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  1. TrueTomHarley
    For purposes of quality control, at times I respond to your remarks in a manner different than you would like, but I do not misconstrue what you have said, let alone misconstrue everything you have said. Possibly in a Donald Duck - like tirade, you actually do not know what you say, inasmuch as you are blindsided when your words are taken at face value. Possibly you think persons will wilt in the face of them, as they might wilt if you pulled your rod on them. Moreover, you did not answer my question - 'do the 'Babylonian police officers' agree with your assessment that one has no MORAL RIGHT to call upon them for help if one is not willing to defend oneself with firearms.'? 'You feeling lucky today, Punk? Do ya think they'll agree with ya on that one?' I might have known I would not be able to misquote that line on your watch. That you would know it by heart AND deride a Christian for not knowing it speaks volumes. It practically says it all.
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    Got it. 'Took no note' alone carries the connotation that they should have. Interesting.
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    Jesus gives illustrations and stories and saying routinely, and he rarely explains any of them. He relies upon 'the heart' to discern them. Perhaps it is something like that at Matt 24:39. @JW Insidershowed many Bibles that render it differently than 'took no note.' I wonder if there are / what Bibles that render it similarly and what is the rationale each side has for doing what they do.
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    Not stumbling others is among the most basic principles of the New Testament. Don't tell me you have a problem with that. You change your conduct on relatively petty matters so as not to stumble new ones or weak ones, or, as a strictly practical matter, not to get some people going. In the case of the C.O, it does not even involve a change of course; it simply is that he doesn't do something openly. If you don't create needless friction over what is small, then you can hope to work smoothly together on what is big. You have a problem with that? Look, if you want to carry a gun, carry a gun. I don't think many would have a problem with it, especially if they don't know about it. Just don't carry on as though your very manhood is proved thereby, and that anyone not packing a gun is a girlieman. I submit it is the elders you spoke of disparagingly who are the real men, and you are merely someone who carries a gun, which could conceivably do more harm than good someday. I mean, I can see the headline: "Man Messes With JW's in the Minstry - 'Do Ya Feel Lucky Today, Punk?'"
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    That's how it generally works. Rural people hunt - some of them. City people don't. A C.O. we had for a time hunted, and he would bring carcasses back to his apartment behind the Kingdom Hall. He was low-key about it in case any city-slickers might be stumbled. It was in his DNA. He hailed from the plains of the Midwest. So, having a gun handy already, some say (not the C.O.) "If need be, I'll plug a villain if the family is threatened. " I've never heard of anyone packing a weapon at the Kingdom Hall.
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    After we bought the house we now live in, I was poking around and found an old rifle tucked away in the attic. It had a Nazi insignia on it. A previous owner had apparently brought it back from Europe as a war trophy. I don't know anything about guns and don't want to know. So I called 911. I made very clear that it was an old weapon. The cop who came didn't hear this part. All he was told was "there's a guy with a gun!!!" It's a good thing I did not behave erratically or emerge from the door gun in hand. He looked at it, said it was deader than a door-nail and suggested it might be worth something. So I checked around but it was not. It was a Berlin model and they were a dime a dozen. Had it been Stuttgart or somewhere, we would have been talking some dough.
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    Perhaps that is good counsel and I should be chastened by it. I will be. I would hope that the image of someone lying such a thing routinely, casually and openly by their seat in this most non-violent of all places would be instantly recognized as a joke. But you're right. Humor does not universally translate. And there are many humorless people around. And humor is a spice at best; it is by no means a requirement for life. And it is a hair-trigger topic today. Point taken.
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    So. Call the elders girliemen, will you? Those split personalities you fussed about? You ain't seen nothing yet. Do the 'Babylonian police officers' themselves agree with this? Is it also true with plumbers? Is it true with fire fighters? Is it true with heart surgeons? It is morally wrong to ask a professional to do his job? I'm sorry, I know I should butt out because nothing is impossible. But there is too much of a 'Boy's Life' component to all this and it draws me in against my will. "Eagle Scout Saves the Sissies! Shows meaning of the motto 'Be Prepared!'"
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    Michener writes somewhere about a delegation of Western bigwigs hosted by natives. Chiefs were insistent upon providing hospitality, and beautiful women was the first line of offence. Our hero of the book, whoever he was, did indeed succumb, married though he was. However, the drummer for the Rolling Stones, Charlie someone-or-other, lives a life as conventional as the other Stones' lives are promiscuous. When Hugh Hefner had them all over for an orgy, Mick went hogwild, but Charlie stayed downstairs playing pool.
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    Sorry. It was cognitive dissonance or something making Ed trouble. It's just hard for him to get his head around the image of packing a gun at the Kingdom Hall. It may be that he's had too much of this Bible stuff about Jesus telling Peter to put his sword down. Ed is a bit of a nutcase and I'll try to keep him in check. You are a regular here, this is your thread, and I usually avoid intruding upon that. Sorry again.
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    In the final part of the days, the powers that be got their heads together. "There's a lot of villains, scoundrels, pinheads and liars on the internet! Who can we send to combat them?" someone observed. "Hmm. Well, the pool of talent is pretty shallow. I mean, there's plenty of talent but they're all busy doing the kingdom things they ought to be doing," another answered. "You know, we could always send that idiot @TrueTomHarley. He'll reliably kick them in the teeth, all right. The only trouble is, he's as likely to annoy us as he is them."
