by Newly Enlightened 11530 Replies latest watchtower scandals
Although I doubt there’s much of a market for videos of atheists making making insincere interviews with wacky believers.
YouTube is full of videos doing just that. It would be a hard market to corner. I agree that "God's Buffet" is a really dumb title, as it plays off of Watchtower's catch phrase "spiritual food." A title like that once again Lloyd shows that he can't break free of Watchtower's mind control.
I’m not going to spell it out exactly, in case he reads this thread, but it seems glaringly obvious to me what kind of videos he makes that are popular and those that are not popular. What’s amazing is how few he makes of the popular variety and how he keeps “churning out” (as he puts it) the least popular kinds of videos at an increasing rate.
I'm glad Dijana left Watchtower. I'm not atheist. I believe in God, Jesus, and the Bible, ...hence my need to leave Watchtower. Has Dijana converted to Atheism along with Lloyd?
Makes you wonder, if he has a lot of money, why did he choose to stay in the same house as his parents in law all these years?
The answer to that question was made clear round the time he had relocated to a hotel in Istria on the northern Croatian coast after the earthquake. He tweeted out something to the effect that he didn’t want his girls growing up in Sisak where the standard of living was low and suggested he was going to begin looking at properties in Istria.
At the end of the Andrew Gold interview, he said something about living in retirement on an island with a fishing boat. He probably had enough to purchase a place in Istria but living on the coast or on an island is a few steps up from that and won’t come cheap.
There was also the problem of his wife and he likely was also looking for a place to deposit her and the girls on the mainland whilst he had sex holidays at his island retreat.
This whole scandal has jeopardised all of these grandiose plans and it’s notable that he mentioned to Andrew Gold that he regretted he could not reach out to every lapsed Patron to tell them they have been misled and to invite them to donate again. He doesn’t want to go back to 2017-2018 levels. He wants that 1000 patron goal for a reason. I think he was planning on living a life of semi-retirement from exJW activism at his beach retreat and handing over the keys to the Lloyd Evans channel to a Mark O’Donnell type whilst at the same time keeping all Patrons and donations for the channel and giving whoever took it over a salary similar to Tibor’s. He envisioned an “activist emeritus” position for himself and he could be interviewed by Zoom whenever the next WT scandal broke.
This is also why he cancelled a planned two month sojourn in Thailand and rushed back to Croatia after three weeks in order to stop his wife from divorcing him. He doesn’t want a public divorce and at the time all his activities had been kept secret. It also puts strain on his finances to pay child and spousal support, especially when based off Ipsilon Media earnings.
Hmmm ever wonder how he might have enticed his wife back into a marriage arrangement during this last holiday? I hope she put her foot down for a home deeded to only herself.
So appropriate for penniless ex JWs still trying to gain their own balance to donate to him so he can have a home on an island & to pay the wife off so he doesn’t struggle to pay child support.
Istria looks like a beautiful and fascinating place to live. Croatian, Italian, and Slovene are the main languages there. Let’s all chip in and get Evans a little three-language travel dictionary.
I have heard of lapsed Christians but never lapsed patrons.
That’s cute, Anna Marina,... lapsed patrons. How would they describe their status in their own words? Would they say, “I’m a lapsed Lloydivian. I lost faith briefly over trivialities like sexual morality, misuse of funds, and extortion. But I’ve recovered now, and I’m ready to accept all of Lloyd’s teachings. I’m re-initiating my Patreon support for the greatest Atheist activist who ever lived.”
There was also the problem of his wife and he likely was also looking for a place to deposit her and the girls on the mainland whilst he had sex holidays at his island retreat.
This sounds like a budget version of what Jeffrey Epstein did. When you put it this way, Lloyd Evans is more of a creep than I was giving him credit for being.
Nearly three decades ago, I hired a young man who had a wife and a couple of children to help me transport my belongings (not furniture) from the house of my relatives to an apartment I'd rented in another town. A friend had recommended him to me. Well, he helped me, finished the job, and I paid him. Weeks later, I heard that he'd relocated his wife and children from the apartment where they had been living, back into living with his wife's parents, had claimed his $4,000 dollar income tax refund check from the government for that year, and had disappeared from the lives of his family. So, yes, that can happen.
Hi Vintage - one of the best get rich quick schemes is to set up a religion. So you may not be far off!
Atheism may require a tweek.
Cults tend to include chanting, chatting to angels, dreams of going places (great for establishing pilgrim locations - set up cafes, flog souveniers, key rings and statues etc).
Cults always fail on prophecy and raising the dead.
