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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

He earns ten times the average good wage in Croatia. So I took the average good British wage £2,500 to £3000 per month and X by ten to give Brits an estimation of his standard of living.
Then that should have been included rather than claiming it as his income.
But it doesn't really work like that. While earnings are different in various countries in absolute terms, goods are often priced to sell in different areas. That's why everyone has TVs and refrigerators whatever country they live in ... they pay a lot less for them. Costs for housing and other things will also be lower to match.
There are sites that will compare actual earning power in different countries, often for people emigrating. Things can often be cheaper than the direct currency conversion to account for the income differences.
https://www.expatistan.com/price/tv/zagreb-croatia
Of course if you are living in a low-cost country and earning more prime rate income remotely, then you will be on a much better standard of living which may actually make it more like earning a lot more.
The bottom line is you probably get a more for you money in Croatia than in the UK.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

For me the income is only relevant because I feel it shows how he absolutely cannot give up his activist / YouTube job. He has no other skills, and he would have to take an infeasible income hit if he had to get a real job.
Absolutely, he's totally compromised. He's THE person most dependent on the WTS who isn't a JW.
Heck, he's more dependent on them than most JWs are. They can leave, but this is his life.
The money appears to have corrupted him and if you look at most people who get sudden access to more money, it has a tendency to allow them to be who they are and live the life they really want. Voila - man whore.
I believe it's also the driving motivator for his behavior with other activists and why he's gone after YouTube makers most, because they are taking potential eyeballs (to him, $$$) from his "hacktivism". He's systematically worked to shut people down and drive them away leaving him the "market".
BTW: This is a good watch / commentary on his latest interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqcs5qgVZiA
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

Well even if £130k is correct, that would be closer to £10k a month.
If the 130k was $ USD denominated instead then it would be more like £100k per year, or £8.3k a month.
I find that more believable and also inline with what the patreon stats / estimated earning show.
But what does it matter? This is not the issue. Don't bark up the wrong tree.
If he was defaulting on paying people money or something then it would matter, but it's really only slightly relevant in that it points to the motivation behind his "activist", but it's not the scandal that his cheating, lying and whoreing is.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

Just to say Lloyd is living on the UK equivalent of £25,000 - £30,000 per month.
Where are you getting that number from? Remember: if things are wrong / invented, it gives him ammunition to claim "disinformation", so we need to stick to known facts.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

He brought his acoustic guitar and performed "Life Without End At Last".
I have a vision of that scene with David Brent from the UK office.
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How to post good quality images
by Diogenesister in
1. forum
2. tech-support
i am as just wondering what the best way is to post a good quality image on the forum.

is there anything we can do to improve an image we have?.

alternatively, if anyone has a good link to something that would help, that would be equally great.. cheers all dio x.
Simon

It's really how the software displays them, in a bid to be efficient it sizes them down to the viewport, but that was written before "retina displays" became the thing, so now they are too small and look blurry.
I have an update in the works that makes things look sharper, and may even throw in a zoomable image viewer that works with tiled images (you can view multi-megapixel or even giga-pixel images even on a mobile phone).
The way round it right now is to post a link to the image on another service. The reason for this is that when you embed an image, it takes a snapshot an proxies it to prevent people doing malicious things such as replacing the image with porn or other unwanted content or using it as a way to harvest IP addresses to identify users.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

It makes me wonder if any of our voices are in his head.
All of them, rent free!
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

I think his comment about having a traumatizing experience and seeing a psychiatrist is an example of him being manipulative.
He was projecting and using any excuse he could to try and prevent anyone else sharing their side of things Kim.
PS. You were awesome and came across great!
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

I love how he posts "I am going through a traumatizing experience, I am seeing a psychiatrist over this"
Then immediately "how manipulative she can be"
Sorry, but who is the 'manipulative' one here? Because what traumatizing experience? I thought he believed he's done nothing wrong? Everything has been entirely self-perpetuated. And claiming to see a psychiatrist? Does he mean a psychologist? Because psychiatrist is for mental disorders, not things like stressing over my social media.
https://www.verywellmind.com/psychologists-vs-psychiatrists-what-is-the-difference-2795761
And do we believe him? Is this another invention like his legal team and PR experts?
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
Simon

So in a pre-recorded interview the man threatens the interviewer because he has a Q&A session with the other side.
I got the impression he made the threat after doing the recorded interview, but yeah "don't listen to the other side" is something that people in the right rarely say.
He's desperate to stop people hearing any side but his, which is really very WT like.