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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Simon

  No, it's something I'm working on for an update, sorry for the confusion! Just wanted to show something in progress.

  I'll hopefully have it out soon :)
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Yes, I've watched a couple of AltWordly's videos plus some other people's too, they are well done and informative. We need to do better at promoting these, as I honestly didn't know about them (although I'm not a huge follower of all things JW related on Twitter and YouTube, so I'm maybe not the best benchmark).

  The focus should be on what information people need, not just feeding exJWs "outrage porn" with over-sensationalized click-bait crap which is what a certain someone seems to wallow in.

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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  He wants to be the main voice for all things ex-Jehovah's Witness. He doxed people that he considered rivals.

  I think he wants to be the only voice for all things ex-JW, at least on YouTube.

  I imagine his YouTube channel is really his main platform for making money, and it's telling that he seems to have put most effort into driving away others who made videos in the past and even now appears to be targeting those who have youtube channels.

  The lawsuit thing may really just be a pretence / opportunity to try to shut down a few more channels, that he sees as competition. Anything that potentially takes clicks away from his videos.

  I think we need to do better promoting other channels, so I'm going to create a section on the site for anyone who's interested to list their channels and videos, and we can maybe categorize them into what to watch for different subjects, kind of a guided tour for people who are newly exiting to catch up and for people to hear more alternative and balanced voices.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Yeah, that whole "I'll let you be the judge ..." followed by "OMG, you're judging me? I'm afraid I'll have to add you to the litigation" LOL
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Or, has this just boiled down to a defamation back-and-forth now? Even his so-called legal sabre-rattling letter seems dodgy at this point.

  Is this going to end up a big wet fizzled out nothing burger?

  I don't know how many pages back it was, but I predicted a kind of stalemate where there isn't enough solid evidence plus the lack of a known victim (as far as I'm aware) to justify launching some international investigation, or to put off all subscribers (jeez, what does it take?!), and that what would likely happen is he'd just try to carry on as though it hasn't happened, which appears to be his intent (a flurry of video release).

  The sabre-rattling of the lawsuit threats seems like an attempt to try and silence people from criticizing him in future and to scrub the public record of what has gone one, I imagine so he could then remove his own statements and gaslight people that it didn't happen and he can resume trying to rebuild his money-making audience with people put-off from commenting on them to warn others about his behavior.

  I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think there is any legal case here that anyone has to answer to, it's all frankly laughable and the more that comes out about it the more it all seems to be the product of a chancer who's made the mistake of believing his own narrative he's been telling everyone about what a victim he is.

  Worth noting too, I think his plan is to deliberately conflate the two separate things - the allegations about grooming and the behavior he has admitted to publicly, and to have all of it removed and people make blanket statements that everything is false. I've only seen people report that the grooming accusations have been made, AFAIK the only person who has made actual accusations is supposedly some relative of his, which is who he should be going after if it is untrue as he claims. The rest, what he actually said himself, is there for everyone to see and his own admission makes his claim that they are lies kind of weak beyond belief (which any decent lawyer would have told him, but maybe he wasn't completely forthright with them about the full situation?). This IMO is why the threatening letters are so vague, and not itemizing anything specific.
  

  So I don't think there will be any real definitive closure to this, it will just rumble on, with more people being threatened with being "added to the lawsuit".

  But someone could get seriously hurt laughing at him so much.
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  Governing body member has nervous breakdown due to bethel workload

  by Witness 007 in

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  karl klien life story from the watchtower.. "president rutherford had repeated occasions to reprove me for breaking some rule.

  (under president knorr 1950) brother knorr invited me to join the writing department...when i told him it did not matter where i served he reproved me..saying when an added privilege is offered we should be eager to accept it...my attitude was due to my health which has always been a problem.

  knorr was older we were like brothers with the older brother knorr prone to expressing inpatients to my short comings.

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  By the way, why are there so few women posting comments on this site?

  How can you tell someone's gender from a fake name and avatar?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Not just that, he tells someone else about their personal business, and appears to imagine it makes him the "poor victim" as you said.

  Quite incredible the controlling & manipulating behaviour he displays over and over again.
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  Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!

  by pistolpete in

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

  😭😢😓😰😡.

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

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  Simon

  I remember the first day back at school after the summer holidays.

  I'd walk up the street so slowly, like half "pioneer speed", so barely detectable movement.

  This is the same feeling I would have if I had to go back to the meetings, and I suspect what many of them are going through right now.
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  100+ Of The Great Canadian Rock Artists Of All Time!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  i find it refreshing to step away from all that tower crap from time to time!.

  100+ of the greatest canadian rock artists of all time!.

  it is no surprise to see the name "neil young" listed as number 1.. .

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  Simon

  Also, it's missing the great Bob & Doug:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DTwLqR071M
  
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  100+ Of The Great Canadian Rock Artists Of All Time!

  by Atlantis in

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  i find it refreshing to step away from all that tower crap from time to time!.

  100+ of the greatest canadian rock artists of all time!.

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  I know about 10 on that list, and even some of those I wouldn't class as "artists".

  I remember once having a debate at work about who had more famous music artists - Canada or Manchester.

  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