James Thomas Rook Jr.

When people cannot stand the cold ... they move to Florida ..... when they cannot stand the heat, they move to Vermont. Turtles do the exact same thing.
It messes up your study you are getting paid to do ... but turtles have been around for many hundreds of millions of years, and during the Carboniferous Period, it was a LOT hotter than anything we have today, etc. .... FOR  MILLIONS OF YEARS.
I have seen beaches from an airplane where fish were stranded on the sand by the hundreds of millions .... mile after mile, after mile, rotting in the sun.
99% of all life that has EVER EXISTED on the Earth is now extinct.
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STUFF HAPPENS
GET USED TO IT.
As the famous line in Jurassic Park, the Movie pointed out "Life finds a way".
and......
...sometimes it doesn't.
 
 
 

I really like the picture of the little girl asleep with the bear. That is beautiful !

There are times to be soft ... and times to be hard .... times to fight gallantly
... times to die alone unnoticed.

There are times to be soft ... and times to be hard .... times to fight gallantly
... times to die alone unnoticed.

If you want to, you CAN know God personally and even become his friend.
And you will have no better friend than Jehovah God, the Almighty!

Jesus answered the apostles at Matthew 6:9-13 (see below).
The prayer at John chapter 17 is his personal prayer to his Father in heaven (see below).
Matthew 6:9-13
 “You [his apostles] must pray, then, this way:
“‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. 10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also on earth. 11 Give us today our bread for this day; 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the wicked one.’
 
John 17:1-26
Jesus spoke these things, and raising his eyes to heaven, he said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that your son may glorify you, 2 just as you have given him authority over all flesh, so that he may give everlasting life to all those whom you have given to him. 3 This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 4 I have glorified you on the earth, having finished the work you have given me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was. 6 “I have made your name manifest to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have observed your word. 7 Now they have come to know that all the things you gave me are from you; 8 because I have given them the sayings that you gave me, and they have accepted them and have certainly come to know that I came as your representative, and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I make request concerning them; I make request, not concerning the world, but concerning those whom you have given me, because they are yours; 10 and all my things are yours and yours are mine, and I have been glorified among them. 11 “I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name, which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. 12 When I was with them, I used to watch over them on account of your own name, which you have given me; and I have protected them, and not one of them is destroyed except the son of destruction, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. 14 I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. 15 “I do not request that you take them out of the world, but that you watch over them because of the wicked one. 16 They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. 17 Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth. 18 Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. 19 And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, so that they also may be sanctified by means of truth. 20 “I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word, 21 so that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are one. 23 I in union with them and you in union with me, in order that they may be perfected into one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you loved them just as you loved me. 24 Father, I want those whom you have given me to be with me where I am, in order that they may look upon my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the founding of the world. 25 Righteous Father, the world has, indeed, not come to know you, but I know you, and these have come to know that you sent me. 26 I have made your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in union with them.”
 
 

Many NAMES:  YOUR Father may have many NAMES: his legal name, maybe a nickname?, maybe a pet name from your mother?, maybe a name that HIS mother calls him?, maybe a name that his friends call him?, and so on...
Many TITLES: YOUR Father has many TITLES:  son, husband, father, maybe grandfather, his job title, and so on....

LOL! Sometimes it's fun to see how the abysmally ignorant try to say something sensible.
The above is fairly typical: I certainly didn't say that to Scholar.
More abysmal reading comprehension on display.
AlanF

Continuing to entertain us.
AlanF

... and just like the Sun ... the light DOES NOT grow brighter.  
Our Sun is a variable star, yes, but over a very long period of time ... but every morning it gets brighter BECAUSE obstructions are rotated out of the way.
... same with Theology.
The light was ALWAYS THERE!
It was HUMANS obscuring it.

At my age, I wonder about surviving until the end of next week.
 
 

I really need to work on being humble.
If I was humble, I would be almost perfect.

It seemed a "given" at the time ... that 5 of the animals brought onto the Ark in the category that required seven animals, would be food for the other animals.
7 minus 5 = 2.
This was before refrigeration, and Purina Lion and Tiger Chow.
The Kangaroos had to be especially healthy, to be able to hop and then swim all the way to Australia.
Noah's son was in charge of the check list, and checked off the Chickens , but forgot the Unicorns.

It is intellectual dishonesty to speculate to average people, many who do not know what the word speculate even means, and not make it crystal clear you are ONLY guessing. If you know they are simple, innocent people, and they have faith in you, and you do not make it crystal clear YOU ARE GUESSING ... THE INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY IS MORALLY REPUGNANT.
My best guess for the King of the North is Barack Obama, for no other reason that I don't like him, and LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE ON THIS PLANET ... I do not have the slightest clue who the King of the North Is.
It might even be Mukluk, the Eskimo Tsunami Surfer !
He had cards printed up "Mukluk - King of the North ".
The previous example was only a parody for illustrative purposes  -  do not try this at home.

Without getting into the logic and reasoning behind your detailed  explanation of "Which Came first, the Chicken or the Egg?', I would like to state as a side thought that the Chicken came first.
Chickens actually ... as it takes two to make a viable egg.

Hey! We can speculate all we like!

Without getting into the logic and reasoning behind your detailed  explanation of "Which Came first, the Chicken or the Egg?', I would like to state as a side thought that the Chicken came first.
Chickens actually ... as it takes two to make a viable egg.

I don't even know what "Grammerly" is.
I am of course going to look it up ....
I find it embarrassing not to know everything.

As Muppet Ralph the Dog sez:
"Can't live with 'em ... can't live without 'em ..."

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.
 

They also say that David, as a shepherd, was out-standing in his field.

It’s okay.  Your comments made me think of myself and my own experiences.  I take it all in stride now.  Thanks for sharing!!! 
... now my problem is makeup.  LOLOLOLOL #itsgoodtolaugh
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I do not think ANYBODY hates you AllenSmitn (n) ... it's just that you are just too combustible, and trigger a "flight or fight" reflex. !
They are NOT going to flee, and they don't want to fight.
When conversation on the phone turns rabid, I have this button on my cell phone that avoids having to do either ...
As I was writing this someone called me wanting to sell me affordable group rate health insurance. I said that was all taken care of, and he kept right on talking.
I pushed the button.

I don't even know what "Grammerly" is.
I am of course going to look it up ....
I find it embarrassing not to know everything.

I must admit ... I do enjoy the dual edged bladed agenda driven conversions on this topic.
It reminds me of what author Stephen King said about writing one of his books ... I think it was "The Strand", where he had so many characters running around on the pages he could not keep up with them ... so he wrote in an explosion that wiped most of them out.
18 pages of debate to support something that may or may not have happened outside the physical Universe 100 or so years ago ... that was, or is invisible, to me (here comes a variation on one of my favorite expressions ...) is like milking a mouse because you need to make five pounds of cheese .... which has already been sold in advance.
That's a LOT of work !
So .... what's a simple Barbarian like myself to think with all these arguments and counter-arguments ...
I think I will make a bucket of popcorn! .... and watch the show!
Carry on Troops!