He forgot to add the segment where he tries to explain how paying for sex at least a dozen times a year for at least three years doesn't fit the definition of "regular."
And the follow-up segment, on how people lie to minimize their bad behavior. :o
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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LMsA: There were several commenters who were puzzled about what Lloyd meant by “defamation”, meaning they hadn’t a clue as to what he’s been up to.
Whenever someone posts here, asking why this thread is still going-- this is why. There is a reason he is being so coy about the specifics of the 'defamation campaign' he keeps mentioning. There are many who follow and support him without knowing what he did and what it says about who he is as a person. He will need to keep begging and cajoling and pressuring people into supporting him. But they will only need to learn the truth about him once, to be convinced that he doesn't deserve their support.
Also, does anyone think that he won't go right back to buying sex on the regular if he feels the attention has dissipated? And if his income goes back to pre-implosion levels? Is that what his supporters want to fund again? Would they be okay if he was using any of their current funds for this activity? Remember, he can't control his penis, and his wife isn't enough to keep him satisfied. His words.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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The first reply to the reddit post ripped him a new one. Not much enthusiasm (or patience, perhaps) for him anymore. Or, as one of the responses says "I've given him money before, but I don't feel like he's owed a living by the exJW community - even minus all the controversy in his personal life. He's one of a number of exJW content creators - most of whom probably have actual jobs outside making videos. No one is forcing him to do it."
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Poor teeball. His shitbag employer might have to let him go... :(
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AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists
by Simon inunless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.
if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.
it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.
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enoughisenough: Do you feel like it is your artwork?
That's a good question. I think that the level of effort or involvement dictates that for me. I'll use a different application as an example: DAZ3D, which lets you use 3D models and build scenes, which you can then render or animate.
The application comes with some pre-built models, textures, and scenes. You can easily create a rendered 3D image by clicking a few buttons. You can even make it unique by moving the camera slightly, or changing the properties of the light, and so on. In other words, you can do very little work and get a fully-rendered image, or even a short animation. Is this your work? I'm on the fence about it. On the one hand, someone else created all of the parts and did 99% of the necessary work. On the other hand, the specific one you just built would not exist without that button press. And if pressing a button doesn't make the art yours, what of photography?
Now, there are people who will update the 3D items or build their own, and who will carefully set up the lights and the cameras and then export the finished scene to Photoshop. Just as some photographers go far beyond just point-and-shoot. I think those people put a clear stamp on the work, to the extent that it becomes a familiar style. Maybe that is when the work is really theirs.
I'm not sure where that line is. But I grew up drawing (and, very rarely, painting) and so I am used to doing the physical work of creating art from thought to final form. These days, I use digital tools extensively. Is the final product still mine? I think so. But I know some artists who would hesitate to say that what I produce now is my work. I think we're at the start of a long debate that will probably grow contentious in various communities.
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AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists
by Simon inunless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.
if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.
it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.
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I agree about hands. I think AI will eventually be fine-tuned enough to capture even something as complex as human hands and similar structures. I think it's less about the amount of data fed to it, and more about smarter algorithms.
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WARNING! If you DELIBERATELY avoid the JW memorial.....
by BoogerMan in.......you will experience a fate worse than death!
you have been warned - don't come crying to me if you don't go.
you've got one month to change your mind.
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I try not to look back at what may have been lost in the years I spent as a JW. I'm happy enough to have gotten out and gained my freedom and a fuller control of my life than I ever had. I can't change the past, I can only live in the present and plan for the future. So I'm happier by doing the latter two and minimizing the impact of those lost years.
Or, to quote from No Country For Old Men: “All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
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Court case Jehovah's Witnesses Norway kicked off
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://cne.news/article/2827-court-case-jehovah-s-witnesses-norway-kicked-off.
norwegian jehovah's witnesses are in court this wednesday and thursday.
they are fighting the government's decision to remove their registration as a religious community.. .
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Diogenesister: But the government has a duty to protect minors and social isolation is one of the cruelest things you can do to a social animal.
Based on what is in the elder's manuals that AndersonsInfo posted, they could successfully argue that their shunning policy does not violate the Norwegian government's standards. It would not be the first time that the WTS modified policy to conform to such pressure (I think they claimed that they did not forbid blood transfusions to avoid sanctions in Bulgaria, didn't they?). And they could say one thing and do another, by pressuring the rank and file to shun even if their guidelines have relaxed the rules.
But if they start on the road to relaxing those rules in order to gain something so insignificant (when considering the possible gain/loss from the change in loyalty to Jehovah), it could open the door to weakening the concept and eventually dropping it altogether. Or at least, one can hope so.
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Almost got caught lying about listening in to yesterday's Memorial
by RULES & REGULATIONS ini have not attended any kingdom hall meetings in 10 years.
the elders gave up on me a while ago.. the last 3 years i get phone calls to listen in to zoom meetings.
listened in several times... nothing has changed!
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Slide presentations? Nice!
I wonder if they'll ever do the memorial in VR, so you can partake of Jesus's flesh and blood without having to nibble a cracker and sip some wine.
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I think that most of us took it seriously, but it was also something of a grind. The lack of enthusiasm was usually due to being in a rough environment and dealing with lots of negative reactions. On days with nice weather, where we were visiting houses and not apartment buildings, it could be pleasant.
I didn't like feeling as if we were annoying people, even though we felt the work was important. So many people knew that when the doorbell rang at 10:30am on a Saturday or Sunday, it was those -bleeping- Jehovah's Witnesses. And they made sure we knew that they were aggravated. The few times we would find someone who would listen at all were nice, but those got fewer and fewer, it seemed.
If I had been given the option to stand next to a magazine rack and smile as people walked past, it would have felt as a bit of a relief. It wouldn't have felt like real preaching, but it would have been less stressful.