James Thomas Rook Jr.

The expression "keeping your head in the sand " refers to the common perception that when an Ostrich is in danger, he or she will stick their head in the sand, and if they cannot SEE the danger ... there IS no danger.

I remember seeing a female Ostrich being chased by a male Ostrich all around a Zoo enclosure, and after awhile, she was getting very tired .... so she screeched to a stop, and put her head in the sand.

The male Ostrich screeched to a stop behind her, and looked around as if to say "Where did she go? Where did she go?".

One thing that PRO abortion people ...

and ANTI abortion people do have in common.

They have ALREADY been born.

SURPRISE!

..probably would be harder if one did not live in Maui, Hawaii ... say a small coal mining town in West Virginia.

It all depends on "fire in the belly!" to get whatever it is you want. 

Everything comes to him who waits ...... and hustles while he waits!

...besides .... microbial life forms refer to humans as "big ugly bags of mostly water".

I try not to encourage them.

Remember .... it's all a matter of perspective.

They are looking UP the microscope, at the giant eyeball.

 

In Bath County, Virginia, high in the State's western mountains, is an artificial lake that acts as a "battery" for Nuclear power generators in Louisa County in mid-State, and at the Coast. It allows Nuclear reactors to operate at a constant rate.

They pump water uphill into the lake at low demand, and at high demand times use the elevated water to generate hydroelectric power.

The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant, which is described as the “largest battery in the world”, with a generation capacity of 3,003 MW.  

The station is located in the northern corner of Bath County, Virginia, on the southeast side of the Eastern Continental Divide, which forms this section of the border between Virginia and West Virginia.

The station consists of two reservoirs separated by about 1,260 feet (380 m) in elevation. It is the largest pumped-storage power station in the world.

Construction on the power station, with an original capacity of 2,100 megawatts (2,800,000 hp), began in March 1977 and was completed in December 1985 at a cost of $1.6 billion,  Voith-Siemens upgraded the six turbines between 2004 and 2009, increasing power generation to 500.5 MW and pumping power to 480 megawatts (640,000 hp) for each turbine.   Bath County Station is jointly owned by Dominion Generation (60%) and FirstEnergy (40%), and managed by Dominion.  It stores energy for PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission organization in 13 states and the District of Columbia.  ( from Wikipedia )

Every journey begins with a single step ... when you are going through Hell ... be resolved to GO THROUGH Hell, and not stay there.

Emotional healing begins with getting some real tactile unconditional love.

In the world they say "You can't get over someone, until you get UNDER someone", but since that option will get you killed, and worse ... again, I recommend puppies as a first giant step to good emotional health.

The point is TACTILE love ... hugs, kisses, wagging tails, ecstatic to see you, ALL THE TIME.

They don't care if you are ugly, crippled, brilliant, or stupid ... AND .. their love is unconditional if treated properly.

They love people MORE than they love other puppies!

It's impossible to be depressed, while laying on your back on the floor,  with a box full of happy puppies crawling all over you !

As far as I know, San Francisco's Paladin never married ....

6 hours ago, Gone Fishing said:

We live in the most exciting time to be alive! Enjoy it.

I agree 100% ... I would rather live in this time than in any other time in the history of human experience.

I have been at death's door with my hand on the knob more than several  dozen times ... yet, somehow .....  I still live.

I thank Jehovah EVERY DAY for the circumstances of this time, and this place. 

 I am a HAPPY MAN since I stopped letting delusional pessimists, and people pushing their agendas tell me it's all going to hell in a hand basket.

IT'S NOT!

(Circumstances may vary ... do not try this at home.)

 

I would?

Now that IS news!

Does your Mom know you are projecting again, TTH ?

52 minutes ago, Nicole said:

 that advice of getting a puppy is very useful, as per my own experience it has helped me to struggle depression besides other strategies, I was blessed when my two dogs came to my life in 2014. Taking care of others helps. 

Those that do not understand substitution think what I made was a flippant comment ... I assure you... it was as serious as a heart attack. 

Dogs are the ONLY THING ON EARTH THAT LOVE YOU MORE THAN THEY LOVE THEMSELVES.

One time I was single for 12 years and I traveled with 11 aquatic turtles in my pickup truck camper. Taking care of an aquarium full of turtles ( red eared sliders ) in a camper was an ACCEPTABLE outlet for my loneliness from Jehovah's viewpoint. 

wIERD ... (WOOeeeOOOO), but acceptable.

