James Thomas Rook Jr.

Don't wait for "the situation to be right", TTH, take control!
You could skulk around college gymnasiums, and find the loners and nerd types, even better if they are nerdy loners ...  and offer them beer if they will study the Bible with you,  and try to form relationships. I understand that college kids like beer.
If a college is too far away,  perhaps you can start earlier at Elementary Schools.
Offer them candy. I understand kids LOVE candy.
In the current social environment, what could go wrong?

If you want to save hard drive space, consider doing all your typing in lower case letters, and saw off the end of your computer table, so the mouse won't have so long to travel.

So was World War II, but it's important to know about such things, as I see that you recognize the "dueling banjo" reference. That means Ah saw the movie, and presumably you ALSO saw the movie, "Deliverance".
I am surprised that Hollywood's ratings get such respect.
Of course, there are people who never get over the fact they were born in bed with a naked woman ....
(no cartoons for THIS one ...)

This is the stereotypical Snowflake reaction of someone for whom CONTROL is more important that Truth and relating experiences, wherever the conversation might lead.
It hurts Snowflakes feelings when no one will pay attention to the agenda.
That's how computers work, but human minds, in love with freedom,  wander afield. 
That's why we make them, and they do not make us.

In any "theological pissing contest", the arguments that have the fewest words are usually the Truth.
I think I will believe the Governing Body verbatim, on this one ..... which summarizes  arrogance and screw-ups since 1870.
It's ONLY TWO very short sentences long.
And the Truth is self-evident.

....and just as an aside, I'll match your Pope picture, and raise you two absurdities.

 

NOW! you have ticked me off... STOP CALLING ME SHIRLEY !
( Merely a Pavlonian response ... )

I appreciate your scholarship, JWI ... but I think I have PTSD, and no longer care.
I have been "Gogged and Magogged" to death over the last 50 years, and find, at least for me, there are MORE IMPORTANT things to occupy my attention ... down here, where the "rubber meets the road".
Things like Justice, Fairness, Equity, Gentleness, and Compassion.
Whatever the case is .... soon enough ... we will ALL KNOW,
... perhaps TOO SOON.
 

I used the old NWT, since about 1962 to 2015 ... then I took a Brother (tm) label maker, and on the binder of my ASV wrote on yellow tape, in black  "AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION", so that when I was ACCUSED by a householder of using the NWT, I could show them that I was NOT.
The dumbed down, paraphrased version of 2013 embarrasses me for a variety of reasons.
In Dodge City, Kansas, I suspect the new NWT would not have been the preferred version of Marshal Matt Dillon, or that Long Branch Saloon BRAZEN HUSSY, Miss Kitty.

Translation is an ART ... not a science ... and some are very good at it ... and some are very bad at it ... and most are somewhere in the middle.
The 2013 NWT ( Silver Sword)  began using the term "brazen conduct" for the first time, to conform to the 2010 Super Secret (NOT!) Elder's handbook, which FIRST used that term, without any scriptural basis, referencing the OLD NWT ... or any (repeat ANY) other Bible translation in existence.
It's not in "The Emphatic Diaglott" by Benjamin Wilson ... and it's not in the "Kingdom Interlinear Translation" by the Society.
The Scriptures in the dumbed down 2013 "Silver Sword" NWT were changed to conform to the Elder's handbook, published THREE YEARS EARLIER.
Since I cannot comprehend Greek, I have to trust those two interlinear translation  books ... BOTH now published by the WTB&TS, by the way.
When I go out in Field Service, I take the "American Standard" version of the Bible, ALSO now published by the WTB&TS ... NOT the NWT.
( From Wikipedia ...)
" The ASV has also been used for many years by Jehovah's Witnesses. The reasons for their choosing of the ASV were twofold: its usage of "Jehovah" as the Divine Name, which was a translation of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) into English as some early Bible scholars had done before (i.e. Tyndale at Ps. 83:18[9]). They also derived their name from Isaiah 43.10, 12, both of which contain the phrase, "Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah." Also, there was a perception that the ASV had improved the translation of some verses in the King James Version, and in other places it reduced the verses that they found to be erroneously translated in the KJV to mere footnotes, removed from the main text altogether.[10]
Jehovah's Witnesses' publishing organization, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, had printed its own edition of the King James Version since 1926, but did not obtain the rights to print ASV until 1944. From 1944 to 1992, they printed and distributed over a million copies of the ASV. By the 1960s, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, made by members of their group and the rights to which they controlled, had largely replaced ASV as the Bible used most by Witnesses.[11] Though now preferring the NWT, Jehovah's Witnesses' publications frequently quote from other translations, including ASV."
 
