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  1. TrueTomHarley
    Yes. It certainly does call to mind the prior actions of the dominant church in other lands.
  2. TrueTomHarley
    You know if it wasn't for @The Librarian (the old hen) breaking in about her hunger pangs, salivating over tacos, as though she were expecting - though believe me, if she was at her age, THAT would be a miracle to make the sun of Joshua's day hanging out for a month look like a cakewalk in comparison - we might be able to enjoy some order around here. There IS such a thing as starting another thread, you know. Did I not set the fine example doing so over Mike Duds? JWI and crew would have gone on and on and on about Milk Duds right there in the thread about the museum!!! With mummies and all overhearing! I wouldn't permit it! A separate thread, if you please, Miss Librarian. I'm tired of having to enforce all the rules around here.
  3. TrueTomHarley
    IT'S OUTRAGEOUS!!! THE WICKED PLACE EVEN MAKES BABIES WORK!!!!
  4. TrueTomHarley
    Well - that was a lot of work to be done during an eclipse. Better to pin the planets in place for awhile. Why force yourself to do a day's work in fifteen minutes?
  5. TrueTomHarley
    Wait till you get to the knock-down bare-knuckes fist fight I have with COJ!!!
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  7. TrueTomHarley
    Baran is not a Witness, nor ever was to my knowledge. is that not a pre-requisite for the list?
  8. TrueTomHarley
    No.
  9. TrueTomHarley
    Uh oh
  10. TrueTomHarley
    I feel his pain
  11. TrueTomHarley
    Yes. Now is cleared up a great mystery.
  12. TrueTomHarley
    Find the book and read it if you can. it is the only book I'm aware of that covers the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses exclusively from Stalin's time to its publication date (2007 or so). It is secular. It does not get into prophetic patterns at all. But it is probably good background for you, as you write of these things. I will look at your post in time. Thanks for it. I don't go into such things in a big way - one cannot do everything. I leave it to those smarter than me. But in time I will get to it. (Blush) I am also chronicling present matters pre and post-Russian ban and will release it soon in an Ebook. The Ebook will be free - it will be the first book I will try to get into print (which will not be). When released it will be on my profile page, which is now referring to another book. No special credentials here, other than being a long-time Witness, faithful I hope, who follows world events both spiritual and political, and who indulges a hobby of writing now that the kids are gone and the bills are paid.
  13. TrueTomHarley
    A poll there found that 79% of Russians supported the ban. However, someone else observed that it depends upon how you frame the question. If it is a ban to stop something people think a nuisance - unannounced calls, then yes, 79% think it would be well to stop that. It is not dissimilar to many places. However, if the idea of ban is reframed to include going to jail and physical violence the percentage number will drop quickly. Russians are people like anywhere. They may be more given to uniformity, but they know what is fair and what is not. There are many things I don't like. That doesn't mean I think people should go to jail who do them.
  14. TrueTomHarley
    I wondered about that up-vote.
  15. TrueTomHarley
    According to Emily Baran's book, the Soviet Union didn't like being called 'the king of the north.' Atheists there, they could hardly be expected to get their heads around biblical themes. It was all evidence of subversive politics to them.
  16. TrueTomHarley
    Sooooooo! "You must see it, TrueTom. Did you see it yet? How bout now? "Well, when you gonna see it? C'mon! Prove that you're a spiritual man. See it!!!" And now it turns out it's so dull you couldn't plow through it yourself!  I'm even going to like my own comment!
  17. TrueTomHarley
    Oh for crying out loud! Five singers cover Fats Domino's Blueberry Hill. Who is #5? Putin!!! https://www.rt.com/news/407764-fats-domino-dies-89/ One sister said she liked it. It humanized him. But then she remembered how he's treated our brothers.
  18. TrueTomHarley
    Waiting at the bus stop and the bus doesn't come because you misread the schedule or your copy was blurred is a downer. There is no way to spin it as a good thing. But there is no need to overdramatize it as some great tragedy, either - not unless you've decided that you don't know or care whether the bus comes or not since you've come to like it right where you are. If the bus doesn't come when expected, that is a pain, but if you busy yourself in the general vicinity and speak to passerby the time seems to move on quickly. When it comes, the five virgins who took top jobs at Exxon and are no longer around have nothing on you.
  19. TrueTomHarley
    I'm for 2333. It has a lot of 3's in it, my favorite number.
  20. TrueTomHarley
    Well...it is like when I am expected to lead the car group with all sisters who know the area better than me. "Just tell me what you want to do, Shelly, and I'll bless it."
  21. TrueTomHarley
    That one was for real.
  22. TrueTomHarley
    Cat got your tongue?
  23. TrueTomHarley
    In the meantime, one might consider a missed date as the time you swung a hammer and missed the nail. And the dates all around as the frustrated swings you took thereafter, also missing each time.
  24. TrueTomHarley
    If a family head makes rules for his family over such things - and many have - is it so horrendous to obey? It is only for a period of three or four years, which will pass soon enough. Must everyone be obsessed with short-term considerations? Having said that, when a certain young brother wanted to join his school's golf team, his father, a local elder, assessed his son's spirituality and told him: 'just do it. Don't advertise - just do it if you want.' Of course, golf is probably the least 'team' of team sports. Some people think it is not a sport at all.
  25. TrueTomHarley
    No. It is the difference between idling the car and stepping on the gas. Granted, some might choose not to get into the car. Those ones will not be here.
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