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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to TrueTomHarley in Jesus versus Adam: Fair?   
    You are being too cerebral about this.
    Take a fruit with you from the supermarket out the door, without paying for it, making it a forbidden fruit.
    The experience will help you see the problem from a new perspective. If it does not, I will appear at your trial as a character witness.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Matthew9969 in Satan doesn't have healing powers?   
    I did try that at home, and the results...who knew my Queensland Red Healer sounds like James Earl Jones when he talks
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in Is the Governing body still "spirit directed"?   
    .... As for the example in question highlighted, a man sees your wife has the most beautiful thing ever but does not know you are married to her, what you have done if you were A'bram or Issac, let alone another situation whereas a man took your wife in the night, not knowing she is your wife.  - Space Merchant
    God caused to be all specifically created (Homo Theocraticus) people.
    Samuel Colt made them equal.
     

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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Matthew9969 in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    I have heard several jw's say, 'that doesn't happen in Jehovah's organization, only in Christendom'.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Melinda Mills in JW Women and Teaching   
    ... It could only be worse if we had female cartoon children giving morality lessons in some sort of institutionalized cartoon presentation.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from SuziQ1513 in What were Jehovah's Witnesses Trying to Say With This Illustration?   
    That is why in our Congregation, when we all go to the beach once a year for a two week mini-assembly camping trip, when the Sisters swim in the ocean, they all wear canvas tents.
    Some Brothers do get overly excited when the gals ankles show.
    We have to throw buckets of sea water on them ... including the buckets.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to John Houston in JW Women and Teaching   
    The first time? No, my friend. How can a mother teach her children behind what you are saying? Women are quite capable and deemed necessary to disseminate information to us as children, others, even men; when the need arises. They are teachers, evangelizers, but holding an office of oversight at the temple, in the Christian arrangement of things, no they are not part of that. They are anointed, rulers and priests in the Kingdom, no different than John, James and Paul.
     Should they fight for 'equal pay' and status? Why? Sounds much like a satanic issue don't you think? One that would keep them off their throne, correct? Every part has its place. Like Paul said, the toe, can't be the eye, anymore than the leg be the heart. The verse reads as I understand it, the head of man is Christ, and the head of woman is man. And this is placed so by....not man but God! Period! Right?
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Space Merchant in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    Space Merchant:
    ... obviously you expect to be paid by the word.
    What you are writing about is a complete mystery.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Jack Ryan in Does anyone else find it concerning that Netflix is datamining subscriber viewing records?   
    I subscribe to Netflix, but only get DVDs two at a time ... obviously they know what I watch, because they send them to me. 
    Is there anything on Netflix that anybody should really care about whether or not they keep a list?
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to TrueTomHarley in Why Were These Guys Not Shut Down Ages Ago?   
    This particular scam probably hauls in millions, though not (I hope) from any one person.
    I think the utility you mean is called system restore. I have used it too.
    If you do a hard reboot, as I think you must, you will lose any unsaved data. And if you are not savvy enough to know what’s going on, as no one is at first, you will panic when the screen returns even after reboot, not realizing that it comes via a browser session that may be restored.
    I doubt chasing Trump has anything to do with it. This scam has been around longer than he has.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Evacuated in Is the Governing body still "spirit directed"?   
    11 And Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife. 12 But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”
    It seems to me Abraham married his step-sister?  Or would that be a cousin?
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Droop@WNF in What were Jehovah's Witnesses Trying to Say With This Illustration?   
    That is why in our Congregation, when we all go to the beach once a year for a two week mini-assembly camping trip, when the Sisters swim in the ocean, they all wear canvas tents.
    Some Brothers do get overly excited when the gals ankles show.
    We have to throw buckets of sea water on them ... including the buckets.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Evacuated in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    Valid point. They might also find the following hard to defend:
