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  1. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Nonsense. I am merely looking for occasions to spotlight My Fair Lady lyrics, which the threadmeister @JW Insider himself has endorsed. TTH: You are weaseling. If " ... I am merely looking for occasions to spotlight My Fair Lady lyrics .... ", you would not have used my quote as alleged context.
  2. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Come smell the Rose. Nobody knows How the smell goes From the Rose To your nose. Again, TTH .... I am talking about an idea... a CONCEPT ... a principle ... and you are attacking me personally. May I suggest you get a hobby OTHER than stamp collecting ... it often makes people anal retentive. At LEAST ... you are 100% predictable, and consistent. .
  3. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I am home now, after traveling to Cross Hill, SC to be dead center of the total eclipse ... and I have some MORE good advice ... pray beforehand that Jehovah would let you see the eclipse with clear skies .... we had a very high layer of haze, and two lower layers of broken clouds ... but just two minutes before totality, a hole opened up in the clouds for the three minutes needed. ALSO ... practice, Practice, PRACTICE with your cameras and do "full dress rehearsals" so it is automatic, for a month, perhaps half a day a week, tracking the sun, etc. I wish I had done the rehearsals ... the best was actually a movie of my wife and I from a second camera on a tripod, TRYING to track the Sun through clouds, ....sigh ... There is the old saying "Pray before Heaven, but Row towards Shore".
  4. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I disagree ..... I know that the filter I used on the front of my camera to photograph the Solar Eclipse today keeps out harmful visible and infrared light so it does not burn up the camera sensor. When someone says the filter is actually used to prohibit the incandescent screaming pain filled and raging demons from Hell from entering my camera, ( I suppose these hypothetical people would think the Sun is "Hell"?), I can assuredly tell you THAT IS NOT WHY I FILTER THE LIGHT, without getting into how EXACTLY the filter material is made to do the "voodoo, that it do, so well".
  5. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    OK, but since your challenged me .. I get to pick location and time ... How about downtown Charlotte, NC the weekend nights of September 9-10 at the NE corner of Trade and Tryon Streets, at 12 midnight, for some hotel witnessing? The night clerks usually have time for conversations between robberies, and assaults. We could even watch some Confederate Monuments be torn down, or during breaks, roll some drunks! SEE YA THERE! If you have a First-Aid kit, you might want to bring it. I will pencil you in.
  6. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    And worst of all, assuming honest mistakes (Hahahahahaa), there is NEVER an apology ... just MORE clouds, MORE smoke, and mirrors. ... and of course ... blaming the uninvolved.
  7. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    When I was a boy, my uncle had a farm that had many chickens, but only ONE Rooster. The Rooster was old, and not "performing his Roosterfull duties", so he bought a YOUNGER Rooster and put it in the barnyard. It was immediately challenged by the Old Rooster and they both agreed to race around the barn three times to see who would be the "Head Rooster". The third time they were chasing each other around the barn, my uncle came out with his shotgun, and shot the New Rooster, exclaiming ... "That's the third Homo Rooster I have had this month!"
  8. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Jehovah ... of course! Flesh and blood people I evaluate on a case-by-case basis. .
  9. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Better the pilot be redirected and take action than to crash into a mountain. Yep, if you trying to go someplace, and the pilot(s) are disoriented and wrong ... and in crisis you CAN fly an airplane yourself, depending on them to be competent may get you killed. The reason you have a conscience is to be able to evaluate calculated risks. If you are wrong ... you die If THEY are wrong ... you STILL die. The analogy breaks down at this point ... because if THEY are wrong ... you STILL die ... but THEY PAY NO PRICE WHATSOEVER! .
  10. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I like the quote by Robert A. Heinlein "A man who reads his poetry in public, may have OTHER nasty habits".
  11. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I remember the story ... and found my wonderful wife "on-line". We texted for months, then spent about 720 hours talking on the phone. She came for a visit for a week, staying at a hotel, and we spent all day together . She went back to El Paso to settle her affairs, and the next time she came, on a Monday at 3PM ... we raced from the airport to the Courthouse, got a marriage license, and were married by a JP by 5PM. ( We rented two Notarys as "witnesses"). That was over three years ago, and we have been having a great time since then! I learn a LOT from movies ! I remember when modems were 300 baud and you could WATCH text coming in on the green and white monitor.
  12. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Pointing your iphone camera at the sun without constant motion will overheat the sensor and burn it up in about three seconds. Ever burn ants with a magnifying glass as a kid? Same thing. This is true of ANY electronic sensor in ANY digital camera. I bought an $85 solar filter for my camera to prevent this. The filter has to be at least 16.5 " f: " stops neutral density to not be dangerous to eyes or sensors. THEN ... use a tripod. AND ... do not spend too much time with the camera ... you WILL remember this in great detail the entire rest of your life. Don't waste it looking through a viewfinder.
  13. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    ...... somewhere in the background I see a collection plate being polished up to be passed ... $$$$$$$$$ Ching, chinga ching, chinga ching ching ching $$$$$$$.
