James Thomas Rook Jr.

Gene Deitch, Prolific Animator, Is Dead at 95
In a six-decade career, he created Tom Terrific, revived Tom and Jerry and won an Academy Award for a cartoon based on a Jules Feiffer story

Among Mr. Deitch’s earliest jobs while working in Prague was making new “Tom and Jerry” cartoons for MGM. He ran into several obstacles.Credit...Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
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I am always happy when JWI does the heavy lifting for me ... as a Barbarian the only thing I have going for me is single minded focus, which can be good ... or bad.
From my many comments here one might very reasonably think I  am on a quest to destroy the Governing Body, and that they are my sworn enemy, but that would be a stretch of enormous proportions, basically because that is not the case at all.
I would like to see MANY reforms, so that others are not chased away from the TRUTH, as I could have been, through no want of considerable effort by clueless Elders, and that others do not have to experience the persecution and discouragement I have faced, because of choosing a life of pursuing the things that interested me, about which Jehovah God has not expressed any opinion on whatsoever, in any way, shape or form, but which offends the sensibilities of those not so inclined. ( Classic example: skydiving, having a beard, and imitating at least two of the Apostles, being armed at all times).
Jehovah did not appoint the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus' day, neither did he appoint the Governing Body.
BOTH took it upon themselves to "seat themselves in the seat of Moses", a job that I appreciate, and I appreciate that for the most part, their motives and motivation are as pure as the wind driven snow .... sometimes not ...but willy-nilly, the largest problem is the talent pool available.
The GB is recruited from humans ... big ugly nasty, frail, error prone, illogical, greedy and seriously flawed bags of water, sloshing around usually doing the best they can, each with individual "thorns in their side", that stab them and throw them off balance.
I understand this, and I understand that currently there is NO WAY TO GET AROUND IT.
So, without any duplicity, or being two faced, I agree with the principle for the Governing Body the same as what Jesus said for the scribes and Pharisees, of his day..
(Matthew 23:2, 3) . . .“The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the seat of Moses. 3 Therefore, all the things they tell you, do and observe, . .
After three years and about six months of being disfellowshipped, about five years ago, I could not compromise about the issue about which I was disfellowshipped, and say "I was sorry", and had three separate reinstatement hearings, the last of which I only promised never to do what got me disfellowshipped again.
By this time, the Elders had gotten to know me better.
They also began to understand the issue better.
At the first hearing, they may have been afraid I might shoot them.(?)
The last hearing only lasted about 4 minutes, less than ten minutes ... and they only asked me three questions.
1.) QUESTION: "What do you think of the Governing Body?"
    ANSWER: " I think I will have to agree with their self assessment in the February 2017 Watchtower, where they stated that they were neither inspired of God, or infallible."
2.) QUESTION: 'What do you not like about "The Truth?""
ANSWER: "Well, I could certainly do without Caleb and Sophia"
3.) QUESTION: "Will you support Jehovah and his Organization?"
ANSWER::" I always have. " ( correctly implying that I always will.)
This was on a Saturday.
They announced my reinstatement the following Tuesday, at a Circuit Overseer's visit.
So, if you who have left "The Truth" are encouraged by my resistance to stupidity, illogic, and injustices found among Jehovah's people, by my "bad example", and my rants and rails against what I have in the past referred to is "the clown car"., you are making the same mistake the Elders made.
The main reason I am so crude, and blunt, and un-diplomatic is that people glaze over with soft words spoken in dulcet tones, and they enjoy being hypnotized.
Also, I never have to remember what I have said .... or to who!!
If you have abandoned "The Truth", you have only shot yourself in the foot, and it takes awhile to bleed out.
Any involvement with any collection of people has the same foibles and weaknesses, and they are legion.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water ... but it's OK to recognize and rail against bathwater that needs to be thrown out.
.... contrary to mainstream preferences.
For blind pawns, Justice must be tempered with mercy, or real love ceases to exist. (John 9:41)
.... and we are ALL, blind pawns, made from DNA.
 

Good decision. 

Ask him if he realizes he is imperfect too.... and can bluff himself. 

