James Thomas Rook Jr.

Will Childbirth Still Be Painful in the New System?

I cannot see any reason why?

After all,  I can walk around with a Soccer Ball in my mouth.

Perhaps when we are "perfect", we can teleport the baby to the outside world with mind control !

Yeah... THAT'S THE TICKET!

I downloaded the PDF file, and read it ... who is the agreement between?

It looks like a policy statement ... not an agreement of any sort ...on-line or otherwise.

It appears to be what is called in the corporate world a "Mission Statement".

 A unilateral statement OF POLICY AND GOOD INTENTIONS .... IS NOT AN AGREEMENT.

I cannot see where anybody is agreeing with anything.

ARE ANY OF US TALKING ABOUT THE SAME SUBJECT?

1 hour ago, Queen Esther said:

Jose Antonio  is  a  very  good  Brother,  I  know  him  many  years !

Could you please ask him to clarify what he was trying to say?

Chaplains have the un-enviable contract obligation, by virtue of their oath of office, to provide pastoral services as other Chaplains would do, if not available for some reason.

That means that a Catholic Chaplain ( as an example ...)  MUST, when called upon to do so, provide Jewish, Muslim, Methodist, Baptist, Unitarian, Seventh Day Adventist,  and many other religious services and activities, etc.

The same is true for other religious confessions.

A Muslim or Buddhist Chaplain may be called upon to give Catholic services or Sharia Law based counseling, or Trinity based sermons to a Baptist audience.

In the vernacular ... these "Sky Pilots" must be "Switch Hitters", and compromise their theology for the National Interests.

This makes allegiance to the True God a farce .... a paid hobby .... and a deeply established and approved cultural fantasy.

And it does quite blatantly make the point by actual, real life  example.

Just as Jesus, Joseph and Mary knew when they fled to Egypt, and David knew when the Nation he served was trying to kill him, and he fled to the Philistines for awhile, feigning insanity .... when people come with rifles and bayonets for you and yours ... the simplest way to cancel out their power over you ... is simply be somewhere else.

The Jews in Poland as a general rule tried to hold onto all their families had accumulated over 600 or so years, and the Nazis rounded them up, and turned them into small mountains of cremation ash.

I found this totally incomprehensible as to what the writer MIGHT be trying to say.

I thought I would find an ACTUAL internal online agreement.

Between who, and who?

Who wrote the "agreement"

What are the terms of the "agreement"

When and where can the "agreement" be found?

Did I miss something?

And whats with "... mental health is never discouraged"?

What?  Were we accused of encouraging insanity?

It appears as disjointed sentence fragments that have no overall meaning.

..and who is Brother, Jose Antonio Gutierrez Garcia , and where did this supposition of an on-line agreement come from?

I have flown on South American airlines (Faucett and others), that instead of having small bottles of liquor about the size of a man's thumb, passed around a Fifth of liquor and everybody took a swig, wiped the bottle opening  (... or not ...) and passed it to the next person.

I thought about that, and concluded that a big dose of someone else's germs, and a big dose of alcohol sorta cancelled each other out ... AND turned my perpetual frown upside down.

1 hour ago, JW Insider said:

Would you like to buy an orchestra seat for "Phantom" this Saturday?

Not unless it is the Phantom, "The Ghost who Walks", by Lee Falk. 

I would pay to see that !

2 hours ago, JW Insider said:

That said, you made the jump to associate a kind of parity between the deaf and the insane. That was stupid. Would you like to buy an orchestra seat for "Phantom" this Saturday?

Actually, it never occurred to me to make any association between the deaf and the insane.  Even a Barbarian such as myself knows better than that! 

ACTUALLY ... I was trying to make an association to those people who ACCOMODATE the insane rulings of courts, with state of the art technology for the occasional deaf person ... when a bound script would fulfill the requirements of the courts.

I have my own handicaps, which are legion, and having been blind twice in my life, and it never even occurred to me to ask for any kind of accommodation at all ... it was MY responsibility to cope ... or do without.

Why?

BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE"S life gets taxed for it.

I remember the prayer: "Oh gracious God ... please save me from those with good intentions!".

At work I had two 26" monitors at my computer station, and I figured out how to make one of them show whatever was at the cursor at the other screen huge, and even then it was a problem that slowed me down dramatically.

I used to drive two hours to work every day from Charlotte to Greenville, SC in the dark, following pale pink orbs on the Interstate that were to others, sharp red car tail lights, and had a timer on my front seat so I would know when to get off the Interstate, as I could not see the signs or the road ... and HOPED that another car would go up the exit ramp before me so I could follow the pink fog.

I drove by memory, and desperation.

Where do we stop?   Having someone off to the side of the stage using American Sign Language to accommodate the deaf people in the audience?  

Should we put wrist, ankle and waistband  lead weights on ballerinas, because I have neither the grace, talent or strength to do what they do? 

Things that are NOT equal is reality ... sorry about that.

Should I have someone else pay to have my legs shortened so that I can fly certain aircraft?   Should I INSIST that aircraft manufacturers design their cockpits to accommodate my overly large frame?

It is SO UNFAIR that I am too tall and as big as a refrigerator.

BOO frigging HOO !

I guess I will just have to do without!

Should I have liposuction and breast augmentation (.... as much as ballerinas have...) at others' expense, so I can compete with with them?

That would, in my opinion, be tutu much!