  12. TrueTomHarley
    The time has come to blow this Newton idiot out of the water. The fact is that Brother Newton was ALWAYS WRONG! ALL of the hogwash he handed down to the unwashed has been PROVEN faulty. He has NEVER been RIGHT. He only gave THE APPEARANCE of being right to those who were content to be LED BY THE NOSE!!!! Brother Einstein has completely exposed what a pathetic simpleton he was. Not only that, he has EXPOSED the DUPES who followed him. MEN of HONOR, who are not afraid to DIE IN THE TRENCHES OF TRUTH have never blindly followed this MAN!!! Thomas Jefferson would have LAUGHED AT HIM! The GBoS (Governing Body of Science) tries to foist upon HONORABLE MEN the absurdity that Brother Newton and Brother Einstein belong to the overlapping generation of scientists. It is ABSOLUTE HOGWASH designed to keep the ignorant ones IN THEIR CONTROL!! Brother Einstein, too, will be shown up as the pathetic creature of dust he is, perhaps five, perhaps ten, perhaps more years from now - but he WILL BE SHOWN UP!!! What? When I am cruising down the highway in my AMC Pacer, I am really standing still, and the whole world is racing past me at 60MPH? Is he nuts?
  13. TrueTomHarley
    There is a lot of disrespect on these pages, good sister, and some outright apostacy. It is not the Assembly Hall. Technically speaking, I should not be here, nor anyone seriously attempting to follow counsel on cultivating fine association even on social media. I have tried to escape but each time find myself trapped in the vortex and drawn back into doing battle with a handful of persons whom I consider ignoramuses. (allowing for the premise, which some feel is doubtful, that I myself am one of the 'good guys') It is too late for me, but not too late for others to flee to the mountains. Seriously, Maid in UK, I mean no disrespect to the theocratic interests. (I mean plenty of disrespect to some others) Not everyone appreciates 'zany' and some who do appreciate it think it inappropriate to apply to kingdom interests. I beg forgiveness in that case. If you can put up with an idiosyncrasy, I assure you that in my circuit I don't think there is a soul who does not like me, for I am, first of all, a peacemaker and I am not wound up too tight. Unfortunately, I am also a communicator and I gots to communicate.
  14. TrueTomHarley
    Einstein cleaned his clock.
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    Paint it.
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    I like it that the 80 year old elder tells his smart phone to remind him next year of John's wife's death anniversary. Even I, a regular right here on the WorldNewsMediaForum, am not savvy enough to do that. I also like it that when the Bible is put down, the pages unfurl into a freeze-frame that is our badge. How cool is that?
  17. TrueTomHarley
    Oh, dear. Should I? Yes - go for it! Actually, one did. She pounded him senseless. (sorry)
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    It reminds me of '3 guys on a boat' jokes, like when the President, the Pope, and Mayor Daly (substitute your favorite crook to update it) were stranded on a boat, sinking because there was only capacity for two. The first two successfully pleaded how they were too important to jump overboard, and Mayor Daly started to sweat. But he rebounded. "Gentlemen, gentlemen, let's settle this the democratic way. Let's take a vote," he proposed. So they did, and Mayor Daly won, 5 to 2.
  19. TrueTomHarley
    The odds-makers also took bets about whether Lady Gaga would diss the President at the Superbowl. Alas, I do not bet, for I would have cleaned up. She is an up-and-coming artist, thrilled to be doing the gig of her career. She's going to screw that up by alienating half her audience?
  20. TrueTomHarley
    Why do you think there is to be a new system? Because God is enthralled over the noble independence-seekers of this one? Rather than become focused over a trifle, it is good to consider Nathanial Hawthorne's take: "People who think the most bold of thoughts have no difficulty conforming to outward norms of society." Nobody thinks thoughts more bold than Jehovah's Witnesses. Actually, I think the reverse is also true. People who kick up a huge fuss over trifles tend to be the most conformist of all when it comes to bold things. Wear a beard if you want to. No one ever said you couldn't. You just would have to endure some peer pressure, and thus, might decide it was not worth it. That is the aspect that appears to be changing.
  21. TrueTomHarley
    a whole lot a anointin going on. All anointing, whether true or mistaken, is self-professed. There are 8 mil JWs worldwide? How significant is a 6.4K jump? I have known several 'modern' partakers - not all for whom you would say 'well, of course!' I like it that the GB is drawn from persons who are A.) annointed, and B.) annnointed, who have proved their dedication through decades of full-time service, performing a ministry more lowly than most of those whom they later will lead.
  22. TrueTomHarley
    Nonsense. I mean, it would be okay if you could find Jesus counseling his disciples: 'Don't take any s**t from anyone!' I'd walk a mile to get away from such dumb reasoning Which congregation did Sister Rand go to?
  23. TrueTomHarley
    It's a policy that could have fallen long ago, IMO. (If it has) Beatniks and hippies vanished as separate species ages ago. Nonetheless, what's the big deal? Many brothers got around it by not wearing beards. It's by squabbling over the petty freedoms that you miss out on the big ones.
  24. TrueTomHarley
    If this is not 'fake news' then I would agree with this statement. the inclusion of Ballard's name lends credibility, just as tossing in my name causes people to sit up and take notice.
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    When the Bible is set down onscreen, the pages unfurl to freeze-frame into the badge card image. I like that.
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