soldier77 - the thing i imediately ask myself is 'how many are then DA'ed every year?' - it would be so typical to leave them out of the 40K!
increase in the last 10 years??
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Soldier77
wobble: indeed it does make one think. at least one that allows critical thinking to take place. I'll try to put together an intro to myself in another thread (sorry to hijack this one, I'll stop!) I think there are more than one realizes that have "doubts" at least I think there are more than the average JW thinks anyway.
bohm: quite suspect of them hiding more numbers, I agree with you. I have made a bunch of charts and graphs analyzing data of numbers coming in and going out. mainstream Jdubs are only interested in the number coming in, they could careless about the numbers leaving through the back door.
ssn587: sorry I got side tracked from your op.
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Mad Sweeney
If their own figures are accurate, then only 40,000 of approximately 130,000 leave each year due to being disfellowshipped. That is a WHOPPING 90,000 who leave each year via SOMETHING ELSE LIKE LEARNING THE TRUTH and then DAing or Fading.
THIS is why they FEAR THE INTERNET! More than TWICE AS MANY leave on THEIR OWN TERMS as leave via the WTS disciplinary mechanism.
This makes me very happy.
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WTWizard
The whole thing is a farce. Just on this board, jgnat has reported that there was a 35% decrease in attendance at a big boasting session for 2010 versus 2003, with zero baptismal candidates. I have noticed that, when our a$$embly hell was first constructed in 1989, it was consistently congested (it was hard to find good seats). By the time I went to my last a$$embly, around a third of the seats were vacant at the peak. Baptismal candidates went way down--from 10 in my former congregation alone the year I got baptized (possibly even more) down to maybe 5 or 6 for 6 or 7 congregations in the late 1990s.
And things seem to have gotten even worse. First, I really wonder if that 40,000 disfellowshippings is up to date--they have been batting that number around since the late 1980s, and it seems to me that it is out of date. You get people turning in fake time slips, hounders turning in fake time slips in behalf of publishers to make themselves look good to the hounder-hounder, and children getting forced by parents to sign up as publishers way too soon. I don't see any way in hell that there could possibly be much more than about 3.5 million active witlesses--about the same as in the late 1980s! Otherwise, why are as many Kingdumb Hells closing as are being built?