James Thomas Rook Jr.

So ..... TALK!
Your statement without explanation AND PROOF !,  is completely useless.
Do try to keep it under 50 pages .....

Space Merchant:
Again, I would like to congratulate you on you excellent choice of Avatar Icon for your log in, here.  It is appropriate to your posting above.
The logic and reasoning you use is dangerously close to "prior restraint" , which is in the realm of tyrants and despots.
I disagree with your premises, reasoning, and conclusions.  They "sound reasonable", until translated into real world action.
I consider ALL competent and sane men of good intent to be armed, at all times, everywhere, to be a VERY GOOD THING.
What you are suggesting is tantamount to making the assumption that because all men have penises, they should all be be viewed as potential rapists, and treated accordingly.
 
 
 

Most likely a purchased firearm. Gun Store Owner will only raise a brow if you have a crazy history, but a Mr. Clean record allows you to pick any gun from the candy shop, as long as your license to carry is clean or if you speak highly 2nd amendment, the owner will give you a high five and allow you to buy.
Things can get bad to worse and set to easy mode for the US.

Life, for a human, without examination .... and self-examination, is a life not lived.

Yeah ... if you send out only ONE resume, and cry when you are rejected.
Send out a thousand, or two thousand .... and be willing to go ANYWHERE.
There are a lot of stupid, short-sighted employers ... but the great majority of them ARE NOT!
The higher your skill set, the smaller the hiring pool is .. and the better it pays.
To use an analogy ... you use a shotgun to hunt with ... NOT a single shot rifle ... so to speak.

*** w83 1/15 pp. 24-25 par. 7 Armed for the Fight Against Wicked Spirits ***
7 The experience of a Christian elder in Germany, who also happens to be wealthy, is noteworthy. A Christian brother, knowing something about his financial status, asked him why he drove a Volkswagen (a less expensive car) and lived in a modest apartment. Becoming very serious, he answered: ‘Because if I drove a Mercedes Benz (a luxury car) and lived in an ostentatious manner, it could have a damaging effect on the spirituality of my Christian brothers and sisters.’  How different that attitude is from the world’s! To make a “showy display of one’s means of life” is the way of the world. (1 John 2:16) According to the world, the measure of success is the amount of money and material possessions a person has. But may that never be so in the Christian organization! We need to be armed so that none of this type of satanic thinking infiltrates our own thinking and that of the Christian congregation. At the same time our own godly devotion along with contentment will result in our not being critical of those who may seem to be overlavish in their way of life.—1 Timothy 6:6-8.

(sorry) Posted and removed by me because I put in in the wrong place.

Could not a Prophetess also be a housemaid? 
I assume they have to work for a living.

Life, for a human, without examination .... and self-examination, is a life not lived.

Very long ago, there was one JW sister. She died. She had a husband and a son. Her husband also died. Her son is alive, he is now cca 70 years old and he is a longtime elder. That sister, his mother, Zorica, was anointed. What I remember, about her very well today, is that how she always spoke with a voice that was the voice of authority. It was the teacher's voice, who giving lessons. After she made a comment in the kingdom hall, no one, but no one nor the elders added their comment or correction to her comment.
Perhaps she was a person of such a character, and did not adopt the "spirit of gentleness and silence" while sitting in the KH :)))) expected for JW sisters, mothers, and women. But she spoke with the authority of the one who is equal or even above the elders position.
I was always wondered how her son, elder, felt because they lived in a house that was her and her husband and been in the same congregation.

Yeah ....
My allegiance is only to God ... but I will fight with anyone who believes as I do about Freedom and Justice.
It is quite obvious that for the time being, we are on our own .... and we have to do the best we know how.
The only thing necessary for evil to prevail, is Good Men to do nothing.
At least if I screw up, and make a mistake ... it will not cost the Brotherhood 56 MILLION dollars.
 

It seems that 1999 was the last time the WTB&TS gave it's corporate guidance on this matter.
Anybody know about any current updates ... either via publications, talks, or actual practice?
I am thinking about voting in the November Senatorial Elections, here in the United States, with a clear conscience ... but I of course do not want to run afoul of the Congregation's Elders current conceptions or mis-conceptions, and be "burned at the stake".
uh .... so to speak.

ARE  WE  NOW  ALLOWED  TO  VOTE ?
The WTB&TS is involved in all kinds of political activity ... most recently having the Brotherhood of 8 million people and more (?) sent letters trying to persuade the Russian Federation to change its political policies towards Freedom of Religion, and non-interference with Jehovah's Witnesses. 
An estimated 64 MILLION of Jehovah's Witnesses letters flooded the country's leaders to try and get them to change their policies.
Unintended consequences of that gave the Russians approximately 11 boxcar loads of paper to dispose of  (firewood?), and through the Universal Postal Union's terminal duty contracts with all nations, 70% of the face value of the stamps, which amounted to 56 MILLION DOLLARS, CASH, of the Brotherhood's hard earned money. 
This does not count the time of about ( 64m x 20 minutes per letter  = 21,333 hours, or 10.3 "man years" ) of Jehovah's Witnesses time and productivity .... TO POLITICAL ACTIVITY.
My wife just told me that now ... the Society's policy is that voting is a matter of personal conscience .... where "before", it was strictly forbidden under pain of disfellowshipping.
I apparently have not kept up if this is true.
So my question is ... is this true ?
.... and if so ... why did the corporation policy change?
Are we now allowed to vote ?
 

