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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  slimboyfat

  He’s decided to save himself some money by firing his remaining employee after sacking his wife a few months ago. It will save him money but it also means he’ll have to do the menial tasks of running his YouTube channel himself. That will be tough, but he might try to rope people into doing it for free. In fact maybe he’s already got that lined up.

  Basically he plans to stop the “life saving” JW rebuttals and will make general videos and interviews that he finds less tedious instead, leeching further off the MythVision channel. He still expects his patrons to send him their money, if at a reduced level, in other words to spin this out for as long as he can. A major hurdle that his ego prevents him from seeing is that outside of Watchtower he doesn’t have anything interesting to say.
  

  There is no need or reason to close his media company other than to hide how much money he has from others and probably from his ex-wife.
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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).

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  slimboyfat

  “While it is true I did briefly date a sex worker in Thailand in the early stages of a separation I didn’t involve myself in sex tourism of any kind either in Thailand or in any other country, that allegation is just a straight up lie.”

  Say, come again, what? “I didn’t go out for lunch I just had lunch while I was out.” Thanks, that sure clears that up.

  The weird thing is he still has hundreds of patrons and the opportunity to save his situation if he wanted to. But he thinks he’s entitled not to suffer any consequence of his actions whatever so is intent on throwing all the toys out of the pram.

  I don’t know what definition of “a good man” he is using to describe himself, but it’s not the kind of description that naturally fits a person who saw fit to write “rebuttals” to his distraught wife at home while ‘“not living like a monk in Thailand”, and seeing fit to educate her on the correct pronunciation of the prostitute he was currently with, at every turn blaming her for his own behaviour.

  He says people are calling him a narcissist. What he doesn’t mention is that it was a qualified psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das who described him as a psychopathic narcissist, and an investigative journalist Andrew Gold who likened him to a cult leader. Funny how he doesn’t legally harass them or see fit to rebut them in this video. He chooses his targets carefully and always has done throughout his life.
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  Ukraine v England football match

  by BoogerMan in

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  "england's winning run in their euro 2024 qualifying campaign came to a halt as they were held to a draw by ukraine in wroclaw.

  ukraine were backed by 40,000 of their own fans in the tarczynski arena, giving the game the fervent feel of a home fixture as they are unable to play in their own country because of the war with russia.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66692946.

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  slimboyfat

  The Ukrainians are victims in all this. I’m sure they’ve experienced the whole range of emotions from patriotism, bravery, fear, anger, confusion. Turn our anger against those who profit from war.

  As for people who go and join other people’s wars I’m a bit let charitable. I’m sure there’s some good intention there, but a lot of weirdos and psychos too who feel they are missing out if they’ve never been in a war.
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  Ukraine v England football match

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
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  "england's winning run in their euro 2024 qualifying campaign came to a halt as they were held to a draw by ukraine in wroclaw.

  ukraine were backed by 40,000 of their own fans in the tarczynski arena, giving the game the fervent feel of a home fixture as they are unable to play in their own country because of the war with russia.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66692946.

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  Whether they were close to an agreement or not might be debatable but however close they were to an agreement it’s clear that Boris Johnson urged the Ukrainians to “fight on” rather than settle with the Russians, which is just evil in my opinion. Many thousands have lost their lives since then. War urged on by the kind of people who would get a doctor to declare them medically exempt before fighting themselves, and busy working out how to make money out of the situation.
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  Ukraine v England football match

  by BoogerMan in

  1. social
  2. current

  "england's winning run in their euro 2024 qualifying campaign came to a halt as they were held to a draw by ukraine in wroclaw.

  ukraine were backed by 40,000 of their own fans in the tarczynski arena, giving the game the fervent feel of a home fixture as they are unable to play in their own country because of the war with russia.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66692946.

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  slimboyfat

  The main purpose of the war is to provide US arms manufacturers with a source of revenue. If I was Ukrainian I wouldn’t be eager to die as canon fodder for US and UK interests at the behest of foreign leaders looking out for their own selfish gain such as Boris Johnson who famously and wickedly scuppered a peace deal in April 2022.

  https://youtu.be/N3pnFR7DeZA?si=IqfBtuZUjMyQoKz4
  
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  Are adjustable rate mortgages the norm in the UK?

  by SydBarrett in

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  2. friends

  perhaps an odd subject for a presumably religious focused discussion board, but there are a fair number of brits here... i'm an american, but i sometimes listen to the podcast of the james o'brien radio show.

  (a brit political radio show where people call in).

  the past few months, a common topic has been people calling in discussing how hard they are getting hit financially because of a dramatic rise in interest rates on their mortgage.

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  slimboyfat

  House prices have increased much more than wages since the 1980s that’s why interest rates at 6% are a much bigger deal at current prices than even at the peak interest rates in the 1980s when prices were much lower. Even at that, interest rates of 15% were very short lived in the 1980s any case.
  
  https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5568/housing/uk-house-price-affordability/
  
  House prices have increased by 2 and 1/2 times since the early 1990s when taking inflation into account, from around £100,000 to over £250,000 in today’s money.
  
  
  
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  Are adjustable rate mortgages the norm in the UK?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  perhaps an odd subject for a presumably religious focused discussion board, but there are a fair number of brits here... i'm an american, but i sometimes listen to the podcast of the james o'brien radio show.

  (a brit political radio show where people call in).

  the past few months, a common topic has been people calling in discussing how hard they are getting hit financially because of a dramatic rise in interest rates on their mortgage.

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  slimboyfat

  Yeah but house prices were ten times lower in the 1980s.

  15% of a much lower number is a lower amount than 6% of a much larger number.
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  Are adjustable rate mortgages the norm in the UK?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  perhaps an odd subject for a presumably religious focused discussion board, but there are a fair number of brits here... i'm an american, but i sometimes listen to the podcast of the james o'brien radio show.

  (a brit political radio show where people call in).

  the past few months, a common topic has been people calling in discussing how hard they are getting hit financially because of a dramatic rise in interest rates on their mortgage.

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  slimboyfat

  I think it’s about 50/50 and is perceived as a consumer choice whether to go with a fixed or variable rate.

  Variable rate has been popular since the 2008 crash because rates became so low and the variable rate has generally been a bit lower than the fixed rate available.

  In the past couple of years fixed rates have become more popular again because rates have been rising, and there has been expectation they will rise further so people now wish to lock in a perceived lower fixed rate, if possible.

  Fixed rates are generally not available for the whole term and need to renegotiated after 5 years or so.

  This is the situation as far as I know.

  James O’Brien is insufferable.
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  Do you play the LOTTERY?

  by Fisherman in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  jw view gambling as a sin and sadly people get addicted to gambling causing them financial and health problems.

  but is playing a couple of bucks a week on some lottery tickets actually gambling?

  what do you have to lose?

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  slimboyfat

  When we helped an MS moving, a lottery receipt came to daylight behind the fridge. Was a little embarrassing. But no consequences followed as far as I remember.

  Ah the joys of JW life, never knowing when some misstep or thought crime might disclose itself unprompted to expose you to the instant scorn of the brothers.
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  Do you play the LOTTERY?

  by Fisherman in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  jw view gambling as a sin and sadly people get addicted to gambling causing them financial and health problems.

  but is playing a couple of bucks a week on some lottery tickets actually gambling?

  what do you have to lose?

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  slimboyfat

  I like the story of the great grandmother buying a winning lottery ticket to help out her son.

  I think the elders’ book specifically says that small scale and occasional gambling is not a disfellowshipping offence.