TrueTomHarley

I first heard the term 15-minute cities only a few days ago and had to do as search as to what it meant. Getting around from any point A to any point B in 15 minutes was all I found. Offhand, that does not sound like such a bad goal, except you know the draconian means that will be forced upon people to implement such goals. These days a car is as much a means of protection from mugging as it is a means of transportation.

I don’t know who this Kevin person is

34 minutes ago, AudreyAnnaNana said:

Obvious not everything "Kevin McFree" posts is good and righteous,  but some of his expose is right on. Jesus exposed Pharisees too

Were some of Jesus’ exposés obviously not good and righteous? 

36 minutes ago, AudreyAnnaNana said:

I am glad you respect the copyright people so much, Tom.

The way it has been explained, and the way I have witnessed it, is that slimeballs lift their copyrighted material, insert it into a maligning context, and beat them over the head with it. To the point where they say, ‘Enough! Nobody can use our copyrighted stuff!’ It is pretty standard practice and many companies enforce copyright to a far greater degree. 

A friend of mine does miniatures, small-time scenes of Americana. At a festival where many participants displayed such scenarios, Coca Cola came down on them all very threateningly for any sign that in any way specifically mentioned their trademarked products—say, a tiny truck saying Drink CocaCola. All removed any such Coke references so as not to be target of a lawsuit.

Aren’t we intent on respecting copyright these days?

Maria followed me on Twitter one fine day and she was drop-dead gorgeous. No, I did not follow her back for that reason. Trust me on this: drop dead gorgeous women throw themselves at me all the time; it is a great nuisance because all I want to do is think about God.

In fact, I didn’t follow her back at all, not even for the reassuring profile photo she displayed, consisting solely of “Jehovah” in gold-embossed letters. However, I did scroll her timeline and found a suitable place to leave a comment. She soon replied that she had just texted me.

Sorry, I told her, I don’t do DM. I stay on the public side of Twitter. “Why?” she wanted to know. “Because if I do so I am immersed in dozens of private chats and I can’t keep up,” said I. She responded that, in that case, I could contact her on WhatsApp. I didn’t reply to that one.

Next thing you know she has disappeared and all her notifications with her! I searched out her username: “Account suspended for violation of Twitter rules.” Hmm. I searched for the name on Facebook. It links to a certain bit-coin trader, also drop-dead gorgeous.

No, Maria, my dear, I have all the bit-coin I need, thank you very much—even though you are drop-dead gorgeous, even though your profile does say ‘Jehovah’ so I know you are one of us, probably belonging to the congregation right next door. I’ve no doubt she has a separate profile that says Jesus, another that says Buddha, Dagon, Moroni, Baal, and a dozen others. 

It is called ‘Affinity Fraud,’ winning someone’s confidence through feigned common roots. It factors into the making of E.T—The Sequel, a movie you may not have seen. In the original, cute, adorable, toddler E.T. charms all who are pure enough to let him into their hearts. But in E.T.—the Sequel, he returns as a surly teenager. He curses, spits, brawls, swears, and in the end destroys the earth with his white-hot power beam, starting with Wall Street. 

Steven Spielberg, the movie’s creator, had just lost an ever-loving fortune to the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. Both were Jews. Virtually all of Madoff’s victims were Jews. It was affinity fraud. Not that Maria’s scheme is a fraud, necessarily, but her means of contact certainly was. She’s probably not even drop-dead gorgeous. She’s probably an old hen. And even if she is not, so what? Is not Mrs. Harley also drop-dead gorgeous?

3 hours ago, Anna said:

I hazard a guess, but his book was probably the reason for his disfellowshipping.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1915852889/ref=redir_mobile_desktop/143-8026614-4687531?_encoding=UTF8&language=de&qid=1674059227&ref_=tmm_pap_swatch_0&sr=8-1

“Never before has the attempt been made to make clear the interaction between heaven and earth and to make visible the influences of the spirit persons [God, Jesus Christ, Satan] on humanity, society and individuals.”

No one’s even tried?

On 2/12/2023 at 5:40 PM, JW Insider said:

Thanks for that. I have had tinnitus for a few years now

Yeah, I have some of that stuff too. Give @Mic Dropa thumbs up if he starts a discussion on what a guy may to for it.

With our new found kick on safety, the Kingdom Hall brothers insist I wear ear protection running the lawn mower. “Little late for that now,” this old guy tells them. But he dons them anyway, as he should have long ago, and at any rate, they’ll throw themselves in front of me as though an act of peaceful resistance until I do.

11 hours ago, Moise Racette said:

Do some children grow up to be murders? In what society do you personally think that doesn't happen? If science could take that gene out of a human, then maybe that wouldn't be a worry at birth. Personally, babies are susceptible to the environment they are brought up in. Not every child, but some. Others are subjected to an environment they think they can handle. When they can't, then they become mass murderers.

