James Thomas Rook Jr.

Reminds me of "No Neck Marvin". When he wore a Turtleneck sweater, he was blind.

You know why JW Lawyers who like to swim in the Ocean never have to fear being bitten by sharks? Professional courtesy.

In Maryland, they still have on the books that the local Sheriff can, at his discretion, jail anyone disparaging "The Holy Trinity". Perhaps they were busy looking for blasphemers.

What a GREAT IDEA! but, being anchored to the sea floor, it will occasionally have need for a periscope.

He also forgot the note in his pocket written very poorly, "I habe a gub!"

I remember fondly the Mr. Rogers Episode when they had Opie's "Aunt Bea" from the "Andy Griffin Show" make a guest appearance, and she had just got back from a North Carolina "Nervous farm", and was having tremors and other withdrawal symptoms, and cursed out Big Bird, and stole Mr. Rogers sweater. ...or perhaps I am thinking about "Sesame Street".

The other chip manufacturers use a technique known as "clean room" ... where there are two rooms isolated from each other. In one room the hardware designers reverse engineer the Intel chips ... and without writing down the code .. write a set of SPECIFICATIONS of what that portion of the Intel chip is doing. Then they (AMD or ARM designers) pass the specifications to room No. 2, and with no hints of HOW Intel designed their chips, the reconstructors, from the specifications, design new chips that will exactly emulate what Intel's chips do ... without using ANY of the same code, never having seen it. All this is heavily documented. Since 1995 this has been working well, until October of 2016, when one of the AMD disassemblers in clean room no. 1 was eating lunch, and set a pack of specifications for clean room no. 2 in his chair , and sat down on and smeared a paper towel with six "Chips Ahoy!" cookies.

This is what happens when you wake sleeping giants ! Be careful when you pray for Justice. You might get it !

We should not repeat unsubstantiated personal opinions ..... so listen carefully the FIRST time !

(flip) .... zing .... zing .... zing .... I gotta get some new flints for this thing ....

Having never claimed to be anything but a Barbarian, it should be as no surprise that I might use real fire .... if it was up to me. After a fair trial ... not allowing any witnesses ... no recordings ... no transcripts .... at night, in a darkened Kingdom Hall, in the back room ... with the front door locked .... of course. I mean ...... fair is fair.

Without hard evidence ... I try not to think at all about what other people do, or don't do. I had three Elders surround me at the Kingdom Hall, and well within my "air space", one asked me without any verbal foreplay whatsoever: "What do you think about the Governing Body?". I replied without thinking .... "I do not think about them at all!". They didn't bother me again for almost a year.

We each have our deeply felt opinions about every imaginable issue ... and we are entitled to believe, or feel, anything that makes us, become us. It's when we wish to impose on others .... under the color of "It is God's will" ...... that the road to hell gets another load of good intentioned extra large paving stones. I personally am very comfortable with the idea that people that abuse animals should be tortured to death ... and take several weeks to do it ..... but I would NOT expect that viewpoint to be shared by others ... NOR would I drag up some ambiguous scriptures to support that idea, or imply that it is the "Will Of God!". "Do not go beyond the things that are written" .... was written for a good and sound REASON. Perhaps even to protect everybody ... from me.

Who is going to remove men at the apex of the pyramid? Outside of secular authorities who might arrest and imprison them for violation of secular law, there is no one WITHIN the .ORG to fire them. Even if imprisoned on some charge, like embezzlement or something else, they would still be the titular figureheads of the .ORG Jehovah God COULD turn us all into winged frogs .... but current hard evidence shows that he does NOT interfere with any aspect of mankind's follys, whether they be deliberate, or through chance and circumstance , or just being plain goofy and clueless. Many fantasy, wishful thinking bogus examples to the contrary ... the Governing Body KNOWS this. They cannot be fired for crimes, incompetence, or just being plain goofy and clueless. No matter WHAT they do ... the money keeps rolling in ....

You have made my case FOR me, better than I could have ever done.

You are living in a fantasy world construct of your own device, Space Merchant. I am talking about one thing ... and you have slipped into a world of something else altogether.

Anytime you want to invoke "What credentials do you have?", remember that Adolph Hitler saved Germany from destitution left over from World War I, made the trains run on time, created the Autobahn, was a vegetarian, and loved dogs. He was TIME Magazines "Man of the Year" ... twice, and rooted out Communism from Germany. In fact, in the minds of most Germans he was adored, and the Churches even celebrated his birthday. He fought in World War I, and twice received the Iron Cross. With all these super-fine "credentials" ........ we are STILL talking about Adolph Hitler.

In any Corporation, the ONLY way to correct things that are seriously wrong, is to fire those responsible. NOTHING else actually works ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No mechanism exists, to fire those responsible. The only thing that will sustain such a system is an unlimited supply of free money.

By the way ... I instantly got your cartoon joke! Good thing I was not gargling with hydrogen peroxide when I saw it.

