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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in What is a Christian Man's MORAL responsibility to protect his own life, or that of his immediate or spiritual family?   
    You cannot expect evil, determined people intent on
    MURDERING YOU .... to follow ANY signs or ANY rules !
    NONE WHATSOEVER!
    That is the one thing Snowflakes never understand about EVIL.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in 2017 Annual Meeting   
    What a GREAT Idea!   Selling medallions from the 2017 Annual Meeting!  The Catholics used to sell "Indulgences" ... permissions to sin in advance without church sanctions ..  which is how they financed the construction of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Now that is one tough act to follow!
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in 2017 Annual Meeting   
    Here are two clips of that video, Roaslie ...... I am afraid that things like those expectations are a thing of the past, and are no longer reasonable expectations.
    ... and why does EVERYTHING have to be a "military secret"?
    Are they ASHAMED, or PROUD of what they are doing?
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in NEWS RELEASES | Jehovah’s Witnesses Close Sale of Historic Building, The Towers   
    I might ....  a building is at least a real object ... whereas money is just a symbol representing hours of human labor, skill, and industriousness.
    Or, I might stock op on non-perishable food, water purification devices, medicines,  tools, weapons and ammunition.
    I do not hunt animals, and I do not like to even fish ... but I believe it is a highly desirable skill to have.  
    Those that think this is horrible are completely divorced from reality ... as EVERYTHING that lives has to eat ... and I would rather hunt than take up "grazing".
    The natural order of things, is that about half of all life eats the other half, and even they have to eat plants that are also alive., and this was true many millions of years before "homo theocraticus" ... humans  directly created by God ... came upon the scene.
    Also ... if a loaf of bread is $700 ... and you HAVE $700 ... you eat while others who do NOT have $700 ........ starve to death.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Cognitionis in BAPTISM IN CHILE, SALÓN EL TRÉBOL   
    ..... but then again I never have understood hair styles ......
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Cognitionis in BAPTISM IN CHILE, SALÓN EL TRÉBOL   
    The problem is this ... I visualize words as they come into my mind and try to integrate the picture to see if it is good art (truth) ... and it does not help AT ALL to, just before I go to lunch, to read about a "BAPTISM IN CHILE" . The same thing always bothered me about the "Care to join me in a cup of coffee?" ... as if we would both fit.
    And don't get me started with "Don't Cry for me, Argentina!" from the play EVITA.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Cognitionis in NEWS RELEASES | Jehovah’s Witnesses Close Sale of Historic Building, The Towers   
    I might ....  a building is at least a real object ... whereas money is just a symbol representing hours of human labor, skill, and industriousness.
    Or, I might stock op on non-perishable food, water purification devices, medicines,  tools, weapons and ammunition.
    I do not hunt animals, and I do not like to even fish ... but I believe it is a highly desirable skill to have.  
    Those that think this is horrible are completely divorced from reality ... as EVERYTHING that lives has to eat ... and I would rather hunt than take up "grazing".
    The natural order of things, is that about half of all life eats the other half, and even they have to eat plants that are also alive., and this was true many millions of years before "homo theocraticus" ... humans  directly created by God ... came upon the scene.
    Also ... if a loaf of bread is $700 ... and you HAVE $700 ... you eat while others who do NOT have $700 ........ starve to death.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Queen Esther in BAPTISM IN CHILE, SALÓN EL TRÉBOL   
    We learned,  Sisters called as Brothers   What is wrong at a happy and importend  Baptism picture??  I never got such of really weird comments to that 
    NOT COME AGAIN,  IT WAS ONLY A JOKE....  For Jehovah its NOT a joke !
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to JW Insider in BAPTISM IN CHILE, SALÓN EL TRÉBOL   
    Father Guido Sarducci once found a pope in a pizza.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Queen Esther in BAPTISM IN CHILE, SALÓN EL TRÉBOL   
    The problem is this ... I visualize words as they come into my mind and try to integrate the picture to see if it is good art (truth) ... and it does not help AT ALL to, just before I go to lunch, to read about a "BAPTISM IN CHILE" . The same thing always bothered me about the "Care to join me in a cup of coffee?" ... as if we would both fit.
    And don't get me started with "Don't Cry for me, Argentina!" from the play EVITA.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JW Insider in BAPTISM IN CHILE, SALÓN EL TRÉBOL   
    The problem is this ... I visualize words as they come into my mind and try to integrate the picture to see if it is good art (truth) ... and it does not help AT ALL to, just before I go to lunch, to read about a "BAPTISM IN CHILE" . The same thing always bothered me about the "Care to join me in a cup of coffee?" ... as if we would both fit.
