James Thomas Rook Jr.

 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.

TrueTomHarley:

WOW!  That is absolutely stunning !

Reminds me of "Hogan's Heroes" TV show of years ago, Sgt Shultz.".

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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.

Agreed

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"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 !

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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.

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... it is common to man and dogs to, after they have destroyed their living environment ... to blame someone else.

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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.

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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TIRED OF BEING MANIPULATED BY FAKE NEWS?

VERY SIMPLE SOLUTION ... GET EDUCATED ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AROUND YOU!

Royal Commission Case Study 54: What to expect - by an anonymous reporter who DOES homework !

With Case Study 54 only a few days away, THIS FRIDAY (AUSTRALIAN TIME) MARCH 10, 2017 (You do the math for local time...) a lot of discussion has been circulating as to exactly what we can expect when Watchtower appears once again before the Australian Royal Commission.

I’ve decided to chip in a few observations here to help set expectations and to contribute to the discussions as best I’m able. So without further ado, let’s quickly run through what we know:

• What exactly will be discussed?
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According to the Commission website, the scope of the study is as follows

1.      The current policies and procedures of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd in relation to child protection and child-safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse.

2.      Factors that may have contributed to the occurrence of child sexual abuse at Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd institutions.

3.      Factors that may have affected the institutional response of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to child sexual abuse.

4.      The responses of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to relevant case study report(s) and other Royal Commission reports.

5.      Any related matters.

The purpose of this public hearing is not to inquire into individual sets of facts or particular events as has occurred in previous Royal Commission case studies.

• Why does the Case Study 54 hearing appear to be only one day long?
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This may appear at first glance to be a surprise. How can a single day of testimony possibly be enough to cover the vast and complex issue of Watchtower’s child abuse scandal?

Well, remember that Case Study 54 isn’t a fact finding mission. That was Case Study 29. The Commission spent days digging and interviewing, and ultimately issued a detailed report on every aspect of Watchtower’s failure. As far as the Commission is concerned, the facts are in. There is no further debate. Case Study 54 is tasked purely with a quick review of those facts and then with publicly asking Watchtower what is has done to address the damning failures identified in Case Study 29.

Remember what Justice McClellan said to Watchtower’s legal team? That they were going to come back to Watchtower and publicly ask them what had been done to address the issues?

That’s what this is.

• So what has Watchtower done in the 21 months since Case Study 29?
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As far as I am aware, the only potential effort from  Watchtower to address any of the concerns raised in the Royal Commission has been to no longer require an abuse survivor to confront their attacker. However, it was not clear from testimony if this practice had actually been halted before the Commission sat. Watchtower seemed to insist in testimony that it was, but their documentation did not reflect this.

Thus one cannot say with certainty that even this potential change has come as a result of the Commission report.

• So Watchtower is going to stand before the Commission, after 21 months, and basically say they’ve done nothing at all?
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I have no idea.

I mean, that would be the honest thing to do, but remember how slippery and devious Watchtower was in Case Study 29, with senior Watchtower officials like Rodney Spinks, Terrence O’Brain and Governing Body Member Geoffrey Jackson attempted to mislead and outright lie to the Commission on multiple occasions. As far as I can see, Watchtower has three options

• Admit they’ve done nothing and that they don’t intend to for religious reasons, and turn the whole thing into an issue of religious freedom.
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• Try to stall and muddy the waters by saying they’ve not had enough time, that they have no authority to make the changes required without Brooklyn agreement, knowing full well that Brooklyn is beyond the reach of the Commission. The idea here would be to stall until the day is over, then slink away and wait, knowing no further testimony is required.
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• Dive full into another round of misleading doublespeak and outright lies to try and pull the wool over the Commission’s eyes.

Which one will they pick? Again I have no idea. Judging from Watchtower’s jaw-dropping legal incompetence in Case Study 29 and in the recent Fessler case, it’s very hard to predict their strategy. It seems to have no rhyme or reason, but keep in mind three things.