When I met an agreeable Sister I wanted to marry, I let the turtles go in the upper James River, near Richmond, Virginia.

I hope they lived, and did well ....

You do what you HAVE to do.  

Make a decision .... THIS I WILL DO ... and THIS I WILL NOT DO ... and be resolute. GRIT YOUR TEETH and dig in for battle., as the enemy is at the gates !

Find some acceptable "crutches" that WILL support you.

Generally, "friends" and "good advice" is useless.

 

I can't think of a bigger point.than that one !

As I mentioned earlier,  since we live in a multiverse, its not that big a deal in my not so humble opinion.  The only problem is the date on the top of a calendar fills up the whole page.

I think the headline is off... it does not terrify me ... If I am still alive, I am going elsewhere and elsewhen ... like evacuating for a hurricane.

.... merely an inconvenience.

Get a puppy and become its best friend ... if that doesn't work ... get TWO puppies.

It may not solve all your relationship problems .. but it may take care of 90%.

This comes under the category of "Praise the LORD, and pass the ammunition." ..

or for those Snowflakes that that offends, "Pray toward Heaven, Row towards shore."

OK, Ok, OK ... the aircraft landed safely and no one was hurt ... I was trying to protect her puppies from mob retribution.

I started out with 16 joke writers, and JWI forced me to get rid of the last one when it did not go well ....

.... sigh ...

 

FIFI sleeps with the fishes .... she took the aircraft's controls, but alas, it did not go well.

No thumbs.

Actually, that is a mis-translation ... the first one should be PUS, and the second one PUL.

And in modern times the Libyan Navy has glass bottom ships, so you can see the Libyan Air Force.

Actually, the Chinese text on the wall says "Light Sarch", above the pictures of piles of Laundry.

Well, I am a believer in the "Multiverse" theory, because I do NOT believe there is any such thing as "Dark Matter" OR "Dark Energy" which is a "black box" that NO ONE has the slightest clue what is actually in it. I could talk a week on this subject ... but ...

The guy who invented the slogan for M&Ms   "They melt in your mouth, not in your hand", Rosser Reeves, expressed it thusly circa 1960, in his poem "INFINITY"

The probing eye of Palomar peers skyward to reveal

A billion molten, fiery stars in our galactic wheel...

And shows that even this great disc

Is but a firefly burning,

Within a much more monstrous wheel,

Slowly, slowly turning.

 

May not this next celestial wheel

Be but an atom's glow in some big molecule of stars

In some huge flake of snow?

For may not space flow on and on from door to opening door,

Like seas that open into seas and never reach a shore?

 

If in our atom's tiny flame a billion stars are whirled

And millions of these lonely suns has each a captive world,

Just follow to the trillionth power and on beyond to see,

What must be true when ciphers link down to infinity.

 

Somewhere red planets swing around a triple silver sun,

And pale, pale rainbows interlock their arches one by one.

Somewhere, dark girls upon their brows grow curving, scarlet horns,

And ride in tinkling gardens on great golden unicorns.

 

Somewhere rains of diamonds fall on foaming, milk-white seas,

Where rockets follow streaming light from star to star with ease.

And soft-eyed girls with honeyed lips swim up to sing and free

Their water-weighted lashes from their native shining sea.

 

Great blue-white giant blazing suns control a thousand spheres

Where reptiles march in glistening ranks and fight with jeweled spears;

Where lizards lounge on ivory thrones

And keep to weave and spin, to clean their overlapping scales,

A smooth-skinned race of men.

 

Somewhere crustaceans think like Gods and muse eternal laws

And write the music of the spheres with clicking bony claws.

Or beetles, fish and furry things emerge as sentient breeds,

Or, working with atomic fires are thinking centipedes.

 

Or, coal-black spiders sway in webs

Beneath chill alien moons,

And finger gemlike instruments to strum immortal tunes.

Or serpent-men on serpent worlds evolve to racial prime,

And glide in fourth dimensions where

The riddle solved is time.

 

For if there is no end of worlds and nature keeps her laws,

Who knows which life will win which world:

The hands...the coils...the claws?

So feathered things and crawling things

And creeping things all go

Their separate ways on separate worlds,

Around, above, below.

