Ocean your probably right, I don't remember as a kid in the 70-80's of any of us young ones being considered as a publisher or it being encouraged, don't remember. But any way it seems that they always encourage young ones now to become publishers and even little ones 6-9 are considered this. Take away all the kids publishers and how many actual baptized adults do you really have, 3-4 million?
"The Waters" of Jehovah are drying up in Australia...65% young ones leave!
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Ocean1111
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Geez, maybe less. I think it takes 13000 hours, or something like that, to produce but one baptism now a days.
Yes, there is a trend that is not looking good when tracked from 1970. Aiding the trend is the isolationism and overly busy organizational "lifestyle" of JWs. What I mean is, what "board of directors" tells the investors "our Beer sales have gone from 15% to 1-3% since we took power", and the investors don't go "What in the heck do you mean!!!!????".
In real corporations were the investors care about their investment, the GB would have been fired by 1995, or sooner. In JW land where JWs are naive and trusting we are seeing a "market share" implosion process, all traceable to the GB management model, being sold to JWs like it was Microsoft going into "apex". Yet the profit is soaring for the Bethel elites, not JWs or the real growth.
JWs are being duped, it is a corporate takeover action in the works, that is the ONLY thing that explains the statistical reality of dismal Bethel management. Since they are lying to the isolated, asleep, and brain-dead to modern global developments JWs, Bethel just states whatever optimistic hogwash they want, while they rob the joint, and decrease the ministry at what is the truly astounding rate. The DECLINE is what is at apex. Plain and simple the anti-Christian-ministry is what is at zenith at Bethel. Delusion and trust of men is the cover.
Even the biggest lying religions of earth retain more members, thus membership is not Bethel's goal. imo, maintaining a ministerial delusion is Bethel's job, and milking what they can from the remaining JW cows is the goal. And this is millions of dollars a day I'll bet, and the sheer numbers of the org do not justify 500 million in liquidation and probably another 300 million/year in "investment", eg, "contribution", NO "Return on Investment" aided by free JW labor.
JWs are a cash cow because the free labor is what rockets the ROI, from free funds, for the Bethel elites. It is truly a billion dollar racket, but there is probably the secondary goal of dissolving the JW ministry, while walking out with billions in loot and assets, properties, etc, when the Bethel corporation takes the "self fulfilling prophecy" coming legal hits. The theology already predicts what is coming on Bethel, the exit strategy is in the JW theology and premature end delusion. (2Thess2:1-2)
It is not looking good over all, and if the stats were truthful, imo, it would look even worse. I truly believe new growth is being offset by core contraction to the effect of -1-3% losses. I think the "8 million JWs" is a total fabrication to keep the optimistic smokescreen going all the way to game day. In reality the overhead requirement is but a mere fraction of what they are STEALING from dupable JWs. They are taking in way more than a measly 1% supposed growth is justifying, they are going to make out like bandits. Bethel control of information is the way this is accomplished, there is not independent verification source. Thus the red flags, as bad as they are, are just plausible enough so that JWs do not see the real story, it is in the stats, and they are probably worse in reality.
Obviously there is no such thing as a genuine "anointed Christian" involved with the Bethel rulership. Their UN NGO reveals who they really are imo. (Dan11:32a, 41) But it will not just remain static, nor is it going to be the premature end they are selling JWs. IMO the Bethel "system of things" ends long before the world "system of things". (Matt13:36-42)
Bethel cannot fool everyone, and it has to reap what it has actually sown.