WTS says its statistics are better!

by ozziepost 53 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Billygoat

  Total "volunteer "hours spent in public Bible educational work

  There's nothing volunteer in the JW's.....You better preach or else....

  That's so true!
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  stillajwexelder

  Pop quiz: What do these two have in common? (hint: u/d already alluded to them)

  When they talk you can actaullay smell the bullshit it is that strong
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  stillajwexelder

  Total "volunteer "hours spent in public Bible educational work

  There's nothing volunteer in the JW's.....You better preach or else....

  In fact I remember a CO saying or mocking a a presentation - we are doing a voluntary christian work and we are calling on people in your neighborhood = The CO then said mockingly - VOLUNTARY THERE IS NOTHING VOLUNTARY ABOUT IT
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  steve2

  Attendance at the annual Memorial of Christ's death	16,760,607
  Total volunteer hours spent in public Bible educational work	1.3 billion
  Average weekly home Bible courses taught	6,085,387
  Practicing members*	6,513,132

  So, if it's such a big deal to demonstrate to god-knows-who that the Watchtower only counts as members those who are "active" Witnesses, why does it make such a big noise about the nearly three-times-as many group of Memorial attenders which consists of such a huge proportion of nominal JWs? The Watchtower tries to have it every which way and cannot help making snide comments about other religions in the process. Little wonder the Watchtower's taken to task for all its claims.
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  ozziepost

  why does it make such a big noise about the nearly three-times-as ;many group of Memorial attenders which consists of such a huge proportion of nominal JWs?

  very good question, Steve, and so true.

  The Watchtower tries to have it every which way and cannot help making snide comments about other religions in the process.

  It's constant! Check any copy of the magazines - but more than that are the public talk outlines. it seems that whenever the WTS are 'speaking' to the public they're taking the line of, "We're the best!". Then curiously they might speak of the christian virtue of humility!
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  Kenneson

  You people just don't seem to get how important numbers were to Jesus. He had 12 Apostles; he also sent out the 70. He fed the 5,000. Remember? But, at least, he didn't require keeping a count of how many hours one spent spreading the Gospel! His apostles seemed to have been interested in keeping a count of converts, however, baptizing 3,000 in one day. Acts 2:41 I can't help but wonder where a body of water large enough was found in Jerusalem to perform such a task. I'm thinking, maybe sprinkling rather than immersion occurred. Of course, the Watchtower Society would never admit to that, but it might employ this use of numbers to justify their statistics. He he.
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  DannyBloem

  I always wonder how truefull those numbers are. Here in a small country, the number of JW's is easy to estimate. There is sometimes just one convention.

  But then we have a negative growth for some years.
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  ezekiel3

  I still don't know how the WTS can consider 2% growth a positive number with 6.5 million members.

  Jeez, biological growth (baptizing 11-year-old babies) alone would swamp that figure.

  The only answer is massive fallout due to inactive and DFed members. Brazil and American breeders just can't keep up.
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  dorayakii

  the Watchtower Society [...] might employ this use of numbers to justify their statistics

  
  One elder I know uses Proverbs 25:25 to justify both field service and accounts reports: "As cold water upon a tired soul, so is a good report from a distant land."
  It is sooo refreshing to hear that we have "two thousand, three hundred and forty two pounds and 24 pence" in our congregation bank account... *refreshed sigh*
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  zagor

  I suspect the whole list of statistics is a load of manure anyway, just to make people believe they're a growing religion.

  On this one convection I was assigned with another teen to count attendance. I think we got confused somewhere in the middle and got it wrong for about 50 or so. I mean they never gave us clear insturctions in the first place. Initially we didn't count children but were then told to count everyone we see to be listening, so we started counting even toddlers from the beginning, but since time was already up and elder assigned to collect all the counts from attendants was demanding us to give him something so we just threw a number. Later it got published in WT. Imagine that.