James Thomas Rook Jr.

They, the men of lawlessness,  have ALWAYS been atheists ... flying false flags, because people will salute these false flags, and pledge allegiance to these false flags, and slave for these false flags, and contribute money, real estate and assets of every description, and march to the cadence of the drummers of these false flags.

That is the nature of all people. 

Nothing new.

But basically, these men of lawlessness have ALWAYS been atheists.

They are men of lawlesness BECAUSE they put their  own warped "theology", policies, and practices before those of God's.

Consummate, skilled con men who know that to pick pockets, the marks have to be given something of value to sustain them, and keep the illusion of beneficence alive.

That is not how it starts .... but that is how it ALWAYS ends up.

The catalyst is lots of free money.

You make evil seem so easy and effortless, Billy ... I guess that's what happens when you have natural talent !

You know why Watchtower Lawyers can swim in any ocean on Earth, and not be bothered by venomous overgrown jellyfish ?

Professional Courtesy !

2 hours ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

By your ignorance of not understanding that those people are not condemned to hell eternally as false religion had it at that time, I say it will go very well for those people that will be judged by Christ and not automatically be denied resurrection. At least, they have that hope, when you, Anna, ?Winsider have known, for becoming enemies of God, by your treacherous minds and tongues.

You know Billy, when I visualize you, I think of you either as a gutless weasel, or a venomous overgrown jellyfish, floating in the ocean.

I know in reality you are neither of those things, but somehow, every time you speak, that's the image I get.

I am more inclined towards the venomous jellyfish, as they have been alive and prosperous all over the Earth's oceans, for at least 300 million years .... with no brain whatsoever.

...... but today, your comments project an image of the gutless weasel.

1 hour ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

Don't mention cancer, I'm trying not to think about it. 

Well... Noah did not want to think about giraffes, either ... that's why when they showed up he had to cut two big square holes in the roof of the Ark.

Now... for the next few minutes, do NOT to think about Noah's Ark, with two big square holes cut in the roof, with giraffe necks and heads sticking out.

There is no way to lose weight without being hungry.

... except of course, for cancer, or something.

Very simple, and it agrees with everything else we know from any source ....

1.) The Earth formed about 3.5 billion years ago.

2.) The account in Genesis is based on the viewpoint of a person standing ON THE SURFACE of the Earth, watching things going on.  (This might be a good time to stop, and re-read the creation account from that particular perspective.)

3. If  creation of the Earth took six days, and we are in the 7th day now ... it's a simple matter to determine how long a creative day including the day of rest,  is.

Divide 3.5 billion years, by 7.

That means each creative day was 500 million years long, and we are now 6,000 or so years into the 7th, 500 million year "day of rest".

This idea agrees with all the science we know, and the Biblical account, as would have been observed by a person standing on the surface of the Earth, which at that time was completely molten, and covered in superheated steam, which is invisible until it condenses.

35 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

Some of us cannot afford such luxury. I'm happy to get a bit of bacon.

Yeah .... I had to give up bacon many years ago, because I just could not afford it ... or would not afford it because the price was so high ... and MANY foods escalated in price to the point I stopped buying them.   But Golden Corral Buffet has a TREMENDOUS selection, and my wife and I are "Seniors", and if we get there before 4PM, we can get the dinner menu for the price of a "Senior Lunch/Early Bird Special".

That means that for $9.00 apiece, we can feast like kings ... steak, spare ribs, giant shrimp prepared four different ways, pizza, fried chicken, chili, beef stew, clam chowder ( my favorite...), and before 4pm we get free soft drinks, as well. Every kind of desert you could want, and any kind of salads you could fix. Eight different kinds of fruit,  and all the real, quality ice cream you can eat!

I calculated that by eating one large meal a day, we can eat like kings for $10 a day apiece, which is less than the cost of groceries to eat half as well,  AAAAAAND ... no preparation, OR dishes to wash! 

Even including the fuel cost to get there and back,, it's cheaper.

