James Thomas Rook Jr.

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

TTH:
Perhaps I will fire up my old software, "Dragon Naturally Speaking, Version 12", (DNS) which I bought to write MY books with, and it will transcribe my voice almost as fast as I can speak with about 99.5% accuracy, and get into a phone book long debate, just for the fun of it.
I have been trying to use previous versions over many years, and it (for me) was all hopeful thinking junk.
I wasted money on all that came before version 12.
Version  12  evolved into a TERRIFIC piece of software.
So good, I have NOT considered an upgrade.
Remember though ... I used to do Solar Insolation calculations for a living, at $105 an hour ( plus per diem ) ... and if I did not understand what I was doing the engineering firms I worked for would fire me in an instant.
I am also an avid amateur astronomer and amateur astro-physicists only to the level of popular science magazines such as "Scientific American" BUT I can naturally visualize energy transfers between materials, and thermal inertias and dynamics .... it drives my wife crazy I gush about how light and energies beyond visible light bounce off, and is absorbed by things,  when I am driving.
I use Reverse Polish Notation math, and she teaches Algebra in High School .... a completely different way of thinking.
One problem with extended debates is that the watchers often do not have enough background to understand  ANYTHING ... except that someone appears to be losing, and someone appears to be winning ... and If I did it .. it would be to teach physics and astronomy, and the laws of thermodynamics, for the fun of it.
I care NOTHING about winning for the sake of winning.
Except perhaps in a gun fight.
Besides, one of my dogs had an "accident" in the corner of my writing room, and I have to clean up dog poop.
After that, I am fixing us blueberry pancakes for breakfast.
I will try not to get those three  jobs  mixed up.
In the meantime ... see if Ebay will sell you an old version of DNS version 12, cheap ... it's worth the search, and you may want to carefully read Wikipedia's article on Milankovitch cycles, at the following link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
Those two  are extremely helpful.
So is winning a gun fight.
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You gotta lot of moxie, JWI .... even Jesus did not slander Satan.

Cos:
You are trying to shift the burden to me, because it is YOU that lacks reading comprehension, and do not THINK about what is actually being said
For your convenience, I quote my original post you take umbrage with ... I don't know if you even understand what a "qualifying statement" IS, now. The only alternative I see is that you have a complete lack of reading comprehension skills so I will isolate it for you, thusly ..... (ahem!) ... and highlighted in RED, from your quote of my post.
You could ask the Greek speaking village idiot, and that would have no value whatsoever.
Without evidence to the contrary, it appears that you LIED about having asked anyone at all from the Greek speaking community about this.
You avoided the actual issue.
I look forward to your complete, rational and comprehensive details of the experiment YOU ALLEGEDLY ran, if you really did .... which I currently doubt almost to the point of certainty ... and I am being generous.
 

THE TROUBLE TREE ???????
(Prov 11:30)
"The fruitage of the righteous one is a tree of life, and he that is winning souls is wise."  
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I hired a carpenter to help me restore an old farmhouse. He had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, the electric saw quit and now his ancient pickup refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me to meet his family.
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As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.
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Afterwards he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier. "Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again." "Funny thing is," he smiled, " when I come out in the morning to pick "em up, there ain't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."
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For general concepts and ideas ... that is good enough ... but if they were translating Aircraft Maintenance Manuals ... I would take the bus.

I'm the daughter of bicycles.....  Â Â Â Bec. my Dad had such of special shop ! Hahahahahahahahaaaaaa.....

 
It's not that Astronomers  have no personality ... it's just their jokes are not easily understood.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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A spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex real life phenomena.
The implication is that theoretical physicists will often reduce a problem to the simplest form they can imagine in order to make calculations more feasible, even though such simplification may hinder the model's application to reality.
The phrase comes from a joke that spoofs the simplifying assumptions that are sometimes used in theoretical physics.
"Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum".
 

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAhahahahah !!!   good one !

Melody's Interview at 2017 "Don't Give Up" Regional Convention". 
Last year my wife and I attended an Assembly in Orangeburg, SC, where a brother in an interview on stage was proud that he had not said a single word to his disfellowshipped father in over 20 years.   We were sitting up close and could see his face in person, and on the large monitors. His declaration of cruelty was followed by intense applause from the audience. 
We were stunned and horrified.
This video was originally posted on YOUTUBE by the mother of Melody, at a Regional 2017 Convention where she is proud of having shunned her sister, who is disfellowshipped, but many adverse comments on YOUTUBE made her ashamed .....  and she took the posting down.  
I got this video copy from the  Russian equivalent of YOUTUBE web site,  RUTUBE.COM.
After she details her cruelty to her sister, the audience reaction is vigorous applause.
THIS IS WHY the Russian government and most of the people HATE Jehovah's Witnesses.
Oblivious, clueless, extreme cruelty, in the name of righteousness.

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Of course.
At the KH today (Saturday)  the speaker gave an incredibly good talk ... but from the seat during the WT study, he made the comment "Astronomers have no personality ... Jehovah has personality ..."   I am STILL trying to figure THAT one out ... and it was in English.

Years ago, I was in Norway, and a Brother who like to play guitar and sing American Country Western music told me the elders had jumped on his case for singing about "Son of a gun, gonna have big fun, on the Bayou ...", and he asked me what the expression "son of a gun" really meant.
I had heard that expression all my life, and never thought about it... so I did ... and realized it had no meaning whatsoever .. it was just an expression of exclamation ... like if someone told me "My dog can jump over my car", I might reply "SON OF A GUN!" ... the rough equivalent of "WOW!:.
YIKES!   .... I forgot the point I was leading up to make .....
... sigh ....
Son of a gun!

It's only a joke .... a takeoff on the line "Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
Not everybodys' ... often  not ANYBODY'S motives are altruistic, good, and noble.
When they appear to be good, wholesome, noble, and righteous ... make them pay CASH!
( .... from her laughing emoticon reaction , Alexa apparently got the joke.)
 

... AND THEN SHE SHOWED HIM THE RADIATION BURNS ON HER HANDS ....

... AND THEN SHE SHOWED HIM THE RADIATION BURNS ON HER HANDS ....

If I am there, I want to find out what Moses and David's last names were.

Owls eat live mice ... AND OWLS CAN FLY!

Yeah ... exactly ... salt-water cockroaches!
..and isn't "Large Shrimp" a contradiction in terms?
I mean .. like "Act Naturally", or
"pretty Ugly", or
"small crowd"?
 

Yeah, I hate those plastic shrimp ... too chewy.

Oysters.
However, I do eat salt-water cockroaches .... commonly known as "shrimp".

With those sunglasses ... he thought it was a bus schedule ....

@James Thomas Rook Jr.
I thought a simple life would be riding together, gas ?? prices are crazy since Hurricane Irma, but don't know how I could get in the car? ? If I get gas ?? not from Texas why are the prices doubled at the gas ?? tank? Maybe a good thought to share vechiles like you said, ????

It has to come with insight, and discernment.
 

There are Many different kinds of TRUTH.
The Bible does not speak at all what you must truly know to repair a jet turbine aircraft engine.
etc.,
etc.,
etc.

I am trying to keep my life simple .... all I need is a 15 passenger amphibious helicopter, by Mercedes Benz.
My friends all have Jet Planes.
I must make amends.

Could this be Peace and Security? Never Before Seen! ????Breaking News: Rising shares of Boeing pulled the Dow Jones Industrial Average up to a record high on Thursday! ???
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Answer:  Only for those that do not have a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of history.
They are surprised by EVERYTHING!
They are also doomed to repeat what they do not understand, and live in constant confusion, blown about like a plastic bag in the wind.