James Thomas Rook Jr.

We as Jehovah's Witnesses have the lamentable custom of having personal opinions, and teaching them as Edicts from God ... which does convince those not aware and educated about the very real difference between a deeply held personal opinion, and an Edict from God.
There IS a difference.
It is intellectually dishonest to have a deeply held personal conviction, and not clearly label it as exactly that, and no more.
Emotionally, I have a deeply felt belief in the "Rainbow Bridge"
Intellectually, I would never teach that, because it is ONLY a deeply felt complete fantasy.
There IS a difference.
I hope Jehovah God, and the people whose lives we ruin because of our adamant cultural fantasies, will forgive us, for screwing up their lives, and condemning them to a lifetime of isolation,  of loneliness, and of unnecessary fear and paranoia.

For school children I would buy a Windows 10 system and teach them how to use it.
My wife teaches mathematics in the Public School System, and they universally have Chromebooks, because they cost so very much less, and are much simpler to use, but the Public School System in 85% of the cases is NOTHING to be used as an example of what should be done.
.... but a child that can naturally speak 5 languages just by being exposed to them, can also learn an adult operating system for a computer.
If I had it to do over, I would NOT have given my children Leggos ... I would have taught them to lay real  brick. 
(I have a Windows 10 system, but I prefer Windows 7, with a Classic XP Shell, which makes it LOOK like XP.)
 

For school children I would buy a Windows 10 system and teach them how to use it.
My wife teaches mathematics in the Public School System, and they universally have Chromebooks, because they cost so very much less, and are much simpler to use, but the Public School System in 85% of the cases is NOTHING to be used as an example of what should be done.
.... but a child that can naturally speak 5 languages just by being exposed to them, can also learn an adult operating system for a computer.
If I had it to do over, I would NOT have given my children Leggos ... I would have taught them to lay real  brick. 
(I have a Windows 10 system, but I prefer Windows 7, with a Classic XP Shell, which makes it LOOK like XP.)
 

The human brain shares some characteristics of human muscle, although mostly made of fat.
I saw a sign in a Space Training Area ... "Only exercise the muscles you want to keep"
Read two books a week, and you will probably keep you mind whole and functional your whole life.
Use it, or lose it.
A good test is see if you can chew bubble gum, yodel, and operate a yo-yo at the same time.

Even back in Jesus day there was controversy and dissension about was it a cross, a stake, an "X", a tree,  a hewn plank of gopher wood, or  just a 10 foot length of a section of one of the cedars of Lebanon, with or without cross arm.
When they were going to do executions people would come into town from the farm areas to watch .... especially someone as famous as Jesus had become,  and they would rent a hotel room (barn, shelter, or sleep on the town square, hoping for some hospitality to be shown at a private home, as was the custom back then.).
There is recorded in Josephus about a disciple who came into an Inn in Jerusalem, the night before Jesus was killed, the same night in another part of the city that Jesus was being arrested, placed two very large black iron nails on the night clerk's counter, and said "Can you put me up for the night?"
 
 

..... too soon?
 
 
 
 

..... too soon?
 
 
 
 

Even back in Jesus day there was controversy and dissension about was it a cross, a stake, an "X", a tree,  a hewn plank of gopher wood, or  just a 10 foot length of a section of one of the cedars of Lebanon, with or without cross arm.
When they were going to do executions people would come into town from the farm areas to watch .... especially someone as famous as Jesus had become,  and they would rent a hotel room (barn, shelter, or sleep on the town square, hoping for some hospitality to be shown at a private home, as was the custom back then.).
There is recorded in Josephus about a disciple who came into an Inn in Jerusalem, the night before Jesus was killed, the same night in another part of the city that Jesus was being arrested, placed two very large black iron nails on the night clerk's counter, and said "Can you put me up for the night?"
 
 

Sigh .... the chemical industry also makes laundry bleach, and paint, and gasoline.
 
...and a million other things.
 
You are supposed to be smart enough to not drink laundry bleach, and paint, and gasoline
 
.... and a million other things.
 
 
 

That is why I said try to get the police it keep it confidential, because some of those people might get the mistaken impression you are doing this out of a grudge.
In any case, if you explain exactly from what source you know this information, then the polic should be wise enough to handle it as possible "hearsay" and tread carefully when conducting their investigation so as not to falsely accuse someone. That is if they are competent.

MYOB = Mind Your Own Business
When you see someone on the street, THIS should be the greeting ... "MYOB" ... instead of "Hello!".

Here is my advice ... from a Barbarian .... and it is worth every pence you paid for it.
What you think you know is hearsay. 
It may be completely true.
It may be completely false.
Or any variation on that theme.
This is why the scriptures COMMAND one to do what is to my personal knowledge, NEVER, EVER done.
Otherwise you will CERTAINLY ruin someone's life, who may be completely innocent of all suspicions... AND RUMORS.
The same SERIOUSNESS as murder ... when you carelessly destroy anothers' reputation.
The person who knows about this thing from personal knowledge, either by being an eyewitness, or hearing a confession FROM THE ACCUSED,  has the responsibility to report it to the police ... BUT FIRST ... he must go to the accused and educate him on proper behavior ... FACE TO FACE .... AND CALL HIM TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY MISSTEP,  whether through impulse, diminished capacity, or even deliberate evil. 
This does not involve "snitching to the Elders", and starting a Witch Hunt.
THEN ... and only AFTER taking that step .... if the Brother does not change his ways,  and all that entails, including apologies and reparations, and repentance acceptable to the actual accuser who was actually harmed .... bring out the chain saw.
BECAUSE, for you, this is ONLY hearsay, you have no responsibility whatsoever to report this to the police, but you do have a responsibility to report it to the Congregation Elders ... if, and ONLY AFTER you have had a thorough discussion with all parties involved ... but ONLY as a "heads-up", so that they do not get sucker punched.
ACTUALLY involved.
Otherwise MYOB.