I am always happy when JWI does the heavy lifting for me ... as a Barbarian the only thing I have going for me is single minded focus, which can be good ... or bad.
From my many comments here one might very reasonably think I  am on a quest to destroy the Governing Body, and that they are my sworn enemy, but that would be a stretch of enormous proportions, basically because that is not the case at all.
I would like to see MANY reforms, so that others are not chased away from the TRUTH, as I could have been, through no want of considerable effort by clueless Elders, and that others do not have to experience the persecution and discouragement I have faced, because of choosing a life of pursuing the things that interested me, about which Jehovah God has not expressed any opinion on whatsoever, in any way, shape or form, but which offends the sensibilities of those not so inclined. ( Classic example: skydiving, having a beard, and imitating at least two of the Apostles, being armed at all times).
Jehovah did not appoint the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus' day, neither did he appoint the Governing Body.
BOTH took it upon themselves to "seat themselves in the seat of Moses", a job that I appreciate, and I appreciate that for the most part, their motives and motivation are as pure as the wind driven snow .... sometimes not ...but willy-nilly, the largest problem is the talent pool available.
The GB is recruited from humans ... big ugly nasty, frail, error prone, illogical, greedy and seriously flawed bags of water, sloshing around usually doing the best they can, each with individual "thorns in their side", that stab them and throw them off balance.
I understand this, and I understand that currently there is NO WAY TO GET AROUND IT.
So, without any duplicity, or being two faced, I agree with the principle for the Governing Body the same as what Jesus said for the scribes and Pharisees, of his day..
(Matthew 23:2, 3) . . .“The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the seat of Moses. 3 Therefore, all the things they tell you, do and observe, . .
After three years and about six months of being disfellowshipped, about five years ago, I could not compromise about the issue about which I was disfellowshipped, and say "I was sorry", and had three separate reinstatement hearings, the last of which I only promised never to do what got me disfellowshipped again.
By this time, the Elders had gotten to know me better.
They also began to understand the issue better.
At the first hearing, they may have been afraid I might shoot them.(?)
The last hearing only lasted about 4 minutes, less than ten minutes ... and they only asked me three questions.
1.) QUESTION: "What do you think of the Governing Body?"
    ANSWER: " I think I will have to agree with their self assessment in the February 2017 Watchtower, where they stated that they were neither inspired of God, or infallible."
2.) QUESTION: 'What do you not like about "The Truth?""
ANSWER: "Well, I could certainly do without Caleb and Sophia"
3.) QUESTION: "Will you support Jehovah and his Organization?"
ANSWER::" I always have. " ( correctly implying that I always will.)
This was on a Saturday.
They announced my reinstatement the following Tuesday, at a Circuit Overseer's visit.
So, if you who have left "The Truth" are encouraged by my resistance to stupidity, illogic, and injustices found among Jehovah's people, by my "bad example", and my rants and rails against what I have in the past referred to is "the clown car"., you are making the same mistake the Elders made.
The main reason I am so crude, and blunt, and un-diplomatic is that people glaze over with soft words spoken in dulcet tones, and they enjoy being hypnotized.
Also, I never have to remember what I have said .... or to who!!
If you have abandoned "The Truth", you have only shot yourself in the foot, and it takes awhile to bleed out.
Any involvement with any collection of people has the same foibles and weaknesses, and they are legion.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water ... but it's OK to recognize and rail against bathwater that needs to be thrown out.
.... contrary to mainstream preferences.
For blind pawns, Justice must be tempered with mercy, or real love ceases to exist. (John 9:41)
.... and we are ALL, blind pawns, made from DNA.
 

You know, I can get my head around this. I really can.
I’ll still refer to you from time to time as ‘the brother with the rotten attitude’ because who knows how many brothers you have stumbled in carrying on as you do. But I sort of understand where you are coming from as you have not made clear before—or if so, I did not pick up on it. 
What you say is like when someone dear to me told off some elders and I told Mack that I didn’t really approve of him telling off the elders, but..... “I understand,” Mack saved me the hassle of finishing the sentence.
The ministry is a treasure, but it is treasure in earthen vessels—us—with all the wacky foibles that humans are capable of. I once observed about beards: ‘Hippies and beatniks died out ages ago, it’s not in the Bible and to the extent it is, it is reverse. We are an organization of principles, not rules, and yet no rule is more strongly enforced than the no-beard rule. I’m glad that sucker has finally been put to bed, but it still tosses and turns in its sleep. 
You can complain about such foibles of organization to God. The trouble is, God will say, “Well, you are no great shakes yourself. You’ll all just have to work it out.” It’s a shame you’re not better at doing that, instead giving every appearance that you will be nursing a dozen grudges to your grave. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. All of us do. That’s life. It happens everywhere. 
Ah, well. We all have our hang ups. Even me.
I was walking my pet pig the other day and a man approached to say, “Hey, where did you find the pig?” Before I could open my mouth, the pig said. “I found him online, frequenting the WorldNewsMedia forum. We hit it off and have chummed together ever since.” I don’t get no respect either.

