James Thomas Rook Jr.

I grew up with all my relatives in Littleton, North Carolina ... a town so small, the town square .... was a person.

It has been less than an hour since I posted the above parody ... but someone from another State called me to ask "Is this FOR REAL?" Of course it is not .... it's a PARODY .... but the very sad thing is, that things have gotten so goofy, among the Witness culture ... that a highly intelligent person is stunned ... and had to ask that question. I mean ... after you go through the "Overlapping Generations" explanation ... ANYTHING is possible.

You are confusing apples, with kangaroos.

Dateline: Saturday, September 1, 2018 WARWICK NY — Special Assembly Representatives of JehovahÂ’s Witnesses at their new World Headquarters, known as “Bethel”, reported being surprised at Saturday afternoonÂ’s session when they were directed to the newly constructed balcony entrance for seating. “We normally get there early so we can sit as close to the Governing Body as possible,” Assembly Delegate Stephen Lett, Jr. told reporters. “We were all like, ‘WhatÂ’s going on?'” They did not have to wonder for long. Governing BodyÂ’s Helper Alan Cage, dressed in costume as a regular person took the stage under a single spotlight, and after some coy banter, he reportedly announced that it was “Baptism Saturday,” but that this was “not your MamaÂ’s Saturday afternoon Assembly baptism!”  At this cue, a giant four story high spiral water slide, stretching from the balcony down to the on-stage baptismal pool, was unveiled from behind a large curtain, to thunderous applause from assembled delegates. Children as young as four years old, who had been ushered single file to the new entrance were directed one-by-one into the orange spiral sliding board and, with a push, sent hurtling toward baptismal pool, answering the two baptismal questions as they increased spiral velocity “Yes!” and “Yes!” . JehovahÂ’s Witnesses Elders in wet swimsuits and white t-shirts asked the questions as they whizzed by to the pool below. Anthony Morris III, one of eight JehovahÂ’s Witness Governing Body members wearing a leopard skin spandex leotard emblazoned with large white initials TPT, architect of what has been dubbed by Bethel insiders as “Splashdown Saturday.” told reporters “The water slide is fun for the little kiddies, but the whole reason we did this is to get the most number of people baptized in the least amount of time possible.” “ Â… we canÂ’t count some of these baptisms because someone didnÂ’t say “yes” to the baptismal questions, or because someoneÂ’s head wasnÂ’t completely submerged, then whatÂ’s the point?” In the dry-off area next to the baptismal pool, a group of dripping four to seven year old children were being dried off behind a screened area with sacramental pillow cases from the Bethel Laundry At publishing time, the JW.ORG website reports that the church has broken its own record for the most baptisms in a single Saturday afternoon.    … my apologies to “The Onion” Â

WOOOooOOOo! ... I can see it now ... a new children's book! "Tommy Tank And The Electric Roundhouse"! It will be a "Pop-UP" book.

Grey Reformer: Apparently you think that things that are WRONG, can be reformed with happy thoughts, and magic pixie dust. For those that believe in Justice, fairness, and equity, they come to realize that reform ALWAYS carries personal risk. SERIOUS personal risk. If you want to effect reform, you MUST call what is good, good ... and what is bad, bad. Often the two are mixed together. That's why we do not cut off a baby's head when they poop in their diaper. Perhaps I should rephrase that .... reasonable people do not cut off baby's heads when they poop in their diapers. Ultimately, we will all live or die at the will of Jehovah God and his Christ. NOT where arbitrary and cruel Big Org protectionist policy hits the fan. They can ONLY make your life a joy when they are right ... and completely miserable when they are wrong.

"STUFF HAPPENS!" (paraphrased)

s subtle ... subtle ... on SO MANY levels .... Let me give you a one sentence synopsis of everything TTH said, above ... "If you sing to pigs, you just ruin your voice .... and irritate the pigs !"

BW.1988 ????

