The only thing they're growing is more resentment, destruction of families, and intolerance of those who don't buy into their bullshit. I'd celebrate if each member of the governing body was stricken with flesh-eating bacteria.
JWs Back to No. 1 in Growth!
by Amazing1914 40 Replies latest jw friends
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jschwehm
The 5% that is true is the part of the book that says that the book was published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
Jeff S.
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outoftheorg
A small percentage of a (very small) number is a (very very small) number.
Now isn't that one of the most inteligent statements you have heard??
NO?? what do ya mean NO????
Outoftheorg
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DanTheMan
The survey doesn't take into account the non-denominational suburban megachurches. That's where the real growth in "Christendom" is taking place.
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EvilForce
The US population growth rate is approx. 1.1% (using stats from 1990 - 2000) per year. (births - deaths + immigration)
So if they had 1,022,397....simply keeping up with population trends due to births....you would need 1,033,643 to stay even % wise of total population.
So in reality 1,041,030 - 1,033,643 = 7,387 new ones (net).
The average publisher hours per month is what 10 hours roughly? 1,022,397 x 120 hours = 122,687,640 hours / 7,387 new ones = 16,609 hours needed on average to add one new person to the KingDumb Hall. Thats about 8 years of full time (40 hour weeks) for each new one.
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Amazing1914
Hi Evilforce,
Good points. However, does the birthrate percentage you use include the death rate of just under 1%? Also, the Society admits disfellowshipping or Disassociating between 40,000 and 60,000 per year, which is two to three times their new convert rate. So, perhaps we need to look closer to the new baptism and account for the death, DF, and DA rates, and use the net difference to find that their growth of new converts is actually greater than 1.82%. It has to make up for these losses.
Jim W.
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EvilForce
My numbers were NET growth....meaning births - deaths + immigraton.
So while they do replace the dying and disfellowshiped amongst their ranks....my figures were meant to show how much time is spent for each NET addition. Not "new worshipper". Make sense? -
jaffacake
The numbers must be true as they are provided by God's faithful & discreet slave, and they have never been wrong about anything yet, have they?
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Amazing1914
Thanks Simon for correcting the formatting. It looks 100% better. - Jim W.
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Qcmbr
..we'll beat them next year:p