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  Clearly, they're hunting down irregular publishers

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  look 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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  berrygerry

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5061584271441920/2016-yearbook-jehovahs-witnesses?page=1&size=10#/6230710071328768

  Aug 15, 2011 QFR - http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011609?q=peak+publishers&p=par
  

  Peak publishers and average publishers. “Publishers” includes baptized Witnesses of Jehovah as well as unbaptized ones who qualify to be Kingdom preachers. “Peak publishers” is the highest number reporting for any one month of the service year and may include late reports that were not added to the preceding month’s report. In this way some publishers may be counted twice. However, the peak figure does not include the number of publishers who actually shared in the ministry but forgot to report. This emphasizes the importance of each publisher reporting promptly each month. “Average publishers” is the typical number of different ones reporting time in the ministry each month.
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  Numbers don't lie... and these numbers are beautiful!!

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  the numbers don't lie... definitely slowing down!!.

  in the 40´s the average growth per year was 20%in the 50´s it was about 10%they had four decades of solid 5% per yearnow the average for the past 16 years has been 2%.

  maybe in the future it will be 1% or 0 or even negative????.

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  berrygerry

  konceptual99

  The only place it gets close to relating it to Witnesses is in the Insight book under "Love":

  One’s Love Can Cool Off. Jesus Christ, in telling his disciples of the things ahead, indicated that the love (a·gaʹpe) of many who professed belief in God would cool off.

  Yup, written completely ambiguously.

  Many who professed belief in God - could be "weak" JW's, "Christians" "theists," etc. etc.
  
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  Giving money is thrilling?

  by punkofnice in

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  watchtower study edition nov 16 pg 19. classic............................ .

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  berrygerry

  "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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  Clearly, they're hunting down irregular publishers

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  2. friends

  look 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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  berrygerry

  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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i 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)

  https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=76DDE14542F75FED&resid=76DDE14542F75FED%21131&authkey=AA73ZGpctkb3kBg&em=2&AllowTyping=True&wdDownloadButton=True

  ( 87 fewer total congos in the Western countries listed - 32499 in 2016, 32586 in 2015 )
  
  
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  2017 Yearbook released

  by bohm in

  1. jw
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  i 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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  berrygerry

  "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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i 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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  berrygerry

  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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  dates (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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  berrygerry

  Exhaustive list here:

  http://www.bible.ca/Jw-Prophecy.htm
  
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  You wake up one morning and see

  by A Believer in

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  the 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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  berrygerry

  I used to chase that WT carrot.

  http://www.un.org/en/sections/what-we-do/maintain-international-peace-and-security/index.html