James Thomas Rook Jr.
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Oh ... I THINK I just realized that you might be talking about Paragraphs 15 and 16 of the Watchtower. I am well familiar with the "fantasy Parables" that are constantly portrayed in the Watchtower. These are Parables, and "composite experiences", and things made up from thin air. I have only seen them correctly labeled ONE TIME, about a year ago, in my half century of reading them. -
The experiences I just related are entirely true, without embellishment. The Lobster story happened to me in 1980 in Portland Oregon. The conversation with the Sisters ( three on a bench, waiting for someone to bring cars closer to the front door, ) happened YESTERDAY, about 2:45 PM, after the Watchtower Study at the Kingdom Hall, just outside the front door.
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We have elderly sisters in our congregation that have NO FRONT TEETH, because they cannot afford the repairs. I was mentioning to her that advice is like eating a lobster, you have to pick and choose what to eat, and what to throw away, and when I was 42 years old, I had never eaten a lobster, and after five beers, someone served me a lobster at a restaurant. I had NO IDEA about eating a lobster, and started at the head. BAD IDEA. VERY BAD IDEA. She looked up at me with age and poverty deeply etched into her face, with no front teeth, and said she had never eaten a lobster, or a crab. What I had intended as a funny anecdote, turned out to be a sad reason for tears. Mine.
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The PERFECT example of this is this Weekend's Watchtower Study, paragraphs 15 and 16 , on pages 6 and 7 of the June, 2019 Issue. The question for those two paragraphs is advice for perhaps 9 MILLION JWs and students is: 15-16. What do you learn from the experience of one sister? It's all about "plausible deniability" I was going to answer that experiences are as varied as there are people, but I had already answered paragraph 7 .... and this sister sounds like a mental anxiety filled emotional wreck (you will have to read the paragraphs ... I suggest you sit down and put on a seat belt before you start ...), and that at Bethel there is a small army of Lawyers with advanced degrees, Dentists and Doctors with advanced degrees, and the whole place was built by Architects, Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Computer Engineers, ALL with degrees and licensed by the State of New York. People that normally make from $85 to $115 an hour ... as EMPLOYEES! But the only thing you and I need to know is the phrase " .... you want fries with that?'", and hope your parents live to be 95 years old so you can live in their basement and possibly inherit their house .... if they do not will it to the Society, and have you thrown out when they sell it.
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To put that in a proper perspective, from 1939, to 1947, the magazine covers that sold the most magazines had pictures of helicopters, and cats, and with the 1938 TIME Magazine, Adolph Hitler was declared "Man of the Year".
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Guys will wear the same boxer style underwear until it is just a ragged piece of elastic connected to assorted scraps of cloth ... but for their wives will max out a credit card at Victoria's Secret.
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It takes any specific Icebreaker Ship the same amount of energy to push through and break up ice, whether you are using oil as fuel, coal as fuel, uranium as fuel, or 400 million hamsters on a wheel, turning the Icebreaker's engines. To do work, energy needs to flow from a greater concentration to a dump, or it will not move anything. The amount of waste energy in an Internal combustion Engine of any type is about 60% ... even in your car. Turbines, which many ships have to have heat dumps, nuclear reactors ... and even hamsters sweat like crazy to get rid of heat.
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That is why you don't bleed to death from a mosquito bite. ... and you are too heavy to carry back to the breeding pond. .... and when you look at an ocean covered in ice ... that's ONLY the top. ... there is a lot more underneath that. ... same thing. When I was a boy, I got shot in the face several times with BB gun bbs, in BB gun battles. You just push on one side and they pop right out. Leaves a small pocket for about a day, then closes right up. ...same thing.
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From the Babylon Bee News Network: UNIVERSAL CITY, CA—To show his hard stance against guns and encourage a national discussion on gun control, Matt Damon has collaborated with Universal Pictures to remake the entire Jason Bourne series but with bananas instead of guns. "People often pointed out how I was against guns but was in these really violent movies where I shoot everyone," Damon told reporters. "But no longer. Now, Jason Bourne will take on those dastardly CIA conspirators with healthy, organic fruits instead of firearms." Bourne will point at the bad guys and say "Blam blam" or "Pew Pew Pew" while pretending to shoot the banana. Whenever he uses an explosive or throws a grenade he will instead lob a bunch of bananas. The bananas will create all kinds of wacky hijinks where characters slip on them, while cars that drive over the peels will spin out and sometimes fall into the water, having to be fished out by a Lakitu. In one iconic scene that's been remastered in the rerelease of The Bourne Supremacy, Damon's character talks on the phone to the CIA's deputy director, Pamela Landy. Finally, he reveals he's been watching the CIA from a nearby rooftop for the entire conversation through a high-powered scope attached to a giant, GMO-laced banana. "Get some rest, Pam," he says. "You look tired." The CIA office then freaks out, realizing how much danger they were in. "We could have been a banana split," Landy says as the hunt for Bourne resumes. Other Hollywood studios are following suit in order to remain consistent with their far-left position on guns, as John Wick, The Matrix, Mission Impossible, and hundreds of other franchises will all be getting an all-banana reboot.
