James Thomas Rook Jr.

Not all teachers are enlightened. Not all teachers are talented. Not all teachers give a damn. Some do the very best they can, but in reality it falls short because of infinite variety in people, places, and circumstances. This is "normal".

It is about the IDEA of human governments being placed in their relative positions by God. Not specific governments. The alternative is total anarchy, where every man and woman are a law unto themselves ... which is worse than the WORST human governments. It's free-for-all non stop carnage. You have to mentally visualize how really terrible anarchy would be on a day to day basis to understand that.

Expressions and conversations are sometimes misunderstood. I remember being in a bar in England, I obviously being from America, because I was wearing a cowboy hat, and two somewhat large women were having a conversation that sounded like Scottish to me and they both had red hair, about something about the original Star Trek that interested me, so I sat down beside them and asked if they had ever met James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek. The taller redhead asked why I would think that? I replied, because they were both Scots. They replied "We're Wales ... Wales ... not Scots!" I then asked if I could buy the two whales a drink. I woke up on the floor with a lump on my head.

Yes, customs are quite different in different countries. In Ireland weddings and funerals are usually accompanied by 5 days of very heavy drinking Irish whiskey. The difference between an Irish Wedding, and an Irish Funeral is .... (wait for it ...) .... one less drunk.

Actually, there are 15 archangels, according to how many chassis styles Ford Motor Company has. Gimme a break .... equating how many archangels there are according to the 12 signs of the zodiac ... which are artificial constructs that vary from culture to culture? Tradition says that no matter which way Mickey Mouse turns his head, the ears always face the viewer. If the Bible does not say... everything else is conjecture ..... ... ONLY.

Why do JWs have huge lunches / dinners after funerals? ...because they are really, really hungry?

TSA Beats Up Half Blind Deaf Girl With Brain Cancer! .... If I was going to beat someone up ... I would choose a different weapon.

sigh ............. if only real life as practiced was that simple.

Many times Satan does not have to come after us at all .... we embark on courses of applied stupidity and self destruction all by ourselves.

mice .... anytime there is a difficult explanation .... mice.

Stockholm Sweden is famous for it's acceptance of all kinds of people, ideas and philosophies, and welcoming people that will eventually lead to their destruction ( such as immigrants who will not eat ham sandwiches ...) . Speaking of controversial choices, and Sweden, and Food, and diversity .... Food Fight! (Extended Version) _ with The Swedish Chef _ Muppisode _ The Muppets.mp4

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In my mind, any body who expects ANY fair treatment from a communist tyrannical government is an insane person. DUH! It's like two wolves and a sheep negotiating on what to have for lunch.

If you are the smartest person in a room .... you are in the wrong room.

I appreciate your honest reply, but the fact of the matter is this: You have your opinions on how the Universe and the "Real World" operates ... and I have mine. The Universe does not care about either of our opinions ... only what the facts really are. OF COURSE I never said it did. Ever see the movie "Dr. Zhivago"? An older movie well worth the effort to find and see, starring Omar Sharif, and Sir Alex Guiness (Obi-wan Kanobe) . Dr. Zhivago is in Siberia or somewhere in the winter during the Russian Revolution of 1918, and he is freezing .. so he leaves his "girlfriend's" apartment and starts destroying someone's fence for firewood to take back. His Brother is a policeman spying on him, and see's this, but lets him get away with it. The brother muses (paraphrased) "You know ... my brother is a Doctor, and I am just a policeman ... but that does not bother me ... I have killed people much better than me with a small pistol." OF COURSE chance and circumstance befall us all .... but other things being equal ... the race is not always to the swift ... and the battle is not always to the strong .... but that is the way to bet. In any horse race you are going to be at a decided disadvantage ... if you are a cow.

Rumor has it that they taped up the mirrors in case some of the GB came to visit the gym, as some had no reflected image, and had to be invited to enter over the threshold by someone inside the gym. This is just a rumor, completely without any substantiation whatsoever, and I am not one to repeat rumors. ... so pay attention the FIRST time.

If I am not mistaken, Thomas Jefferson actually waged a revolutionary war against many of his friends with different politics and philosophy ... and he and his short list of friends tried their best to KILL THEM.

