Posts by Simon

Guess who won? (I admit, I'm biased, but I could name more that everyone had heard of, and this was with Canadians!). I'm still amazed that the Bee Gees are from Manchester, and not California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_artists_and_bands_from_Manchester

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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Simon

The claim: I have a whole legal team working on this!

The reality: One part-time trainee who isn't there.

Maybe his lawyer has a side-gig as a food delivery driver? Who knows, but I don't think anyone is facing any legal "dream team", although I think there is definitely some dreaming involved by someone!

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

We suggest opening Kim Silvio's letter to JLE's law firm and reading it

That is a great response.

I think people should be suing Lloyd for his defamation against them from the things suggested in the letters he's sent out and his posts on social media. He has accused them of lying and bullying, surely defamatory?

I think a sum of $3,000 USD per person should make things right.

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Anyone else remember the Awake saying this?

by BottanicPepper in

i may have put this in the wrong thread.

if so, i'm sorry.. my conundrum is this.... i am almost completely certain that an awake back in the 80's/90's mentioned a group of rock bands we shouldn't listen to and i seem to remember them actually naming guns and roses.. i can't find anything now, and i'm wondering if it's the mandela effect, or if it's another case of the cdrom versions of the awakes being doctored again.. does anyone else remember this?

or am i crazy?

Simon

I don't remember anything other than genres / types of music being mentioned in the magazines.

But I do remember some list going round of music that was deemed unacceptable for various reasons, some seemed bizarre and many relied on "hidden meaning" to songs:

Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water? Drugs ...

I can see someone on the platform mentioning specific artists if there was a local segment, but I doubt the WTS would open themselves up to e sued by anyone, and they like to be vague on things.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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Simon

You are all abusive!

Sorry, but that's ... I'm going to say libellous ... so I'm going to have to add you to the lawsuit.

LOL

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Lloydy Boy's letters are asking everyone to send funds directly to his bank

That would be very odd indeed, but how do we know that is his bank and not the lawyers?

Why did he confide in Kim Silvio? What was he hoping to achieve?

I don't think he really confided in anyone as such, my understanding is that he got caught and someone else (I presume his wife) told Kim. His admitting it to Kim was then an attempt at controlling her to prevent her from making it public or confirm it to anyone else. That's what I pieced together from statements by those involved.

Of course given the nature of what he claims to advocate for, and the fact that he's taking money off people supposedly for this "work", people absolutely had a right to know.

Can you imaging a CSA survivor finding out that someone they supported was potentially contributing to the sexual abuse of "girls" (the word he repeatedly used)? Anyone who is engaging the services of prostitutes anywhere it is illegal but especially in places know for major issues with sex-tourism and human trafficking has to know they could be seen to be contributing to abuse and lack all credibility if they claim they "care deeply" about victims. It's a massive conflict of interest.

It was absolutely right to expose this hypocritical grifter instead of allowing him to continue taking money off people and bullying other advocates out of the space.

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Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!

by pistolpete in

yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

😭😢😓😰😡.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.

Simon

Can you imagine the sinking feeling in your stomach even if you still thought of yourself as a JW?

Going back to the office can be bad enough, but having to go in person and sit through those meetings. I can only imaging how soul destroying it will be.

Imagine the kids who have escaped it for the last 2 years suddenly being dragged back to a KH?

And the crazy thing is that all people have to do to stop subjecting their family to that torture is to simply stop going.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Apparently he's becoming famous beyond the circle of the exJW community:

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/james-lloyd-evans-lloyd-evans-john-cedars-the-reluctant-apostate-jwwatch-cedarsjwsurvey.113875/#post-11322062

Sorry, dd I say famous? I meant infamous.

Good luck putting this toothpaste back in the bottle. Good luck suing the entire internet.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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Simon

I'm still amazed how he seems to consider any comments about him that aren't full-on suck-up adulation as effectively being "bullying", "harassment" and, of course his favourite word-of-the-week right now, "libellous"!

You can see from his ultra-sanitized YouTube comments, the one's he's left, that his threshold appears to be set to "maximum sensitivity". He even talks about "having to remove hateful comments" but the examples I've seen him point to really are are the mildest things ever.

He was always like this, but seems to have amped it up to a new lever and completely lost the plot to be demonstrating it to everyone so blatantly. Maybe he's desperate, maybe he's got bills to pay and if the income dries up things come due? One can only hope it impacts him hard given what he's trying to put other people through with his nonsense legal shenanigans.

"you don't love me, therefore you hate me! Waaaaa"