James Thomas Rook Jr.

(Micah 4:13) 13 Get up and thresh, O daughter of Zion; For I will change your horns into iron, And I will change your hooves into copper, And you will pulverize many peoples. You will devote their dishonest profit to Jehovah, And their resources to the true Lord of the whole earth.”
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Honestly, I cannot bring myself to watch the video.

I would LOVE to see the "out-takes" video!

I must admit, I agree with you. But then I wonder, maybe it's me who is seeing it "wrong". Attitude, after all, is everything...

I could be in serious trouble. They just finished remodeling the Kingdom Hall, and there are two quarter walls, one left of stage and one right. Gulp. Will the brother start entering and exiting the platform via those quarter walls, just like I saw them do in the other congregation?
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The circuit overseer was visiting, so I started pumping him on it. “‘Don’t let the brothers walk behind the quarter wall to go on-stage,” I told him. I was not too insistent, one mustn’t overdo it on these things. I mean, I don’t want to be the brother who meets him in the parking lot to tell him that all the brothers are no good, and they aren’t loving at all, and they are deadwood in the ministry, and come to think of it, they don’t even like God, and so he, the circuit overseer, has a lot of work to do here, and he says “Yeah, I think I’ve found the problem already.”
I did about as much as I could. He seemed to be sympathetic. “Yeah, I know,” he said. “You see them, then you don’t as they walk behind the wall, and then you do as they emerge from the other side—it IS a little funny.” So I gave it a good try. But he was just biding his time to get away from me. He is not going to do anything at all, I don’t think, other than tell the brothers to go on the platform when it is their turn to speak. What does he care how they do it? It doesn’t bother HIM any one way of the other. It’s ME it’s driving nuts, and then he will say “Well, you were mostly there already.”
I have always tried to stack the deck. Those elders way back in the day would have a meeting coming up and I would pump various ones separately over  multitude of picayune things, so that one of them said at their meeting (as I was told later) “Wait a minute. Who’s running this congregation? You, me, or Tom Harley?”
But lo! A miracle has occurred. Never never never NEVER did I think I would EVER agree with @Jack Ryan. But I do on something. Jack Ryan! who if a Bethel brother so much as farts, he starts a derogatory thread on it. Jack Ryan! who has been known to start as many as a dozen critical threads in a single day. Jack Ryan! who I think regards himself as some sort of a secret agent/freedom fighter. What is it with this character?
Yet, I saw, yes—I witnessed it while visiting another congregation, brothers clapping after each and every exchange that took place up front, whether li8ve or on video, just the way Jack was complaining about. Suddenly he becomes as a prophet from on high. That too, drove me nuts!—all that clapping. You don’t clap over every single skit of one sister offering a tract to another, who, of course accepts it a just little too eagerly, it seems to me, from what I recall in the actual ministry. You clap spontaneously when something really knocks your socks off. You clap when a child or even anyone gives his or her first talk on the school. You clap when the spirit genuinely moves you, for anything. You clap after the public talk, even giving the speaker the benefit of the doubt if it wasn’t that—um—good. But you don’t clap for every minor exchange of trivial words! It only cheapens the times that there really is something to clap for.
I know where this comes from, just like I know where walking behind the quarter walls came from. Some pious brother doubtless wanted to “show appreciation” for everything under the sun and so started up the habit, thinking he was setting a ‘good example’ and that others would follow, and those others, not wanting to seem unappreciative, did follow, even some half-heartedly. 
However, it is possible that it is not the pious brother at all who is responsible, but rather the one who is too swayed by the new-agey mantra that you have to lavish praise on children non-stop just for showing up, for the sake of building self-esteem, and so they clap if a brother so much as clears his throat. I mean, don’t go pinning this one on “theocracy,” Jack—it could just as well be that trendy “world” that you are so enamored with.
This will not the easiest habit to break. I mean, you can hardly sit there and scowl, so as to provide the counter-example. The best strategy is just to contain it, as you might strive to do with a measles outbreak. Don’t send speakers to that congregation for awhile, until the illness passes. I doubt I can even enlist the circuit overseer in any serious capacity on this one. He will probably just roll his eyes when I meet him about it in the parking lot. C’mon, DO IT RIGHT, BROTHERS!