You need to associate with a smarter group of people. If your master's degree is in French Literature .... you have shot yourself in the foot, and paid for the bullet. What will that qualify you to do? Nothing that I can think of off hand. If you are in a room full of 100 college graduates, and 50% have what is my opinion, a generally useless degree, that shows the 50% is completely divorced from reality. So, you have 50 people left, while the others are stewing in their own expensive fantasy world. Then there are perhaps 40 people who are not willing to relocate as needed to where the jobs are, so they have tied their own hands behind them. Risk taking and bold action is often a crucial job requirement. So you have ten people left out of the original hundred, and 5 have no idea how to write a good resume, interview well, or are just hateful, mean, belligerent, or ugly people with no people skills whatsoever. That leaves 5 people. Then you have the last 5 people that perhaps studied Petroleum Engineering, Nursing, Hotel Management, or any number of valuable subjects, but reality is that they tested well, but in the workaday world, they couldn't find a door with a map. Or perhaps they have even an advanced degree in some valuable subject, and have let the sounds of their own wheels make them crazy, and are bat crap crazy, .... and decide after a $70,000 education, to sell daisies, or make really cool table candles ... man. I have a cousin who went to college for 9 years, and is as useless as teats on a bull, because he is just plain clueless. He goes around in a Star Wars robe and a a fake light saber. Infinite Variety.

To be clear, I never suggested God approved of guns .... but he did make the FIRST sword, and he refers to Himself as "Jehovah of Armies", many, many many times in the Bible. Jehovah is my Shepherd ... but Smith and Wesson is my armorer.

Egypt got off easy. Immorality outside of adhering to the direct commandments and underlying principles of those direct commandments is not "galactic standards morality". It is local or personal preference. Snowflakes think different than Warriors. Children think different than adults. Everybody decides what their own morality will be ... and it can be based on their own standards, or any standards. August 6, 1945 the United States Government burned to death about 80 thousand men, women, children and babies, one morning before noon, and three days later, August 9, 1945, burned to death another 30 thousand men, women and children and babies on another sunny morning. Those not instantly killed lingered in agony with little or no medical care and over the next four months approximately 100 thousand more Japanese died of their injuries sustained on those two mornings. When civilization and liberty or tyranny is in the balance, Jack Ryan's sentiments expressed by proxy closely imitate the thought processes of a petulant, child who has no concept of the big picture. May I suggest to ANYONE getting the "Big Picture", and start thinking like an adult. Destroying the Empire of Japan's ability to wage war against the United States necessitated the deaths and torture to death by injury, of perhaps a quarter-million total Japanese, including infants, with two Atomic Bombs. That does not even count those who survived and were maimed for life. In this theater of war, approximately 400 to 600 Americans died in this effort, most from radiation poisoning. The alternative was to accomplish the same ends (winning the war, and unconditional surrender of the Empire of Japan) with, based on experience in battle, 4 million Japanese killed, and 1 million American deaths in battle. The destruction of the Japanese Empire actually freed the Japanese as well from a millennium of tyranny by their own internal Bushido code based Imperial government. Women were treated like animals. Men were treated like slaves. Grow up people! Start thinking like an ADULT. What Jehovah did in Egypt thousands of years ago, was justified, and in the best interests of all parties involved ... a whole NATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE was freed from slavery, oppression, mistreatment and tyranny .... but like any dramatic cancer surgery ... there is a bill that has to be paid. There is no other way . Egypt got off easy.

Where I live they are remodeling all the fast food restaurants. It looks like "monkey see - monkey do". The New Kingdom Hall looks like a WENDY'S under construction, here. I do not think the Society's Law Staff and Architects have realized how difficult it is to hide an elephant under a beach towel, anymore.

My daughter has a part time job in a major bank ... as a teller. With a Law degree she could have a part time job at the same major bank as a mortgage specialists or legal department, etc. for about 4 to 7 times the pay. I have gotten jobs where there was NO OPENINGS, but because of my skill sets, they CREATED a job for me. One time I spent six months working on whatever interested me at full pay, waiting for them to find a suitable project. I looked very busy studying structural engineering. Earlier in my life, with few skills ... I could not BUY a job ... and nearly starved.

There is so much wrong with WT paragraph 8 that it drips with syrupy cluelessness. There is infinite variety in EVERYTHING. The same people that wrote paragraphs 7 and 8 ... said this: Gravity Electricity Wind .mp4

HGH you say ....Hmmmm... I have been feeling a little poorly lately. When I munch on a bowl of nails, the sparks don't shoot out as far as they used to .....

It's possible that with testosterone injections that I will, at 71 year old, become as buff as Arnold Schwarzenegger was when he was younger. Place your bets now!