I am always happy when JWI does the heavy lifting for me ... as a Barbarian the only thing I have going for me is single minded focus, which can be good ... or bad.
From my many comments here one might very reasonably think I  am on a quest to destroy the Governing Body, and that they are my sworn enemy, but that would be a stretch of enormous proportions, basically because that is not the case at all.
I would like to see MANY reforms, so that others are not chased away from the TRUTH, as I could have been, through no want of considerable effort by clueless Elders, and that others do not have to experience the persecution and discouragement I have faced, because of choosing a life of pursuing the things that interested me, about which Jehovah God has not expressed any opinion on whatsoever, in any way, shape or form, but which offends the sensibilities of those not so inclined. ( Classic example: skydiving, having a beard, and imitating at least two of the Apostles, being armed at all times).
Jehovah did not appoint the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus' day, neither did he appoint the Governing Body.
BOTH took it upon themselves to "seat themselves in the seat of Moses", a job that I appreciate, and I appreciate that for the most part, their motives and motivation are as pure as the wind driven snow .... sometimes not ...but willy-nilly, the largest problem is the talent pool available.
The GB is recruited from humans ... big ugly nasty, frail, error prone, illogical, greedy and seriously flawed bags of water, sloshing around usually doing the best they can, each with individual "thorns in their side", that stab them and throw them off balance.
I understand this, and I understand that currently there is NO WAY TO GET AROUND IT.
So, without any duplicity, or being two faced, I agree with the principle for the Governing Body the same as what Jesus said for the scribes and Pharisees, of his day..
(Matthew 23:2, 3) . . .“The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the seat of Moses. 3 Therefore, all the things they tell you, do and observe, . .
After three years and about six months of being disfellowshipped, about five years ago, I could not compromise about the issue about which I was disfellowshipped, and say "I was sorry", and had three separate reinstatement hearings, the last of which I only promised never to do what got me disfellowshipped again.
By this time, the Elders had gotten to know me better.
They also began to understand the issue better.
At the first hearing, they may have been afraid I might shoot them.(?)
The last hearing only lasted about 4 minutes, less than ten minutes ... and they only asked me three questions.
1.) QUESTION: "What do you think of the Governing Body?"
    ANSWER: " I think I will have to agree with their self assessment in the February 2017 Watchtower, where they stated that they were neither inspired of God, or infallible."
2.) QUESTION: 'What do you not like about "The Truth?""
ANSWER: "Well, I could certainly do without Caleb and Sophia"
3.) QUESTION: "Will you support Jehovah and his Organization?"
ANSWER::" I always have. " ( correctly implying that I always will.)
This was on a Saturday.
They announced my reinstatement the following Tuesday, at a Circuit Overseer's visit.
So, if you who have left "The Truth" are encouraged by my resistance to stupidity, illogic, and injustices found among Jehovah's people, by my "bad example", and my rants and rails against what I have in the past referred to is "the clown car"., you are making the same mistake the Elders made.
The main reason I am so crude, and blunt, and un-diplomatic is that people glaze over with soft words spoken in dulcet tones, and they enjoy being hypnotized.
Also, I never have to remember what I have said .... or to who!!
If you have abandoned "The Truth", you have only shot yourself in the foot, and it takes awhile to bleed out.
Any involvement with any collection of people has the same foibles and weaknesses, and they are legion.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water ... but it's OK to recognize and rail against bathwater that needs to be thrown out.
.... contrary to mainstream preferences.
For blind pawns, Justice must be tempered with mercy, or real love ceases to exist. (John 9:41)
.... and we are ALL, blind pawns, made from DNA.
 

Yikes .... restricted to a dorm room for several weeks!
Perhaps for "the duration".
... and no .. I am not going to mention pillows.

I could do it, but it might take several months ... at $175.00 an hour.
When the check clears the bank, I will start.
In God I trust.
...all others pay cash.

