James Thomas Rook Jr.

that suggestion is good for EVERYBODY!

Eoin Joyce: Do what I and most people have to do ... now that you have some hints ... REREAD EVERYTHING, OVER AND OVER, UNTIL YOU DO UNDERSTAND IT.

When I steal jokes, I try to file off the serial numbers, beat to fit and paint to match. Otherwise, unless I forget, or it would be funnier if I didn't .... I always try to properly attribute sources that are not my own.

Tom: It is a Fair and Necessary thing to do to impugn someones competence and motives when they are disparaging you with irrelevancy, and THEN using an irrelevant (to the specific point) Scripture as a club to try and give credibility to their lack of reasoning ability, which does accuse by inference. If we do it YOUR way, and have peace ... it will be the peace of mental enslavement for EVERYBODY, as the bullies win. You want to let the superfine politically correct bullies win?

Eoin Joyce: So, what I said makes no sense to you whatsoever .... WOW! Your credibility and a fair impunement of your motives was on the line if you did not have any EXAMPLES of my statements that APPLIED to the scripture you quoted as a response ... OK There is nothing I know how to do with THAT. .

Well TTH ... thanks once again for answering my question, even though that was not your intent. You have managed ONCE AGAIN to show Are you NEVER able to discuss any real ISSUE whatsoever ... without trying to divert attention to someone to blame, this time by attempted disparagement and innuendo. I do see you have added irrelevancy to the list, in a prominent way. I will have to admit, though .. it was "clever" ... and again you have managed to be 100% consistent.

If you are referring to yourself here, why do you need examples? Eoin Joyce: I do not need examples of my statements, for my entertainment ..... YOU need to show examples of my statements to show that there is a rational basis for the scripture you quoted had anything whatsoever with anything I have ever said. It is a quite common occurrence that when people do not like what someone has said, based on their ingrained CULTURAL values, that they root around for a scripture to support their intellectual position, and attempt to beat someone over the head with it. The scripture you quoted was a fine scripture ... but my position ( since I do know what statements that I make..) is that it was completely irrelevant to the conversational thread ACTUALLY taking place. Similar to using the scripture " ... after I leave, wolves will enter in among the flock .." to support the supposition that one's dog is going to go to heaven, reasoning that "Uh... well... a dog is a kinda wolf!" That is wrong on SEVERAL levels. I have challenged you to show the relevance of THAT specific scripture you quoted as a reply, to those SPECIFIC statements that I was making ... or even allowing any have EVER made in over 7,000 of my comments. Further, if you refuse to make the connection ... AND since there is prima fascia evidence that there IS NO CONNECTION, then you are just trying to support your pique by bullying someone with a Scripture that has nothing to do with what was being discussed ... or anything I have EVER said. I do not think there is any connection, and have a legitimate reason to accuse you of attempting to bully. If you CAN logically and reasonably show the connection, then I am wrong, and your point is valid. I don't have any spiritual qualifications, but all that is required is a moderate ability to reason. If, as an example, a member of the Governing Body is wrong about something, he may have IMMENSE spiritual qualifications, but he is STILL WRONG about that something, whatever it might be. I DON'T NEED EXAMPLES ....... YOU DO! Your credibility and a fair impunement of your motives are on the line if you don't have any ...

mice ...the are all gettin mor uppity!

...sigh.... Jimmy Carter WAS a carpenter, after he left the presidency ... he volunteeres to help build homes for the homeless, etc. He has been doing that for YEARS! A fine and decent man by most standards ... at least I think so ... but a TERRIBLE President ... the original Amateur in Chief. Of course if one judges a fish because he cannot climb a ladder, that does not make the FISH stupid.

Money

Always go with a buddy after after a natural disaster. Preferably one slower than you so that during Zombie attacks ...well ... you know ...

Wewwy?

I have a hand-held green laser pistol that will put a spot on a wall in bright daylight, 200 feet away ... unfortunately the hand gun will only punch holes in a person sufficiently potent to drop them only out to about 90 feet. I made it myself using standard parts, and cost about $800. It also has a red dot targeting laser set for 75 feet because of the parallax problem between the laser emitter and the hole puncher, but is too weak to be seen in daylight most of the time. I carry it all the time, it fits in my right-front front pants pocket. I put it together with SHOE GOO, which you can buy at Wal-Mart.

I have a magnet brass plaque on my refrigerator: "PRAY TOWARD HEAVEN ROW TOWARDS SHORE"

Photon TORPEDOES ... similar to missiles.

I used to work for the Department of Energy at Savannah River Site, which 'does Tritium" better than anybody else, and at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, and off and on with that for 20 years ... and I personally would eat any seafood that was caught in the past few years without specific evidence to the contrary. AND ... a lot of times, "evidence" is manufactured to manipulate people, and I understand that, too. This morning I ate a Banana which contained radioactive potassium. I could do essays on this stuff for three months ... but the only reaction would be the villagers coming up the hillside with torches at night yelling "Kill the Monster!".

I kinda like those fish with the three eyes.

I like Jimmy Carter as a man. As a President, he made a wonderful carpenter. Kinda an "Obama Lite".

My observations of reality the way reality REALLY IS may be callous, but today with the final appeal of the Russian Federation Supreme Court ... they proved to be accurate. ... being right covers a multitude of sins .... but only among reality based, rational people. As a man who has never claimed to be anything but a self-assessed Barbarian, with no spiritual qualifications whatsoever ... your quoting that Scripture seems to have absolutely no relevance whatsoever to anything I have ever stated. If you would please, correct me with a (or some) specific example(s) of a teaching of God's Spirit that I have NOT accepted. It should be clear and unambiguous, and REAL. Opinion is ... um ... irrelevant.

Agreed ..... Bro. Charles Taze Russel in the FIRST issue of the Watchtower stated that if the Truth came from Satan, it would still be the Truth ... which of course is self evident ... UNLESS .... Something did not go someone's way, and said something that was "unapproved" ... or from an "unapproved" source. THEN they start collecting fire wood and start chanting "She's a WITCH ... BURN HER !". ... or "him", as the case may be.

... all of what? I expect NOTHING from the world, so I do not care about that .. we HAVE to just endure that. I only care about how we treat each other in the Truth.

I don't worry so much about Satan the Devil, as I worry about clueless men trying to consolidate their own power and self-appointed authority, and who and how many they are willing to hurt to do that.

. ... which by law, the Russians have NO OBLIGATION to honor their (ECHR) rulings. Prior to just recently, Jehovah''s Witnesses were in Russia for at least a half century. ... ALL OF THIS... all of this ... could have been avoided if we had just treated the Brothers and Sisters decently.

People don't burn others at the stake because they are rational... they do it based on how they FEEL! Reality is that the Russians .... FEEL .... that JWs are extremist with an iron fist in a velvet fur glove. If there is ANYBODY on Earth that understands that, it is the Russians who grew up under Soviet tyranny, where families were turned against each other. I hope the Court will, in it's ruling(s) explain the reasons WHY they ruled the way they did. If so ... then we will know.

Everything the Defense said was fair, and true .... Jehovah's witnesses are the most peaceful and non-extremist people on Earth ... EXCEPT IN ONE AREA ... and that is how we destroy whole families to disfellowship one individual ... which unravels and destroys the very fabric of civilization. I hope the Court will, in it's ruling(s) explain the REASONS why they ruled the way they did. .