James Thomas Rook Jr.

Sharon:
I love that "outer garments" story.
I have found that to cater to the borderline inane and clueless never works with discussion. 
It's like the old story of the talking mule that never talked when the farmer wanted to show guests he had a talking mule .... a section of 2"x4" lumber across the head gets 'em talking.
I don't mind following the chariot ... wherever it goes, but I am apprehensive about  following the circus clown car.
There is a difference.

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.

Thank  you  dear  sister,  searching  to  all  simple  and  poor  people...
Maybe  he  has  a  good  and  loving  heart  for  Jehovah
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Saw the same article. Thought the same thing. Government was not doing it to stamp out Jehovah's Witnesses. They were doing it in response to a public health crisis. Friends really should have taken heed of the government's action and stayed away. Oh well, time will come when the government actually ban's all religious meetings then we will have to take  a stand for true worship. Until then though let your reasonableness be known to all men. 

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!

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.

I had occasion, many years ago to see a male ostrich chasing a female ostrich who clearly did not want his amorous advances, and for about ten minutes I watched ..until it was clear that he was going to catch her ... so she stuck her head into the sand, believing that he would not be able to see her.  He came to a screeching halt about fifteen feet behind her, slowly approached, and looked all around and said "Hmmm... I wonder where SHE went?".

..... when all is said ...and done......

Until they notice you.
I think there was a really good reason why Jesus waited until he was 30 years old to be baptized.
We are supposed to follow Jesus' example  as well as his teachings ... and most people do not form a basis for a firm resolve based on character ... until they actually have enough life experiences to DEVELOP character.
Unless you are an Elder in good apparent standing, where the "Three Year Rule" applies, after dedication and baptism, you will always be subject to scrutiny, and chastisement ... if they notice you.

..... when all is said ...and done......

Is there really a "young person", anywhere in the world, at any time in the history of civilization ... that has looked at someone else and uttered the phrase "How can I prevent Burnout?'
I can imagine a LOT of weird stuff .... but not that.
That is so "cornball" it is almost a perfect sphere.
It would be like a sailor getting his hand caught in a piece of machinery and exclaiming "Oh, Golly Gee!  it appears I have had my fingers severed ! Whatever shall I do?"
cornball adj. Of a cheesy, corny, and otherwise over-the-top feelgood nature. Virtually any inspirational quote that makes you shudder.  

This is where Freedom and sanity, and peace come from .... when you disregard people who have proved they have no credibility whatsoever ... and STOP BEING AFRAID OF DYING. 
Every living thing that has DNA dies ... and there have never been any exceptions... not one... from a mosquito to  a Brontosaurus ... and we did not exist at all for about 14 BILLION years ... and my guess is no one worried about it.
We should serve Jehovah because it is the right thing to do .... not because someone is generating artificial panics to get the troops to march faster.

Jehovah has NEVER changed ... although he has changed his mind many times when entreated to do so, and he DOES "learn as he goes along".
He was genuinely surprised when children were offered to the fires of the god Moloch as human sacrifices, and before that there was of course ... the dinosaurs ... which did not end well, for them.
And the name "Jehovah" is in ENGLISH, a standard convention since about AD 1600 when the letter "J" was invented, and the name is different in different languages, the same as Jesus' name is different in different languages.
I under understand in Spanish my name James is pronounced HIGH-ME, or Santiago ....
Who knew?
 

IT WAS COMMON PRACTICE IN JEWISH SOCIETY TO HAVE NAME CHANGES WHEN A PERSON'S  LIFE HAD DRAMATIC CHANGES.
and plenty of examples of that in the Bible, too.
Sometimes they were interchangeable, sometimes not.
In our cultural background , Superman is REALLY Superman, but his birth name was Kal-El, and he also goes by Clark Kent.
Bruce Wayne is...uh ... Bruce Wayne and he goes by the name Batman, but is also called The Dark Knight.
If you had two cows named, and  described in great detail ... as Michael the Archangel, and Jesus both were ... BY WHAT THEY WERE ABLE TO DO ...and it was the same description ... AND the farm could only have one cow ... the most reasonable explanation would be it was the same cow.
Problems arise when you try to milk a squirrel to make butter.
 

This is where Freedom and sanity, and peace come from .... when you disregard people who have proved they have no credibility whatsoever ... and STOP BEING AFRAID OF DYING. 
Every living thing that has DNA dies ... and there have never been any exceptions... not one... from a mosquito to  a Brontosaurus ... and we did not exist at all for about 14 BILLION years ... and my guess is no one worried about it.
We should serve Jehovah because it is the right thing to do .... not because someone is generating artificial panics to get the troops to march faster.

This is where Freedom and sanity, and peace come from .... when you disregard people who have proved they have no credibility whatsoever ... and STOP BEING AFRAID OF DYING. 
Every living thing that has DNA dies ... and there have never been any exceptions... not one... from a mosquito to  a Brontosaurus ... and we did not exist at all for about 14 BILLION years ... and my guess is no one worried about it.
We should serve Jehovah because it is the right thing to do .... not because someone is generating artificial panics to get the troops to march faster.

When I dance, people move back. When I sing, it fills the room and people leave to make MORE room ... and when I grin, food falls out!
People point, and whisper to each other ... "Uh ... oh, he's ...um ... "special".

If you want to be politically correct in the .ORG ... just remember this basic rule ......
EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED, IS FORBIDDEN.
This varies from place to place, and from time to time, and from person to person.
..... but not very much.

This is where Freedom and sanity, and peace come from .... when you disregard people who have proved they have no credibility whatsoever ... and STOP BEING AFRAID OF DYING. 
Every living thing that has DNA dies ... and there have never been any exceptions... not one... from a mosquito to  a Brontosaurus ... and we did not exist at all for about 14 BILLION years ... and my guess is no one worried about it.
We should serve Jehovah because it is the right thing to do .... not because someone is generating artificial panics to get the troops to march faster.

Every spoken word has a motive - for a result.... and a withheld word also has motive...... if one withholds a titbit of truth - one can deceive.....
So it is interesting to see how people use their information....

Of course not!
I am re-tired.

This is complete and absolute total crap ...
Learn about Earth's Precession, and it's cycles.
The Earth slowing down is by nanoseconds a year and has absolutely no effect.
The Earth has been spinning for somewhere around 3.5 BILLION YEARS, and every year the wobble gets more stable... not less stable, but the Earth, due to centrifugal force, is an oblate spheroid, NOT a sphere.
Everything is a mystery to the author of this video, as he is uneducated.
He is making stuff up out of THIN AIR!
The purpose of Education is NOT to make a lot of money... that is a nice side effect.
The purpose of Education is to not be duped by the agenda driven stupid, like this author, because we are MORE stupid.

I think I read this book circa 1962, in Jr. High School, and don't remember much, except that the PROOFS were so sloppy as to make the book almost unreadable. It was in Paperback..  I remember it as being fair quality Science Fiction.

Arauna and all:
See also:
Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource List: 7. Immanuel Velikovsky and Worlds in Collision