James Thomas Rook Jr.

AllenSmith:

It's fun to rattle your chain ... but please answer the following question ....

1.) If YOU were issued a summons, and it was served on YOU, to appear in court, and YOU refused to appear ... what do you think would happen?

AllenSmith:

Just a follow up on your earlier supposition that when the ARC subpoenaed Australian Citizen Geoffrey Jackson, it was just a polite request ....

On 3/2/2018 at 3:54 AM, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

Summons are a polite way of asking for something?

HahaHAHAhahaha

Next time you get a summons from the local court system, or the IRS ... just ignore it.

...You are in for a REVELATION !

 

This screenshot is from Today's News, showing what normal people expect, when they refuse subpoenas. (Monday, March 5, 2018)

 

 

12 minutes ago, Witness said:

What do you think Jesus meant by saying, “go not from house to house”?

The key to understanding anything ... is CONTEXT!

In context, what is being said is "If you are invited in as a guest, and shown hospitality ... do NOT go shopping around for better food and accommodations".

It is as simple as that.

CONTEXT.... IS everything!

Your mind is clouded by your agenda.

"Quote Mining", however should not be a capital offense.

....for the first one.

....

Sorry, AllenSmith ...

I had completely forgotten that my humor and cartoons have always been SHAMEFUL!

What was I THINKING ?

Ever notice that you never see a picture of Ernest Borgnine and the Three Stooges, and Elizabeth Taylor in the same picture?

Coincidence?

I THINK NOT!

10 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

As Carl Childers once said between bites of canned potted meat "Get it?"

Either you do...or you don't.

Apparently you don't.

... but more to the point ... which 1.4 MILLION dollar house is being used by which GB Member, if any ?

If you can ever pass off those seven dollar bills you have AllenSmith, get change in 3's and 4's.

32 minutes ago, AllenSmith said:

Once again, your jealousy is showing. I believe opposers also came up with an Illuminati ring?

Since we are delving into the realm of shameless humor .... Ever wonder why the GB needed an Eighth Member?

So ... which one is real... and which one is fake?

36 minutes ago, Cos said:

But where is your Biblical proof that this is the case when referring to the Holy Spirit? Have you any? If you have none then you are just sprouting the ideas of men and nothing else. <><

Your premise is based on a false assumption analogous to assuming the Battleship Missouri is a woman named Mo.

For all the reasons I have stated earlier, I reject your not understanding Hebrew thought processes and linguistic conventions.

My theology may be described as a "chainsaw theology".

It has to make common sense and have real life examples .

You don't define common sense with scripture ... YOU DEFINE SCRIPTURE WITH WHAT MAKES COMMON SENSE.

Nowhere in the known Universe, or on the other side of the "Big Bang" are there any known, observable examples of natural  three-in-one life forms.

NOWHERE!

Even a man and his wife, referred to as "One" in the Bible, are not joined at the hip ... although I have actually seen a teenage girl with two heads riding a bicycle, in a documentary.

As Carl Childers once said between bites of canned potted meat "Get it?"

You know, or might know, that Battleships in the USA are referred to as "she", as are many large ships, and boats, and that the Battleship Missouri, that fought in WWII, and upon which the surrender of Japan was signed, is referred to as "Mighty Mo" and other nicknames.

Notice that I just referred to the Battleship Missouri as having fought in WWII.

Ships do not actually fight ... men on those ships fight.

It is similar to the expression " ... the White House said today ..." when the President makes some comment or opinion.

The White House is not actually a talking building .... but that is the expression.

"A synecdoche (/sɪˈnɛkdəkiː/, sih-NEK-də-kee;^[1] from Greek συνεκδοχή, synekdoche, lit. "simultaneous understanding")^[2] is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.^[3] A synecdoche is a class of metonymy, often by means of either mentioning a part for the whole or conversely the whole for one of its parts. Examples from common English expressions include "bread and butter" (for "livelihood"), "suits" (for "businessmen"), "boots" (for "soldiers") (pars pro toto), and "vacuum" (for "vacuum cleaner") or conversely "America" (for "the United States of America") (totum pro parte).^[4]

The use of government buildings to refer to their occupant(s) is on the border between synecdoche and metonymy. "The Pentagon" for the United States Department of Defense can be considered synecdoche, as the building can be considered part of the department. "No. 10" for the British Prime Minister can be counted as metonymy, since the building is not part of the person, but using "No. 10" to mean "the Office of the Prime Minister" is synecdoche"  - Wikipedia.

Hebrew uses extensively a parallelism of ideas in its structure.

"Mighty Mo" is not a sentient transvestite war combatant, and ...

... the Holy Spirit is not a person.

...oops... wrong thread.

.... and make them pay cash.

Anytime men say "Trust Me .... " ... audit their books.

