Piñatas

[TrueTomHarley]

1 hour ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

and although many will not be able to understand why I think so ... with his personality he HAD to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses,

I believe I do understand this. He possibly was not unlike you, only he died having made peace with leadership of the congregation. His name is spoken of gingerly by some. He was in and out a time or two, I think, but ended up in. About the time I wrote the tomsheepandgoats.com posts, I wrote him, having read a few of his books just prior. But I had only an address found online somewhere - it came back undeliverable.  Shortly afterwards, I heard he had died. 

You cannot but love his lines. Such as, (not a direct quote) "[such and such] may be my last book. I can't sit for eight hours anymore. My rear end gets sore."

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

See?

He applied pressure and the poor miscreant stopped bubbling!

Tell me you have not seen the movie ALIEN, or any of the sequels.

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[TrueTomHarley]

Unfortunately, I missed them all. Would they have done Mike Hammer proud?

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

I have no idea what a fictional character would have thought, perhaps dis-interest.

.... as I do give it some thought. Hmmmmm .... OK... got it. 

Mike Hammer would have absolutely NO INTEREST in Science Fiction, but he ( say, he went with some Dame wit' beautiful gams to da' show..) would not be horrified by things that King David of Israel, coming home after a hard day of slaughtering the enemies of God in close hand-to-hand combat, his clothes covered in blood and pieces of sticky gore, and globs and smears of their stomachs and intestines stuck to his armor, as he ripped them open with a sword or spear,  and their guts fell out in a steaming mass on the ground, and they screamed and cried in agony, or after chopping a Philistine in the throat, watching him unsucessfully try to stop the torrent of blood, as it squirted through the fingers clasped to his throat, and he lay there, gurgling and wheezing through lungs filling up with his own blood.

... but those "Alien" franchise movies are firmly entrenched in contemporary popular culture, and have become the "new norm" and make Mike Hammer's visuals tame in the extreme. The same was true about everyday life in King David's time ... but today reality has been Bugs Bunny sanitized.

Just as today, we think Rhett Butler's exclamation of "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn ... " in the Civil war era movie "Gone with the Wind", which line was scandalous at the time and worthy of censorship by many, an irrelevant "nothing issue", today.

I remember BOTH "Worlds"., and understand King David's world.

...   and I used to be a pacifist, until I understood reality.

... and when I can, I even take spiders outside, so they do not go hungry.

And that, as Mike Hammer would say ... is the bird's-eye low-down on THAT caper ...

[TrueTomHarley]

4 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

King David of Israel, coming home after a hard day of slaughtering the enemies of God in close hand-to-hand combat, his clothes covered in blood and pieces of sticky gore, and globs and smears of their stomachs and intestines stuck to his armor, as he ripped them open with a sword or spear,  and their guts fell out in a steaming mass on the ground, and they screamed and cried in agony, or after chopping a Philistine in the throat,

and enters his front door, and hollers "Honey? I'm home!"

"and when I can, I even take spiders outside, so they do not go hungry"

I can understand this, too.