Any time you have ignorant, under-educated human beings that live in a social bubble isolated from real world problems trying to administer Justice with mercy, mercy is the first casualty, and Justice becomes in the course of things, too many times, only due process .... It's like a Doctor, a Physician, who has no natural talent, but wishes to be of service. He may graduate the lowest in his class at medical school, and understand how to take tests, and interview at least passably, but be timid and insecure. But he too has bills to pay, and a life to live, dependent on those above him for favor and income, and position. These too, serve to the best of their ability ... and bury their mistakes in incompetence and poor judgement. .... and they may be few ... or legion ... but they will occur, as Justice and mercy properly meted out, in the real world of flesh and blood .... in however many cases there actually are that become victims of human frailty in the skills of judgement .... too often .... only comes directly from God. Reality is what it is, and all the Snowflake theories in the world will not change what is real. Education .. currently disparaged in the "Truth" is not only to make your life immensely easier by not every day scrounging on the ragged edge of destitution ... but is to give you enough comprehensive background information to MAKE YOU SMARTER! If you do not understand all the many tools a human needs to be able to use... you become a hammer .... and EVERYTHING ... EVERYTHING .... looks like a nail. This is why disfellowshipping has become the God dishonoring, hypocritical travesty of human cruelty it is today.

... No surprise there .... but their fame also has ramifications. How would it look in the media if she was publicly disfellowshipped? Michael Jackson and Prince, both drug addicts that killed themselves, contributed a GREAT deal of money .... every month ... and it bought them complete immunity from Congregational sanctions. EVERYTHING that is going on today in Big Org ONLY makes sense when you realize that the Society's Lawyers, and Accountants, and the GB "Helpers"are setting the rules, and running the show. No other explanation makes any sense at all.

stick around .... we are already Baptizing 6 and 8 year olds ... how far away can Baptizing babies be? THEN we can disfellowship them !

... I don't think Steve Martin speaks Spanish .....

Look at it on the BRIGHT side! In the old Soviet Union, when Josef Stalin spoke, the audience assembled clapped, and clapped, and clapped and clapped ... until their arms got tired, and their hands got sore . People were assigned to take names of those who were the first to stop clapping ... and they mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again. Of course, their are comedians that we expect to be outrageously funny ... Steve Martin comes to mind ... and their mere stage presence generates laughter. Perhaps the white suit and arrow through the head shtick helped. I don't drink alcohol anymore, but when I did, EVERYTHING was funny! (OH LOOK! ... A WALL! hahahahahaha!)., because I preferred to have a bottle in front of me ... than a frontal lobotomy. King Tut - SNL.mp4 (.... cues the flashing applause sign ....) Â

...sometimes ... things are just Goofy.

How many is too many? There is a thread of thought evolving here that probably would lose continuity if dissociated from what went before. ...kind of like a free-association chain of logic that wanders afield .... but no harm done. Either way ... it's not "my" thread, if that counts. Move it to "questions"?

Could it be that the phrase "Abstain from Blood", in the minds of Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Christians, actually meant " don't murder anyone"? The fact that it is in the same thought as "... things strangled", causes me to believe not. But then again ... James said we should not murder our Brothers. How often does THAT come up in Congregational activities? Comments?

... reflecting back on what I just wrote .... it is an embarrassment, and a crying shame that concerning wisdom and common sense .... and justice and mercy .... that the average people living in Las Vegas, Nevada, the self proclaimed "Sin Capitol of the World" ... have the moral high ground.

..sometimes I think we are living in a cartoon world, controlled by imitation comedians, and Caleb and Sophia.

