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  20 Things I Don't Understand about Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  i don’t understand how jehovah’s witnesses can rightly claim:.

  that less than 150,000 faithful christians existed prior to the 20th century....when allegedly millions were martyred during the first 3 centuries of the common era alone.

  unique ability to interpret scripture...when interpretation of prophecy has been 100% wrong for over 130 years.. .

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  What is your first book?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  The young guy with the pony tail did an excellent commentary on the livestream. It’s better than watching the original video because he picks up every important point.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  I should say, I am not proofreader and I wouldn’t catch everything. But I would help spotting errors, as far as I can, if it helps.
  I remember sneaking around reading Crisis of Conscience, hiding it like it was contraband. But just around that time, at one of the Thursday meetings, I overheard a conversation between two sisters. This was back when sisters could did demonstration type talks on a Bible topic, using whatever material they like. (I’m not sure, but I think it’s more programmatic nowadays.)
  

  One sister said to the other, “I’ve got a talk in a couple of week, would you be my householder?”

  The other said, “sure, what’s your topic?”

  “Apostasy.”

  “Yeah I can help you out with that, because I read that book by Fred Franz’s nephew years ago, so I know what apostates try to say and all that”.

  “Okay then, we’ll get together to practise”.

  I nearly fainted. Here I was hiding the book as if my life depended on it, and this sister was talking about it openly in the Kingdom Hall as if it was no big deal. In fact it sounded like she was boasting about her insight on the topic. Pretty strange incident, seemed to me.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  I’m not much of a writer but I’d certainly be willing to proofread if that’s any help.
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  Arthritis pain. What works for you?

  by Fisherman in

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  there are several prescription meds people use to relieve the pain of arthritis.

  they work by suppressing the immune system or by reducing inflammation.

  people also use otc anti-inflammatory pills, and even anti-allergy pills are reported to work because of being able to also reduce inflammation but people tell me that they are concerned to use some meds regularly because of potential side effects in long term use.

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  Have you tried the website “stuff that works”? It aggregates the responses of thousands of people to works out what treatments are effective. You need to fill out their questionnaire first to access their data.

  Cherries might help with some kinds of joint pains but perhaps not this kind. It helped for me. I now eat a few cherries every couple of days when available.
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  Investment departments in Bethel

  by Mikejw in

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  i was a bethelite in london for many years then got reassigned to the field and then went on brd from the start of chelmsford right upto covid.. during my years at the branch i was sometimes asked to be on a team who went to homes donated to the branch when some older one died.. this happenes an awful lot, everything is left to the branch in the will.

  the unbelieving family is furious they didn’t get left anything and sometimes they tried to get their elderly relatives possessions and there was a legal battle .

  but in the end a team of us would go and empty the property and another team would clean it up and put it on the market to sell it for the worldwide work.. all the possessions were sorted into trash or possibly valuable .

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  I am sure one of the reasons they push shunning of disfellowshipped and disassociated children so hard is because they know some parents will leave everything to Watchtower as a result. Evil.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Somebody mentioned that the latest livestream only produced a couple of hundred dollars in donations for LE. This contrasts with $3000 in his confessional livestream. That’s down by over 90%. This is probably indicative, more than anything else, of the draining support away from his channel. No wonder he looks so glum.

  Among all the response videos, one of the most compelling, I found, was the older American guy who had donated hundreds of dollars to LE but who said he could not in good conscience send him any more money. It was compelling because he was obviously a genuine and committed supporter who had only reluctantly come to the conclusion that LE is bad news. That’s an excellent video, but unfortunately now I can’t find it again!
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Las M, that’s an excellent outline. Focus on a chapter at a time and I’m sure others will help when we can. Some graphics might be good to include as well, such as the graph showing patrons deserting, and a few particularly good humorous memes to lighten it up. Research shows (Cialdini) that two of the things we find most persuasive are 1) social proof and 2) appeals to authority. This means emphasising, over and over, just how many people have been put off by his behaviour, how many patrons have already abandoned his Patreon, the opinion of Dr Das and Andrew Gold as independent authorities, and other respected activists who have distanced themselves. These points are just as important as the depressing details of the case in convincing people.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  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

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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.