    The first report of a death from a serpent bite occurred in 1922 at the Church of God Evangel. In 1955, George Went Hensley, the founder of modern snake handling in the Appalachian Mountains, died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service in Altha, Florida. In 1961, Columbia Chafin Hagerman died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake during a service at the Church of the Lord Jesus, Jolo, West Virginia. In 1967, Jean Saylor, wife of a snake-handling preacher, died after being bitten by a rattlesnake in Bell County, Kentucky. In 1982, Rev John Holbrook died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service at the Lord Jesus Church in Jesus' Name in Mullensville, West Virginia. In 1983, Mack Ray Wolford died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake during a service at the Lord Jesus Temple in Mile Branch, near Iaeger, West Virginia. In 1995, Melinda Brown from Parrottsville, Tennessee died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake during a service at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Kentucky. In 1995, Kale Saylor (husband of Jean), a Pentecostal preacher, died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service at a church in Crockett, Kentucky. In 1997, Daril Colins died after being bitten by a snake during a service in Bell County, Kentucky.[60] In 1998, John Wayne "Punkin" Brown (husband of Melinda), a snake-handling evangelist, died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake during a service at the Rock House Holiness Church in rural northeastern Alabama. In 2004, Dwayne Long, a Pentecostal pastor, died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service in Jonesville, Virgininia. In 2006, Linda Long died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake during a service at East London Holiness Church, London, Kentucky. In 2012, Mark Randall "Mack" Wolford (son of Mack), a Pentecostal pastor, died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake while officiating at an outdoor service at Panther Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia. In 2014, Jamie Coots died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake during a service at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Kentucky Coots starred in the TV series Snake Salvation and his death was widely reported. In 2015, John Brock died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service at Mossie Simpson Pentecostal Church in Jenson, Kentucky. (Courtesy Wikipedia)
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to TrueTomHarley in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    Any group of any fundamentalist leaning claims this. It is not just Witnesses.
    Agreed, 'liberal' churches are less likely to claim this, but that is because they are less likely to claim anything. Some of them have been found to have pastors who shed their belief in God.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to JW Insider in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    I agree, and I also agree that a few of the poster's other comments have given me the impression that JWs are being selectively chosen as if they are uniquely afflicted with certain problems. But for this particular question, it struck me as one that took a completely different tack:
    It was almost like saying, hey we know that all kinds of groups are troubled by such crimes, but there is one group that has claimed a lot of examples of angelic protection, especially while engaged in the ministry to outsiders. So why is it that individuals are almost certainly NOT being protected from a problem that can occur right within the congregation itself.
    I don't think anyone is arguing for an Ananias and Sapphira style judgment. (Although I'd like to see at least certain parts of such criminals deadened by the holy spirit.)
    To me, the question reminded me of the claims by some snake-handling sects who might be protected from venomous snakes and scorpions (Luke 10:19; Mark 16:18, NWT 1984):
    (Mark 16:18)  18  and with their hands they will pick up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly it will not hurt them at all. Persons from these sects, will often proudly show off their snake-handling skills, but they will not be nearly so likely to show off their ability to digest arsenic. If persons from these sects were loudly proclaiming the protection (from snakes) by angelic forces or holy spirit, then It would be a perfectly legitimate question to point out the number of persons from these sects who might have died by poison or even alcohol abuse.  
    The question would have nothing whatsoever to do with how many other sects were afflicted by deaths from poison or alcohol abuse.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Witness in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    Well there is this one, from 2/1/1983
    My son pointed out the picture of Zeus in the woman’s skirt when he was just 10 years old.  It was later that I saw the angelÂ’s right twisted leg and “hoof” that really raised an eyebrow.
    No angel of God there, protecting those women in their preaching work!
    Sure.  There are subliminal images all through the history of the Watchtower.  And sure, JWs will always figure out an excuse for them, which is just what Satan wants them to do.
    Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.  For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.”  Matt 24:4,5
    Yes, fully accomplished by those “ambassadors substituting for Christ. NWT 2 Cor 5:20
    Substituting:  “If you substitute one thing for another, or if one thing substitutes for another, it takes the place or performs the function of the other thing.”
    This is how the GB gets away with expecting the obedience of all anointed and all JWs.  They are “performing” as if they are Christ. 
    “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.”  KJV 2 Cor 5:20
    Ambassadors are messengers, coming as representatives of someone.  The anointed priesthood are to bear Christ’s message, not replace him.  Mal 2:7; 1 Pet 2:5,9  Any anointed one who wants to “substitute” for Christ has an ulterior motive – power over others. I wonder how many times the magazines refer to the corrupted form of 2 Cor 5:20.  THAT is the “subliminal” message being taken to the door.  God would not bless such a message or the messengers who present it.
     
