2006 SERVICE REPORT - Feb 1, 2007 WT

by Mary 18 years ago 100 Replies latest 18 years ago jw friends

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  Triple A 18 years ago

  Do not forget Guam 616 - makes the total 973,833. If they were double counting.

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  ozziepost 18 years ago

  Poland is interesting,more gone than was baptised!

  Decrease there could be attributed to migration; many poles are leaving to the more prosperous countries for better work opportunities.

  Of course, you'd expect the receiving countries' numbers to reflect that input, eh?

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  vomit 18 years ago

  Good point ozziepost I also feel the same way about the annointed.
  
  10 Years ago I used to ask my mother why the annointed increased sometimes.
  The reason was that some were disfellowshiped or fell away.
  
  But if one falls and one is replaced, why the hell would it increase. Their answers for everything answers nothing.

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  jwfacts 18 years ago

  Elsewhere On my spreadsheet I have 6,390,016 for 2005?

  Unfortunately I think your estimates are optimistic.

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  jwfacts 18 years ago

  I have some analysis of the figures at http://jwfacts.com/index_files/statistics.htm

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  unclebruce 18 years ago

  Thanks Mary,

  A thoroughly enjoyable thread. It was wonderful to see Australia's zero increase (133,000 memorial attendance was a worry though).

  Replica of Captain Blighs longboat (Child of Bounty):

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  unclebruce 18 years ago

  Thanks JWFacts.

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  jgnat 18 years ago

  vomit: But if one falls and one is replaced, why the hell would it increase. Their answers for everything answers nothing.

  I'd always assumed one of the "anointed" fell away in Heaven, as in Beezlebub.

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  unclebruce 18 years ago

  I don't think they can 'fall away in heaven' jgnat, being not only imortal but 'incorruptable'.

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  truthsetsonefree 18 years ago

  You know, there is something I have never quite figured out. One is considered a dub when one begins to publish. Statistically that is. But one is not a dub until one gets baptized. (Is that crazy or what?) Anyway, how does that figure into these stats? Does that explain why the number baptized seems so much higher than the publisher increase?

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