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

Jeez, he's not even keeping up with his lowest tier promise is he?

"I would commit to uploading 10 videos a month"

His patreon plebs probably thought that meant he would make 10 videos a month, not 1 and chop it up into 10 smaller pieces.

Suckers.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

I love the way he treats himself as a Watchtower expert, rather than just another ringside commentator with a lousy opinion. Surrounded by his weird band of sycophants, he’s a legend in his own lunch break

Every exJW becomes less and less of an expert on all things JW the longer they are out.

All your knowledge and experience becomes just a snapshot in time, and you rely on the same news filtering out as everyone else does.

The irony is that an exJW like Lloyd needs a newly-exited JW way more than the other way round. They have the fresh knowledge on the state of the WTS. Why any seek answers from him is anyone's guess ... but they increasingly don't.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Yeah, the WTS is never going to disappear. They got large enough to be self-sustaining and even a major scandal would just see individuals removed. The Org itself isn't going anywhere.

What the people who crave its demise miss is that it's there because it fills a niche and is exactly what a certain segment of the population wants. Even if it did collapse, something else almost exactly identical would fill the void it left.

Some take stating this fact to mean "OMG, you support the WTS!" but those people simply think in black and white and lack the ability to understand any nuance.

The people who push the "we will take down the WTS!" are usually people like Lloyd who are trying to solicit funds to achieve their impossible goal. "Honest, if you donate to my kickstarter my perpetual motion machine may one day become a reality!" No, it won't, it's a waste of money.

To them, the far more sensible and achievable goal of pushing for reform and fairer treatment of people won't appeal to the hardline nuts who want to throw money at it and need the constant injection of anti-WTS rhetoric to keep the money flowing. It's hard to switch to "let's fix this thing" when your entire message has been "it needs to be destroyed and it will be".

As for his "sensing" that there may be a change in the WTS leadership ... well, no-shit Sherlock - the fact that they removed people and appointed new people is pretty obvious that the leadership is changing. It always has, it always will, because people age.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

There is rarely anything new from the WTS. You could sum up changes in the last decade in a minute or less. It's same old every time.

Who the hell wants to watch a convention, let alone a repeat with some wanker explaining how silly it all is. Really, do people need to hear that so much that they think it's of any value?!

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And the lion shall eat straw like the ox

by Anony Mous in

the above verse is often quoted by jws both in general as a response to the idea of a deathless paradise and/or those promoting vegetarianism or veganism.. a letter in animal frontiers co-signed by nearly a thousand scientists is now warning that meat is crucial for a healthy lifestyle and livestock farming is too important to 'become the victim of zealotry'.. they stated the fact that most humans require the nutrients from eggs, meat and dairy and that plant based alternatives are at least 4x more expensive (which implies much higher energy consumption in the process) and not scalable and outright dangerous to global health to support a large population shift towards them.. they also called out several recent papers for misleading information and even called for the outright retraction of one that said meat substitutions are a viable alternative.. not sure what the modern jw view on this is, i know many people in the borg promoted it back in the day.

just goes to show that science does not support the notion of a global vegan diet..

Simon

A vegan lion is a dead lion

Either animals were "perfectly designed" or they "learned to eat meat from humans" (even more laughable). The idea that they would intentionally starve to death when they could eat vegetation, is crazy. The idea that they evolved so dramatically in a few thousand years is equally incompatible with the bible.

Like most things biblical, it makes little sense beyond being a fable or parable.

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To All Those Keen To Tell Us About Their Beliefs

by Simon in

we seem to have had an influx of religiots - the people who want to tell us all about how we / the wts / whoever are wrong, wrong, wrong about everything and how right they are.

they obviously have special insight, or voices (probably voices, right?

) telling them the real truth.. as proof, there is inevitably a wall of random scripture references and quotes.. sorry, but we're not here for that.

Simon

I think Simon doesn't want religious types preaching on his discussion board.

At least, that's how I understood his OP.

Yes. It's the people who don't want to actually discuss anything. Someone makes a point? They post the same copy-past diatribe. Someone asks them a question? Same copy-paste. Every. Time.

It's always drivel. No original thought. Nothing of interest. Just the religious equivalent of "I'm a Nigerian prince who wants to give you $50m ..."

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Problem posting

by Hacche in

i am having a problem posting.

first 2 posts were ok but third refuses to post.

is there a limit or something on how may posts you can do a day?

Simon

Posts are throttled to protect that site from spammers and people asking where their posts are ...

The more you post, the longer they take to appear. Be patient and do what the instructions tell you.

When you keep posting "where's my post" posts, I delete them and then you have to wait longer.

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All UK telephone landlines being phased out.....

by BoogerMan in

.....and replaced with voip by 2025. https://www.pmctelecom.co.uk/blog/are-landline-phones-being-phased-out-in-2025/.

just heard this on a radio station's advert..

Simon

This is simple technology progress - it's expensive to keep all the infrastructure for ye-olde-phones when there has been so much invested to provide fibre optics that can carry significantly more data, including voice.

We no longer have stables to feed and water our horses on long trips either, or people going round lighting street-lamps at night.

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do y'all believe the gb are the f&ds?

if the answers are no, then why do y'all defend so passionately the date 607?

Simon

Jorden: posting the exact same things over and over doesn't make you convincing, it makes you a spammer. Fuck off.