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  Who says the Pandemic didn't wake up a lot of people!

  by pistolpete in

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  there are actually tons of these experiences.

  i wanted to post this one because it involved all the family of born in jws.. post;.

  all my freakn dreams came true.

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  My point was that I don't think we need to promote this kind of "plan" (or lack of) about leaving the WTS.

  You don't have to go sleep around, get married, take drugs, become homeless or break any rules in order to quit. Break rules if you want to, if you fall in love with someone and genuinely want to marry them, do so, but don't marry some random as a way to get kicked out. Not only is it damaging to your own life, you are potentially screwing over someone else's too.

  We need to promote the idea that people make deliberate choices based on rational decisions.

  Running out a KH and effectively setting fire to yourself isn't any kind of realistic plan.
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  Who says the Pandemic didn't wake up a lot of people!

  by pistolpete in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there are actually tons of these experiences.

  i wanted to post this one because it involved all the family of born in jws.. post;.

  all my freakn dreams came true.

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  At age 18 I was disfellowshipped for sex outside of marriage (EDIT: to clarify, I mean "premarital sex", I am no cheater!) with no remorse (lol). But that was just a guise for me badly wanting a way out of the org.

  I was homeless for 6 months, then lived with random different girls for another year. After many mental breakdowns, 3 suicide attempts, and development of severe CPTSD - I ended up spending another year back at meetings trying to get reinstated so I could see my family again. I really missed them all, specifically my baby brothers.

  Got reinstated, moved back home, PIMO again. A year later I meet a wonderful “worldly” girl at work, we wind up getting married after 3 months of dating.

  Sorry, but this is childish and stupid. If you want sex, have sex. If you want to leave the WTS, just leave.

  I feel someone is destined to a life of bad decisions making

  DON'T do what this person does. Stop. Think. Make good choices.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  2. scandals

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  Lloyd loves to remind everyone that "all he's guilty of is being a flawed individual", in order to diminish what he's done.

  The problem with this is that it's such a catch-all, it literally covers the entirety of human existence, from having an ingrowing toe-nail to being Jimmy Saville. Both are examples of someone being "flawed" after all.

  The problem is that it's such a generic concept.

  Imagine someone has committed a crime, if they say "all I've done is committed a legal violation" it tells you nothing. Because what matters is the nature of the crime to determine its real severity. Because stealing a boiled sweet from Woolworths pick'n'mix is not the same as rape or murder, but both fall under the heading of "committed a crime".

  And of course this is why he does it. He uses the generic term to avoid reminding people about "the thing" but then trots out the more serious specific examples such as "I haven't killed anyone or clubbed a seal" so he looks less culpable by comparison.

  He's a master of misleading double-speak and trickery to both make out other people have done wrong when they haven't, but also to absolve himself of guilt for far more serious moral failings. I guess people do learn something from MTS after all ... they learn how to lie.

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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Yeah, it's an invented scandal. Same as "bottle gate", just make out that there is some outrageous act going on when there is zero proof whatsoever.

  Normal people have ornaments and buy liquor. Neither of these things are weird.

  But making out some crime or sin has been committed based on such normal things is kind of strange though.

  Imagine being so puritanical that you think someone having a trinket or buying a bottle of whiskey is the enemy of the people but abandoning your wife and kids to hire a Thailand girlfriend using donated funds is nothing wrong whatsoever.

  Imagine having a moral compass so broken, both needles have fallen off.
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  Here's a question that I guarantee no one has ever thought of!

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. bible

  unlike men who took no note, surely the fallen angels knew of gods plan to flood the earth, so why didn't they build an ark(s) for their nephilum sons?

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  The bible has many, many plot holes and crazy stories.

  I like the ones that really get dafter and sillier the more you think about them. The OT is full of them.

  Take the story of Sampson for instance.

  First, there's a guy with super powers who killed 1,000 soldiers with nothing more than a donkey's jawbone.

  Forget the 1,000 people bit, which is mental, what about that super-strong donkey bone that didn't break for all that?! Incredible ...

  More incredible still, they discover that the secret to his super-powers is his hair. So Delilah seduces him, gives him a haircut and bam, captured.

  What do the "OMG, that guy killed 1,000 soldiers with a donkey-bone!" people do? Obviously they kill him immediately, because he's too dangerous to be kept alive and ... wait, they don't? OK, so they at last are going to assign a barber to give that mofo a haircut every day so that ... oh, they don't do that either?

  No, instead they let him grow it out, all gather to a structurally unsound building and pull him in to stand at its weak point and he kills the lot of them.

  This is the kind of laughable plot that wouldn't be seen again until the mid 2000's Twilight movies.

  That's without even getting to the logistics of capturing 300 foxes in one night and tying them together by their tails.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  I don't think that's Lloyd. He hasn't threatened a lawsuit, had to say libellous or mentioned his Thailand girlfriend once. The real Lloyd can't go 2 sentences without doing at least one of those things.
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  Some message delivery errors occuring

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  fyi: not sure if new message notifications are working right now, seeing a lot of errors in the logs.. investigating ....

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  Simon

  Anyway, apologies if some messages weren't delivered, possibly for the last week or two.

  They should be processing and showing up as I type.
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  Some message delivery errors occuring

  by Simon in

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  fyi: not sure if new message notifications are working right now, seeing a lot of errors in the logs.. investigating ....

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  Simon

  So the geniuses at Google provide a cloud console for managing apps, including one to update queue settings.

  What it doesn't do is use the current values for all the fields, so if you adjust one setting you inadvertently wipe out some others. Unfortunately, the ones it wipes out happen to be the most critical of all, so queued tasks then get delivered to the wrong service and ... well, errors happen and things don't work.
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  Some message delivery errors occuring

  by Simon in

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  fyi: not sure if new message notifications are working right now, seeing a lot of errors in the logs.. investigating ....

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  FYI: Not sure if new message notifications are working right now, seeing a lot of errors in the logs.

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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Simon

  What job is out there either in Croatia or that allows you to work remotely that pays over $130,000 USD for a two year art/design school grad whose main experience outside exJW activism is landscaping, window washing, document review and proofreading his wife's translations?

  The thing is, *HE* isn't capable of doing that work. He's keeping all the earnings generated by the work of multiple other non-paid volunteers.

  Lloyd gets to spend all the money, likely even claiming his many trips as "expenses" to his business, while other people work for free. I wonder what you put "hookers" down as? Entertaining? Meals and travel? LOL
  

  I'm willing to bet that Tibor is paid based on the cheaper end of the local going rate in local Croatian currency, not a proportion of the income based on the relative effort he contributes.