the current jws do not cease to amaze.
here's their latest video on youtube and straight from bethel.. there is a lot of work involved in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwou6e5vwbo .
@stuck obviously your plan backfired... but what else did you expect?
Of course they like this video since it shows the brothers and sisters that work for them 24/7 being happy.
Happiness is the Truth...... if i were single, without children and a bit younger i would want to join them too @Bethel after seeing such a videoHappy happy Happy happy
over the past few days i've been reading and watching bill and melinda gates speak about their plans for a better world by 2030. they bet that due to technology and the compassion of people the world should improve more in the next 15 years than it has in all of history.
specifically lower child mortality rate, eradication of polio and guinea worm among other diseases, improvement of standards of living, greater access to education etc.. i'm a realist, so i'm not looking for miracles, but i believe most of these things are possible given the level of success they have reaped in other endeavors, and naturally emerging tech being used to make some of these projections possible.. you can see that the world is actually improving in many areas if you seek out the good news stories and statistics and look beyond the watchtower friendly fear porn about terrorism, and potential dangers from culturally diverse nations around the globe.
for instance 2014 had the lowest fatal airline accident rate in history despite the hyping of the ill fated malaysian airlines crashes.
Question: What will JW.org / Watchtower be like in 15 years?
Answer: At that time it will be one of the few (if not the only) religion with an international presence and unity in teachings.
In my country Roman Catholicism is shrinking so fast that the catholic church itself predicts that in 2028 there will be more JW's than catholic churchgoers. The same is happening with the protestant denominations
jesus was thirty was he was baptized.
today, you hear of young children getting baptized as young as 10 years old.
the parents, family and congregation think it's a wonderful idea that someone dedicates their life to jehovah at such a young age.
@Rules you forget that at the time that Jesus walked the earth John the Baptist just started with baptising people.
furthermore billions of people (in other denominations that consider themselves christian) are baptised right after they are born
Anyway the main reason is,... WHY NOT baptise Teens? We let them make career and education choices that influence them the rest of their lifes at that age so why not the choice to serve Jehovah?
there are biblical examples of young people who make a stand for Jehovah,.. Samuel did, David did,.. Jesus did, to name a few
did anyone notice this wt's subtle attack on wikipedia?
they wrote (from the 2011 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses, pp.
9-10. source: 'tracing all things with accuracy'):.
in january 2015 my devout and longtime 'in the truth' jw relatives (50+ years) went to the german bethel factory in selters.
they were shocked seeing an near empty factory floor and were told that some printing presses supposedly have been sold to 'worldy' companies.i got to hear the stunning admission out of their mouths: "we left with the impression they are closing up shop".just whoa!
to me it sounds like a firesale - "because everything must go" (die hard iv).. has anyone else seen the factory in that condition?
all they want is some spiritually-qualified publishers blind individuals who believe they are god's mouthpiece on earth.
no wonder their artwork is so poor.. .
christian congregation of jehovahs witnesses2821 route 22, patterson, ny 12563-2237 phone: (845) 306-11001/8/15-e usjanuary 8, 2015to all congregations in the united states branch territoryre: art skills needed at betheldear brothers:the beautiful illustrations in our printed publications and on jw.org serve as teaching aidsthat emphasize spiritual truths from the bible.
a same kind of request was done recently by a european branch office for people with ICT skills like programmers, web designers, software engineers etc etc since much of JW.ORG is and will be done in Europe and less in the U.S.
the local branch will expand its ICT office space and workforce drastically
it's no secret that the wtbts has a cash flow problem.
over the past three years they have closed 20 of their 116 branches.
they have sold off most of their properties in and around ny (including some kingdom halls), drastically reduced the # of printed pages for the watchtower and awake magazines, reduced the printing of books and other materials, increased the number of single page tract campagnes, installed cc machines at their assembly halls, and are now seizing of controll of property assets from local kingdom halls using renovation projects.
Coded said
It's no secret that the WTBTS has a cash flow problem.
So what is your source? I think they have more ca$h than ever before
i just came back from visiting family in south america (will keep the name of the country out for now) and i was shocked by the amount of jws i saw on the street.
keep in mind that most countries in sa have been under military rule until the early 80s, with the general fear and mindset sticking around until the late 90s, even when the military was gone and democracy re established.
jw were not around when i lived there.
@sir82 countries in Latin and South America are not third world countries. Ever been there?, cause i have
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm
I have visited a number of third world countries as well
in the last day or so, the 2015 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses has been available on jw.org.
broadly speaking, results are pretty ho-hum - except to note a huge increase in memorial attendances for 2014, but still shy of 20 million.
this is a big increase over the previous all-time-high year of 2011 by several hundred thousand.
@banana the population of japan is aging & the total population is shrinking since 2007 and will continue to do so for the next century. a drop of 1 milliion a year is expected for the next decades
One can only expect the same kind of problems for a religous group like the Jehovah's witnesses since they represent the demographics of the society. You agree with me that Japan has the largest percentage of ageing people right? Well, the same goes for the Japanese Witness group.
After 2005 things started to change and will result in an ultimate free fall
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Vital_statistics
The decline in Japanese Witnesses is a normal reflection of the overall decline in the population.
For example :
Nr of Average publishers in 2009 217,530
Nr of Average publishers in 2014 215 294
Net decline 2236 publishers over a period of 5 years that is a decline of only about 0.2 percent per year
It has nothing to do with technology, being fashionable, or beliefs that answer peoples needs or not. The decline can be simply explained by looking at the demographic information of the country and the demographic behaviour in groups like the witnesses (for example within JW's less people decide to get kids because of this system/kingdom interests)
in the last day or so, the 2015 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses has been available on jw.org.
broadly speaking, results are pretty ho-hum - except to note a huge increase in memorial attendances for 2014, but still shy of 20 million.
this is a big increase over the previous all-time-high year of 2011 by several hundred thousand.
@banana
Based on the latest data from the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan's population will keep declining by about one million people every year in the coming decades, which will leave Japan with a population of 86 million in 2060.[5] By that time, more than 40% of the population is expected to be over age 65.[6] In 2012, the population had for six consecutive years declined by 212,000, the largest drop on record since 1947 and also a record low of 1.03 million births.[7] In 2014, a new record of population drop happened with 268,000 people.[8] In 2013, more than 20 percent of the population are age 65 and over.[9]
