Bringing together a coherent narrative about what has happened is important in itself, and the important thing about putting it on Amazon in particular is that, at the moment, his own narrative stands there unchallenged. If there was an ebook and paperback that appeared alongside his own book in searches then it would give people opportunity to know what they are getting into with him.
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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
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Las Malv … you’ve been following this more closely than anyone. I wonder if you’d consider putting together a narrative of the whole scandal and post it as an ebook on Amazon? It would make more people aware and able to make an informed choice about whether to have anything to do with him, plus it would infuriate him but, because it remains purely factual, he couldn’t do anything about it and would underline that his threats are empty and his attempted censorship has failed.
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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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I think a reference to a talk sometime that cited the “birdcatcher” in the Psalms (91:3), usually interpreted as Satan, using, among other things, apostasy to ensnare JWs and convert them to the the dark side.
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I’m a current elder ex bethel in London
by Mikejw ini was in bethel for years early 2000s and was heavily involved with brd from start to finish .
im current elder in one of the congregations in london.
what i’ve noticed is huge changes since covid .
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This is not what I see at all. Rather than fading, many JWs have returned to the meetings during the pandemic and some who sat on the fence for years have got baptised. Currently the numbers are higher than they were at the start of the pandemic, despite a number of deaths.
I do think enthusiasm for writing letters has waned as the months have gone on, and people probably do spend more time chatting on Zoom than writing letters. Even so, a tremendous amount of latter writing has gone on, noted by other religious groups. (I attended a Unitarian service that was strangely based on JW letter writing)
Locally JWs were excited to get back on the carts, although I doubt they will be as happy about returning to door to door preaching.
I suspect they will lose some people if they push too hard for everyone to return to the Kingdom Hall instead of staying on Zoom. Some will respond to the pressure but others will just quit attending the meetings altogether.
I’ve been loosely associating and attending various kinds of religious meetings during the pandemic including: Unitarian, Christadelphian, Mormon, Presbyterian, Iglesia ni Cristo, and Quaker meetings. Most of these groups have seen a drop in participation, particularly Mormons, Unitarians, and mainline churches. Quakers have done a bit better. JWs have done better than any other group in keeping members engaged during the pandemic. They are struggling to get people to go back to the KH but not to the extent of other churches where this seems to be an even bigger problem.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
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What on earth is the difference between “engaging” and “dating” a sex worker? What is he talking about? He says others have “filthy minds”? This creep needs to get lost permanently. Who on earth is still supporting him? Plus isn’t prostitution actually a crime in the countries he’s admitted to. The thing he says is “no crime” literally is a crime!
Again he tries to manipulate the person into revealing their identity so he can target them, rather than give a straight answer to the fact that he is contradicting himself.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
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The graph shows he has lost nearly half his patrons already and it’s a steep downward curve.
The patrons are real numbers whereas the total income is an estimate. It’s worth bearing in mind that just a few large donors probably supply as much as most of the rest. One of those donors made a video where he said he formerly sent LE even more than the highest tier on his patron levels.
He gets money from patrons, ad revenue, and book sales - so a significant amount. But in somewhat decline. This doesn’t include money, gifts, travel paid for, books sent to him for free by supporters, which by the sounds of it was substantial.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
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The long term graph good too
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What Name Does the New Testament Emphasize - Jehovah or Jesus?
by Vanderhoven7 init seems to me scripturally speaking, that jehovah's witnesses are emphasizing the wrong name.. it should be jesus, not jehovah.
who is the way, the truth and the life?
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The scripture says we need to call on the name of Jehovah to be saved. I don’t know there is any scripture that says we need to call on the name of Jesus to be saved, is there? I can’t think of one.
In the New Testament Jehovah God is the source of salvation and Jesus is the saviour that Jehovah has sent to save humans. The distinct roles are very clear. Jesus ascribes salvation to Jehovah God by his name, his words and his deeds.
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What Name Does the New Testament Emphasize - Jehovah or Jesus?
by Vanderhoven7 init seems to me scripturally speaking, that jehovah's witnesses are emphasizing the wrong name.. it should be jesus, not jehovah.
who is the way, the truth and the life?
(john 14:6).
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I’m not so sure that knowing and using the divine name isn’t necessary for salvation. Acts 15 suggests Christians would be identified by the divine name. Acts 2 says that those calling on the name will be saves and Acts 4 says Jesus is the name of the saviour given among men for salvation. Revelation 3:12 says Jesus will write the names of God, Jerusalem, and his own new name on the foreheads of believers. Matt 1:21 says that Jesus is called Jesus because it is by means of him that Jehovah provides salvation. In total it seems that it is necessary for believers to know and use the names of both Jehovah and Jesus, one or the other is not sufficient.
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2022-07-29-Announcement!
by Atlantis in2022-07-29-announcements--english.
2022-07-29-announcements-spanishpage 2, par.
3. on the other hand, some brothers and sisters—younger and in good health—have more favorable circumstances that may allow them to attend christian meetings regularly at the kingdom hall.
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I can’t seem to find the letter but I thought that when they announced going back to meetings at memorial time we weren’t supposed to criticize those who decide to stay watching on zoom.
Well that didn’t last long, did it? Judging people is a habit JWs just won’t give up.
It was the same in the UK with the letter writing. At first it was presented as a possible breach of privacy law and each person would have ‘make up their own mind’. People were even told to go read the relevant laws, which caused a bit of confusion because they was no guidance where to find it or how to make sense of it. Within a few weeks everyone was expected to write letters, and there was no such thing as making up your own mind. People who didn’t were certainly judged.
They just can’t help bossing people around it’s deep in the culture. They can’t stand the idea of people arriving at their own conclusions that may differ from their own, so they label any dissenters as disobedient to the Bible. At lot of people are seeing through it however.