James Thomas Rook Jr.

5 hours ago, AllenSmith said:

Look back at the embarrassment and mockery JTR mentioned by suggesting the GB was FORCED!

What are you talking about, AllenSmith?

How were the GB forced?

To WHAT?

...and by WHOM?

Words are INCREDIBLY important ... most people do not see the distinction between apostasy, heresy,  blasphemy, and a considered opinion.

... like building a wooden kitchen cabinet using rocks and pieces of fencing.

By the way ... What you have going on between you and BR, is what is known as a "Flame War" .... if fought figuratively "to the death", is a good thing for those who watch and take notes.

Sometimes it's best to surrender unconditionally.

Even Imperial Japan surrendered when hit with two atomic bombs .....

I have not been keeping up with the discussions you mentioned ... but I offer the observation to your comment:

15 hours ago, AlanF said:

He seems to have objected most to my proof that, because he teaches things contrary to the Bible and to Governing Body teachings, he is an apostate according to Watch Tower standards.

AlanF

As far as I know, the Governing Body has NEVER been right about any prognostications they promoted .... not once ... and besides a propensity to shoot themselves in both feet, with "Pillowgate", have become an embarrassment to all reasoning people, but even more than that .... Is "Brother Rando" an apostate ACCORDING TO JEHOVAH'S STANDARDS ?

... Historically, they are only occasionally and roughly coincidentally the same.

The question is ... how do they do when hooked up to a Lie Detector?

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I hate it when someone hammers sharpened bamboo under your kneecaps, and then pulls them off with vise-grip pliers ...

Don't you?

I do.

That might be a good question to ask the Collective Governing Body, in a certified mail letter, return receipt requested .... and enclose a check for $20.00.

I have tried things like this in the past, and not received any answer, except an acknowledgement of my "contribution", and down at the bottom in small print that the contribution was not a payment for any services rendered ... or words to that effect.

The check was cashed .

The questions I had were not answered.

Give it a try ..... postage is about $8.00.

There is absolutely NO CHANCE that money will ever be removed from politics ... EVER.

Politics is war ... without the bloodshed (...although in the case of the Clintons, people have a long history of dying around them when they are "out of favor")

Money is "Mother's Milk" to politics .... and the ammunition to fight the "war".

With very rare exceptions, usually, the candidate with the most money, ( and sometimes the best hair ...) can buy the most votes.

It's hard if not impossible to compete with Santa Claus.

What ya gonna do?

If the kids get killed due to Snowflakes not being able to take the heat,  the Principles and School Superintendents stay after school in detention ?

WOW!  A multi-billionaire Nerd telling lies?

Whooda Thunkit!

1 hour ago, Michael Krewson said:

The future of our species is now in serious peril. 

The future of our species has ALWAYS been in peril.

Christendom in its "Holy Wars" in Europe alone in the past 1700 years killed a half-billion people.

Plague, exposure, starvation and cataclysm killed more than that.

It's amazing that ANYONE .... EVER ... survived until now.

We are now living in the very best time there has ever been on the Planet Earth .... this time ... this place.

Arts, Sciences, Food Supply, Medicine, environmental conditions globally, justice, equity, and anything else you can mention.

I guess I am just a guy that "sees the glass half-full".

....at least in this time .... and in this place.

I do wish we were a species of Spacefarers by now ..... and not have all the eggs in one basket, but so far ....that is just a wish.

The difference between a professional and an amateur is how many zeros are on the check, before the decimal point.

I have taken three of my dogs to PETSMART, a company that sells dog food, dog toys, and every kind of pet supplies ... and they also do dog grooming. (bath, haircut, flea control, etc.), and I seriously doubt they were turned into sex slaves.

In this article, "grooming" is the WRONG WORD.

After reading the article, it appears this cruel and base man was TORTURING these girls and beating them into submission.

Words are very important.

Correct words are very important.

They are the tools with which we think.

Otherwise ... our thinking degenerates to the lowest common denominator of our corrupted or inadequate vocabulary.

.... and mothers who comb their daughter's hair before they go to school get arrested for sex crimes.

Which Pill Would We Take ..... The Red Pill? .... or the Blue Pill?

In the political world, more and more people are rejecting "Fake News" as provided by CNN (Clinton News Network), ABC (All 'bout Clinton) and NBC (Nothin' but Clinton), etc., and are seeking the truth about what they are being told ..... wherever it may be found.