• The men in charge of Watchtower are firstly very deluded. They genuinely think they are defending God’s organization against Satanic and apostate attack, and feel that compromise will be a victory for Satan.
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• The men in charge of Watchtower are very out of touch with real life, spending all their days in a world where you don’t question Watchtower or those who run it, and now they’ve risen to the top. Their word is law. Odds are that no-one has told Anthony Morris III that his ideas are stupid for a very long time. They have no idea how to handle the kind of environment the Royal Commission brings to the table. Geoffrey Jackson’s excruciating performance, where the Commission made mincemeat of his arguments, was proof of that.
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• The men in charge of Watchtower are caught between being honest with a Commission that has all of their dirty little secrets on the one hand, and playing to the growing audience of JW’s who they know WILL find out about March 10th one way or the other. They have to both be as compliant as possible to the Commission whilst also appearing to be steadfast and unmovable to the Witnesses who will end up seeing the testimony on YouTube.
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So delusion, seclusion, and public relations are all going to crash into once horrible mess as they did in Case Study 29 and as a result I have no idea what Watchtower will do on Friday.

We  hope to preserve the live steam video for future reference as the Commission does not archive or make this video available once the live stream is over. However, technical gremlins are always a factor so if you have the ability to record the live stream, it would be a great idea to do so as well. The more people do this, the less chance of this footage being lost forever.

Lastly we will of course be following up with articles on the day, giving you a more detailed analysis of what has transpired.

Get your popcorn (and your coffee if you’re staying up late) and lets all observe the car crash together!

And one last thing: if it is safe for you to do so, please tell as many Jehovah’s Witnesses as you can about the events on March 10th. Their children are at risk and they don’t even know it. They may choose not to look up the Case Study, but simply being aware that it exists is the first step in raising awareness that the Governing Body is not being honest with them about the international scandal of child abuse inside the Watchtower organization.

(edited for political correctness and other stuff ...) JTR

Different people have different skills .... if you try to be everything, to everybody, you will fail, AND the mice that want to nibble away at your life will nibble away ALL of it, and there will be nothing left for YOU.

Additionally, they will complain and moan because they cannot get 120%, AND you have to do ALL their thinking for them. Thinking is very hard work .... when done correctly ... which is why most people want to go to heaven, walk on golden streets an d play harps.

The Bible says, and common sense confirms, that a MAJOR part of our Ministry is to get people to really, Really REALLY think, and to OVERTURN STRONGLY ENTRENCHED THINGS., that are wrong, and therefore destructive, and therefore EVIL in nature.

It's a tough job .......

I try to get people to REALLY think about whether what they believe is based on reality ...or fantasy. I very much try NOT to draw their conclusions for them, based on the assumption that a healthy, rational mind, when faced with patent absurdity, will recognize this.

You can have a healthy, wholesome meal in a bowl that once contained sewage and rot ... if it is cleaned out and disinfected.

Just like in programming computers, properly programming people for TRUTH, means that it has to exist inside a prepared environment, or what you get is NOT Truth, but drivel

I have seen this IRC "Ministry", since 1997 go from ALL Jehovah's Witnesses being considered deluded fools, to a respect for the Brotherhood, and an Understanding of our place in the Kingdom Arrangement for the Earth as a natural, logical, reasonable, rational explanation of how this Universe works., in about 60 or so people that have been involved in year long and more discussions.

My talent is NOT" Bible Study" from prepared literature ... My talent is shocking people to really THINK.

...or just shocking them ... and they don't LIKE it.

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AND COMPLETE VIDEOS!!!   ... that you can DOWNLOAD!!

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The thought occurred to me that some might be interested in EXPERIMENTING with a new line of Witnessing, not to replace anything that we might be doing now, but to "widen out" to niche' audiences.  There is a communications network that exists available to you ... text only, back from the 1990s when the Internet was first formed, and it is still going strong today ,,,, although it is supplanted or even overtaken by the likes of Facebook or Twitter, or whatever else has evolved.

Conversations I have had in 1997 STILL show up on the Internet, and over the years have seen the Truth handled aright change MANY opinions about TRUE Christianity ..... but it requires flexibility, and humor to try and plant some seeds of Truth on the baked hard-scrabble clay that Christendom has cooked up over the centuries ....  It's called the "Internet Relay Chat" network, or IRC., and when sick, I could spend 60 to 70 hours a month in HIGHLY EFFECTIVE Witnessing ... everybody is home, audiences of perhaps 50 people at a time, and no wasted time, or even gas money.

Without further adieu, I will post a little sample I did when I had about ten minutes to spare ... if there is any Interest, I will give you more details .....

Please realize there can be six to 20 people "talking" at the same time, so following is an acquired skill ....

