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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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  To receive the full state pension in the UK you need to have paid thirty years worth of National Insurance contributions (a specific, earnings related tax).

  People often go out of their way to cheat on taxes or avoid paying them in someway but forget about the future implications where their lack of record of earnings and contributions can come back to bite them.

  Not that anyone should really rely on government promises when it comes to pensions, as most are really complete Ponzi schemes and largely unsustainable. Which of course makes doing your own planning for your own future all the more critical.

  I posted about Retirement Planning for ex-JWs
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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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  does he hope it will carry on until he retires?

  He appears to put zero thought and no planning into his immediate future, let alone the long-term. If money comes in, he spends it on toys, trips, hookers, and drugs. Whatever experience makes him happy right now, with no thought to saving or investing - he doesn't pay his own way now, why would he consider doing it in future?

  I don't think he has the concept of the increased reward from "delayed gratification" which is something linked to poor impulse control and lack of social competence (sound like someone?). Read this article and all the way through it's describing Lloyd: "As adults, the high delayers were less likely to have drug problems or other addictive behaviors, get divorced, or be overweight". He ticks all the boxes.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_gratification
  

  He'll be one of those types that bemoans how poor he is when he's older because he didn't work and plan for that future.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

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  2. friends

  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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  Remember when he was so *not* after a relationship, and only interested in sex, that he went out of his way to educate his wife on the correct spelling and pronunciation of the name of the woman he was seeing?

  He tells whatever lie he thinks will negate the current thing he's been caught out on. Nothing more.
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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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  Yeah, "consenting?" ... not really.

  "taking advantage of?" absolutely.

  Anyone using prostitutes is a rapist because there is always some form of coercion involved somewhere along the line.
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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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  When you leave a cult and are all sorts of emotional (angry, confused, sad etc) Lloyd seemed like a “great place to repair”.

  That's exactly why he hangs around exJWs - the vulnerable people leaving the WTS are easy picking for a predator to take advantage of.

  People both want to help but also need help from others, what they don't need is to be fleeced.

  No one should feel bad for being trusting and wanting to help "the cause".

  Everyone who leaves feels like they want to destroy the WatchTower. It's understandable due to the hurt they cause. But after some number of years out everyone realizes that it's simply unrealistic. What is inexcusable is to know that and be making promises that you'll bring it about, if people donate money to you. He must know it's impossible and isn't going to happen, otherwise he's even dumber than we think, so the only explanation for taking people's money is that it is a grift.
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  In Defense of the Crusades

  by aqwsed12345 in

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  christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics.

  muslims really were gunning for them.

  by the time the crusades started, muslims had already captured two-thirds of the christian world.

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  I find history, including that of the Crusades, fascinating. Thanks for the post.
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  Redding Drama

  by Bill Covert in

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  if any one was so inclined to go back to 2013 on the site and locate the posts on the note takers reporting on the 2013 convention [the release of the rnwt and gb demanding obedience] there were two note takers who reported on the main talk "human apostates" that there was a new tactic being used, letter writing to the publishers homes.

  the main subject of those letters was a elder joe moore.

  on 12-26-2007 i taped court case #149893 to kh doors.

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  You seem like a grade A certifiable loon.

  You are no longer welcome on this site.
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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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  Something to think about:

  Patreon is 'great' for hooking up with donors, but they do take a cut. Anyone with half a brain will try to divert people into sending money directly (PayPal, or whatever) so they get more of it, especially if Patreon isn't really being used to provide people with any actual rewards, it's just a begging bowl.

  So don't limit Lloyd's potential income to calculations based purely on Patreon numbers. He's likely tapping some people for money directly.
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  Jesus Joke

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  it made me chuckle.

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  Jesus Joke

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  it made me chuckle.

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  It made me chuckle