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James Thomas Rook Jr.

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  1. . You are simply amazing. A guest in someone else's personal space .... and you insult them. .
  2. Among rational people ... reputation is EVERYTHING ... and the Catholic Church has a reputation that goes back a THOUSAND years of the clergy and the privileged enslaving children, herding tens of thousands them across Europe in the custody of Monks in the "Children's Crusades" where more than half died of starvation and exposure, to end up off the Northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, to be met by Muslim ships, where they were sold into slavery . Recently Ireland published 5 books of data of Catholic Orphanages who used children as sex slaves, worked them to death, and MURDERED (if memory serves..) 90,000 orphan children since the 1930's. Their reputation is SO BAD that about three years ago, there were riots in England protesting the actions of the Catholic Church in Ireland over this issue, when Ireland issued their encyclopedic report ... which by the way, is available in it's ENTIRETY in PDF form on the Internet. Cardinal Bernard Law, Archbishop of Boston, Mass., was driven out of office for protecting pedophile priests, and covering up the HUGE pedophile priest scandal, which is what the movie "SPOTLIGHT", starring Michael Keaton (Batman) was all about. It is SO pervasive that in Los Angeles, the Catholic Church was ordered to pay 3/4 BILLION DOLLARS in reparations to victims of pedophile Priests child sexual abuse. They did not have the money, so the courts started selling their buildings out from under them by court order ... putting whole orders of Nuns out on the street. The Catholic Church has a reputation of incredible wealth, absolute control, being the favorite religion of mobsters and the Mafia, warfare and political assassination so much that books such as the best seller, made into a movie, "The Divinci Code" with a traveling albino Monk from the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as the Vatican's assassin to maintain discipline, struck no discordant notes in the minds of the readers. SUCH THINGS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS SO NORMAL, so pervasive, and so universal ... for centuries and even millennia ... THEY ARE NOT EVEN NEWS .. just a footnote on page 14. A search of Amazon dot com has a huge selection of the paper trails they have left throughout history. We as Jehovah's Witnesses have gotten that VERY same reputation .. it is news now ... but soon it also will be a footnote on page 14. The FIRST thing people will think of when the hear "Jehovah's Witnesses", is their duplicity, irrational and corrupt organization, which not only makes us JUST LIKE any other Church in their minds .. in will be in actuality ... TRUE! If wearing a beard or tight pants reflects badly on Jehovah's name ... this is catapulted excrement! It's just like when you see an "Indiana Jones" movie ... when the Nazis show up in their prescribed uniforms ... you instantly know who the BAD Guys are. The Governing Body has ALREADY ruined THEIR reputation, and by claimed reflection, greatly slandered our God. I wonder how long it will take before this is the normal expectation about the average Jehovah's Witness, due to the constant subversion and avoidance of JUSTICE to save money ... with the great slander that ascends like smoke to obscure the real face of Jehovah God, and His Christ. When I saw that picture of of the Pope in his whitewashed grave outfit, holding a screaming kid, also dressed in his whitewashed grave outfit ... I immediately thought of the picture below. THEREFORE: Because reputation is everything among rational people .... I think it would be quite reasonable and fair to caption the Pope and the Poppy FIRST alluding that he either HAD molested the kid, was going to molest the kid, or was feeling him up to give to someone else for their boy toy. They have a 1700 year history of doing exactly that. We, on the other hand ... cannot compete. We on the other hand, have the superior moral high ground ... we are truly against such things ... but cover it up, disfellowship people that talk about it, or HAVE to leave because they cannot stand it, destroying their entire families with unnecessary and capricious CRUELTY ... and banning them to Coventry ... pervert and obstruct JUSTICE, and on JW.ORG website, the world news tells the Brotherhood NOTHING about what is really going on in the news.
  3. The Organization is currently implementing a plan to avoid the problem of Branch Coordinators, and Service Desk personnel having to be fired , or exiled to Pacific Islands when called before the Australian Royal Commission's Inquirys, as well as others that have embarrassed the Organization under oath. The Organization always knows what is best .......
  4. Yes... there are MANY replies .... some very, very detailed on "Elsewhere in the Forum" .. specifically under "Controversial Posts", and the main header "JW News". This is a LOT of work ... fortunately I am retired, and often have the free time and energy, and interest to do it. sometimes I am just too tired, .
  5. Yeah ... I also caught those lies ... I am particularly sensitive to such things .. because as a JW Newbie, over a half century ago ... I did the very same thing ... to my everlasting shame. .
  6. If you call a cow, a race horse ... and get everybody on the Planet (presumably Earth ... Sol3), to agree with you ... entering the cows in the Kentucky Derby you will ALWAYS be a loser. ... same thing. .
