James Thomas Rook Jr.

Could be Worse ..... could be an Oscar Meyer Wiener-mobile.

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As a person who sold Amway products twice, and had to quit because they, although of reasonably good quality, were way over priced ... then tried it again with a different philosophy, but could not shake the fact that everybody in the distribution line made money ... which made the products over-priced ... I could not justify, as an example, taking a box of laundry detergent to a person's home. It's door-to-door sales ... after you have loaded up all your relatives ... and FORMER friends, with a pot load of household soaps, detergents, and stuff.

As an aside ... this always confused me .... what are 2,000 pigs doing in Israel, eating up all the forage? 2,000 pigs is a LOT of pigs!

It seems very simple. Perfect creations rebellion is never forgiven by God. This is not Darth Vader's Star Wars scenario where you can destroy whole worlds, then have a "facepalm" moment when you die, and come back smiling and made whole. There is only ONE valid excuse for anyone's rebellion against one's legal Sovereign ... IF YOU WIN. And they won't.

About 40 years ago, I had terrible migraine headaches ... some so bad the pain curled my arms up under my chin involuntarily, and turned my hands into claws at my collar bones. You could see the veins in my scalp, so I am told. I went to the hospital, and they gave me a really good tranquilizer, and put me in a dark room. The doctor came in and asked if I was still in pain. The pain had not diminished ... but I really did not care. That was an epiphany. Since then I have severely limited my choice of crazy friends and drama queens, and people that are just plain bat crap crazy, and with a few beers, and a fifth of scotch about every six months, I get by migraine free since then ...... for about $150 a year. Right there I am saving more than $6,000.

Wishful Thinking ..... ONLY

Alcohol free beer? Only if it is Alcohol .. FREE BEER! Otherwise, just take a multi-vitamin tablet.

Even the U.S. Battleship "Missouri" has a name, and even an affectionate nickname "The Mighty Mo", but is referred to as a "she". She sat in Tokyo Bay in 1945 and accepted the surrender of the Japanese Empire. The above single sentence is so complex, yet in common usage as stated, that it disproves your last post in every way possible.

I visualize what I read as I read ... and I thought that was a killer point .... Jehovah sits on the Throne ... with Jesus at his right hand, and IF the Holy Spirit was a person, apparently "he" did NOT get a chair. With no name and no chair to sit on, "he " would not be a very FRIENDLY Holy Spirit, so I would have to rescind my initial thought that his name might be Casper (The Friendly Spirit), of yesteryear's comic book fame. The dynamic is QUITE clear in Revelation 1:1 in eleven or so words EXACTLY which personalities are in control, in heaven, and it is Jehovah as the one who knows, Jesus who is temporarily ignorant of His revelation relayed to the Apostle John, until instructed by Jehovah God. The un-named angel that was sent from Jesus as a subordinate taking executive direction .... just as Jesus was a subordinate to Jehovah God. Casper, Fred, Marvin, and Bertha-Ann are not mentioned. New International Version The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, New Living Translation This is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soon take place. He sent an angel to present this revelation to his servant John, English Standard Version The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, Berean Study Bible This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, Berean Literal Bible The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants what things it behooves to take place in quickness. And He signified it through having sent His angel to His servant, John, New American Standard Bible The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, King James Bible The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Christian Standard Bible The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, Contemporary English Version This is what God showed to Jesus Christ, so that he could tell his servants what must happen soon. Christ then sent his angel with the message to his servant John. Good News Translation This book is the record of the events that Jesus Christ revealed. God gave him this revelation in order to show to his servants what must happen very soon. Christ made these things known to his servant John by sending his angel to him, Holman Christian Standard Bible The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave Him to show His slaves what must quickly take place. He sent it and signified it through His angel to His slave John, International Standard Version This is the revelation of Jesus the Messiah, which God gave him to show his servants the things that must happen soon. He made it known by sending his messenger to his servant John, NET Bible The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must happen very soon. He made it clear by sending his angel to his servant John, New Heart English Bible This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, Aramaic Bible in Plain English The Revelation of Yeshua The Messiah, which God gave to him, to show his Servants what had been given to soon occur, and he symbolized it when he sent by his Angel to his Servant Yohannan, GOD'S WORD® Translation This is the revelation of Jesus Christ. God gave it to him to show his servants the things that must happen soon. He sent this revelation through his angel to his servant John. New American Standard 1977 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must shortly take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, Jubilee Bible 2000 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his slaves things which are convenient to do quickly, and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his slave John, King James 2000 Bible The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and revealed it by his angel unto his servant John: American King James Version The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John: American Standard Version The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; Douay-Rheims Bible The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John, Darby Bible Translation Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to shew to his bondmen what must shortly take place; and he signified [it], sending by his angel, to his bondman John, English Revised Version The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to shew unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; Webster's Bible Translation The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John: Weymouth New Testament The revelation given by Jesus Christ, which God granted Him, that He might make known to His servants certain events which must shortly come to pass: and He sent His angel and communicated it to His servant John. World English Bible This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, Young's Literal Translation A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify it, having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

THAT IS SORT OF LIKE CREATING EXTENSIVE RULES, AND WARNINGS THAT MURDERERS ARE NOT ALLOWED ... I MEAN REALLY! .. NOT ALLOWED TO GO INTO SCHOOLS AND RESTAURANTS AND SHOOT THE PEOPLE THERE. THEY LOOK AT THE LIST OF RULES... LOOK AT THE SIGNS ... LOOK AT THE RULES ... AND ALMOST DON'T GO INSIDE AND START KILLING PEOPLE ... BECAUSE THEY ARE LAUGHING SO HARD, THEY WONDER IF THEIR AIM WILL BE AFFECTED.

