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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  From legal counsel in Thailand

  His legal advice, after careful consideration of all matters pertaining to the previous events and video statement, was "me love you wong time, sucky-sucky five dollar!"
  
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  Counseling for Ex JW

  by Iamallcool in

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  i have been thinking that it would be very nice if the us government would be willing to fund ex jw counseling services all over the united states.

  i understand that many counselors do not really understand ex jw issues but we can educate them if we have additional funds, etc…if someone here is willing to write a letter to their local representative about it, that would be great!

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  You can fill people in very quickly - just say "it's a bit like the Amish" and they know the gist of it.

  Isolated group, cut-off from the outside, not allowed to join in with things like the rest of society.
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  Counseling for Ex JW

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
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  i have been thinking that it would be very nice if the us government would be willing to fund ex jw counseling services all over the united states.

  i understand that many counselors do not really understand ex jw issues but we can educate them if we have additional funds, etc…if someone here is willing to write a letter to their local representative about it, that would be great!

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  The therapists often don't understand why the person just didn't leave the group

  I suspect there are a lot of therapists who are simply not very good and only vaguely qualified in reality (I'm guessing it's more of a "registered" thing). It'a not a hard science after all.

  If someone doesn't understand something so basic, that many lay people know of, people should leave and find someone more competent. You shouldn't be there to train them IMO.
  
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  Analysing Lloyd Evans' latest statement

  by raymond frantz in

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  https://youtu.be/6dydulvugog.

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  Simon

  Please post it on one of the existing topics. We don't need more for each reply.
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  Counseling for Ex JW

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been thinking that it would be very nice if the us government would be willing to fund ex jw counseling services all over the united states.

  i understand that many counselors do not really understand ex jw issues but we can educate them if we have additional funds, etc…if someone here is willing to write a letter to their local representative about it, that would be great!

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  Is this a holdover of the "JWs are unique" thinking that JWs have?

  Because there really isn't anything that unique about the JW world or upbringing that requires "specialists in JW-ism" IMO.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  original reddit post (removed).

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  From: None of the "Cult Experts" bothered vetting John Cedars?

  "The reason I'm not recording it is because I have nothing to hide"

  Yeah - what?! That really does make no sense whatsoever. Maybe it was the pitiful pleading he was going to do, not the image he wanted from his "big man talk" outside in the car on his own. Or maybe it was about what he did?

  I wonder now about the part in his non-apology video where he says something along the lines of "we had to leave the UK". Maybe it was just a figure of speech, poor phrasing, or maybe it was another accidental admission? It just seems like a weird thing to say. Was he fleeing the potential consequences of something? Did he think he could threaten to expose the WTS involvement in the coverup of his own scandal as a bargaining chip against the WTS?

  People are way too eager to hear bad things said about the WTS and don't put enough effort into vetting who they allow into their midst. Hating the WTS should not be a pass or accreditation, it's proof of jack shit. Plenty of people dislike the WTS because they kicked them out for their behavior and were right to do so.

  I know some people will be annoyed by that statement - anyone who is just demonstrates they have simplistic black-and-white thinking about anything WTS related and lack the ability to make critical judgement of people other than the badge they wear.
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  Counseling for Ex JW

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been thinking that it would be very nice if the us government would be willing to fund ex jw counseling services all over the united states.

  i understand that many counselors do not really understand ex jw issues but we can educate them if we have additional funds, etc…if someone here is willing to write a letter to their local representative about it, that would be great!

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  Why would they give special treatment to exJWs? Why would it be any concern of the government? Why would exJWs be a priority over any other groups?

  Aren't there already counselling services people can use?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Ha ha ha, that statement reads to me like it was 100% written by Lloyd, as it's exactly the same tripe as in his video. To summarize the gist of what he says and translate it from the complex legal statement that it totally is:

  Oh noes, telling everyone what I've been up to is the worst crime ever, totally way worse than taking money off people and spending it to cheat on your wife with hookers, for sure! Apart from all of it, that I've already confirmed to be true, the rest is lies! The fact that I admitted to everything is now null and void because I removed the video where I did, and edited those parts out, so there, beat that!

  I heard the word "slander" once, and even though I'm totally the law-talking-guy I'm going to use it, even though it's really things that have been spoken verbally about me rather than written (i.e. libel). Of course the whole "being true" thing makes it neither slander nor libel but I desperately need to pretend it still is.

  Remember, the most important thing in all this is praise and adulation for me, that needs to keep coming my way. I want to thank all the suckers for keeping it up. And nothing says support like a donation or three, so don't be shy putting your hands in your pockets. Remember who the real victim is here! Ignore those that remind you I'm a perp, not a victim ...

  I totally have a legal team, please believe me - look, I'm going to throw in some legal words that I saw on an episode of Law and Order, like "Jurisdiction". Of course, even though I'm going to claim things are illegal, I'm still going to remind people that unethicalness has been done hitherto and unto me, see that's LAW SPEAK peasants! Now I'm totally stopping digging holes, right after this. From now on THEY are doing the talking, even though I said that they prepared this. I forgot who I was pretending to be.

  Now, hopefully, that will be an end to the matter so we can all move on, but mostly me. Most importantly, I can move on to my important work of self promotion and money making, and I won't be subject to people reminding any potential donor that I'm a lying fat sack of woman-abusing shit who visited places where women are often trafficked and forced into prostitution, to use prostituted women.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  How many exJW you-tubers has he done this to? Can anyone else see a pattern here?

  It's like he's tried to drive away anyone who was making exJW videos, leaving himself to "clean up" the market. He sees them as competitors, taking potential views and $$$ revenue away from himself.
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  JW’s and Charity Organizations

  by longgone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was wondering if anyone is aware of the jw’s in general being involved financially and/or as volunteers in charity organizations?

  i was a born in jw for 56 years and left in 2016. as far as i remember there was never any encouragement to help in the community in any way.

  including soup kitchens, tutoring at schools, united way, etc.

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  The congregations register as a charity and claim they provide "counselling services to the community". They also claim they they provide a community space.

  What they mean is, they do bugger all real charitable work and try to categorize enforcement of their own rules as "counselling" (telling people off) to get the tax breaks. Good luck using the community space unless you suck up all their rules.

  The clumsy hand of government, allowing it to happen. It's why charities in general are often such money making / tax-avoidance scams.