I wonder if there are more EX-JW's than active JW's ?
by UnConfused 8 Replies latest jw friends
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Iamallcool
thats a great question.
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slimboyfat
I think that is very likely, if you only count active publishers as JWs and describe inactive Witnesses as ex-JWs.
However many inactive JWs do still consider themselves notionally JWs or still believe it's "the truth", so I am not sure it's right to categorise them as ex-JWs in this sense, even if they are no longer counted in the official Watchtower statistics.
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Gayle
seems not,,I wish it were so,,but wouldn't you have to know of at least in your congregation territory as many inactive, and former JWs? So many do go on with their lives who have no need to even express it to anyone. Would be no way to confirm it.
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slimboyfat
You can work it out using Watchtower statistics. Of all those still alive who have been baptised there are almost certainly more who are inactive in one sense or another (either DFed, drifted, faded or whatever) than those who are still active publishers.
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AnneB
At one time *many* years ago I tried working it out using the annual report(s) published in the Yearbook(s). At the time I was an active dub. What I found was that there were many more "out of the truth" than "in the truth". I couldn't believe it. I re-did those calculations so many times, tried different combinations, etc. Finally I gave up, telling myself that I just didn't know what I was doing, that my numbers had to be wrong! Such is the mindset of a true blue dub!
Yeah, I would say there are many more xJW's than JW's. Far more.
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UnConfused
Considering how the numbers have often been used as "proof" or a "sign" of Jehovah's hand in the JW's it would be facinating to know and if it is the case of more EX-JW's how that would affect the Congregation of Jehovah.
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Morbidzbaby
Worldwide, I think it's possible. Look at all the dubs that only attend the Memorial every year in order to appease family. Look at the ones among us who no longer believe but are stuck in...those are counted as active publishers. So if we figure that there are a good number who are just going through the motions and don't believe in it anymore, the "Conscious Class", who are mixed in amongst the Society's count of publishers, I'd say there's a fair chance that there are more "ex" JW's (even if it's only in mind) than true believers.
That's just my take on it, though.
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UnConfused
It would also be interesting to see the rate of those leaving vs those being baptised.