James Thomas Rook Jr.

See how ignorance makes for peace?

2 minutes ago, Anna said:

I wonder what actual good does it do to know? I mean of what practical benefit?

The purpose of demanding TRUTH ... is to get TRUTH .... not someone else's delusional fantasys that are engineered to make a slave of you, and separate you from your money.

The PRACTICAL benefit of knowing TRUTH, years ago, is that I did not have to go to Vietnam, and kill people to support a political agenda, as THE classical example.

Just now, TrueTomHarley said:

Put this in a readable font and I will look at it

I used that font specifically to make it incomprehensible to you, TTH.

You can read it if you really want to by standing on your head, and looking at it in a mirror, with your eyes crossed.

7 hours ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

We have cats. They want food and that's all. 

Dogs have Guardians.

Cats have Staff... and all the protien, vitamins and minerals a healthy dog needs!

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

In that case, the answer is to cry, even if he is not sensible enough to cry along.

If you want to cry at what is real .... knock yourself out. I have told the story many times on the Archive of the Daddy Bird rescuing his three baby birds from a river island about to be completely flooded.  I told that story to my children individually, at least a dozen times, each.

This is a variation of that story ;

"A bird once set out to cross a windy sea with its three fledglings. The sea was so wide and the wind so strong, the father bird was forced to carry his young, one by one, in his strong claws. 

1 hour ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

Yes, well I’m not talking about an individual action but the psychology behind the human interaction.

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

And to think that the old boy laments that his ‘loyal Watchtower’ kids do not visit him, when he devotes his entire life to ridiculing and undermining that which they most hold dear. One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

I do not lament it .... it is exactly what I taught them from Kindergarten on, .... get on with your life, and never look back.

I had hoped they would be on their way to the stars, by now.  

I do find that it does clash with "Love Never Fails", since they are NOT spacefarers.

If there is anybody to blame .... it is NASA.

... in an earlier age, I would have had an "emotional support" Tyrannosaurus Rex, and my therapy would have been watching him eat Lawyers.

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7 minutes ago, Melinda Mills said:

Looking forward to hear what is going to be said about animals/pets at the assembly. 

Have you heard that this is one of the topics?

I hope it is not as cringeworthy as having children donate their ice cream money, and Bro Anthony "Tight Pants Tony" buying a shopping cart full of top shelf Scotch Whiskey.

Perhaps they want the dog food money also?

2 minutes ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

Stupid is as stupid does! I guess you are proof of it! 😂

I absolutely LOVE staggering irony, Billy, and you never fail to deliver!

This is made by WickedLasers, in China.

I bought one of their 1 Watt "Arctic" blue light Lasers which was advertised as "indestructible", for $300.

It fell out of my hand, about three feet to a sidewalk, and never worked again.

POUF!

$300.

Billy ... your last two posts provided the key to the puzzle .....

I can do that now .... the trick is them understanding me.

People from Mississippi and people from New York have a hard time communicating, and both speak English!

SCENARIO 89643:

Several Brothers go on a camping trip with relatives, who they have been witnessing to for some time.  One relative decides he wants to be Baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and in the morning they all go to the lake and Baptize him, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit .... with no mention whatsoever of the contract of fealty to the Watchtower or any Earthly organization.

Not a single one of the "100 Questions" was asked .... but in the eyes of God and Christ it was a valid baptism.

What kind of flak can they each expect to get when this new Brother shows up at the Kingdom Hall?

18 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I’m told it was staged in your back yard. The chickens running on the horizon is the giveaway 

That was an event horizon to a parallel dimension, where chickens became the inheritors of that world, from the dinosaurs.

They are just visiting, for a friend's funeral at KFC.

"If God employs infinity,

If nature keeps her laws,

who knows which hands will win which world

The hands ... the coils ... the claws." 

-  Rosser Reeves, in the poem "Infinity"

5 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

It never occurred to me that this statement would provoke such a response. What is your take? That JWs all think the moon landing was staged?

OF COURSE!

The July 20, 1969 Moon Landing was , as everyone in the know, knows, was filmed on a movie set on Mars!

9 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

As near as I can tell, Jehovah’s Witnesses buy into conspiracy theories in no greater proportion than the general population.

Did you use actual MATH?

How do you tell what is proportionate without data sets to compare?

OOPS, sorry ... you did qualify your statement "As far as I can tell ..."

.... never mind.

... as an aside .... did you know that Chewbacca is actually a suspected mutated Polar Bear? That's why he always wears that ammunition bandolier over his shoulder, everywhere he goes ... the .... *coff* .... right to Bear arms.

...................... As a quick off-topic aside ... does anyone have any latest information about any Congregational Sanctions against a Brother or Sister whose conscience compels them to vote in a Presidential Election? ....................... Things change so often I get strobe shock from all the "new light", and lose track.

I suspect that both political parties, and their leadership, are quaking in their boots, but the Democrats have the natural advantage, as they openly embrace every sort of evil and mental aberrations, and therefore have limited immunity to charges of hypocrisy.

The Republicans stand for wholesome values (as a general rule), but are incompetent and are easily sandbagged, and when they do the same things the Democrats do, are open to massive charges of hypocrisy.

I think that was a good point you made, JWI, that if Trump is involved, it was probably (?) back when he was a Democrat.

My best guess is, however is that he was not involved. Primarily because he supposedly has never drank alcoholic beverages.

It's like the old Chinese blessing and curse .....

"May you live in interesting times."

I fully expect to see a LOT of "convenient" deaths among the key players real soon, with the biggest pile among the Clinton associates.

It will be interesting to see who gets caught in the "honey trap", and who escape.

At the very least.

9 hours ago, Witness said:

I don't work for men and their expensive vision,  but only for the Father and Jesus Christ.  

If any of us "worked for men", that would make us more like employees ... and it's the JOB of employees to do their work, but also to make their bosses look good!

In the case of the JW Governing Body, there is a contingency plan to have eight  moving van heavy light blue quilted blankets to throw over their heads, which will make them look better ... and also muffle the sound.

..this is a good example of what happens when you absolutely HAVE to weave a joke into a legitimate response ....

I read the reviews on this .... it uses military grade dehydrated water to produce the shower.

For each gallon of water the portable shower produces, you have to add a gallon of whole milk.