James Thomas Rook Jr.

John Wayne was for 20 years buried without a headstone, but he was buried after death. in Corona Del Mar, California.

When you live in a frosted glass bubble, ANYONE's perspective on Life, the Universe and Everything is totally screwed up.
Yesterday at the Meeting, the visiting speaker called our attention to Ecclesiastes 12:13.
My wife looked it up as he was speaking.
I bent over to my wife, and whispered "Read 12:12".

A Buffet of Biblical Banter.  Whew! 
 

He also had a very high regard for Jehovah’s Witnesses, likely through his close association with Mickey Spillane 

If you can afford it, you can already buy a terabyte SD card.
Does the DNA storage system require air, water, food, and a certain temperature range?
If it spoils, can you smell it to check?

That's why I am a big fan of the fictional character John Wayne ... he can endure ANYTHING, and barely notice.

I think you used the wrong word here .... the topic is not slanderous .... and if any accusations made are true, that is the perfect defense to the CHARGE of slander.
There are topics that are "sensitive", even "taboo" ... but that varies from culture to culture, and from time to time..... and from person to person.
 

That's why I am a big fan of the fictional character John Wayne ... he can endure ANYTHING, and barely notice.

Just speaking for myself....on this Slanderous Topic....I have NEVER left my children...EVER "one on one" with ANYONE....besides My Parents.    I don't care WHO they were....muchless, What organization they might be affiliated with.     
             The "human factor".....

ohh dear god....you talking as some subversive element.....Bible say how secular authority is "god's public servant". 
“Rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good.” - Romans
What sort of gospel you preaching? :)))) 

Or fear of being disfellowshipped and completely isolated from everyone you ever knew or trusted. 

slander /ˈslɑːndə/ noun LAW   1. the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation. "he is suing the TV company for slander"   Judith I think you will find it has been proven that these things happen, hence it is not slander but truth

???   So pessimistic!

Then there are unqualified Elders, that are puppets and told what to 'detect' and what not to. 

I am 72 years old now, and I remember when my Mother took me to Assemblies that lasted 9 hours for two days, discussing "Gog of Magog" ... and it changed again, and again, and again over the following 63 years, until I no longer care ... and I strongly suspect that NO ONE has the slightest clue of who "Gog of Magog" is... although as a collective group of presumably influential people ... I DO HAVE my suspicions.
IF I KNEW ... it could not possibly affect my life in any way whatsoever.
Zero
Zip Nada.
GOG OF MAGOG PER THE EZEKIEL BOOK:

 
GOG OF MAGOG PER JTR:

It's not just available facts ... it is the skill individual people have or do not have in CORRECTLY EVALUATING those facts.
There are Good Detectives ... and there are Bad Detectives.
Bad Detectives do not detect much.

Well, from the reports I have been getting back from "the other side" .... it could go either way, or not at all.
Soon enough ... perhaps too soon .... without exception, we will all know.

Therapy at the tutelage of Worldly mental health professionals has, in many cases, real and significant value.
My first wife Dale,  dead now since 1982, was born with Cystic Fibrosis, which is a horrible way to live, and a horrible way to die,  depended heavily on "therapy" to stay relatively functional ... but came to think that her therapist was the only solution to coping.
Perhaps he was.... perhaps not ... I never attended any sessions .. I was merely the chauffeur.
Different things work for different people, I suppose.
For me it was John Wayne Western Movies about characters that "went through hell", and shrugged it off.
That, and two years later, I bought a 1971 Corvette convertible with a 454 engine.
Worked for me!

It is my understanding (?) that SEARS owns Discover Credit Card ... and that for more than 20 years the interest made from Sears Credit Cards, was more than their profits from retail sales.
If true, and perhaps someone knows different if not ... that is a very interesting evolution .