My Screen Name is "Greylenseman"

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<+Greylenseman> yawn

<+dani_> ello Greylenseman

<+Greylenseman> iya dani

<+Greylenseman> why up so early?

<+mugzZzZz> Heads are rollinghttp://www.cnn.com/2017/02/17/politics/tillerson-state-department-shakeup/ at the State Department - The news sent shock waves through the agency and has left career officials on edge -

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<+mugz> more draining of the swamp

<+mugz> er

<+mugz> Heads are rolling at the State Department http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/17/politics/tillerson-state-department-shakeup/

* +mugz sips more coffee

<+Greylenseman> drill baby, drill!

<+mugz> "careful with that ax Eugine"

<+Greylenseman> I have NEVER had a desire to go to Heaven.

<+dani_> do you have a mental connection with God ?

<+dani_> does god read your mind Greylenseman ?

<+dani_> Moshe`, does God read your mind?

<+thehorror> I'd hate to go to heaven and not see my friends and family

<+Greylenseman> I hope so ... but God's ORIGINAL plan was a physical Universe filled with the children of DNA ... that has NOT changed.

<@Ross> those who dont goto heaven dont go by their choice

<@Ross> oroville dam residents havce to evacuate again

<+Greylenseman> SURPRISE!

<+Greylenseman> thehorror: or meet some reelatives that were miscarriages, and abortions ...

<+Greylenseman> eeeeew

<+Greylenseman> who, IF they grew up, would never meet puppies.

<+Greylenseman> OH YEAH, little white cloud shapes ....

<+Greylenseman> ...like foggy tribbles ...

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<+Greylenseman> nothing like living in an evironment with aborted fetuses that never grow up, playing with foggy tribbles.

<+Greylenseman> ... and then there is the omnipresent HARP music.....

<+Greylenseman> could be worse .... could be accordians!

<+Greylenseman> .

<+dani_> that's crazy Greylenseman

<+Greylenseman> yeas it IS ... that is the whole point.

<+dani_> but the alternative isnt much less crazy

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<+Greylenseman> there are inly two alternatives..... just plain ordinary death ... whic we all know is the case ...irregardless of our claimed theology, or being SO HOLY that God KNOWS he can give you immortality without ever later having to kill you for treason.  Hell is a fantasy designed to separate you from your wallet.

<+Greylenseman> In all human history, Revelation says only 144,000 are invited to live as immortals in Heaven .. men and women fully tested , and rightous beyond MY ability to understand.

<+Greylenseman> I would be looking for "loopholes".

<+Greylenseman> well, gotta go ... gotta get a nap.

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I just reviewed the last post, not technically accurate, as I forgot to mention the Paradise Earth as an option, but I did allude to it in the beginning ... I was tired.

INTREPID TRAVELER said;

" """""Nooooooooo. My momma said never to let a RCC priest or a Jehovah's Witness man touch me ever ! I mean look what is happening in Australia at the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse within the Jehovah's Witness movement - 1006 perpetrators ....and not one of them was reported to the authorities ! ..................so put me down ! """"

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/c2d1f1f5-a1f2-4241-82fb-978d072734bd/Report-of-Case-Study-No-29

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/jehovahs-witnesses-settle-lawsuit-alleging-coverup-of-child-sex-abuse/

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/16/australian-catholic-church-has-paid-276m-to-abuse-victims-so-far-inquiry-shows

i WATCHED the Entire Australian Royal Commission Inquiry 29, which went on for more that than week, and even if you know NOTHING else except the TRUTH, which many of the elders being interrogated under oath showed so pitifully clearly, those HARD FACTS exposed for all the world to see how much SHAME the GB, the Branch Offices and the Elders have brought on Jehovah's Name and slanders HIS name by us behaving in such a manner, perverting JUSTICE for over 5,000 victims of over 1,006 perpertrators ALL HIDDEN IN SECRET ENVELOPES IN THE KINGDOM HALL FILES, and in BLUE secret envelopes copies sent to the Branch Offices, and in NOT ONE of these cases was this CRIMINAL activity reported to police to protect the small Brothers and Sisters... THE SOLUTION was to threaten the victims and their families with disfellowshipping, and in many cases that WAS DONE, to keep everybody's mouths shut, for over 50 years.

I talk to MANY people a week about the Truth of God, and half of them DO keep up with global news, and they ask me ... "How can you POSSIBLY still be a champion of Jehovah's Witnesses, when they are involved with all this evil (not just in Australia, but in the UK and the United States ...) ?".

