James Thomas Rook Jr.

Every once in a great while, you will find an excellent Doctor , who is exceptional, but he never went to medical school and does not have a license to practice.  Several movies have been made about this sort of thing, wither about doctors, policemen, and even airline pilots.
Take whatever lessons you want from this observation.
 

No, I said that I don't ... when in Field Service .... if memory serves.
Therein lies the problem.

... by the way ... my suppressed .22 cal. scoped rifle is ONLY used for target practice, and very limited self defense, if ever needed .... but I bought it to shoot out overhead street lights to blackout a neighborhood, for rescue attempts.
... but that is another story, from many years ago.

I will have to belatedly agree with you BTK ... a scoped 50 caliber sniper rifle, as you have admitting owning, but reticent to relate how you acquired it, is NOT a defensive weapon, except in warfare.
  It is obviously, to everyone who knows about such things, an OFFENSIVE weapon for preemptive strikes.
This claim of yours is new (please show evidence if I am wrong ...).
Here is the clincher: How often do you hunt game with your sniper rifle, and what have you bagged. If you do not have a truthful answer, you are living in a fantasy world of your own manufacture.
 
 

Why TTH, I did not know you had a Japanese accent when typing!

If he is still alive, he might answer the phone, and tell you ... or it may go to voicemail.

If I have a right to expect perfection from others ..... they have a right to expect it from me.
And I KNOW, I am a Barbarian.
 
Of course ... there ARE limits .......

If I was you, TTH, I would worry less about Gregg G. Stafford's efforts to turn Jehovah's Witnesses' life, culture, and theology into museum pieces, and more about the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses doing just that.
The efforts of the GB cause millions of people to "come into the Truth", but they also chase millions of people away, after they do.
It's like a person who makes his fortune in New York City, and finds that the City and State do not consider him to be a citizen, as much as they consider him a cash cow.
There is nothing more portable than people with money who are tired of being treated badly by State and local governing bodies, and when they find they have no voice at all to protest this treatment, they realize that they can vote with their feet, and take their wallets with them, leaving the States and Cities to become museum pieces in a slow, tragic death spiral. 
Detroit is a classic example ...one of many.
The same is becoming more and more true about Jehovah's Witnesses, who often, unless they are mindless sycophants,  chafe and tire of the uninspired and erroneous, and heavy handed (in a silk glove) treatment they get in pursuing equity and Justice, and Truth.
So ... they take the Truth they have with them, and their wallets with them, like spilled gold dust disappearing  through cracks in the floor.
They too ... vote with their feet ... and their wallets ... leaving the Organization to be surrounded with sycophants, admiring their Telly Awards, and cartoon evangelizers.
"We have seen the Enemy" .... and He is Us"   -   Pogo
 
( The reason I stay, is I have a very high pain tolerance, and expect nothing from anybody ... and $30 every few months  is all I can afford, and I allocate that to "local needs".)
 

Even though the above quote was addressed to John Butler (and he can defend himself from your evil if he so desires ...) CONCERNING YOUR QUOTED STATEMENT ABOUT ME, you have just convicted YOURSELF, with your own words,  of being a hateful, wicked, malicious liar and a slanderer, BTK46.
NONE of what you just stated was true ... and you made it up completely from your malignant viewpoint on life.
Your malignant, perverted agenda driven  fantasy is not based on ANYTHING factual
Because I did not lie or misrepresent myself, I was convicted, and disfellowshipped .... and NOT for my divergent theology,, or "loose cannon" philosophy, which did in fact come up as I presented a defense for my actions.
I rescued someone from death using means and methods not understood, or sanctioned.
It is YOU that are the liar, BTK.
Under the unwritten "three year rule", I had to wait three years and more to be reinstated, because I would not lie, or fake it, or plead for mercy for myself. ( of which mercy is never shown, anyway, so it would have been a useless request ...). In my letter requesting reinstatement, I only promised I would not do what I did, again ... I did not renounce what I had to do, as I could not, and would not.
YOU ARE THE HABITUAL, WICKED, HATEFUL, LIAR, BTK46 ... AND YOU HAVE JUST CONVICTED YOURSELF.
You lie about EVERYTHING ... even the details about your .50 caliber sniper rifle, and your impossible fantasy of  me standing in front of a Tank with you in Tienanmen Square, China,  with a .22 caliber rifle, you unarmed being so brave, and bowing to no man.
You are a real piece of work!
... with a lot of pieces missing.
YOUR PUNISHMENT .....  IS TO BE YOU.
 
 

Of course not, BTK46 ...... you are a proven habitual liar ...  your own words prove it.
Now, as documented here on this forum, firmly established with solid proof from your own words .... there is nothing you could possibly do as a response to disprove that established  fact.
Of COURSE you won't respond.
Every time you are caught in a lie, you don't respond, except to change the subject.
...  few things are as sad as a delusional scholar who does not have to lie ... but does, anyway, trying to elevate himself, hoisted aloft by agenda driven fantasy.
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ON AN UNRELATED NOTE ... Ever wonder why Caleb and Sophia never age, and presumably will never have cartoon children of their own?