My mother who is up there in age...70's. Their congregation decided to stop meetings at the kingdom hall and forgo their assembly. The local congregation is taking steps to minimize socialization and are doing their meetings via zoom and facebook, etc.  I want to thank the brother of my mother for providing her with a brand new I-pad...wish I could afford one...but I helped her get jw.org in it and facebook and zoom to the best of my abilities. At her age she finds it extremely important to stay connected. t her jw family. I am glad the governing body decided to let individual congregations do their stuff on line. Haters and anti jw's would have people think the opposite. I am glad the jws' are being responsible. I do however wish to pray for a long time friend of our family, who are jw's and medical guardians for my mother, they themselves actually have family members who are tested positive and are on life support due to this virus.
But what I don't want to see is an article in the watchtower that says they were the only ones doing this. Throwing all other religions under the bus, throwing us family members under the bus...then running over us over and over again.

I like the black and white version more.

People should be defended wherever possible. The motives can be quite pure and still mistakes are made. In fact, I would say that there are specific good motives that make certain kinds of mistakes even more likely. I'm pretty sure that's why we have extra warnings in the Bible about not being misled when it comes to speculation about the end-time events. Paul said not to be quickly shaken from your reason nor to be alarmed either by an inspired statement or by a spoken message or by a letter appearing to be from us. Obviously, the end-time events get us all excited, and these are the most likely times and events that persons would be speculating upon.

Thank you for 'shooting down' your GB and showing how unreasonable they are.
I think it is out of fear of being disfellowshipped or worse, that JWs of any rank do not speak plainly about such rubbish, directly to the GB. But then it is probably not possible for a 'brave person' to even get close enough to tell them to their face. 
Respect is one thing, worship is another. But it's probably more like fear. 
You all think your organisation has God's name, but you all sit back and let the GB make a mockery of it. 
And now you will of course jump to their defence. But time and time again you bring out all the Bible Students / CCJW lies / mistakes / false claims. And yet you think poeple should trust this GB and its Org. 
As for TTH, well he's a writer and writers love fairy tales. 

I know this wasn't directed directly at me, but I am just as likely to ridicule the chart as several others around here. The reason is reason:
(Philippians 4:5) 5 Let your reasonableness become known to all men.. . .
(2 Thessalonians 2:1, 2) . . .However, brothers, concerning the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you 2 not to be quickly shaken from your reason nor to be alarmed either by an inspired statement or by a spoken message or by a letter appearing to be from us, to the effect that the day of Jehovah is here.
(James 1:22) . . .However, become doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning. . .
(Romans 12:1) . . .Therefore, I appeal to you by the compassions of God, brothers, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, a sacred service with your power of reason.
(James 3:17) 17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, reasonable, . . .
This reminds me of the time when Rutherford began teaching about "Armageddon" in 1925 (and the start of the resurrection of the ancient worthies like Abraham and David). He said it was not just a possibility or probability, but the practical equivalent of a certainty. This teaching was Rutherford's most famous prophetic interpretation from the moment that he was supposed to have embodied the "faithful slave" and the "Governing Body" starting in 1919. The 1919 prophetic message "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" was a message about how people would stop dying in 1925.
Should anyone have said anything to Rutherford about how unreasonable this idea was? Should anyone have said anything to anyone else who was teaching this? Rutherford was saying that his hearers and readers could be more certain of 1925 than Noah could have been certain about an imminent Flood. He said 1925 was more of a certainty than 1914 had been. (Which year had also been displayed in famous charts and chart-dependent presentations.) 
I think you are implying that out of respect for Rutherford (and the "faithful slave" and the "Governing Body") that no one should have pointed out that this was unreasonable. Something similar might go for the idea that the Governing Body said that there should be no divorce allowed for a sister in the congregation when her husband was found to be committing adultery with another man. In the latter case, I'm pretty sure that the rule was changed only when enough people were bold enough to make fun of it. If no one had spoken up, we might still be stuck with this unreasonable teaching.
You point out that it now seems reasonable that the end might come about based upon the travails that the world is going through at this time. That might seem reasonable to a lot of people. Yet, even if it happens to be correct that we are currently listening to the world's "death rattle," it still does not follow that an unreasonable chart had anything to do with it.
If the end comes tonight and someone later discovers that a man in, say, Northern Queensland had been holding up a sign to that effect in a cow pasture, we could not reasonably connect the man's sign to the end-times event.

