James Thomas Rook Jr.
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This is SO TRUE .... especially in Toontown. Â Â- 213 replies
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How do you start a flood?
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I will get it started ... be sure to scroll down after you have seen these amazing photos ! . . . . Be careful what you believe ... ALL of these photos are FAKE!
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What a GREAT time to be a flood insurance company ...... collect premiums for 60 years ... then go BANKRUPT! Two guys sitting in lawn chairs on the beach in Miami.... First one says "I retired with MILLIONS after my factory burned down." Second one says "I retired with BILLIONS after MY business was flooded out." First one replies " Hmmm... how do you start a flood?" *ka-ching!" Ok... moving right along ... not that the Society has "acquired" full responsibility for all Kingdom Halls, including the ones destroyed in Houston and Southern Texas, and the prices of wood and raw materials will be short for five years, and prices for materials and labor will go up dramatically, people trying to rebuild EVERYTHING (almost) ... can we expect the Society to pour BILLIONS of dollars into the reconstruction of its South Texas and Coastal Louisiana property in the foreseeable future? This might be a good place to put articles and thoughts of EVERY nature pertaining to the catastrophe in South Texas.
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What a GREAT time to be a flood insurance company ...... collect premiums for 60 years ... then go BANKRUPT! Two guys sitting in lawn chairs on the beach in Miami.... First one says "I retired with MILLIONS after my factory burned down." Second one says "I retired with BILLIONS after MY business was flooded out." First one replies " Hmmm... how do you start a flood?"
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NOPE None of those ideas ever occurred to me, and since I am the one who created the edited graphic.... I ought to know. I made it as a reaction to the tens of thousands of Bethel Layoffs and Special Pioneers being "shown the door" in the "Red October" Meltdown of 2015, after many years, and sometimes a lifetime of faithful service to the Corporation.
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Nothing unusual about that .. the Catholics have been doing that for 1700 years ...once ANY human organization reaches a certain size, money, power, and position (or fear of losing it ..) becomes the controlling factor. This is especially true of those claiming divine approval. It was even true of the Japanese Empire, during WWII, with the Emperor of Japan as their god. It "comes with the territory". It did in Jesus' time, and it does now. Nothing new. Samo Samo. There never have been any exceptions .... There are none now.
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Meanwhile all this discussion is going on, poor Caleb is being held Prisoner in the confiscated Russian Bethel Branch Office by Russkies !!
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Witness: What part of my post did you NOT understand? From your response .... apparently NONE of it!
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That is SO unfair! We are not CRAZY .... just see things differently. Â
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I don't think so ... this is GREAT comedy relief .... like being on a balcony, overlooking the asylum courtyard.
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RATS! and I already had my missiles targeted!
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The best calculator ever designed was the HP-41C series, and the HP-41CX, which have alpha numeric capabilities. I entered a Brothers name in full ... Vernon Reece ... and toggled the alpha switch back to numeric. The brother was telling me about this "7734" trick ... so I handed him my calculator, and asked him to enter his birthdate ... and do perhaps a dozen arithmetical calculations, then divide it by his social security number ... then add his house number ... then several more multiplications and divisions. Then I asked him to press the "alpha" toggle. The look on his face was PRICELESS !
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During the "Middle Ages" these types of discussions consumed people for HUNDREDS of years ... and the synopsis was the phrase "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" I try to keep my life simple, and since no one can prove that invisible things that SUPPOSEDLY happened a hundred or so years ago, using "evidence" that can be interpreted a hundred different ways ... and all with internal reasoning that makes sense to the proponents, and, I ...having ALSO been consumed with such things earlier in my life ... have come to the conclusion that it is ALL a complete and utter waste of my time,. Soon enough ... too soon, perhaps ... we will ALL KNOW !!! AND ... since there is absolutely NOTHING I can do to change reality ... whatever it is ... to quote Rhett Butler ... "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn!" I have a long list of REAL concerns, I CAN do something about. ..based on HARD EVIDENCE. Remember EVIDENCE?
