James Thomas Rook Jr.

As an investor of pension funds in high risk ventures, Jimmy Hoffa became a cornerstone in his Organization.

With world events escalating as they appear to be .. perhaps the next metal to invest in would be Lead.

A Bond is just an unsecured promissory note .... like taking a postdated check.

Like Elmer Fudd says "Be Vewwy Vewwy Carefull!".

If you invest in cardboard, usually trading at 17 cents a ton, and you have 20 tons in your driveway, and it rains, there is great potential when you sell.

Just don't invest in Michael Jackson Day Care Centers ....

TTH

As usual, your response is a projection of your OWN inadequacies, and made up from thin air with no facts ...  or even a rational basis.

You are pontificating from colossal ignorance of any facts, and deliberately misrepresenting history as it really happened on the ground to support your twisted personal agenda.

At least your predilection for fantasy and irrelevancy  is 100% consistent!

The best thing to send is CASH!

There is ALWAYS everything you need if you have money.

When a loaf of bread cost $300  ... and you HAVE $300 .... you have bread.

etc.

etc.

Almost no exceptions ..... EVER.

Blue.

To go back in time and change things would change the time stream in ways unimaginable ... I never expected to live past the age of 42, and here I am strong at 70.  There are Brothers and Sisters much better than me that died at the age of 18 or so.

NEVER mess with the time stream!

You never know how it will turn out!

If you are at the Luna Hilton, all you have to do is key your telephone AI to call for the Concierge for any assistance you might need. Perhaps you would need a Lunar Rover to get from the Hotel to the Inner System District Assembly Arena at Tycho Crater, with your newly resurrected family member.

I would assume, their being in the Hotel Business, and all being post Armageddon Jehovah's Witnesses ... they would be very supportive .

By the way .... July 20, 1969 Mankind first set foot on the moon, across 240,000 miles of hard vacuum  ... proving that the Solar System is at least what the Bible considers to be "Earth"

You cannot imagine how liberating it is to watch with disinterest as a pontificate piles sticks around your ankles to burn you at the stake, and not be combustible.

I have tried to follow this thread from beginning to end ... but I am 70 now, and very tired of bickering over the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar's image  toes, etc.

If I sat down and wrote out EVERYTHING that we need do to please God, and achieve salvation through Christ, I strongly suspect I could get it ALL on two pages.  Everything else would be background reading ... and WOULD NOT MATTER AT ALL.

I have been beaten up by pontificating experts for over 50 YEARS, and I in my Barbarian perceptions have been right MORE than the "pontiffs" ... by a considerable margin. 

I am sick to my very soul of having to carry around these burdensome bags of sand, and hear MILLIONS of words about Justice, and love, and MERCY ... and see NONE of it practiced ... only the machinations of policy wonks.

I quit  the best job I ever had, in the Congo, in 1974, to be home with my parents, and my brother and two sisters when Armageddon was supposed to occur in 1975. 

I did not believe it, but talks at Circuit and District Assemblies, Special Talks at the Kingdom Halls, and at Civic Centers in Virginia, and everyone I knew KNOWING that it would all be over by 1975, wore me down.  I began to reason ... "How could I be right, when EVERYONE else is proclaiming the END of this System in 1975?".

I don't care about how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin .... ANYMORE

I am going to live my life the best I know how, and let the theorists consume each other.

If I am wrong .... OF COURSE I will have to "pay the price"

If "they" are wrong .. . I STILL have to "pay the price", and they pay NO PRICE WHATSOEVER.

But.. please,  carry on ... this thread IS interesting reading .... perhaps because I am a compulsive reader.

I do not know how you can categorically say the Jehovah God will not resurrect someone on the Moon.

There are NO FACTS to support or exclude that. (Remember ... uh... facts?)

If they died on the Moon because they fell and cracked open the face plate of their spacesuit, perhaps Jehovah would resurrect them with a repaired spacesuit face plate. 

OR .... he might resurrect someone on the Moon for any number of reasons we are completely unaware of, like the resurrected one's  family is vacationing there and staying at the  Luna Hilton, while attending an Inner System District Assembly. (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Orbitals)

Please read the 1965 book, "Things in Which It Is Impossible For God To Lie", page 184, paragraph 10, ..... and the 1986 book "Worldwide Security Under The Prince of Peace", page 384, paragraph 24, published 21 years later.

I personally was STUNNED by the quality of the computer animations, the direction, and the continuity.

YEAH!

..and STOP WEARING THOSE TIGHT PANTS!

It gets TPT ( Tight Pants Tony) all hot and bothered ....

Well ... I do not think anyone can legitimately accuse me of not having TRIED to make this a discussion ABOUT WHAT IS MORAL, AND WHAT IS NOT.

I give up....

I ALSO BURST OUT LAUGHING at the "mirror scene", and again when the Lawyer was in the Porta-potty, and the T-Rex ate him.