It is both terminally sad, and actually funny, to see the Society's Lawyers speaking as one ... trying to explain that the obvious Elephant they are trying to hide under the beach towel is not really there. Who knew that the Russians were AT LEAST as smart as the average amoeba? I mean .... who knew?

Kim: I hope that Putin and the Russian Federation Politburo read your analysis, and in walking down the hallways of the Kremlin. pause ..... face-palm their foreheads ... and come to an epiphany and realize "How could I have been so WRONG?" 80 million letters from the Brotherhood worldwide had absolutely no effect whatsoever, except to transfer about 56 MILLION DOLLARS from the hard-working Brothers and Sisters to the Russian Government's as 70% of the postage affixed, through the Universal Postal Unions terminal duty agreements with other postal systems worldwide ... and that the eleven or more railroad boxcars of undelivered mail probably became "fuel at the proper time" during the winter months in their wood burning home pot-belly stoves. They say crime does not pay ... but in this case, it did. $56,000,000 dollars worth. And that was just the first installment !

I had the same problem with my HAL 9000 computer ....

I am pretty sure this could never actually happen ... I mean, her being successful at it ... The Russians hacked the password of the Democratic National Committee, as their chief Honcho's password was in fact "password" ... and she claims to have forgotten the passwords, on several of her unsecured smart phones, and had them destroyed with a hammer before the FBI MIGHT have looked at them for evidence of breaches of National Security (DUH!), and as far as collecting DNA .... she can't even get any from Bill, anymore. His last words on the matter were "Heh, heh, I guess when you are in prison, I will be free to date, Huh? Heh, heh ..."

After having spent twenty five and more years discussing things like this with people who have strong ideas about such things ... but like myself, NOT HAVING THE SLIGHTEST CLUE, I have given up even caring about such things. Things ARE WHAT THEY ARE .... and, THEY ARE NOT WHAT THEY ARE NOT ... and a million word exposition by the clueless ... myself included ... will not change that. Do the best you can ... chill out ... have a beer ... relax ... take more naps. Pay more attention to your children while you still can. Most "pangs of distress", I have found ... are self inflicted. About the OTHER "pangs of distress" ... soon ... perhaps too soon ... we will all know. I will probably be worse if you built your home on the side of an active volcano, or you live close to Yellowstone Park.

The cool thing about "bent light astronomy", or "gravitational lensing", is once you learn how, sometimes it is possible to see galaxies hidden behind foreground galaxies .... and get multiple snapshots in different epochs by calculating the difference in the timing of light ray paths.

As the August 2018 Watchtower on page 3 points out a profound general principle that cuts on BOTH sides of the sword ... NOT JUST THE SOCIETY'S SIDE .... "When anyone replies to a matter before he hears the facts, it is foolish and humiliating" -Â Proverbs 18:13 This assumes that the "hearer of facts" has the slightest bit of common sense, which may or may not be the case. Â Gravity Electricity Wind .mp4

Knoor's Law: "No matter what happens ... SOMEBODY predicted it." As far as TRUE predictions ...... it just was not .... us. We do know, however, from GB member Stephen Lett, that (paraphrased) " ... there is more evidence of God's Kingdom on Earth now, than there is for gravity, and electricity." ... but for the life of me, I find it impossible to wrap my mind around that statement. If Ah had stated that ... Ah could legitimately be involuntarily committed to a mental institution, and wear size 400 sleeves that tie in the back. My Movie.mp4

WHY would Jehovah's Witnesses reject Government calls for Independent Inquiry into sexual abuse?

I do not have the strength and agility to catch a horse on the highway .... but I have in the past risked my life and car to save a road Turtle.

The only real constant in the Universe is continual change, but many people CANNOT adapt. This comes under the Biblical catagory of James 1:27 James 1:27 New International Version (NIV) 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. It all boils down to this simple single sentence.

I really enjoy all of AllenSmith's comments ... seriously. He has a perspective on life that is truly astonishing, and entertaining ! Scary, in a "Roseanne Roseannadanna" kind of way .... but astonishing and entertaining ! Â

You know... I am just sitting here .... minding my own business ... when on my 3rd monitor I see some guy in three piece suit run by, and with his hair on fire, crying "heretic! Heretic! HERETIC!" !!