... where "facespeak" is a fine art. I used to work for an employment agency in Los Angeles, and the HARDEST job to get for someone was that of a "Weatherman". I was unsuccessful. It's the poor schlub working for a modest salary that is the most vulnerable to groupspeak.

Yeah, I hate those plastic shrimp ... too chewy.

I do not have the ability, the will, or the energy to hold the Governing Body accountable to anything ... my hope is that they will HOLD THEMSELVES accountable if for no other reason that it is affecting the donations. I am sure they have noticed that people are voting with their wallets ... if not also their feet. Whether they really care or not I do not know .... I try NOT to project what I think, as what THEY think.

Melody's Interview at 2017 "Don't Give Up" Regional Convention". Last year my wife and I attended an Assembly in Orangeburg, SC, where a brother in an interview on stage was proud that he had not said a single word to his disfellowshipped father in over 20 years. We were sitting up close and could see his face in person, and on the large monitors. His declaration of cruelty was followed by intense applause from the audience. We were stunned and horrified. This video was originally posted on YOUTUBE by the mother of Melody, at a Regional 2017 Convention where she is proud of having shunned her sister, who is disfellowshipped, but many adverse comments on YOUTUBE made her ashamed ..... and she took the posting down. I got this video copy from the Russian equivalent of YOUTUBE web site, RUTUBE.COM. After she details her cruelty to her sister, the audience reaction is vigorous applause. THIS IS WHY the Russian government and most of the people HATE Jehovah's Witnesses. Oblivious, clueless, extreme cruelty, in the name of righteousness. Melody's interview @ the Regional Convention 2017 _Don't Give Up_.mp4 . .

With those sunglasses ... he thought it was a bus schedule ....

This is SILLY ..... you are both arguing about someone's OPINION. It is like arguing that Jesus' mother, Mary, looks like Catholic Statuary, or a female Danny DiVito. Why not approach the problem from what makes common sense ... then see if your theological theory agrees with what is rational, and makes sense. To paraphrase "Opinions are like posterior body orifices, everybody has some". May the FORCE be with you!

Oysters. However, I do eat salt-water cockroaches .... commonly known as "shrimp".

Smart Phones exist because of greed and outrageous profits. That is why, every 6 months, they get better and better and better. That's why EVERYTHING we can buy, every year, gets better and better and better. and cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper and CHEAPER! No longer do we have to work 6 hours a day to be able to afford ONE meal, and nothing else. This is only true in countries where greed is encouraged, and protected. The rest starve.

. The climate is ALWAYS evolving .... and always will. Our Sun is a variable star, and Earth's orbit is an ellipse whose track wobbles about the solar ecliptic. The Earth also wobbles over 16,000 years, when Vega will be our "North Star", not Polaris. The ONLY real "greenhouse gas" is water vapor which makes big dark clouds that are white on the top, covering whole (smaller) nations at a time. There are OTHER gasses, but they are, for considering climate change, completely irrelevant. .... perhaps a new thread should be created for a science lesson I could talk for days about. Different Scientists put different data into different "Climate Change Computer Models" .... all get different answers ... and THEN they discard the results that do not agree with what they WANT to believe ... or more to the point ... what their sponsors want to hear. If you disagree with what they want to hear ... you can't pay for your new car, and daughter Jenny does not get braces on her teeth. For humans, this is quite normal. Remember when doctors and scientists agreed that cigarette smoking was GOOD for you? Follow the money. .

Cos: It is seldom that I agree with ANYBODY ... about ANYTHING, unless what I am SUPPOSED to be agreeing to is absolutely clear and unambiguous ... and correct. Your assuming I agree with groupthink is a sad mistake, and shows how YOU think in a fog. Doubleplusungood.

I hope the body of that truck is taller than it looks. One winter when I was in Virginia, I went grocery shopping with my eldest son, when he was about 14 years old ... and I made a comment about how much groceries in general, and specifically, how much apples cost .. He thought that was outrageous ( so did I, I remember when apples were 5 cents each...), and he said "Dad ... don't you wish groceries were cheaper?' I replied "No .... everybody that touched this apple from California to here made money doing it. ( ...and many who just brokered the transactions..). ... If apples were cheaper ... WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANY." (Same is true with gasoline ... and EVERYTHING ... the "greedy farmer" gets apples to you because he needs braces on daughter Jenny's teeth ... not because he loves you .... it's because he loves HER. )