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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Simon

  How many user names is Lloyd using? MadreeDeSashee sounds like Lloyd.

  It seems to be his MO, I think that was him on here a few pages back pretending to be an impartial yet strangely vehement defender of Lloyd. He can't resist trying to have his say and control the discussion, even though publicly he pretends he's blocking and ignoring people.

  Who else would think that every marriage needs sex workers, that they are actually good for the marriage?

  Only a few twisted people think that leaving the WTS means you have to live opposite-life and turn into an immoral man-whore.

  This is an insidious lie: it could put many off leaving as it "proves" what the WTS has warned them of. The reality is that you can leave with your immediate family intact, be as moral as you ever were, and all be happy and successful.

  He says his wife is not the person we know her to be and threatens to expose her. He has all her emails and will reveal them. To whom? I gather it's to the very ones he's supposed to be 'getting'.

  If it's not Lloyd then it's a very sick supporter that is supporting these actions.

  We know that leaked emails sent to his wife must have come from her, and we'll know that leaked emails she sent to him must have come from him. He's not the smartest cookie in the barrel. But I wouldn't trust things he leaks to not have been edited. We don't have the same way to verify their source as we did hers.

  It appears Lloyd is moving forward and has accepted his marriage is a failure but now wants to justify himself by revealing Djana's emails. What a cruel man he is. Has he no love for his own children?

  He doesn't appear to really give a shit about his kids to the same degree that he doesn't appear to care at all about his wife. They are a bargaining chip when attempting to coerce Djana to agree to something and a fund-raising prop when begging for money.
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  RIP Barry Humphries

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. entertainment

  comedy legend barry humphries passed away yesterday aged 89. he was the genius behind dame edna everage and sir les patterson.. humphries was also an intellectual, with a huge personal library of first prints and rare editions.

  he apparently dropped out of studying law because he found it 'boring', from what i remember reading about him.

  instead, he created a number of comedy characters - as much for his own amusement as ours.. here's to a long life, well-lived 🥂.

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  One of the few truly funny greats, very quick witted, always left you smiling.
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  ChatGPT analysis - Pure Worship

  by Jeffro in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i provided chatgpt the text of the introductory ‘letter’ in pure worship, without any commentary to affect the context, and asked it to point out any errors, fallacies or other issues….

  as an ai language model, i strive to be neutral and provide information without bias.

  however, there are a few things in the text that could be considered fallacies or issues, such as:1. appeal to emotion: the text uses emotional language such as "thrilled" and "exciting" to describe the reaction of those who received the book.

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  Yeah, the idea it's neutral is absolutely laughable. It's deliberately biased to leftist ideologies, because it's what those people want and because it's what they chose to train it on.

  It isn't intelligent, it' just regurgitates the crap it's seen with no rational or critical thought.

  Just like a leftist.
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  Voting thumbs up

  by peacefulpete in

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  2. tech-support

  is anyone else having problem giving a thumbs up?

  it has been happening for a long time.

  i vote up , it appears, then disappears when i return to page.

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  Simon

  Apparently Simon interpreted that to mean

  Don't assume, it makes an "ass" out of ... you know, the thing! (I added a Biden impersonation at the end)

  The typical reason I might decide to remove someone's voting ability is when they repeatedly play the person not the ball.

  What I mean by that, is they follow someone around downvoting everything they post, even the most innocuous of comments. They clearly don't read things and are not responding to what was posted in a sensible manner as is clear from the time between votes and the content of the posts themselves.

  Also, if someone is acting up or simply repeatedly generating work for me, I will sometimes lower their posting limits and voting ability because, well, I have better things to do with my time.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Looks like Santa!

  You come down the next morning, all the presents are gone, someone's molested your Xmas tree and there's a note saying the cookies you left out were sub-standard so you've been "added to the litigation".

  Worst. Santa. Ever.

  I actually look like Santa right now - beard is getting pretty long and in the right lighting, grey can pass for white.

  My friend hadn't seen me for a while and when she walked in and sees me she goes "Jesus Christ!". I said "personally, I think I look more like Santa, but yeah, it's a bit 'the messiah' as well I guess".
  
  
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  Just read that Carl Olof Jonsson died yesterday

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for newbies, who was carl olof jonsson?

  he was a jw in sweden who was challenged by a householder in the 1960s, who pointed out to him that secular history books don’t agree with watchtower that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, but instead place the event 20 years later.

  the reason the date is important is because it is the starting date for jw chronology which leads to 1914 as the end of the gentile times, and the beginning of the last days, as jws understand it.

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  Damn, sad news. His was one of the first exjw books I read after CoC.

  Same ... some books made it clear that their behavior didn't match any "divinely inspired" organization, others highlighted how intellectually wrong they were about basic facts.

  All useful to put your mind at rest that you are making the right decision to leave.

  So I'm grateful to the people who put the time and energy into their works.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  OMG, Kim just confessed - she killed JFK!

  Also, remember - wasn't she in the UK when the Queen died? Coincidence? Seems like Lloyd-level proof to me.

  Pepperidge farms remembers ...
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  They don't have women in Croatia to casually date? Fancy going all the way to Thailand for a date. Hmm.

  I dunno, what could possibly be different about prostitutes in Thailand that's different to Croatia?

  Surely they are the same the world over? i.e. all "definitely over the age of 20"

  Yeah, it makes no sense. There's no possible reason anyone can think of for going to Thailand for sex tourism ...
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  Christmas Decorations at the Kingdom hall

  by Simon in

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  2. experiences

  i can't remember if i've told this story before .... but back in the day, in irlam congregation (northwest england, uk, cheshire #1 circuit i think) we used to rent a kingdom hall for many years before we eventually built our own.. preston hall.

  ah, the memories .... it was primarily used as a community hall for old folks, but we had it friday night and sunday morning.. there was a loft and fold-out ladder and we used to store the chairs up their.

  every meeting, there would be an assembly line of all the "lads" to pass the chairs down and set them up, then collect them up and pass them back up at the end of the meeting.

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  there was another family moved down from Irlam. I got to know them well, even working for the bro one winter.

  I think I know who you mean, I can't remember the names off-hand, and don't really remember them that well - I think I got introduced the odd time they came up for a visit and was probably quite young when they had originally left.
  
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  Better off PIMA than POMA or POMO.

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the situation is many of us are pima and all putting on a front, sometimes saying something we don’t fully believe.

  or at least are actually agnostic about but a hope that it’s true.. but it can be useful if someone is really going through a hard time or has something they are very worried about, to say things like well let’s hope there is not much longer of this old system.. this can be useful in an awkward situation where you just don’t know what to do or say.

  it’s a little bit of hope that can help when there is nothing else.. my agnosticism just means i won’t look back over decades thinking i wasted my life.

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  But there is no hope after death if you believe the origin of life was chance

  So? If you think "believing" or wishful-thinking changes anything you're living in la-la-land.

  You only ever had one life, so live it and enjoy it. Don't waste it just because there isn't another magical one waiting in the wings.