James Thomas Rook Jr.

Who would pay me to watch Youtube Videos and take notes?
You interested in buying them?
I do have reasonably good handwriting!
( Hmmmmm.... I could scan them, and post them here ... photons are cheap! )

Susan and I are watching the whole thing now on YouTube, and we are taking notes.   I hope the information is worth the effort.
" ... Law of diminishing returns ... ", as you already understand.
Besides, my face and arms are covered with poison ivy from working on my chicken coop, and it's 93 degrees out there.

All you have said, Melinda, is true, but .... (assuming you have already attended the 2019 Convention ...) the question remains,
WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WAS NEW AT THE 2019 "LOVE NEVER FAILS" REGIONAL CONVENTION ?
By the way ... I met my first wife at an Assembly ( she ran out on me with my best friend, an ex Bethelite and a Pioneer).
I met my second wife in Peru, and we both worked on helping to build Bethel, there ( she ran out on me for no specified reason, other than she never loved me ).
and ... I met my current and third wife, Susan,  on a JW dating website, and after six years, she is the love of my life, and my best friend.
My three children, very VERY dedicated to the Organization, and who live within a 200 mile radius, have visited me less than ONE DAY in the last ten years ( this coming December 19th), so you can see why it is important for me to find out how OTHER people process information, and ...
WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WAS NEW AT THE 2019 "LOVE NEVER FAILS" REGIONAL CONVENTION ?
 

Wow! It's been years since anyone expected Biblical men of old to appear at a convention.

... and we all know historically how the Germans love to pay back, when you give them an opportunity ...
Sounds like they are selling the debt so when it defaults, 1.) plausible deniability, and 2.) the phone can be disconnected, so to speak.
...same thing with the publications you mentioned..
Blame it on the Germans!
 

What was the ghost wearing?
 
 

.... that's why REAL men  never set their Phasers to STUN !
( ... puts a wrinkled age-appropriate paper bag with eye holes over head and hyperventilates, to get back on topic ...)

Hard to get anything past me... I type with TWO fingers!
It would go faster if I removed the finger-tip rubber chicken heads.

Remember the song in the old pink shirt cardboard songbook,  that I used to call the "Let's drag the stones to the Pyramid" song?  I forget the name ...
 Bum dee dee BUM de de,  BUM BUM BUM dum bum.
BUM de de BUM de de bum dum dum dum DUM.
Bum de de, Bum de de DUM,  DUM ....
... etc.
I miss that song ....
 

Seems chicken was introduced centuries later - not at the time of these festivals.  Some Jews kept pigs to sell to others, others probably also kept chickens but it was not in their diet until maybe the Roman times. Eggs were mentioned by Jesus as a gift to one's children.

Haven’t gone yet. But I think it is possible to extrapolate from prior conventions what this one will be. That’s what I have done.

other than those things that TTH enumerated about you...I think you're OK
 

Well, James.... I learned that yes, Manasseh did actually repent and was forgiven by Jehovah. (i.e. there is hope for the rest of us!) How do I know? I saw him with my own eyes.
Usually, after living a number of years, we may take stock of ourselves and realize the things that we did not want to believe about ourselves were actually true. We repent and begin to consider how can we make amends. We mellow.
How many people are aware of these very personal things that you have revealed about yourself? A lot? A few? I know these were very hurtful things for you. Thank you for letting us know these things. I am glad that your current mate is "the love of your life and your best friend. May you both live for an eternity together in perfection in Jehovah's new world!

Years ago an introductory convention talk featured Matthew 13:52
“...every public instructor who is taught about the Kingdom of the heavens is like a man, the master of the house, who brings out of his treasure store things both new and old.”
It wouldn’t all be new. It would be also plenty of the old. 
At seventy years of age, most of it will be old. It will be reminders and exhortations, encouragement and the relating of experiences. It will be new ways of looking at old things—the gem turned so that it is examined through a new facet. Since you are so very much out of harmony with the ones putting on the program, you will kick back at most of it. I mean, you are not exactly easy to satisfy.
 

I have no idea what the reasons were/are, but brought it up to you in case you had heard anything, as I know you have taken an interest in this "follow the money" mantra. The book thing could have been to keep it out of the Library of Congress, or some such other reason.

All you have said, Melinda, is true, but .... (assuming you have already attended the 2019 Convention ...) the question remains,
WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WAS NEW AT THE 2019 "LOVE NEVER FAILS" REGIONAL CONVENTION ?
By the way ... I met my first wife at an Assembly ( she ran out on me with my best friend, an ex Bethelite and a Pioneer).
I met my second wife in Peru, and we both worked on helping to build Bethel, there ( she ran out on me for no specified reason, other than she never loved me ).
and ... I met my current and third wife, Susan,  on a JW dating website, and after six years, she is the love of my life, and my best friend.
My three children, very VERY dedicated to the Organization, and who live within a 200 mile radius, have visited me less than ONE DAY in the last ten years ( this coming December 19th), so you can see why it is important for me to find out how OTHER people process information, and ...
WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WAS NEW AT THE 2019 "LOVE NEVER FAILS" REGIONAL CONVENTION ?
 

This will probably become a talking point within a few weeks. Did you know that brothers who have Loans to the WTBTS of PA are getting notices that those loans are being transferred to a German entity? Don't know if it's related, but this might be related to something that has been known for a long time: the Elder's handbook (Flock book) is no longer published or printed in the United States by either the WTBTS of PA, NY or the CCJW. It's no longer a US product.

Not much change. It's now 61. It's had a long history, and used to have a few extra measures in it (1950 Songbook) that were considered too repetitive for the 1966 Songbook, and it made it much harder to sing back then.

Yep!
Why they changed it or got rid of it is a mystery to me.
 

It's got to be this one:

.... that's why REAL men  never set their Phasers to STUN !
( ... puts a wrinkled age-appropriate paper bag with eye holes over head and hyperventilates, to get back on topic ...)

James, we slightly off topic you know. Back to your topic now you have a bigger audience.

Hard to get anything past me... I type with TWO fingers!
It would go faster if I removed the finger-tip rubber chicken heads.

Remember the song in the old pink shirt cardboard songbook,  that I used to call the "Let's drag the stones to the Pyramid" song?  I forget the name ...
 Bum dee dee BUM de de,  BUM BUM BUM dum bum.
BUM de de BUM de de bum dum dum dum DUM.
Bum de de, Bum de de DUM,  DUM ....
... etc.
I miss that song ....
 

I realized it didn't quite fit your cadence, and I tried to erase my comment in time, but you were too quick. Now I wish I could put back my post with the bad guess, so that your comment would make more sense.