Posts by Simon

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Lloyd is like his own "Overton window"

Not too long ago, some middle-aged man hitting on random women uninvited would be condemned for their toxic masculinity. Remember the Gillette adverts?

https://www.tyla.com/news/news-new-gillette-advert-tackles-toxic-masculinity-in-metoo-era-20190115

For Lloyd it's just a footnote, almost not a surprise. We've been so conditioned by his repeated poor behavior that it's almost "just Lloyd being Lloyd".

In reality, if that was all he'd done, it would still show himself to be toxic and it should disqualify him from being any spokesperson for any women.

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Capitol Attack Hearings

by shadowclone in

hearings are on the schedule for abc, bbc, cbs, cnn, msnbc and nbc.

not on fox "news".. will you be watching?

or maybe .

Simon

My point: I find what happened on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol to be highly disturbing. Persons who violated the law should be held accountable while given due process. To mischaracterize or overdramatize what happened is a miscarriage of justice and political maleficence.

The law has to be seen to be fair and applied equitably.

Even if they committed violations, they were minor. And if you have people months earlier committing far more serious crimes - burning buildings down, killing people etc... and they are not even charged then it's clearly an unfair application of the law purely for political reasons.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

The video starts 8 minutes in.

That Cappytan video a couple of pages back is a great analysis of what Lloyds statement means to his claim.

Well worth a watch.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

If I use my little avatar on a different forum, that's probably some kind of "infringement", right?

The monster avatars use an open-source package, so it wouldn't be infringement. It doesn't mean deep linking to them is allowed though and wouldn't be blocked.

I am starting to think Lloyd's lawyers realize they have a sucker for a client and they are going to bill the crap out of him. I hope they bleed his bank account dry.

I think you're right, and it would be glorious if all his fundraising ends up being drained all from his own poor choices.

Lloyd is using watchtower tactics here. By trying to silence the critics.

He is. And the other part of it isn't to just silence the people already involved, it's to try and make people question themselves when it comes to commenting on him or his crappy antics in future.

If anyone watches the Jimmy Saville documentary on Netflix, there's a part in it where he effectively admits that he's "known in the industry as litigious" which he used as a shield to put people off coming forward with accusations.

It's a similar concept.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

So, he had been repeatedly assured that Croatian law can just reach out to other countries, criminally no less, and at jurisdiction over, say, US citizens.

Even major countries like the UK and Germany have zero ability to impose their court system on people outside of their jurisdiction. An insignificant country like Croatia is really not top of the "we can swing our international dick" league.

And "jurisdiction", it's literally, the definition of the word, where they do and don't have any legal power:

"the extent of the power to make legal decisions and judgments"

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Can you be happly married in the Org

by Hellothere in

happily.

can you have a happy and fulfilling marriage in this org?

never married inside jw org.

Simon

Clearly, you can, because there are many couples who have successful marriages. Both those who stay in the WTS and those who leave. Conversely, neither staying in or leaving means your marriage is guaranteed to be successful - I think it comes down to how hard you both work at it.

I'm biased, we've been married 27 years, about half if it in and half of it out.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Actually, it is exactly like that. Unless the Croatian courts use the standard of 'guilty until proven innocent,' you do have to prove your case to either a judge or jury.

Even before then, how bad did you really think it was if you made no attempt to have things taken down? And people can't take things down if you don't point to the offending parts.

AFAIK the only specific thing he's claimed was libellous was the use of the word "regularly" to describe his REGULAR use of prostitutes every 2-3 months for 4 years ... which is what he admitted to himself (and is likely an underestimation). So his only specific claim made him a laughing stock for his stupid, and now he refuses to point to anything, because he has nothing.

Of course he doesn't really want anything taken down and can't point to any alleged defamation, it's all pantomime. I think he's after a pointless "victory" (because no one is going to bother going to Croatia for some cock and bull case to defend against something he hasn't even complained about) and he'll then want to refer to that as proof he was right (forgetting that nothing has been proven).

Does he expect people to not be able to post anything on the internet at all? Or maybe not be able to comment on him at all. Now THAT is something he has a track record of demanding from people.

He can go whistle dixie.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Comments:

He claims his legal action is of the utmost, critical importance. So naturally, he went on vacation to try and date people and totally ignored it. Sorry Lloyd - it's no one's fault but your own that you have a crappy case and crappy representation who haven't done anything. They were barely willing to pick up the phone and didn't appear to know anything about it. Maybe the courts lack of action is telling you something?

Please don't talk about what has been done to your family. YOU did that. Now you have no family. Didn't you just claim to be single? BTW: is that a mutual agreement, or just something you invented that your wife doesn't have any say in?

Croatian courts can come to whatever decision they make. But it's meaningless because they can't enforce anything. AFAIK no one has any business interests in, or intention to travel to Croatia. Fun fact: countries won't enforce legal decisions in countries that refuse to grant the same freedoms of speech. But I love that you're being taken for a ride to pay for legal action that will achieve nothing but hopefully cost you a fortune.

The majority of your patrons have always been dumb and you kept the dumbest who don't pay attention to what you do. But even they have their limits. Expect more losses as the news trickles down and you continue to show your true self to everyone because you appear to be incapable of learning and changing.

I have no reason to doubt Kim's qualifications but even if Kim had no legal qualifications whatsoever ... so what? Unless someone has hired her as legal representative it's immaterial. No one cares. Sure she would have lied ... but it would be an unimportant lie. Certainly when put next to someone regularly cheating on their wife with prostitutes for many years! You didn't even engage her as a legal rep ... because you relied on the free work of others.

You're relying on flinging mud to make yourself look less bad by comparison, the "well other people lie" defence. It's what you did with your initial confession video by comparing yourself with a murderer (but not a rapist). You're like a chimp flinging faeces but the difference is I think we could reason with the chimp!

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