by WildHorses 39 Replies latest jw friends
I want to get an idea of how many people have left the Org in the past five years. Which of the following years did you leave?
1998 I left
1999
2000
2001
2002
Ok, I am not really good with world wide percentages but if anyone else here is, they can do the math. I just want to get an idea is all.
Shari
January 2002 unoficially.August 2002 officially,although I've been wavering since 1998.
I left in 2000 (for the 2nd time).
On average, 1% of JWs are df'd every year. If we take an average of 6,000,000 dubs over the last 5 years, that means approx 300,000 have left. On average, about 40% of df'd are rei'd each year, so 120,000 came back. Net loss = 180,000 over the last 5 years. This doesn't count the number that have gone inactive.
Based on stats for the last 50 years, there are well over 1,000,000 df'd out there, somewhere.
I've been free since January 2002
I left in 2000 it was my New Year's resolution, I had a slip and went to the Memorial in 2001 it was a good slip because it convienced me that I never want to go back, it was one of the worst days of my life! Even so it left such a bad memory about the B'org I never even thought of the memorial this year! Prior to that I had only been going to big events, like baby showers, anniversary celibrations, B-B-Ques and I never missed the 4th of July fireworks shindig, beer bash at the elders house!
Good grief Craig are you a math schooler or something........all them numbers......my head is still spinning........stop! Make it stop!
bc of the I hate math class and I'll go back when pigs fly!
onacruse, based on that, it should take about 40 years for everyone to leave.
June or July of 2001
The day of the Memorial of 1996 was the day I decided to leave. Da'd myself November of 1997.
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Biker: Hehe....click your heels together three times and say "There's nothing like math, there's nothing like algebra, there's nothing like calculus."
Lilacs: Here's another factoid...based on straight-line analysis of the number of "anointed" in 1935 (when the door was closed lol), using standard mortality rates, there should only be about 200-300 partakers left. So why has the number held steady at about 8,000 for the last 10 years?
PS: Biker, if you need help with your math classes, you know who to call.....MathBusters Craig
So I can't read properly. I just noticed the question was who left since 1998. Well I guess that lets me out of the loop, cause I got smart before then. Ah well.
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