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  1. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Does a bullfrog bump his tail, every time he hops? I dunno.
  2. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    The source did NOT make those things any LESS true. If your allegiance is to the TRUTH ... it is never mis-spent.
  3. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I upvote ANYBODY when what they say is true, and/or really applicable.
  4. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    bruceq: You mentioned that it was in the late 70's ... that would make it AFTER the 1975 fiasco. Perhaps a case, a GOOD case can be made ... that by polluting the Word of God with silly, irrelevant and completely fabricated made up drivel, and having NOTHING to do with reality, spirituality or TRUTH .... that the Elder you mentioned was CHASED AWAY. Thrown to the wolves for not believing in what proved to be WRONG! People ...most all people ... come to a point when they notice that there is a BIG difference between theory, and reality ... and when the people they have been relying on for spiritual guidance FAIL them ... they flounder about and get caught up in all kinds of things. I greatly appreciate that by staying close to Jehovah's People during the 70s, through the 90s, and beyond, it saved me from MANY dangers and trialsome things I have seen happen to outsiders .... but then again, I never trusted ANYBODY overly much. ESPECIALLY self-appointed "Sheriffs". My Mother was a wonderful woman, and loved Jehovah with her whole heart, but there were many areas of human experience that she just did not see or understand ... even though she had been a Navy nurse during WWII, and saw more than most. She gave me much good advice ... and some bad advice. I loved her dearly .... but I did not take her bad advice. DISOBEYING HER, AND IGNORING HER BAD ADVICE WAS NOT DISLOYALTY ! This is how I view Jehovah' Witnesses, whose competence and motivations, as are my own, cyclic like the ocean tides ... NOT a static thing. Such is life among DNA based big ugly bags of mostly water. Reality 101. JUSTICE ... we get only from Jehovah God. ... all else is just "due process" ... sometimes resembling Justice.
  5. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    It is NOT a kindness to hang a man ... slowly.
  6. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    September 1, 2017 I am pleased to relate that the Jehovah's Witness Governing Body has decided to open all Kingdom Halls and Convention and Assembly Halls from Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Louisiana and surrounding states to all Hurricane refugees ... and those built with commercial grade kitchens (from former years when cooked meals were available at Assemblies ...) will be operated around the clock by Brothers and Sisters to provide hot meals not only for displaced JWs (4,100 from Houston, alone...) but for any person displaced by this natural catastrophe. By liquidating just 3% of the Society's stock investments, they will be able to care for all those men, women, and children who hunger and thirst..the sick and injured, and the weary who have no place to even dry off, or lay their head. On a related note: (CNN)The megachurch led by Joel Osteen is receiving people who need shelter and also helping evacuees with supplies such as baby food, formula and other shelter needs, the church announced via Twitter Tuesday morning. Lakewood Church was under fire after apparently not opening up the church to flood victims. The church disputed online criticism, stating "we are prepared to shelter people once the cities and county shelters reach capacity." "Victoria and I care deeply about our fellow Houstonians. Lakewood's doors are open and we are receiving anyone who needs shelter," Osteen tweeted Tuesday, referencing his wife who is also Lakewood's co-pastor. On Monday, a few hundred people arrived to the church in buses, Donald Iloff, church spokesman, told CNN's Erin Burnett. Lakewood Church, which was founded by Osteen's father in the 1950s, had posted on social media Monday that the venue was "inaccessible due to severe flooding" following Hurricane Harvey, which has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Photos provided by the church showed standing water in hallways and the parking lot. The church already had a flood wall in place following a previous storm. The church occupies the former home of the NBA's Houston Rockets. As always, you have to decide what is FAKE NEWS ... and what is NOT. .
  7. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I doubt that any quantum computer in the foreseeable future will be able to jump an air gap of about six feet. There is a quantum computer already with INCREDIBLE properties, made of meat (mostly fat), that has not yet managed telepathy.
  8. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    If we can no longer kill our children ... can we chain them to the rafters in the attic? I mean ... if we take them outside when they howl and wail, to "go potty"?
  9. James Thomas Rook Jr.
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  10. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    This is why I LIKE being a comedian on this forum ... no shortage of comedic "Straight Men".
  11. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    And don't forget, 1914 was when Edgar Rice Burroughs published his famous book "Tarzan of the Apes", which was such a magnificent piece of literature (seriously), that the little town North of Los Angeles, California where Burroughs lived was renamed Tarzana, California!
  12. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I have a similar problem ... when I attempt to use Computer Assisted Drafting (CAD) on my Etch-A-Sketch, the only thing I can draw is stairs.
  13. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Due to there being water EVERYWHERE ... the Society has changed some training procedures. IN FACT .. there is so much water in South Texas, that TrueTomHarley, way up there in Liberalville, is able to now use his new Home Depot Bluetooth Cordless Hose.
