Lloyd is proof that fine words are easy to say but what matters more is what people actually do and how they behave when there isn't a microphone in front of them or an audience to perform to.
Posts by Simon
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11530It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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How can I change my avatar?
by AlainAlam inon my profile, under "update avatar", i click on "upload avatar image" and choose the picture i want, but it doesn't work.
i know it says there may be a slight delay but i've been waiting for more than 12 hours so i'm wondering if there's something wrong with the site, or if i'm missing something..
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Simon
do you have any info you can safely share about where these attacks are coming from?
A Balkan country in central/southeast Europe maybe?
They use a VPN so it's difficult to tell their specific location exactly although there are some ways to suggest where they may or may not be from roughly. So I can't prove anything conclusively, but I do know:
They are trying to appear to be a regular spammer, but they tripped up a few times by specifically targeting me in some of their account names and passwords - maybe they drunk too much or took too many pills that night .... So it's something directed at me & the site and I know it's not really a spammer, it's someone with a grudge. Spammers aren't usually persistent - they are looking for low-hanging fruit and don't have time to spend on things that don't provide results, so the attempt to disguise themselves is useful information in itself.
I can only think of one person who really has a cause to intensely dislike this site right now and me in particular. So I'd guess it's either him or one of his flying monkeys.
The attacks began on the same day someone apparently learned of the existence of a thread about them and one of their employees showed up to try to derail the topic. Again, hard to prove conclusively but things that make you go "hmmnn?"
I can tell that they are not super-technically savvy and they don't even seem to realize that what they do is being blocked (so outright dumb in fact). I put some extra automated security measures in place which are working very well and mentally I always view people like this as providing some valuable security testing for me free of charge so ultimately it's beneficial to the site and makes it stronger. The evil side of me likes the thought of someone wasting so much of their time.
I'll continue collecting evidence and if I can identify someone I'll make it public.
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Hello Everyone
by JohnPaul inhi everyone i would like to say hello to everyone,.
i just started attending kingdom hall about a month ago now and am doing bible study with a brother..
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Simon
Yeah, this has all the hallmarks of a troll - nonsensical reasons for being a JW etc...
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Voter Fraud !
by Sea Breeze indick morris sounds the alert:.
https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .
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Simon
futile debates about human politics
It's probably the thing that has the biggest impact on your life and the lives of others. What the economic outlook will be. Whether you'll be paying for another long-term war or not, and so on.
If anything is worth debating, it's politics.
If anything is worth defending, it's democracy.
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ExJW Chessa Manion arrested for rape/pornography of a child!
by WingCommander insometimes, monsters are created.
exjw child sex abuse survivor, oxygen documentary personality, and niece of stephen lett chessa manion has been arrested for allegeding aiding and helping to kidnap, rape, and videotape the acts with some nasty looking dude.
the police mug-shots are not a good sight to behold.
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Voter Fraud !
by Sea Breeze indick morris sounds the alert:.
https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .
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Simon
The US election process looks positively 3rd world, and the democrats look as corrupt as ever.
The documentary is very compelling and everyone should watch it.
It explains why Biden "won" despite not campaigning and not attracting a crowd anywhere he went.
To "win" they had to pump so many votes into those swing states he end up with a record number, more than Obama. Like really, Biden is more popular? Don't make me laugh.
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Hello Everyone
by JohnPaul inhi everyone i would like to say hello to everyone,.
i just started attending kingdom hall about a month ago now and am doing bible study with a brother..
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Simon
You may be in the wrong place
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11530
It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Simon
I am not against donations and all patrons kind of suff etc. But at the very least it should be done in a transparent way and definitely not under the tag of some professional activism.
If I was going to make activism and running a website into a "business", I'd expect to provide some simplified accounts showing what money was donated and the various things it was spent on. At some point, you may get more money coming in than you can genuinely spend on the endeavour and at that point you don't start dipping your hand in and funding your own lifestyle from it unless you are in it for the money. What you do is say "thanks everyone, we're fully funded and don't need any more support right now - why not direct the money to some other 'cause or spend it on your own family instead?"
Vacations to whore around in Thailand never qualify as legitimate use of funds.
Pretending you need funds for activism while spending it on hookers is dishonest, pure and simple.
Now throw in that your activist supposedly critiques your target for how they use donated funds and ... oh dear. Not only are you a dishonest immoral lying clown, but the little bit of "hacktivism" you bothered to do to justify it all is completely undermined.
He's shat on a lots of other people's work too in the process. What a selfish turd.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Simon
We can nor allow a cult within a cult. People have suffered enough from the Watchtower, we don't want them jumping being captured by an exjw elder with uncontrolled sexual appetite.
Exactly this. People need to be able to see exactly who this character is. IMO he's not really there to help people, he's there to help himself and to profit from people, usually people going through an emotional time which makes them vulnerable (exactly the way the WTS looks to recruit people at moments of stress in their life).
That alone wouldn't be too bad and could be ignores, but the fact that he's using his funds to do some pretty unsavoury shit and by his own admissions, can't control himself sexually, makes it critical that people be warned about him so they are not further victimized in any way.
We don't need leaders. There really isn't enough that the WTS does that is new such that we need a constant stream of media to break it down and analyze. They repeat the same things over and over for decades. We just need a certain amount of information to be available and some friendly voices to help people on their way.
All of that can be free. None of it requires any payment schemes or people making it a full-time career. There are enough people willing to do it purely because they want to help people.
Those are the voices that need to be heard.
Lloyd is now a walking talking wobbling bobble-head caricature of what an ex-JW is as described by the WatchTower. How does that help but reinforce their stereotypes and keep people trapped inside? He may as well be the WatchTower, he acts so much like them.
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How can I change my avatar?
by AlainAlam inon my profile, under "update avatar", i click on "upload avatar image" and choose the picture i want, but it doesn't work.
i know it says there may be a slight delay but i've been waiting for more than 12 hours so i'm wondering if there's something wrong with the site, or if i'm missing something..
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Simon
Sorry, the site's been under a sustained campaign of attack recently so I've had to divert my attention to bolster it's defences. The new checks are working well, maybe too well - the person doing it still hasn't noticed that they aren't getting anywhere but it makes me smile to know they are wasting so much of their time each day.
I am still working on a site refresh to modernize lots of things including sign-on, account management and posting.
Also been experimenting with various full-text search engines to make things significantly easier to find.