And even out of the ones that are adults, I haven't seen one, not one, in recent years that was a true convert reached door to door. All of them were exposed to JWs as children and they became inactive and/or have JW family members.
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Reaction to baptism figures
by neat blue dog intalking about tomorrow's wt study, that mentions over a quarter of a million baptized every year, a jw asked how many that is a day.
i got out my calculator and answered over 778 a day.
of course they were amazed at the growth, but immediatly i googled another statistic and read it aloud:.
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Reaction to baptism figures
by neat blue dog intalking about tomorrow's wt study, that mentions over a quarter of a million baptized every year, a jw asked how many that is a day.
i got out my calculator and answered over 778 a day.
of course they were amazed at the growth, but immediatly i googled another statistic and read it aloud:.
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Reaction to baptism figures
by neat blue dog intalking about tomorrow's wt study, that mentions over a quarter of a million baptized every year, a jw asked how many that is a day.
i got out my calculator and answered over 778 a day.
of course they were amazed at the growth, but immediatly i googled another statistic and read it aloud:.
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neat blue dog
Talking about tomorrow's WT study, that mentions over a quarter of a million baptized every year, a JW asked how many that is a day. I got out my calculator and answered over 778 a day. Of course they were amazed at the growth, but immediatly I googled another statistic and read it aloud:
'And 360,000 are born every day, and 151,600 people die every day.'
Nobody said anything, but the sister who asked in the first place was a little annoyed. Instead of addressing it, she asked:
'Well, how many are baptized in a week?'
I said 'over 5,000'.
She said 'Its good to think about it that way, by the week'.
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Common phrases which are disappearing during my lifetime
by TerryWalstrom inmany common phrases i've used all my life have been made obsolete by technology advancements.
"roll up the window" (car windows don't roll up any longer with a hand crank.).
"hold your horses.
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neat blue dog
I agree with _Morpheus, the tech behind the phrases may be outdated but the sayings remain.
Another one I hear all the time is "tape" in regards to recording audio and/or video, even though most everybody uses flash memory, not tape.
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Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 7, statistics charts
by neat blue dog inhere's some stat charts featured in the bethel talks:.
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I assumed it was USA, but I don't know 🤔
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Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 7, statistics charts
by neat blue dog inhere's some stat charts featured in the bethel talks:.
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neat blue dog
Here's some stat charts featured in the Bethel talks:
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Don't be too Christian, you'll raise red flags
by neat blue dog infor the past few years all my comments and talks have been a purely christian message.
i tiptoe around wt dogma and focus on the basics of love, life compassion, etc.
and i deliberately do not use jw terminology whenever i can.
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neat blue dog
CO's still have opportunity to personalize their talks a little bit, (and GB members can a lot), but from what I've seen this freedom is usually only used to advance their own personal theories, philosophies, pet peeves, self righteous interpretations, etc. Nothing really beneficial.
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Don't be too Christian, you'll raise red flags
by neat blue dog infor the past few years all my comments and talks have been a purely christian message.
i tiptoe around wt dogma and focus on the basics of love, life compassion, etc.
and i deliberately do not use jw terminology whenever i can.
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neat blue dog
May the lice from a billion decaying monkey turds fly into the underpants of the Governing body.
Wow that's a very vivid thought 😅
That my boy is probably why they changed the tms to this lame presentation format. No room to ad lib
Well they still do have one normal 6 minute talk a month where you get more creative freedom, but they only let a few brothers in my hall do that. We'll see how long I stay on the list, my days may be numbered 🤐
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Don't be too Christian, you'll raise red flags
by neat blue dog infor the past few years all my comments and talks have been a purely christian message.
i tiptoe around wt dogma and focus on the basics of love, life compassion, etc.
and i deliberately do not use jw terminology whenever i can.
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neat blue dog
Why use phrases used by other churches if you are presenting a purely Christian message? It would obviously raise red flags.
What I said was: I use words/phrases "including" those used "more often" by the churches. I don't mean words that are unique to other churches, because I think that all denominations are junk. I mean words/phrases that ARE biblical, but JWs still shy away from and substitute with their own in-house lingo that has additional, extra-biblical implications.
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If I use a JW-ism to refer to a biblical concept, then that brings along other doctrinal baggage into the audiences minds. If I use a new/rarely used phrase, it gives them a fresh start to look at something from scratch.
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Don't be too Christian, you'll raise red flags
by neat blue dog infor the past few years all my comments and talks have been a purely christian message.
i tiptoe around wt dogma and focus on the basics of love, life compassion, etc.
and i deliberately do not use jw terminology whenever i can.
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neat blue dog
No, I'm a Christian, (I take what some call 'mass' privately at home) and as such I use the name Jehovah moderately. The New Testament writers didn't use the Name casually, because Christians are supposed to be adopted as God's sons figuratively. People generally don't call their dad by his first name, it's viewed as disrespectful. So I mostly say God and/or Father.