  14. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Robert E. Lee was a United States Army Soldier, until asked to fight against the Confederacy, and he replied "I cannot raise my sword against my native Virginia". He resigned his commission, and joined the Confederate States of America Army to defend his State and his friends and family against Northern Aggression. After Richmond, Virginia was burned to the ground, Abraham Lincoln, his wife AND HER LEGAL SLAVE (Remember ... slavery was abolished by Presidential Decree ONLY in the States in rebellion against the United States.) toured the ruins of Richmond. There are photographs. Unfortunately, the Democrats ran the political systems in the South, and THEY controlled the issues of slavery. " During his famous debates with Sen. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln explained to the crowd: “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races Â… I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” Lincoln was no different than most white males, North and South, at the time. He was a white supremacist." -   www.snopes.com The American Civil War was NOT about slavery ... it was about States Rights to leave the Union when the rules of Union became oppressive and burdensome. This issue was settled, not by what was right or wrong .. but on the battlefield. Unless you spend a LOT of time searching for TRUTH, most everything you THINK you know .... about EVERYTHING ... is wrong. . .
  15. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Please correct me if my logic is screwed up on this ... but it is my understanding that if Jesus had died by DROWNING, instead of being bloodily wounded, that his sacrifice would NOT have been accepted by Jehovah God ... because no blood would have been shed... so it took BOTH his willingly offering his life and actually following through ... AND .. the pouring out of his blood for that blood to have value in Jehovah's eyes. I can imagine Jesus being accidentally cut as a young man while doing carpentry, and bleeding ... and since no sacrifice to God was INTENDED ... the spilled blood would have no value to Jehovah God. I almost cut my fingertip off with a chain saw, and there was blood all over the place. I had a triple bypass several years ago (95% heart blockage) and insisted that there be no blood or blood fractions, and had to go by ambulance to another Hospital for the surgery, so my position is clear, by actual real life and death test ... but I am wondering about the PRINCIPLE of whether or not blood without the death of the donor has any sacred value ... unless it is accompanied by the death of the owner donor. If Cain had not been successful in murdering his brother, Abel, and Abel did not actually die ... say he only had lost several pints of blood ... but partially recovered, and lived injured for 40 or so more years ... would his blood "have cried out from the ground"? Attempted murder is not murder. No one would have actually died, in that scenario. When David poured out the water that represented blood on the ground, he was recognizing the soldiers had GIVEN VALUE to the water, by risking their lives to go and get it for him. Otherwise, the water was just water. What is the PRINCIPLE behind what we do? We know what is stated throughout the Bible about blood. What is the PRINCIPLE behind Jehovah's commands? ONLY if we correctly understand that ... can we correctly apply the scriptures. Over the years I have put a lot of bloody bandages in the trash, and had drawn at a hospital for testing ... NOT pouring it out on the ground. .
  16. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    You can always tell when a person is caught up in the Mass Hysteria of the day, the "nuts du jour" ... they cannot themselves answer a simple question of WHY they believe what they do ( television programming ) and then they try to divert attention from their ignorance to some other person. It is so frequent it soon becomes boring in its predictability. I have not watched television on over a year, now, and being 6'-6" tall and weighing 287 pounds, I am not overweight ... I am undertall. ( ... makes note to Program Director to cue the laugh track ...) And by the way ... I read the link you posted .. and it is based on MANY false premises ... influence is NOT HYPNOSIS! If you had TRIED to explain it in your own words, perhaps you would have realized how goofy it really is. That is very often the case. I too, jumped off of porches with a towel around my neck when I was a small boy, imitating Superman ... but I did not leap out of windows from tall buildings. There is a difference!
  17. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    We hope for the "New System" ... all the Dinosaurs could ever hope for was to come back as WD-40.
  18. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Some signs are CLEARER than others .... Do you REALLY think Jesus would make signs less clear than the average small town mayor's signs?
  19. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    WHEW! With this posting there have been 14 LOOOOOONG pages of discussion. I am so, SO glad it has been resolved. It has absolutely NO application to my life, that I can do anything about, BUT, it's like watching people pick, and pick and PICK at their dandruff ... it's SO hard to look away. The ONLY "saving grace" is that when on our deathbeds, we will get all this time back, spent discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin ... but ONLY to check our emails.
  20. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    I have it on good authority that the Spanish "Silver Sword" has been upgraded from the English Version, since the terrorist activity in Barcelona where one Sister was killed. Â
  21. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Perhaps we could use "Lawyer's Rules", and bill for any time we spend THINKING about it.
  22. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    It is a well known fact that the word "Rapture" is not found in the Bible. The word actually used originally meant "Raptor", and referred to Saurians, which we know today as Dinosaur(ians). The Dinosaurs had many of the same problems as humans, and add to that, their arms were so short they could not floss, and got gum disease, and went extinct for their sins. The only surviving dinosaur was for centuries the Thesaurus, which use to hide in peoples' homes, often forgotten behind a sofa, but with the rise of Google, has also become extinct. We used to talk incessantly about "types" and "antitypes", but always being wrong after a hundred years got boring and tiresome, like a tire with a slow leak ...especially with that damned Google rising to ascendancy. The "Great Dragon" in Revelation was actually a type of Dinosaur, that made it all the way to the Flood of Noah's day, but he and his and her Brethren and Sistern were on Ark No. 2, and did not make it, because they got into a feeding frenzy, and capsized the boat. The only Dragons that survived were the reptiles, such as the salt and fresh water crocodiles, and of course the Komodo Dragon, known for its pacifism and extremely bad breath. Anytime you can ignore a hundred million years of History, supported by a hundred million tons of hard evidence, one theory is as good as another ... just ignore all facts.  Â
  23. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    If you try to reason with pigs, muddy is all you will get.
  24. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    mosquitoes, actually
  25. James Thomas Rook Jr.
    Be happy that you are not a one legged American Indian limited to Studies on days when your license plate number is the same odd or even number as the number of the day of the Study. Remember this basic rule: "A cow is ONLY a cow if it does not have a sign around its neck saying it is a horse. Got it? GOOD!
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