James Thomas Rook Jr.

Yeah, my profile photo is from years ago, taken at my eldest Son's wedding.
My children had just tied me to the top of a car and run me through the car wash.
Today I have wrinkles that cast  shadows, and could grow corn.

Yeah, my profile photo is from years ago, taken at my eldest Son's wedding.
My children had just tied me to the top of a car and run me through the car wash.
Today I have wrinkles that cast  shadows, and could grow corn.

He tends to focus on the religious clubs. This was a post in the secular part of the website.... I have noticed but don't really care as much as he does if people go off on crazy topics completely unrelated to anything. 
I blame this on our infrastructure not allowing threaded replies. 
Maybe someday forums will grow up and learn from social media.  .... oh wait I'm sure there is already a thread about this in here somewhere. Ooops

I read somewhere that if push an object from here to outer space it will start going faster and faster.
And then flame. Like an Asteroid.
The stars are shining to us with or with out speed of light?:(

Don't take ANY of it seriously.
Enjoy life, be happy, exult in the Day that Jehovah made.
As an aside ... my last post was 100% true.
I am glad it was funny!
..... that's what I was .... uh... "shootin' " for .....

 

There are perhaps hundreds of theories.
No one has Polaroids.

 

Aaaah now you have become a personal judge of me....are you yourself now not becoming self righteous and pious in your words and manner...time to step down of your self made throne John.
Jehovah does not need you to point out or make known the errors of his people....do you honestly think he needs any human to do that....do you honestly think he did not foresee and know full well what would happen amongst his own people....why do you think he warned us in Peter that he would start judgement with his own household...
Do you think Jehovah cannot clean his own house....
A lot of us don’t follow the GB...we follow,the scriptures and test it out as the beroeans did....you assume we are all puppets...you give no respect to many brothers and sisters who have stronger faith than yourself.....John you have a big mouth.....I can say that because once I did to....Peter had a big mouth too....but he learnt humility...and eventually I learnt it to....and not from any GB...but from reading the scriptures and allowing them to discipline me and correct me....
john did Jehovah clean out the Jewish System before he placed the messiah amongst them....your reasoning is flawed....
you are persecuting your brothers and sisters because you are not balanced in your views or thinking....you are making their scriptural command of teaching people the basic truths harder..and you are sowing seeds of doubt without any balanced knowledge as to why things are the way they are....it’s a extremely serious thing you are doing.
i know of elders who have someone’s blood on their hands because of the way they treated that person....but you also could find yourself in such a situation as well.....
i will end this conversation now because it would appear you are hell bent on exposing only the errors and not even acknowledging the wonderful basic truths Jehovah’s witnesses have been responsible for...
you have too much bitterness John...and it has made you unbalanced in your judgement and comprehension...and actually ..your bitterness is probably justified...but it is running you....controlling you....and thus you are it’s slave and not the free man you think you are.
 
 
 

James you are so funny i don't know what to believe and what not to believe from you. I'm not saying you tell lies but you make it all sound like a joke. I'll have to just pass it by because i honestly don't know how much of what you say is supposed to be taken seriously. 

I am a very gentile, kind, considerate person who speaks in a low tone of voice, never argues, and tries to be helpful to every one.
Everywhere around me is a secure, safe space that people can depend on for succor and refuge. Pleasantness and peace surrounds me, and mine.  People of evil intent avoid me, and I avoid them. 
I have lived and worked in areas where sandbags and barbed wire coiled up on the front porch was normal, and hotels on the second floor had to have drapes pulled to keep from being shot at.
I consider such things as part of life, and it does not upset me at all.  I just make sure I am careful, and do not confront anyone, and keep a "thousand yard stare", for potential danger.  
I am 72 years old, and never been in trouble with any gang or government, never arrested, and never questioned by police except for one time when I was taking some pet turtles to the James River, in Virginia.
Perhaps my general appearance helps in some way ... as I am 6'-6" tall and weigh 287 pounds, and carry a silenced 9mm handgun with a green laser in a shoulder holster under my left armpit, and two extra magazines and a Mark VI Vietnam era bayonet under the right one., and a .38 cal. handgun in my pocket ... all completely "street legal", with appropriate "paperwork".
I also carry several cans of dog food, and bottles of water in the trunk of my car, in case there are any stray dogs that look hungry.
When I went out in Service in high crime areas with a bunch of Sisters, I have heard them across the street say to each other ... "Don't worry, Brother Rook is watching over us."
That makes me smile, because I was.
 