    And don't get me started with "Don't Cry for me, Argentina!" from the play EVITA.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JayDubya in I Was a Orthodox Demon Exorcist   
    I too, was infected with demons, so I know all of the above is true .... what happened to me is incredibly sad ... as I ALSO first turned for help to the Roman Catholic Church, which has a long history of supposedly expelling demons ... and they even have a Holy Office that is in charge of this, worldwide. Such help is available free from the Elders, but at the time, I did no know any better and I paid the Catholic Church $3200 for a bishop from Boston Massachusettes to fly down and perform an exorcism on me.  
    I did not make much money in those years,  so they allowed me to pay $500 down, and I financed the rest for 24 months, at 5% interest, which I thought was reasonable at the time.
    The exorcism was successful and the demons fled my body, but later on I lost my job, and several months after that I could no longer make the agreed upon payments ... and I was repossessed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nP8KR8dCw0
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Evacuated in Why does Jehovah God forbid tattoos?   
    @AllenSmith. Sorry, can't quote you. It's just too lengthy to dissect!
    You are rattled, and, as you loose your command of language when that happens, I just do not really follow the syntax of your 90 word sentence. Take a step back and chill out, mate, and maybe some sense, which you are quite capable, of will ensue. 
    Meanwhile, stop mixing the media with the message. An idol can be portrayed in any media but this does not taint the media itself necessarily, although the media itself can be idolised. 
    And just keep your insulting rhetoric to either yourself, or those who want to lock horns with you on obscurity. I much prefer it when you reason clearly, which you do on occasion. 
    If you are prepared to engage sensibly I will respond. Otherwise, don't waste your breath and bandwidth.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in Why does Jehovah God forbid tattoos?   
    More questions ... I did not count, but there must be a DOZEN or more ...
    Lets' try AGAIN, ....
    The SPECIFIC question is: (ahem...)
    WHY ? .... does Jehovah God forbid tattoos?.
    ... getting a straight answer is like trying to find chicken teeth.
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    .
     
    ( Hint ... and this is only a suggestion ... start your sentence with the word "BECAUSE ...")
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in Why does Jehovah God forbid tattoos?   
    Ok, AllenSmith ... I give up.
    You have worn me down to the nub with many words . yadda yadda yadda yadda.
    The question remains ....
    WHY ? .... does Jehovah God forbid tattoos?
     
    Going through what you wrote is like finding a specific four-leaf clover on a golf course.
    Your short answer AND your long answer were not ANSWERS .. they were additional QUESTIONS !!
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Anna in The Name of God - Documentary by Fritz Poppenberg   
    The verb "to be" in Hebrew works  the same way the declination of the verb "to be" works in Ebonics ....
    I BE
    YOU BE
    HE BE
    If you have any questions, YouTube has quite a few Ebonics language examples..
    .
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Arauna in Why doesn't the Society translate and provide the Russian Court Transcripts for us?   
    My uncle used to grow corn on his farm in very rural North Carolina, for him and to sell, and for pigs, and he made cornbread for his hunting dogs.  He had a well made of vertical concrete pipe sections going down, and you got water by pulling up a bucket on a rope.  He would let corn completely dry out, and I would hand crank a device that stripped the hard corn from the corn cob, when I visited him.
    There was a bin of stripped corn cobs beside the outhouse, and were used as toilet paper, which required some considerable skill to avoid a ....*coff* ... disaster.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Melinda Mills in Why doesn't the Society translate and provide the Russian Court Transcripts for us?   
    My uncle used to grow corn on his farm in very rural North Carolina, for him and to sell, and for pigs, and he made cornbread for his hunting dogs.  He had a well made of vertical concrete pipe sections going down, and you got water by pulling up a bucket on a rope.  He would let corn completely dry out, and I would hand crank a device that stripped the hard corn from the corn cob, when I visited him.
    There was a bin of stripped corn cobs beside the outhouse, and were used as toilet paper, which required some considerable skill to avoid a ....*coff* ... disaster.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Melinda Mills in Why doesn't the Society translate and provide the Russian Court Transcripts for us?   
    It is my personal belief that "dowzing" has NOTHING to do with spiritual ANYTHING. 
