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  Poignant Statistics Summary for Comment at This Sunday WT Study! (Aug. 3, 2014)

  by SAHS in

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  2. friends

  the watchtower study to be considered this sunday, august 3, 2014 (using the magazine dated may 15, 2014), titled are you moving ahead with jehovahs organization?, in paragraph seven (on pages 27-28), talks about the number of people baptized in recent years:.

  7 where do those making up the great crowd come from?

  they are being brought together because of what jesus foretold as part of the sign of his presence.

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  Of course the next question is why Messrs Herd et al. decided to highlight 'ten years' of baptisms - which we now know (finally!), when compared with the previous ten years shows a 14% decrease or effectively one congregation disappearing EACH DAY?

  You see, Messrs Lett et al. could have choosen say last 'five years' of baptisms - that would have meant, when compared to the previous five years, there would have been an INCREASE - but they didn't!

  No, they specifically decided to go with ten years with the underlying 14% decrease - why?

  Well remember that Messrs Splane et al. said in that same paragraph that they should 'not boast in numbers'?

  Why? Because the young Messrs Sanderson et al. are in this for the long haul - they are laying the foundation to prepare the people for a decrease over the next few years.

  40 years on and 2014/15 is the new 1975/76?

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpliveR
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  Draw close p111 illustration..

  by disposable hero of hypocrisy in

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  2. bible

  is it just me or have they modelled 'joseph in the prison hole' on cedars and added a homoerotic element to it?

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  darkspilver

  Depends if you're into BDSM I suppose, but it is an example of the printed book/PDF version being 'better' than the EPUB version on your tablet, even if you can zoom in on the tablet ;) LOL!

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpliveR
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  10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO

  by Absalom in

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  2. friends

  is there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?

  he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..

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  darkspilver

  Well, only if they actually had the CO Visit last week..... otherwise..... hmmm.....

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpliveR
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  Poignant Statistics Summary for Comment at This Sunday WT Study! (Aug. 3, 2014)

  by SAHS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the watchtower study to be considered this sunday, august 3, 2014 (using the magazine dated may 15, 2014), titled are you moving ahead with jehovahs organization?, in paragraph seven (on pages 27-28), talks about the number of people baptized in recent years:.

  7 where do those making up the great crowd come from?

  they are being brought together because of what jesus foretold as part of the sign of his presence.

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  darkspilver

  Personally I blame all that highfalutin college education - I mean all you gotta to be able to do is read, write and do basic sums, what more do you want to do after all?
  
  So let's apply the KISS theory - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
  
  They are told by Messrs Jackson et al. to 'not boast in numbers'? Why, because the numbers are decreasing!
  
  Total baptized 2003-12: 2,707,710
  Total baptized 1993-02: 3,149,153
  
  That's a pure 14% decrease.

  Nothing complicated or controversial just 441,443 less people being baptized decade-on-decade. No death-rates, birth-rates, what-you-like-rates.

  Just a simple 44,144 less people being baptized each year.

  So, over a twenty year period there is now a consistent 848 less people being baptized each week.

  That's a 121 less people being baptized each day.

  Heck, that effectively means there is one less 'congregation' each and every day - yeah you could even say one congregation is disappearing each day!

  Of course, it doesn't actually mean it's true.... LOL!

  That's all folks!
  
  DarK SpliveR
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  Poignant Statistics Summary for Comment at This Sunday WT Study! (Aug. 3, 2014)

  by SAHS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the watchtower study to be considered this sunday, august 3, 2014 (using the magazine dated may 15, 2014), titled are you moving ahead with jehovahs organization?, in paragraph seven (on pages 27-28), talks about the number of people baptized in recent years:.

  7 where do those making up the great crowd come from?

  they are being brought together because of what jesus foretold as part of the sign of his presence.

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  darkspilver

  LOL!

  6 days and all that maths! But still nobody has stated the obvious? I suppose that's what you call 'hiding in plain sight'!....

  I'm going for a walk now... be back with more in an hour or so ;)

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpilveR
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  10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO

  by Absalom in

  1. jw
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  is there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?

  he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..

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  darkspilver

  Yes, sd-7, only 'inactive' people, NOT disfellowshipped or disassociated people.

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpilveR
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  10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO

  by Absalom in

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  is there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?

  he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..

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  darkspilver

  MissFit - maybe the rest of the visit is like that, but the 10 minute post-meeting meeting with E/MS isn't - sorry to burst your bubble - and that's what the OP was asking about...

  The CO will probably spend all of 2 minutes explaining the governing body's request that all inactive people get called on during the week of the visit to invite them to the meeting on Sunday - he'll then probably exit the meeting and leave the CBE to divi up the inactives betwen the E/MS which takes a couple of minute, then that's it! It's all rather perfunctory

  There will also probably be no follow-thru - ie no direct direction to encourage inactives to study, attend again etc.

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpilveR
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  Why Are People Anti-Semitic?

  by minimus in

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  i seriously don't get it.. some people truly hate`jews.. and it's not just jews.... gays, christians, blacks, mexicans, etc.

  are on the list.. intolerance is a terrible thing..

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  darkspilver

  Hey minimus have you read or heard about the 1903 "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"?

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpilveR
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  Bible Highlights(this week) : What is the bitter water that an adulteress had to drink in Numbers 5:24?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in this week's bible highlights we read about the bizarre trial by ordeal that a woman had to undergo if she was under suspicion of adultery .in number 5:24 we read about this strange "bitter water" that she had to drink resulting if guildy to a sponteneous degeneration of her reproductive organs ,please read the rest of the article here for more clarification ,maybe you can use it this week during the bible highlights at the meeting.... what is the bitter water that a woman had to drink in numbers 5:24?.

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  The actual question from the 15 April 1984 edition of the Watchtower on page 29 in the article "Respect Jehovah, Urges the Book of Numbers" is:
  
  Q: What actually happened to a wife guilty of adultery? Numbers 5:11-31
  
  A: No affliction was brought on by the water itself. But it was drunk before Jehovah, who knew whether the woman was guilty of adultery. If she was, he would make her belly swell and her thigh fall away. Evidently the thigh is used here euphemistically for the procreative organs. (Compare Genesis 46:26.) 'Fall away' suggests that these organs atrophied, making conception impossible. This would harmonize with the fact that if the woman was innocent her husband was to make her pregnant.

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpilveR
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  10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO

  by Absalom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?

  he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..

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  darkspilver

  Oh, of course, not fitting in with what you expect it to be means that the meeting is all rather a bit of an anticlimax LOL!

  That's all folks!

  DarK SpilveR