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

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  Being isolated without friends or a support network is a huge red flag for someone suffering from controlling behavior. It's what the WTS does to people, but way worse because it's total and complete and on an individual level. Even as a JW you'd at least have some friendly folk you could talk to in the local congregation. Without that you have nothing.

  You don't have to be a super-outgoing party person but everyone should have at least one very good friend that they can confide in, discuss things with, get a 3rd party viewpoint from and rely on for emergency support if needed.

  "I had a friend once but he didn't like her" is such a sad indictment of a relationship. I hope she starts to spread her wings and learns to expand her own social network so he isn't in such complete control of her life. It's not like she is the one in a foreign country so she has that advantage after all.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Confirmed, this is Kim ... or someone capable of also hacking Twitter (just want to keep the intrigue going, LOL)
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  It's good to be cautious, especially as there are some idiots who like to play silly games.

  I'll message Kim on Twitter to confirm ...
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Me too. That thing is never not going to be on the internet somewhere.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Let it go NonCoinCollector. We all know the truth about Evans, don't waste your time and energy on him.

  Yeah, it starts to feed into his narrative that he's being harassed. Better to criticize and point out that it's valid, it's true (based on things he published) and that he blocks people for stating these facts.

  The truth is there for people to see. If people don't want to bother and want to piss away their money on some asshole on the internet, that's up to them - they can't complain that the information wasn't out there.
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  is it pImo ?

  by stan livedeath in

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  is it peemee or pie mie ?.

  peemo or piemo ?.

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  Well it's not pLmo, which is what it looks like in the topic title. That's the dyslexic Palestinian terrorist group.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  It's a numbers game.

  His methodology has usually been controversy to raise his profile and expand his audience. Numerous "scandals" such as the fake surveys, pirating Ray Franz book and so on. All were ultimately ways to get free publicity.

  I think the "confession" video may have been a miscalculation. Maybe he thought he'd trade some notoriety for publicity and gain more followers, believing the lie that "there is no such thing as bad publicity" and also his own warped morality that someone claiming to be a CSA advocate being a patron of the sex trade was fine and dandy.

  He was wrong. Most people have morals and see the huge conflict. Most people find it an abhorrent way to treat your wife.

  Now he's trying to scrub it from history but doesn't have any legal basis for doing so, hence the fake threats, and he's trying to rebuild his image with his fake "I'm a caring family-man" posts (which he also used to elicit contributions on Patreon while using it to pay prostitutes).

  He's not fooling anyone but those eager to be duped by him. He's become just like the WTS and made himself financially dependent on them.

  It has been between 2 and 3 months since the confession video. Has Lloyd hired a prostitute lately? Surely he has by now.

  The real question to be asking is "how many" ... back to "it's a numbers game" LOL
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Yeah, it was laughable to claim it was ever any kind of accurate survey of what JWs believed.

  Questions for current JWs posted on apostate sites? Sure, submissions are totally legit all current JWs and definitely not exJWs telling you what you want to hear ...
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  Severance TV Show

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  we watched the season 1 finale of this apple tv series last night.

  what an amazingly well-done show!.

  it's a surreal world, but based in our own, and you don't have a clue where the plot is really headed but the drama builds all the way through.. there were some major reveals about the characters and it ended on a peach of a cliffhanger, so if there isn't a series 2 already in production i'll be storming apple hq to ask why.. some of it may give you wts vibes, the cult-like world they live in and the "forced" celebrations for various things, but while some of it is a little "sci-fi" it's kind of believable.. in case you don't know the main premise is that it follows people around their work at a company with a very sterile-like environment.

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  We watched the season 1 finale of this Apple TV series last night. What an amazingly well-done show!

  It's a surreal world, but based in our own, and you don't have a clue where the plot is really headed but the drama builds all the way through.

  There were some major reveals about the characters and it ended on a peach of a cliffhanger, so if there isn't a series 2 already in production I'll be storming Apple HQ to ask why.

  Some of it may give you WTS vibes, the cult-like world they live in and the "forced" celebrations for various things, but while some of it is a little "sci-fi" it's kind of believable.

  In case you don't know the main premise is that it follows people around their work at a company with a very sterile-like environment. The work they do is weird, the company is odd, everything is strange. The kicker is that they have been implanted with a chip which means when they are at work they have zero knowledge of their outside life or anyone they know and vice versa - when at home they only know they work at that company, not what they do or who they work with.

  Eventually the barriers start to erode.

  Anyone else watch it? What did you think?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Informative but somber articles about the realities of men who pay for sex and how much more likely they are to be coercive and enjoy having power over women. They are also more likely to commit domestic violence and other crimes.

  It's not just about sex. It's that there is something wrong with them.

  https://nordicmodelnow.org/facts-about-prostitution/fact-buying-sex-makes-men-more-prone-to-violence-against-women/

  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-prostitution-survey-idUSTRE76I73F20110719
  

  Also shocking is the number of women in prostitution who suffered Childhood Sexual Abuse, which makes visiting prostitutes wholly inappropriate for anyone to do, but especially anyone who claims to be some kind of CSA advocate.

  http://i4.cmsfiles.com/eaves/2012/04/MenWhoBuySex-89396b.pdf

  Real men don't abuse women. Period.