James Thomas Rook Jr.

BOO !

Might be a good time to get that RV out of Yellowstone National Park.  The entire park is the caldera of an ancient volcano.

If it blows at least 5 States will CEASE TO EXIST ... in about 15 minutes.

..the only thing that confuses me is why the airplane has so many CLOCKS!

5 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Quite a few when nobody else in the plane knows how to fly, and there is only one guy back there with a huge mouth who insists he knows more than anyone in the whole wide world

The fact is I do know how to fly an airplane ... depends on the circumstances of whether or not the Pilot can fly the airplane, when I look out the window, and see individual sheep grazing and looking up at me.

Wrong again TTH.

You are PROJECTING things I do not believe.

AGAIN.

1 minute ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Moreover, it remains clear that your view of the Bible is that of a cross between the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with special emphasis on the latter. 

As a stamp collector yourself, you may remember the "American Credo" series of stamps, from 1960 or so.

The one credo by Thomas Jefferson I adopted as my own, clear to my bones, and with a fiery intensity that has not diminished since then.

I was 12 years old when I could say  "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." .

That oath predated my being baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1964 and I still do not find the two oaths incompatible.

"Boots on the ground" is another matter altogether.

 

Read without rockets stuck in your ears.

Whew!

I enlarged the picture of the JW Warwick cuff links .....

It's a construction crane, not what I thought!

Well, after viewing that GIF, you've convinced ME!

( pours handful of pills back into bottle, and gives the glass of milk to the cat ....)

You have any REAL statistics to support that statement TTH, or are you just guessing, and hoping?

I did notice that after my asking THREE incredibly important open questions, you did NOT address any of them.

SURPRISE! (not)

Be a sport ... give it a go!

I will wait while you stop spinning.

If you pray for your wife to not die, and she DOES die ... but you get more junk mail ...

..that does NOT count.

I must admit, however, ... it is entertaining to watch you paddle a canoe up a dirt road into the woods.

Perhaps you have a Spindizzy?

(... and yes, it is a legitimate word)

1 hour ago, Cos said:

Mr. Rook,

 

The only “advantage” you may think you have is a figment of your imagination! <><

Apparently not... you misunderstood a sentence that was crystal clear.

If memory serves, it was Bill Cosby who related that he had a car he named "Captain America".

HINT: (It was a car ... not a person).

1 hour ago, Cos said:

Jehovah’s Witnesses deny that the Holy Spirit is a person and don’t like it when they are shown how their reasoning is wrong. I once had a JW contend that because the noun for “spirit” in the Greek Scriptures is “pneuma” which is neuter so the Spirit is rendered as “it” instead of “he”.

Most people are wrong about almost everything they believe.

You may find one of Jehovah's Witnesses somewhere,  that believes the Holy Spirit is a giant tree frog, and expound on that at length, so your reference proves NOTHING.

I once met a very fine, theocratic Sister, who believed that demons came into her house over the cable TV line, into her television set.

Infinite variety among all humans ... most are NOT troubled by insanity ... they rather ENJOY it.

I agree that "pneuma means wind ... irregardless of gender. ( The song from the movie "Paint your Wagon: "They Call The Wind Mariah", comes to mind.).

I would expound more, but I have bronchitis, which may become PNEUMONIA, and I have to re-inflate one of the PNEUMATIC tires in the hand truck I carry concrete in.

In case you missed it ... that was a common sense HINT.

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Your reading comprehension skills are at their usual nonexistent level, TTH. clouded by a fantasy agenda.

Jehovah God is a "someone".

Read over my statement once again, from your quote of my post ....

28 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

  On 8/7/2017 at 7:15 PM, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

  On 8/7/2017 at 7:15 PM, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

The alternate explanation would have to be reasonable, show common sense, and the end result be merciful, and just ... and NOT HURT ANYONE ... which is the whole point ofALL Theocratic Law.

... "... and the end result be merciful, and just ...".

It is Jehovah who defines what is Justice.

If you are deliberately unjust, it is a challenge to his sovereignty.

Get it?

When I was younger, I screwed up several peoples lives with agenda driven advice ... of which I am forever ashamed ... and know from whence I speak.

31 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

"Furthermore, though you have been very critical of the Governing Body, this understanding predates the Governing Body. It first emerged in Rutherford's day."

The principles behind my advice in the my original post you quoted, and I copied here, predates Adam and Eve ... and in principle even applied to the pre-human Cavemen and Women, etc.,   that existed hundreds of thousands of years before "Homo Theocraticus" were directly created by Jehovah God.

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Mostly during the mid-week meetings, my head also nods up and down continuously, as does my wife's.  Sometimes I will pat her on the opposite shoulder, or she will discreetly stick me with a ball point pen

3 hours ago, Anna said:

What you are talking about is not what the WT is talking about. Completely different topic.

Look at that article again, and see the inset note at the bottom of the page. The whole article is to get your head nodding up and down, so when you get to WHY they chose that topic, your head will STILL be nodding up and down.