  7. I really liked that idea the Brother made, with the Literature Rack on the back of his red Yamaha Motorcycle ... it has the advantage of being a licensed vehicle, and the motorcycle is cargo, so no "corner permit" should be needed (?). Many of you will remember Bro. Johnny 5, who started out as a military robot with lasers and missiles ... but who forsake war as he got smarter, and whose credo was " input, Input, INPUT, INPUT!", and who could read about 126 pages a minute. His baptism was at age three, and was a bit different, as water would have short circuited him after he dropped his armament, so he was baptized in a lightweight oil. What? What's that you say? .... Oh!, gimmee a break! ... TPT invented Caleb and Sophia, 'NUFF said.
  8. . "STUFF" HAPPENS ... . ..REMEMBER ... What motivates almost all Shepherds of a flock of sheep to take tender , loving care of them .. bandaging their wounded legs when needed, is back then, there was no refrigerators and freezers. Follow the money ... for along that path always is the road to truth about WHY things really happen. .
  9. Well... We have beat this horse to death ...and made dog food out of the ground horse meat ... since the clear and unambiguous command from the Biggies in Jerusalem that even the Apostle Paul respected .. "ABSTAIN" from blood. ..... how about an observation, and a pressing question? Did you know that although Jehovah God lamented the desperate times when Jerusalem was under siege ( ... that means enemies using catapult siege engines throwing huge rocks into and over their walls and crushing Jews... ) those starving to death would EAT THEIR OWN DEAD ... .... He NEVER once prohibited the practice. Not even ALLUDING to forbidding it. Go ahead... be a sport ... look it up. It's only a CULTURAL taboo. .Presumably those killed bled out before being eaten, and we have been talking about how GOD views blood as his own personal property ... um... haven't we? .... um... that was the pressing question. . . Of course .. if we want to ignore God's viewpoints for PRACTICAL considerations ... like when 6,000 Bethelites and Special Pioneers were recently "laid off" ( .. and hung out to dry ...) given a map to the front door ....
  10. . I would like to apologize for directing my previous rant to individuals ... I try to be an "idea man" ... but I suppose it is a carry-over from when I worked for Dallas Area Rapid Transit years ago, sitting in a room with 25 very highly paid individuals arguing about what kind of screws to put in bus shelters .. ONE SHELTER costing an average of about $55,000 ... in the early 1990's. I told them "Why not just park a new Mercedes Benz Car on the corner, let the air out of the tires, and let them wait for the bus in the car?" I occasionally stop and ask when that happens "Did I actually say that out loud ?" It was like that for two years, every day ... and I developed uncontrollable high blood pressure. When I left DART and went back to just straight Engineering, my blood pressure returned to normal. I did learn a lot about the specifics of fractionating.
  11. . . . HAVE YOU PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY LOST YOUR MINDS? After reviewing the previous posts .. the good .. the bad ... and the ugly .... I have come to this conclusion. HAVE YOU PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY LOST YOUR MINDS? What part of "Abstain from blood..." is not absolutely crystal and totally unambiguously clear? This is the same thing that after a great revolutionary war against England, The people who fought, suffered and died fighting the greatest military in the world at that time to found the United States of America ... and wrote " ... The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...", and drawing the conclusion that they were talking about future generations of bears, with arms ... or that the reason this was written was for deer hunters. HAVE YOU PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY LOST YOUR MINDS? What part of "Abstain from blood..." is not absolutely crystal and totally unambiguously clear?
  12. Eoin Joyce; I fully understand what you are saying, and it is a well reasoned observation .. but I do not agree with your extrapolation in this case, about blood. It's like the Brother whose wife abandoned him many years ago ... he gets a divorce .... and eventually re-marries ... and is disfellowshipped ... and the ONLY way he can return is to recant his wife, which he CANNOT, and will not do. The 13 blood fractions is an over-simplification ... but the PRINCIPLE behind it is not. .
  13. THE POINT IS ... ( about my cartoon) is that the ABSURD, LOONY "fractions argument" is absurd and Loony, and the product of Lawyers and Accountants .. NOT any Theology except that of insane people who value money more than common sense. Taking whole blood will GET YOU DISFELLOWSHIPPED, and your life will be DESTROYED. ... and the lives of your family and extended family. Taking whole blood in 13 parts, although never done in actual practice ... COULD be done WITHOUT ANY Congregational sanctions, and your life will be approved by those who have the power to ruin it ... based on something that the Society's LAWYERS invented. . .
