Posts by slimboyfat

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

slimboyfat

When the guy is openly calling for people to send him $50 a month to join his exclusive “governing hotty”, mirroring the group he claims to oppose, comparisons are probably warranted in this case.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

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

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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

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.

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

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.