If I could live in a 1.4 million dollar house tax free, wear $ 20,000 dollar Rolex watches, and have my every other need taken care of ... I too, would take a "vow of poverty".

4 hours ago, AllenSmith said:

So, let's get this topic back on track. Why? people have the need to know where the GB live?

.... because, AllenSmith, the GB has supposedly taken a vow of poverty, the same as everyone else at Bethel has ... and SOMEBODY is living in the 1.4 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE in the Watchtower owned property in the community of Colony Park, 35 miles from the Warwick Campus .

Paragraph 12, on page 20 of this months Watchtower ( The One with the airplane on the cover) talking about the Apostle Paul's handling of contributed funds ... " He took steps to ensure that those delivering the funds cared for "everything honesty, not only in the sight of Jehovah but also in the sight of men"  Read 2 Corinthians 8:18-21" (emphasis mine)

There is solid evidence that the Society has deliberately distorted the truth in the past through selective quote mining, and the fact that in the United States, once contributed money reaches the District level, there is absolutely no accounting for it to the Brotherhood.

These things make it a very reasonable and prudent thing to ask.... and a real need to really know.

 

5 hours ago, AllenSmith said:

You ought to know, look at where the stick is lodge!!

Is this some kind of "Rap" code phrase?

What does that even MEAN?

4 minutes ago, AllenSmith said:

I also archive many gems here. Not just for prosperity? but for LEGAL ACTION, should the need arise!

In the "Old Days" the anal retentive clergy would just threaten you with Hell.

Of course "Insufficient Light" is only discerned from a future perspective.

There is the expression "We have perfect hindsight", looking back, but in reality even that is flawed.

It just occurred to me that the expression "New Light" ... because it is constantly changing .... can be accurately accurately described as "Insufficient Light" ..... assuming it is not regressive Tachyons.

Let's say you have a "New Light" and you do this four times.

Each time you THINK what you know is true, but it turns out in fact, or by political edict, not to be true.

If we have "New Light", is what we had before "Old Darkness"?

AllenSmith:

For someone like you who not only misunderstands the simplest analogies, but EVERYTHING ... there is nothing I can do in any discussion to help you.

What you wrote is a CLASSIC, so I am saving it here in case you come to your senses and erase it.

1 hour ago, AllenSmith said:

There you go, Rook! Stick with what you know best, Comedy. Just remember Dante’s divine comedy. ThereÂ’s always a place for you. Just like I told a born-again Christian one day in the 80Â’s in downtown LA that came up to me, and said? I am now going to punch you in the face and thereÂ’s nothing you can do about it, since you literally believe in scripture, because of Matthew 5:39?

I advised him to truly understand what Jesus was talking about. Therefore, if he was going to attack me because of my personal belief in serving God by following in Jesus footsteps? Then fine, I would turn the other cheek.

Then I said, but since your ACTION is to merely prove a point about scripture through violence, Reborns need NOT APPLY! And suffer the consequence. He immediately walked away!

The cop that took witness statements agreed, not only by man's law, I had every right to defend myself, but looking at the Bible under its proper understanding, after I explained and showed him? he said, that little devil would have been wrong. I did refuse to press charges due to ignorance of Bible understanding.

So, the NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO MAKE PERSONAL THREATS OF VIOLENCE OVER THE INTERNET WITH YOUR DELUSIONAL THOUGHT? You let me know because before you have a chance to stick a gun to my face, I would have beat you to a pulp. Just like I do with words. But anytime you feel BRAVE?

Back in my day. In my culture, sex offenders, a spousal abuser, child molesters got what they deserved by manÂ’s justice and by Gods. That FACT, there are hypocrites like you saying, the Watchtower has NEVER taken action or the Elders, about such issues in my eyes is COMPLETELY, a FALSE assumption!

 

Summons are a polite way of asking for something?

HahaHAHAhahaha

Next time you get a summons from the local court system, or the IRS ... just ignore it.

...You are in for a REVELATION !

If I point a gun at your head and request in a nice way that you eat dirt ... you may of your own free will eat that dirt ... but if I asked it WITHOUT the gun ... of your own free will you would NOT have eaten that dirt.

Sovereign States have the guns to back up their polite requests in the same manner.

This is something ONLY you will know, but something you may want to carefully consider .... If in your heart of hearts you deliberately meant to deceive ... you are in actual fact an evil man.

AlanF:

You are now doing what you in earlier posts on evolution castigated, and for which I just gave you an "upvote" ... quote mining.

I hope the REAL purpose of your post is to teach the fallacy of quote mining as representing truth ... and NOT asserting the quotes you gave as being truth.

If that is true, then your post has real value ... otherwise ... on the face of it ( using the criteria I posted above...) ... it was designed to deceive.

Quote miners shovel through tons of gold bearing earth, to find crap.