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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Aw, look at him - so pleased with himself with his bomber jacket and chubby cheeks!
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  How many times has he reminded us that he's "seriously considering" leaving activism and how exJWs torment him?

  I think that's just him fishing for praise, wanting people to say "oh no, please, we love you so much, here - I'll give you money to convince you to stay"
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  James Lloyd Evans was constantly having a dig at Mark O’Donnell as to who had the biggest JW collection of items.

  Weird. Just weird.

  I get having some books, as a reference, but the logo? So big? And framing things?

  It's way too "worshippy" - I bet 99% of current JWs don't treat the literature with such reverence and don't have the JW.org logo displayed in their house at all.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  As a general rule I don't think you should be leaving reviews of any company you're not a customer of. It's a shitty thing to do IMO.

  Let's not do silly things, it doesn't achieve anything and ends up being counter productive.
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  Would a JW accused to be a murderer (in a judicial committee) be reported to the police?

  by psyco in

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  i am wondering if a jw accused to be a murderer (or any other serious crime except csa) in a judicial committee would be reported to the police.. if i sexually abused or molested a child, i would not be reported to the police.. what about if i killed a person: would i be instead?.

  it is not a matter of being right or wrong but i am only curious to know if there is at least a sort of coherence regarding the internal policies for serious crimes....

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  Murder is a harder crime to cover up and ignore.

  "he's fine ... he's just resting"

  I always wonder why people don't report crimes to the police. Is it possible that they want things "handled" in a less dramatic fashion, by someone having a "friendly word"?
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  2022 - 1914 = ?

  by fedup in

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  obviously not the orgs brightest moment for teaching that the generation of 1914 would be alive to see paradise.

  forget the "new light" that bought them an extra 100 years, which if any other religion would've done this, the org would scream false religion.

  the fact is that for 75 years this #1 recruiting message from the society was a lie.. i asked a current jw to get a calculator and do the math: 2022 - 1914 = an angry reaction.

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  Making 1914 and the generation teaching go away will take some work

  It really won't, the majority of JWs probably can't describe their core doctrinal beliefs when it comes to prophetic fulfillment and such crap. They will just restate things in a different way and slap the "new light" label on it.

  "... and so brothers, while we know the society was right about 1914 marking the beginning of the last days Je-hoover has now revealed that Jesus began his journey on that date, clearing the universe in the following generations upto 1975 and arriving at earth in 2019. Little wonder that the world went to shit, with pestilence striking as Satan tries to test our faith through COVID ..."

  They'll walk away thinking this is what they always believed. or something like it ... the specifics don't matter because they get the warm fuzzies just by being around all the brothers and sisters.
  
  
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  Do JWs trust and rely on bad reviews? Why should they? How could it be coherent?

  by psyco in

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  jws are taught that all bad reviews about them made by exjws are false and sick, so they must not read or listen to them.. so, when jws decide on joining, applying, or buying whatever product, service or organization: are they reading and listening only to good reviews about people still satisfied with that product, service, or organization because they consider false and sick all bad reviews made by people who abandoned that?

  do they trust and rely on all bad reviews reported in documentaries, on internet, on tv, on magazines etc.

  about people who left scientology, who left that house, who left that job position, who left that hotel, who left that restaurant, who left that medical treatment etc.?

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  It's not logical, they have a huge blind-spot where their normal rational reasoning abilities get suspended when it comes to the WTS.
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  What have you forgotten you ever even knew?

  by Simon in

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  at a certain point, as the years tick by, you start to realize that you have forgotten a lot of things.

  typically, something you learned, some knowledge or skill you used to have, that you just haven't used for so long you no longer remember anything but that you once knew it.. i saw an article about electrical resistors the other day, and how the colored bands signify the rating.

  now all i remember is that i used to know it, and that resistors do something with, erm, electricity ...

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  At a certain point, as the years tick by, you start to realize that you have forgotten a lot of things. Typically, something you learned, some knowledge or skill you used to have, that you just haven't used for so long you no longer remember anything but that you once knew it.

  I saw an article about electrical resistors the other day, and how the colored bands signify the rating. I used to know that. I used to be able to look at one and say what it was. Now all I remember is that I used to know it, and that resistors do something with, erm, electricity ... (right?)

  But then I can still remember things that I "knew" at a much younger age and was never really of any significant interest, like the theme tune to "Champion The Wonder-horse".

  Have a think - what have you forgotten you ever even knew?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  When you see it, LOL

  https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/garbed.html
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Q: Does anyone think an anti-McDonalds activist would have the golden arches decorating their home, in pride-of-place?

  Hands up who thinks Greta has a poster of the BP or Shell logos in her bedroom?

  So why does this clown appear to WORSHIP all things JW?! He's even framed leaflets?! What a fraud ...