Today John Stossel had an article about this on Foxnews which is incredibly important ... not only for the political ramifications ... but every manner of philosophical thought ....  and our very view of how the Universe works, and what "makes it tick".

If you have seen the movie "The Matrix" .... a MUST SEE movie .... you already know the common expression "Red Pill? Blue Pill?".

If you don't ... YOU SHOULD. 

The concept behind the expression is incredibly important ... as to whether we live in and artificial fantasy construct world ... or a world of what is actually REAL.

JOHN STOSSEL: More people tuning out mainstream media, embracing 'truth'

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/27/john-stossel-why-so-many-are-taking-red-pill-and-discovering-truth-about-mainstream-media.html

Oh ... and if you have not seen it .... get a copy of the movie, so you will actually get a "feel" for the depth of the now commonly understood  idiomatic expression.

(For those in Rio Linda, that has nothing to do with sex, it has to do with basic understanding .....)

Grok?

 

 

 

 

 

It's called "extrapolational humor" ... where you take an idea and deliberately misconstrue it ... and run it out to the absurd. 

It works best for visual jokes ... but often times does not translate well outside of one's native language and it's idiomatic imagery.

The best examples I have ever seen of this is the British comedy of Monty Python.

...which are available for rental on DVDs, or clips on YouTube.

 

 

The USA could probably pawn the Panama Canal ... or the Philippine Islands, which they won as spoils of war after the Spanish American War.

Oh wait ... after spending American blood and treasure ... they Gave them away .....

... never mind.

When you go to the hospital, they bring in a cart (a small table on wheels) with a LOT of electronics on it, to do Electrocardiograms (record all manner of heart activity, with squiggly lines ... on a computer monitor) and other tests.

Probably the cart also has a printer so the squiggly lines of heart activity can be printed out.

So technically .... and it was a joke ... well..... it was an ATTEMPTED joke .....

3 hours ago, Nicole said:

l would like to get some information on how l can get a cart with a monitor

This satisfies the question that I can answer, with as short an answer as the question was .... um... if you consider getting a cart to be short term.

( ...with a flourish cues the drummer over in the corner with the cymbals .... and the ceiling mounted flashing APPLAUSE sign ...)

Go to a hospital complaining of severe chest pains?

About 13 years ago, I bought a "silencer" for my firearms.

They are quite legal in 34 states, and shows consideration for your neighbors in neighborhoods like mine, where everyone in my corner of the subdivision shoots off of their back decks at backyard targets. and sometimes the noise gets excessive ... especially on a Sunday afternoon in summer with the windows open.

You do have to fill out ATF forms, have it signed by your local Sheriff, be photographed and fingerprinted, pay a $200.00 tax for each "can", and have to wait over three months for approval, but it is great fun ... and intimidates the hell out of weak livered Snowflakes, who melt all over themselves at the thought.

Humor is where you find it.

I was not going to post this little personal vignette, but I ran across this photo and just HAD to ... for the Librarian.

It looks like a bunch of spiders got their egg sac peed on by a radioactive newspaper photographer.

Voyage 1, which was launched in 1977, is in interstellar space now ..... and it takes a radio telescope about 2 seconds to find it.  Other than our Sun, at 40 watts transmit power, it is the brightest thing in the sky.

This is as inspiring as anything I can think of on very short notice .... put in a higher capacity  plutonium power supply such as Voyager 1 had in 1977 (40 watts), and you are half-way to the stars.

As the velocity increases, you can go into a higher and higher orbit and still collect enough reaction mass components, and then slingshot at escape velocity to the Centauri system, about 4.5 light years away.

There is not much gas between the stars but there is some, and molecule by molecule,  the faster you go, the more your engine can collect, and the faster you can go.

Hint: make sure your scoop is reversible, as about half-way, you need to start slowing down. 

 

 

A 1911 .45 caliber pistol is technology from 1911 ... arguably the finest handgun ever made.

That was over a hundred years ago.

A B-52 Bomber is older than the pilots that fly them.

Try not to get in front of, or under either.

The towed container was on STEEL RAILS ... with steel wheels on steel rails. ... and an extremely flat surface.

Anyone not familiar with the physics concept of "rolling resistance" will be impressed.

Any modern car with an automatic transmission should be able to do that .... even the little French cars whose horns go "heunk! heunk!".