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During the "Middle Ages" these types of discussions consumed people for HUNDREDS of years ... and the synopsis was the phrase "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" I try to keep my life simple, and since no one can prove that invisible things that SUPPOSEDLY happened a hundred or so years ago, using "evidence" that can be interpreted a hundred different ways ... and all with internal reasoning that makes sense to the proponents, and, I ...having ALSO been consumed with such things earlier in my life ... have come to the conclusion that it is ALL a complete and utter waste of my time,. Soon enough ... too soon, perhaps ... we will ALL KNOW !!! AND ... since there is absolutely NOTHING I can do to change reality ... whatever it is ... to quote Rhett Butler ... "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn!" I have a long list of REAL concerns, I CAN do something about. ..based on HARD EVIDENCE. Remember EVIDENCE?
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You wouldn't know it by many of the comments. Well, it's sorta like the Declaration of Independence says ... We are (paraphrased) entitled to " ... Life, Liberty, and the PERSUIT of happiness ... "... no one can be assured of happiness, and no one can be assured of Truth . Sometimes... the best we can manage is to PERSUE either, or both. We deserve what we are willing to FIGHT for... in Liberty AND Truth. Reality is that many NEVER get what they actually deserve ... for good or for bad. But many do. It's a messy exasperating process ... but it is a process ... to wrestle from the Universe what Truths we can.... IF ... if we are willing to wrestle for them.
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Like Jesus did? TTH: Not the same thing. Jesus could read their hearts and KNEW that these people were his enemies ... seeking to generate an excuse to have him killed ..setting him up to be trapped by his own words ... MISAPPLIED! Presumably our discussions here are to seek TRUTH, and to be reasonable about it. Therefore, the only risk here and among general discussions is to be WRONG, which is not punished by anything except the Universe, which is not arbitrary, capricious, or merciful, even to determined idiots and weasels. I stand by my statement " If they are motivated by TRUTH ... wherever it may be found ... they will ALWAYS defend it on the basis of what is true and what is not true ... and they will ALWAYS be pleased to defend it by DIRECTLY answering direct questions ... and discuss the ideas and principles behind them." That's the way the REAL world of here-and-now exists and works. All else is FANTASY!
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During the Vietnam War MANY families were heavily invested in the agenda of prosecuting the war to it's conclusion ... even though the Secretary of State (..used to be called "Secretary of War", during Abraham Lincoln's time...) Robert McNamara later wrote in a book apologizing for the "best and the brightest" sending so MANY young men to a useless death, for no reason, except to support a flawed, and useless agenda that was WRONG. Because these families had lost sons and brothers, and relatives in the war ... they thought that OTHERS should have to go, so that their relatives' blood would not have been be wasted. This is a STRONG emotion that WILL send men to waste THEIR lives ...... also. That is what happens when reason and logic is subservient to misplaced loyalty to an emotionally charged agenda ... wasted lives ... where high ideals are transformed by emotion into EVIL. You ask a person if he likes carrots, and he replies that rabbits are driving his dog crazy. We are all interested in upholding Jehovah's Sovereignty, but loyalty to LIES, whether deliberate or just through common everyday incompetence ... is WRONG ... and it gets Brothers and Sisters to carry heavy, heavy burdens that as they grow older and smarter, they realize are arbitrary and capricious ... and NOTHING to do with actual TRUTH. There is one invariable "Shibbolith" to tell if someone is motivated by TRUTH ... or motivated by an agenda, whether it be good, bad, or not important. If they are motivated by TRUTH ... wherever it may be found ... they will ALWAYS defend it on the basis of what is true and what is not true ... and they will ALWAYS be pleased to defend it by DIRECTLY answering direct questions ... and discuss the ideas and principles behind them. When a Brother or Sister refuses to discuss IDEAS and PRINCIPLES ... and RESORTS to ad hominem attacks, it is a sure sign HE OR SHE KNOWS, in their heart, that what they believe is not loyalty to actual Truth ... but on loyalty to a strongly entrenched agenda in which, like the Vietnam War, they are so heavily invested, they do not want to admit that their intellectual "bank account" is seriously overdrawn, and others see their shame of their "bankruptcy".
