James Thomas Rook Jr.

This quoting of myself is the basis of why I rationally and deliberately choose to be who I am ... the fact that it drives you absolutely insane is merely an added bonus.
Meanwhile, you are hiding behind your fake desperado cowboy uniform.

From your nebulous general response, it seems clear that you think the word "Specific" refers to the Ocean West of California.
 
 
Well, BillyTheKid46, (who is NOT really who you are) ... I suppose we will just have to "agree to disagree".
I do try to be a good Jehovah's Witness ... but nobody that has ever met me has yet accused me of being "Brother Watchtower".
For me, that is a badge of honor.
.... but then again ... I am a Barbarian.
The major "take away" point is this:
I DO NOT WANT TO BE, AND DO NOT TRY TO BE.
( For the logical, reasonable, and rational reasons I stated on this thread, several posts before this posting, which I am re-posting below, as I know you will misconstrue the points, anyway .)
 

BillyTheKid46:
There is something despicable about a man who weaponizes Scripture to try and intimidate others, for his own aggrandizement.
That is who you are, Billy, clear to the bone.
Your logic and reasoning is SO FLAWED, you think you can compile ONE of anything, in a nebulous foggy cloud of thought, and make assumptions about everything else.
Just FYI, I have had sustained discussions about my philosophy with an Elder Body in the past, in fact, several Elder Bodies in different congregations all over the country, over the years ... but my being a Barbarian means that I ignore  uninspired, and error ridden  Organizational pontification..
Been there ..... done that. 
I make them mad, and they make me sad. 
We're even.
If I am wrong about any subject ... I of course have to pay the price for being wrong
If THEY are wrong, I STILL pay the price, in full,  for taking their bad advice,  and they pay no price whatsoever.
... and so far, my track record is light years better than theirs about being right on matters the Bible does not speak about, and about 50/50 in things it does speak about.
... and as far as confessions go ...... as far as I know, the Watchtower has only apologized ONCE since 1870 ... for screwing up peoples' lives.

When the Body of Elders assembled to interrogate me asked me specifically what my views of the Governing Body was, about a year and a half ago, I replied:
"I will have to agree with what they published in the February, 2017 Watchtower ... that they are neither inspired, or infallible" .
The Coordinator said "Oh yeah, I remember reading that ... "  The other two Elders looked at him in astonishment, as  they had not, or did not remember it.
They could not release me from "ROOM 101" fast enough.
Several years before that I had a body of elders surround me in an aisle way at the Kingdom Hall, after the Watchtower Study,  and I could no escape them without pushing one or more aside, and one asked me without any preamble whatsoever, what I thought of the Governing Body.  My reply was spontaneous and instantaneous:
"I do not think of them at all!"
They left me alone after that. .... until "next time".
 
 

You are AGAIN guilty as homemade sin of what you accuse ME of ... the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
My name here is EXACTLY as shown on my birth certificate, my home mortgage, my Publisher's Record Card, how I am known in the Congregation ( ..actually, casually it is Tom Rook ...), my driver's license and my US Passport..
Again you have condemned yourself with your own words .... unless you really ARE BillyThe Kid46, and that's what is shown on your birth certificate, how you are known in your Congregation. and that is what is shown on your Driver's License, etc.
 
Every posting you make you shoot yourself in the foot ... AGAIN.
Part of my being a Barbarian is that I find it all very, very funny.  Like watching a Daffy Duck Cartoon where it is Duck Season and he gets his face rearranged continually from being shot.
Or as Daffy might say .... "He's Dispichible!"
 

I keep no secrets, Billy ... everything I do is open and "in your face", as I care nothing about any consequences ... mainly because I do not actually stick burglars' heads on a pole in my front yard, even though the idea does appeal to me.I
I asked you to specifically to enumerate the horrors you accuse me of, and you choked, and replied with irrelevant gibberish.
I was giving you an opportunity to PROVE you are not a slanderer, are not a liar, and not delusional.
You failed to do any of those things.
You stand convicted by your very own slanders and lies against me as a bitter, irrelevant agenda driven Watchtower policy wonk, as well.
Exactly what I would expect from a Greek speaking Watchtower Lawyer, or lawyer wannabe.
You know why Watchtower Lawyers can swim in the Atlantic Ocean without any fear of being eaten by Sharks?
.... Professional Courtesy.
 

