James Thomas Rook Jr.
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.... and my favorite, Mickey Spillane. Agenda driven examples of ANYTHING are only generalizations, that may .. OR MAY NOT apply. Infinite experiences.... .... Infinite results. Often as we get older ... not having been able to make the cut as a helicopter or commercial airline pilot causes us to remember that our goal was always to be a shoe salesman. -
That's why as I walk down the street, I constantly stop and look behind me, or dodge into a doorway, or hide behind a lamp post, looking back ....or dodging and weaving get off a few shots ... just in case. .... better to be safe ... than sorry.
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Catholics charge money for exorcisms, Weddings, Baptisms, etc. Sometimes it's formal and sometimes it's informal ... a "green handshake", or a little white envelope with "something in it", but exorcisms are even more so a way to convince the gullible that they have the POWER to do so, and the authority of God to do so. Very persuasive ! A few years ago the head religious guy at the Vatican, in charge of the "Department of Exorcisms", a Bishop or something, about 85 years old embarrassed the church by declaring to the news media that (paraphrased) " .. the Vatican is FULL OF DEMONS !". I took that at face value ... and besides ... him being in charge of the Department that oversaw global exorcisms,.... he should know! Then there is the joke about the Catholic who had to pay for her exorcism on the installment plan ... and when she missed a payment ... she was ... um ... repossessed.
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I remember when this was a hot topic ..... 1966 .... I had just graduated from High School.. I was young, and had NO life experience ... and took it all at face value, as presented. 51 years later, and never having seen one particle of evidence of demon activity at any time ... anywhere ... I am less concerned. I did give it some thought in one 2014 Bible Movie "Son of God", when they cast an actor that looked exactly like Barack Obama, as Satan. Â
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Toys-R-Us failed after many years of bad, ininspired management ... Amazon.com lost money for over 5 years according to a well managed GOOD strategic plan, and rose to the ascendancy it now enjoys. Competency always works better than applied cluelessness. Stuff happens.
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It's all about assets and cash flow. If you have hundreds of trillions of dollars in assets, and a cash flow that makes one line of your expenses able to service your debt ... the train keeps rollin' along.
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1.) God cannot die. 2.) If Jesus did not actually and really die, his sacrifice was NOT a sacrifice .... merely a REALLY bad weekend. 3.) Therefore, to rational people ... Jesus CANNOT be God ... or .... if Jesus was God, who CANNOT die .... he did not redeem anybody from anything, as he DID NOT REALLY DIE, then no REAL sacrifice of his life was ever made. Pick ONE. You cannot have it BOTH ways. Period.
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The only real constant in this Universe is continuous change. "Stuff Happens". it always will.
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The only justification for a trade war ... is IF YOU WIN. The "Law of Unintended Consequences" controls all decisions. ... soon enough .... we will all know. Just like in the American Civil War, there were massive casualties on BOTH sides to determine on the battlefield whose agenda would prevail.
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I suspect when they looked at a 17 acre warehouse full of Polio and Smallpox Vaccine that they could not sell.
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When Able was killed he was 126 years old. How do I know this? I do not have the slightest idea. Not even a hint of the smell of a clue. .... and since the Bible does not say .... I strongly suspect anybody elses WAG would carry equal weight.
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I am not as fertile as a Turtle But I have more fun than a tree .... that lives much longer than me.
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Turtles live 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal it's sex I think it clever of the Turtle In such a fix To be so fertile.
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Many fail to realize I try to be , what one enemy once called me (actually it was meant as an insult, but it is the nicest compliment I ever had ...) a "Champion" for Jehovah's Witnesses, and the 15% Core Truth that we have. An Elder asked me recently if I could fully support "Jehovah's Organization". I replied that I always have. He asked me if there was anything I had against the Organization. I replied that I could do without Caleb and Sophia.. That seemed to satisfy him, and we went our separate ways. I am so glad he did not ask about the 85% silly stuff. Perhaps I should have kept what my Mother taught me when I was 3 to 6 years old .. "Never talk to strangers.". I am a slow learner.
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I wear a size 16 shoe (52 in Europe) and THIS is what I would like from Ronald McDonald!
