TrueTomHarley

‘I got me enough shoe horns, he said. I don’t want no mor. Sel me something else.”

Privilege of seniority. (It’s possible I’m digging a hole for myself before @The Librarian(that old hen) who would be within her rights to accuse me of gaslighting.) Greetings friend. You will now be submitted to a series of intense and nosy questions to ensure that you are not an incarnation of a certain bad penny that has bounced from oblivion so many times, always with a different handle, that you’d think he was made of rubber. I’ve not known him to use two aliases at once, but there is a first for all things. Not to worry. Nothing will happen. An inside joke which you may not get. Glad to have you around. Keep up your blameless conduct and you’re fine. As Randy Newman famously said: “Don’t want to back-biting, no ass-grabbing—you know exactly what I mean.” Not to worry. In

No fair at all, but neither is life. Down they go. It’s possible to establish such a cantankerous reputation, even resurrecting oneself from preview banishments to do so, to earn frequent flyer miles on the ‘In&Out’ Airline. Behave, tone down rancor, compare yourself with yourself only, not with other people (isn’t there a verse on that somewhere?) and you will yet live long and prosper.

I even went down in flames when someone mistakenly thought your opinion was mine! Not to worry. You’re good in my book. I see all and know all and may just one fine day bounce someone for misbehavior.

Yes Isn’t there a pursue peace convention going on somewhere? Bogeying with glee he is, right here on the World News Media Forum.

For whatever it’s worth, the organization I highly regard would view some here, myself included (if not foremost), as setting a bad example for past exchanges with apostates.

We have a thing for celebrity. The speaker last night said he unexpectedly met Nancy Yuen and was tongue-tied as though with one of them! He had been determined to spiff up his Chinese by greeting any Chinese person he saw. She was surrounded by “an entourage” at Bethel, “but I’m oblivious to those things.” The woman once imprisoned years in China was humble, gracious, and almost crushed his hand with her firm handshake.

“Well, in America, they haven't used it for years.”

Your other mistake is taking English lessons from a dog. His English isn’t too bad, really. It’s just that you never know when he is throwing you a bone.

Your mistake is thinking that English-speaking people know how to speak English.

Why do you think they call them strawman?

It is supposed to be ‘than.’ Good catch. The company that made the drug that hooked Prince has been fined and criminalized to the point of filing for bankruptcy—chapter 11 bankruptcy, which potentially allows it a fresh start. The family behind it remain billionaires. Few victims feel the punishment adequate. Some people think they’re up to their old tricks again, not Purdue specifically, but bigger players, with the Covid-19 ‘cures.’ I laid out the story insofar as it relates to Prince in the first chapter of the Tom Irregardless book, not naming the company but describing their M.O. that led to Prince’s downfall. They aggressively pushed the drug for superior pain relief, ignoring clear evidence it was fantastically addictive. It also turned out to wear off in just a few hours, not 24 as advertised. This led practicioners to either increase the dose, increasing the addiction, or refuse to increase, leading pain-stricken patients like Prince to resort to the black market, where inevitably they’d come across something contaminated or potency mislabeled. I have it down in Tom Irregardless. I didn’t name the company because I didn’t want trouble from Pharma. Call it testimony to my paranoia or my healthy respect for the damage they can unpredictably do when poked. Either way, it wasn’t the purpose of my book. I’m not a whistleblower. I was just writing about the spiritual life of Prince. I see they’ve made the story (probably without the Prince connection) into a movie: https://thecinemaholic.com/what-happened-to-purdue-pharma/ I feel the same way. Thing is, she agrees with me on Benson, but she didn’t read far enough to find out. You can’t really go online, where none of us are recommended to be, find a bro with whom you disagree with, and give a tongue lashing as though a ‘heavy’ in the congregation. That’s what makes the truth look ridiculous before unbelievers, and that’s what makes Satan jump for joy, if anything does. The internet is not the congregation and cannot be make to behave as though it were. My books can’t cause division in the congregation because they are not it the congregation. Few there have any idea I have written books unless they know it through hearsay. I never speak of them there. She did unfriend me. It’s okay. It’s all good. I have even recommend some bros to unfriend me. I go where we don’t typically go. I use humor, and sometimes the butt of that humor is us. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. It doesn’t mean we’re not real friends. In the Kingdom Hall we’d get along fine. I’d see to it, and probably her. But there’s only so much you can do online.

(Repeated the same comment accidentally. I wish the software would allow you to delete, as it once did.) Probably the old hen wants a paper trail in case Billy the Kid or someone starts going off the rails again.

You dim and bitter bulb that sucks away light, if money was the object, the org would not continually advise young ones to tone it down, stay low-key, put Jehovah first over riches, and so forth! I mean, it’s the whole theme of this thread, which you ignore just to hurl an insult-bomb when you sense an opening.. On another day, you’ll be lambasting them for encouraging young people to be window cleaners whereas they should be chasing career and making money!

That George should be scolded. Her remarks of support for George are relevant to the discussion. To me she said: “Yes, live quietly and myob! Very judgemental I would say. I don't care whose a famous Jehovah's witness and who isn't. I happen to know that Brother Benson has taken time from his busy schedule to donate time doing specific songs that are original songs... As for Brother Nelson, yes, he was desperately trying to get off drugs. He had a bad hip and lived in constant pain. I was addicted at one time as well, thanks to a quack doctor. I am friends with someone on the inside of the music industry..Chazz Dixon. He sister called me before the news media went nuts! Prince never wanted to go public with his issue and others were afraid too! But I do know that your books sound like more gossip then facts.. You can cause divisions within the congregations . Satan is just loving this! I no long want any association with you Tom.”

Yikes! Well THAT certainly backfired! Some firebrand of a sister saw my post on FB, read only the preview portion, took @Arauna’s sentiments for mine, and chewed me out royal! She also said my books are crap (not her word) and unfollowed me! And here I’ve tried so hard to be the JW successor to Mickey Spitlane, who famously declared that he would never introduce a character who drank cognac or wore a mustache since he didn’t know how to spell those words. Never again will I tangle with Arauna..

Attaboy. I’ll forward your name to George. Maybe he will hire you.

Do you clean windows?

A retired nurse.

My wife was sputtering when her student sent her a clip of the song, ‘What if God were one of us.’ It’s the next line that grabbed her: ‘just a slob like one of us.’ Relax, I said, it’s so seldom you see anything remotely spiritual in pop media, she probably got all excited by it, as a new one might be enthralled at Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments, overlooking how he pops Pharaoh is the nose and gets the girl.

I thought I had logged into Instagram by mistake.

Not to worry. As far as I know, George didn’t take out a contract on her. I appreciate her remarks for the principle it brings up, even if I see no need to apply it to any specific person.

She says she is: I accept that. It’s my fault, really. She says what she says before just a few and I relay it to the whole wide world.

I’ve spiffed it up, renamed you, and have put some of it on my own blog, as the first of a multi-part series. The succeeding parts I’ll put here first, however. And if you’re kind enough to say your hubby enjoyed the post, I guess I should tell @pudgy that my wife loved the cartoon about why you shouldn’t be drunk when adopting a dog. Alas, the post has earned you one or two ‘MYOB’ responses. Not to worry, though. I’ll run interference for you. I respect you for the courage to say something you know is going to be unpopular.