TrueTomHarley

What in the world are you talking about? I have no idea who those two fellows are.

As for the downvote, it’s because Vic Vomodog and I used to pull shoulder to shoulder in the work until he went over to the dark side. Believe me, he hated the book TrueTom vs the Apostates! and rejoiced when I took it down for a few misspellings.

2 minutes ago, Dr. Adhominem said:

A brilliant analysis, TrueTom. Absolutely spot-on! Of course, all of your posts are and I have come to expect no less of you.

Thank you, Dr. Adhominem. Coming from such a learned source as you, it means a lot. I pledge to always do my best.

48 minutes ago, George88 said:

the Closed club. It appears that you effortlessly escape from your deceitful statements and misrepresentations there.

No. We grill him mercilessly there and make him squirm mightily, let me tell you.

22 hours ago, Anna said:

I am trying to figure out under which forum this topic is....

It doesn’t matter. No matter what the topic is or where it is, it always boils down to a squabble with George.

1 hour ago, Pudgy said:

HAHAhahaha !

He’s me. too.

11 minutes ago, George88 said:

Which one is yours Tom, Many Miles, Miracle Pete, etc.

He’s me. Can’t slip anything past you, I see.

1 hour ago, George88 said:

My life story is so rich and complex that it would fill a book. Are you implying that you would like to be my ghostwriter?

Do you think i could capture the essence of it? Remember, when I write of myself, I am full of self-deprecatory humor. Would that work for you?

1 hour ago, George88 said:

I disagree. The issue is that some of you believe only your complaints matter. However, seeking approval from you all serves no purpose in the eyes of God. Therefore, it is clear that my priority is not to impress any of you.

As Jehovah’s Witnesses, we are encouraged not only to take an interest in people, but to ‘love people’—the title of our latest brochure. The “eyes of God” want us to do this. It is very hard to do this with someone who reveals nothing of himself, who eternally thinks everyone is out to get him, and who seemingly exists only to criticize others.

You should spill more.

7 hours ago, George88 said:

There's no need for me to narrate my entire life story

I think there is.

4 hours ago, George88 said:

How about any other negative thing you can offer against the Watchtower. I find your post extremely poetic, not funny, just poetic being you are a former Bethel member.

Okay, so I know this post is not addressed to me, having never been a Bethel member, but I did visit there once, as a young man, and dined with them. I quickly got the sense of the food-plate flow, that after prayer, everyone picked up the serving dish nearest him or her, helped themselves, then passes it around till all ten people had been served. So, when dessert came, strawberries, I saw the plate start with the person on my immediate left and head clockwise. When it finally makes its way to me, I knew everyone had had their shot, so what remained was mine. Alas—I did not realize that some postpone their desserts and have it later!

So here I am, munching away, when someone says, ‘Hey! Who took all the strawberries?!’ Whereupon, I looked up, strawberries hanging from my mouth, and made like Chuck Berry: 

“It wasn't me, Sarge. Uhm-uhm, Sarge, it wasn't me. It must have been some other body, Uh, uh, Sarge, it wasn't me.”

16 minutes ago, Matthew9969 said:

Dang, why the need for so much security?

Waiting for the attack from those IBMers across the Deep Blue lake, no doubt, led by Watson himself.

I think we can take Geo Jackson’s words as a template. ‘You don’t want to take sides,’ he says, and to show the challenge of keeping neutral, he uses the example of contesting politicians in Australia, one of whom wanted to draft people of Jackson’s age into the military and one of whom did not. Now that would test your resolve to stay neutral, he said, nonetheless you must do it.

If he was as ignorant of politics as some seem to think is the gold standard, he would not have even known which politician’s views would be to his benefit and which one would not. Of course, I leaned into him on this point, informing him that:

2 hours ago, George88 said:

Witnesses who are in good standing do not engage in politics. They possess the discernment to distinguish between words and actions. Therefore, making statements inconsistent with one's behavior does not uphold credibility.

I’m sure he gave my words all the consideration they deserved before instantly turning his attention to other matters.

29 minutes ago, George88 said:

If you want to have a clean conversation that doesn't involve criticism as much as you people criticize the Watchtower and its policies, why not keep it in your pants. In this case, the closed club. What did you say about those jerks?

You don’t want to know. They’re holding a ice cream social for the candidates in that wicked place.

17 minutes ago, George88 said:

You made me spill my juice on that one, lol!

Well, whose fault is that? Next thing, you will be calling me a cult leader for having manipulated you into spilling it.

It is not shocking to be informed, though neither is it a sin to opt out. One firebrand brother on X stated emphatically, straight out of the blue, “Jehovah’s Witness are NOT INTERESTED in politics!” Well, actually some of them are, I told him. ‘I think what you are looking to say is that they do not take sides. 

‘They are NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS!’ he roared back and then blocked me.

33 minutes ago, JW Insider said:

I met Dr Peter McCullough in Tampa when he was staying directly across from my wife and I in our hotel room. My son and I talked to him in the lobby briefly. I am not quite as impressed with him now that he has tried some questionable methods to turn his own work into a money-making machine. But Rogan and McCullough were both very good sources about Covid. 