Come come, Moise. You miss the whole point of the talk. Of course what you say is true, but Lett wasn’t speaking at all of those things. He was just inartfully referring to how we are born as offspring of Adam, natural inheritors of sin, and thus automatically start off on the wrong foot from God’s point of view. 

11 hours ago, Moise Racette said:

But then again, if scientists could take all the evil genes, they would be Gods.

Some of them are working on it.

On 2/23/2023 at 10:44 AM, Space Merchant said:

as well which was making the rounds concerning one of your leaders, Mark Stephen Lett, whose facial appearance reminds me of the Bounce by the Ounce guy, whereas

I think the diplomatic way to put this is that ‘it can readily be seen that the organization does not use paid actors.’

On 2/23/2023 at 10:44 AM, Space Merchant said:

[his] video was taken out of context, to push the idea that your faith community has little to no care for babies in or recently coming out of the womb. 

Boy, oh boy, did the crazies ever go bonkers on that one! Still, for a people who carry on about choosing just the right word as the palate tastes caviare, it was sort of a clumsy statement, necessitating a reply:

https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2022/07/little-enemies-of-god.html

41 minutes ago, Matthew9969 said:

Hmmm, while we are at it why don't we speculate and spread a rumor that TrueTomHarley is a governing body member.

Um….ah…..that is to say……

59 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

Bro. Morris is really Space Merchant !!!?

Are you a stranger dwelling alone … and do not know the things that have occurred here during these days?

6 hours ago, Equivocation said:

SM and the GB? 🤔 🤣 I don't think any of the governing body members are debate oriented, confrontational millennials

I do note that we have not yet heard from Space Merchant himself. Why don’t you and I spread the rumor that Bro Morris resigned to put more time into his SM persona and see how many yo-yos fall for it?

30 minutes ago, Moise Racette said:

I remember back in the day, when Don Adams (Maxwell Smart) was confused for the president of the Watchtower, Don A Adams.

“Would you believe . . . ?”  was Maxwell’s trademark line if I recall. Apparently, some did.

2 hours ago, Matthew9969 said:

You jw's here, (including SM who I still believe is a governing body member and not a unitarian), claim I am a stupid simpleton

Space Merchant is a GB member? I’ll admit, that one escaped me.

30 minutes ago, Space Merchant said:

And here goes another one, someone brought up this one in another community, another shooting, with Jehovah's Witnesses involved, as targets. the case in of itself is interesting because it seems like the shooter is a 15 year old teenager - Police identified the suspect as a 15-year-old boy, whose name was not released by police. The boy is not in custody, according to police. 

I’m sure they gave him a stern warning, though, not to do it again.

10 hours ago, Moise Racette said:

Perhaps this should also stay in the JW closed club, where every subject that is of interest to those JWs that follow science and politics can freely express their personal opinions about radicals.

Bingo

15 hours ago, Anna said:

Fauci: recent paper doesn’t suggest COVID vaccines ineffective | AP News

Similarly, it is not as though my current efforts to stay Pudgy’s more outrageous remarks have been ineffective. They have been effective.

It is just that they have not been as effective as they could have been and perhaps I should be searching for a new approach.

Whoever is the poster I think he or she is not doing it anymore, making he or she a post poster.

How many posts can a post poster post if a post poster can post posts?

5 minutes ago, Moise Racette said:

I've been called Allen. Does it matter to this poster? Is it that important that this poster should bring up such meaningless determination?

Can I then deduce this poster is @JW Insider, @TrueTomHarley, @xero

Does this poster then wish to pick a fight by posting such an opinion just like @Pudgy?

That being said, should I not USE "that being said" not, to be confused with this poster?

Why not? I am the poster of poster of posters.

37 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

I learned it by observing bad detectives.

this is an enlargement of a REAL thing from my pole mounted security camera, taken at night. 

Can you tell what it is?

 

No, of course not! There's 16 different ways of looking at it. Every American knows that. 

“Why is it that you Jehovah’s Witnesses always have to act as though the world is getting worse? What is it about that belief that does it for you?” one fellow asked me.

”It helps me to explain why the Doomsday Clock is set at 100 seconds to midnight,” I replied, “and not 10:30 AM.)

3 hours ago, Arauna said:

No wonder they are destroying the earth and destroying Jehovah's creation to bring their own plans to fruition.

Well, I have heard it said that these days the difference between conspiracy theories and reality is 6 months.

4 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

 

No. It takes 19.

20 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

…. Let the Reader beware ….

Hmm. Dare I tell my little joke here? . . . 

Here goes:

Pudgy, how many women with this condition does it take to unscrew a light bulb?