..and light years better!

3 minutes ago, JW Insider said:

But each of those interpretations was treated as knowledge when it was taught. Even though they turned out to be false, and required updating. Just because we like to avoid the word false, and call it "refinements" or "increasing light" changes nothing about the falsehood of the previously called knowledge.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.

IT'S A DUCK!

A duck by any other name is still a duck!

....except of course, when there is a fear that if it is admitted to being a duck, the donations will stop.

7 minutes ago, Melinda Mills said:

Why did not Jesus die for animals? 

I am not going to answer it for you.

1.)  Since the beginning of life on Earth there have been two kinds of animals .... those that eat plants, and those that eat each other.  This is the natural order of things, and as sentimental as I am about animals, I cannot ignore this scary fact.

That is obviously how life on Earth was designed, cartoon theology notwithstanding.

If the Lion, and the Lamb lay down together, it will be because the lamb is inside the lion.

To answer your question ... it was never God's intent to give animals everlasting life, and that includes pre- creation humans that evolved. Only the New Creation ... "Homo Theocraticus", was ever intended to have the opportunity for everlasting life.  Neanderthals and such just lived whatever they could manage and died. End of story.

2.) That is a good idea, not to provide an answer, because the very, very BEST answer would only be a best guess ... including no. 1, above.

... when they have baby back beef spare ribs at the Golden Corral ( a USA all you can eat buffet restaurant ...) my table looks like a dinosaur graveyard...

1 hour ago, JW Insider said:

It was that week that I had to stay in bed, up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. They had a VCR/DVD player that only had one movie on it. So I ended up watching Bill Murray in Groundhog Day about 30 times in one week.

Or maybe that was just a dream. . . . Or maybe I just made this up. . .😉

My favorite scene was when, at the front door of the Piano teacher, Bill Murray offered her a thousand dollars (?) for a piano lesson, and the teacher threw the little girl student out the door.

BTK46 has stated many times that everybody but him is ignorant, uneducated, a fool and worthy of derision ... and that we have no understanding of human psychology in dealing with his criticisms.

I think he may be right about that one,  as I often sit here wondering "Where does he GET these ideas?"

After all, it's not what WE think, it is what Scholar Emeritus BillyTheKid46 thinks that matters!

I have never seen in my entire life a person with MORE TALENT to be a Watchtower Lawyer.

He makes evil seem so effortless!

8 minutes ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

What did your friend James say about the appeal for the truth? What conditions did he set forth?

I would like to know the answer to THAT one!

By the way ... that "Millions Now Living Will Never Die '' ... how well did THAT turn out?

Just now, TrueTomHarley said:

Put your ear down to the turtle very very close and say just the right words, and he will explain the overlapping generations to you.

That is a GREAT idea ... as I am sure that only a Box Turtle could make sense of it.

5 hours ago, Witness said:

If animals have the ability to be fearful, joyful, loyal, even hateful, they certainly have the ability to show love - deep affection for another animal or human.

I had a cat that would settled down in front of the stereo speaker to listen to classical music as soon as it began.  There must have been some sort of appreciation there, in the form of contentment or pleasure. 

I had a 5 year or so old Box Turtle ( tortoise, actually) that I rescued from a highway, and as I watched "him", ( and yes, you can tell...) it often occurred to me how ignorant we really are of what they think and feel ... and the colossal arrogance on people's part to assume they think less of their lives than we think of ours.

As I watched "Mr. Henry II", the thought occurred to me that beneath those plated decks might dwell the mind and heart of a great lover, and a consummate mathematician ... all day quietly working on equations for orbital mechanics, or parallel dimensions.

The things I have seen with my own eyes belies the arrogance and cluelessness of  Clergy who worship themselves.

When they pontificate about such things, they declare aloud their incompetence, and lack of credibility.

Concerning "Animals being given undo importance" ....

We are very fragile, big ugly bags of mostly water and require a LOT of things :of the world to stay alive, and healthy, and emotionally stable.