  14. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I go back to my statement, (paraphrased) "You cannot make someone do what he ethically would not do ... but you would be surprised what a person WANTS to do, when his inhibitions are removed." Some people are hypnotizeable... some are not ... and a great majority of people KNOW what they are doing when they get up on stage and act like a chicken, or engage in orgiastic sex, or kill someone ... because their ethics would have allowed them to do that in the first place WITHOUT hypnosis ... If I gave a person a strong post-hypnotic suggestion to murder Adolph Hitler, as an example ... most people would try and follow through, as an obsession ... because they would do that if they normally could. ... and don't believe what may "experts" say about hypnosis ... they are selling books or scripts or audio "tapes".
  15. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I just woke up, so perhaps I have neurons still sleeping, but could you please explain that statement as if I was a three year old? I do NOT believe in censorship of ANY kind, anywhere, any time. I believe in people making themselves smarter so they can see what is true, and what is not. I do draw the line at fighting for an idiots right to free speech, but I would not censor him (or her). I may ignore them completely, AND/OR separate myself from them .... and if they threaten my safety or life, I may kill them, but everyone should have the right to speak freely without censorship and repercussions ... BUT NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE LISTENED TO. .
  16. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Only because they burst out in laughter while explaining it.
  17. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    No. They're not. Why harp on them, then? Who cares? These doctrines are NOT necessary for Salvation. But if you DON"T give lip service to believing them, you get slandered, "banished to Coventry" and your family gets taken hostage, until you lie and say they ARE ... .... and do it convincingly!
  18. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I designed a 10.000 year storm model for Savannah River Site (Dept. of Energy, near Aiken, SC), for a radioactive waste burial grounds, which was silly, as it would be part of the Atlantic Ocean ... and no records exist, it was calculated using a great range of assumptions and questionable formulas. ... but Houston supposedly is a 500 year storm, which would have cost billions of dollars to design for, and may turn out as a 1,000 year storm before it is finished. NOBODY can afford to plan for every possible emergency. Putting up barriers to prevent a person from running into porcupines is an example. I used to work in Houston, and it has flooding problems with a five year storm, and less ... and cannot afford to design for normal annual rainfall without underpasses into the city flooding. Theoretically, you have a thousand year storm every thousand years ... practically you can have two in one week.
  19. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I designed a 10.000 year storm model for Savannah River Site (Dept. of Energy, near Aiken, SC), for a radioactive waste burial grounds, which was silly, as it would be part of the Atlantic Ocean ... and no records exist, it was calculated using a great range of assumptions and questionable formulas. ... but Houston supposedly is a 500 year storm, which would have cost billions of dollars to design for, and may turn out as a 1,000 year storm before it is finished. NOBODY can afford to plan for every possible emergency. Putting up barriers to prevent a person from running into porcupines is an example. I used to work in Houston, and it has flooding problems with a five year storm, and less ... and cannot afford to design for normal annual rainfall without underpasses into the city flooding. Theoretically, you have a thousand year storm every thousand years ... practically you can have two in one week.
  20. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Oh for crying out loud! How do I know? And I'm not going to retrace it all so as to recall. Samo Lamo ... slippery as a greased eel.
  21. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    In that case, it was just too juvenile. There is such a thing as adulthood, you know. Then why did I get an "upvote" from you on the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Parody? By the way, the Frog singing was as serious as a heart attack .... which you would know ..IF... you were not afraid it would melt your ears off. You are making up excuses from clear air, with no basis in reality. NONE WHATSOEVER !
  22. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    "Unity at all costs" - Hayden C. Covington. Vice President of the WTB&TS, and by his own claim, a member of the Governing Body. Willing to disfellowship someone, and EVERYONE for holding to TRUTH, when it was different from what he admitted in court, under oath ..... was false.
  23. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    TTH: I remember when you refused to look at a youtube video of Kermit the Frog singing "Forever Young" I posted, so that you could maintain your plausible ( hahahaha) deniability of the contents.... which was just a Muppett singing a song. I have never in my life seen such DETERMINATION to stay ignorant ... but to help you out without using one of my five Kermit Muppet puppets, and crayons ... I enlarged the header portion of the Official Court Transcript fragment that Albert posted ... and no ... it will not melt your face off if you read it ..... so unless you actually turn your head away ... you will get the general idea of what was said under sworn testimony in court. .... and you can go back to Albert's post if you have ANY intellectual integrity AT ALL. Â . Â Â
  24. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    TTH: You REALLY SHOULD read the above partial transcript of the "Walsh Trial". posted by Albert Michelson .... as we saw with the Australian Royal Commission on Child Abuse No. 29, when those that govern us are required to testify under oath, and can be put in PRISON for lying, they speak with a truth that we do nor see outside a courtroom ... or are so weaselly, it's embarrassing to watch. Be a sport ... get educated.
  25. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    TTH You are a real piece of work .... NEVER, EVER , EVER addressing any issues I raise, or actually answering any questions ... only crying that you do not LIKE the facts I bring up. At LEAST you are 100% consistent, for as long as we have been trading barbs. Why not, for a change, address an issue, instead of your agenda? And, oh... by the way.. the Society does not need MY help ... I don't have several billion dollars to repair and rebuild the properties in Texas and Louisiana that THEY unilaterally confiscated from the Brothers and Sisters who FORMERLY had that privilege and responsibility.
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