You have already proved from your own words you are a habitual, compulsive liar, BTK46.  Your continuing to expound on that theme only lends great credence to the possibility that you are ALSO certifiably insane.
You are your own worst enemy BTK46.
If you want to stay out of a "nervous hospital", my advice is to change the subject to ANYTHING else!

One thing I have said many times before .... with humans, there is truly ...
INFINITE VARIETY
 

Because I have a nose, and they have peckers?
 

Just as the word "Gay" means something COMPLETELY different than when you and I were growing up ... perhaps the word back then meant something like urinating in public, or dressing in such a way that was immodest if one was incontinent.
With our track record of being right about such things, it may have originally meant anything at all EXCEPT what the Society officially tells us is the case.

We seem to have world class problems understanding the simplest common sense things .... like what a "Generation" is. Everyone else on the planet uses ONE definition, and always has ... except us.
I cannot even imagine the Apostles understanding what Jesus said the way we are told to.
That's why I want the GB "OFFICIAL" explanation, which may or may not have anything at all with standard definitions, common sense, or reality. 
They really ought to tell us what definitions we are actually using to make determinations of what is, and what is not "brazen conduct", so that the excesses that all humans are subject to do not cause irreparable harm when being applied ... because we are being governed BY AND WITH those definitions.
This is NOT a new issue ... and REMAINS unresolved, since 2010, almost a decade ago.
Historically, the record of "straight shooting", and accountability has been terrible.

The way things are progressing, I wonder when they select a new member of the Governing Body, the "Helpers" will have white smoke come out of that Watchtower at the main entrance of Warwick Bethel ?.....

Africa Inland Mission tie, eh?
Perhaps that is what the scripture meant when the Greek word for "brazen" which literally means "in-continent" (per Outta Here) was used.
Either peeing without self control, or being inside a continent, such as Inland Africa.
.... Depends!

I stay with Jehovah's Witnesses because the core theology is sound, and true .... and not because of the 85% arrogant self serving drivel I have to endure, and the resultant damage on the Brotherhood ... for three reasons:
1.) I appreciate what is actually true is exclusive to Jehovah's Witnesses, and there is nowhere else to go, and
2.) I have learned to expect as a natural right NOTHING from anybody, and
3.) I do not fear death as some do .... might be a good chance to test what I think I know.

Example:
Because of my love for dogs, my heart firmly and absolutely believes my dogs who have died will be waiting for me at the Rainbow Bridge. (Look it up).  There is absolutely no shred of doubt in my heart. None whatsoever. Anywhere.
My mind knows, based on what is true, that it is a complete fantasy.
I am stuck believing with ALL my heart and soul, something that is a complete fantasy, and is not true.
In that regard, but about different subjects, you and I share the same affliction.
We have brains ... we must use them.
That is what adults are supposed to do.
As Yoda says, if I remember correctly .... : "There is only DO .... There is no try"
Do or Do not There is no try Yoda.mp4

Grey Reformer:
Your entire thinking processes are contaminated by your honorable but misguided agenda.
You cannot defend what is indefensible, and expect to win an argument based on reason and logic when evaluating TRUTH.
What I just quoted from you is SCARY ... to a logical mind.
It uses the same lack of reasoning that "...all prostitutes wear shoes ... so all people that wear shoes are prostitutes".
Grow up !!

Currently, at Warwick World HQ, it takes translators to decipher an apology before it is printed in the publications.

Speaking of CANDOR ... the following cartoon is how "candor" works at Warwick World Headquarters, as well as at other businesses ... EVERYWHERE. 
We are NOT immune to this!
It's a cartoon ... but what makes it funny ( and grabs your chest in a queasy sort of way generating sadness ...) is because there is SO MUCH TRUTH, in this satire of what is REAL.
 

Here is a joke for you:
QUESTION: What do you call "candor" ... bundled with insincere kindness?
ANSWER::  No one knows, as truth is being deliberately obscured.
 
 

Your homework (should you decide to accept) is to print out the above CANVAS on an 8-1/2x11" piece of paper and find the six things that are deliberate lies, and write it  on the margins of your paper.
 

Agendas can be proven wrong with FACTS.
Facts cannot be proven wrong with Agendas.
No matter how noble the motive ....
Wrong is Wrong.
 

" STAY ALIVE 'TILL '75"
The climatic conclusion met with thunderous applause of the 1967 Charles Sinutko Assembly talk "Serving With Everlasting Life In View" !
After his opening weasel wording  he forgot his plausible deniability statement in the beginning, and ramped it up to a crescendo conclusion  that had the crowd roaring!
"STAY ALIVE 'TILL '75"
 

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Grey Reformer:
Please go back and re-read what you have written in the last several weeks. It is all extremely consistent.
You care NOTHING about actual facts ... if it disagrees with your agenda.
In the very first issue of the Watchtower, Bro. C. T. Russel stated that ( heavily paraphrased) "The truth is the truth, no matter what the source ... if Satan tells you something that is true... it's still true".
That is still true today.
 

 
 

 
You may want to download BOTH  JPGs,  but especially the quote from Bro. Charles Taze Russel, which started the whole shebang of modern day Jehovah''s Witnesses ... based ON THIS PRINCIPLE. ... " What is Truth ?" It is high resolution, and easier to read when downloaded and enlarged.