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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  I feel so bad for him to be totally humiliated like that

  How was he humiliated? He was sainted on the spot!

  Lloyd is the only one that should be humiliated in that exchange.
  
  
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  Some Jw's are the worst employees

  by Foolednomore in

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  i found a company and employed an elder as an underwriter and two ms as sales and marketing.

  anyway, this elder will delegate his work to the ms in sales and marketing, so he can go home early.

  he knew when he got started that this would be a 10 hour a day job with some saturday.

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  I worked somewhere once where someone mentioned that the JWs couldn't work over Christmas due to their religious beliefs. Yeah, of all the religions ...

  Someone obviously didn't want to work some shifts and didn't see any problem with lying to get what they wanted.
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  New JW.Watch Website - Plans, Ideas & Submissions

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  i want to create a new site to help people leaving the wts.. the idea is that it will be curated content of articles and videos on specific subjects such as how to fade, how to handle family, personal experiences of leaving, mistakes to avoid, plus practical life matters impacted by the wts such as how to create or rebuild a career, planning for retirement, getting counselling, making friends etc.... the idea is that it should be lots of voices to share the love and promote lots of people's channels so it becomes a more effective resource (hopefully there will always be something informative and appealing to the people visiting).. if you have a youtube channel that you would like featured, or maybe have some specific video or series that would suit, i'd be happy to include them.. likewise, if you have a subject you'd like to write about and can share some practical knowledge and guidance on, or have a life-story you'd like to share because your experience could benefit others, please let me know.. i bought a domain and setup some placeholder content:.

  https://jw.watch.

  please message me or post here if you have any questions or ideas..

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  I don't think you can really wake someone up until they are ready. You can plant seeds, little nuggets of information that will be useful and may help when they are, but you can't force them to see the truth.

  It's why buying advertising or billboards or sending letters and all these things to get a message in front of someone are mostly pointless. It's not that they don't know about the messages saying the WTS is wrong, or haven't come across them that's the issue. It's that they are just not ready to let go.

  We have to be careful that most of the marketing isn't really only appealing to those who have already left and maybe looking for repeated validation or reaffirmation for their choice.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  How the fuck can he say he's a CSA advocate and then on a livestream use the same rhetoric that numerous child molesters and rapists use as an excuse???? Wtf?

  Yeah, "I can't possibly control my sexual urges" is the rapists / pedos excuse.

  Even worse, he refuses to believe that anyone else can. He wants to believe that everyone else like "Saintly Brandon" is lying.

  Sorry Lloyd. The overwhelming majority of normal men can and do control themselves.

  I don't believe that anyone can't, I believe that they don't want to bother and just use it as a lazy excuse for their reprehensible behavior.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  The more exposure to this nonsense will means these atheists will take note and stop their Patron.

  Not all, some will be those militant anti-religious types who will like him more for living an anti-moral lifestyle.

  In their tiny brains, morals are linked with religion, so they have to live opposite-life to object to it.

  Or they use their rejection of religion and morals as the excuse for their immoral lifestyle.
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  Chessa Manion: When A Victim Becomes The Perp

  by NonCoinCollector in

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  2. child-abuse

  this is a hard one for me to write and words can't describe my frustration in seeing this.

  from wbko news: .

  bowling green, ky. (wbko) - bowling green police have arrested two people on multiple charges following a rape.. police say the victim told them she was kidnapped, raped, and assaulted.. police also say the rape was recorded by a man named colton hogendorn, who was arrested after police found him on 25 chestnut street.. hogendorn is charged with rape first degree, kidnapping, strangulation, assault, sodomy, and video voyeurism.. police also arrested chessa manion, who was present during the events, and arrested and charged with complicity to the same charges.. both were taken to the warren county regional jail.. .

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  I think everyone has an internal battle between what they know they should do, and what they want to do.

  That doesn't mean we all want to be axe-wielding psychopathic rapists but know we should really be "nice people" ... everyone's struggles and the extremes of what they want to do is different.

  But I think if you look at things this way it's less of a surprise when someone seems to switch from being a campaigner for or against a thing, to being a proponent or perpetrator of a thing.

  Similar to how the ultra-Christian TV evangelists gives in to their "inner gay" after years of speaking against it so vehemently, or why the biggest advocate for children can turn out to be a secret pedo.

  People know what they should do, they may put effort into doing it, and it may be to mask and suppress what they want to do.

  It's sad if they don't recognize this and get the help they need, and instead try to cover it up.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  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.
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  How can I change my avatar?

  by AlainAlam in

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  2. tech-support

  on 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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  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 in

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  2. friends

  hi 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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  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 in

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  dick 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.