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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).
TonusOH

Simon: It's still staggering that someone who relied on his online reputation for 100% of his income had so little regard for it
I think it's a lack of self-awareness. He really isn't capable of seeing things from the point of view of someone outside of his situation. His hard-charging, take-no-prisoners style of operating can work over a short period of time, and it did for him. He grew his channel and protected it by going after anyone who criticized him, and he was relentless. And he also alienated people who were on his side because he demands unconditional support. So, when he finally stumbled badly, he lacked a support network- the people who could have helped him were on the other side of all of those burned bridges.
Even now, he won't give an inch and continues to turn on people who supported him. You have to wonder how many of the ones that are left -the real diehard supporters- will end up in his doghouse because they couldn't keep navigating the minefield that is his massive and fragile ego.
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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).
TonusOH

Thisismein1972: He says he dreams of leaving Twitter. Well why dream when all he has to do is hit that deactivate account button.
Just like his relationship with his penis, he has yet to master the "log out" function.
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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).
TonusOH

He really does love him some adverbs, doesn't he?
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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).
TonusOH

Twitter is where people spend all day talking past each other.
I'm sure there are people who use it productively, but for so many people it's a battleground. That has to be mentally and emotionally exhausting after a while. I don't have the wherewithal to keep up with it.
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For Born-Ins - If You Were 18 Again, What 7 Things Would You do Differently?
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
here's mine:.

1. go immediately to college and study construction management.

2. set up an ira and start contributing every year.
TonusOH

1. I would start saving every bit of money that I could, instead of spending it all.
2. I would develop my art and writing skills early, and seek to do that as a career. (I came close to entering the field of comic book art, but there were too many hurdles for a JW to overcome to work in that field, so I gave it up. Still regret it to some degree.)
3. Once the opportunity came, I'd start investing all of the cash I managed to save.
4. Once I was financially secure, start to enjoy my good fortune... responsibly. I'd move out of the city and to a quiet suburb in the Midwest, and enjoy the nicer people and the serene environments.
I've sort of done those things over the past ~15 years or so, and have mapped out a retirement path that hopefully works out. I just wish I'd started early. Can't do that when you're prepping for the end of the world, though.
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Virgin or whore complex that Witnesses have made my married life difficult!
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
so was a virgin when i got married but my wife studied later in life and had been married for 6 months and had two boyfriends in her past.

my strict witness mother hated my wife and thought she was not good enough for me.

she thought all worldly women were dirty whores who cannot keep their vaginas to themselves.
TonusOH

Honestly, if a CO had started talking about oral sex from the stage, my friends and I would have been paying extra careful attention. It's as close to porn as I would've ever gotten before I left the JWs.
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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).
TonusOH

Those tweets are a perfect microcosm of who he is: accuse people of something that he has done often himself. And I think he doesn't really recognize it. His filters just do not work. "Gaslighting is what narcissists do," says the guy who spends all day gaslighting people.
This is why he'll keep racing towards the wall. He rationalizes everything he does while pointing fingers at everyone else. He will not even try to look at his actions in the light of his own standards for everyone else. So when he says something so hypocritical, he really doesn't think he's missing the point.
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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).
TonusOH

That would be pretty pathetic, if he is using different accounts to read messages from people he blocked. Very funny, too. He wants to pretend that he is above such pettiness, but he cannot help himself. Then he blames other people for his neuroses.
I guess it is a lot like his "my life is none of your business, but sit down while I tell you all about it." This one would be "I am utterly uninterested in what you have to say, now hang on while I log into a different account to read every word."
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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).
TonusOH

Hard to justify paying Tibor with money that could be going towards his daughter's haircuts.
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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).
TonusOH

If I understand the terms correctly, the numbers under Debt Ratio would corroborate his claim that his company is in very rough shape, going from -85% one year to 97% the next.
(Edit to add: the totals do indicate that it's a fairly small company, though.)