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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

Judging by his Amazon page he has clearly sold a large number of books and, even allowing for the probability that he has worked hard to remove negative reviews, he has a lot of positive reviews from readers. The only XJW books with more reviews (he has 403 reviews), as far as I can tell, are Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz (692) and Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah. (483) That’s not bad going. I would call that success, even if there is no accounting for taste on the part of his readership.
As for length, for example try telling Robert Caro how long the typical biography should be and he’ll triple it for you, and them some, and his readers love it. I’m not comparing LE’s work to Robert Caro by the way! I’m just saying I don’t believe in set lengths for genres.
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Who is GOD Favouring in this Time of the End ?
by smiddy3 in
1. jw
2. friends
jehovah`s witnesses , seventh day adventists , church of jesus christ of the latter day saints.. these 3 are probably the more influenthal in the last 200 or so years ago.. if membership is a sign of god`s blessing on who he favours then @ the year 2021.. jehovah`s witnesses membership 8.5 million.

church of jesus christ of latter day saint`s membership.16.8 million.

seventh day adventist`s membership.21 million.
slimboyfat

The Mormons notoriously inflate their numbers. Scholars assessing dozens of census results concluded there are 8.6 million who self identify as Mormons compared with 17.5 million who self identify as Jehovah’s Witnesses, making Jehovah’s Witnesses more than twice as numerous as Mormons. In addition Mormons are far more geographically concentrated than JWs in a few regions such as Utah, South America, and certain pacific islands. (The same study found that there are 26.8 million who self identify as Adventists worldwide.)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13644-020-00408-z
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New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.
by waton in
1. social
2. current
for what it is worth to those interested.

1914.. tel-aviv university.

"biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.
slimboyfat

It’s perfectly reasonable for them to use 586 BCE as the anchor date, because from their perspective it is a verifiable and reliable date to start from. I guess the destruction of a city is far easier to identify by archaeological means than the return of Jews a generation later.
What you can’t do is use the 586 BCE date as the base date for the method and then turn around and say the 586 BCE is supported by the method, because that’s like trying to hold up the branch your sitting on. (If I’ve understood what the article says) I don’t think they are claiming the method does support 586 BCE, because that’s a peculiar JW interest anyway, they would have no interest in doing so.
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New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.
by waton in
1. social
2. current
for what it is worth to those interested.

1914.. tel-aviv university.

"biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.
slimboyfat

It seems that the study used 586 BCE for the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem as the base date to calibrate their method and measure other dates in relation to it. If so, this method is not used to determine the 586 BCE date, rather it assumes it.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

I tried to watch it but the cringe is too strong
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Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?
by slimboyfat in
1. social
2. current
have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

have you got any views on the information?

i find it worrying at least.
slimboyfat

More bad news on effects of the new vaccines
https://youtu.be/86fcpHrAOUM
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

There were plenty of exJW channels, some of them now completely forgotten. Does anyone remember seattleniceguy? His videos were pretty good.
And there are dozens and dozens of exJW books from well before “the reluctant apostate”.
Some of them from posters on this site before LE even joined it.
These are just a few of the books from onetime posters on this forum
https://www.amazon.com/Have-You-Seen-My-Mother/dp/0976938502/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EEIWUFW/
https://www.amazon.com/I-Was-Teenage-Jehovahs-Witness/dp/0977999432/
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Their-Hands-Hemophiliac-Jehovahs-ebook/dp/B004XVZNHC/
https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Book-Memoir-Joy-Castro/dp/0803240627/
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What decade or era in human history do you like the most or would have liked to live during?
by Fisherman in
1. social
2. entertainment
in the us, the 60s and 70s was a great time to be alive except for getting drafted if you wanted to be that age.

they were music years, greatest movies, fun, simpler and enjoyable days—also except for the d&ugs.

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slimboyfat

1990s was the best decade ever
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

You’re too kind
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Books-of-Titus-and-Philemon-Study-Edition-Now-Available-Online
by Wonderment in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/books-of-titus-and-philemon-study-edition-now-available-online/.
slimboyfat

JWs have traditionally argued that the Old and New Testaments are equal worth for Christians - that’s the reason they rejected the names Old Testament and New Testament, because it was argued that the word “old” could be deprecatory.
So it’s interesting to note that for their new Study Bible they decided to start at Matthew rather than Genesis, and it will probably take them years, if they ever do get round to cover the books in the Hebrew Bible.