O.K. , I will bite ... pray tell what you perceive  Billy OH Billy, as my Bible lawbreaking.
Hmmmmmm?
Many dozens of times I have admitted on this forum of being a Barbarian, but that is more of a cultural thing ... so you probably have quite a list that would justify such serious and profound accusations.
Please be specific.
And to show you are NOT delusional, please prove it, and provide scriptural backup.
I await your scathing specific condemnations.

Billy .......
I think the proof that you are delusional rests in the rambling epic tome you just posted, with the expectation that not only anybody would read it in its entirety before falling asleep at the keyboard, or that anyone who did manage to stay awake would facepalm slap their foreheads in realization and exclamation " WOW! He has a POINT!"
It COULD be salvaged, if someone was paying you by the word .... and I am sure they would take your word for how many words you could bill for, rather than be forced to read it.
I would read it through, if you could keep it short.
VRERRY short.
........ like ... one or two paragraphs short.
 
 

Not unless you use your REAL name .... you have not.
Hiding behind a Billy the KId avatar is, when you brag about showing "true colors", is flying a false flag.
The HYPOCRISY is why you get called on it, and others do not.
I am interested in WHY you chose such a despicable character as your Avatar?
Unless of course you really ARE like Henry McCarty, AKA William H. Bonney,  who was a murderer and a thief, and an amoral person.
... and the false flag you fly hides the "Jolly Roger".
(?)

No one gives private bible studies to children anymore unless they are the parents. Same with the ministry.
Most churches separate kids from the parents. It is JW kids who stay with their parents all the time.

I do respect that for the sake of showing guts. I really do.
 
I would appreciate it if you would go by James. Or, just tell me if you insist upon Tom and I will go to James.
I am really curious. Can it really be, with you being so open and all, that you have triggered no sanctions in the congregation? You never let on that you have, one time relating a current field service experience when you were packing a gun and the sisters  commented how they should fell safe.
As deliberately as offensive, accusatory, and outrageous as you are—have you truly never heard about it?
As an experiment, I am going to quote a Bible passage that was recently cited on our weekly program. See if you can spot the words I have cleverly substituted (look very hard).
Looking intently at the Sanʹhe·drin Paul said: “Men, brothers, I have behaved before God with a perfectly clear conscience down to this day.”  
At this the high priest An·a·niʹas ordered those standing by him to strike him on the mouth.  
Then Paul said to him: “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall. Do you at one and the same time sit to judge me in accord with the Law and, transgressing the Law, command me to be struck?”  
Those standing by said: “Are you reviling the high priest of God?”  
And Paul said: “You lying son of a b***h! I’ll revile you if I want, you odious fool! Your mother’s midwife probably slapped her instead of you!!!”
There. Did you catch it? Honestly, why don’t you be more like Paul actually was?
 

Oh dear poor billy is throwing his rattles out of his pram again, poor boy is having another tantrum.
Go to the top of the page billy and read what it says and stop making yourself look so stupid. 
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES OPEN CLUB. 
Can we get one thing straight. This is a JW forum. This forum is about JW Org and how it is run / controlled. 
Get a life billy, go and have a coffee or something. 
 
 

Excellent comparison ! Up-vote 

Flying mechanical Drones witnessing, instead of Cart Witnessing!
Whata GREAT idea !
Not to be confused with existing witnessing drones.

There ya go Billy!
I KNEW you could do it!
THREE paragraphs ... but all very short!

Wikipedia source:
Etymology[edit]
Coined in 2003 by Charles Krauthammer as Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) in The Washington Post article "The Delusional Dean".[1]
Noun[edit]
Derangement Syndrome (plural Derangement Syndromes)
(idiomatic, colloquial) The acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal and balanced people triggered by the mention of a specific topic :)))  in otherwise normal and balanced people  :)))))

I noticed this question, and I know you were asking TTH, but I would like to say no, I do not believe that this has ever been the case. Now if Jehovah's Witnesses were a child porn ring in disguise, then I might believe it. You, as a reasonable person, and I am assuming you are reasonable, has to see that no human organization (unless it is what I mentioned) will knowingly and purposefully condone child molestation.