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Not unless I am going to a wedding, or funeral. With a funeral, there is one less drunk.
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I didn't. I never tried to "fit in', anywhere. Ever. Coincidences happen .... but coincidences are not causality. The reason I throw my hat in with Jehovah's Witnesses is that they believe the same as I do (generally) ... not that I believe the same things they do. There is a difference.
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No, it was a standup routine, at a comedy club, and larger venues, and recorded originally on a vinyl LP album.. The best lines from the movie "The Jerk" involved shoe polish, and oil cans.
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.... let me know when they have a battery powered Airliner. The reason the WHOLE world runs off of petroleum is the amount of calolries that are available to do work, per unit of volume, and weight. To have the same automobile range you would need a U-Haul trailer for a battery, and the battery would cost more than the car.
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That reminds me of a Steve Martin comedy routine ( from memory ...) where he says "I am going to tell you how you can make a MILLION dollars, and never pay taxes. .... Yes I am going to tell you how to make a MILLION dollars .... and NEVER pay taxes. First... ...get a million dollars. THEN ...."
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.... ANOTHER, of many news comments concerning the movie "THE HUNT". THE HUNT NEWS CLIP 2.wmv
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It's all a political agenda, and pseudo-religion by ignorant people that do not understand that everything we know about "Global Warming" is in about 25 computer models ... and people pick and choose the computer models that will generate the most grant money, and discard the others. The Earth's climate is ALWAYS changing. At one time the ENTIRE planet was covered in about two miles of ice. (See the PBS documentary "Australia - the First 4 Billion Years") The political agenda is all about MONEY! The buying and selling, and brokerage fees for buying and selling "Carbon Credits" ...
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Engineers are SUPPOSED to see things as they really are .... Some say that they actually INVENTED sarcasm.
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I took the story at face value, based on my experience. What REALLY might have happened is too variable for me to consider without a MUCH larger head.
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For the past week, large and small headlines on all the Internet News sources have been hyping the controversy of a new movie by NBC ( The "Nobody But Clinton" ) network/ Universal Studios, about rich elite liberals kidnapping conservatives (the ones Hildabilly Clinton called "Deplorables" and putting them on an estate to be hunted like animals, for "sport". It is SUPPOSED to be a satire ... and that is how it is being marketed, on political trends now operating in America, if they continue on the track they are now headed ... but others say it is just an evil movie,. The movie is the 2019 "THE HUNT" I suppose some people will appreciate the satire, some the bloodshed, some the story line, or any number of factors, as varied as there are humans with different viewpoints. Some will despise the movie, for the same, or very different reasons. Satires push things to absurd scenarios and conclusions to get you to think, but many people cannot recognize satire without someone holding up a sign in front of them that says "SATIRE". I have not seen the movie, and may not see it ... certainly not at box office prices ... but about 65% of the people of the United States are mad as hell about SOME aspect of the movie. It might be worth the effort to actually know ... about what. My guess it is a Thriller Movie, about a possible future civil war. But ... I am speaking now from complete ignorance, and LAWDY, Ah hates being ignorant! Since if you keep up with daily news, it is impossible to avoid learning about all the hub-bub surrounding this movie, which will be out September 27, perhaps you may be interested in one EXTREMELY intelligent and common sensical man's viewpoint, Mark Steyn. Mark Steyn on 2019 movie The Hunt.wmv
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I remember my ex-wife telling me about a Brother from the United States who was baptized in Peru, and later married a local Sister. A fine Brother in every way, so I hear, but he had forgotten that years before,, in the United States, he was still married. He was believed by the Peruvian Elders, and the only solution they could find was to "Unbaptize" him by declaring his baptism null and void. It was either that, or disfellowship him. Having worked on a Bethel construction project down there, I found that story entirely believable, as they are a much simpler people in many respects. I am inclined to believe that, all things considered, what the Elders did was the correct thing to do ... under very odd circumstances. Of course, I am only guessing. ... and, I am many thousands of miles away, and now about a quarter-century away, and I don't give a hoot, and try not to pollute.
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