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  Research project: A study designed to explore the experience of leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by Researcher2023 in

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  as part of a psychology msc research project, i am looking for participants to take part in a study designed to explore the experience of leaving the jehovah’s witnesses.. former witnesses who were raised in the organisation will be asked a few questions about their reasons for leaving, their experience of leaving, and how their life has changed since leaving.. taking part involves completing an interview over the internet.

  according to research needs, the number of questions asked in each interview may vary.

  the interview will take between 5 – 90 minutes depending on the questions asked and the level of detail you wish to provide.. your participation will remain confidential and anonymous, and it is completely voluntary so that you may withdraw at any time up to two weeks after the interview.

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  Simon

  Bumping this for anyone busy over x-mas and new-years who didn't see it ...
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  Can I block someone who messages me.

  by LostintheFog1999 in

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  2. tech-support

  i keep getting this person who wants me to email them with information already freely available on this website.. i have told him that i have no intention of emailing a total stranger from my personal email address, but they keep sending me this demand.. from bola to lostinthefog1999.

  can you tell me how to block this persistent messager?.

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  Simon

  I have told him that I have no intention of emailing a total stranger from my personal email address, but they keep sending me this demand.

  Turns out this is a complete fabrication.

  Not sure why you'd do this, or what you think you gain, but it's a dick move especially as you included their email in your post.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  No wonder he has so many supporters. As ex cult members we don’t readily see this manipulation.

  Sadly, it's like victims of financial scams. Being scammed doesn't make people more likely to see through things in future, if they don't educate themselves after the experience, it makes them more likely to be a victim again in future.

  He was taking advantage of JWs for cheap labor, then he just moved on to exJWs to continue his grift.

  Just looking at the excerpts from his self-published book gives me the creeps. He goes into detail about his rather creepy behavior. He bullies and abuses people, and doxes them and he needs to be stopped before something even more serious happens.

  I seem to recall him saying something along the lines that he "had to include some details in his book" to prevent someone using knowledge about some of it to blackmail him (?)

  The question is, does Mr "I'm going to say every 2 or 3 months for 3 to 4 years" tell the whole truth or just enough to be plausible and try to take the wind out of some allegation? To make it appear that he's told all while still leaving the truly damaging things out?
  
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  Viruses Killed The Woolly Mammoths.

  by LostintheFog1999 in

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  2. beliefs

  i can remember the original turquoise coloured evolution book produced by the organisation and the numerous public talks around it.

  mind-blowing to a gullible youngster growing up in a jw family.. the flood of noah's day when thousands of tons of suspended water fell from the atmosphere and on hitting the cold poles instantly plunged the woolly mammoths into a deep freeze, to the extent that the last mouthful of grass was still there in the mouth in mid-chomp.

  you can quickly see why a kid with a fertile imagination was transfixed by those apparently up-to-date scientific discoveries as presented by the wt org!.

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  Simon

  They couldn't get their masks on?
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  Can I block someone who messages me.

  by LostintheFog1999 in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  i keep getting this person who wants me to email them with information already freely available on this website.. i have told him that i have no intention of emailing a total stranger from my personal email address, but they keep sending me this demand.. from bola to lostinthefog1999.

  can you tell me how to block this persistent messager?.

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  Simon

  If someone keeps messaging you after you have asked them not to, you can message me the details and I will look into it.

  But only if it's repeat requests after that.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  He admitted to visiting sex workers, which presumably happened in Croatia.

  I thought on the Gold interview that he said he "dated" a sex worker in Thailand.

  I doubt he meant it like a chaste JW courtship ...

  As Las Malvinas pointed out - he mentions sex workers, plural, and it's his usual word-play misdirection saying that it wasn't his main reason for going.

  The thing anyone interviewing him should ask is when did he last visit a prostitute and how many prostitutes has he visited since telling his wife that he's through doing that ... and did he ever promise his wife that!

  It’s like his latest statement about him ‘protecting the ones he loves’. How exactly?

  By naming his children in his train-wreck video and forever linking them to his scandalous behavior.

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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  If I can keep myself and those I love and care about ...

  That's really all the same one person, LOL

  But once again, he pulls in "family" as though they are his prime concern and not just a convenient sympathy prop, to be discarded when the cameras are off and the hookers beckon.
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  Password Leakage?

  by Nikolaus in

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  i got a message that my password on this site has been part of a leakage.

  is this known?

  where can i change my password?.

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  Simon

  What's the issue with LastPass?

  They were hacked and all user vaults taken, some of which contain hex-encoded (not encrypted) data for website URLs. These could leak data if the bookmarked page happened to have a reset token in the URL or at least indicate which user vaults maybe worth hacking ... ie. which contain higher value accounts (no one is going to hack your Netflix account, but your Bank account ...).

  1Password has a significantly more secure system and put effort into keeping things up-to-date.

  LastPass seems to have been bought by a company that wanted to squeeze every $ out without any ongoing investment. Their handling of the incident, and delay in coming out with the truth and attempts to give misleading information are pretty bad.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Simon

  I find their reasoning flawed and based on a great deal of ignorance and lack of empathy.

  Yeah, that person seems clueless about reality to the point of being a fucking idiot, sounds like they are trying to justify to themselves that prostituted women are really sometimes having a great life so what behavior they themselves enabled wasn't so bad. The reality is that Pretty Women was a fantasy and prostitution raises levels of abuse and violence for ALL women. The research is clear and damning. It should simply not be tolerated and no moral person defends or excuses it.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Simon

  I have no idea about publishing, and I suspect that you would be in the minority of the community who does know. When you don’t know something, this kind of information seems legitimate.

  It's funny how sometimes people lie when they don't even really need to, like they get a kick out of conning people.

  It also reminds me of being in PC World back in the day and overhearing some salesman spouting absolute bullshit like "if you upgrade the CD player it will definitely make your internet faster".

  I hate those kinds of people who take advantage of others naiveté.

  There was a black YouTuber who made a good video about the fiasco early on. She said that a married associate of LE tried to hit on her. Did anyone find out who that was? If he was prone to that kind of thing then LE was probably aware of it as well… so it’s possible they have dirt on each other.

  Birds of a feather tend to find each other and stick together.

  It's why I judge anyone who didn't distance themselves immediately his real nature was revealed. If they continue to support him, they are women-hating perverts. No amount of turning as blind eye to what he was doing alters the fact that they were enabling it and if they continue to support him they condone and support what their money was spent on - abuse.