James Thomas Rook Jr.

I don't know about Facebook, but Google and Amazon have RISEN to the very top, because of providing FAR SUPERIOR service, products and price than newspapers and brick-and-mortar stores.

They did not STEAL that position ... they EARNED it, through the very innovation and service you want to disparage and regulate!

Let the MARKETPLACE decide which companies will live, or die!

Oh wait!  THEY ALREADY HAVE.

Getting "The Gubbermint" to regulate what so very obviously works GREAT!, is like getting a senile, but hungry wolf to guard YOUR PET HAMSTER !

21 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

They hear ‘Turn me on, dead man.Â’ It is very distinct and impossible to mistake, when they play backwards Revolution #9.

Check your ‘Beatles checker’

Good Golly, Miss Molly!

Twist again, like we did last summer?

.... Chubby Checker

Book 'em, Dano.

By the way, as a real aside ... did you know that in court cases about child molestation, the WTB&TS has repeatedly claimed "clergy-penitent privilege" to try and keep from having to disclose information to the authorities?

They claim they are clergy when it suits their corporate purposes, and declare they are not, when not on trial.

... by the way .... Jehovah never spoke against suicide ... another cultural moray to subvert common sense.

Soldiers understand this.

Busybodies do not.

By the way ... in principle, my comments are still on topic.

What is REALLY being discussed here is clergy over-reach, and going beyond the things the Bible  actually says.

Would it be murder if someone was trapped in a burning car, was on fire, and I shot them in the head, killing them.

TECHNICALLY, yes.

... but not REALLY.

Not in the REAL world.of common sense.

On 9-11, when the World Trade Center Towers went down, dozens of people leaped to their deaths, rather than be burned alive.

Was that suicide?

TECHNICALLY, yes.

... but not Really.

Not in the REAL world of common sense.

2 hours ago, Gone Away said:

You seem to be saying that there should be no prohibition unless it is specifically mentioned in scripture. Would you say that tobacco smoking should be viewed similarly?

there are many things that are stupid, that Jehovah has not spoken against.

Its called FREEDOM.

I personally would rail against smoking because it is stupid, suicidal, addiction to drugs, and expensive, but NOT extrapolate and put words into Jehovah's Mouth that he did not speak.

The Society's policies often are a VERY good idea (sometimes NOT) ..... adherence where they espoused Bible counsel correctly, saved my life, integrity,  and health many times .... but when I used to Scuba Dive, Skydive, Surfboard, ride a motorcycle, and explore the Congo (working), and other things, opinions vary as to their advisability, and I considered their overreaching  just being busybodies, forbidding to others what scared them for the sake of total control of EVERYTHING.

(Sad, cringeworthy joke: "Everything that is not forbidden ... is mandatory".)

Jehovah spoke against becoming a drunkard many times .... and I seem to remember,  even against "druggery"..

What is "druggery", anyway? 

And who decides?

If Jehovah did not explicitly say that ... I personally would not make the Almighty God my personal agenda spokesman hand puppet.

However, "Quod est Necessarium, est Licitum" (That which is necessary, is legal). If someone smoked, say marijuana for glaucoma to preserve their eyesight, or to lessen the pain from cancer, I personally think that prohibition would NOT apply.

I am willing to bet my LIFE on that.

My mother and father died slow, from cancer.  If someone was dying and in great pain from disease or injury, being addicted to morphine I personally consider that drug addiction to be quite acceptable.

If they got "high" from it, it would be a side effect.  NOT "druggary" at all.

TRUE Theology ALWAYS has to make common sense !

2 hours ago, JW Insider said:

Please watch your racism checker!

Well ... since I have three mixed race children (white, black, Spanish, Inca Indian and Asian mix) with a permanent "tan", a suspicion of racism is thereby cut off at the knees.

Those that REALLY understand about optical compression in telescopic lenses know that if the moon is that close, the "birds" will also be closer, as well.  It actually looks like the camera was on "electronic zoom" and not actual optical zoom, which makes the image fuzzier by spreading out the pixels.  These "could" just be camera motion or other sensor "artifacts".

I seriously doubt that whatever these objects are, that they would be birds, and they are so small they must be flying at great altitude.

What is it/them REALLY?

I have not the slightest clue.

It's like those that fear if their children play a Beatles Vinyl Album backwards , they will hear the words "Worship Satan".

If that is what they and/or their kids hear ( .... and how do you even play a vinyl record backwards? ...) they have VASTLY more critical real world problems than ".... I wanna hold your hand ...." , which backwards is " .... dnah ruoy dloh annaw I ...."

wah de do DAH!

Hubba Bubba Bubba

Zip, Blip, CHING!

Here is a thought I just had ... different races are affected differently by different practices .... could it be that this is a very severe problem for some races, leading them to criminal activity and degradation, yet other races it does not affect in an adverse way at all?

I mean .... white people are very susceptible to cystic fibrosis, and malaria, but black people have more of a natural immunity to malaria, and as far as I know, cystic fibrosis is completely unknown (?) in black people. American Indians are said to be completely made crazy by "firewater", or whiskey as known today, but other races , not so much. Jewish people have Tay-Sachs disease, but white people and blacks, and Indians do not (presumably ... I may have gotten some facts mixed up ...)

All people and races are NOT the same .... this is a liberal fantasy.

I did math for 45 years for a living, but I probably could not compete with the average Asian teenager. There is a REASON why the best basketball players are black,  and the best Physicists are Jewish and India Indian ( ...long story there ...).

All people are all equal in the eyes of Jehovah and the Christ.... but NOBODY is equal to anybody else ... and there is a reason why there are NO Japanese Sumo Ballerinas, or 6'-7" Fighter Pilots.

There is a famous joke, with several variations floating around,  that sums this up .... about "Heaven", and "Hell", and the reason it is funny is that there is a basis in truth to it.

 

 

I seem to remember that Fred Rogers was a Presbyterian Minister.

Never knew about the Pretzels, but just in case the WTB&TS might decide to ban "hot cross buns", I started eating "Cool Contented Buns".

I hope the JW-Archive really will be .... and not fall by the wayside.

The Giant Eyeballs with tentacles from Xbghy4713 might find it interesting reading, in the year 2525.

...make sure it is large enough to stake the hem to the ground to make a tent.

... and I suggest you get a "friend upgrade".

I have been commenting here somewhere around 7 or 8 years ... I think ... and somewhere around 8,000 comments.

If I wanted to make an off line copy of my comments from the very beginning on the Archive ... how would I do it?

Over the years, How well has the JW-Archive.org Archive of past conversations held up?

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".

4 hours ago, SciTechPress said:

This news would scare me to buy from competitors of Intel.

Any link?

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 !

2 hours ago, Anna said:

But we don't talk about those who will be alive during Armageddon.

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 ....

2 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:

Yes, OK.   I mean in regard to what you said;  "In any Corporation, the ONLY way to correct things that are seriously wrong, is to fire those responsible."

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.