James Thomas Rook Jr.

When one is deciding on which wife to keep, and which wife to get rid of ... perhaps watching the movie with Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor .... "The Taming of the Shrew" would be in order .......... jus' sayin ....

When one is deciding on which wife to keep, and which wife to get rid of ... perhaps watching the movie with Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor .... "The Taming of the Shrew" would be in order .......... jus' sayin ....

As Mel Brooks said in his 1981 film History of the World, Part I " ... "It's GOOD TO BE KING!

Since there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I can do about any of it .... absolutely NOTHING WHATSOEVER ... even if there is spasm Global Thermonuclear War that destroys EVERYTHING .... I will just miss twenty years wrinkled up like a prune, and living on aspirin, and four years in a wheelchair, leaning to one side and drooling, while the ward nurse, uglier than homemade sin,  decides if my diaper needs changing.
What?  Me Worry ?
I just hope the cockroaches get theirs, too.
 

An inner room is room with no windows to the outside.
Things done in an inner room are not observable by anyone outside of the house... only by those who "know".
We should be proud of EVERYTHING we do as Jehovah's Witnesses, and HAVE no "inner rooms"
Secrecy is the beginning, and the mother of tyranny.
It is important to be obedient to Jehovah God and his Christ at this time because MANY will try to mislead us.
We should closely follow "Jehovah's Chariot", where ever it leads us ... but be careful of circus clown cars.

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I know what you mean,  but I'm more fascinated from the wonderful instinct, Jehovah's work???
So many animals have all different instincts,  WOW,  thats so COOL !!  What a great Creator we have??
Thank you Jehovah ! 

Think of it this way .... what if only ONE cow in a hundred thousand is as smart as humans .. is sensitive ... and ponders her own mortality ....  even so, that is a LOT of cows! .... and they still end up as steaks and hamburger.
It's worse for people.

I was the founding member of my former family.
When my children were very little, they wanted to do "something" that was either too expensive, or dangerous ... I forget what ... and I said they could not do it.  My eldest Son sez: "Hey Dad ... don't we get a vote?"
  It would have been three against one... and I could see the "look of victory" on their faces as they realized that ....
I replied "Yes, everybody here gets to vote, but we vote by how much you weigh ... and I weigh more than everybody else here".
Same thing.
 

The richest and most powerful men in the world ... even the pilots who carry atomic bombs under their wings, have always been men of short stature.
I am 6'-6" tall and I tell you now, they do not make Corvette Convertibles my height.
I had a 1971, 454 Corvette convertible, and my head fitted between the fabric support bars, and left a hair tonic stain on the underside of the fabric roof.

I had a GREAT deal of respect for CNN during the first Gulf War ... for their on site reporting ... they catapulted in one month to a world leader in cable news, news.
I even BOUGHT the DVD movie of how that all took place ... fascinating and thrilling!
But CNN has devolved, not back into the trees ... but back into the swamp where methane burps from the rotted bog down of Clintonistas, and rises to the surface stinking.
The only reason you see CNN now in all the airports, is that they PAY the airports a fee, and supply and maintain all the huge monitors in the waiting areas.
When you have to PAY ... to have someone watch your shows ... and you are not selling Ronco Bass-O-Matics, you know you are in deep ...eh... denial.
 

Even if money and being able to make a living were completely a non-issue ... the value of a comprehensive education, ESPECIALLY history, is so that we are not being played for suckers ... and have to pay the life-long price for BEING suckers.
... pawns on a chessboard we do not even know exists.

Even if money and being able to make a living were completely a non-issue ... the value of a comprehensive education, ESPECIALLY history, is so that we are not being played for suckers ... and have to pay the life-long price for BEING suckers.
... pawns on a chessboard we do not even know exists.

I'd just as soon not see it play out. It is not as though Russia has nothing but pea shooters.

Unlikely though it may seem, the Dilbert cartoonist is up on these matters and it appears that Trump has his ear.
He doesn't seem to let his advisers push him around.

Anytime. Most mainstream news media, coupled with social media cannot be trusted 100%, for not all the time they speak what is true unless it is in their favor, in addition to the recent video that came out some days ago that exposed the news media. I am not a fan of fox news, however, Tucker Carlson, sometimes, is on point with what he has to say, especially when challenged by falsehood.
The White Helmets are against Bashar al-Assad for they are among pro-opposition groups that fight for their own Anti-Assad political agenda, of which they had done so in the past and they have done some morbid things in order to push propaganda. They either have actors/actress pretending to be injured and or dead (sometimes they use dead bodies), re-locate them to areas to stage said propaganda, even take photos in a way that would shift people's emotions (like what happen to Ivanka Trump last year, hence Donald Trump's actions afterwards), and they will even use the corpses of dead people to stage said propaganda, even children.
For instance, the corpses of the children that were gassed by the chemicals, their bodies were sent to different locations and staged for photos and propaganda in order to make said imaginary/video look very graphic and believable - for some of the corpses had been arranged together to make it seem several of the children died together, as well as using the same exact corpses for other photos but in a different position and or location, said media of this propaganda had surfaced online, and it is not something for the squeamish to look at. As for the dead bodies, they are under tight control by the Jaysh al-Islam, who gave access to the White Helmets do do what they need in order to push propaganda. The thing is these people are stupid for they do not realize some people can see through their lies and deception, but sadly, those who are being fed misinformation by mainstream media, do not see this, thus becoming easily given information that is lacking greatly.
That being said, this is an example of the actions of the Pro-Opposition groups, just like the White Helmets, a while back faking a rescue, using an actor.
 
