the 2014 grand totals page has been released onto facebook.. .
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i have started updating the statistics and graphs at jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php, and will release highlights as i work through it during the rest of the day..
OneEyedJoe : Thanks for the answer! I think the charts show two things then :
1) Some have jumped on this occasion, that's why it increase so much.
2) The majority continue to note a study, when it's really a formal biblical study with regular one hour study sessions... if not, the number of studies will be 30 times higher...
the 2014 grand totals page has been released onto facebook.. .
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i have started updating the statistics and graphs at jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php, and will release highlights as i work through it during the rest of the day..
What's a "bible study" now ?
When I was in, it was very difficult to start one... Your graphs seems to show than it's really more easy to start bibel studies since 2000...
a segment from (in english) if you are the one?
one of china's most popular tv shows, it can have up to 50 million viewers.. its chrissie time, so we can be sentimental (smile).. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teic1sk8epy.
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if you really liked a girl, for how long would you chase her?
It depends : if she seem to be receptive at me or not. No time too loose with that old-fashioned tradition. And it's even not really romantic!
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
You sound like a member of the Assemblies of Yahweh.
I never heard about that!
a currently active jdub acquaintance occasionally stops by to say hello and we share a wee dram or two.
after the general small talk of new cars, exotic vacations and sports we often get into the "why" we are xjubs.
he is a well educated publisher who holds a phd in child psychology.
Many wedding customs have pagan origins from what I understand.
Yes, let me tell you a funny story :
It was two young people, very sympatics, french JW's, who wanted to avoid all the pagans thing in the wedding ceremony.
That's why, they choose to not go at the catholic roman church, pagan place and false religion building. They asked too to the guest to not throw the traditionnal handful of rice .
Everything went fine. The bride was very pretty under the white veil and the beribonned bouquet of flower she had in hands was sumptuous. And the bridesmaids was very pretty too.
After they said "Yes", they put tenderly the wedding ring at the left ring finger. The day after they jump in a plane for a great honeymoon.
Arrived at the hotel, the young husband, very courteous, take his new wife in the arms to enter in the honeymoon suite, where they do what they had to do (it's no more our concern)!
It sounds very classical, isn'it ?
But they forgot some détails :
1) The veil : It was, even before the wedding dress was used, designed to mask the face of the bride to the evil spirits, meant to be attrcted by the happiness of the other people
2) The bouquet : this bouquet is meant to guarantee the marital ecstasy, because the flowers are a symbol of love and fecondity.
3) The ribbon : the ribbon of the bouquet are meant to be a luck symbol.
4) The bridesmaids : They are here to protect the bride from the demons and other surnatural power beast and to empeach his kidnapping.
5) The ring at the left ring finger : It comes from an ancient greek believing, who states that a blood vein, called the "vein of love" comes from this finger to the heart.
6) The honeymoon : It comes from the time of weddings by rapt. The guy was taking the wife very far from her family until the parents cancel the research. And in the same time it was useful to escape from all the evil spirits who wanted to destruct the happiness of the new couple.
7) To carry the wife to enter the honeymoon suite : it's a tradition meant to thwart the misfortune. It empeachs the bride to stumble and to war off bad luck
a woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a wal-mart store in idaho.. .
the 29-year-old was shopping with four children in the store in hayden, when the two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired the weapon, shooting her dead.. initial reports suggested the woman was the boy's mother, but the police have said that this is as yet unclear how they are related.. source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-accidentally-shoots-woman-in-idaho-walmart-9950847.html.
i've nothing to add to my past comments on americas psychotic relationship with guns.
Gun control doesn't keep the bad guys from getting guns
I didn't notice that the free gun policy on the USA keep them from getting them anyway.
I brought up Switzerland because many here suggest simple gun ownership leads to violence. Switzerland proves that that is not the case. As a matter of fact assault weapons and automatic weapons are probably more available there than they are in the states. Switzerland proves that the problem is culture NOT gun ownership.
Nothing to see. In switzerland they have one of the more strong social policies in the world. That's the deal. There's almost no poor.
If you want to decrease singnificantly the criminality, increase all the social policies in USA.... Nobody will need gun no more ..
In france, we made a lot of statistical studies and you can check, the increase of criminilaty is totally correlated at the decrease of social policies.
If you want to fight criminality, fight poverty first.. the rest is unuseful!
a currently active jdub acquaintance occasionally stops by to say hello and we share a wee dram or two.
after the general small talk of new cars, exotic vacations and sports we often get into the "why" we are xjubs.
he is a well educated publisher who holds a phd in child psychology.
Stonehedge was put together by the Nephilim
ah yes! I forgot them!!!!!
I heard too that Hercule in the greek mythology was a Nephilim!!!!
the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
There is a poster here, an active JW, who comes from a EU country where the number of congregations is fewer than the digits on your hand
That's why I think some merged flag is a good option.
a currently active jdub acquaintance occasionally stops by to say hello and we share a wee dram or two.
after the general small talk of new cars, exotic vacations and sports we often get into the "why" we are xjubs.
he is a well educated publisher who holds a phd in child psychology.
Good question!
I was talking on a french religious forum lately about this question and it was all about the readers question of the watchtower of the 15 February 2007 (p 31). This wasn't so clear answer, even for some JW's. I resume in short words the answer of the GB in this article :
If it have pagan origins, doesn't mean that's unaceptable for a christian
And try to manage with that... :D
You really must to check this article, because he gives some pagan things you can make as a JDub (in fact things it will be impossible to make swallow even at the more dumbass JW, that's now that's no more accepted : like wedding ring) !!! I have a link, but only in french :(
And in fact, 99,99% of what we know, do and think have a pagan origin... even God himself...
a woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a wal-mart store in idaho.. .
the 29-year-old was shopping with four children in the store in hayden, when the two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired the weapon, shooting her dead.. initial reports suggested the woman was the boy's mother, but the police have said that this is as yet unclear how they are related.. source; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-accidentally-shoots-woman-in-idaho-walmart-9950847.html.
i've nothing to add to my past comments on americas psychotic relationship with guns.
Coalize why didn't the strict gun laws in France prevent this robber from getting guns?
Because they are criminals...
Are you also afraid of going to Switzerland?
That is a relevant question !
The big difference between switzerland and USA, is that you can't buy a gun at the cornershop. Only well-trained military conscript have the right to keep a gun home. It's a country where everybody is a militian, because they don't really have an army, because of their historical statut of neutrality.
And only 0.52 for 100 000 annual rate by gun homicide (but it's still more than in France).
And all the guns are considered like "service weapons". You can use it only if the governement, by decret is authorizing you to use it! In case of state emergency! You can't use it at all for protecting your material goods...
Then the switzerland is a perfect counter-exemple of your position, in fact...