  14. Well, John Lindsay Barltrop apparently saw it as intended ... merely an outrageous joke. I remember when the PETA folks ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) tried to have me arrested for animal cruelty, as mice I caught alive in the house I promised to send them to Disneyland to meet Micky ... .... AND DIDN'T! bROUHAHAHhahaHAHAH !
  15. . IT IS A GREAT KINDNESS and a great Merciful act, when one deliberately kills one's beloved Dog, when racked by disease. My dog Cubby, a Siberian Husky, had cancer in her left eye, and we had it removed ... but it had spread to her intestines and she was in great pain, and it would take a long time to die. We took her to the Vet, and with wailing tears and anguish had her executed. I felt it was my responsibility as a man to "pull the trigger" myself , but my wife, Susan, could not abide it. There comes a time when every man has to shoot his own dog ... farming it out does not make it better .. it makes it worse. I KNOW Cubby would never even had heard the sound. ... but it would have been messy. Fortunately, we had the $140 to have her executed and she never knew it. Many people do NOT! It was completely painless and she died with her eyes open ... never knowing she had died. I lament that when my time comes... and it WILL come ... there is no one to show me the great Kindness and Mercy that I was able to do for my beloved dog. Jehovah God has stated many times in many different ways that he wants mercy ... and not sacrifice. People that are COMPLETELY divorced from reality ... as it really is ... find the idea of killing ones child abhorrent, but there is a PRINCIPLE that reality based people understand, that liberals living in a fantasy world do NOT understand ... in Latin it's " Quod est necessarium est licitum", which means "that which is necessary, is legal" . People of courage DO WHAT IS RIGHT, at ANY cost. Slaves do what is legal. If any of my three children had Rabies, as an example, and no medical care was available ... I would shoot him or her first ... and myself second. Should I treat my children with LESS MERCY than my dog?
  16. IF I MURDERED SOMEONE , and there was ONLY one Witness ... I would get a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card from the Congregational Elders ... AND they would not report me to the Police, OR sanction me Congregationaly .... as there was ONLY one Witness. .They would be obligated to report me IF ... they learned I was GOING to kill someone ... but without two witnesses the ONE Witness that SAW me kill someone ... it would be my word against his, and according to current INSANE doctrine ... the Elders would be required to "Leave it in Jehovah's hands". I have seen "shunning" which is a cruel and heartless ... and EVIL .. practice as it is done today .. take ONE person's error and totally DESTROY their families, and extended families, with unmitigated unreasonableness, with lifelong trauma across generations . They REAL reason that we have the shunning policy where rational humans are NOT ALLOWED to talk to each other ... is to suppress Freedom of Speech ... to hide information from being disseminated ... to hide where the "bodies" are. Justice and mercy no longer exist in the Truth ... they are only words ... MILLIONS of words ,,, and our Doctrines and practices have become so Loony, and irrational, and cruel and evil, that every rational person instinctively knows this ... like gluing bricks to a car tire to patch the holes. .... and of course ... there is that awkward moment when you are burying a body in the back yard ... and find other bodies. THIS IS WHY JW.ORG has said NOTHING about this on its website or to the Congregation as a whole.
  17. TrueTomHarley: WOW! That is absolutely stunning ! Reminds me of "Hogan's Heroes" TV show of years ago, Sgt Shultz.".
  18. . According to that EXACT same reasoning .... IF I MURDERED SOMEONE ( ... my Doctor recommended that I should kill the people that irritate me ... not exactly in those same words ... he said I needed to reduce my stress level ...) , and there was ONLY one Witness ... I would get a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card from the Congregational Elders ... AND they would not report me to the Police, OR sanction me Congregationaly .... as there was ONLY one Witness. .They would be obligated to report me IF ... they learned I was GOING to kill someone ... but without two witnesses the ONE Witness that SAW me kill someone ... it would be my word against his, and according to current INSANE doctrine ... the Elders would be required to "Leave it in Jehovah's hands". This is what happens when you extrapolate the rules that were for a SPECIFIC time period, and worked in a SPECIFIC culture to include all people, everywhere. FAILURE ! ..... excuse me ... I have to practice my Mad Scientist maniacal laughter while rubbing on copious amounts of hand lotion .... They REAL reason that we have the shunning policy where rational humans are NOT ALLOWED to talk to each ... is it has to be kept hidden ... where the "bodies" are. .... and of course ... there is that awkward moment when you are burying a body in the back yard ... and find other bodies.