14 minutes ago, Nana Fofana said:

Aren't there supposed to be 3 frogs?

You are thinking about TREE frogs.

..... and keep their driver's licenses as collateral, to insure that you get your script back.

Let them keep the thumb as a souvenir.

They can use it to poke out an eye.

I wonder what kind of accommodations theatrical performances must provide to the stupid and insane?

I remember back in the 60's, I became the world's greatest surfer, with absolutely no talent or natural ability.

I had cards printed up.

With that in mind .... just hand the complainers a copy of the  script, and a big plastic thumb, so they will not lose their place ....

It is a known fact, that when you die ... the Universe ceases to exist.

This can be proven by the fact that it is so hard to get accurate reports back from dead people.

When I used to surfboard, I would get to the beach ... a 2 hour drive, before dawn to see the sunlight blues absorbed by the water, and the reds reflected to  the underside of the clouds as in your photo.

This is why I liked a cloudy day at the beach, when there were no clouds over the ocean at the horizon, at dawn.

Worth the trip.

It reminds me of the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" ..... how to increase the value of someone's gold !

WOW!

Thank you Space Merchant for the best explanation and irrefutable proof I have ever read !

It's like at the end of the first Muppet Movie ..... it said it ALL.

.... and at the end of it, realizing that the audience was still there in the theater, reading the credits as they rolled by ... "Animal" (the Muppet, breaks the 4th wall, looks directly at the audience, and says ....

GO HOME!

GO HOME!

 

Winnie the Pooh:
I'm just a little black rain cloud
Hovering under the honey tree
I'm only a little black rain cloud
Pay no attention to little me

Pooh and Christopher Robin:
Everyone knows that a rain cloud
Never eats honey, no, not a nip

Winnie the Pooh:
I'm just floating around over the ground
Wondering where I will drip.

I'm not a hungry old Pooh bear

I'm just a little black honey cloud

And no one knows better than me bees

Stealing your honey is not allowed

Pooh and Christopher Robin:

You know a hungry old Pooh cloud

Never gets hungry, no not all

Winnie the Pooh:

I'm just floating around over the ground

Wondering where I will fall

How about if the circumstances were exactly as I outlined, above ..... ?

When I was younger my head got that large, and was so heavy that as I walked along in Service, I dragged it on the ground, and could only look backwards, to see where I had been.

Probably why I am almost bald today .....

This is not only a complete fraud, but is a physical impossibility. 

I sure hope you or any of the Brothers and Sisters did NOT invest in it ... and your money is completely and totally gone forever ... and even WORSE ... have to live with the fact that ..... rats! ... there is no diplomatic way to say it.

 

It is not well known that her last name is STEPFORD.

...and I did like the first "Stepford Wives" movie a LOT better than the remake.

If we could get Sophia into a plus-sized pant's suit, and get her to cackle like a chicken .... she could run for President!

AllenSmith:

I can ALWAYS count on you to avoid discussing any issue of real relevance ... but instead running around on a stage in a three piece suit with your hair on fire, yelling "Heretic! Heretic! HERETIC!.

have a nice day!

If a Brother or Sister in good standing in the Congregation goes into the hospital, and agrees to a whole blood transfusion, and dies anyway, can they be disfellowshipped post mortem, and what about the funeral arrangements?  ( I have heard of this being done, but never explained....)

Can they have a funeral at the Kingdom Hall?

Let's say a Brother or Sister in good standing in the Congregation  goes berserk, and commits some crime, and either dies by misadventure, or gets shot by police ....

Can they have a funeral at the Kingdom Hall?

Considering such questions is like a submarine on the surface, at night, in the fog .... firing torpedoes randomly into the darkness, to see what lights up.

.... sometimes survival depends on having the right answer about "What is out there?".

AllenSmith:

You are confusing faith in the Almighty God, with gullibility drooling over the opinions of people neither inspired of God, nor infallible ... and even though they were forced by outside sources to admit it ... I give them credit that they did admit it .... even if it was almost hidden in the February 2017 Watchtower, as a synopsis of a hundred years of goofiness, pretending to be the Guardians of Doctrine, that they themselves made up out of thin air for their own profit and aggrandizement...

1 hour ago, AllenSmith said:

That’s true. You signed up to be a “witness” for God, through the Watchtower, and you have failed on both accounts. Hebrews 13:1

Of course, there is no such thing as a “brother watchtower” but there such a thing as a “brother of the same faith” which has failed you for some time now. James 4:1, 1Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, to me, you are NOT a brother associated with the Watchtower, so let's not play these meaningless games of wordplay. I get that too often from the ex-bethelite!

1 Corinthians 5:9 context: Expel the Immoral Brother

AllenSmith:

On the first  sentence of your reply, you are entirely correct. 

Many, many  times I have explained here on the Archive that I do not claim to be anything but a Barbarian interested in fairness, Justice, and equity.  We all fail God, so I have a LOT of company.

On the second sentence of your reply, you are flat wrong, wrong, wrong.

On the third sentence of your reply, thank you for the unknowing complement, even though you are the one "playing with words" ... the fact that someone who would be PERFECT as a Pharisee or a JW.ORG Lawyer condemning me is a significant badge of honor.

In the fourth sentence you rail against immorality in general, and me in particular .... but like the Klingon Language version of the Bible .... and the Pharisees of old, and the WTB&TS Lawyers, there is no real concept of mercy, only "playing with words".