Like the man said to his wife when watching the televangelist on TV jumping around and telling them they had been healed of their tongue warts, then looking in the mirror ...  "Hees widte! .... Gebt de theckboogh !"

The Society has STILL not recovered from the 2015 "Red October Meltdown"

5 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I was raised United Presbyterian.

Hmmmm.... the Muppet Fozzie Bear was a Presbyterian and he also was a comedian.

( you have to see the original circa 1980 "Muppet Movie" ...)

Dwight David Eisenhower was also a Presbyterian, after he became President of the USA, but he was raised  in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Coincidence ?

I noticed in the "New System Weekly" , under "Pets", Item 2, that someone wants to swap his  tiger for a kangaroo.

Probably has a LOT of straw piling up that the carnivores are not eating and many of his other pets have ........ "vanished mysteriously".

7 hours ago, Gone Fishing said:

So, scripturally, there appears to be no problem with the belief itself that this is only a one-way street".

I agree with that 100% ... but it is based on the assumption that down here in the dirt streets, we are on the RIGHT street ... and the dirt has not evolved into ruts and quagmires of mud.

However, at the current time it appears that Jehovah's Witnesses are the "only game in town", but like Bethlehem, even Joseph, Mary, and Jesus had to flee to Egypt for awhile when things got to dangerous for them when the wrong people were ruling Israel.

They returned later, after the cruelty had subsided.

I think this was mentioned somewhere in Revelation .....

1 hour ago, Anna said:

Come on JTR, get with the spirit of solidarity. How do you think it made the friends in Russia feel when they knew every one of their friends outside of Russia sent a personal letter to their country's leaders in protest?

How do you think it made the friends in Russia feel when they knew every one of their 8 MILLION or so friends outside of Russia sent an average of five letters each, and sent perhaps 100 million heartfelt prayers to Jehovah for the Russian courts to allow religious freedom for them in Russia, and NONE of it was effective?

How do you think it made the friends in Russia feel if they knew every one of their 8 MILLION or so friends outside of Russia sent 56 MILLION DOLLARS  to the Russian Government, and that their mail was NOT delivered, or even read, but sits somewhere on a railroad siding in Russia to be burned as fuel for Russian furnaces this winter, or taken to a landfill somewhere and thrown away?

How do you think it made the friends in Russia feel when they realized that their earnest and heartfelt prayers and the prayers of 8 million or so Jehovah's Witnesses for their religious freedom in Russia was NOT ANSWERED?

Spin THAT one!

4 hours ago, Cos said:

To say that I ‘lied” using bold lettering is the same as calling me a liar, or has that type of labeling changed?

I have the advantage over you, Cos, if you are less than 50 years old.

In 7th Grade English they taught us to diagram sentences to be able to determine EXACTLY what was being said in written communications.  It has proved valuable to me my entire life.

My wife tells me that in High School now-days  no one can understand script writing ... how to read an analog clock,  or Roman numerals. It is not taught in public schools anymore.  She teaches High School Algebra, and Calculus.

Neither is how to diagram sentences, and that has not been taught for apparently many decades.

The sentence structure determines what is actually being said ... the BOLD type is used for visual emphasis, much like spiking a football AFTER the touchdown, therefore ...

The sentence structure determines what is actually being said.

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

There was the statement you made that the sole purpose of the law was to serve for our happiness.

TTH:

I suspect that you, as usual, have misunderstood what I said.  Since I don't remember saying that ... the burden of proof is on you to quote what I actually did say.  So far ...your accusation has no basis of reference.

THEN we can BOTH see what is the REAL case.

Your credibility so far is zero, so I am not going to worry about it.

When you actually provide a quote to look at, I will look at it, and give you a fair and complete explanation, of what I meant by what I said ... if it was too abrupt for you.

Oh, and since AGAIN you avoided the issue being discussed ...

Please ... disprove any statement I made about Prince.  OTHERWISE ... your credibility REMAINS at ...

"ZIP - ZERO - NADA"'

again.

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Speaking of collections of dumb people who surround themselves with other dumb people ..... where incompetence is its OWN reward!

( I knew he was fake when he did rock, paper, and scissors!? )

Obama reportedly paid this guy $40 thousand Dollars for this.

 

 

On 9/17/2017 at 4:28 PM, Bible Speaks said:

Rules that the American Catholic sect is giving to their parishioners to get rid of Jehovah's witnesses.
Would you be able to rebut these almost military standards?

Why should those suggestions (they are NOT "rules"), be rebutted?

Would we not (usually) do the exact same things if Catholic Priests came to OUR door about once a month?

Sounds like good ideas to me!

One man's terrorist ... is another man's "freedom fighter".

I put signs on my fence gate every Halloween, "Our Family does not celebrate Halloween .. please try next door".

In 27 years I have NEVER had a problem.

You would almost think they could imagine me on my front porch, in the dark, with a rifle ....

The Governing Body's job is just as important as an Airline Pilot's Job.

How many mistakes is allowable for the pilot when you are sitting in the back of the airplane at 37,000 feet above the ground?