    The principles of Quantum Entanglement  or some other phenomena might apply here.
    There are many things in this world that are natural phenomena, that we cannot wrap our minds around ... the underlying principles of what makes your cell phone work would have gotten you burned at the stake as a witch  two hundred years ago, for even suggesting what Einstein called "Spooky action at a distance", which has to do with entangled things at a distance, but absolutely NOTHING to do with "spooks".
    Of course, many people, to avoid being chastised,  go to great lengths to avoid dozing, and I am one of them.

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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Melinda Mills in Why doesn't the Society translate and provide the Russian Court Transcripts for us?   
    "Never" heard of water witching so I looked it up. Note this nice, short article:
     
    *** w63 7/1 p. 415 Water-witching and ESP ***
    Water-witching and ESP
    AFTER reading the article “Protection from Wicked Spirit Forces,” in The Watchtower of November 15, 1962, the president of The American Society of Dowsers, Inc., wrote a letter taking exception to the conclusion reached in the article; namely, that because of the link to extrasensory perception or spiritism Christians do well to abstain from water-witching or divining for water or minerals. Nonetheless, the president of The American Society of Dowsers, Inc., does give that society’s view as to how dowsing works. He writes: “The point of the article is, perhaps, well taken. We agree with the theory that dowsing is a form of ESP and that engaging in any form of ESP can lead to ‘possession’ or the involvement with ‘wicked spirit forces’ unless proper precautions are taken. . . . We prefer the positive approach of warning people interested in dowsing of the dangers.”
    Even though the American dowsing society sincerely believes that dowsers can take precautions to avoid “possession” and that much good can be accomplished through forms of ESP, the thing that Christians must keep in mind is that any form of divination or spiritism is condemned by God because of its very nature. It is not holy angels that are behind this ESP but wicked angels or evil spirit creatures whose objective is to mislead mankind. Abstaining from ESP in all its forms is not only proper Scriptural precaution but it is also obedience to God.—Rev. 21:8.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in Attention!!!, Russia seeks to remove the children from Jehovah's Witnesses ???   
    Sylvia, Sylvia.... Sylvia ...
    ...sigh .....
    Russia is a sovereign nation ... they have any rights they want ... any rights at all!  
    Any rights they assign themselves  .... and give themselves .... and ARE ABLE TO ENFORCE. 
    The old adage "You have your rights and I have my bayonets" is the rule here.
    Policy has absolutely NOTHING to do with what is right or what is wrong, except on very, very rare occasions.
    They have the advantage ... they have the enforceable power to declare and enforce what they SAY is "Right".
    Nobody believes it ... except those who do not want to be ground up. People will bend their minds into a pretzel to survive ....
    They self appoint themselves through political machinations, and propaganda, drilled into people's minds from infancy, and have any rights, interpreted any way they want ... THEY HAVE THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE FINELY TUNED, AND THEY HAVE THE BAYONETS..
    In Russia's case, the bayonets are literal .... the best we have been able to manage is extreme shunning and tearing families apart to enforce policy.
    In the adage I quoted above there is more ... "You have your rights and I have my bayonets --- Let's see who wins!"
    Perhaps Jehovah is preparing to chastise us for our cruelties, the same way he chastised his Name People back in ancient times ... with the Babylonian Army.
    In about five years .... we will all know.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Margaret in Attention!!!, Russia seeks to remove the children from Jehovah's Witnesses ???   
    The Jews in Poland had homes, jobs and businesses when the Nazis came in. 
    Some homes were magnificent, and had been in the family for 600 years or more.
    Jews  were rounded up, and murdered.
    Those that liquidated everything at 5 cents on the dollar and fled  early with only a stomach full of diamonds, survived.
    Those that wanted security starved and froze in the camps before they were burned in the ovens.
    Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from David Normand in Attention!!!, Russia seeks to remove the children from Jehovah's Witnesses ???   
    The Jews in Poland had homes, jobs and businesses when the Nazis came in. 
    Some homes were magnificent, and had been in the family for 600 years or more.
    Jews  were rounded up, and murdered.
    Those that liquidated everything at 5 cents on the dollar and fled  early with only a stomach full of diamonds, survived.
    Those that wanted security starved and froze in the camps before they were burned in the ovens.
    Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Shiwiii in Russian JW's Begin to Remove Kingdom Halls Signs   
    How about that ... I have the answers even before you ask the questions ..... !
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