the number of those who are truly anointed has been getting smaller
truly is the key here, I am sure they still believe this to be true, the increasing numbers just show the apostasy within God's organization.
2012 Yearbook
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wannabefree
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Mickey mouse
I wonder whether jwfacts could update his statistics page? It would be interesting to see the trend.
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slimboyfat
Positive numbers for France, Britain, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain and 3% in the USA and 4% in Mexico. They are bound to be pleased with that.
Japan and many other countries still treading water, but no major country showing real decline, as was the case a few years ago. No sign that JWs are set for a steady decline going by those figures.
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breakfast of champions
Any increase in France always shocks me. Aren't they supposed to be godless bastards?
The USA # is almost certainly due to foreign speaking immigrants. Perhaps the same in France and some of the others?
And no actual corporation would ever see a decrease in "sales" (baptized) as an increase other than the WT.
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serenitynow!
those who are truly anointed
All JWs/Christians should be appalled by such a statement. Who are they to say who is or is not anointed?
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slimboyfat
The USA # is almost certainly due to foreign speaking immigrants.
I never fails to amuse me when people say that on this forum, as if foreigners shouldn't count or something.
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breakfast of champions
SLIMBOYFAT - oh, they certainly do count! "Send us you poor, huddled masses and we'll indoctrinate them with smiling, friendly folks who speak their tongue and literature in their native language. . . "
They are the WTs target audience.
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serenitynow!
SBF I think that many believe that "foreigners/immigrants" are easy pickin's for the JWs. They are in a strange place, friendless, have a language barrier, likely poor and therefore easily duped by JWs and their pie in the sky message.
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Gayle
Also, Hawaii has been combined finally with the U.S. So, with that, the U.S. increase was actually 1.9%, not 3%. Baptisms in U.S. would be at a 7.2% decrease.
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GromitSK
11,824 partakers? Something is def,going wrong here, I remember the annual fall in partakers being used as a sign the end was approaching in the 1980s - I don't recall reading it in any of the washtowel littertray, perhaps someone more knowledgeable does?