 

I am a compulsive reader, and Newsaholic.  I have at my disposal trillions of facts to extrapolate, investigate, and see every side of.
Since you have admitted you do not even read newspapers, you are living in a very serious self-imposed handicap at not seeing the funny side of most everything.
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"I felt sorry for a man who had no shoes,
Until I met a man who had no feet"   - Unknown
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@James Thomas Rook Jr. The Vietnam War was crazy and a violent time, the US has brought that upon themselves by sending the young to fight an old man's war to correct an irrelevant problem, with some wishing why they are even there to begin with. The powers that be juggles the lives of the weary and gullible.
That being said you beat me by 2 inches, 6.4 ft. Anyways, you have to always be vigilant because nowadays we have people who are crazed who walk among us, and will commit to vile action at random and or by being provoked.
But do not worry, in some areas, they won't attack an Attorney or a Missionary, but you still have to be careful.

I am a very gentile, kind, considerate person who speaks in a low tone of voice, never argues, and tries to be helpful to every one.
Everywhere around me is a secure, safe space that people can depend on for succor and refuge. Pleasantness and peace surrounds me, and mine.  People of evil intent avoid me, and I avoid them. 
I have lived and worked in areas where sandbags and barbed wire coiled up on the front porch was normal, and hotels on the second floor had to have drapes pulled to keep from being shot at.
I consider such things as part of life, and it does not upset me at all.  I just make sure I am careful, and do not confront anyone, and keep a "thousand yard stare", for potential danger.  
I am 72 years old, and never been in trouble with any gang or government, never arrested, and never questioned by police except for one time when I was taking some pet turtles to the James River, in Virginia.
Perhaps my general appearance helps in some way ... as I am 6'-6" tall and weigh 287 pounds, and carry a silenced 9mm handgun with a green laser in a shoulder holster under my left armpit, and two extra magazines and a Mark VI Vietnam era bayonet under the right one., and a .38 cal. handgun in my pocket ... all completely "street legal", with appropriate "paperwork".
I also carry several cans of dog food, and bottles of water in the trunk of my car, in case there are any stray dogs that look hungry.
When I went out in Service in high crime areas with a bunch of Sisters, I have heard them across the street say to each other ... "Don't worry, Brother Rook is watching over us."
That makes me smile, because I was.
 
 

I like windmills!
I have been thinking of putting a small windmill on top of my electric car, so when I drive along, the wind will charge the battery!

Sorta like "Pinks" valet service Hot Dog Stand in Hollywood, California, at
North La Brea Ave. and Melrose Ave. ... world famous icon.

This discussion has been an eye-opener!
I always wondered why Santa Clause gave those mountains of presents to "good" little boys and girls, and a whole industry was made having their pictures taken on Santa's lap.
I should have been suspicious when I heard that Department Store Santa say "Have you been a GOOD little girl, Ho Ho Ho?"

I think this lasted a VERY short while. 
General Motors should have been allowed to die on it's own back during the recession.
Now it is "Government Motors" and STILL failing.

There is a lot of discussion about being a good Christian Man ... but from your above comment, and your perspective, most males are woefully deficient in being a MAN. 
Having male genitalia does not make one a man ... even cows are so equipped ....
.... and CHICKENS!
 