Trump is very unpredictable like a villain straight out of a Batman comic, you do not know how he will strike, what he will do next and or where he will pop up - just like his actions last year, April 2017. Trump, it would seem is just a puppet, one puppet who is too sure of himself. The problem though is the guy he hired, John R. Bolton, US National Security Advisor. Bolton is a guy who is ready for war and wanting war, in addition to that you have the UK, who is already at odds with Russia for a chemical attack, France being ready to take action if necessary with the Saudis ready to back the US, as well as Israel who had already jumped the gun, but the Saudis and Israel are in this because of Iran, and knowing Israel's PM, he does not want Iran occupying Syria, as well as its fear of Iranian strikes.
All and all, stuff like this is important, but like I said, mainstream media will not speak of such, they will waste time talking about Trump's affair with an adult actress when there is more important things at hand whereas it can prove fatal for civilians should things go off the wall crazy if war breaks out.
As for the oil, what can be said is the big money ballers of the oil cartel are there for it. There those in power that want that oil and most likely they will take said oil as they did in past, including places like Africa, after said target have been dealt with, other times they just take it, as they did in Haiti.
 
This is a video explaining who the White Helmets are:
 

Thanks for collecting so many of the salient points in a single post. Most people in the United States who feel that they are getting the truth through true freedom of the press, speech, etc., believe the major networks that only pretend to be showing two sides of an issue. I caught a very lucid piece of questioning by Tucker Carlson on FoxNews, who asked a Republican Senator why the US would be so anxious to attack Syria without attempting an investigation into the so-called chemical attack in Douma. The Senator's response was that he must be a supporter of Putin to even ask such a question. White Helmet propaganda videos are still very sloppy and full of contradictions, and individuals among them have been caught in blatant lies and acts of terror of their own.
Fortunately, Trump appears to be backing down on his own rhetoric today, and the White House admits that they realize the fight would quickly escalate into something "messy." The US still has limited proxy control over large parts of Syria where most of the oil fields are, but is accidentally tipping its hand in some of the recent admissions to this effect.

Oh  NOOOOO....  I  not  believe,  that  CO. wives  are  really  fat...  NO !!   Where  do  you  read  that ??   Or  it  is  a  JTR.  joke  again     I  think  so !  hahaha 

It's really quite simple ... when they sit down to a chicken dinner they eat entire "overlapping generations".

Of course, reality changes when you enter Wal-Mart .........

Matthew 8:14
14 And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.
1 Cor 9:5
5 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
1 Timothy 3:2
2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,

If you have a picture of it, and an article about it ... the village is NOT hidden.

PHOTOGRAPHY OF OUR BROTHER HOSPITALIZED AND  QUESTIONED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF KAZAJSTAN ARRIVES.
PRAYING FOR HIS GOOD HEALTH TO RETURN. PRAY FOR HIM?
In the photo with his wife
According to the press service of the Jehovah's Witness Christian Center in Kazakhstan, an adherent of the religious community Teymur Ajmedov pardoned by the decree of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. With Teymur Ahmadov, who was sentenced in May 2017 for five years in prison on charges of "incitement to hatred", overturned, he is released from custody.
Now Ahmedov is in a cancer hospital in Almaty, he underwent an operation.
In conclusion, he was on January 18, 2017.
Earlier, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Human Rights Committee asked Kazakhstan to free an adept of the religious community "Jehovah's Witnesses" Teymur Ajmedov, which points to the illegality of his arrest and conviction. Therefore, the UN Working Group noted that "Mr. Ajmedov's actions were totally peaceful and within the framework of the right to freedom of religion", noting that "he was detained solely for exercising his rights under article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ".
The pardon in Kazakhstan, according to the law, is carried out by the president "at his discretion" on the basis of a petition of the person against whom the conviction entered into legal force.
https://rus.azattyq.org/a/29146827.html
 

I just noticed that I said this without a proper qualification. Most of us know that there is no reward for good works, such as preaching, pioneering, giving excellent talks, going to Bethel, serving as a missionary, ministerial servant, or elder, or Governing Body member, etc. Jehovah rewards his servants, not for the good they do, but for the proper loving motivation in the heart.
But, true proper motivation will result in actions. If we truly love God (faith) and our neighbor we cannot help but act upon that love. We will show our fellow human neighbors and brothers mercy, patience, love, empathy, kindness -- all fruits (outgrowths) of the proper spirit in our hearts. To the extent possible in our own circumstances, that automatically translates to action (good works). True faith cannot exist, therefore, without good actions that follow. Not everyone can do the same amount however (the widow's "mite," workers who arrive at the 11th hour, etc.). But if those who put in more work are jealous or disturbed by the lesser work others have done, then they don't understand that it was not the work that was rewarded, but the proper motivation. They don't understand what this means:
"I want mercy, not sacrifice"