the nr of peak publishers will be well over 8 million in 2014.
My guess is that this watchtower article is referring to the average number of publishers during 2012/2013
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Did the organization admit declining growth and stagnation in today's watchtower?
by kneehighmiah indid anyone catch this quote?
"over seven and a half million witnesses of jehovah really have found him and they truly love him.".
why are they no longer touting "nearly 8 million" witnesses?
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Will the JW.Org Site make a difference ?
by Phizzy init will obviously make a difference to how jw's obtain their literatrash, they will have to download and print it all themselves before long.. it will make a small difference to the dtod work, they will now refer even genuine questions and interest etc to the site, not taking the opportunity to "witness" on the initial call at all.
this has been happening already to a degree.. the difference i am mainly interested in is the capture of new suckers in to the borg.. we will be able to see when we get 2014's figures, sometime next year, what the rate of increase was over the last ten years.. phizzy the prophet predicts that the rate of increase over the next ten years will not be significantly up.
probably down, but certainly, i feel, not so different from the last ten.. should i be around in ten years to do so, i will wish to ask jw's:.
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@steve in 2013 about 49,000 people requested a bible study through JW.ORG. This year that number is expected to be higher
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using kindle/ tablet/ iPad in meetings how to police?
by purrpurr ini've noticed about half my half are using these.
of course there's always the potential for people to be looking at things non jw on them.
are the society going to find a way to police this?
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@steve a lot of them already are but the wifi pasword is not shared yet.
@ignorance there is software that can monitor all traffic on a router
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Will the JW.Org Site make a difference ?
by Phizzy init will obviously make a difference to how jw's obtain their literatrash, they will have to download and print it all themselves before long.. it will make a small difference to the dtod work, they will now refer even genuine questions and interest etc to the site, not taking the opportunity to "witness" on the initial call at all.
this has been happening already to a degree.. the difference i am mainly interested in is the capture of new suckers in to the borg.. we will be able to see when we get 2014's figures, sometime next year, what the rate of increase was over the last ten years.. phizzy the prophet predicts that the rate of increase over the next ten years will not be significantly up.
probably down, but certainly, i feel, not so different from the last ten.. should i be around in ten years to do so, i will wish to ask jw's:.
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@Dis-member sites like alexa.com, quantcast and compete will not give you any reliable figures since they work with panels (limited groups) of people. They look at the behaviour of those limited groups and extrapolate that to the U.S and World Population to get their estimates.
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Will the JW.Org Site make a difference ?
by Phizzy init will obviously make a difference to how jw's obtain their literatrash, they will have to download and print it all themselves before long.. it will make a small difference to the dtod work, they will now refer even genuine questions and interest etc to the site, not taking the opportunity to "witness" on the initial call at all.
this has been happening already to a degree.. the difference i am mainly interested in is the capture of new suckers in to the borg.. we will be able to see when we get 2014's figures, sometime next year, what the rate of increase was over the last ten years.. phizzy the prophet predicts that the rate of increase over the next ten years will not be significantly up.
probably down, but certainly, i feel, not so different from the last ten.. should i be around in ten years to do so, i will wish to ask jw's:.
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Its not about HITS but actual people !
About 1 million people (unique visitors / average daily figure) visited JW.ORG each day in 2014. At this very moment it is well over a million people a day.
source: my connection at the WT ICT department
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out of date references at assembly
by purrpurr inat the last district convention i remember feeling really embarrassed by the out of date references made about wars and other issues.
for instance, they talked about the hutus and tootises also the serbs and croatians when they talked about war.
they also talked about dr spock telling people not to smack children.
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@purrpurr there is a reason why they did refer to events like the genocide in Rwanda . Its documented in a report from a human rights organisation (African Rights) and reported to the Worldwide Council of Churches at their annual meeting that all christian denominations and religions were involved in the killing and genocide.. except for 1 religion.. Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Update to Rio Rancho, NM Kingdom Hall
by Newly Enlightened inhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=678180165590951&set=o.585807931515647&type=1.
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@Oneeyedjoe the handshake agreement rumor is only based on hearsay
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Update to Rio Rancho, NM Kingdom Hall
by Newly Enlightened inhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=678180165590951&set=o.585807931515647&type=1.
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this is such a non-story. The witnesses had the plot of land much earlier, long before the Murah family bought theirs. The witnesses can do whatever they like with their plot. Even if they wanted a to build a skyscraper it is their right to do so. All their paperwork was right.
This family was just fooled by their real estate agent. There was no view stolen. If they wanted a secured view they had to buy another plot of land without neighbours in front of their view.
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Is the number of JWs leaving increasing?
by dozy ini don't mean jws getting stumbled or bored or getting dfd for immorality- there always have been a certain number of those all the time.. i've been out for a few years now but am curious to know from "still ins" if there is any evidence of increasing numbers of people leaving for classic "apostate" reasons - ie either fading or getting dfd because they have done research & realise that this isn't "the truth".. when i was a jw occasionally i would hear of someone suddenly stopping going to meetings & hearing through the grapevine & jw gossip mill that the person no longer believed it was the truth or had expressed doubts in the "slave" etc.
but it didn't happen very often ( though it was increasing somewhat in the years before i left).. one would imagine with the internet & increased information available to all that this would be happening more often.
any evidence of this , anecdotally?
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as far as i know from my own experience and knowledge of several congregations.. NO
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Convention visit observations
by Gorbatchov inthis weekend we visited the convention.
my findings:.
- no jw.org marketing here at this moment.
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the convention Gorby is talking about is the regional convention Utrecht I. In total (combined with the small english speaking convention that was also held in a seperate assembly hall) there were about 9700 visitors this weekend.
The total number of attendants during regional conventions is between 40 and 50 thousand.
I have spoken with many witnesses during the 3 days before and after the program and during the breaks. The overall impression i got was that the Witnesses enjoyed this convention very much and that all that new media stuff with little movies in talks was welcomed very much.