James Thomas Rook Jr.

Almost .... I might need that three seconds after all.

TTH: Are you EVER able to discuss any real ISSUE whatsoever ... without trying to divert attention to someone to blame? How about this ... You tell me WHY? .... and I will tell you WHO? Since you have no reading comprehension skills for what I have already said, in which already answered your question ... that might be best. ...... at least, you are 100% consistent!

I try to not upset people unnecessarily, and there are even holsters that are concealable .. many different types and styles. Google IWB Holsters (Inside the waisteband) . I do not expect to encounter a "fast draw" situation, as I pay attention to my surroundings, and an extra three seconds seems not that important to me. Like a fire extinguisher ( I have six), or a first aid kit (I have several of different sizes). I hope at the end of my life the whole exercise will have been a complete waste of time and money ... merely a hobby, in retrospect.

Less so? LESS SO? Gimme a BREAK! Sort of like a Catholic who died in the 14th century "going to hell" for eating meat on a Friday ... and being tortured continuously for 600 years, until the 20th century when the Pope changed the "rules", and said it was OK to eat meat on Friday? It's the same idea. "tremendously burdensome", or LESS "tremendously burdensome" is euphemistic for torture and LESS torture. FOR NO APPARENT OR DISCERNIBLE REASON EVERYBODY SAYS. "Everybody" includes the Society, which also extrapolates and interprets what Jesus said 2,000 years ago ... to a specific audience about a specific practice of that time, of getting new wives every few months, and dismissing the old ones. This was so the perpetrators could not be accused of fornication or adultery, and be stoned to death, to today's cruel application that makes no sense at all ... in this specific example being discussed in this thread. The Jews of that time figured out how to "juke the system" and with a pad of divorce certificates legally as far as the local law was concerned, and never be convicted of adultery, allowing them to "play around" all they wanted with complete impunity, as long as they were legally certified. They had their stack of "get out of jail free" divorce cards ready to show the Pharisees with spears who showed up to accuse them of adultery ... but their "paperwork" was all in order. In that case of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" ... PAPER beat ROCK(s). In our time 2,000 years later ... the Brotherhood gets beat up with the same rocks they are forced to carry, for no REAL discernible reason. "Because that's what we do" is not a valid reason. Those thousands or tens of thousands in the Brotherhood who have been abandoned .. ARE BEING PUNISHED FOR NOT SCREWING AROUND! ... being PUNISHED for NOT screwing around. When the one abandoned's FIDELITY and INTEGRITY is punished with a lifetime of hardship and cruelty ... JUSTICE is ONLY a seven letter word, and EVIL stalks the land. In this specific situation ... does it serve Jehovah God's, or any humans', or ANY theocratic interests in any way, shape or form, for an innocent person to be stuck forever? NOT THAT I AM AWARE OF. If you know something I am missing, please explain it here, so the Brotherhood will know WHY (remember WHY?) they, although innocent, are being punished. .

TTH: That is very cute TTH ... aaaaand it recommends your skill and imagination as a writer of novels. You should excerpt that, and build a novel around it. It has real potential to sell a LOT ... as extrapolational comedy. It would have to be a novel such as "Alice in Wonderland", or "Gulliver's Travels" as it has NOTHING to do with reality. ... absolutely NOTHING AT ALL. But it is good writing, as a macabre visual comedy! Oh, and by the way .. um ... people do cross streets by themselves, you know. ...... at least, you are 100% consistent!

To be courageous, half of EVERYTHING is just "being there" The brother that took a beating and scooped up their cell phone and truck keys did his part, and he was a pacifist, and did not strike back at all. But he did run TOWARD trouble, to help. The only thing necessary for evil to prevail, is good men to stand by, and do nothing. In the world, it's called "... taking one (a beating or some other awful thing) for the team".

uh ... depends on the hug. "... Is that your gun, or are you just happy to see me?"

What you just posted is INCREDIBLY important ! THANK YOU!

Small brass plaque in a boating supply store : "Pray toward Heaven ... Row toward shore." Think about this .... how long would it take YOU to read 11 train boxcars packed with letters? You probably could spend the rest of your life merely opening the envelopes. IT DID NOT HAPPEN! But since the Russians still use wood burning fireplaces, and paper is just thin sheets of wood, this coming bitter winter those in Moscow will appreciate that the Governing Body gave them fuel at the proper time ... even though it cost the Brotherhood Eighty Million Dollars in International Postage, and Fifty-Four Million dollars of that was transferred to the Russian Government by the Universal Postal Union as "terminal duty" ( That means they were paid to deliver the mail at their end...).

GOOD FOR THE BROTHERS! That's what MEN do ... and pansy Snowflakes do NOT do.

Obama probably took the "Bible Teach" book home and put it next to his Koran.

The Moon was blasted away from Earth by a Mars sized planet that hit the Earth a few billion years ago. Do we count that Natural Disaster? Or, how about the three mass extinctions that EACH destroyed about 95% of all life on earth? Those were natural disasters ... do we count them?

Uh ... and how SPECIFICALLY does that apply to JWI's comment?

WHY DID GOD CREATE THE EARTH? To make a very LONG story VERY short ... Jehovah God created the whole UNIVERSE to provide an environment for DNA based life. Why DNA? BECAUSE ... only with DNA can you create NEW life that is not static, and predictable. Every thing that has EVER lived that reproduced sexually is (or was) entirely new. Reducing over a million words to one short one.... ENTERTAINMENT

INTERLUDE ( ... The part I like about these interactions is after I have proved my points with actual facts and evidence ... when I get to stand in the background and play the violin to imploding irrational opinions, frothing multiple personalities, lurid fantasy projections, and cop-out obtuse rationalizations ...) Humor, is where you find it !

