James Thomas Rook Jr.

Unfortunately, lawyers cooled off much of that. When trespassers began suffering injuries on private property & owners were sued for it, many responded by making their property off-limits.

One thing that upset me when I moved to the USA was the realisation that one cannot just walk anywhere. In Europe, for the most part, everyone has "the right to roam" which means you can pretty much go anywhere, even on privately owned land. In America, most land is owned by someone, and that someone does not tolerate anyone walking through their property. I'm sure @James Thomas Rook Jr. wouldn't hesitate to put a bullet through your head. There are "parks" but those parks are rarely within walking distance. You might have perfect hiking acreage right behind your house, but if it doesn't belong to you,  you can't go there. In England, most privately owned fields and meadows can be accessed by pedestrians and hikers (including their free running dogs, in America you can only let your dog run in a dog park) through a style or "kissing gate". Trails are made naturally by people frequently walking there, not by someone preparing them specially for that purpose. Farmers who drive tractors through a field leave a path, and people walk on those too. As long as you do not infringe on someones garden (yard) around the house (which is usually fenced anyway) you are not trespassing. Of course there is the odd grumpy farmer who puts up "do not trespass" signs in a field, but there are not many....
So in view of that, hiking trails are not really a planned thing in England in the same sense as in America. Of course there are nature reserves, where there are sign posted trails, but generally, in the rural countryside, (where John Buttler's house is) there is no need for them. The same goes for Scotland. In fact I think now you can also put a tent up anywhere, and you can fish and canoe on all the rivers, even if it cuts through someones land.
In Switzerland, you can hike anywhere as well, and you don't have to stick to trails. The whole alpine region is completely and freely accessible to everyone. As for other European states, it's pretty much the same. Oh, and all the nature reserves are "free". They are paid for by the state.
So apparently America is the land of the free. Not in my mind   The book "trespassing across America" sounds interesting.....

 

This almost looks identical to the field behind my mum's house. One year it was growing rapeseed and it was amazing walking through a field of pure yellow...
 
 
 

money!

There is no such thing as "dark energy".
It is a black box of "we don't know what the hell is going on, here".
There is also no such thing as "dark matter".   Same thing.
What we REALLY see is gravity , which in the 11 dimensions of the Multiverse, passes freely between the Universes.
This is why the Galaxies don't unwind like a released clock spring.
 

It is hard to believe that 1999 was 19 years ago ....  wow .... like Kermit the Frog says "Time is fun when you are having flies!".
Alien Song I will survive.mp4

...looks like an AAdam's family barn.

Yes, I believe so too. I believe the PARENT should go to the police first thing, and then to the elders second. However, if the parent goes to the elders first, the elders are not always mandated reporters. Regardless, some parents do not wish to involve the police at all! (that goes for non JW parents too). It very much depends on who the perpetrator is and what the circumstances are. Not every parent wants to rush to the police or if their 9 year old daughter tells them senile grandpa was a little too touchy feely the other day. Some parents opt for keeping granddaughter out of reach of grandpa. I feel a parent who is well connected to their child, knows their child, communicates with their child and watches their child will instinctively know when to report someone. Unfortunately, not all parents are like that.
 

In the story line, on her planet of origin, she was raped when she was 5, and gang-raped until 12, when she escaped, and she was the Starship Enterprise's Chief Security Officer.
Started life as a JW then ? 

I programmed mine to fool TrueTomHarley into thinking it was his wife.

What you see above is the setup for the biggest flim-flam con artist job ever perpetrated by the mind of man .... the brokerage of Carbon Credits .... whereas those who do not produce much CO2 can sell their artificially generated and assigned Carbon Credits to those that will be producing a LOT of CO2.
It's all about transferring hundreds of billions of dollars of money from industrialized nations to the lesser industrialized nations... and Carbon Credit Brokers getting their cuts of the action.
Armies will support this as the nations at the receiving end of this transfer are ALREADY of a Socialist bent, and they like free money, selling fantasy imaginationware certificates,, and the liberal Socialists in the capitalist countries get political power and a LOT of money, individuals getting tens of billions of dollars, in the brokerage of Carbon Credits.
You of course, know nothing about this ... because the lunacy of taking your money, and giving it to others, to get permission to pollute at YOUR end, and take it from you to give to socialist governments to influence the goal of global communism and socialism, would boil your blood if you correctly understood how this BRILLIANT scheme really worked.
It's all about the Priesthood of the "Save the Earth" religion consolidating money and power, from you, to them.
...and it's all based on your altruistic ignorance, and their greed .....  and absolute JUNK SCIENCE.
 

The United Nations are just thugs with diplomatic passports, and generous expense accounts, each doing what is in THEIR best interests.
NOT YOURS.
 

... some nights I lay in bed thinking ... and my wife thinks I am thinking about "kingly bed warmers", but in reality, I am pondering what would happen if two people on opposite sides of the Earth both dropped a piece of bread at the same time ....
.... would the Earth briefly become a sandwich?

... some nights I lay in bed thinking ... and my wife thinks I am thinking about "kingly bed warmers", but in reality, I am pondering what would happen if two people on opposite sides of the Earth both dropped a piece of bread at the same time ....
.... would the Earth briefly become a sandwich?