Therein lies the problem, Anna. EVERYBODY who considers themselves a Christian, in every religion "Christian based" on Earth, has their own deeply felt ideas about what a Christian should be. Makeup, tattoos, eating of foods or not, forbidding clergy to marry, and the list is literally endless, as it varies with "new light", old light, flashing light, colored light, black light, etc. Something that CAN be interpreted to fit a translator's, or interpreter's preconceived notions of their personal morays, WILL BE. This is where the common sense smell test has to take place. Masturbation MAY be alluded to in Paul's writings, but in the Old Testament, When Jehovah was a "harsher taskmaster", and NOBODY could obey the Old Covenant regulations .... THERE WERE NO REGULATIONS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. This was at a time when nearly EVERYTHING ELSE was regulated. Hard evidence, what we REALLY know from what is ACTUALLY clearly and unambiguously written is that Jehovah only mentioned it as something that Onan did, and the criticism was ONLY that he did not impregnate someone. Look it up. With this perspective, whatever Paul was talking about, common sense would dictate it was NOT THIS. I am of course only guessing ... but understanding humans' propensity to want to control EVERY ASPECT of other peoples' lives ... and commonly going beyond the things that ACTUALLY "written", and those same amateur tyrants can make a good living, by inducing guilt in the guiltless. LEAVE THE PEOPLE ALONE. ( God does NOT care about this ) DON'T BE A "BUSYBODY" (... remember THAT scripture? ) Because ALL translators and interpreters are subject to what they do being filtered and colored through their own perspective, it is CRITICALLY important that we do NOT GO BEYOND the things in the Bible that are clearly and unambiguously written. For a hundred years the Society has continuously "overreached" for organizational stability, and have had their butts chewed completely off! Overreaching, even with the best of intentions ( with which the road to hell is reportedly paved...) generates tyranny, and error .... and ingrained, induced mental illness. Once this takes root, common sense no longer becomes all that common, and the Pharisees win, and that means the people .... lose. If they leave the TRUTH ... chased away ... it is the same as manslaughter. And we who continue to carry these unnecessary heavy burdens become slaves, only to be sheared and eaten. Next thing you know, it will make perfect sense to treat our own family, spiritual and physical, with extreme cruelty. There is a very simple solution. "Do NOT go beyond the things that are written."

What is a Bullfrog had wings .... would he bump his rump every time he took off? Jehovah and his type are energy creatures, without DNA. They do not need this Universe AT ALL. So ..... why did Jehovah create THIS Universe? Hmmmmmmm ? For the sons and daughters of DNA ... there is a LOT of Real Estate out there ! Once you get out of the Earth's gravity well ... you are half way to ANYWHERE!

For those that work with Industrial Chemicals, here is the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) for DHMO required to have at every facility that uses or stores hazardous materials

In keeping with Space Merchants pertinent and informative post, there is more to be said along those lines because ... I have an addiction I cannot shake ... and I will relate my sad experience. I am addicted to DiHydrogen Monoxide, (DHMO) also known as "hydroxyl acid". I am told it is not a choice ... that I was born that way, as my Mother was also an addict, during my entire gestation. If I don't get my daily "fix", I start feeling weak and "out of sorts". If I can't get a supply in 24 hours, I start to get really physically ill, and my body starts shutting down. I am told that that of I do not ingest any for six days, I will certainly die ... but hydroxyl acid withdrawal symptom permanent damage will occur before then. OF COURSE, it is dangerous what I am doing, and if I overdose on DiHydrogen Monoxide, I will have congestive heart failure and die. In February, I was in the hospital for 4 days because of a DHMO overdose, and nearly DID die from congestive heart failure! It cost about $16,000 to save my life from this! MILLIONS of people have died by suffocation from DHMO, recently six Jehovah's Witnesses in one day, as it is fatal if inhaled. I know that it is used as an industrial solvent ... yet I cannot break this habit ... DHMO has me in its slippery grip, and I cannot do without it! In vapor form, it can cause severe burns ... and knowing this I STILL cannot break this habit. Sometimes I mix it with other things and drink it with steam coming off of it ! It is so insidious that the word "Zohnerism" is used to refer to its dangers on the human mind. I hope the Elders do not find out, as anything that is not specifically permitted, is of course ... forbidden, and I am an unrepentant, habitual DHMO addict. Even though in February, it almost killed me, I REFUSE to quit!

Yeah ... we had "Goodie Night" about once a month, after the "Tuesday Night" "bookstudy", and it was very enjoyable. Brothers and Sisters would bring goodies, and sit around on a sugar high, and talk to each other, sharing congregational and personal experiences. Lots of laughter and jokes, and "tall tales", and experiences. I miss that. A LOT. I suspect it was this free flow of un-scripted information was why it was REALLY cancelled.

UPDATE: 9/18/2018 I had a tree about 150 feet tall and as big around as a barrel fall across my chain link fence in the side yard and crushed about three, ten foot sections of fence. When it gets cooler, I will chain saw it and repair the fence. 90% of the tree is on my neighbor's property, but it is a big farm, so I will not have to move it. It looks like we missed "Stormageddon"! It was like being chased by a giant turtle.