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  Gaza situation....

  by mikeflood in

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  terrible gaza situation, i think the solution, expensive and hard, is to take all the gaza population out, good people could be supported and go to lebanon, for example.

  otherwise is gonna be a humanitarian catastrophe.

  i know, it could take time, but then the people responsible for the terror could be brought to justice..

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  It's telling that no Arab country wants them or will let them in. Egypt has border ... it's closed solid.

  How many thousand years have then had and they are still just barbaic savages? Time to pull the plug. Stop funding, stop propping them up.
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  Things JWs Say That Don't Mean What They Think It Means

  by NotFormer in

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  sometimes things don't come across the way the speaker intended.. years ago there was an ad by the whitegoods company fisher and paykel.

  they showed them going to great lengths to get customer feedback on what was important to them.

  one customer said that she wanted it to be easy to get her appliances serviced when they broke down.

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  "Jehovah is a loving god" (while believing he's going to kill 9 billion people, the overwhelming majority never even hearing of him).
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  No more REPORTING field service!!!!!!!!!

  by BoogerMan in

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  this is going to break the hearts of a lot of uber-jw's!

  reddit has now removed the video link of samuel herd telling jw's they will no longer have to report time or placements - just tick a box which says "active.".

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdshyx79rm&t=13s.

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  I doubt anyone ever really believes they are doing "life saving work". It's all about the social points within the group. That's why they spend as long as possible talking to as few people as they can. Just lots of walking about and socializing.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  Lloyd is a criminal, period. Convicted of it or not, he admits to using prostitutes regularly, which is a crime. If your personal life involves criminal activity, yes it's other people's business. In fact, court cases are often public because we feel that criminal activity is not someone's "private business" but in the interest of the public.

  If your dollars are going to support criminal activity then yes, it's your business.

  From what I've read over the last few years I now believe that anyone who uses prostitutes is effectively a rapist as by most accounts I've read, any "consent" involved is a lie as they are simply not really free to give it. There is always some coercion in some form or another. An exJW activist should know that the only reliable accounts from people who were trapped in a lifestyle come from those who have escaped from it.

  That's in western countries. Add high-traffic countries such as Thailand and I think it erases the last pieces of doubt. If you claim to be an advocate for victims of childhood sexual abuse while using young women in these countries? Just stop already, how can you even claim to care? How can you believe you have any credibility whatsoever?

  Anyone still supporting him financially is an enabler and should hang their head in shame. Anyone still defending him, given all that is now known about the "man", has to be judged as a supporter of such behavior and like him should have no business being anywhere near women and girls.

  Also, when you talk about your own sexual indiscretions and describe them as involving "women and girls", people will assume that the girls aren't women, so when someone makes an accusation that you did something you shouldn't with some girl who was underage ... well, it makes it sound more credible. Throw in the judicial committee meetings (what % of those are for sexual misconduct?) that an "I'll make a video out of anything" YouTuber made the bizarre and non-sensical claim they didn't want to record "because they had nothing to hide" and you wonder what skeletons are still waiting to be revealed.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  His private life would be his private life ... except it wasn't ever kept private - he wrote books about his life, he solicited donations based on his life, including the notion that he was a devoted family man and caring husband which we now know was a complete veneer or lies.

  The reality was that he'd been treating his wife like shit for at least the last half-decade, probably a lot longer (I don't think people really change who they are, and it seems like he's always been a sex-pest all his life, as documented by his own accounts).

  He decided to live his life in public and make money from doing it, so his "private life" was never private and is fair game for commentary and critique.

  Lloyd - it's your personal life, not a private one, and you didn't keep it private so why should anyone else bother to?

  You made your own bed, lie in it you sick mother fucker.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  it’s like he’s given up on this case completely, even though he’s still going on about criminal defendants

  In the words of a judge ... what case?! :D

  It was always just pantomime - bread and circuses to fool his followers.
  
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  Lloyd Evans Patreoff Pool - November 2023

  by DerekMoors in

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  let's get the fun started and put in our votes for how far down the pumpkin patch lord of the fries will fall in november.. for those keeping score, last month he started at 457 patrons, did some begging and managed to bump those numbers up to 478, but as of this writing he's down to 439.. so, how well do you think the grift will continue this month?

  let us know where you think he'll be on november 2. lucky number 420?

  will he drop back down below 400?

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  Put me down for 416
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  On his long deleted translation site, he claimed he was uniquely qualified for legal translation because he worked as a filing clerk in a UK law office.

  Reality: his wife spoke two languages and he could take advantage of members of the local congregation for cheap labor.

  An art degree, ha! You may as well go to an interview and show them your 25 yard bronze swimming certificate for the use that would be. It's a do-nothing placeholder for people who can't decide or be bothered to do any proper studying.

  He is skill-less, and work-shy, no wonder he doesn't have any employment record to speak of. He's pretty much unemployable because besides the lack of skills he has a complete lack of work ethic and would inevitably be a liability for any company that employed him.

  Landscaping / lawn-care seemed to be the latest "earn a bit but still claim benefits" scam that JWs did when we left the UK. It's perfect for them - employ local JWs, pay them minimum wage (or less) and let the government top it up. Lots of cash payments that probably don't get declared.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  But he finds the sailing rough when he has to bring his argument down to "he cheated on his wife with a sex worker, and unless you can prove she was underage, that's all he did."

  The problem is-- most of his patrons find the "cheated on his wife with a sex worker" bad enough, not to mention that he admitted to paying for sex at least every few months for three or four years.

  And that's the thing - Lloyd didn't cheat on his wife with "a" sex worker. It wasn't any kind of one-off "mistake" as he tries to spin it since it came out. As far as I understand, it's multiple sex workers on a regular basis over many years, in multiple countries, and whatever he claims, he seems to have had more than one relationship ("hey wife, remember to get the name of my ho correct, it's Sara but with a C ...").

  If his deluded patreons can't see the humped Christmas tree for the forest, there's really no helping them - they almost deserve to be separated from their money. But it shouldn't help fund the abuse of women, which is what prostitution in high-trafficked countries most likely is, not to mention the dreadful emotional abuse inflicted on his wife and health risks he may be opening her up to.
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  Are adjustable rate mortgages the norm in the UK?

  by SydBarrett in

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  perhaps an odd subject for a presumably religious focused discussion board, but there are a fair number of brits here... i'm an american, but i sometimes listen to the podcast of the james o'brien radio show.

  (a brit political radio show where people call in).

  the past few months, a common topic has been people calling in discussing how hard they are getting hit financially because of a dramatic rise in interest rates on their mortgage.

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  But yeah, fixed rates were more common the North America than they were in the UK. Different market, different process to house-buying entirely. Some things better, some things worse.

  We were fortunate in our recent mortgage renewals - our current 5 year term is fixed at 1.79%, way lower than fixed or variable rates are now, but previously we were on a 5 year variable rate term which was better than the fixed option at the time.

  I'd hate to be facing a renewal coming up any time soon (we have about 2 years left to go, but then it's all done).