 

Now THAT is a GREAT piece of work!   Next time the Brothers have a talent show, do that as a routine....
... don't hold your breath.

Hmmm... could it be that the Scripture should read Google of My Google?

Ok... here goes:
I officially recognize BTK46 as the BEST scholar in this group! (seriously...)
But his perspective is so screwed up he misinterprets EVERYTHING!
... it's like a child having a beautiful, playful, happy,  expensive pure-bred AKC registered puppy ....
... and he EATS it!
 

It's not a terrible translation ... but when it is deliberately kept ambiguous as a catch-all like a dragnet to suppress anything a Local Elder would like to suppress, based on his personal preferences, culture and political awareness of policy from New York, and accuse someone of "Brazen Conduct" if he or she asks an incorrect, unapproved question with unapproved words .... and is therefore deemed a danger to the congregation   ... a BRAZEN  rogue ... with a BRAZEN tongue ...
.... perhaps something LESS terrible and better defined, and more specific would be in order.
THE REASON THAT SPECIFIC WORD WAS CHOSEN WAS NOT FOR GREATER BIBLE ACCURACY ... IT WAS CHOSEN TO SUPPORT STATEMENTS MADE THREE YEARS PREVIOUSLY IN THE 2010 ELDERS HANDBOOK, THAT HAD NO SCRIPTURAL BACKUP,  UNTIL INVENTED, THREE YEARS LATER IN THE 2013 NWT.
 
 

Perhaps his book is on Amazon.com, and the reviewers may have commented on who he is (was?).

I apologize for you getting in the crossfire, JWI ...  but BTK46 INSULTED MY .22 CALIBER RIFLE!
i UNDERSTAND BTK46 WAS JUST A FUNNIN'' ... BUT YOU SEE, ... MAH RIFLE JUST DOHN  UNNERSTAN' !

 
He accused my rifle of hiding cowards!
 

What BTK got out of ALL my previous posts is that I DO NOT HAVE MY WEAPONS FOR SELF DEFENSE !
If there is ANYTHING that proves for all time, with absolute certainty, that his thinking is totally hosed, screwed up, and agenda driven ... THAT IS IT.
YIKES!
 
 

BTK: (By the way, did you know your acronym is widely viewed as "Blind, Torture, Kill"?):
Since you are ALWAYS wrong, perhaps you should quit, while you are still a head!
 
 

.... somewhat like being a concert pianist with eight long fingers on each hand.
...if only the extras were connected to the brain.
....sigh.

It would be useless for me to ask you for any facts to back up that statement, Billy, as we BOTH already know there aren't any .... as does everyone else reading your Phineas T. Bluster blusters .... so I will just make this conciliatory comment ...
"Why Billy, I did not know you were a student of mine!".
 
 
 

.... my scoped rifle is a back-packable breakdown .22 caliber, with a range of about 200 yards.
YOURS is a scoped .50 calibre sniper rifle, capable of shooting 4 miles, and with an effective range of about 3/4 of a mile.
..... reminds me of two Brothers with the same names, on an Ohio bridge, peeing into the river below.
JTR: "Wow, that water is really cold!"
BTK: "Yeah, and deep, too!"
 

... that's why Americans, with their bodies and their blood, with fire and steel, had to save your English butts TWICE, from the Germans.

If you are still planning to "go to war", you will need more resolve, grit, and ACTION. 
Make some guesses and follow up until they fall apart, or are verified.
COMPILE information.
To do that, first you have TO GO GET IT.
Perhaps your wife will (because of your circumstances ..) will have to make the phone calls.
 

Love Never Fails.
... and you don't need three days and 20 videos to explain it.
Remember the Elders that counseled Job for three days?  After three days they had said NOTHING of value, worth recording in what later became Scripture.

My other considered opinion ( and it's worth every cent you paid for it ...) John, is that you have a SERIOUS, almost fatal  deficiency of John Wayne movies.

Everybody that is a busybody does not think so ... in their own minds.
Was it Shakespeare in "Henry V" that told of King Henry walking among his soldiers in disguise, at night, to listen to their campfire talk, in the unwarranted invasion of France, and one soldier said to another " I hope our Sovereign is doing the right thing, as we have to obey him, but he will answer to God for what we do, here" (heavily paraphrased from memory ....)
Or, as Yoda said "There is only do ...or do not.   There is no try!"
(My advice is ...)  Either GO TO WAR ... OR RETIRE FROM THE FIELD !
If you do decide to go to war ... be prepared to lose, badly.
THERE IS ONLY ONE EXCUSE FOR BEING A "BUSYBODY" !
..... if you win.
 

Sure ... just type his full name and anything else you know about him into google, and for about $30, you can know almost everything there is to know about him.
Be careful which firm you choose ... about 60% of them are scams.