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:.
At their peak JWs were baptising over 1000 people a day for a few years during the 1990s.
Which is all the most striking when you consider there were only 5 million JWs then compared with over 8 million now. Meaning the rate of baptisms in proportion to the size of the community has reduced dramatically.
i went on line looking for old jw songs and some of them were pretty good and some were just awful!.
did you ever like any of those songs?
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Some cheerful ones...
yes all men are crying
for all men are dying
none from the grave
his life can save
all his life is misery
...or close to that
i went on line looking for old jw songs and some of them were pretty good and some were just awful!.
did you ever like any of those songs?
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Ours is the God of true propheseeeee
what he foretells comes to be
i went on line looking for old jw songs and some of them were pretty good and some were just awful!.
did you ever like any of those songs?
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Yes, of course. You can’t beat lyrics like these, I was just singing this today:
we must have the faith that the Bible does revive
we must build such faith if God’s war we would survive
do we have a faith accompanied by works
this kind of faith preserves our souls alive
we're not the shrinking sort God will destroy
but we are the trusting sort God will employ
thoigh ever so many foes against us arise
faith in Jehovah we must exercise
hey forum goers.
i'd like your opinions on constructing an email reply to this shocker below.
bit of background about the sender: she is a middle-aged, cheery uberdub whose siblings left when a schism occured in her congregation in canada way back when.
Sounds like she’s really saying: “you owe me a life of adherence and agreement with Watchtower because that makes me feel better about myself and my own choices in life.”
2017 wtbts financial statement irelandhttps://we.tl/f55k8sawsmatlantis!.
As regards the trend, what would be really useful would be to have the numbers from before, during, and after Lett made a special appeal for funds in 2015.
2017 wtbts financial statement irelandhttps://we.tl/f55k8sawsmatlantis!.
There’s no way JWs contribute £50 a month on average. In a nearby congregation it’s around £450 for the congregation and £250 for the worldwide work per month. That’s £700 divided by 45 publishers equals just over £15 per publisher per month. I guess you need to add direct giving and legacies to that, but I’d be surprised if that brought it even to £20. Probably that congregation is below average but not a complete outlier.
2017 wtbts financial statement irelandhttps://we.tl/f55k8sawsmatlantis!.
Watchtower finances look okay in Ireland at least. They don’t have a branch to maintain any more so I’m not sure where all the money goes. Although I heard they still own the branch building and use it for meetings. Maybe the Britain branch will be asking for some of the money to be transferred, or the US.
Their level of donations indicates that each publisher contributed over €300 to the WWW over the last year. That’s a bit higher than I would have guessed, but it does include legacies. Nevertheless I think it’s probably lower than most other comparable groups.
i know we often talk of the mind control and how jw's believe what they are taught because they are controlled as to the information they receive, but i think the mind control goes frighteningly beyond simply keeping information away from them.. the jw mind is in lockdown.
it simply cannot accept facts, evidence, reasoning or whatever that goes against what they believe.
they cannot assimilate and consider an argument, it is not that they are being awkward, or willfully blind, their minds are so shut down they are incapable of taking in what is being presented.. i am aware of how, in common with other cults and high control groups the j.w org achieves this state among its members, but how on earth do we open such a solidly closed mind ?.
Yes there is a certain irony that you claim to respect facts in theory, but can’t seem to deal with them in a real discussion.
i am in the process of writing to parliament about the practice of shunning by jehovah's witnesses.
what i need to clarify if the practice is 'specifically' mentioned in any of the books used for bible study/ recruitment leading up to baptism?.
i would be grateful if anyone could clarify this in case i get my facts wrong when writing my letter..
There is a further appendix in the God’s Love book about how DFed people should be treated.