 

If God employs infinity His wonders to perform,

And there's no end of endlessness,

Can there, then, be a norm?

Would God give souls to sentient beasts

Or would they still be clods?

If evolution is God's way,

Whose image, then, is God's?

 

An endlessness of worlds implies a world of every kind:

Worlds where our past repeats itself until the end of time.

Worlds where our future's far events enact themselves before;

Where every closing portal means another opening door.

 

So if there is infinity, if endlessness is true,

Somewhere, Napoleon walks again the fields of Waterloo;

And somewhere, always, in the depths of time's vast shoreless sea,

Upon the ghastly Hill of Skulls,

Christ hangs upon the tree.

 

 

I find it BOTH fascinating and revolting that  IN THESES CASES ... The Society's attorneys always try to claim "Clergy-Penitent Confidentiality Privilege".  

Every law I know about providing such protection is only effective for one person and ONE CLERGYMAN. 

"Confessing ones' sins", or ANY conversation to a  Congregational Judicial Committee, which then writes a report which is seen and filed by the Branch Office, and the subject of telephone conversations when they do not want to leave a "paper trail", IS NOT PRIVILEGED.

It is NOT a secret between two people, and God.  There could be DOZENS of people involved.

The fact that the Society's Lawyers try to change venues to OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, by DELIBERATELY making it difficult for plaintiffs and plaintiffs' witnesses to testify, as it was attempted in Delaware, means that OUR CONTRIBUTED MONEY .. is deliberately being used in MANY ways ... to OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.

With all the many court  "settlements" with plaintiffs, there is ALWAYS a gag order that the plaintiffs can NOT talk about it. 

One does that ONLY if one is ASHAMED of the answers.

That makes me as proud of the Society and the Governing Body as Jehovah must be ....

NOT !

Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr, at the same time he gave his "I HAVE A DREAM" speech, was married, and had a mistress on the side?

DUH!

27 minutes ago, Jay Witness said:

Job's already aged wife, had the privilege of spending at least the next 10-15 years of her life, pregnant so Jehovah could fix the tragedy by giving them10 new children....what a logical solution and what blessing it was for all concerned.

I got a good belly laugh out of THAT one.  But then again, my grandmother had 11 children, and cried when she couldn't have more ... perhaps men are not supposed to understand how women think.

Job's wife did all that without dying ... many women have died having their first child.

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Well, TTH...um ... er ... WHOA! ... I don't know quite what to say about all that.

( ..... facepalms forehead .....  )

6 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I am conceiving a mission which may lead to my death, just like the priest of The Exoricist.

Well, um.. I don't watch movies that are horror pictures, per se ... so I can only imagine the reference.

I have no objection, however, to a movie like "Schindlers List" which is a real life horror picture of Nazi Germany, or a movie like "Sands of Iwo Jima", etc. It seems we both like Clint Eastwood Films, where there is a LOT of killing.  I thought his "Unforgiven" had some important themes.

6 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I HAVE A DREAM! Yes! They will say, as they used to of Paul: "the man who peppered the internet ether with stupid and vicious cartoons has become one of us." Rather than being a basket case, they will lower you in a basket, just like they did Paul when he finally joined the A-Team.

If you think my cartoons are stupid and vicious, you may possibly be right ... they are over the heads of most of the population who do not recognize irony, satire, and poignancy. Most people do NOT understand symbolism when it is nested. Nothing new there ......

My cartoons are only vicious  if there is a TRUTH to them ... otherwise they have a comedic element, most of the time.  I am NOT above blasting a vicious cartoon against deliberate EVIL, disguised as righteousness, if that is what I perceive, or shall I EVER be above doing that.  

Opinions do vary, and since it IS about me (you made it so...), ya gets what ya pays for.

6 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I HAVE A DREAM! that there will be a conference in heaven sometime and somewhere: "who will we send to fool the riff raff at the World News Forum?" "Well, we could send JTR." "What, are you out of your mind? He is their grand puba!" But it will be true!! You will no longer be a villain.

If a conference in Heaven concludes I am no longer a villain, that will be OK with me. The lead in to that is somewhat ambiguous.  Are THEY the GGs (Good Guys), or the BGs (Bad Guys)?