There is NO way to defend it, and I would not ... so to make a VERRRRRyyyyy long story very short .... I just say "All clergy, once it reaches a certain organizational size ALWAYS evolves into making many buildings, and may distractions, and if Justice interferes with the cash flow ... Justice is the FIRST thing that is abandoned."

There has NEVER in the History of Civilization been ANY exceptions to this rule. None exist today.

This March the Australian Royal Commission on Child Abuse #29 will have a week long follow up, Case #54, or #57, if memory serves.   THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS ALL ABOUT THIS, as Intrepid Traveler's links show.

YOU HAVE A CHOICE .... Remain ignorant, and by extension deliberately choose to be a fool .... or find out what is REALLY going on around you.

When you deliberately choose NOT TO KNOW .... just like in Nazi Germany ... the appropriate label is ....

EVIL.

The REAL question is why are 90% of ALL JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ignorant of ALL of this.

The answer is:  They GB thinks we are all wallets and small children, and their complicity in all of this would be exposed, and the financial empire .... AND THEIR JOBS .... would be forfeit.

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I understand if a necktie is big enough, or you are dehydrated enough you can use it as a sunscreen  or makeshift tent ... and a silk tie is an animal protein that can be boiled down, and like how the American Indians and Pioneers used to make glue out of boiled down animal sinew, tendons and such for feathering arrows ...... one glass-full should be good for several weeks.

You can actually SEE the tears in the refugee's eyes when he has walked thousands of miles to escape death, watching his friends die of exposure, dehydration, and disease along the way, crossing borders by night, cold, dirty, starving and wet .. and he is given a NICE TIE!

I am no better ... when I had JW refugees in my home, I went to the grocery store before they got up and bought 16 large cans of Oatmeal, along with the milk and eggs, etc., and hoped I could fill them up with Oatmeal. The cashier asked me if I was feeding refugees, and I was embarrassed to have to answer I was.

Now THAT's INSIGHT!

I occasionally think of the Brother who saw a Mexican Family on the side of the road near El Paso, Texas, obviously starving, as they were eating the sparse vegetation such as they could find ... and invited the entire family to his home for dinner!

He had a VERY NICE Estate on about 20 acres.

They all climbed into his Van, and when they got to his house, he opened the chain-link gate, and he, speaking limited Spanish, pointed them to his beautifully lush green lawn, which needed mowing.

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How wonderful!

..notice that the dog has his OWN monitor?

Proof that the Brother is blind, and not the dog!

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Yeah... I feel great pain for the ones we have chased away, which I estimate to be in the millions ... when we cruelly destroy their entire families in order to discipline them, because they cannot see what is so plainly taught.

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ON COMPETENT ADVICE:

it is up to EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brother and Sister to review in their own mind how COMPETENT this advice was .... because it has not changed ...

Taking sound, reality based advice will, barring chance and unforeseen circumstances, make your life better, happier, EASIER, and more fulfilling. Most of the REAL PROBLEMS I have had in my life have been caused by being poor, and constantly STRUGGLING to keep gainfully employed.

Gainfully employed in THIS day and age is not the same as in the time of John the Baptist, where you could dress in rags, live in a hole in the ground, and eat locusts (YUM!), and die of exhaustion, deprivation, starvation ( No, I'm FASTING! ...uh... yeah... uh... that's it .. uh "fasting!") .and disease, and a LONG life for the average genetically disposed person was around age 34 and you were full of infection of every sort, and your teeth had rotted out of you head.  You walked everywhere, and died on the side of the road from exposure.

It is up to EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brother and Sister to review in their own mind how COMPETENT this advice was .... because it has not changed.    

The RESULTS of taking INCOMPETENT ADVICE are completely  indistinguishable from being chained to deliberate, premeditated evil.

The Three Elders who came and counseled Job for three days did not just sit in the dirt and stare at him for 72 hours ... they were yapping their heads off ... but after three days ... nothing they said was worth recording.

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This advice came out in the May 9, 1989 Awake ... and it is up to EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brother and Sister to review in their own mind how COMPETENT this advice was .... because it has not changed ...

Taking sound, reality based advice will, barring chance and unforeseen circumstances, make your life better, happier, EASIER, and more fulfilling. Most of the REAL PROBLEMS I have had in my life have been caused by being poor, and constantly STRUGGLING to keep gainfully employed.

