James Thomas Rook Jr.

When thinking about Russia, and the continuous chain of court cases that show our abandonment of basic decency, kindness, compassion and ... Justice .... for money ....
FOR MONEY!
...remember that Jehovah once used the Babylonian armies to chastise HIS OWN PEOPLE UNTO DEATH !
... for similar things.
However, we have the institutional advantage through years of training ...
The Incredibility Gap is equally matched ... by our Gullibility Fill.
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"Quod est necessarium est licitum"
That which is necessary, is legal.
If I ... with premeditation ...  I deliberately murdered a Sister out in Service by shooting her through the head through her car side window ...who was screaming in horror and pain, her body and face ON FIRE ...burning to death in a car fire, and nobody could not get her out ....
... how do you think the Congregational Judicial Committee would handle it?
... how do you think a civil Jury would handle it?
... how do you think any sane, reasonable adult would see it?
 

Neither system is perfect ... and and I have stated many MANY times earlier on this blog ... Justice we only get from Jehovah God ... everything else is just "due process".
However, there is a difference in what "due process means in various "systems".
Total Anarchy has one definition of "due process"
Transylvanian dictator Vlad the Impaler had a definition of "due process"
Soviet Josef Stalin had a definition of "due process".
The Nazi Gestapo and Department of Justice had a definition of "due process".
The WTB&TS has a definition of "due process"
The USA court systems have their definitions of "due process"
etc.
etc.
If your life was on the line, which system would YOU choose to get what approximates Justice?
In Las Vegas, about two weeks ago, a man stole a truck when the keys were left in the ignition .. admits it openly, and is NOT repentant ... and can NEVER be repentant. 
The whole WORLD ran the story of this theft .... he did it ... he confessed to it  ....and he was brazenly proud of it!
Under WTB&TS POLICY which is always enforced according to THAT SPECIFIC CRITERIA  ... if he had been one of Jehovah's Witnesses, he would be disfellowshipped as an unrepentant thief with an apostate morality ... completely different than that of the Governing Body's morality.
Not only would he be cut off from the Congregations, but all his friends he held dear, if they were also Jehovah's Witnesses.
 Under the WTB&TS system there is in REALITY  .....  NO PROVISION FOR MERCY OR COMMON SENSE.
Only the "rules".
Judicial Committees are NOT Judges ... only clerks. 
But ... they DO JUDGE.
The fact that he used that stolen truck to rescue people being massacred, the wounded and dying, to the hospital, does not fit into the robot software program of the current "clerk" administered rules.
DO YOU KNOW ANY REAL LIFE EXAMPLES ... ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD where the WTB&TS has shown mercy for an unrepentant  brazen wrongdoer?
Everything I have seen and know about is that Witnesses FEAR the WTB&TS judicial machinery, because it has ZERO provisions for common sense mercy.
DO YOU KNOW ANY REAL LIFE EXAMPLES ... ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD where the WTB&TS has shown mercy for an unrepentant  brazen wrongdoer?
A Watchtower reference would be nice, about now.

Well THH, you have the natural physical advantage .... no one else in the world knows how to get a wireless Bluetooth WIFI garden hose sprinkler nozzle to work.
 

There is such a thing as modesty and so I rarely spill. But for some time I have been the model for photos such as this.

Ever notice that demon possessed objects are always discovered by Sisters from stuff at a yard sale?
They are NEVER discovered by men buying a used car at a car auction sale.
I mean ... if you buy a used car and it has no demons, just stop making the payments ... and it will get  ... *coff* .... repossessed!

Speaking of waking up in the New World ....

I agree 100% ... I would rather live in this time than in any other time in the history of human experience.
I have been at death's door with my hand on the knob more than several  dozen times ... yet, somehow .....  I still live.
I thank Jehovah EVERY DAY for the circumstances of this time, and this place. 
 I am a HAPPY MAN since I stopped letting delusional pessimists, and people pushing their agendas tell me it's all going to hell in a hand basket.
IT'S NOT!
(Circumstances may vary ... do not try this at home.)
 

Speaking of waking up in the New World ....

Ever notice that demon possessed objects are always discovered by Sisters from stuff at a yard sale?
They are NEVER discovered by men buying a used car at a car auction sale.
I mean ... if you buy a used car and it has no demons, just stop making the payments ... and it will get  ... *coff* .... repossessed!

