James Thomas Rook Jr.

Now THAT is a GREAT piece of work!   Next time the Brothers have a talent show, do that as a routine....

... don't hold your breath.

Hmmm... could it be that the Scripture should read Google of My Google?

3 minutes ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

Are you a professional linguist now aside from thinking you know everything about the Watchtower. 😂

I would bet on JWI's linguistic abilities to be far beyond yours, BTK ... LIGHT YEARS beyond yours, as yours are clouded by your agenda driven WDS., even though you may in fact actually be a cunning linguist.

I appreciate your scholarship, JWI ... but I think I have PTSD, and no longer care.

I have been "Gogged and Magogged" to death over the last 50 years, and find, at least for me, there are MORE IMPORTANT things to occupy my attention ... down here, where the "rubber meets the road".

Things like Justice, Fairness, Equity, Gentleness, and Compassion.

Whatever the case is .... soon enough ... we will ALL KNOW,

... perhaps TOO SOON.

1 minute ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

Why not ask James for his scoped firearm and stand watch on the doorstep 24/7 to satisfy your insanity. Then it won’t be hearsay gossip, it will become delusion of grandeur.

.... my scoped rifle is a back-packable breakdown .22 caliber, with a range of about 200 yards.

YOURS is a scoped .50 calibre sniper rifle, capable of shooting 4 miles, and with an effective range of about 3/4 of a mile.

..... reminds me of two Brothers with the same names, on an Ohio bridge, peeing into the river below.

JTR: "Wow, that water is really cold!"

BTK: "Yeah, and deep, too!"

27 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

Stop being so American James, not everyone on this planet Earth wants 'to go to war'. 

It's about being as cautious as serpents I thought  Not being a rogue elephant. 

... that's why Americans, with their bodies and their blood, with fire and steel, had to save your English butts TWICE, from the Germans.

2 hours ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

I don't know, but I'd need more info on him like his previous address I think. His name is quite basic so could be many men with the same name. I don't know his age either other than my wife says he's old and looks around 60. 

If you are still planning to "go to war", you will need more resolve, grit, and ACTION. 

Make some guesses and follow up until they fall apart, or are verified.

COMPILE information.

To do that, first you have TO GO GET IT.

Perhaps your wife will (because of your circumstances ..) will have to make the phone calls.

5 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

One night, I'm back in Newburgh, it's snowing, and out in front of my house is this beautiful Jag with a red ribbon around it, and a note that says 'Thanks, Duke'.” - Mickey Spillane

Love Never Fails.

... and you don't need three days and 20 videos to explain it.

Remember the Elders that counseled Job for three days?  After three days they had said NOTHING of value, worth recording in what later became Scripture.

My other considered opinion ( and it's worth every cent you paid for it ...) John, is that you have a SERIOUS, almost fatal  deficiency of John Wayne movies.

30 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

So do I just mind my own business, or is it my business ? 

Everybody that is a busybody does not think so ... in their own minds.

Was it Shakespeare in "Henry V" that told of King Henry walking among his soldiers in disguise, at night, to listen to their campfire talk, in the unwarranted invasion of France, and one soldier said to another " I hope our Sovereign is doing the right thing, as we have to obey him, but he will answer to God for what we do, here" (heavily paraphrased from memory ....)

Or, as Yoda said "There is only do ...or do not.   There is no try!"

(My advice is ...)  Either GO TO WAR ... OR RETIRE FROM THE FIELD !

If you do decide to go to war ... be prepared to lose, badly.

THERE IS ONLY ONE EXCUSE FOR BEING A "BUSYBODY" !

..... if you win.

8 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

I have his full name, so is there any way i can run a check on him ? 

Sure ... just type his full name and anything else you know about him into google, and for about $30, you can know almost everything there is to know about him.

Be careful which firm you choose ... about 60% of them are scams.

6 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:

Love is Best, Ultimate, Perfect, Divine state of Soul. That is, i don't know, but i guess, Maximum what we can achieved in lifetime.

For me, God looking for such Love. He needs that Love. What would happened if we don't give Him Love?

The way I see it, Jehovah has an abundance of love about the things he cares about, and actually needs NOTHING from us.

Nothing whatsoever.  

It's like my 18 pet Bantam chickens ... (who I just finished feeding a whole banana split down the middle, a large handful of broccoli, and two giant strawberries, and gave them more commercial chicken feed, and clean water ....).

I want the very best for them, but in reality need NOTHING from them. I am not going to eat the eggs, or the chickens.  They are just fun to watch grow and interact with me and my wife, and each other.   There is no point whatsoever to it ... other than me watch them enjoy their short (about 6 years) life.

Jehovah does not get pouty, and petulant, and get depressed when we do not love him.

... think not about pettiness and pouty .... think Poultry !

It's just like the Sabbath.

The Sabbath regulation was made for mankind .... mankind was NOT made for the Sabbath.

Jehovah will not get his feelings hurt, and start hurling lightning bolts, or go in the corner, and cry because we are not giving him enough adoration.

HE ENCOURAGES ADORATION ONLY BECAUSE IT REPROGRAMS US NOT TO BE SO NASTY AND SELF CENTERED! ( ... with some notable exceptions ...)

Not because He needs adoration !