Ok .... the next questions that beg to be answered are .... WHY? Does it serve God, or theocratic interests in any way, shape or form, to be stuck forever? NOT THAT I AM AWARE OF. Does it serve any human or Theocratic interest to be stuck forever? NOT THAT I AM AWARE OF. Perhaps someone else knows WHY this interpretation would be a righteous thing to insist on, but I just don't see it. WHY would Jehovah God require such a thing ? How is this a benefit to ANYONE!? This condemns THOUSANDS, perhaps TENS OF THOUSANDS of Brothers and Sisters to a lonely cruel death for no apparent REASON. (... that I can think of .....) .................................................................................................. My current theory is this: You cannot have a crime or sin without an injured party, whether it is God, or human ... and the abandoned spouse when abandoned forever remarrying ( after a legal, civil divorce ) hurts NO ONE ... neither God, nor human. .......................................................................................................................... Any takers?

..... LISTENS TO THE CRICKETS CHIRPING IN THE BACKGROUND .......

Wooo.. this is gonna be hard! Sean Connery is supposedly a Scotsman, with a very pronounced Scottish/English accent that is often parodied .. the same way that William Shatner's stop-and-start speech patterns are parodied when he plays Captain James T. Kirk, in Star Trek. He may live in Wales, England (?). The joke has two parts, and is a "play on words" ... and is nested several layers deep. It's a word play humor, making fun of the similarity of the words "save, and "shave" ... and the words "Wales" and "Whales". It's PHONETIC (how something sounds to your ears..) humor. There are so MANY things going on in this joke that the stretch ( in English) throws the mind off balance trying to fit the pieces together, and the panic reaction of that is humor ... we laugh to relieve the pain of thinking too hard. It's also funny just because it is so clever! (In English). 1.) There is ALSO the parody of Sean Connery's heavy accent .... that he would pronounce the word "save", as "sHHave", and of course .... he has a beard. 1A.) Wales is an area of England, and the same word applies to people FROM that area ... " a Wale, from Wales" The second part of the joke is that here in the USA, and elsewhere, there is an animal rights and environmental activist group called "Greenpeace", with a LOT of money, whose goal, among others was (is) to "SAVE THE WHALES". They have a ship of their own and challenge Japanese Whaling ( killing whales) operations in the open Pacific Ocean. 20 and more years ago one might see "bumper stickers" on cars with the expression "SAVE THE WHALES", by people concerned that humanity was killing Earth's whales to extinction. 2.) So the expression "Shave the Wales" ( with the letter "H") is funny (In English), because you are asking someone to shave a geographical area, or the people FROM that area, and 2A.) "Shave the Whales" ( with the letter "H") is funny because it parodies the wording of the car bumper sticker. It is PHONETIC humor. So, with this one joke you are going in about 12 different mental directions with very few words. Humor often DOES NOT translate across languages. Another example of PHONETIC HUMOR .... the Latin expression "Sempre ubi sub ubi" literally translated means "Always where under where", which makes no sense at in any language, including Latin and English, but because of how similar the word "where" sounds to "wear" in English, its funny for two reasons ... 1.) Latin Expressions sound so much more wise and profound in Latin, rather than English. They sound "wise", and smart. 2.) So, Phonetically, in English, it sounds like you are saying "Always wear underwear"... which is a wise thing to do, usually. It is clever, and one of my favorites. Phonetic humor. Now you perhaps can puzzle out the connections between bearded Sean Connery, and Whales, which do not have beards It's a real STRETCH .... but the mental snap back is what makes humor work.

*koff*

Get some puppies !

TTH: It is not a police officers job to decide what YOUR moral right is ... it is each individual person's right AND OBLIGATION to decide what HIS OWN moral code is ... Duty is something you have to decide for yourself what it is... OR, you can let others decide what it is FOR you, but each has consequences and accountability ... sometimes only to your own conscience and moral code, sometimes to God, and sometimes to others. I personally think it is despicable for a person who WILL NOT defend himself and his family to ask a Babylonian stranger to do something he himself WOULD not do for himself, assuming he is able bodied, or to let his friends die during the average seven minutes it takes for the police to respond. To me, it's NOT REASONABLE. And, it is morally bankrupt. Some people ... pacifists specifically .., have no moral qualms about having someone else put their life on the line, and possibly lose it, protecting them, when they would NOT defend their own lives. You use "possibly" twice in that paragraph... again projecting your personal fantasies on others ... specifically me. I rest my case with the evidence you yourself supplied. Thanks! Your concept of "face value" is seen through a glass darkly. And don't gimmee that guff that as a Christian, you did not know the line as well as my admittedly Barbarian self .... that is a cop-out. You knew the reference well enough ... IT'S YOUR REFERENCE! .... and you THOUGHT you knew the line ... that's why you (incorrectly) quoted it.

Will Jehovah resurrect extinct animals? I would rather not have to contend with a straw eating Tyrannosaurus Rex. ..... they are ESPECIALLY cranky.

I think he means 2034 will be the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE ... it's all so CLEAR to me now!

You even managed to misquote Clint Eastwood's performance as Inspector Callahan. AT LEAST you are 100% consistent!