James Thomas Rook Jr.

Some interesting animal pictures:
Animal pictures.docx

The Jews in Poland and Germany .... who sold everything at "five cents on the dollar", and left for America with the clothes on their back escaped in time.   The rest often escaped as hot ashes going up a crematorium chimney.

We hope for the "New System" ... all the Dinosaurs
could ever hope for was to come back as WD-40.

If you like to cringe and shudder at the new songbook changes ... here is one that will help out.

Every time I see our theology being adulterated by lawyers and accountants, it makes me cringe and shudder.
 

Sometimes things are so insane that you think someone is repeating a Parody off of "The Onion" .... but then you realize .... these folks are dead serious.

Awwww... that's the term Susan and I use for our five dogs.

Hmmmm... five overlapping generations ....

As much as some women also love dogs, I believe there is a "special relationship" between men and dogs.
My first wife died in 1982, and I do not remember what she looked like .... but I remember my dog, Jedediah Dog (Jed), in great detail, even though he died several years before.

I'm assuming they didn't live where they were easily found in the desert?
Or maybe they didn't have the tools to exhume the fossils correctly?

I think humans did find fossils but they misinterpreted them as dragons or other beasts.

A  nice  picture  of  your  YOUTH - TIME

I fully agree in the hope that animals will live longer, but Jehovah knows better. The longer we live with animals, the more we will mourn when they die. (Rev. 21:3,4)  I too would love to have my first dog back, but what about he others. The photo of my dog Sputty is unusual, It was a black and white photo coloured with oil paints.

The Universe is full of things we do not know .... and Jehovah MAY resurrect our dogs, perhaps not for his love of dogs ... but willy-nilly ... because of his love for us,  in general. 
He has never stated he would .... but  I used to buy my pet hamsters a wheel to play and exercise on.
How much more is God's love for mankind than our love for pet hamsters ( and dogs, etc.) ?

Dogs in our household live a very long time .... My dog Tony was 14 when he died, and Ivory was 18 ... we have one with diabetes that is 16, etc.  Watching them enjoy their lives is and has been a great joy.
I often think that is why Jehovah puts up with humans.

Good point!

Good point!

The Video being specifically referenced had NOTHING to do with Jehovah's Witnesses .....It was embarrassing because the guy looked like me when I was younger, acted like me, dressed like me, and was as goofy as me.   That is why I referred to it as a possible documentary.
I even had the plastic pocket protector full of pens, all of which were necessary.
 

Space Merchant:
I use an abbreviated form of teaching about such things ......
When I was working in the Congo, living in a hotel with steel doors, unpainted cinder block walls, and bars on the window,  and an air conditioner in a window that only cooled the bottom half of the room ... I got a call  about midnight from the "Front Desk" saying that if I wanted anything ... anything at all ... I need only to ask.
I was a rather rough looking character at the time, and he mentioned that he could supply people that could endure great pain, if I wanted.
I told him "Sure ... I like to torture Hotel Desk clerks .... when you come up, bring a corkscrew."
He hung up, and I went back to sleep.

I agree   .  he got permission ... but he did not have to.
My theory is it is easier to ask forgiveness ... than to ask permission.
.... and when the sue me ... they get a well-worn 2003 Hyundai Sonata with a worn off steering wheel cover.
"Don''t do the crime ...if you can't do the time"  only applies to the timid, and the impatient.
Contemporary Justice, depends on the mood  and sense of humor (or lack thereof) of the ones doing the judging.

I have never seen that before!
It is embarrassing!
I could be a parody OF ME!
...... or a documentary ....

It was the Brotherhood James was addressing in his letter.
Porn is porn ... and propaganda is propaganda.
Some weird people consider this porn ... ******

Space Merchant:
I would suppose that every thing you said is true .. it certainly sounds reasonable, and is certainly well considered ... but the question is NOT whether anything is good for you, bad for you, or completely neutral .... the question is the propriety of those that are representing, or say they are representing Jehovah God as his spokespersons on Earth .... and Geoffrey Jackson of the Governing Body stated that the Governing Body ACTUALLY WERE .... in his testimony before the Australian Royal Commission .... the REAL ISSUE is whether or not those people CLAIMING to be (and possible actually are) God's spokespersons on Earth ... are entitled to speak for God ....
 
..... words that he himself NEVER SPOKE.
 
That is the ONLY issue  that really matters,  do we have a RIGHT to represent this, or ANY issue about which God has expressed NO OPINION .... as the "Will of God"?
For those in Rio Linda ... THE ANSWER IS A RESOUNDING NO !
Otherwise ... Jehovah's Witnesses become a collection of cultish cultural tyrants ... and PRETENDERS to speak for God, to further the leadership's own culturally induced Victorian proclivities ... subjecting the Brotherhood to public ridicule and embarrassment ... and slandering God himself.
The REAL ISSUE is whether or not those people CLAIMING to be (and possible actually are) God's spokespersons on Earth ... are ENTITLED to speak for God words that he himself NEVER SPOKE.
That is the ONLY issue  that really matters ... for those claiming to "speak for God".
The rest is arrogance, presumptuousness, just plain stupid, and an embarrassment to have to watch.
It slanders God, and makes the Brotherhood a subject of ridicule.
Next ... we will be prohibiting the eating of Meat on Friday., or making "type-antitype" profundities that are absurd, or making end time prophesy that NEVER come true.
Oh wait .... been there... done that.
The GB ruined tens of thousands of marriages in the 1970's, and destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives, and chased millions of people away from the Truth  by such arrogance in ignorantly speaking on such matters in the name of God ... and have been trying to "walk it back" for at least ten years now, without admitting to ANYTHING.
 Completely disregarding for the moment the immense slander to God for representing and making English Victorian culture God's, and the damage to people's lives ..... It is not Satan that will destroy the WTB&TS ...
It will be the Lawyers.

