SOME abandoned their hope? How could the "vast majority" remain faithful when approximately 70,000 of their 90,000 members left the movement in only three years after 1925?
Another gem! .............and another nail in the WTS' coffin!
WTS Tells a Whopper!
by Farkel 25 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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ozziepost
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confusedjw
Farkel, do you know where I can look up those memorial numbers? Photocopies of yearbooks?
I'd like to put this on file.
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TheOldHippie
Strange they say that, Farkel, because the Yearbooks give quite another story, but then inconsistency always was a well-thought-of jewel of the WT. The Yearbook dealing with Switzerland told how 90 % or so left after 1925, and other Yearbooks and life stories tell how congregations of 20-30-40 dwindled down to one person or only the story-teller's family. But I guess the rationale is that 20,000 + 90,000 - 92,000 = 18,000 tells that only 2,000 or 10 % of the original BSs left.
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avishai
GEEZ!!! I'm just glad I can say that now.
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Pole
Moral of the story? It doesn't matter who succeeds or who fails as an individual; the car dealership always wins!
Terry,
This is most true.
Here is how I think it works: at the bottom of hierarchy:
Individuals don't count in the borg. Even 70,000 individuals don't count as long as the borg can break even with their figures in a relatively short time. If they can be replaced and if they get outnumbered by new converts, then what? Then Jehovah's organization
HAS JEHOVAH'S BLESSING!!!
They are as freaking successful as Job. He lost lost ten children as a result of God's gambling with Satan, but then he gained another ten children, and many cattle too :)
Plus as the Bible tells us:
" And no women were found as pretty as Job?s (new) daughters in all the land, and their father proceeded to give them an inheritance in among their brothers. And Job continued living after this a hundred and forty years and came to see his sons and his grandsons?four generations. 17 And gradually Job died, old and satisfied with days."
For the average JW, the WTS story has so far been a success story no matter what. I hope the WTS Flying Circus dies satisfied with days too. After a life of "a hundred and forty years", which is 2014 (counting from 1874 - their first important date).
Know my chronology!!!
At the top of the hierarchy:
Even if half of the GB got df'ed one day, it would be the weaker, less cynical half. They could easily be replaced by a bunch of more faithful newly annointed figureheads.
It's all very simple: It's the survival of the fittest game.Some day computationally oriented historians of religion will write a genetic algorithm explaining teh statistical fluctuations of the borg.
Pole
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Sirona
Great work Farkel,
So many of us forget that they are deliberate liars.
Sirona
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LittleToe
Sirona:
Great work Farkel,
You're just saying that, cuz he's cute...
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XQsThaiPoes
The watchtower uses the stalinist system to prosper. They need purges much like a forest needs a fire. They dangle two carrots the paradise and the door.
The new person sells books in a fervor and then finds a replacement. THe new person becomes Jaded and less productive. They constant doctrine change erodes faith in the leader ship. The constant catalog of all the elders pregnant teens that get dfed in their area. They know too much about the system. The know it is not prestine anymore. They have to be gotten rid of because if the will spoil the new converts. Tell them to kick back and exploit the autocracy. So they make these eddict of work more do more they tie up all your time to force you to leave the org. The people left have to work harder to make up for the loss plus it keeps them on their toes.
I mean I ask people that fade I ask them what did they do ay different? "well I dont go to the meetings or feild service." and I am like "so?" how did that make them "leave". If a marine leaves the corp they are still a marine. THe whole JW system shorts out if you dont participate to further the watchtowers interest yet still reap the benifits of JW association. If jws made jwism their personal religion they practiced at home the halls would really be stressed.
This ofcoarse only works well before the internet. Interested jws are deciding not
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Sirona
Sirona:
Great work Farkel,
You're just saying that, cuz he's cute...LT,
Damn! I wuz hoping noone would notice my farkel crush.
Sirona
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Farkel
confused,
: Farkel, do you know where I can look up those memorial numbers? Photocopies of yearbooks?
: I'd like to put this on file.
M. James Penton in his book "Apocalypse Delayed" has a graph on page 61 which shows the cited Memorial attendances. His figures have not been questioned to my knowledge.
Somewhere on the Web is a list of Memorial attendance figures which covers that period. I've seen it, but I will have to do some digging to find the link again.
Farkel