  19. . "To his own master he stands or falls." - Romans 14:4. I am very surprised, JW Insider that you were surprised by the information you have .... you are a very observant and thoughtful person ... but everybody has blind spots ... especially if deep love for the whole Association of the Brotherhood is concerned ..... you overlook what you ALREADY KNOW with absolute certainty ... that the original stance was correct on blood .... it don't get any simpler than "Abstain from Blood" .... it's crystal clear ... absolutely unambiguous ... and conforms 100% with the theme of the sacredness of blood that permeates the ENTIRE Bible from beginning to end...... unless ... unless ...the Society's Lawyers and Accountants are running the Society ... which they are. Theology is now defined by Spreadsheet. That is reality 2017 in the WTB&TS. As the money piles up on the left side of the scales .. it is ALWAYS counterbalanced by apostasy ... BECAUSE the Governing Body cannot be fired for apostasy if they institute it ... and perhaps you have never thought of it this way ... but it is ABSOLUTELY true ... EVERY "New Light" is apostatizing from what the Governing Body promoted YESTERDAY. If you want to know WHY people do what they do ... follow the money! I guarantee you GB Bro. Samuel Herd does not want to go back to mowing lawns and gardening for some woman, for $12 a day, in faded and torn work clothes !
  20. . The Russians, who are VERY VERY family oriented ... are about to expel all Jehovah's Witnesses from their lands .... because even by standards made common by the old Soviet Union, WHICH THEY UNDERSTAND ... what we do is petulent, cruel, unreasonable, unfair, and makes no sense whatsoever IN THE WAY IT IS DOGMATICALLY APPLIED. Like throwing a heavy stone on a flat piece of glass ... necessary Congregational Discipline has EVOLVED from disciplining a wayward Witness to DESTROYING HIS ENTIRE FAMILY RELATIONSHIP, AND ENTIRE FAMILIES. It CREATES hatred born of self-defense, and actually destroys ENTIRE FAMILIES ! The accusation they make against us is "Extremism". And just like the Pharisees of old who HAD the law, and mis-applied it ... the shoe fits. If we are expelled from the Russian Federation .... .... it will be BECAUSE WE DESERVE IT. . . . ... it is common to man and dogs to, after they have destroyed their living environment ... to blame someone else. .
  21. True TomHarley:: You have your opinions about me ... and I have my opinions about you ... the difference is I believe in Freedom of Speech ... for without freedom of expression, all people make themselves into slaves ... sometimes quickly .. sometimes they just ossify slowly, but they ALWAYS become slaves. This has been true since Babylon was a world power, and before. When you object to my MANNER of speaking ... instead of addressing the ISSUES .. you enter the world of cognitive dissonance and self induced fantasy scenarios. Please feel free to turn your eyes aside and skip over my choice of non-"True Tom Approved Fonts" There are many "holy" secular phrases I recognize, and you do not. One of them is: " I MAY DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAY, BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT !" The issue is whether or not we have Freedom, and Liberty to exercise it ... not font styles. YOU want everything that is not expressly approved and conventional, forbidden, Again, lease feel free to turn your eyes aside and skip over my choice of non-"True Tom Approved Fonts". That way you can ignore the REAL ISSUES , and live in a mental cocoon.
  22. I HAVE REVIEWED THE LAST FOUR PAGES OF INCREDIBLY DISGUSTING LOGIC AND EXCUSES. During World War II, England was almost conquered by the Nazi Luftwaffe in a long series of Air battles over England as waves of German aircraft continuously bombed London and other cities, and the outnumbered British RAF pilots knew as they rose into the sky to meet this barbarian horde, that being outnumbered, and out-gunned, and running out of planes and pilots ... barring unforeseen circumstances .. in less than an hour, they would BE DEAD! .. and their Nation soon destroyed. This was called the "Battle of Britain". Shot out of the sky, their bodies burned, crushed, shot or blown to small pieces. NOW! Many of these men truly believed in Christ, to the limits of their understanding, and many were atheists.... but they sacrificed their lives, many knowing they would be FOREVER DEAD ... to fight for Justice, Truth, Fairness, that their extended Family would not become slaves of the Third Reich. All this crap about "who is or is not clergy", and "what is the law on this side of the boundary" is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to people who love righteousness, and have the courage to FIGHT for it. When the opinions, and culture of your friends turns you into a weasely lawyer looking for loopholes to escape censure, and you get into the mindset that just because the Governing Body cannot be fired, that they are the will of God what you have is an eight sided Trinity ... an Octopus Pope. Do you not REALIZE that rough men of violence, who swear, drink, and screw around, who are willing to put their lives on THE LINE ... and die for Justice .. compared to our craven abdication of our responsibility to the Brotherhood for disfellowshipping those who talk and cry out in anguish ... and hide their gross incompetency and craven greed for money and authority, these men HAVE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND! NOT US !
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