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Alithis Gnosis: I see by your knowing where the correct answers may be found, but not posting them, that you have the same aversion to "heavy lifting" that I do. That was the whole point of my ASKING ... I could find out the correct answer with several hours of research, but I am a chain saw kinda guy, and hoped that someone would already have more verifiable information at their fingertips than I do. My thought was that if it was said at an Assembly ... they were using LAST YEARS figures, or whatever the Assembly speaker is reported by our Kingdom Hall Speaker to have said. I completely agree with your quote: That is why I am TRYING to check what I heard from the platform today . The sword has to cut BOTH ways, except among the gullible, dull, and stupid. I do not trust ANYBODY at face value, and I do not care about "rumors shipwrecking" my or anyone else's faith, as mentioned in your quote. That is why I see the following video clips as just normal human stupidity. Â 2 CHAIR pORNEA .mp4 Gravity Electricity Wind .mp4
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This afternoon (Saturday) was our weekend meeting, and the public speaker said that at the Orangeburg, SC Assembly last weekend it was said that the Brotherhood had dropped to 7,500,000 worldwide. It was my impression that we were at somewhere around 8.2 million, and growing. That means (if true) that even with several BILLION HOURS of public witnessing .... there was a net LOSS of 700,000 JWs. So, have we actually had that much decrease, and does anybody have any "official" numbers to verify what I heard today from the platform?
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Festivus - The Holiday for the REST of us ? "Seinfeld" was a very popular TV show a few years back, and one of the comedic sketches they had was the ad-hoc invention of a holiday called "Festivus" - completely made up out of thin air, to compete with those who did not celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah , or other holidays. I have seriously (Hahahahaha) been thinking about making "Festivus" a family tradition at our house, as exemplified by the expression " .. A life without celebration, is like a very long road without an Inn ..". If this is new to you, you can watch Seinfeld "Festivus" episodes on YouTube to get the idea, and Wikipedia has the full history of the Holiday. Hmmmm ... I will also send this question to the "Watchtower", "Questions from Readers", perhaps as an exercise in futility .. but even a blind pig finds an acorn, once in awhile. I would appreciate it if you could answer the question as you see it, from whatever perspective you have.
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I have mentioned this in the past, but to my knowledge the two most famous Presbyterians that I know about are Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II, who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, and Fozzie Bear, made from some discarded rental apartment carpet, and Star of TV and Movies as the resident Muppet Comedian.
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When I was growing up, your predilection for irrelevancy was known as "taking a trip through Booger's Woods".
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I was discussing the comparison between the two court systems. A valid charge of apostasy assumes that the people "with the bayonets" have it right ... which is not often the case. Please tell me how the Congregational Court System worked among Christians in the first century. Only with real data could I possibly know the answer to your question. ... I DO know what we have NOW.
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Among men of integrity, investigations produce results that lead to Justice. Just as in the case of USA FBI Director James Comey's investigation of Hillary Clinton's unsecured personal email servers that held top secret information .... if you make public statements that exonerate the people being investigated ... BEFORE THE INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETED ... you will NOT get Justice. Agenda driven investigations are ALWAYS corrupted to protect the reputations of the people, or entities involved. Colloquial fantasies to the contrary, we are NO DIFFERENT than anyone else in that regard.
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GB Member Stephen Lett already did that in 2015, if memory serves, about three months before the Australian Royal Commission blew the lid off of everything in that regard. He referred to all such accusations as "... apostate lies !". There are video clips on YouTube.
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The problem with that caveat, is that their understanding of the scriptures ... ARE THEIR COLLECTIVE PERSONAL OPINIONS ... and they are in fact "men", like any other men, who put their paints on one leg at a time, and have some ... and occasionally many opinions that are completely divorced from reality and plain old common sense. You and I probably watched too much "Perry Mason" growing up ... but if Tom, Dick or Harry in the back of the courtroom stood up and yelled "That is NOT TRUE", in a secular court I guarantee he WOULD BE HEARD.  The Judge may bang his gavel and the Bailiff may get tense, but he would be heard. In OUR court system, held in complete secrecy, and no witnesses allowed .... there is nobody to "stand up" for injustices that are the part of all "due processes." There is a real and valid reason why Jehovah set up the system that served Israel well for two thousand and more years ... and there is a reason why we do not use that system today. It is that their understanding of the scriptures ... ARE THEIR COLLECTIVE PERSONAL OPINIONS ... Sometimes they make sense ... many times they make no sense at all ... and apostates are CREATED ... where there were none before.   2 CHAIR pORNEA .mp4 Gravity Electricity Wind .mp4
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