I have 16 pet chickens ( two died of heat exhaustion, from being run around the yard by my dogs, after flying out of their temporary enclosure, and I buried them this morning in the yard with little plastic pipe "tombstones" which I melted into the side with a soldering iron their names and date of death, which was yesterday).

And yet ... when I die, I do not care if I am just left where I fall, or someone puts my remains in a dumpster.

And yet ... today at Golden Corral, my wife and I ate fried chicken, and I pondered "Am I a hypocrite, for loving both live chickens ... and those crispy fried??"

I looked at myself in the mirror, and noticed my eyes are in front (predator), and the chickens' eyes are on the side of their heads (prey), and decided that  that is the natural order of things, and I should just get used to it, without recriminations.

Besides .... "Love Never Fails" .... and when I die, I will probably be too tough to eat, and with the fried  chicken .... it's no one we know.

Concerning "Loving Things of the World" ....

We are very fragile, big ugly bags of mostly water and require a LOT of things :of the world to stay alive, and healthy, and emotionally stable.

I have 16 pet chickens ( two died of heat exhaustion, from being run around the yard by my dogs, after flying out of their temporary enclosure, and I buried them this morning in the yard with little plastic pipe "tombstones" which I melted into the side with a soldering iron their names and date of death, which was yesterday).

And yet ... today at Golden Corral, my wife and I ate fried chicken, and I pondered "Am I a hypocrite, for loving both live chickens ... and those crispy fried??"

I looked at myself in the mirror, and noticed my eyes are in front (predator), and the chickens' eyes are on the side of their heads (prey), and decided that  that is the natural order of things, and I should just get used to it, without recriminations.

Besides .... "Love Never Fails" .... and with the fried  chicken .... it's no one we know.

I have found FOXNEWS to be the best news source available.  Not perfect, by any means, but their agenda is OPENLY STATED, and their news is peer reviewed.

Who YOU gonna trust?

Your Stock Broker?

2 minutes ago, Space Merchant said:

Source?

In today's news a pre-Edenic settlement was found in Israel ... over 9,000 years old.

It would be another 3,000 years before Adam was created, etc., etc.

This is one of many thousands of examples, all over the Earth, why I believe there were  two species of humans .... "Homo Sapiens", and "Homo Theocraticus" ... those created directly by God to for the FIRST time, having an opportunity for  everlasting life, and those who evolved, for which there is also irrefutable hard evidence, although they were not considered real men and women, legally.

Just now, Anna said:

I do not believe that. But we are both entitled to our opinion 🙂

I envy you.

1 minute ago, Matthew9969 said:

Didn't the watchtower teach at some point that black people were descendants of Cain?

I think it was the result of a 1930's experiment with the parents of Wilt Chamberlain, and the parents of Mohandus Ghandi that resulted in the experimental hybrid Danny DiVito, but something went terribly wrong.   

Instead of having the height of Wilt Chamberlain and the wisdom of Ghandi, what happened was the wisdom of Wilt Chamberlain, and the height of Ghandi.

10 minutes ago, Anna said:

Also, what Jesus Christ is saying to us now, is what he said 2000 years ago, and is recorded in the Bible for anyone to see.

Exactly!

This is not like Groundhog Day, where men in tuxedos and top hats , with cameras rolling, wait for the baby Jesus to come out of his cave, pick him up and after pretending to listen, declare that there will be six more years of tribulation.

Just now, Anna said:

I understand you may be concerned about adding anything to scripture (or taking away), since that is a very serious thing, but adding something to what is after all human speculation, surely is not a big deal?

I completely agree ... IF IT IS CLEARLY LABELED AS ONLY SPECULATION.

Without a clear and unambiguous disclaimer, capable of being understood by almost ANYONE with a 7th grade education ... so clear that it CANNOT be misunderstood ... it is merely a false prophesy, intended to keeps the troops motivated, afraid, and keep the money rolling in.