James Thomas Rook Jr.

enrique: Other than the fact that you misspelled the words, "Scientists", "That's", "morons", "haven't" ( ... "morrons" ... THAT was worth a hearty contextual laugh ! ), and the word "understood", you are as wrong about television programming as the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. I am curious... where did you GET your information to support that absurd assertion?

IF ... kissing a frog will turn them into a handsome Prince or Princess ... then I will believe that two tones of music has something ... ANYTHING AT ALL .... with the "spirit world". And for those in Rio Linda .. IT DOES NOT ... and neither does binaural sounds of ANY type. When I was a young teenager .... when there was no such thing as stereo music ... there was ONE channel, and that was it. I STILL remember the phenomena as if were yesterday of putting on earphones from a transistor radio, and having the sound ... for the very first time ... spring forth from the MIDDLE of my head instead of at the ears. It had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the occult, spiritism, or the like ... and neither does binaural beats. ZIP ZERO NADA NOTHING GOOSE EGGS. Merely an auditory illusion. ... And if you knew ANYTHING AT ALL about hypnotic states, you would know that most people go in and out of hypnotic states all the time ... highway hypnosis is a hypnotic state as the classic well known example... so is cramming for an exam ... or time sense, in times of great danger, being altered, etc. The Society apparently thinks people getting up on stage and acting like chickens is hypnosis .... and it is.... but you CANNOT MAKE SOMEONE DO SOMETHING AGAINST HIS ETHICS through hypnosis ... that is an ignorant fantasy. Hypnosis can remove their inhibitions IF ...IF ... they want to do what is suggested. .... and you would be SURPRISED what a LOT of people really want to do, when given permission. That is why the operational rule of conduct is as follows: "Anything that we did not give you specific permission to do ... is forbidden".

I need the money for flashlights, shovels, and bail money.

I find it very EASY to resolve these discrepancies. I don't care any more about such things. They have no practical application WHATSOEVER to my life ... .... and I strongly suspect that is true for all humans in existence.

If I was a weapons dealer, and had made a fortune selling arms and armament all over the world, and I contributed twenty million dollars to the WTB&TS ... do you think they would righteously return it?

I went to a Jewish Funeral, many years ago, and the men who passed by the open casket were dropping in hundred dollar bills. I counted ELEVEN of them! It looked like a mandatory custom, to me ... at least for the men. I did not have that much cash, so I wrote a check for $1200, and took back $1100 in "change".

YES!

Different animals, like people, have different talents. If we judge a fish by his inability to climb a ladder, you will get depressed fish.

You know... all those going to Heaven are expected to PAY for their sins. Have you seen the current price list?

Presumably after the animal has died .... THEN ... AFTER it has died ... the blood represents the animals life.

They NEVER forget !

..only when forced to do impressionism, with acrylics.

Somehow, when I see this view of Warwick HQ, I think of Colonel Klink, and Sgt. Shultz.

Pachyderm Art Institute "GO DUMBO!"

Jehovah God has given us dominion over the animals ... technically we could kill and EAT an Elephant. But then again ... TECHNICALLY ... Jehovah God never, EVER prohibited cannibalism ( presumably war dead who bled out... ). But I would not kill an elephant for just one sandwich. Interesting how various cultural acclamation feels to the heart like direct commands from God.

I was QUITE the competitor ... they used to call me "Ol' Doubleclick".

As a retired engineer, I considered eloping with an electrostatic copy machine to fulfill my genetic imperative .... but the copies were all fuzzy. ... and a cult is defined as "the church down the street from YOUR church". ... and as to 3d printers ... as Sigmund Freud (charlatan as he was...) was reported to have once said about dreams ..... "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a tunnel is just a tunnel".

Jesus was a Jew, but so nondescript that the Religious Leaders of his day had to pay Judas 30 pieces of silver to point him out. NO ONE has the slightest Idea what he looks like, and to irritate those who think they do ... I always say Jesus looked just like his Mother, Mary, shown here ......

Someday I will tell the story of when I competed in the Olympics Games in the Russian Roulette competition.

.. or even third, fourth, and fifth and sixth chances ..... except in Russian Roulette. I remember with great fondness "Ol' Tripleclick", God rest his soul .... What a Competitor!

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Don't drink wart juice?

That reminds me of the story of the Grasshopper, and the Ant. Springtime came, and food was abundant. The Ant spent all summer and fall working industriously digging tunnels and caverns and bringing back food to store there. He worked all day, everyday ... so that when Winter came, he would not starve, but would have plenty to eat, and filled his underground storehouses with plenty of good food for the Winter. But all summer long the Grasshopper just sat under a tree, and walked around, playing his violin ... not doing anything to prepare for Winter ... and was warned by the Ant that he better get hoppin' or he would starve to death ... but the Grasshopper ignored him, and continued to play music, and lay about, napping and eating grass. And then the Snow came, and killed all the grass, and covered the ground .... and the Grasshopper hitchhiked on a Bus to Florida, and someone stepped on the Ant. .

*koff* is a word that you use in the middle of telling a joke, a sound like a single cough to clear your throat .. to give the reader a hint that what you are telling is INTENDED to be a joke. Usually accompanied by holding your closed fist, thumb and forefinger close to your mouth, so you cough down the hole into the palm of your hand, as a visual clue, also. Also to show that you are perhaps not being serious, although the stated joke may be somewhat Machiavellian. Sort of like an "Achtung!". The joke was that I could COUNT on my wife, she being a Math Teacher, which she is. A "play on words". Other than the play on words about "Math" and "count", the rest is quite true! YAY! ( which is short for "Hooray!", or as the English would say "..very good." ) Â

When I was a boy, National Geographic Magazine had advertisements for Zippo Lighters ... and would show one that had stopped a bullet sometime during World War II. I always wanted to buy one ... for that reason ... many years ago. Â