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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

Anything current or all back when he was an active participant on here?
Mostly from when he was on the site (all the AAWA crap) but some still a few years after he left.
He literally wanted comments that were negative about his videos to be removed.
And by "negative" I mean anything that wasn't outright praising him 'cause he's such a precious little petal and is so very easily hurt.
That's why I ended up typically removing his videos from the site - I didn't want to be sending him any traffic or directing people to him in any way esp. if he was going to complain that people could share their views.
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Vicarious Liability: Court of Appeal dismisses appeal from religious organisation following sexual assault
by yalbmert99 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d0a1ca63-2027-4702-9f6d-3c3da5fd9c5f.
Simon

For sure, setups where it's a clearer employee / employer relationship and the employee has defined work location and hours are more clear cut.
With the JWs the line between religion and social contact is very blurred. But that's on them too.
11530
It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

It's very advanced, the software turns every pixel of your screen into a miniature camera, sensing slight fluctuations in the quantum field to pick up a shadow of your appearance. This is then augmented at the server-side using artificial intelligent guesswork to re-create your image.
Warning: it can also suck up a little of your soul or life-force, but the benefit to me is that I gain immortality. So not all bad. Well, for me anyways ...
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

I have a ton of emails from him whining about various things, typically wanting people's posts removed. He really can't stand not to be in control.
Man, I was way too over-patient back then!
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Vicarious Liability: Court of Appeal dismisses appeal from religious organisation following sexual assault
by yalbmert99 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d0a1ca63-2027-4702-9f6d-3c3da5fd9c5f.
Simon

An employee doing something in their own time is nothing todo with their employer, it's nothing that their employer has directed them todo and they are not using any specific position based on their employment. People don't lose personal liability just because someone employs them.
The liability comes from the employer putting them in a certain position and the person using that position to harm someone.
In the case of the WatchTower, the org puts them in control of people as a local authority over them and gives them access to people.
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Vicarious Liability: Court of Appeal dismisses appeal from religious organisation following sexual assault
by yalbmert99 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d0a1ca63-2027-4702-9f6d-3c3da5fd9c5f.
Simon

There is a very clear and direct authority structure all the way down from the Governing Body through the regional, branch, district and circuit overseers down to elders and ministerial servants.
All are in their positions at the say-so of a hierarchical management structure. Hirings and firings always come from above. No one is elected by their local congregation.
This will cost them. They will need to carry insurance to cover what the representatives they have assigned do.
They can't throw up their hands and say "it had nothing to do with us" and leave local elders to carry the responsibility for what the organization directs them to do.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

Toblerone - I don't think faking screenshots provides any benefit whatsoever. If something is intended to be a funny meme, it needs to be more obvious or clearly labelled as such. Doctored screenshots without commentary don't help anyone so I have removed them.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

I hadn't seen this post of his before, it's interesting for a few reasons. It's from Feb 5, so really early, but after he did his livestream where you can see the moment a random synapse hits on the "libellous" idea.
First, he's describing Kim's warning statement as an "ongoing" and "persistent" campaign. So he does something every 2-3 months for 4+ years and doesn't think that warrants the "regular" label but someone does something once and it's suddenly ongoing & persistent? Hmmn ...
Second, he admits that spending money on legal work would mean, as he puts it "money given to support my work ends up almost entirely in the pockets of lawyers". By that same definition he's admitting that the money given to support his work did in fact end up in the pockets of prostitutes, that he spent the money on things that it was not intended for.
And of course, he's wrong imagining that he can in any way fix or erase the fallout from his own behavior and subsequent attempts to silence people.
Also, it's rich that once again he brings his family into this, as though other people did this to them when it was all his own cheating regularly over many years.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

Lloyd still isn't self-aware enough not to go throwing the word "narcissist" about?!
I'm not sure we really know enough, if anything, about the GB members personally to put that label on them.
Unlike "someone" ...
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Great YouTube Channel for exJWs
by Simon in
1. jw
2. friends
some sensible advice presented in a rational way.

check out the channel.. a couple of the videos i've watched so far:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgzdy-tghiq.
Simon

WT must fall
I think it's sensible to start with the assumption that simply isn't going to happen. Try to come up with a realistic scenario for it happening, where the org ceases to exist and everyone just goes on their way - I don't think you can.
So lets focus on what we can do - help people to exit successfully, share experiences that people can learn from and take inspiration from.
Constant "rah rah" claims that we're going to fight and destroy them is simply unrealistic and a waste of energy, plus it wastes people's lives and makes them focus on retaliation, revenge and being bitter.