I think these guys have some astronomical legal bills—even their licenses are under constant attack & some have lost theirs—and for that reason I cut them slack.

11 minutes ago, JW Insider said:

Don’t know if this happens to you. But when I bring up Gaza I get a version of this AIPAC ad on the page. As I did just now: (I strongly dislike AIPAC)

Nothing but sales scams for me. Just recently I had the CO in my car. He saw the ‘Messages’ app onscreen and could not stop talking about the number I hadn’t acknowledged. (693) ‘Yeah, I get so many spam calls, I don’t always go through my messages,’ I told him. ‘Clearly!’ was his reply. He kept carrying on, even said he wanted to get a picture, so I swiped the screen to show another set of apps and distract him. Unfortunately, he there saw Viber with 43. 

43 minutes ago, JW Insider said:

The link was excellent. I remember my parents going to pbs and npr.

He even says he drives a Subaru:

I’ve never heard a Tucker excerpt I didn’t like. That said, I haven’t heard too many. None of those other people do I know. In the early days of Covid, however, I forwarded a Joe Rogan interview with Dr. McCullough to HQ, hoping that if they found it as informative as I did, they would overlook Joe’s explosion of profanity towards the end. Probably, I put myself on their radar screen as much as you during your recent visit, during which they said to themselves,  “What is it this politician would like to tell?” Others: “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities.”

6 hours ago, JW Insider said:

As long as they continued to support corporate sponsors, including "Big Pharma" and "Big Military Industrial Complex,"

Just once I’d like to see a Pharma ad in which the actors, rather than acting out the touted benefits of the drug, instead act out the side effects of the voiceover—gasping, clutching their throats, turning blue, hair falling out, doubling over, dropping dead, straining on the toilet to ‘go’, swiveling about in dizziness.

6 hours ago, JW Insider said:

But I would be happy to hear about the various sources people use when trying to find the "truth" about various world events. 

Journalists who go rogue often do it for me.

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

RFKjr is turning out a fine source as well. Look how he says 60 years ago most people (80%) trusted government and now 90% do not:

https://x.com/vigilantfox/status/1777710201937732085?s=61&t=fM8K_zHB-Zw9l_mM_4QHqg

9 hours ago, JW Insider said:

The brothers and sisters who have their part in the Bible village museum try to stay in character as if they are in a convention drama even if you ask them a question. They don’t have to of course but some of them have fun with it.

I’ll say! Those jerks who stoned Stephen turned their firepower on me! I barely made it back to the car in one piece.

On 4/2/2024 at 10:35 AM, George88 said:

Share your own ideas and express any falsehoods that you desire on your own topic. Is this what TOM upholds in place of God?

Tom just pulls out his hair and screams, like the guy from Planet of the Apes, ‘It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!’’

Then he retreats to the sanctity of the closed club, its atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb.

30 minutes ago, George88 said:

Your opinion, whether from your perspective or that of your closed club members as compared to that coming from a higher power, is inconsequential to me, as I could reciprocate the sentiment towards all of you in the closed club. lol!

All you must do is knock it off with the incessant holier-than-thou jabs at them, oozing with self-righteousness, and they will leave you alone. It’s not as though anyone there has anything against you.

4 minutes ago, George88 said:

Regrettably, I have been branded as the bogeyman here, while the devil remains concealed there. But has anyone taken the time to genuinely question why I am still here?

Doesn’t the game of Whack-a-Mole explain it?

46 minutes ago, George88 said:

That's the type of ideology that should prevail in your closed club. How can a true Christian lead a quiet life? Where do Christians get that advice from?

This is the type of ideology I am trying to enforce there, staining with all my might. But the way they carry on there is so outlandinsh, enough to make Ashtarte look like Mother Teresa. 

On 3/30/2024 at 2:10 PM, George88 said:

MAGA supporters on the far right are expressing outrage over President Biden acknowledging the transgender community with a day of visibility. But why should Jehovah's Witnesses concern themselves with worldly politics at all?

Because it proves it is not possible to dress up a pig.

As any Witness knows, Easter is an example of slapping a Christian label on a pre-existing sordid holiday, in this the celebration of the goddess Ashtarte, always coinciding with the rebirth of the earth every springtime, once again the explosion of life, and so carried out with orgies and fertility rites. Hence, the bunnies and eggs which clearly have nothing to do with Jesus. Then along come the church fathers much later, hoping to hijack and redirect an already-wildly popular holiday by pasting a Christian label on it

Witnesses seem to never tire of revealing the unsavory roots of holidays such a Christmas, Halloween, and Easter. My response is to say, ‘Give it a rest already. Nobody cares. If people haven’t given them up by now, they’re not going to.’ But, in this case, those Witnesses are right on the money and I am wrong. Transgender Visibility Day (as though they were invisible before) is no more than the holiday reverting closer to its origin. We all know that when small children are queried at school or the pediatricians office as to whether they are really a boy or a girl (as happened with a young mother in our congregation)—perhaps they were ‘assigned’ the wrong sex—something is seriously out of whack.