"and to see how such resources are used"
Actually, it would be thrilling to see how these resources are being used.
How about publishing third-party audited financial statements with full and complete disclosure?
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Giving money is thrilling?
by punkofnice inwatchtower study edition nov 16 pg 19. classic............................ .
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Clearly, they're hunting down irregular publishers
by ILoveTTATT2 inlook at this graph:.
it has the % difference between the peak number of publishers and the average number of publishers for that year.
this number can only be positive.. what the graph tells us is that there is a clear trend towards hunting down inactive and/or irregular publishers.
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I think that it is more a case of secretaries fudging the average numbers to not show irregular / inactive numbers.
The Peak number is the nuttiest number-generator that could only be dreamed up by David Miscaviage.
(There was a family of 12 that moved from one city to our congo in a different city. Those 12 publishers would be counted in each city in the Peak publishers for that year.)
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More congregations? One of the strategies they used to inflate the numbers in my city.
by Tempest in a Teacup ini looked at the 2017 yearbook figures this morning, and it reminded me of something which happened in my former congregation 2 years ago.
it was a tiny foreign language congregation with at most 25-30 publishers.
comes and splits a 30 member congregation into....three.
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berrygerry
"That's why I am not keen on using the number of congregations as a measure of growth or stagnation in jw organization. Worldwide - and even nationally - numbers that comprise congregations vary enormously."
I had thought similarly.
However, I added the congo numbers to the Western country spreadsheet, and they have generally dipped proportionately to the publisher dip (Canada and Britain increased - probably foreign language)
( 87 fewer total congos in the Western countries listed - 32499 in 2016, 32586 in 2015 )
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2017 Yearbook released
by bohm ini saw this on reddit:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.
overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).
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"You seem to be comparing peak and average"
2016 Average to 2015 Average
(Peak numbers are meaningless)
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2017 Yearbook released
by bohm ini saw this on reddit:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.
overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).
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Western country stats:
Country . . . 2016 . . . . 2015 . . . . Increase / . . . . % Decrease Australia 66689 66753 -64 -0.0959% Austria 21353 21216 137 0.6457% Barbados 2513 2506 7 0.2793% Belgium 24818 24661 157 0.6366% Bermuda 444 448 -4 -0.8929% Britain 134517 134491 26 0.0193% Canada 113954 114123 -169 -0.1481% Denmark 14622 14564 58 0.3982% Finland 18397 18496 -99 -0.5353% France 127087 125519 1568 1.2492% Germany 164243 163871 372 0.2270% Ireland 6407 6281 126 2.0060% Italy 250249 250277 -28 -0.0112% Japan 214173 213818 355 0.1660% Netherlands 29490 29508 -18 -0.0610% New Zealand 13895 13929 -34 -0.2441% Norway 11535 11472 63 0.5492% Spain 110393 109457 936 0.8551% Sweden 22238 22236 2 0.0090% Switzerland 18838 18611 227 1.2197% USA 1198026 1195081 2945 0.2464% Total 2563881 2557318 6563 0.2566% -
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2017 Yearbook released
by bohm ini saw this on reddit:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.
overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).
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Sorry - link inoperative.
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The 31 date blunders of Watchtower
by FatFreek 2005 indates (ad) of events once taught by watchtower as significant but no longer supported since nothing happened.. .
"but bear in mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning, but for the end of the time of trouble.
zion's watch tower 1894 jul 15 p.226 incredibly, today’s jw’s dishonestly prefer to rewrite history, claiming "jehovah's witnesses pointed to the year 1914, decades in advance, as marking the start of "the conclusion of the system of things.
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Exhaustive list here:
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You wake up one morning and see
by A Believer inthe un has banned religion.
what are you're thoughts?.
also changes to it seem to be on the way.... http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/trump-vows-israel-vote-161224040133216.html.
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I used to chase that WT carrot.
http://www.un.org/en/sections/what-we-do/maintain-international-peace-and-security/index.html
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Aid to Bible Understanding - can you help summarise any useful sections?
by Fernando inrandall watters presents the fascinating backstory of the "aid book", and the brouhaha surrounding it, in this article:.
"the watchtower bible and tract society: the critical years 1975-1997".
so far it seems the project to research and write the "aid to bible understanding" revealed serious doctrinal and institutional flaws that the gb wanted to preserve nonetheless.. it seems what ray franz and his team were learning, and were largely blocked from presenting:.
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Eve created in the same year as Adam:
page 538
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to her. Eve called his name Seth,SETH [appointed, substituted] . The son of Adam
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1 bilion property revenue since august 2016 and still they have not enough
by Gorbatchov inread in the new york business review that jw.org made 1 bilion property revenue since august 2016.. unbelievable, isn't it?
they are one of the richest religion organizations in cash flow, for sure.. the co asked us this morning to "overthink wat we can share, to support the work and make jehovah happy".. g..
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"Recently, Jared and a group of partners acquired several vast properties in Brooklyn from the Jehovah’s Witnesses, for two billion dollars; they are filling them with hip, techie tenants such as Etsy and WeWork."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-power-play