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Have any past Presidents of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society ever had armed bodyguards .. and does the GB now have them?
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Isn't that what we encourage people to do in the Ministry, to BECOME Jehovah's Witnesses ? How can we encourage others to exercise THEIR freedom of thought and expression ... ... when we deny it to EACH OTHER ? Oh yeah ... I forgot ... we hold the entire family as hostages ... to prevent that. Never mind. The Truth about THAT ...... is what got us thrown out of Russia. .... even post Soviets know better.
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FOXNEWS FLASH: August 24, 2017 Donner Pass (el. 7,056 ft (2,151 m)] is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake about 9 miles west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada mountains themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west. Although it is a part of History from the early days of the Western Migration, the pass was named after a later group of California-bound settlers. In early November 1846 the Donner Party wagon train found the route blocked by snow and was forced to spend the winter on the east side of the mountains. Of the 81 settlers, only 45 survived to reach California; some of them resorting to cannibalism to survive. Mass Hysteria grips tourists who want to photograph the Donner Party Memorial Statue, before it is pulled down in protest by malnourished Clintonista Liberal vegetarians.
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For our big meal of the day, my wife and I eat at Golden Corral Restaurant almost every day, because it is right on the way home from her work, and she gets off from teaching school at 3:15PM ... and if you get there before 4PM, you can pay the special LUNCH price, and at 4 PM, the dinner menu comes out,and you can eat STEAK and the Dinner Menu, for the price of lunch. It is cheaper than buying the same quantity and variety of foods at the grocery stores ... there is no preparation, and NO DISHES! to wash !! I thought I could eat steak EVERY day, and did for awhile ... but it became "tiresome", and boring ... so in a limited sense I can understand how one might tire of eating people. I have heard that human flesh tastes "just like pork" ... in fact, one nickname for human flesh is "Long Pig". IN the Scriptures Jehovah expressed lament that Jews under siege would be driven to cannibalism, and they were ... several times while warring ...BUT HE NEVER PROHIBITED CANNIBALISM !  (... presumably war dead who had bled to death ...), so the definition of "Wrong" would have to come from CULTURAL squeamishness and aversion ... as Jehovah God NEVER said it was wrong to eat people ... just repulsive as a cultural standard. I guarantee you this ... go about three weeks without eating and seeing your children starving to death in front of your eyes will add a great deal of "flexibility" to your outlook on this issue. In the Soviet Gulags, between barracks, in winter, the prisoners would raid and murder each other, and when the bodies were found, invariably their livers would be missing. It's really all a matter of perspective, what ideas you are used to, and how hungry you are. To me, wasting food is a sin, and protein is protein in an extreme emergency ... AND, Jehovah does NOT really care, except that the blood belongs to him, and must not be eaten. When I am finished with these "mortal coils" I hope that someone can make use of it, when I no longer can ... and on my driver's license, have indicated that I am an organ donor... ...perhaps with a nice Chianti Wine, and some Fava beans. (chitchitchitchit), and some hungry Brother and his children will have me over, for dinner. ... a "Last Supper", as it were. I will try NOT to give them indigestion. Â
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That's a deceptive partial quote of respected scholarship.^ “And Tar Heel fans liked it so much they bought, in a barely a year, about 3,000 ‘Duke Is Puke…’ stickers, a figure that rivaled ‘If God Is Not a Tar Heel, Why Is the Sky Carolina Blue?’ (and topped ‘Teach a Young Child to Hate State.’)” — From The Charlotte Observer (Nov. 30, 1980) I am completely missing how the references you made have anything to do with what I knew as a comedy line off of an LP comedy album in the 1960s. Of course, my entire sense of humor was formed in my early years by MAD Magazine, which upon refection had at least as many "Universal Truths" as most of the drivel today that is only self-aggrandizing fluff pieces. But, a great piece of philosophy embedded itself into my psyche from MAD Magazine .... "WHAT, ME WORRY?"
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How can you say that the world isn't Jewish .. when the Sun's first name is Sol ?
