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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 suspect, even when LE gets down to like 100 patrons, he’ll still be doing it, because it’s free money practically, so from his point of view, as long as people are still willing to send him money, why not take it? He’ll probably scale back his effort but still take the money, his idea of keeping it “sustainable”.
I only pay for one one channel on YouTube and that mythvision because I think Derek does very good interviews, he’s respectful to the scholars he interviews, and I like him. I don’t share his beliefs but I have respect for his approach. I am sorry he had a break with Dr Bob Price a few months ago, but I think that was more Dr Price’s fault than Derek. Plus I think Derek has made efforts to patch it up. 👍
I have also made one off donations to Novara media on YouTube because I think they have the best news analysis on YouTube. But those are the only cases I have paid YouTube creators. Nothing JW related.
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Scottish National Party + Nazis
by BoogerMan in
1. jw
2. friends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scottish_national_party - "however, others in the party were explicitly pro-nazi.

hugh macdiarmid, who stood as an snp candidate in 1945, believed that the nazis were "less dangerous than our own government" and wrote a poem about the london blitz that included the line "i hardly care".

arthur donaldson, who went on to lead the party between 1961 and 1969, believed a nazi invasion would benefit scotland: "the government would leave the country and england's position would be absolutely hopeless, as poverty and famine would be their only reward for declaring war on germany.
slimboyfat

56% now support independence. How much longer can unionists keep holding back democracy?
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/support-for-scottish-independence-up-to-56-percent/
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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

He’s a blagger par excellence, that’s why. It doesn’t speak well of the Remini show, or the commission in London for that matter, that he was accepted as a relevant person to include. But it happens. Our last prime minister in the UK was wholly unqualified and reportedly got into position purely by blagging - and the PM before that too, arguably. It’s reminiscent of the now famous tirade about “talentless people” in power by the disaffected Tory MP Charles Walker at the height to the Liz Truss fiasco.
https://youtu.be/Ltqh10ePaHg
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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

For crying out loud don’t give him ideas. Have you never heard - don’t interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.
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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 wonder if he’ll do the customary review of Watchtower statistics at the end of the year. Even if they show a downturn, Watchtower has never, not even after 1975, suffered a decline as dramatic as 2022 for LE. I guess he won’t do a video reviewing those statistics. I wonder if any other YouTuber has experienced a fall as swift and decisive as this?
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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

“Even if I rudely ignored your emails in the past, please, please write to me again, because I am now desperate, and have therefore lowered my standards considerably - so you may be in with a shout.”
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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

If it requires an SSL certificate I hate those things. I spent 5 hours chasing my tail to get one of those until I finally gave up and a technician in the chat help just did it for me. I did not find the process of setting up a website easy at all.
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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

Wasn’t his last resolution to ‘be the best father and husband he can be’? 🤔
Following that pattern, maybe his resolution to return to writing blogs will turn out somewhat unexpectedly.
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Did it ever become unbearable to attend another Kingdom Hall meeting?
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. jw
2. experiences
it's becoming unbearable for me to attend another meeting.

i dread coming to the weekly sunday public talk and watchtower study.

the talks are ''repeats'' of a ''repeat.
slimboyfat

Did anyone ever find the meetings bearable even when they did believe in it? Going for a toilet break, watching people, counting roof tiles, even answering up and giving talks were all coping strategies for getting through the time. If you liked the people, and were sociable, then conversations before and after meetings saved it from being a complete waste of time. But you hardly ever learned anything new or got any kind of practical information for your life, let alone, heaven forbid, have an inspirational or ‘spiritual’ experience of any sort.
I think that people who have always been JWs just think meetings are inevitably boring, and this is the way it’s meant to be. Many of them do genuinely seem to mean it when they praise the quality of ‘instruction’ and ‘spiritual food’ at the meetings. Most of them simply have no idea how varied, informative, challenging, practical, meaningful, and even ‘spiritual’ a religious service can be.
I imagine it was better in Russell’s day. There was probably more open discussion and more place for a spiritual and devotional dimension to practice (genuine group prayers, for example). Jehovah’s Witnesses have really got themselves into a rut and it’s hard to see how they get themselves out of 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

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