Gainfully employed in THIS day and age is not the same as in the time of John the Baptist, where you could dress in rags, live in a hole in the ground, and eat locusts (YUM!), and die of exhaustion, deprivation, starvation ( No, I'm FASTING! ...uh... yeah... uh... that's it .. uh "fasting!") .and disease, and a LONG life for the average genetically disposed person was around age 34 and you were full of infection of every sort, and your teeth had rotted out of you head.  You walked everywhere, and died on the side of the road from exposure.

It is up to EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brother and Sister to review in their own mind how COMPETENT this advice was .... because it has not changed

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Yeah ... I typically run alternate scenarios in my mind 24/7/365 ....  , and I realized you were being satirical about ten minutes after I logged off, but I had a bad night and was exhausted, and knowing you are not a Snowflake, I was too tired to edit as I should have .... besides, I kinda liked the "two straws" visualization ....

DJSQUEEZE:

You have real talent there!  Your comment:

" LOL ? ? ?

You couldn't be further from the truth, pun intended.

IF you're offended, I  apologize. but note: 

I made no definitive statement(s). "

.... may be grammatically technically true but it projects your OPINION that you have already judged Eoin to be an apostate, which is why you were issuing the warning, albeit the warning having NO BASIS IN ACTUAL FACT.

Such things are how witch-hunts begin ... casting suspicions without a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.

.... and then trying to weasel-word out of your self made trap .... sigh......

It's a good thing we are acceptable to Jehovah with or without an outageous sense of humor ...  Johnny Carson made $16,000 a MINUTE telling jokes, half of which completely bombed ... and he had 16 writers

... that's where he learned to grin at the camera  and do a soft-shoe tap dance ....

Of COURSE it's a fake !  It's a SATIRE of our writing style ..... similar to the famous Watchtower Article on "Should True Christians own Cats?" in the  ole'  "Questions from Readers (hahahahaha... but that's another story..)

 Biting REALLY GOOD Satire has to have some element of truth that is contrary to whatever it is satirizing ... and this article is 100% true in CONTENT ... which is so effective that TPT would have to watch all the Brothers walking in pairs of drinking straws, as their butts would have been bitten completely off.

.. a REAL disaster!

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Jackie Chan COULD be a Witness... he is clean shaven! 

With my usual lack of humor I present the Draft Copy of the December 2016 issue of the Watchtower which showed a Brother shaving on the cover ... it was changed before being distributed, because the Brothers responsible for the VERY GOOD and accurate article ... disappeared mysteriously.

After you save the file to your hard drive, from the TOOL BAR, be sure to set your ADOBE PDF reader under VIEW to "Reading Mode" and under ZOOM,  "Fit Page" to read it.

Dec 2016 Watchtower draft article .pdf

Yeah, as Abraham Lincoln once warned ... "Never believe anything you read on the Internet!"

Could be worse ... could be a picture of Jesus holding out two fingers with a Gillette Razor between them.

With my usual lack of humor I present the Draft Copy of the December 2016 issue of the Watchtower which showed a Brother shaving on the cover ... it was changed before being distributed, because the Brothers responsible for the VERY GOOD and accurate article ... disappeared mysteriously.

After you save the file to your hard drive, from the TOOL BAR, be sure to set your ADOBE PDF reader under VIEW to "Reading Mode" and under ZOOM,  "Fit Page" to read it.

Dec 2016 Watchtower draft article .pdf

The purpose of the Conference was to get all the clergy together to put pressure on the rogue clergyman in the picture to shave off his beard.  How can you look like a clergy with a beard?

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This continuous, never-ending global controversy has been going on since the 1960's, that I am aware of personally, and even before, when Judge Rutherford PERSONALLY forbade beards among Jehovah's witnesses, with the possible exception of post-menopausel Sisters .... and the Society has never definitively stated ANYTHING. 

With my usual lack of humor I present the Draft Copy of the December 2016 issue of the Watchtower which showed a Brother shaving on the cover ... it was changed before being distributed, because the Brothers responsible for the VERY GOOD and accurate article ... disappeared mysteriously.

After you save the file to your hard drive, from the TOOL BAR, be sure to set your ADOBE PDF reader under VIEW to "Reading Mode" and under ZOOM,  "Fit Page" to read it.

Dec 2016 Watchtower draft article .pdf