6 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I HAVE A DREAM! that I will see JTR praise the organizational advances that ensure the displaced brothers of Houston and Florida and Mexico and Barbuda and so forth are promptly cared for materially and spiritually after disaster

Having loaded boxes into the back of Trucks for disaster relief from a Kingdom Hall in Missouri I am well familiar with the relief efforts the Society over the years has initiated.  I was very disappointed about their fibrillating efforts after the Haiti Earthquake, where the only way they could get anything at all done was align themselves under the umbrella of the United Nations and the American Red Cross.  That is why there is almost NOTHING on the JW.ORG website about that Haiti Earthquake relief efforts.  As an aside .. The American Red Cross collected $448 million dollars for that effort, and two years later only spent $120 million in Haiti, and the Clinton Foundation was even worse ( SURPRISE! ).  To be fair, I am an "equal opportuniy lambaster"

6 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I HAVE A DREAM! That one day JTR will realize it is not about him! He will praise God at the efficiencies realized when his congregation at the Kingdom Hall he once owned trades in their black leather jackets with congregation names emblazoned on the backs as all the other ones did long ago and realizes how SMART it is to not waste dedicated funds!

I was not aware that the Congregations wasted dedicated funds .... perhaps you can give some examples that were so flagrantly obvious that like children, they had their properties confiscated, both real estate and their savings accounts for "rainy days"?  

We shall NOW SEE how the Society ... from Central Control ... handles the millions ( literally) of details of rebuilding the properties that THEY now own by unilateral confiscation, and the BILLIONS of dollars it is going to take to do it in Florida, Loiusianna, Alabama, and Texas, etc., etc. etc.   

THEY have the moral and financial responsibility, and may have to sell some or all of their multi-billion dollar stock portfolio to do it.  This may bankrupt them. The "Four Hurricanes of the Apocalypse" will bankrupt many insurance companies.

Guess what?  Those future "rainy days" are HERE ... NOW!

I see you mentioned the "A Team",presumably the TV show with George Peppard, to the best of my recollection, they shot tens of thousands of bullets from machine guns ... and NEVER HIT ANYONE.

anyway, lets watch and see what happens with the total relief effort ... it would make a REALLY good book ... IF honest !

6 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I HAVE A DREAM! That you will not act on your threat and will put some clothes on - and will even clothe yourself with the tender and mild spirit and manner of Christ, who commanded that we treat even our enemies with respect and mildness, rather than being as taunting and offensive as we possibly can be.

I have it on good authority TTH, that you yourself, under those superficial fabric coverings, are RUNNING AROUND NAKED!

To the best of my knowledge I do not HAVE any living enemies ... so I can treat all adult people with the exact same respect, whether they find it offensive, or not..

Being brutally frank, and brutally honest only works with adult thinking people of integrity.  People with children's minds are easily insulted and take offense at EVERYTHING.

I had someone tell me, MANY years ago that I was "crude, rude, and a bore!"

I looked her straight in the eye and replied "Oh YEAH! ... what's yer point?"

I hope they keep their priorities in order .....

I am not trying to denegrate ANYTHING, TTH , all I am pointing out is that the "Emporer has no clothes!", to those who want to remain un-punished,  who see clothes when none are there!

On 9/8/2017 at 2:47 PM, TrueTomHarley said:

I even believe there are more here who could easily do it but they feel sorry for you somehow and refrain. I try to pick up the slack.

You are living in a delusional fantasy world of your own creation, TTH, and projecting what is happening to YOU ... to others. In DOZENS of posts I have pointed this out to you ... but the blinders you wear will not let you see anything but your poppin-fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy, agenda.

I do not think Mickey Spillane had any friends in high places, and I certainly don't want any.  His good friend was John Wayne, and he straightened out a script for the Duke, and the Duke gave him a car, but that's about it, to my knowledge.

And I never did own my Kingdom Hall, or any part of it, it belonged to the local congregation until it was unilaterally confiscated by the Governing Body, as was every Kingdom Hall in the World.

In tyrannical countries they call that "Nationalization", and the Governments keep the profits, and the citizens get to keep from being thrown in jail, or banished.

Your entire post, from beginning to end, is based on a delusional fantasy and its projection.

If my three Superman Suits were not being cleaned in some very large sunspots, I would fly over and straighten you out.

Perhaps you could pretend to see MY clothes instead of my glorious naked super body.

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