Allen, Allen Allen.
The words were defined by Jehovah God ... and HE decided that Warfare was not murder ... back in the times of the ancient Israelites.
You need some serious Meds ....  or have a few beers, chill, and do research on this topic
This is from Wikipedia:
Thou shalt not kill (LXX; οὐ φονεύσεις), You shall not murder (Hebrew: לֹא תִּרְצָח ‎ lo tirṣaḥ) or You shall not kill (KJV), is a moral imperative included as one of the Ten Commandments in the Torah.[1]
..... Retzach
The Hebrew verb רצח‎ (r-ṣ-ḥ, also transliterated retzach, ratzákh, ratsakh etc.) is the word in the original text that is translated as "murder" or "kill", but it has a wider range of meanings, generally describing destructive activity, including meanings "to break, to dash to pieces" as well as "to slay, kill, murder".
According to the Priestly Code of the Book of Numbers, killing anyone outside the context of war with a weapon, or in unarmed combat, is considered retzach, but if the killing is accidental, the accused must not leave the city, or he will be considered guilty of intentional murder. The Bible never uses the word retzach in conjunction with war.
Think about this AllenSmith ;
Murder is when you deliberately shed INNOCENT blood.
Someone not justified in doing so, trying to kill you is NOT INNOCENT!
It is legitimate self defense if you can manage to not let them kill YOU, and you stop them by killing them first.
.... and there is NO bloodguilt before Jehovah.
Their bloodguilt reverts back to them.

It's ALWAYS later than I think ... that's why I wear a wristwatch.

I dunno, I was born under a YIELD sign ...
 

Ever notice that demon possessed objects are always discovered by Sisters from stuff at a yard sale?
They are NEVER discovered by men buying a used car at a car auction sale.
I mean ... if you buy a used car and it has no demons, just stop making the payments ... and it will get  ... *coff* .... repossessed!

A better example is not necessary ... you have confused two different issues.
Anybody can report a missing person .... even "Bro. Bobby", who in this example SAW me kill "Bro. Jack".
But if he talks to the Elders first .. he most likely won't go to the Police ... they will talk him out of it so as to not "sully Jehovah's name".
Keep it hidden, keep it quiet ... that is why as of this date March, 18, 2017 ... the website JW.Org's World News has mentioned nothing, Nothing, NOTHING, NOTHING!, about the Australian Royal commissions investigations  ... NEWS .... Real news.
Zero, zip, nada, goose eggs ....
Bro. Bobby is completely free to call the Police and have THEM investigate ANY crime, but because of the Pharisaic APPLICATION of rules that existed thousands of years ago, in a completely different structured civilization and culture, where trials were held in the city gates for all those inside the city and outside the city to be able to see with their own eyes how Justice was administered... we have institutionalized craven cowardice in the REAL application of Justice.
Justice has become a billion words ... but has also BECOME an extreme rarity in real life, because doing what is RIGHT is never, ever considered .... only what one is FORCED to do. (...PLEASE make us do what is right - GB Geoffery Jackson ....).
This is not new.
The Bible records three three Elders that counseled Job in his misery for three days ... but had NOTHING worth recording to say.
Words, word, and more words ... and Justice is aborted.
A child molester in the Congregation today with only ONE witness is, and denies it, can retain his congregational standing ... and because the accusations cannot be acted upon, he or she cannot be reported to the police ... by the Elders.
The instructions are to "Leave it in Jehovah's hands ...".
This is a CRIMINAL activity ... but in 50 years in over 5,000 cases involving 1,006 alleged perpetrators ... in one country alone, at the "bottom of the world",  the solution was to keep the details hidden in envelopes  in congregational and branch files, and mail copies in special blue envelopes to Bethel in New York.
Like Nixon's Watergate ... the cover-up is what became global news.
In the old Soviet Union, the major newspaper was named "PRAVDA" which means "TRUTH".
All news extolled the wisdom and competence of the Communist leadership, and allegiance and respect for  the good job they were doing.
Then their administration collapsed of it's own arrogance, and incompetence.

Just as a person has the natural right to bear arms to defend himself or his family ... there are those that will pervert this into the right of a Bear to HAVE arms, defend the position for short sleeve shirts, and use references to support bare arms, or other irrational goofiness.
When irrational goofyness reaches a certain level it transforms into unadulterated EVIL.
Did you ever see the classic "must see" movie "Deliverance"?  Bodies and evidence disappear, or is never found or linked ....  all the time. 
There are infinite variety scenarios to everything ... including making, in the game of Golf, a "hole in one" that would NEVER have happened if not for a squirrel that dropped an acorn out of its mouth a hundred years ago, it grew into an oak tree, and now in the present day, the golf ball bounced off of the tree ... rolled across the green, and plopped into the little cup.
Add time element to "WOW! What are the chances of THAT ( ... pick anything the mind can imagine ..) happening ?".
It helps to think about such things after three beers, while sitting in a darkened room, in a comfortable chair.
This would be an "Infinite Variety" scenario.
Let's say I murdered "Bro. Jack" .....  "Bro. Bobby" saw me do it, and I took the body several states away and buried it in a corn field ... and denied I had ever been with Bro. Jack and Bro. Bobby that day ... that I had been, say, walking in the woods taking photos somewhere in the other direction.
To everybody else but Bro. Bobby .... Jack just disappeared.
According to the "two witness rule", the elders COULD NOT EVEN REPORT ME TO THE POLICE for investigation.
Why?
Only one Witness.
BRO. BOBBY, however,  could report me to the police, as any responsible man with a conscience would and should, and would HAVE to do to avoid MORAL complicity in a CRIMINAL activity, and and deny JUSTICE to Bro. Jack.
If we as claimants to God's special favor, and carry his Name,  deny basic, elemental, natural human MORALITY, that even most atheists are born with, and continually pervert Justice ... it is WRONG .. and a great slander and reproach on our God, Jehovah, and his reputation.
... and, it makes the administrators of those policies ..... EVIL.
... and a million published words, spoken and written a thousand times, will not make that go away.
When irrational goofyness reaches a certain level it transforms into unadulterated EVIL.
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It has TTH, and you KNOW that is true, you just refuse to acknowledge it.
The clothes you wear, the food you eat, the medicines you hopefully take, the quality of cars, houses, buildings, streets, bridges, agriculture, animal husbandry, communications, international travel ... and the list is truly endless.
Neither system is perfect, but BOTH systems are incredibly important.
The World is better in EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE compared to what it was when apprenticeship feudal systems predated Universities, which created  structured learning for the masses of people.
You are living in a fantasy world of someone elses' creation, TTH ... and millions of actual FACTS from the REAL world prove that.
 