I think I just got bored that there had been less scriptural discussion of late (not counting some notable exceptions here and there, however).
Nothing to get worked up over, but we do have an obligation to handle the word of God aright. And I don't think it is wrong to use the verse as a statement of something positive, because it is something very positive. In fact, to me, there is something very meaningful going on in this verse, and I hate to think we miss it by using the verse out of context.
In context, it is actually amazing that God's people are being asked to stop defending their land, stop defending the Davidic Kingdom and the Temple, but to just willingly leave with Babylonian captors, pray for Babylon to let you live a peaceful life as captives, get ready to stay a long time there, get married, plant fruit trees, have kids, and then await a time when you (or at least your children) can come back to the re-promised land and start fresh. Jehovah had something truly amazing in mind for those who were willing to listen to something that really made no rational sense to most of the people listening.
This probably didn't make much sense that an enemy who would be starving people to death in a siege on Jerusalem was going to be someone they should compromise with. It might even look like treason to their fellow Judean brethren. And yet, we have actual physical evidence among tens of thousands of neo-Babylonian documents that the Jews very quickly formed peaceful communities in Babylon. Jeremiah was right, even though it seemed to be against all the odds. Neither the upper or the lower classes generally believed him; other prophets were claiming something else. Jeremiah was imprisoned for such talk. All the while some Jews were fleeing to Egypt or in other directions for protection, or with the thought that they could regroup and fight Babylon. Jeremiah said they shouldn't do that either. The royal family was sure that it should defy Babylon and make its stand against it. The land was being decimated of all its people. At the time, who'd have thought that Jeremiah was giving good inspired advice?
If there is a "type-antitype" lesson here, it's probably not that we should compromise with some antitypical Babylon.  It's more likely that the point is that God's people today might have to be willing to give up our comfortable reliance on the physical, visible "Temple" and our authoritative "governors." God's people will have to understand that each one of us will stand spiritually on our own. We are temporary residents (alien residents) in a world that we should not get too attached to. We are not judged for what our earthly or spiritual "fathers" have done, but the law will be written on our own hearts. We won't be reliant on what our neighbors or brothers tell us about how to know Jehovah, for each of us will know Jehovah on our own. I think all those points are found in the next couple of chapters, especially Jeremiah 31:28-34:
(Jeremiah 31:28-34) 28 “And just as I watched over them to uproot, to pull down, to tear down, to destroy, and to do harm, so I will watch over them to build up and to plant,” declares Jehovah. 29 “In those days they will no longer say, ‘The fathers ate sour grapes, but the teeth of the sons were set on edge.’ 30 But then each one will die for his own error. Any man eating sour grapes will have his own teeth set on edge.” 31 “Look! The days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “when I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their forefathers on the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, ‘my covenant that they broke, although I was their true master,’ declares Jehovah.” 33 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Jehovah. “I will put my law within them, and in their heart I will write it. And I will become their God, and they will become my people.” 34 “And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Jehovah!’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them,” declares Jehovah. “For I will forgive their error, and I will no longer remember their sin.”

... especially if you are a laboratory mouse, and your "Surgeon Rodentia" has sufficient grant money.
I looked up your statement, and it appears to be mostly true, depending on the skill of a surgeon in removing the bone, and leaving the sheath that surrounds it mostly intact. Apparently the cells in that envelope "remember" how to rebuild bone.
Thanks ... I learned something new today.
I know you are  new here derek1956,  and I hope you do not mind me challenging every statement made for detail.    It's not personal, ... I challenge everybody and everything, and am generally a colossal pain in the butt.
I am 72 years old, and feel entitled to be obnoxious.

Mice I catch in the house, I Fedex to Disneyland, to meet Mickey, who only has three fingers on each hand.
 

.... better than, anticipating government confiscation ... losing it ALL,  I suppose.

Flying mechanical Drones witnessing, instead of Cart Witnessing!
Whata GREAT idea !
Not to be confused with existing witnessing drones.

One atheist was trying to illuminate me on the wonders of science. He pointed to quantum theory, that a tiny particle might disappear here and simultaneously reappear there. “On a large scale, it would be as though I appeared right in your living room out of nowhere,” he told me.
I replied that JW scientists knew all about this and had been working on the problem for some time, with obvious applications in the field ministry. 

The Vietnamese Branch Office Lawyer?

WDS is similar to TDS, and DDS.

The Vietnamese Branch Office Lawyer?

We have got a great way to minimise our Not-At-Homes. We've been doing it for years:

Not Homes.mp4