The more I think about it, the more I am surprised that you would continue to ridicule this, now that it was acquired powerful circumstantial evidence that it may turn out just this way. 
A stretch? Not the most likely meaning of generation? Possibly. Still, the GB began saying ‘the last of the last days’ about 6 months ago, just before a virus and worldwide collapse that couldn’t fit better with such a description came along. Even if it seems from a distance not the most likely explanation, there is nothing illogical about it, nothing fictional, that you should continue to laugh your sides off. It is only your disrespect for those taking the lead that makes you do this. There is nothing about the explanation that rings false in itself, and now much that suggests it might be true.
You should reassess your ridicule. It smacks too much of Dathan splitting his sides laughing at Moses’ chart of how the earth would open up.
.....
“Zena! Zena! Oh no! Poor Zena. Why didn’t she listen to Jehovah?”

5,200 years from now, after WWIII .... and the Earth has reverted to a much more primitive time, and only insectoid humanoid insects evolved by radiation into humanoid shaped creatures roam the Earth ... Insectoid Archaeologists will be digging through the Earth's crust to search out their past, and 32 feet above the now famous Iridium level in the Earth's crust, will be the then famous global AOL CD Disk level.

The only thing I consider when reading "..this generation will not pass away until all these things occur" ... is what did the Apostles understand it meant when Jesus said it to them?
All else is FANTASY!

I personally can't look at Al Gore the same way now.....

That was possible too! But josephus refers to a pious woman who everyone respected before, who ate her child.
During 607 siege they also ate their children... but many were used to the pagan rituals of offering up their children in fire and were used to the smell of burning flesh to false gods.
What was bad about this is that they had no place to bury their dead in the heat...... they threw the bodies over the wall to get rid of it. And babylonian soldiers catapulted the dead bodies with swollen bellies back into the city - creating terrible pandemonium because wherever parts of bodies spattered was immediately unclean.  They must have been in a mentally very dark place. ....

Although gory, I get the gist of your discussion above. I do think our bodies are wonderful biological machines and our healing properties exceptional. Unfortunately we often interfere with it's natural abilities by bad diet, bad practices, and so forth.
Wild animals often have severe injuries, wounds or even parasites.. and they do manage to survive. They clean their own wounds if they can with tongues which have enzymes, and  bacteria. But I know too little of mouth bacteria to really be scientific.  I have never seen a crocodile lick itself though and I am sure anything can die from the bacteria present in its mouth after getting a slight wound.  The wound will have to be properly tended.
About eating humans...... there are a number of factors to consider:  if they were killed in a air crash and a limb or body part was so severely severed that blood flowed out to make it kosher/bloodless, one could take a chance and eat it. It would be better to cook it so as to kill the human viruses and parasites before ingesting without breaking the law of jehovah - shocking as it may seem. It is not what goes into the body but what comes out which is a sin.
The fierce masaegetae tribe (who killed Cyrus the Great in battle) used to eat each other and it was considered an honor.  When a tribe member felt it was time to die, they would offer him up and make a feast. They also used to drink their horse blood - breaking the everlasting covenant given to Noah.
Siege of Jerusalem: the shock of supposedly pious Jews 'killing" their own children to eat them, not bleeding it and ingesting the blood, touching the human dead (making one unclean) and eating the unclean, was shocking! They were under Jehovahs law..... jehovah is a God of life not of death and humans are the crown of creation.
Touching the carcass of unclean animals or clean animals that died of itself was unclean  One was allowed to eat a clean animal that had died of itself and bled, one could cook and eat it and one would be unclean until evening.  Lev 11: 39 & 40. So Jehovahs laws were not draconian but the law against ingesting blood is universal...... part of everlasting covenant made  with Noah when eating flesh.  Isaiah 24:5.  Gen 9: 3- 12
Here it refers to whole blood........ but when one bleeds a dead animal there is separation in the carcass of blood and water (white and red blood) and minute bits of blood is left in the carcass.  So one would not get technical about the particles still in the carcass. It is the act of obedience to jehovah that is important..... that one respects the life of the animal and life of all persons. 

How does a bug react when it hits the windshield?

I think you phrased that perfectly.

Of course it is! ... you can taste the difference!

Ham is made from things that used to go "oink."
 

I think you phrased that perfectly.