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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Diogenesister you have a PM
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  Disney Star Wars makes another retarded choice

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  what is it with disney star wars?

  why is it that seemingly everything disney touches turns to shit?

  what the f**k are these scooters doing in the book of boba fett?!

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  The magic of Star Wars pretty much ended with the final scene of Return of the Jedi.

  This.

  I'm a lifelong Science Fiction fan. Wife and I saw "Star Wars" at the first opportunity and loved every second of it. That is a great movie, even if bits and pieces of earlier works are scattered through it. The visuals are good, John Williams score if perfect.

  The next two films were OK, but didn't grab me. I've pretty much hated everything since then.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  I can't remember if I posted anything on that thread, and I'm too tired at the moment to read through the whole thing. However, in general, I've been trying to offer up some clarity on the meaning of all these big awards against the watchtower.

  I'm an accountant, not a lawyer, but I've dealt with plenty of lawsuits and payouts over the years. Two things to keep in mind:

  1) Large awards are almost always reduced on appeal. If somebody is awarded $20,000,000 the chances are slim to none that they will have to pay out the full amount

  2) In almost all cases no one writes a check for whatever the final settlement was. The lawyers will work out some sort of payment plan.

  So in this hypothetical example, you read in the papers that JeffT was awarded $20,000,000 in damages because the ACME demolition company demolished the wrong house. (Believe it or not this happens. Google "wrong house demolished by mistake.) What you won't read is that, on appeal, my award was reduced to two million, half of which will be paid over ten years. If I want my cash now I can always call J G Wentworth.

  I find myself trying to explain this frequently when the large initial awards are discussed here. I am sure that some of the plaintiff's lawyers in these cases are great people, and want to see justice done. But I don't see them "bringing down the Watchtower" for a simple reason: they want to get paid.

  Back to the case in hand. Lloyd could have taught himself all this in about half an hour on his computer. In looking back through so many of his posts I see an unwillingness to do the hard work (which is being done by a lot of people in the XJW community). Instead of doing what could be some valuable research, Evans appears to want to pontificate.

  I think by tonight I will have this on my blog so I won't have to write it all again. https://www.jeffthomasbooks.net/
  
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  Chance or intelligent design?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  cofty could you answer how the single cell came about by chance?.

  i know the argument for complexity in nature says natural selection over billions of years but this could not explain the complexity of the single cell the building blocks of life?.

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  Credit to my sister (a retired infectious disease doc) for bringing this to my attention while I was fighting an infection.

  Intelligent design supporters always like to ask where something (eyeballs, cells, brains, what have you) came from because it is too complicated have "just evolved." It needs an intelligent designer.

  Fine. Why are my sinuses so badly designed?
  
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  WARNING! If you DELIBERATELY avoid the JW memorial.....

  by BoogerMan in

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  .......you will experience a fate worse than death!

  you have been warned - don't come crying to me if you don't go.

  you've got one month to change your mind.

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  I attended Memorial faithfully from 1973 to 1987. For every single one of those the announcement contained a statement that we needed to attend because "this might be the last memorial ever." I can't remember if we went in 1988, it was during the time my wife and I were in our research phase. By the time memorial 1989 had rolled around I concluded the Watchtower didn't know what it was talking about.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  This is the very purpose of a forum and why JWs don't like people going to them. Free discussion. Nothing really is off-topic, and we are free to discuss what we might think is going on with certain things.

  I joined the JW's at age 22 because I had just graduated from college and my community was dissolving and blowing off with the wind. So I found a new community (this was in 1973 and I was sucked up in the lead up to 1975) In 1988 I figured out my new community was based on false premises.

  So I found a new community -- of xjw's. back in those days a bunch of us meet once a month and functioned as support group. Looking back this group was a key factor in out exit.

  I discovered internet message boards in the late 90's and joined this one about 2000. I think this group now fills the space carved out by those early XJW support groups (I know the one we went to was not alone).

  Now we can all chat with like minded people all over the world. (Not just here, I don't know how many XJW facebook groups there are) We have formed a community, and when others want to join that community they are welcome to do so. And almost all points of view are welcome, in sharp contrast to the kingdom hall The only one with the authority to shut us up is Simon, and he seems pretty chill unless you really piss him off.

  For a time I think his videos filled an empty spot in the community, but it went off the rails with the problems AAWA had getting off the ground. Now Lloyd comes off as unwilling to allow anybody else in the sandbox, or any opinion other than his. Form my point of view I don't think he wants to get out of the Kingdom Hall, he wants to run it. That attitude is a threat to the freedom and safety of our community, and I don't think we're going to quit fighting it just because Lloyd's supporters tell us to.

  Lloyd, if you don't understand what we're complaining about try reading the last 830 or so pages with an open mind. The answers to your problems exist, if you want to fix them.
  
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  JW words ph rases I don't recall seeing in the Bible

  by enoughisenough in

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  i was trying to think of some common jw words and phrases i don't think are in the bible .. new world order new system spiritual israel governing body channel of communication organization reporting time pioneer aux pioneer circuit overseer kingdom hall circuit assembly district convention....,maybe you can think of something to add if you are inclined..

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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  That comedy routine had a major flaw: it wasn't funny.

  The only time I laughed was the comment about England invading other countries. I'm an American republican (in the original sense of the word). Generally, my attitude toward the British monarchy is "two hundred-plus years ago we fought two wars to get you out of our country but we've been good friends ever since." I found the joke about the queen offensive. I just skimmed the rest of it, had I been there I probably walked out.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  the panting walrus that is finished in a minute,

  Could somebody pass me the brain bleach. Please.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  However, I don’t know how to write an unassailable contract that would hold the proofreader “free from harm” for assisting Dijana in a “tell all”,

  Not difficult at all. (If I did such a thing I'd have my attorney review it). The contract would cover the scope of work, which would be correcting spelling, grammar etc. Somebody else is responsible for double checking the contents of the story.

  Although if its written as a memoir you can probably cover your butt by claiming that you're written about events from your personal perspective. That's hard to prove wrong in court.