     
     

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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Space Merchant in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    @JW Insider Indeed, but it seems silly for people to just paint such to a single person or group, to justify that the actions of one define all and it is not the first time this was done. It is similar to how those treat individuals of another race and or nation due to the actions of someone who is not of relations to sole person who has done the crime. Other than that, such ones need to be awake and realize stuff like pedophilia is all over, it is like a virus that gets some people and such people go about infecting others.
     
    Other than that, what is spoken of about the angels of God, this I believe as do others.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Evacuated in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    No one has a definitive answer to these type of questions. It is best really to follow the scriptural statements such as those at James 1:17, Matt.5:45, Ps.34:7, Ecc.9:11.
    We know the angels are involved in the preaching activity, but only the most naive would draw a conclusion that the trolleys have guardian angels when we respectfully point out that on a personal basis this is not the case with humans.
    It is tempting to try and read into our work today the kind of events described in the early days as recorded in the book of Acts but sadly for some, such visible manifestations of Jehovah's angels working on behalf of humans have gone the same way as the gift of tongues.
    Very generous of you. But not an opinion I share at all.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to JW Insider in Why doesn't All-Powerful Jehovah Protect Young Witness Girls from Pedophiles in the Congregation?   
    @Jack Ryan might have a lot of issues, or these might not even be his own issues. At any rate, this particular question is a good one, in my opinion.
    (And @Gone Away it doesn't really matter if he should expand it to include all persons who get hurt from all types of crimes and injustices. He has started with a specific, narrow example and this should help us to focus on the point of the question.)
    Back to what you were saying that I requoted, @Space Merchant: In this case, J.Ryan is not treating pedophilia and child sexual abuse as if it were just a JW-only thing. In fact, the nature of the question very clearly shows that he is questioning why we are quick to imply that angels have often run interference for JWs who are in the midst of the preaching work. He is right that we have shown images of angels in protective mode and guiding mode as they watch over the preaching work. I know of several of the images he is referring to. There have been dozens of examples of experiences printed in yearbooks, Watchtowers, and from the convention platform that thank Jehovah for specific cases of angelic protection in the face of all kinds of dangers.
    Most of these more recent articles about angels, with one exception, no longer depict a ghostly angel hovering over the door-to-door work, although one recent one, below, indicates that they are "over" the cart-witnessing work. Most of the more recent articles show several examples of angels in Biblical times then show the preaching work, but without the depiction of the angel in modern times. Still, the wording that goes along with the pictures is telling:

    Watchtower, 5/15/2009 p.23 and 24
     
    When viewed alongside the recent pictures that try to give us a sense of the hundreds of millions of such angels standing at the ready it really does, and really should, make us wonder about specific activities that angels are handling in modern times. Did those angels in the Yearbook experiences really make a person miss when they shot bullets at point blank range during times of war and persecution in modern times? Did angels make a person of the right heart condition glance over at a cart? Or was it the receptive heart condition that caused them to glance? Did an angel send a Witness to the door exactly when the householder finished praying for guidance in their search? Other religions have told of the same experiences. What makes our claims different?
    These questions will also touch on why Jehovah permits wickedness, and why someone's prayer might be answered when another one's is not. It may also touch on human nature. When almost everyone except an especially photogenic young child is saved from an explosion, a burning building or a crashed train or airplane, we will often hear the media interviewing people who say that God must have had a special purpose for that child. We will hear about how wonderful God is in sending an angel to swoop down and save this one or that one. We will not hear about the injustice and loss to the others who died.
    At any rate, not that anyone has a complete answer, but this is still a good question.

    Angels help declare the good news throughout the earth
    -- Watchtower's caption, https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2017169
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Droop@WNF in What were Jehovah's Witnesses Trying to Say With This Illustration?   
    By dressing attractively she is encouraging men to have lustful thoughts. Which is why there is encouragement to dress modestly.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to John Houston in What were Jehovah's Witnesses Trying to Say With This Illustration?   
    If she was wearing a suit of armor, it doesn't matter. What matters is what are the thoughts of the husband with LUSTFUL THOUGHTS, that is the meaning of the illustration. Not what the woman is wearing. Went right over some of your heads, did it again? Just like the Pharisees! My, my ,my!
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Droop@WNF in What were Jehovah's Witnesses Trying to Say With This Illustration?   
    Women are unattractive if they are wearing trousers
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to SuziQ1513 in What were Jehovah's Witnesses Trying to Say With This Illustration?   
    Beware of predatory males.    If she had on a pair of Bermuda shorts, would it be a big deal?
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