If it had been a shark, the Lawyer would not have been eaten, as he would have received ... professional courtesy.

THE POINT IS DIRECT ... YES

..sometimes NO reply would be better than a goofy, irrelevant reply.

I answered YOUR question as succinctly as the facts that it was based on false premises would permit.

... YOU JUST DIDN'T LIKE  THE ANSWER !

YOU WERE TRYING TO SET A TRAP, AND NOTHING SHOWED UP.

You seem to have a COMPLETE lack of reading comprehension skills, as in all of our back-and-forth sparring,  you have YET ( that means never ... for those in Rio Linda...) to address the issues under discussion, but instead go wandering down the  main corridor and taking side corridors of irrelevancy, to the issues at hand.

How about, for a change ... address the actual issues ON THE BASIS OF THE VALIDITY .... OR NOT ... OF THOSE ISSUES RAISED ? 

Try proposing counter arguments that are relevant to the main issue on the table.

SHOW how my ideas are wrong, and my examples irrelevant to factual reality. Give examples that are stronger and more focused and pertinent than  MY examples.

You cannot win an argument, or a civil debate, by saying "MY Daddy can beat up YOUR Daddy, and my dog has four legs, and YOU only have two, and you are UGLY.".

It is very disconcerting, albeit amusing, to be trying to have a discussion with someone about REAL WORLD issues, and they are under the table polishing their shoes.

.... stay focused !

One thing about you Tom, you are

100% consistent in NEVER addressing issues.

3 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

THE QUESTION REMAINS .... (rephrased .... )

Has the Society ever ruled on what happens if a man or woman abandons their spouse FOR THE REST OF THEIR "NATURAL LIVES" ... is the one DELIBERATELY abandoned stuck for the rest of his "natural life"? ?

Hey TTH:

do an essay on THAT question, too, while you are at it.

Remember ... no penguins or irrelevant issues "allowed".

TTH

Your statement makes no more sense ... than in a discussion of the many different types of apples, you blurt out that Jehovah God, in his Infinite Wisdom, make Giraffes with long necks so they could eat spaghetti.

I do invite challenges, but they should at LEAST  have SOME relevance to the statements that I make.

Your challenge has no bearing whatsoever on my statement that you quoted.

22 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

It's not about us. Not primarily. Primarily, it is about the sanctification of God's name and the vindication of his purpose. 'Not hurting anyone,'  though a good provision, is not as good as keeping God's name on high and his purpose undeterred.

OK, then, I will quote you and challenge YOU.

3 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

Example: Lets say my wife got on a Starship to the  Centauri Star System, at sub-light speeds.  She is in hibernation, and will be asleep for 126 years in transit, 63 years accelerating, and 63 years decelerating, meanwhile, back on Earth I have to live the rest of my life, say 42 years, with no help, companionship, or love, THROUGH NO FAULT OF MY OWN.

Does it serve the interests of 1.) God, 2.) Christ, 3.) or any PERSON .... for me to endure this cruelty for 42 years, and die alone? 

To the best I have been able to determine ... THE ANSWER IS NO!

That to me is the KEY question to understanding Jesus' advice about marriage.

I cannot think of ANYONE who benefits from this cruel, current application of Scripture.

Can YOU?

Please answer  questions 1.), and 2.).   Try to stay on topic and not rant about penguins or any other irrelevant side topic.

Can YOU?

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Bible Speaks:

I carefully read the scriptures you posted, and I did get the point ... but ...  the scriptures AND the points HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MORALITY ( or immorality ) ASPECTS OF WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED.

Would you care to turn the automatic tape player OFF for a moment or two, and have an original thought?

..and more to the ...er... "point"  at least PRETEND to have some relevancy to the ideas being examined?

2 hours ago, Arauna said:

I just want to know what "Bigly" world events happened in 1925 which outweighs 1914.... ... or any other date for that matter.  Any date which brought forth the world changing events of 1914.  Please help me out here!  You can change the date to whatever date you like with astounding reasonings and many quoted scriptures etc...... but I want to see the evidence on the ground!... and it must be really more significant than the events in and from 1914.  I am prepared to look at something I feel is really credible - otherwise you do not deserve  my attention!

EVIDENCE ON THE GROUND !!

That is the phrase I have been looking for for many years.

Thank You!

JTR

Interesting .... I think drug dealing, because it enslaves people, is ALSO a crime against humanity.

I suppose it gets down to which ethicist you choose for guidance, and what their credibility is to BE a credible  ethicist .

Someone who uniformly and as a practice make bad moral judgements about one thing involving great deals of money, have no credibility about pontificating about OTHER things involving a great deal of money.

If I remember the movie correctly, the drug money in the suitcases was 11 million dollars (?).

I have decided that I WOULD take the dead drug dealers money, as found treasure ... much the same as if I had found a hoard of Nazi gold, ingots made from the teeth of concentration camp victims.

Any other opinions?

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