Yes, well done for being there for your niece. Regarding your sister, I thought bearing false witness against someone was a serious sin in the Bible, you may want to gently raise that point with her? I don't envy you, that's for sure! Sounds like you're doing the best you can in a rotten situation all round. Watchtower encourages this sort of behaviour toward children - and the courts - so JWs will increasingly find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
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Never thought I would see this in my family circle
by Captain Schmideo2 inso, my 17 year old niece reveals to me that for the past few years, her father (my sister's husband) has been physically and verbally abusive to her.enough so that it finally came to a breaking point, and she reported it to the police.
she told me that she had wished she had told me sooner, but she was trying to wait til she was 18 so that she could leave.i knew that she and her parents had been locking horns for the past couple of years, but i chalked it up to teen puberty and general growing pains.
but on their last, most recent visit, i could tell that something was really eating at her.apparently, what set off this latest incident was that he discovered that she had been seeing/involved with a non-witness boy about her age, and got so violent with her that it left marks.ironically, she went and got help from her boyfriend's father, a paramedic, who documented the injuries and encouraged her to report it.so, yeah, he spent a night in jail.she is now staying at the parents of her boyfriend, while still trying to have some aspects of her old life (work, school, etc.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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LEP It sounds pretty much like WT persecution porn
😂🙌exactly. Or as Simon said aka just 3 DMCA takedown notices which may have gotten him a two week ban if they had stood - like Rick Fearon just had*. No Biggie. He uses it as video material to drum up ca$h.
Watchtower only go after people at the local level if they can leverage family against you/to shun you, which is no longer an issue for Lloyd, and possibly higher up only in the case of finding leeks. Which is understandable and any business/organisation would do.
Lloyd is just your average, narcissistic, pervy, misogynistic grifter🤷♀️ & as I said (with the exception of DF them) if they didn't try to shut down Ray Franz, Jim Penton, Olaf Johansson, Barb Anderson, Randy Watters, Eric Wilson and many apostates who were elders & bethelites of 30 years plus, they're hardly going to bother with Lloyd.
*Actually I think KimMikey may have had to begin a new you tube channel, but that's the only instance I can think of.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Pr0ner It also would mean that Kim would have to be paid/controlled by the opposition since she blew the whistle on Lloyd which was all part of the plan right?
That's why I would take that video down if I was KM Marie. Either Kim Silvio must also work for watchtower (or Lloyd), or her cousin doesn't exist.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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I can't stop laughing...it looks so much like him...
That's the best bit of that video😂and the most realistic 😭
Lloyd Evans has never been the main apostate....there's so many others far better known and who've done the initial important work. Lloyd has just read their work on You tube for god's sake.
Now if they could have somehow destroyed Ray Franz's credibility that would have been worthwhile!!
All a you tuber does is reach tons more kids with low concentration spans....since kids are their only converts it would shoot Watchtower right in the foot!
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Return door to door
by Hellothere inany news about how it's going with the return too door 2 door preaching?
are the jws excited about it?
are they facing any opposition to it by householders?
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The iron chariots that defeated Jehovah in Judges 1:19 have been replaced with a piece of plastic and a microprocessor.
TBK😂😂😂
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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pr0ner11 minutes ago
What a strange way to frame not filming the environmentalists. Saying he couldn't cover them "fairly and honestly" seems to imply that he was catching them in lies. Perhaps he means they were making plans that couldn't be filmed but again why say the activists wouldn't allow you to cover it honestly?
It says "I can't make it enough of a one sided, suitably left-leaning virtue-signal fest to ensure total social media approval & maximum traction. Because I'm neither skilled or knowledgeable enough to make an honest & well balanced appraisal, yet still withstand the criticism and backlash that will inevitably follow a less than glowing, more nuanced report."
It's no wonder he's given to following the herd. He's gone from one self congratulatory echo chamber to another - golden child of both. It's one of the reasons he is so unable to deal with criticism - JWs are at once averse to anyone not agreeing with their group, yet hyper critical of each other, too.
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Upbringing
by punkofnice ini was brought up as a born-in(tm) here in the uk.
it wasn't until i was 50 that the scales fell from my eyes, i woke up, got da'd from the cult and my wife was advised to leave me by the elders whom i had served with on the boe.
one of which i know wanted to schtupf her.
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Thanks Dodgy knees
😂😂Love it
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Oh I wondered. Honestly Rick is a sweetheart but some of the people he hosts (thinking of one in particular, actually. Most are lovely) are down right bonkers.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Not to worry. Lloyd won’t contact them. The cult expert is Alexandra Stein. They want stories from those leaving a cult or who have successfully left a cult. Why do I say Lloyd won't contact them
He already knows Alexandra Stein he's interviewed her on his channel.
He probably won't get involved (unless it's very high profile) because he won't get paid ...his main mission in life
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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(He's) trying to branch out into other areas. His problem is that everyone else did the work for him the last few years
the only thing he really knew which was Jehovah's Witnesses".
Yup. Exactly. Everything interesting other people bought to the table. It was only his pompous, self important self belief that led we guileless JWs to believe in and support him too - thus making him look far more capable than he actually is. (Also helps that he's male, imposingly tall and calls himself an elder, despite spending only months in the office).
And is he misogynistic? Abso-fucking-lutely. Pr0ner I think he holds a special resentment toward you because you really had his number.