As a person who understands and can do Ocean Navigation, I would rather know it and not do it ... than get on a ship guided by fools who know nothing and sail out into danger and probable death.
It's like the parable of the Grasshopper and the Ant.
All summer the industrious Ant worked hard, storing seeds and leaves below ground ... and all summer the Grasshopper fiddled away, doing nothing.
Then the winter snows came, and the Grasshopper moved to Florida, and someone stepped on the Ant.
.... but look on the bright side .... at least Billy did not mention Penguins, other flightless birds, or small aquatic animals.
 

As long as Billy does not think about or write about Penguins, other flightless birds, or small aquatic animals,  I think he will be O.K.
 
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Well, JWI.
Billy himself thought it was funny, and he has no sense of humor whatsoever.

If you actually do decide to laugh you head off, please have someone video it and put it on YouTube.
 

I suspect that not eating Jimmy John's Roast Beef and Provolone Sub will not make you live longer ... it will just seem like an eternity.

As a person who understands and can do Ocean Navigation, I would rather know it and not do it ... than get on a ship guided by fools who know nothing and sail out into danger and probable death.
It's like the parable of the Grasshopper and the Ant.
All summer the industrious Ant worked hard, storing seeds and leaves below ground ... and all summer the Grasshopper fiddled away, doing nothing.
Then the winter snows came, and the Grasshopper moved to Florida, and someone stepped on the Ant.
.... but look on the bright side .... at least Billy did not mention Penguins, other flightless birds, or small aquatic animals.
 

I used to have an Osborne 01 Computer I paid 2,000 dollars for.
It was "transportable". and weighed 27 pounds with a white on green screen 5 inches diagonally.
The entire CP/M operating system was 16K
NOT MEGS, Kilobytes.

Robin, Batman's "Boy Wonder" sidekick.
I wonder if he had hairy bruised up legs, or shaved them every day before fighting crime

I used to have an Osborne 01 Computer I paid 2,000 dollars for.
It was "transportable". and weighed 27 pounds with a white on green screen 5 inches diagonally.
The entire CP/M operating system was 16K
NOT MEGS, Kilobytes.

I think it should be re-designed with a screen to capture the fish, and pump them up to the kitchen.

Like a Roman Catholic Bishop, who was also a General in the Army of Spain once said, when informed that a Spanish Muslim controlled Fortress contained as many Catholics as Muslims, which he was in the process of defeating and chasing from Spain ....
"Kill them all, and let God sort them out!".

... i need a beer, just thinking about all of that....

You have taste buds in your laughed-off head decapitated funnel-fed  throat?
WOW!  -- The mental image of that is just staggering to behold!
.... if someone pours soapy water down your funnel ... can you blow bubbles?
Now THERE is a YouTube Video I would pay $2.99 to see!

Unfortunately, even with your offered incentive, I cannot write like you do, Billy.
My world view is not skewed by agenda driven WDS.
If you do laugh your head off, you will need a neck funnel to eat.

Unfortunately, even with your offered incentive, I cannot write like you do, Billy.
My world view is not skewed by agenda driven WDS.
If you do laugh your head off, you will need a neck funnel to eat.

I am scribbling away like mad, taking notes. It is hard to keep up.

Ad copy: Fish tend to avoid it because it slows down the current . . .
Translation: The biggest problem is the way it kills so many fish who come up to it because it slows down the current (and might even jam up the turbine, turning it into dam of rotting fish). . . 
Still, if they can solve that problem with a non-capturing convex rather than a concave mesh screen, for example, it might be an excellent source of off-the-grid power.

What about if they were mistreating CHILDREN ?  

Like a Roman Catholic Bishop, who was also a General in the Army of Spain once said, when informed that a Spanish Muslim controlled Fortress contained as many Catholics as Muslims, which he was in the process of defeating and chasing from Spain ....
"Kill them all, and let God sort them out!".

I feel better if I can bring a little laughter and happiness to the world ... it makes me sleep better at night.