Court document reveals more details in bizarre naked kidnapping case in Alberta
  Chris Purdy LEDUC, Alta. The Canadian Press Published 2 days agoUpdated September 24, 2018 They thought it was Armageddon and wanted to save their neighbours.
They believed police were monsters. They showed super strength after being pepper sprayed and Tasered.
And all but one of them were naked because, with the end of the world, they didn’t have time to get dressed.
A court document has provided more details in a bizarre naked kidnapping case that happened last year south of Edmonton, but some questions remain. Two women and one man, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, each pleaded guilty in Leduc provincial court last week to a charge of unlawful confinement. One of the women also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. Her two teenage daughters were involved in the case, but not charged.
The girls’ father, who was not part of the group, has said the five may have unknowingly drank some hallucinogenic tea. But the agreed statement of facts submitted in court says alcohol and drugs were not factors and there is no mention of tea in the document. The group, who are Jehovah’s Witnesses, had gathered at a home near Leduc on Nov. 2. The mother, who was then 35, had taken her daughters there to visit her 27-year old nephew and his 30-year old wife.
But over the next three days, the court document says they didn’t leave the house and they barely ate. One of the teens recalls watching movies but also hearing screaming and banging and seeing ashes in the air. Some of the five hid in a bedroom or a bathroom.
“They did so because they believed that they were in danger, either from bad or wicked people outside or from demons,” says the document.
It says the group believed that the Great Tribulation had happened and Nov. 6 was Armageddon. So they rushed off to find safety and save a neighbouring family.
“Four who were naked were changing but they had to leave right away because it was unsafe, so they left without clothes,” the document says.
The mother, the only one dressed, drove them all in a BMW SUV but was in such a hurry she went through the garage door. When the vehicle headed to the neighbours’ home, it apparently bent a metal gate.
The neighbours – a man, his adult daughter and her six-week-old son – were forced out of their house and into the snow without shoes, the document says. The woman and her baby were put in the back seat with the teen girls, who were naked under a blanket. The man was put in the trunk and ordered to chant “Jehovah” ten times.
The group also chanted “Jehovah” as the SUV sped down roads and went through a red light on the way to nearby Nisku, says the document.
Because the trunk didn’t latch shut, the man was able to climb out when the vehicle slowed. His daughter, after getting her hand slammed in the door of the SUV, was able to get out with her baby. A passing truck stopped to help the trio and they climbed inside.
The document says the SUV then rammed the truck from behind and the woman and her baby were thrown into the truck’s dash, although they were not injured. The SUV then went into a ditch.
When Mounties arrived, the group continued to chant and refused to get out, at times clinging to the vehicle and each other. One of the teens believed the police “were monsters who would kill them,” says the document. Officers said the people in the SUV “displayed extreme strength.” Two were unaffected by pepper spray. The three adults were also shot with Tasers between two and four times before they relented, although one then slid under the vehicle and had to be dragged out with a strap.
The neighbours later told police the group seemed “demonized” and “obviously not in their right minds.”
A judge has ordered pre-sentence reports and risk assessments, which could include psychological testing.
The three adult offenders are to return to court for sentencing Dec. 20.
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I wonder when we will be seeing this news on the JW.ORG Web Site?

America is unequally divided.
Samuel Colt made everybody equal.

I built a time machine in my front yard. One gate goes into the past and one to the future.  It took me a year and a half to run the underground cables and the post uplinks, and encase the wiring in concrete.
Now all I need is a 1.21gigawatt power supply, and get my front yard up to 88 miles per hour.

Therapy at the tutelage of Worldly mental health professionals has, in many cases, real and significant value.
My first wife Dale,  dead now since 1982, was born with Cystic Fibrosis, which is a horrible way to live, and a horrible way to die,  depended heavily on "therapy" to stay relatively functional ... but came to think that her therapist was the only solution to coping.
Perhaps he was.... perhaps not ... I never attended any sessions .. I was merely the chauffeur.
Different things work for different people, I suppose.
For me it was John Wayne Western Movies about characters that "went through hell", and shrugged it off.
That, and two years later, I bought a 1971 Corvette convertible with a 454 engine.
Worked for me!

Your comment makes no sense whatsoever.

It had an automatic transmission, so I could drive in the dark with the top down,  using just my right hand, and hang my left arm out the window, and drag a steel cola can on the street,  making a shower of sparks, and the little kids would watch, and marvel.
That was MY therapy!