RULE NO. 1.)  ... IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY!
RULE NO. 2.) .... SEE RULE NO. 1.)
This is true when ANY religion evolves to the point that the Leadership does not have to do hard labor in the commercial world, such as the Apostle Paul did, making tents .. and the Apostle Luke did, as a physician, or the other Apostles did as fishermen or day laborers.
It gets worse when any religion starts collecting Real Estate, and the Leaders never miss any meals, and always sleep warm at night.
In the history of the world, there have never, EVER been any exceptions ....
...and there arn't any now.
 

money!

@The Librarian you mentioned computer games i believe or PS4 and such like. Many of such games are for one person only, one player, and sometimes people shut themselves off in a room all alone to play these games. Mo son who is now 24 does this. It may be a 'wind down' after work for him but he does spend many hours through the night playing such games. 
As for Chess I used to love it at school, but it seemed to fade out of my life as i became more active as a teenager.  Mods didn't play chess, they danced, rode scooters and spent their money on clothes and records. 
Agree with @Srecko Sostar that Jesus wasn't concerned about such trivial things. 
But there are many things one could disagree with if one was as piccy as the GB. For instance Bridesmaids at weddings. Yes JW's have Bridesmaids even if they call them by a different name. But of course Bridesmaids are based on superstition and traditions of men. 
There was once I was at a Witness gathering / party and the youngsters were playing music. I had to say no no to one song which they started to play, but no one else seemed to object to it. The song 'I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby'. It's horrible.
Yet many years ago when I lived in Bristol a popular Elder of the Avonmouth Congregation would go around whistling 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. When i objected to it and told him why, he didn't care and continued to whistle it.  The song by Queen was sung by a homosexual and was about murder.  'Put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger now he's dead', Yes, lovely.
So you see we could object to so much in life. GB stop trying to turn people into puppets. You already have your Elder puppets,
'Hey GB leave the Congregants alone'  (sorry it's a take off of Another Brick in the Wall ) 'Hey teacher leave those kids alone' 

Jesus was only 3 1/2 years on Earth in a role of Teacher and Master. He had not enough time for "stupid" subjects .....
.... for example;
( would his  true disciple reject false, pagan customs, as playing chess, toasting,  exchange gifts and feast, Pinata... etc)
(or what sort of intimacy  are allowed and what are forbidden  between male and female couple ......)   :))).

I programmed mine to go door to door and attend all meetings so I could stay home and snuggle with my wife.

That is something else that pains me. My beloved wife died in 2014 after hardly any tribulation. 60 years, 7 months and 8 days. See the memorial I made:

Honey 2014 Field ministry.docx

In what world?
I have yet to see a chess game where the contestants (players) were anything but completely civil with each other, true gentlemen, and friendly ... and I have played perhaps 400 games myself with people all over the world, with great congeniality and friendliness.
Now, if you are playing "Battle Chess", where one of the contestants has severe acne, and an eye patch covering up a sword slash scar,  and the other has a tattoo that says "Born to Kill", and before the game begins both players put their guns and knives  on the table, and the timer is a nearsighted accountant chained to a chair, and they are wagering over several bars of gold,  and the virginity of a woman tied to railroad tracks,  and there is a gallows in the parking lot ... I might want to avoid that competition.
... or play to win!
 

May 5, 1961 ... Crying out loud in 7th Grade Math Class, as the First American Astronaut, Alan B. Shepard Jr.'s sub orbital flight retro-rockets failed, and it was thought he would die in space.
That ... and I wanted to be the first American in Space.
That, and on May 8, 1988, my mentor, Science Fiction Master Robert A. Heinlein died.

When I was in my 20's, I considered the Watchtower's "Questions", phrased in such a way as to make being COMPLETELY idiotic and clueless, and the opinions of writers living in an artificial fantasy bubble of their own construction,, plausibly deniable as the rantings of agenda driven shut-ins.
They were also against riding a motorcycle, skydiving, surfing, SCUBA diving and anything that stretched a person's mind and imagination.
To me... about such things they had absolutely NO credibility whatsoever.
Now, I am an old man, and look back with great fondness at my youth for having done such things .. and my "bucket list"is a lot shallower, and has many less items in it.
King David was most of his early life a bloodied combat soldier ... and was in the end described as "Old and satisfied with his days".
I can just see his response if some "Pharisee" told him it was a bad idea to play a game of chess.
Jesus stated that the poor would ALWAYS be with us.
He never addressed that the determined STUPID would always be with us.

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In what world?
I have yet to see a chess game where the contestants (players) were anything but completely civil with each other, true gentlemen, and friendly ... and I have played perhaps 400 games myself with people all over the world, with great congeniality and friendliness.
Now, if you are playing "Battle Chess", where one of the contestants has severe acne, and an eye patch covering up a sword slash scar,  and the other has a tattoo that says "Born to Kill", and before the game begins both players put their guns and knives  on the table, and the timer is a nearsighted accountant chained to a chair, and they are wagering over several bars of gold,  and the virginity of a woman tied to railroad tracks,  and there is a gallows in the parking lot ... I might want to avoid that competition.
... or play to win!
 

It's a sword that cuts BOTH ways .......

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