This is known as a "Semantics Trap", where you are chained by a false premise and the chain of logic is too short to allow you to reach the proper conclusion. If "the law" states that you will be hung by the neck until dead, if you park your car in a handicapped parking place ... and you DO park your car in a handicapped parking place without that little handicapped sign on your car, or whatever is required, you are "rightfully" executed for doing what you are doing. Anyone with a true sense of justice knows the punishment does not fit the crime, but in some societies, there is no such thing as common sense or mercy, or even "extenuating circumstances" such as perhaps your car engine failed, and that was the only spot you could roll your car to, to get it out of the main traffic or travel-way. Last year, October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, while a mass murderer was shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, at people at a concert in the street below......... (In approximately ten minutes he killed 58 people, and left 851 people injured) ....... One man below decided to steal a truck inside a Company parking lot (he knew they kept their keys in the trucks), and with that stolen truck he went into the line of gunfire, and amid the dead and dying, loaded it up with wounded, and took them to the hospitals. He confessed to deliberately stealing the truck (grand theft/auto ... a felony), and it became world wide news. A self confessed and globally notorious car thief. Yes he was a thief. A self confessed and globally notorious car thief. No ... he was NOT repentant ... and would do it again, in similar circumstances. The law stated that he could be sentenced to two or more years in a Nevada prison. He was not charged as a felony thief, although he was absolutely guilty. It was NOT the right thing to do, and NO REASONABLE PERSON, not the Utility Company that owned the truck, not the police, not the stupidest man wandering the streets of Las Vegas even imagined charging him with vehicle theft. If he would have been one of Jehovah's Witnesses, under current rules as commonly practiced EVERYWHERE by the current system, only three things would have been considered. 1.) Did he steal someone's vehicle? - (yes, he did). 2.) Did the public find out about it, and know he was one of Jehovah's Witnesses? - (yes, and yes). 3.) Was he truly repentant of his crime, and firmly resolved never to do it again? - (no, he was not and could NEVER be). Therefore, as night follows day, BIG ORG would have had him disfellowshipped, and without repentance ( perhaps even some begging and tears, and rending of clothes ...) he would be forever disfellowshipped. No mercy would be shown ... just the blind application of ORG policy. In righteous indignation he may even pleaded for real for JUSTICE ... but his pleas would be laughed at. (I have actually heard this, of first hand knowledge, as a couple sat in the darkened Kingdom Hall awaiting judgement ... ). This is what happens when simple common sense is foreign to the minds of those who seek to consolidate their authority, and not be removed from their positions of authority. ........... According to Big Org law, the thief would have been rightfully convicted of being an unrepentant thief. And NO ONE would have "spoken up" for him, for fear they also would be disfellowshipped for disturbing the unity of the Congregation, for they, themselves also would for a certainty also be disfellowshipped, for questioning the decisions of the Elders, for Apostasy, or "brazen conduct" (which covers nothing and everything at the same time) .... or in any way indicating Big Org's judgement was anything else but, as George Orwell in his book "1984" put it ... "Doubleplusgood". .......... Such devotion to "law" would have made the Pharisees of Jesus' day very proud.

...Only if you will be the photographer! Can I wear my spandex Jabba-The-Hut swimsuit thong bikini?

Jesus was a perfect example of a man who was tortured to death ... for doing the "right thing" ... and he KNEW IN ADVANCE that was the price he would have to pay . He went on a known "suicide mission", to rescue people ... KNOWING he was going to be brutally tortured, and that there was no way to get out of it alive .... and did it ANYWAY!

A Good Man will TRY ... and if necessary, put his LIFE, his health, and his means of life on the line ... even with the certainty of death, destruction, and destitution. That is what makes a Good Man a Good Man. All else are merely MEDIOCRE males, who eventually die .... without ever having been a "Good Man", or even a real man.

Well ... the accountants and Lawyers are running the show now at Warwick World JW HQ, and so as to not have small mountains of money, and high value improved real estate confiscated by the various worldly court systems, we USED to adhere to the Bible's clear and unambiguous directive "ABSTAIN FROM BLOOD" .... but now, to placate the NATIONS' judges, we allow blood to be transfused ......... if it goes into our bodies in 13 different IV tubes, as fractions. And that's the FACT, Jack.

Like James Bond once said in, if memory serves (paraphrased) in the movie "Thunderball", "... never was a man more misunderstood." (See ... with those prefixes, I can screw ANY memory or quote completely into the ground...") ... bless my Lil' pea-pickin' heart! I do not detest Serena Williams for appearing naked and pregnant on a national magazine cover. First, I would have to CARE! She will answer to her Master for that if he cares at all, and as nicely as it was done, I suspect Jesus does not care at all. And, as far as Mr. Reddit is concerned, I think you are getting him confused with Roger Rabbit.