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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  slimboyfat

  All those long form channels consist of interviews with interesting people with novel and important ideas. This does not apply to LE. I know of no other review channel where the review takes longer than the subject of the review.

  Mark Kermode for example reviews 3 hour long movies in under ten minutes.

  LE’s style is not popular. Only around ten percent of his subscribers watch it. That’s terrible compared with most other channels. His success seems to be based on fooling a lot of people into creating content for free, pretending his leaks are “exclusive”, and the sheer volume of his output because he likes to hear the sound of his own voice.
  

  Take The Truth Hurts channel. He’s got 50,000 subscribers but many of his videos have over 100,000 views and some are over 1 million.

  https://youtu.be/S84wg-XMNEc
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Yes you’re right. Some YouTubers make smaller clips, but it’s only selected pieces of particular interest, and often on a separate channel for clips. They don’t take a three hour video and cut it into 20 10 minute videos the way LE does. Like you say, it takes his audience for fools.

  Unfortunately some of the YouTubers attempting to replace LE seem to be copying his longer videos which is hopeless.

  If somebody made a channel that summarises the conventions in about 10 to 20 minutes it would be much more successful. You might even get active JWs watching it because it would be easier than watching the real thing. Faders could watch it as a cheat sheet so they can pretend they watched the actual convention in conversations.
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  Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

  by fulltimestudent in

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  this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

  "for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

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  Yes I think most groups suffered decrease due to the pandemic whereas it seems that JWs benefitted from the crisis. It’s probably more due to people returning to the religion in time of crisis rather than new converts.
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  Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

  "for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

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  It looks like Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baptists, and Seventh-day Adventists are the only Christian groups to have increased between 2016 and 2021, and JWs have the largest percentage increase of the three.

  Anglicans, Catholics, Churches of Christ, Later Day Saints, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Salvationist Army and Uniting Church all declined between 2016 and 2021.

  Jehovah’s Witnesses increased by 2.3% between 2016 and 2021, whereas Mormons decreased by 6%.

  Jehovah’s Witnesses, despite all their problems, and the Royal Commission in Australia, continue to outperform other religious groups. Why is that?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Have most or all the people in the 10 years video distanced themselves by now?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  If you look at TellTale’s videos he gets tens of thousands of viewers per video. LE rarely breaks 10,000 despite supposedly having over 100,000 subscribers. His videos are just not that good. The only thing they had going for them was the contributions from other more informed commentators and leaks. Now it’s just him talking to the camera it’s no wonder viewers and patrons are plummeting.
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  Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

  "for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

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  I wonder how Mormons, SDAs, Christadelphians and Unitarians are doing in Australia?
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  ALL babies are "little enemies of God"...

  by BoogerMan in

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  straight from the horse's gb's mouth - from the 2022 convention broadcast.. it's at the 38 min.

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  point of the jw broadcast: https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/2022convention/pub-co-r22_1_video.

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  “Little enemies of God”, ha! This is so bad and so good at the same time. That would be a great title for a Caleb and Sophia episode, if they’re still doing those things. 😆

  He clearly doesn’t have anyone to take him aside and tell him that was a bad idea. 💡
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  The man claimed he was suffering a mental health crisis when he was really pressuring his wife for an open marriage that she didn’t want, and when she wouldn’t agree he abandoned her and his children over the holidays so he could spend a month in Thailand “dating” prostitutes (and also snorkelling, don’t leave that out, in case we get the wrong impression). Of course he is using mental health as a cover for his lies and abuse. This isn't even a discussion.
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  ALL babies are "little enemies of God"...

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  straight from the horse's gb's mouth - from the 2022 convention broadcast.. it's at the 38 min.

  30 secs.

  point of the jw broadcast: https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/2022convention/pub-co-r22_1_video.

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  Ha, that’s funny. Baby isn’t a little angel, but a “little enemy of God”. I love it. It sounds bad but it’s standard JW teaching. Because a person can only choose to become a friend of God, not start out that way. Other Christian groups would probably agree with the idea, if not the exact wording. 😆