Such a privilege to volunteer on a Kingdom Hall construction.
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Unbelievable experience. Unforgettable memories. Upbuilding association with our brothers and sisters.
Memorable and happy day indeed. ? #thankful #happy #fulfilling
Makes US grounded! ?????
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I still remember a dream I had as a very young child (I'd guess I was around 4 or 5 yo). I woke up in a panic.   It created great anxiety for years.  As an adult, I have reconciled the meaning (I can still see the images in my mind) and realize it was a way for my brain to process my inner emotions that I could not put into words.   Since the brain never sleeps and its attempting to create meaning and order to our experiences,  dreams can be useful to understand that process.  However,  I've had dreams where I wake up and go,  What the Heck!   I've had other dreams that scare the Heck out of me.   Years ago I took Melatonin to help me to sleep, but they caused terror nightmares.    Some other dreams I don't want to end since they are very pleasant.   

Very good @Nicole  Thank you !  A funny explanation 

First time I have ever seen Deer jumping over a person representing sleep ... usually it's Sheep!
 

For quite some time on my Facebook page I ran quotes from Wikipedia about Lil Abner. Some older friends commented on how they remembered and loved the characters. 
I always, always write my own material. But in this case, I simply quoted Wikipedia and left it at that.
And, no, don't ask to friend me. There is a part of me that would like that, but I fear you would not behave.

Given that a man feels he must have a cartoon collection, he cannot do better than the complete works of Gary Larsen and Scott Adams.
Only Al Capp would be an equal, of another generation.

I don't want to let this go quickly because it is typical of how you start with something true and then use it as a platform to lie, or at least deliver unproven & harsh judgements. Nobody slaps Jesus in the face with his own counsel about being  slow to judge more than you. 
Your lie, in this case, is that the Watchtower seeks to bankrupt those seeking redress through the courts. It is not necessarily a lie. It may just be a ignorant accusation. Choose for yourself which it is. 
In fact, it is impossible to bankrupt a person in this manner, unless this case is very unusual. Deep pocketed legal firms take on these cases - the plaintiff incurs no expense whatsoever - in return for one third of any awarded amount. 
There is no question that Bethel has a significant mess on its hands. It turns out there was a real scoundrel in their midst who harmed several people. Whether the legal means employed is the best one or not I am not qualified to say. The point is that you, whose legal library consists of the complete works of Gary Larsen and the complete works of Scott Adams are not qualified to say either. 
It is a sad fact of human nature that the more ignorant a person is, the louder they are.

It really doesn't matter how nice they make it sound...at the end of the day this "two groups" theory is human extrapolation and it does not have clear, Biblical support. This is the same organization that doesn't use the word "cross" in its translation despite historical records of crucifixion because the Aramaic word "stauros" does not clearly mean cross. And they were correct to do that! Our Bible should be the evidence. Let's not go beyond it. And there is no clear, scriptural evidence that the generation in Matthew 24:34 is two overlapping groups.
Not once did the GB suggest that the generation could be two overlapping groups until after the first theory failed. And the idea that the generation was one group existed for nearly a century. So, is this a case where the generation "evidently" meant two groups, or is it an attempt by the GB to force a square peg in a round hole? Wouldn't it have made more sense to throw out that failed idea and reevaluate our understanding of the prophetic framework? Even if 1914 is a valid prophetic date, why take the risk when it's been interpreted wrong before? In an organization that puts such value on Bible truth, wouldn't it make sense to discontinue a theory that has proven unreliable and has even mislead JWs? The GB did the opposite. They manufactured a new definition for generation that suits their need to keep 1914 a valid date. The GB holds onto 1914/the generation dearly, because it gives people a sense of urgency and makes our organization prophetically significant. Without it, JWs may become disillusioned or not cling to the organization. There are plenty of human motives for keeping this failed theory around, but at the expense of spiritual truth.