After carefully considering the matter I would have to adopt the philosophy of winter combat in North Korea during the 1950's.
" ... is this the hill you want to die on?"
I have completely solved this quandary by not caring either way ...... BECAUSE ... of all the infinite things in the Universe one could care about ... or SHOULD care about ... this does not even make it to the list.
This is, figuratively speaking, not a hill worth  the effort.
Not really.

Yep.

Sometimes you just have to ignore the folks who pretend to know the very best way to be happy, and to serve God, and in the process take an average of 10% commission, and make some basic assumptions.
Every person is different.  Some people like to go camping, and challenge themselves, and the elements, and learn survival skill ... just for the fun of it.  Others,  would be completely miserable being hungry because they caught not a squirrel for food,  and VERY unhappy sleeping in a leaky tent in 40 degree weather, in a puddle of water, shaking uncontrollably ... and I am pretty sure that if it is one thing God doesn't like ... its a wet, cold, miserable grumpy person, with low blood sugar.
I, on the other hand, am just a simple man, with simple tastes, and it does not take very much to make me happy.  I am a happy person .... not by nature, but because I am determined to be genuinely happy, and although I do have my moments, like when trying to reason with Liberal Snowflakes who think the Republic should be run , and look like Disneyland, I enjoy every moment of every day.
But of course, we all want to make progress, and be more and more happy ... possibly stopping short of having an orgasm at a restaurant over a pastrami sandwich ... so I have searched my soul to try and discern what I lack, which if accomplished, would make me a genuinely more happy man than I am, as a general rule ... and after thinking about it for awhile, I have come to the conclusion .....  that it would be being able to devote a small portion of my income to being able to sit at the ocean's edge on a blanket, and look out at the vast endless ocean with it's peaceful magnificent surf rolling in, under the shadow of my very own, brand new, modestly equipped  $40 million dollar  Chinook CH-47 Helicopter.
 
 
 
 
 

Well it is going to get harder granted with what will come in several years, but one's happiness and building up of faith in themselves and to others should not cease due to these changes.

Sometimes you just have to ignore the folks who pretend to know the very best way to be happy, and to serve God, and in the process take an average of 10% commission, and make some basic assumptions.
Every person is different.  Some people like to go camping, and challenge themselves, and the elements, and learn survival skill ... just for the fun of it.  Others,  would be completely miserable being hungry because they caught not a squirrel for food,  and VERY unhappy sleeping in a leaky tent in 40 degree weather, in a puddle of water, shaking uncontrollably ... and I am pretty sure that if it is one thing God doesn't like ... its a wet, cold, miserable grumpy person, with low blood sugar.
I, on the other hand, am just a simple man, with simple tastes, and it does not take very much to make me happy.  I am a happy person .... not by nature, but because I am determined to be genuinely happy, and although I do have my moments, like when trying to reason with Liberal Snowflakes who think the Republic should be run , and look like Disneyland, I enjoy every moment of every day.
But of course, we all want to make progress, and be more and more happy ... possibly stopping short of having an orgasm at a restaurant over a pastrami sandwich ... so I have searched my soul to try and discern what I lack, which if accomplished, would make me a genuinely more happy man than I am, as a general rule ... and after thinking about it for awhile, I have come to the conclusion .....  that it would be being able to devote a small portion of my income to being able to sit at the ocean's edge on a blanket, and look out at the vast endless ocean with it's peaceful magnificent surf rolling in, under the shadow of my very own, brand new, modestly equipped  $40 million dollar  Chinook CH-47 Helicopter.
 
 
 
 
 

I guess you don't agree with me, lol

Of course!
I submit for your inspection the name of the fictional arch criminal and nemesis of James Bond, 007 and the British Secret Service .... Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
From Wikipedia:
" Character
Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel Thunderball. According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 (which is also Fleming's birthday) in Gdingen, Imperial Germany (now Gdynia, Poland); his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence the well-known Greek name Stavro ..."
 
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Sounds like a perfect name for a band: True Tom and the Apostates     😀

Sometimes ... the only way to stay sane, is to quit caring so much.

... it's a core problem ....

I usually tilt my head at a 45 degree angle, and stare at the ankles.
I used to have ABSOLUTELY no objection for Sisters to wear pant suits at the Kingdom Hall .....
but that was before BrunHillary.

... it's a core problem ....

If they cut off both of my arms, in the immortal words of Monty Python's Black Knight, I would kick them where it hurts the most, and yell " ... MERELY A FLESH WOUND!"