It also helps a GREAT deal in getting a job, if you are willing to work at poverty wages.
There comes a time in many peoples' lives when it is necessary to survive.
Been there ... done that.
That being said, I have never even heard of a Cardiac Specialist having trouble finding a job.
Being poor is nothing to be ashamed of ... but it has NOTHING to recommend it.

American humor is a conspiracy by laboratory mice, to take over the world!

[ Madagascar] My monochromatic Friend.mp4

yes, if he change his sex/gender  :)))))
maybe i am not good in try to switch myself to US humor, but you know...that is me :))

I shouldn't like this, James. I have gotten into trouble with people I respect when I have liked your stuff.
But as Patton said: "I love it. God help me, I do love it."
I just had to quote Patton. Change the 'love' to 'like' and it is spot on.

It also helps a GREAT deal in getting a job, if you are willing to work at poverty wages.
There comes a time in many peoples' lives when it is necessary to survive.
Been there ... done that.
That being said, I have never even heard of a Cardiac Specialist having trouble finding a job.
Being poor is nothing to be ashamed of ... but it has NOTHING to recommend it.

It also helps a GREAT deal in getting a job, if you are willing to work at poverty wages.
There comes a time in many peoples' lives when it is necessary to survive.
Been there ... done that.
That being said, I have never even heard of a Cardiac Specialist having trouble finding a job.
Being poor is nothing to be ashamed of ... but it has NOTHING to recommend it.

For over 40 years, I used to sit at a drafting table, and later at computer monitors, and design things.
... all kinds of things.
Lets say my boss came to seven different designers and asked for us to design something ... anything,
Without rock-solid airtight specifications you might get seven versions of whatever that thing was.
You might get an MP3 player that weighs 20 pounds and looks like a bathroom fixture.
At the time Eve was created there were already millions of pre-humans that evolved, but none directly created by God, until Adam and Eve were created. ( ... a planet full of a million tons and more of fossils make it pretty clear what DID happen .... ).
By the way ... that's where Cain got his wife, and further messed up the gene pool ....)
Jehovah God is not accountable to us as to how WE think he should have done things .... he COULD have made us have a caterpillar stage like butterflies, and that would have been his choice.
The really cool thing about being Almighty God, is the absolute flexibility  and power to do ANYTHING you want, however you see fit.
Second guessing the Almighty God is, by practical definition, an exercise in futility.
 
 

Me too.
And without any particular college education, just plain old self-taught. 
Using the intellectual freedom gained by pursuing rather mundane employment activities whilst "pioneering", I was able develop skills that later brought sufficient financial reward to care for personal familiy responsibilities, and then eventual financial independence to continue "pioneering" without secular constraints.
Works well for me, but I have to admit: "t'was the Watchtower made me do it, Officer!"

I wonder if in Mexico, when a woman temporarily substitutes for a man in the Congregation, if she has to wear a sombrero?

For over 40 years, I used to sit at a drafting table, and later at computer monitors, and design things.
... all kinds of things.
Lets say my boss came to seven different designers and asked for us to design something ... anything,
Without rock-solid airtight specifications you might get seven versions of whatever that thing was.
You might get an MP3 player that weighs 20 pounds and looks like a bathroom fixture.
At the time Eve was created there were already millions of pre-humans that evolved, but none directly created by God, until Adam and Eve were created. ( ... a planet full of a million tons and more of fossils make it pretty clear what DID happen .... ).
By the way ... that's where Cain got his wife, and further messed up the gene pool ....)
Jehovah God is not accountable to us as to how WE think he should have done things .... he COULD have made us have a caterpillar stage like butterflies, and that would have been his choice.
The really cool thing about being Almighty God, is the absolute flexibility  and power to do ANYTHING you want, however you see fit.
Second guessing the Almighty God is, by practical definition, an exercise in futility.
 
 

Everything heavier than hydrogen was created later ... in Stars ..... through the fusion process, and Iron, and everything heavier than that, were created in Star Supernova explosions, also through the fusion process.
God MADE Eden, and all things in it, from available materials.
The "Tree of Knowledge" was like any other tree ... no different ....
The "bad" was Adam and Eve's decision that their values were superior to God's values. and with that, as an example, the "discovered" that they were naked. 
Perhaps lust had something to do with it?
Or poison ivy, and ants?
Those are three things that do not mix well with being naked.
Jehovah did not care at all that they were naked, and neither did they, until they adopted their own independent value system.
If you do not have the Freedom to be self destructive ... Freedom does not really exist.
.... but Freedom exercised badly is .... oh ..... whats the word I want to use .... um ... oh yeah! ....  "BAD". 
Like being waist deep in the swamp, and hand feeding a crocodile .... you would get a significant revelation.
Knowledge!
The "Tree of Knowledge" gave them no knowledge whatsoever, on any subject.
It or its descendants possibly survived until the Noachian Flood.
The "bad" was not in the tree ... neither was any actual  knowledge.
By the way ... had it occurred to you that everyone on Earth alive today, or that has ever lived, under their clothes, is or was running around naked?
Just like hand feeding a crocodile, if you make the decision to do that ... YOU WILL GET KNOWLEDGE !
But ... it may cost you an arm and a leg!