... and I worry not that Billy or Foreigner down votes EVERYTHING that does not fit their corporate agendas ... eventually they will run out of drool, and when they sleep, the other eye stops twitching.

The 2017 Declaration is as close of an apology as one will ever get from the Governing Body for 100 and more years of being clueless busybodies, screwing with people's lives.

Is it fair?

...but then again.... this is how Parent birds feed their young ... they go out and eat insects, worms and other "stuff", predigest it, and fly back and vomit it directly into their baby birds throats.

They are happy to get it, and beg for more.

Animals often  have no other choice.

I have often thought of the analogy, (IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT) of being in a medieval stone dungeon, one leg chained to the wall ... and the guards do not feed you .... and relatives have to swallow squares of meat without chewing to smuggle food to you, in their own stomachs, just before they visit you.

Yeah ... it's necessary and desperately needed food ... and food at the proper time .... and I would die without it, but ....

.... it's not the meat ... it's the DELIVERY SYSTEM!

3 hours ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

This is the article apostates have taken to heart, just like James. What did I just write James as to his dense understanding of this one paragraph? Now read the whole thing in its entirety. Perhaps you will understand where the GB is coming from. If you can't understand that, there is more in JW.org to consider.

Dense understanding of one paragraph?

The only part that is reality based is ONLY two sentences.

Take it in context?

I have my belly full of people playing with carefully crafted words, bending reality into a pretzel.

I have spent the last 50 years WATCHING the "context".

A MILLION words, carefully crafted, will not change what I know, and what I have personally seen,'

When you go to any restaurant for good food, you do not assume that the proper food, served at the proper time, a significant portion of it will be ROTTEN,.

Unless of course, the OTHER restaurants are so much worse,  you stop eating there.

Unfortunately, when I find turds in the theocratic salad, I have to eat around them.

There is nowhere else to go.

... but I do not like it!.

Bears Repeating: Two good examplews.

14 minutes ago, BillyTheKid46 said:

Therefore, your analogy of the Watchtower cannot be more mistaken if you honestly, would think before you comment. The same James should have done long ago, before he allowed himself to be misled by the Devil.

In any "theological pissing contest", the arguments that have the fewest words are usually the Truth.

I think I will believe the Governing Body verbatim, on this one ..... which summarizes  arrogance and screw-ups since 1870.

It's ONLY TWO very short sentences long.

And the Truth is self-evident.

....and just as an aside, I'll match your Pope picture, and raise you two absurdities.

THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS WILL DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS.

... JUST REMEMBER THIS ... PLAYING WITH WORDS WILL NOT CHANGE REALITY.

.... AND PLAYING WITH A MILLION WORDS WILL NOT CHANGE REALITY, EITHER.

TO UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS OR THE APOSTLES REALLY MEANT, YOU HAVE TO "GET INTO THE MIND" OF THOSE THAT WERE BEING SPOKEN TO AT THE TIME.

HOW DID THEY UNDERSTAND IT ?

ALL ELSE IS ARROGANCE.

ALL ELSE IS VANITY.

ONCE A RELIGION ACCUMULATES MONEY AND REAL ESTATE, IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT MONEY AND REAL ESTATE THEREAFTER, AND  WHATEVER IT TAKES TO KEEP IT.

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THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN ANY EXCEPTIONS IN THE PAST.

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THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS, NOW.

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I think there is a policy rule that all Governing Body Members have to be of the Annointed, have many, many years of faithful service to the Organization, be beyond reproach, well spoken of, and be able to pee, standing up.

28 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

JTR Jr Are you really that bored today ?  Although I'm a bit concerned about this comment of yours. Are you suggesting that TPT has thoughts of a sinful nature ?

Yesterday I spent all day making a chicken coop and chicken run (apologies to Mel Gibson) door and door frame in my side yard with the frame posts set in concrete, with concrete pedestals which I am calling "STALAG 17", for my wife's new herd of chickens ( They are "Free Range Chickens", which you have no doubt heard about .. from the time that herds of billions of chickens used to roam the Ohio Valley, here in the United States, and Cave Men used to ride giant lizards to round them up, many times driving them off of cliffs to the precipices below, which  only worked infrequently, as they can fly if it's mostly down,  chicken down being a whole other subject, as they use it to fill military flight jackets, which raises the prices so that even down is up ... where was I ... oh yeah ... am I bored today ... for today it is raining and my neighbors are collecting animals (I already have mine, being unconcerned about the extinction of white rhinoceroses, as long as there are chickens, which will never go extinct because they are delicious, and you cannot kill a whole Rhino for one or two sandwiches.

And as far as TPT having "sinful thoughts", as everone knows, the GB do not HAVE sinful thoughts, I am sure NOTHING could be further from the truth, as his perspective is quite different.

I had a long conversation with Caleb and Sophia, today about THEIR Creator, Tight Pants Tony, and Caleb was telling me how, in the 1950's his father knew TPT, before he went to Vietnam as an Army medic, and got some insight as to why Bro. Anthony has such an obsession about Brothers wearing tight pants.

18 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Shirley, you must have thrown in a cartoon somewhere. 

(For whatever it is worth, I do follow Scott Adams on Twitter so as to get my daily Dilbert.)

NOW! you have ticked me off... STOP CALLING ME SHIRLEY !

( Merely a Pavlonian response ... )