The 14th Amendment was made to give freed slaves and their children citizenship, after the American Civil War.  It was NEVER intended to give illegal invaders of US borders and their children citizenship.
NO NATION ON EARTH DOES THIS ... EXCEPT THE U.S. ... and that ONLY for the last 50 or so years.
In fact, from the late 1860's to until the mid-1960's, and the Hippie Civil Rights Movement, aliens subject to another sovereign government WERE NOT AUTOMATICALLY GIVEN US CITIZENSHIP if they were born on US soil. 
This REVISED interpretation became the standard AFTER I graduated from High School, and was done so that the Democrat Party could curry votes.
  Trump is well within his rights to deny entry to anyone he deems is a threat to the United States ... the law SPECIFICALLY calls for him to have that power and authority.
SPECIFICALLY.
He is on rock solid Constitutional grounds as it was originally written, and intended ... NOT as it was corrupted from the 1960's to today.
The framers and actual writers of the 14th Amendment left voluminous discussions of what the Amendment was, and was not intended to cover. 
It's all a comprehensive matter of historical RECORD.
If all else fails, and as a very LAST resort ... read the Amendment in it's entirety, and the background on how it came to be part of the United States Constitution.
And it's history and corruption to what we practice today.
It will take you about THREE to FIVE hours ... to not be forever ignorant, and uninformed and deliberately  misled.
Be a sport.
ACTUALLY DO IT!
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Most people would succumb to the bystander syndrome/effect, even police officers and military personnel. They will not do anything because it can put them in danger physically and even cause them their life, example, a situation I posted before of a man who jumped in to stop a fight, he sends up getting a pool Stick jammed into his head, another situation whereas a child saved someone only for him to get killed, another whereas a man was shot and killed in front of his family and kids and I am pretty sure even JWs know this for I did post that one JW stumbled upon child prostitution, he was unable to do anything because the people recognized him in the neighborhood and knew where he lived his friends and family, should be taken action, he would have been dead, or his loved ones and it is not unknown to anyone what gang members who are affiliated in the practice will do to their victims, even mobsters too.
Because of things like this people succumb to this effect, although most succeed, the high risk is there, and it goes on all realms of violence, abuse, corruption, etc.

Yes it is John ...just as it was wrong of Arron to build the golden calf in the wilderness...some witnesses seem to live in fairy land and think we as a people are so different to the Israelites of the wilderness when in fact we are the same. 
But don't let it escape your notice .... just as Moses did finally come down of that mountain and sort that wayward people out...so too will jesus come back and sort us lot out,,, 
so you leave because of wrong doing of a few in power ... what is escaping your notice is when those in the wilderness were directed to go forth and take the land ...only Joshua and Kaleb stood firm .. the rest had no faith in their God ... who were they ....they were the cheiftans of the tribes..men in authority ...they were not just any little Israelite man from the camp..they were probably men that were hand picked by Moses ...yet their error brought calamity down on their own people ....these things are relayed to us for an example ..to teach us ....can we really expect it to be so different today.
instead of causing division and doubt why not consider Joshua's and Kalebs insight and understanding... why not imitate their faith and encourage those in this confusing time that Jesus will return just as Moses did and sort this mess out and bring about justice and peace to the hurt sheep ...

A family in a house is to God, as a litter of puppies in a box is to us.

John Butler:
I understand where you are coming from, and I agree that in many cases you are absolutely correct .... however, as an unrepentant Barbarian, I know full well what my life would have been like if not for Jehovah's Witnesses, worts, harelips, fungus toenails and all .... it would have been despicable, and brief. 
I would have killed a LOT of innocent people ... well ... relatively innocent.
There is a lot that goes on in soldiering that is terrible, truly awful, and reprehensible .... but that is the nature of collections of  people with profound responsibilities, and limited abilities.
You chose to go AWOL .
Winston Churchill during WWI was a deeply flawed man, as were all those fighting the Nazis ... but the alternative was a fool like Neville Chamberlain, and Nazi rule.
The deeply flawed British and American Armies saved your ass during WWII, from Nazi Tyranny, and the reason you are not a slave, or a Nazi, and German being your first language today is because a deeply flawed Organization came to your rescue, even before you were born.
For me and my children, the same thing with Jehovah's Witnesses.
We know the difference, and stayed to fight.