It's not as if belonging to a religion that had strict moral rules regarding sex made any difference to Evans in the first place.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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WingCommander: OMG, Hemorrhoid Evans is going to write at least 2 MORE long-winded, gas-bag books about HIMSELF?
Apparently he is going to revise the first one? He could get away with it, because no one wants to read either book, much less compare them to see what he changed. And if he's going to revise the first one, why bother writing the second one? Oh, wait-- he's not going to try to crowdfund a second autobiography, is he? lol
Maybe he can title it The Unrepentant Reprobate.
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smiddy3: Don`t all politicians do that ?
Yes, it's a standard of behavior here as well. It shouldn't even matter, but in the USA we give way too much blame/credit to the President, who really is supposed to be something of a figurehead, a representative of the nation as a whole when dealing with foreign powers. Our government was designed to put most of the power into congress, but we place too much of our attention on the President.
The media will talk about the President's budget and budget proposals all the time, but it's congress that produces the actual budget and votes to pass it (with the President able to veto it, under some conditions- but even then, congress will be tasked with revising the budget and voting again). Congress writes laws and votes to pass them, then the President signs them to make them official (same thing here regarding the veto). And so on.
This is where the use of executive orders has become a growing problem for decades now. Giving the President a way to circumvent congress was meant for only very rare circumstances, but presidents regularly use them now and it has given them way too much power. It's a step in a very dangerous direction for what is supposed to be a representative government, when those representatives are so easy to bypass.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Jehalapeno: Just because you prefer shorter videos does not mean there's not an audience interested in longer videos.
I didn't mean to imply that no one watches long videos on YouTube. But it's very difficult on an audience if your upload schedule is frequent and your videos are long. Some of the channels I enjoy will post 40-90 minute videos, but do so on a relatively long schedule.
I am sure there is an audience that can watch content for hours each day from one or two creators, but that would make them the exception that proves the rule, in my mind.
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Is the light getting brighter on this?
by Longlivetherenegades incan you identify or show the difference in the group of words labelled a and b. a. last part of that last day.... year 1967 .
b. shortly before the last day of the last days..... year 2020 .
is the light getting brighter or going into darkness?
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Maybe they are trying to channel Winston Churchill.
Churchill: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Lett: "As Churchill said, this isn't the end. But it's close! It's more like the middle of the end of the end, leaning strongly towards the end of the end of the end. This is what we call 'overlapping endings.'"
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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He might want to get that lawyer to skim his next writing project. Wouldn't want to commit libel, or anything...
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Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers
by fulltimestudent inthis abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.
"for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".
read more?
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TonusOH
The JW message always resonates during times when there is a lot of uncertainty, fear, and stress. Economic concerns, political strife, and a war that could escalate any day are going to make people very anxious. And when someone points out how "the Bible predicted these exacts times," they find an audience that is suddenly very receptive.
That gives them the time to assimilate that person, who doesn't realize the trap has closed around them until it's too late.
Edit to add: I guess for the period from 2016 to 2021, the political uncertainty in the USA and the pandemic that followed made a big difference.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
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Chinapomo: Several times many people, and I mean his supporters, have told him to create shorter content. He replied by saying that his content is as long as it needs to be.
If he had listened to them, he would not have to buy followers. Short content is king on YouTube. Remember that YT is the ultimate site for "channel-surfing." Watch a ten-minute video, then watch a 15-minute video, then a 5-minute clip, etc. If you really enjoy a creator's work, you might sit through a 20-30 minute video. I think some creators are able to put out longer content because they do so on a slower schedule. If you do documentary-style videos, then one 40-60 minute video every 30-60 days works just fine.
The more frequently you put out content, the shorter it should be, or you risk burning out your audience. His short videos were fine. But I can't imagine why anyone would sit through two or three days of three+ hour videos trying to cover every point in every talk in a convention. No wonder he seems so irritable all the time.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
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Did he ever hang the 100k plaque on the wall? Bought or not, subscriber numbers tend to impress people browsing YT, and putting the plaque on display is something many YouTubers do. It has much more effect than a JW.org picture, I bet.
As for Patreon, those numbers will fluctuate from time-to-time, but the overall trend is a very sharp decrease. And I think it is entirely driven by people who --even if they still like the work he does-- cannot bring themselves to financially support him after learning about what he's done, his unrepentant attitude towards it, and how he continues to behave. I guess some people will be drawn in by his publicized affection for his children, but many will understand the damage he is doing to them by being such a bad husband. The number of supporters who are 'okay' with what he has shown himself to be must be very few, and even those will eventually realize they cannot defend him.
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Not just the pipeline, the general push to restrict oil use led to changes in the way many refineries here are used. Some were effectively shut down, others are refining crude for different uses, and would need to be prepped to refine it into gasoline again. The administration has asked them to start producing more gasoline ASAP, while making clear that its desire to shut them down in the long run has not diminished.
So the oil industry is being asked to spend a lot of money so the country can get cheaper gas... and then they'll get the rug pulled out from under their feet. I think the oil company executives are enjoying telling Biden that they won't do it, knowing that he will bear the brunt of the electorate's anger. What can he do? Demonize them? He's already done that, and besides... they are oil industry executives! Calling them greedy monsters is almost a compliment. DeSantis will not lack for an excess of campaign funds in 2023/24, that much is for sure.