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So he thinks someone who's literally, a thousand miles away from him, in another country, is "stalking"?
But his threat to go to where someone else lives and spend the rest of his life seeking "revenge" is all perfectly fine and normal?
What an utter fruit-loop!
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Hello, Joel from the "Magnificent Seven" here, thought it was about time I'd register and join in on the conversation. Not really sure where to start with any of this.
Welcome Joel! Yeah, there's so much you forget about a lot and trying to organize all the stupid into a clear narrative is a challenge.
It's my opinion that he took what he learned from WT and turned around to weaponize it for his own glory and pocketbook.
This is the most succinct summary of who and what he is and what his purpose has been from the start. He's a user - he used people when he was a JW, and he just switched to using exJWs when they booted his ass out.
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I was thinking that they could hire Croatian lawyers to try to counteract what LE's lawyers are possibly doing unchallenged by any defense representation.
Why bother? This is what he wants people doing, running around, being his puppet on his string. Unless and until anything actually happens just ignore it. IMO it's simply a publicity stunt to convince his gullible followers that he's been wronged.
If some action does ever occur, then go nuclear and spend money fighting it. But the idea that Croatia has any legal jurisdiction on anyone else is laughable.
I propose that one of the magnificent seven create the fundraiser or if they do not want to I propose Simon if he doesn't mind that is.
I don't mind helping however I can, but I have zero experience with fundraising platforms.
It may be that given the country involved, given the rural area & given the current financial climate, I wouldn't be surprised if Cedars relationship with his lawyers isn't as straightforward as it might be in the west.
Don't forget that he literally used the lawyers closest to his house as the crow flies. You can see on the map it's the first legal firm on the road to the nearest town. He's doing the cheapest thing possible - he's just paid a minimal amount to send some "scary" letters that people rightly laughed at. Everything else has been him talking and trying to "big himself up", and we know how reliable that is.
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I've seen many say that LE went off to Thailand regularly to see prostitutes or words to that effect
I haven't seen anyone say that. He admitted to using prostitutes regularly, and to going to Thailand where he "dated" a sex worker. It doesn't mean the regular use of prostitutes were in Thailand. It appears to have been multiple countries from what I can gather.
the thing that broke me was that i tried to warn another mum in the congregation about a brother who was inappropriate with my son, which upset me, and so i called her to talk about it since we both knew him and i had also seen him pin her daughter down on the sofa and slap the girl's bottom.
i called it inappropriate, but i never accused him of anything beyond that.. unfortunately, word got back to him and i had to go in front of 3 elders, including the brother who i felt had been inappropriate.
because they came down on me for trying to stop the behavior, and not on him for being the cause of upset, i felt very hurt and started questioning more things.
Always be willing to speak up / speak out - they rely on silence to isolate victims and continue.
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I may occasionally refer to a person as a whore if I think it's an appropriate descriptor
We watch Outlander, and love the pronunciation with the heavy Scottish accent, hard to explain, but a mix of hoooer / haere / whoere
If there's a 'slutty' character on TV it's usually a race for one of us to shout out "she's a hoooooeeeerrr!!!"
There is no "noble" scenario for prostitution IMO. Either the woman is coerced and forced into it in some way which likely accounts for the majority (and "coerced" can be economically, by society or circumstances). Or she's just lazy / stupid / short-sighted / lacking self-respect and sees it as "easy money".
It's not something any normal rational person does. It's linked to the worst aspects of humanity.
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Prostitute, is a title like apostate ,designed to dehumanise the person and remove any kind of concern about the abused person behind this title
I don't think that's entirely true. I think it's like other labels which begin as a descriptive and acceptable term but then through negative association become unacceptable and so a new term is selected. Similar to how spastic, disabled, less able-bodied etc... have been promoted and discarded.
Eventually "sex worker" will become unacceptable, and they'll pick something else.
this is directed to born-ins.
around age 10 or 12 is when it first hit me.
i started asking questions about how the world worked and i really wanted an honest opinion from my parents.
First clue? Feeling like an idiot and being embarrassed whenever I had to speak the beliefs out loud, even to other JWs.
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I think his latest meltdown is because he's seen Kim on social media, meeting up with lots of exJWs and he's no longer part of it. He wants to be that person, that people are keen to see, and meet with. But now he isn't and never will be.
He's perhaps jealous and bitter and is lashing out because of it to try and ruin what someone else has, any way he can.
But we know his act now, and how he tries to drive away other exJW community members who have a voice. So it doesn't work anymore.
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This "statement," as I see it, is frankly gossip; vicious gossip. There is truth to it, as Evans verified some of it; but, If I was Evans, I would feel betrayed.
If you are referring to Kim's statement, it wasn't gossip it was fact and she had a duty to warn others.
I don't fault Evans for going to Thailand and having some fun with women and sex. He may not have felt that it was cheating, because the relationships were about sex and not love.
But it clearly is cheating, however much you try to twist the meaning. You've given the reason for doing this, which explains what I think many of his ardent supporters believe - him doing what they do somehow "justifies" their own behavior.
However, if he spent some of his donors money on it, then that is wrong and he needs to be held accountable for his actions.
Right, and he refuses to see anything wrong with it. But the bigger issues is that he did this while claiming to represent people who had been abused.
His confession, though, seemed sincere; which means, he regretted his actions, and from regret comes repentance.
Was it a confession, or an attempt to excuse and explain away that he didn't really think he'd done anything wrong? He does not appear to regret anything beyond being caught and exposed - he actually seems to think everything is "normal" and anyone who can control their sexual urges is somehow weird and "saintly". Like many others, I think cheating on your spouse with anyone, certainly prostitutes, is very much not normal.