:)))))))))))) oh man. "Growing problem".... in this 21 century or in all centuries from day 1?? hahah
Do you know what is real growing problem? Lies, deceiving, manipulation, terror, forcing people to do something,  violence of all kinds....
Human sexuality involves all inside (and outside us). This involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Does human explore own (or partner body) with touching, looking ... or with tabu - not touch, not smell, not taste, not look ...
Who was put all process in body? Erection too? What are you doing when you hungry or thirsty? Or must go to toilet? Law of instincts was made by Higher Power. Social laws regulate some behaviours inside family, tribe, people, nation.... What is primar, first came in existence? Body law and inside feeling for good and bad (conscience)?? Or Human laws (religious, political, national...)?
Why. Understand why we do this or that, is more important  than making rule and tabu on masturbation. When we get closer to answer why 10 year old masturbate or why 18 year or 45 or 65 doing this, then we will see better, more. 
Why one became paedophile? Because he masturbate too much? Or looked porno movies? Or ...? 
Masturbating person became depressed and suicidal? Because he masturbate or because he doesn't know how, can not realised himself in specific needs he have, he can not, or do not know how to fulfill and find emotional  needs, states .... inside his social group?
Issue is big and complex and complicated. :)))

The issue is regarding masturbation and what such a habit leads to. And yes, "it is" a growing problem, especially among younger people and young adults. Some people choose to educate and even make rules regarding masturbation because they want to better protect people from it, and those who are educated are less likely to succumb to such an addiction. Should one be affected by masturbation and pornography, there are those who are well equipped to handle with those in suffering.
Just because you have a process in your body, doesn't mean you should be okay with such acts, this has been said before by the community who fight against masturbation and pornography 24/7, by those who share stories and testimonies of how troubling such an addiction is. I already have some experiences with some, as I already stated before, even losing a friend to the addiction, which led her to pornography, to depression and eventually, when she took her own life and the troubles my brother faced.
There is no "why" in the age, it is pretty evident, there are urges that the flesh cannot control, and eventually, the individual will give in. There are many examples, some a bit explicit than others on how an addiction worsens over time to those who succumb to it and does not do anything about it. It may seem okay to one person, but to another it is seen as something vile and something very shameful, especially if the person who sees it as such is the one with the problem.
Never mentioned pedophilia or one becoming as such due to masturbation and porn, however, pornography encourages and caters to them, giving them the tools and the how to for child grooming and or the creation of whatever vile practices they. For Pedophilia is classified as a psychological disorder ( DSM 5). It is a very difficult psychological disorder to treat, for there are programs, therapies, counseling, etc that can prove somewhat useful. Pedophilia root of originate is not yet known, some just consider the addiction was with the person from the time they were born and the disorder itself begins to flourish as they grow or over time they developed an interest in children or those younger than them, regardless of the sex of the targeted individual. but they tend to look into various types of things that gives them sexual gratification, to distribute, to share, to receive, etc. At times they tend to enact such actions on targets of their choosing. The Adult Industry does not get a lot of flack, especially for some of their viewed content consist women portraying the roles of teenage girls or cartography themselves as children in the presence of a grown man, the same thing happens when the roles are in reverse. That being said, feeding the addiction worsens it.
It amazes me how majority in America does not know how masturbation and watching porn causes some form of depression and low self-esteem, lack of confidence in oneself, and a few times, it also causes one to go on a suicidal path because they feel that their is no hope for them, somehow they were exposed/mocked for their habits and the like.
Luckily, as I said before, there are a couple of large communities, that work as one, to help such people, give advise, share their stories, and encourage anyone, for should you relapse into porn and masturbation, you can get back up and continue to fight it until you are free from it. They help anyone, regardless of one's background, religion, race, etc. At times, they had one time helped someone who thinks he is under the impression that he may be a pedophile.
Masturbation and porn to the majority is seen as normal, disregarding the effects it can cause in some individuals, among the people there are those who see masturbation and porn as a problem, a growing one due to some statistics in the past couple of years. There will always be people to instruct, there will always be those who will educate, and help out should any man, woman or child succumbs to the addiction of masturbation and pornography.
It may be a laughing matter to some here, but for me, it is a serious issue, and I have witnessed some things firsthand and talked with people, just like the communities who speak of this addiction, they too consider it a growing problem, and have the real world experience to share with others in order to help combat the addiction.

Let me give you a good example .... the law allows you to parody someone elses work, and use it in ITS ENTIRETY.
Remember Michael Jackson's mega hit "Beat It"? Good ... because I remember hearing ABOUT it ... after Weird Al Yankovich took his entire sound track, and made a parody called "Eat it".
Completely legal.