TrueTomHarley

No no no @Foreigner - you misunderstand me. You have called @AlanF a pengabo. That means you and I are friends. Nobody thinks Alan is a big jerk more than me. I was being sarcastic writing what I did and you didn't realize that. I am sorry for that. It is my fault. Look at my posts. I have posted two in a row which are nothing but making him look bad by his own mouth - quoting insult after insult of his that he has hurled at other people. He cannot speak without being nasty. And I am just getting started. There are still pages of his taunts I can draw upon. It is unusual that someone is so ugly as he - he is even nasty to you when he says you played "the race card." You can play it all you want as far as I am concerned. Okay? You don't like him. I don't like him. Nobody with any sense likes him. When I write I use humor. I use exaggeration. I will make up stories. Sometimes I use sarcasm. It is easy to misunderstand if you are mostly familiar with another language. I told a joke and maybe you thought I was making fun of you. I wasn't. It was just a good joke and I remembered it after I looked up penjango. I had never heard that word before. Let me tell you who some of the people here are. You said Ann and I run this site. Neither of us do, though we both comment a lot. I can't stand Ann. It is not personal - personally maybe I would be okay with her. But here she does everything she can to run down Jehovah's Witnesses and their organization. Does she run down even God, like Alan does? I am not sure. I have to go back and check. But we are not friends. And we don't run the website. The person who runs this site is The Librarian. I am pretty sure he is a Witness, but you can't know anything for sure on the internet. Many people, and apostates are among them, work hard to hide who and what they are, so you never know for sure. Even The Librarian is not the chief owner. The chief owner is Admin, and he may be someone else who comments a lot on other topics, but it is a pure guess on my part and so I will not say. Proverbs 6: 16-19 tells about things God hates: Last on the list of seven is: "And anyone sowing contentions among brothers." I never argue with brothers. I will quit a discussion before I do that. Even with non-Witnesses I am nice and avoid arguing. But I am not nice to apostates. At first I am somewhat, until their motives, methods and persistence become manifest. Then, sometimes I will seek to verbally kneecap them. It is not really Christian that I try to do this. But if I am going to be disobedient to counsel and hang where these guys freely roam and launch attacks, I must grant myself that concession. It will help you if you know that nobody here is a typical Witness. Most are not Witnesses at all. Many are apostates who once were Witnesses but are no longer. Many here who are Witnesses do not hesitate to correct God's organization, something I would never presume to do. That at least makes them atypical Witnesses. The typical Witness of Jehovah will be obedient to counsel and not hang out here. Some will come once or twice to explore, but as soon as they see there are many here that hate Witnesses and their organization, yet they are still given a platform to speak, they will leave. They will think of the Bible verses that says one should not hang out with such persons. Okay? Here they do nothing but argue, and at best, you might see who is better with the head in this argument or that. But it is the heart that counts. No argument with the head can show what is in the heart. We are not enemies, Foreigner. I don't want you to think that. I do not denigrate your writing skills. I do not think I am better than you or anyone else. I think well of you that you would even try communicating in a second language. I cannot do it. I am sorry to confuse you. I didn't mean to.

I had never heard this word. I looked it up, of course, because I will not tolerate any disrespect for AlanF. It is not our place to talk back to him. It is his place to tell us, and all we can do is just hope he can keep the insults under reasonable control. It is a Spanish word. It means - well, you know. But I did not see that it specifically has connotations of race. Any background might produce one. Within reason, one should not be put down for playing "the race card." Lord knows, they have had it played on them often enough. Except, from just a quick scan, I don't see where race and pendejo have anything to do with each other. Is it white trash? It seems that it could just as well be brown trash. Oh - and the word reminds me of the joke I told Megan - who always likes such things - after I heard it from someone else. "Megan, I've got a good one for you!" I said when I spotted her. But at that moment, her 15 year old son, walked out of the rest room (we were cleaning the Kingdom Hall) and I hesitated. "Oh, he's heard far worse!" she said, having no idea what I was going to say. Q: What do you call a person who begs who for advice, and then goes off and does the exact opposite? A: An askhole.

Here Shiwiii has revealed the reason that people become Jehovah's Witnesses. Almost to the person, Witnesses will say they had questions - many questions - hard-hitting questions, some of them. Nobody took offense at them. Instead, it was shown how the scriptures answered their questions. So why does he scream foul when I ask him a simple one? There is nothing sinister about the question. It is a question most non-religious people would ask. He comes here to incessantly criticize the doers, insisting that "coming to Jesus" solves everything. So: It is not a trap, Shiwiii. It is a simple question. Why do you not answer it?

Several generations are pictured. They overlap in Chrome. They fail to do so in Firefox. Simple as that.

