James Thomas Rook Jr.

It is my considered understanding that about such things Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are the only ones in "Government" that think like adults, and I expect , as I have mentioned here several times before in the last year, that before the end of 2020 that Putin will restore religious freedom to Jehovah's Witnesses in the Russian Federation. Putin for purely pragmatic reasons, including his desire to want to get along with Trump. Of course, if I am wrong .... which I doubt ... it's no biggie. Jehovah's Witnesses have never been right about ANY prophesy in the past hundred and more years, so I will have the PERFECT excuse, and be in good company.

That's why when I go to our weekend meetings at the Kingdom Hall, I get there early to anonymously offer my entire paycheck, converted to cash, to the "Worldwide Work". I toss it up in the air, and all that God needs, he takes. What falls back to the parking lot, I use for MY local needs.

I find it unlikely that Bethel HQ can be corrupted in 3 days and two minutes, and turned into a betting parlor.

...Looks suspiciously like "square groupers" in those black, waterproof containers, to me ....

3 years, two months.

I don't know, I might argue with you on that one.. What I actually said was ....

It's sad the above posts were not in English .... considering this is an English Forum. Salomon might have had something important to say ....

R2D2 started out life as a canister vacuum cleaner ......

Subtle ... and it probably WILL work to keep you from being "burned at the stake" ! ... probably.

It appears that Joe Biden's son acted as an un-appointed emissary pretending to represent the interests of the United States. OF COURSE that should be investigated. If someone living in another subdivision claimed to be representing me or my family, I would investigate as well. It is only, and merely plain old common sense .... which in current years seems to be a rarity.

Looking at it from the Russian viewpoint, there is a lot of good sense in that statement ... everybody they want to control is pretty much on the same continent.

If they have their entire male genitalia removed, I have no problem with that ..... otherwise it is just more insane Democrat nonsense in a political party that in recent years has gone completely bat crap crazy.

Sleepy Joe is a clown in a collection of clowns, that individually are funny to watch, but collectively are dangerous to the Republic. He, and they, are so divorced from reality it is hard to even wrap you mind around how people that function normally can do it. I suppose it is like a good carpenter who walks into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, has somehow gotten permission to fly it, and looks around and says "OOOOooo!, look at all the clocks! ... I need to set them to the time on my watch!" You may want to take the next flight out.

I think they should be sentenced to a lifetime of pushing a rope.

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It is my considered opinion that only the naive, the clueless and the stupid expect anything involving human beings to be fair. This is the admin's site, with appointees, or something like that. The point is, it is not MY site, and it is not YOURS. We are guests here, and have NO RIGHTS WHATSOEVER. If you do not understand that, you need to grow up, and start thinking like an adult.

I noticed from the video the machine was sucking up and compressing a plastic "Finding Nemo" clown fish ..... I always wondered "now what ? " Finding Nemo Where'd the fish go_.mp4

Perhaps it's just me, but looking back at invisible things that happened years ago, in the heavens that nobody could see, and for which there is absolutely NO EARTHLY EVIDENCE that cannot be explained by ten thousand explanations more probable ( Occam's razor?), by an organization that without a single exception in over a hundred and more years has ALWAYS been wrong about explaining such things, and whose credibility among sane, common sense people is ZERO .... I just don't "get it". Am I missing something? jw.org evidence for gods kingdom not based on faith but scientific evidence.mp4 In fact, I do not think I am going too far out on a philosophical limb here to say that this statement by GB Member Bro. Stephen Lett is complete, utter and total nonsense. It's SO DELUSIONAL, it is both sad and embarrassing to even watch.

One of our RESPONSIBILITIES is to defend what is true. This forum is an EXCELLENT conversation starter to do JUST THAT! I look at the statements of the evil, the misguided, the naive, the agendized, the clueless and the stupid who denegrate the truth as an OPPORTUNITY to set them straight ... and in the arena of ideas the sandy floor should ALWAYS be covered with the blood and gore of dismembered bad ideas. The TRUTH will set you free. nothing else will. Personally, I enjoy a good fight, when you know you are ALWAYS going to win. ..... this requires you to research reality to always be right, or you get scooped up in a shovel.

I used to do that quite often, mentally. In fact, I am doing that now!

... back then store bought milk came in 1/2 gallon cardboard containers with waterproof wax on both sides, with a lot of printing, sometimes in large black letters, "VIT D" and "HOMO". ... that one somehow bothered me.

I remember in 10th grade Biology class the teacher asked us what was the difference between Cow milk like we bought in the stores, and human mother's milk for human babies. I raised my hand and when she called on me, I answered, "Mother's milk comes in more attractive containers!".

I have never heard any JW explain that. It needs no explanation. It's like when an Eagle swoops down on a lake, and snatches a large fish out of the water, it's talons deeply embedded in the fish's body, that this is that natural order of things, and is entirely natural, appropriate, and the way the REAL WORLD works, and is supposed to work. The fish, and many JWs of course, may have a different opinion. Perhaps in the New System, from a boat they can toss straw up in the air for Eagles, and what falls in the water the fish will eat, and insects and rodents will rule the Earth.

Words are the tools with which we think. If we use poorly crafted tools, we will have poorly crafted thinking. Perhaps a better set of words would be "consecrate" and "un-consecrate".

I agree. In the circa 1968 movie "Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie, a Hippie, goes to Stockbridge, Massachusetts to visit some old friends, and they have bought an old large church, possibly Presbyterian, and are going to turn it in to a free love and sex Hippie Commune, and the scene opens with a high angle shot of the inside of the church showing perhaps ten old congregants, and two Presbyterian Clergy UN-DEDICATING the church and property in a ceremony, with the new owners, Alice and Ray, standing at the outside of the church, waiting for the un-consecration... The movie also accurately represents the hippie movement in the United States during the time of the Vietnam War, and the movie was created to follow the real life experiences of Arlo Guthrie exactly as stated in his guitar 18 minute riff by the same name "Alice's Restaurant" (Alice's Restaurant Massacre). The entire one hour and 51 minute movie is available on Youtube. You may not be able to get it in your country, so I downloaded it, and pasted it HERE. It's 400 MB, and this site says it has a 500 MB limit for uploads. The part about the church un-consecration starts at 15:30 minutes. 1969... Alice's Restaurant.mp4