by Fatfreek 44 Replies latest watchtower scandals
On this board alone I have seen how many ''publishers'' exaggerated their hours - multiply it. I have NEVER seen anyone admit they do the opposite. IF the final (large % exaggerated) figures are submitted to HQ - maybe THEY TOO exaggerate them and round them up ?
My last twenty years I went out but did not put in a report. I thought reporting service to God was wrong.
I thought reporting service to God was wrong
We have another (former?) poster who took the similar stand and he was removed from all privileges - he wasn't even allowed to patrol the car parks during the meetings!!!!
Oh, he was allowed to clean the windows!
This has been the most revealing set of experiences to JW behavior I've seen since I've been briefly on this forum. Yes, I've been away from the JW's, an ex-elder with all the perks, for some 28 years but only had a glimpse of the lack of enthusiasm that is recently displayed by folks engaging in a work they profess to love. There's not a smidgen of doubt that inflating numbers here at the bottom proceeds right on to the top.
Or is it the other way around? Hmmm ... !
Yes the GB are fugging the numbers, the Circut assemblies I went before they kicked me out one a few years ago only had 1 or 2 people getting baptized, and very small numbers at district conventions.
Congregations combining because of dwindling numbers. Yeah they are fugging the numbers and I'm sure many publishers know it.
As the Society is a registered charity, do they have to submit the hours in field service (as, unlike other religious charities, they don't appear to do anything else to help society) to keep their 'charitable' status?
Publishers bump up their hours....congos bump them up a little more to keep the CO off their back....the society bumps them up a little more to show total hours.... all for naught.
Did Jesus say "Go therefore and spend 12 hours a month looking like you are talking about me?" If the focus was on results instead of hours they might actually get some increases. Because spending 20 minutes talking to a neighbor or a co-worker about your faith was probably more productive than spending 3 hours banging on doors of not at home folks during the work week.
But it does bring older ones in nursing homes and homebound back into the statistics.
There goes another shattered dream! All those hapless JWs reaching nursing home age who will now feel the pressure to preach for at least 15 minutes to be part of the statistics. Talk about a captive audience.
I completely agree with everyone about witnessing hours (although I used to work my butt off for my 60 hours a month!!) but the numbers of Witnesses are viewed by sociologists as being fairly accurate, compared to census reports of people identifying themselves as Witnesses.
The year is 2015. JWs struggle with huge ongoing dropouts from the active publisher ranks. It's embarrassing and very anxiety-provoking. So, the GB finally relents and allows a new category for the end-of-year statistics:
Peak Number of IPs ("Interested Persons").
Criteria for this category: Householders who say that they have read at least one page of the latest Awake! mailed to them (now published 6 times a year).
Skip to 2016: Latest Watchtower shows huge increases in IPs compared with previous year - and this salient statistic is seized as proof that this is the truth. Desperation never looked so desperate...
Except that the end is really, really close ...