This remark is addressed to Allen, I know, not me - but my current nefarious scheme is to change all URLs - even those of AlanF!! - in all posts to point to my blog. My goal is to one day place $1.00 into the outstretched hand of @The Librarian (the old hen) as I stop for the red light getting off the expressway. #willblogforfood hehehehe :))))))))

I am having no trouble seeing them. Has the problem been fixed? Or do I just have special powers? The pics are good, too.

The secret is to ignore all such fine print as @The Librarian takes us all to the cleaners.

My "game" is asking you a question. Lord knows you ask enough: You never did tell the practical benefits of people "coming to Jesus." What are they? Particularly when some will side with Trump and some with Hillary?

You never did tell the practical benefits of people "coming to Jesus." What are they? Particularly when some will side with Trump and some with Hillary. Thus far you have only criticized the doers.

What are the practical manifestations of people 'coming to Jesus?' Why do some who have come to Jesus love Trump? Why do some who have come to Jesus love Hillary, and hate Trump? Perhaps you could convince @AlanF he should come to Jesus.

Who is the other game in town? Show me. Tell me how you know. Tell me what they have to show for themselves. JTR will doubtless follow you and he'll make a lot less trouble here. Seriously. They way he carries on, we would all be pleased to be rid of him. Show him the other game. Don't just say that the doers aren't doing it right. Show him someone else who is doing it right. Show us what they are doing. Be specific.

As I recall, there was also something about the composition of the driveway, too. It was not the ordinary blacktop. and......the house number.....was........607! Take it, guys! I'm off this thread!

Among my favorite movie scenes of all time is that crew fleeing the T-Rex. In the sideview mirror, that beast looks but inches away. The mirror logo says; "Objects in this mirror are closer than they appear."

Nah. We'll find one when and if it becomes necessary. Probably he is mending his ill-mannered ways right now so as to fit in.

Well - I don't think he pretends to be a brother.

See how insulting this fellow is. It will be his undoing, most likely. The fact that he worships the Dawkins-Harris-Hitchens Trinity makes it even more interesting. Quick, someone find me a scripture of how a contemptuous person comes to ruin.

Yes No. The brothers are but one audience and not necessarily the primary one. It is also newsmakers, news reporters, and even former Witnesses - in the Return to Me fashion, only less 'preachy.' Our definition and the general world's definition of that term will differ. To the extent possible, I use theirs. The book does not go into anything doctrinal, anyway. Where it is found, it is tangential. The book covers communist history, our campaign of letter-writing, the appeal, NWT ban, and branch seizure. A neutral person at any one of those trials might wonder what the gov't has against JWs. There obviously is something, but they do not say. They just steamroller over us to arrive at apparently a decision already made. So later on I offer the reasons for opposition and mount a defense & that is the majority of the book. One must know what one can do and what one cannot. I do not weigh in (significantly) on the 607 stuff here because I know I cannot. With regard to Russian background, I can. Few brothers can explain the world from the world's point of view. I try to tackle that - time will tell if it is done well or not. I also do not follow the western media pattern of demonizing the country or its leaders. Most of our people can explain, from a spiritual point of view, what is happening. Fewer from the Russian citizen's point of view, and almost nobody from the government's point of view. I try to reverse the order.

Anthony Morris could not have said it better.

Free AS28! Free AS28! Free AS28! He has done his time. He is repentant. And he manfully fights a disability. @The Librarian- The Americans With Disabilities Act compels you to act. Come now - he is flawed, but the Assyrian is at the gates, taunting (boy, does he ever!) godly interests. The forces of theocracy needs him! - I am too dumb to weigh in. Few Witnesses are up on this stuff. At least give him time for his glorious 'stache to grow back, then set him between the very pillars of peer-reviewed excellence, so he can bring down their house upon them.

Well - it is something that Jay posted unauthorized. And Jay is not exactly warm and fuzzy as regards Jehovah's Witnesses. I would never click on one.

Plus I have acquired 87 cavities.

I have only netted a couple hundred sales through that method. It sounds good, but the payoff is less than you might think.

It is not generally known that I am a writer. The first book is only two years old. And I have never done anything to call specific attention to the blog. They just cut me slack - apparently because they think I am an all-around good guy. I am a peacemaker, not inclined to push and shove, and that reputation goes far today. Truth be told, the books are not exactly flying off the shelf as they ought. I need better marketing. The ebook version of the Russian book will be free at first - it is public interest. It will be the first book that I get into print.. Self-published as a paperback is a piece of cake. As to hardcover, I will pursue it once I figure how to go about it.

Well - not from the platform, I hope. Or, at least, not in public prayer.

I haven't had the pleasure of meeting those two, yet.