Posts by Simon

There have been other postings from ex-Bethelites who have verified these photos. It would be problematic if not impossible to have these photos unless you were there or knew someone who was.

That still doesn't mean that the photos prove the claim, just that someone took them and someone has them (it doesn't even prove the poster took them).

Imagine me claiming that aliens had taken over the Calgary tower. I could post a pic of the Calgary tower. It's not even proof I was there myself, and do you believe aliens have taken over the Calgary tower?

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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He also can't seriously claim he's the only one suffering all this whilst he's been taunting everyone in tweets, FB posts and YT comments ever since 31 Jan

He also can't claim that he found it all intrusive when he's repeatedly done performance pieces to camera on it and been willing to be interviewed about it on someone else's channel.

All along the way he's publicized it as much as anyone has.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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My theory is that it has much to do with the children, and perhaps even her parents.

I forgot about the Occams razor explanation - she's a non-native English speaking mother with 2 very small children to take care of (who probably always did solo parenting).

Reading through exJW topics to read what a douche she married is probably pretty low on her priorities.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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I've never heard of 7 defendants in a single case (where it wasn't about a single act they all took part in / a conspiracy).

So it would need to be 7 separate cases, otherwise how can you deliver a verdict? They are all separate things.

He's just going the discount route with the paperwork so they can copy-paste a lot (which it appears to be).

As for Dijana, it could be todo with divorce proceedings or she may just not want to be in the limelight, but she's involved in it whether she likes it or not. Did she ever stop the ask where the money for the vacations was coming from or did she enjoy the money that was coming in?

I find it hard to be sympathetic if she's known the kind of man he was, has repeatedly caught him cheating on her and then stayed for more and refused to spill the beans.

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Are You Concerned About Inflation?

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i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

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The largest fertilizer producer in the UK recently closed shop. The high cost of fuel meant that they couldn't continue.

No fertilizer means no food.

People like to believe "organic" is good but it's a fantasy - oil and gas puts food on your plate.

If you think prices for things are high now, wait until oil is $200 a barrel and there are global food shortages.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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Breaking news: "Bring it on" says local pervert

That video cover page makes me laugh out loud, literally, every time I see it:

It'd be good to promote things like that in advance - I didn't know it was a live stream until I clicked and watched. Great to see everyone being so supportive of each other. One positive thing Lloyd has done is brought many people together.

His days of isolating people and picking them off one by one is over.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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I just find it hard to believe that expats lost their British citizenship after Brexit.

I do too. You are a citizen of a country until you become a citizen of someplace else and revoke the previous one (or keep dual nationality).

They didn't even "un-citizen" ISIS cretins, the idea that it would be automatic for many thousands of ex-pats sounds absurd. And what if you're not in the EU? It just doesn't make sense to me.

I could see it affecting people's permanent residency status and require an application (for something that was automatically granted under the treaty previously), but that is quite different to citizenship status.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

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Here is when he took many of us out of context over the Russian Ban:

And speaking of the Russian ban, who of us can forget his flow chart.

The daft thing about his video, is that he's right about the Russia thing - it is sick to be cheering on heavy handed abuse of government power, and we should separate criticism of the WTS from hatred of JWs.

... but it also applies to many of his other videos that are critical of the WTS for the sake of being critical. It's not welcoming to be ridiculing people or inventing scandals that don't exist.

I had an encounter with some crazy exJW on Twitter a few weeks ago. She wanted to claim that ALL JWs supported child abuse which is obviously not true and totally unfair. When I pointed out that she was being just as bigoted and judgemental as she claimed they were of course she went off about "white males, offering counsel" (actually no, fairly commenting in a public space).

The point is: we need to be balanced. I don't like Lloyd, but it's not difficult to say he was absolutely right about the Russia ban.

This "need to have an opposite viewpoint" based on who holds the view just permeates so much and it's not healthy and it makes some people look unbalanced and appear incapable of really looking at things objectively in a fair manner.