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  "Midnight Mass" on Netflix

  by smiddy3 in

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  i watched the 7 part series and finished today .what struck me about the show was how one could cherry pick scriptures to believe whatever you want to believe.. the use of scriptures to back up the beliefs was in my mind an eye opener.. ok so it was over the top and a horror supernatural series with a bit of blood and gore,and if your a bit squeamish about that sort of thing close your eyes till those parts are over .. but what i found fascinating ,intriguing,was how one of the main characters used scriptures to enforce her understanding of how they applied to the here and now of the series.. cherry picking of scriptures to believe what you want to believe,with a little help from a priest ,pastor ,organization.. i would recommend it ,as you can easily see how, their are now more than 40,000 different christian sects in the world including the mainstream ones who believe they only have the "truth".. i welcome your thoughts if you have seen it.. ps.

  obviously their are no jw`s on this island ..

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  Money Heist (dubbed Spanish programme) is pretty fun too.
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  "Midnight Mass" on Netflix

  by smiddy3 in

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  i watched the 7 part series and finished today .what struck me about the show was how one could cherry pick scriptures to believe whatever you want to believe.. the use of scriptures to back up the beliefs was in my mind an eye opener.. ok so it was over the top and a horror supernatural series with a bit of blood and gore,and if your a bit squeamish about that sort of thing close your eyes till those parts are over .. but what i found fascinating ,intriguing,was how one of the main characters used scriptures to enforce her understanding of how they applied to the here and now of the series.. cherry picking of scriptures to believe what you want to believe,with a little help from a priest ,pastor ,organization.. i would recommend it ,as you can easily see how, their are now more than 40,000 different christian sects in the world including the mainstream ones who believe they only have the "truth".. i welcome your thoughts if you have seen it.. ps.

  obviously their are no jw`s on this island ..

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  We watched it, it was pretty well done.

  We're now watching Severance which is, well, surreal. It's fascinating because unlike some shows, you have NO idea where things are going or what is really going on.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  I think, is his prostitution views would undoubtedly make him unpopular with most religious Patreons he had (except the Jimmy Swaggart/denigration of women types) and he is doubly unpopular because the politics of prostitution just isn't popular with a majority of any kind.

  There's a significant number of exJWs who seem to have such simplistic thinking that they object to anything the WTS advocates and vice-versa. They think they have to live the exact opposite of what they were, almost to prove a point. So WTS says being moral is good? OK, I will applaud immorality. Prostitution is a sin? Then I'll see it as a virtue.

  It's a cancerous outlook that damages themselves as much as it does others, but they can't get over the WTS teaching or admit that some of what they taught was sensible and pretty widely accepted "truth". Some of it seems to be an extremist black-and-white outlook on things that stem from militant atheism where anything with a hint of "religion" has to be rejected and the exact opposite followed instead.

  IMO the vast majority of people, whether they have any JW upbringing or not, know that cheating on your wife in such a way is a sleazy and dishonest thing to do, and isn't something that a good, decent person does.

  It shows a fundamental character flaw and outlook that women are there to be used, a commodity for gratification. That's an ugly look and thoroughly incompatible with anyone who claims to care about women and victims of sexual abuse.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Another good commentary. You don't support victims through abusive people - think about who you support and what messages of support for the abusive people do to those who are actually victims of abuse.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpaAt8FelGk
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Thank god Lloyd has got such a great sense of humour and will see the funny side of it!

  Now I'm laughing at that too!
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  This is very well done, and funny. But he's going to have to add them to the lawsuit ...

  https://twitter.com/joseelyne1/status/1503050065149054985
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Further to the "Entrapment & Exposure" video above ...

  One thing to remember, is that some free email services, Hotmail being one of them, actually recycle email addresses (!). So the fact that someone is able to sign up with a certain address doesn't mean that account never previously existed, it can simply mean it was abandoned.

  Another thing to also be wary of is "homoglyphs" where people use accounts using characters that visually appear to be the same as others in order to give the appearance they come from an account that they haven't. Be wary of anyone you communicate with, especially on this "hot topic" if you haven't previously corresponded with them. Try to confirm with people through the channel you know them from (e.g. if a Twitter account emails you rather than messages you through Twitter). Also, never, ever, forward anyone else's information to a 3rd party.

  It's kind of sad and shocking that someone would impersonate a CSA, but hey, they support Lloyd, so they are not really top of the morality tree now are they?! The only real question is why they feel the need to do this, because IMO it demonstrates that they believe Marko is real that they are trying to identify him (in which case, why are you supporting Lloyd - isn't it's even more bizarre and immoral to do so?!). The 2nd question is whether and how closely they are associate with Lloyd himself.

  Things that make you go "hmmn?" !
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  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

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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.