Posts by slimboyfat

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

slimboyfat

Willyloman,

The figures for years to come will be skewed relative to years previous the the change in the 15 minute rule (pre-2003), but they will not be skewed relative to each other.

The 2.2 increase in 2003 was affected by the change,

but the "2.0" increase in 2004 was not affected by the change since the new rule was opperative in both 2003 and 2004.

The totals from now on will have benefitted from the artificial boost in 2003, but the ave increases in years to come will not be affected, since a change in policy like this can only yield short-run benefits in terms of improved growth figures.

Future changes may yeild greater artificial boosts to the numbers, but the 15 minute rule has already been spent.

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

slimboyfat

I have a confession to make:

I don't have the new figures because I don't have the new mag. I just made them up because I thought it would make people take an interest in me...

I don't have any more idea than anyone else whether there is an increase in Canada, Cambodia or Atlantis for that matter.

I am just a lonely guy... don't beat me up :)

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Haven't seen a KM in a while, but this blew me away!

by Nosferatu in

jw
friends

110 input householder$.

140 input householder$.

150 if householder$ = "not interested" goto 200.

slimboyfat

Not only do they print the instructions on the KM, but every two weeks two "volunteers" (read: unfortunates armtwisted by the elders) need to demonstrate how this presentation of the mags should be done in practice.

Witness orientation is definitely geared toward the hard of understanding...

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Strange disfellowshippings!

by AK - Jeff in

a few years back a 'sister' in our hall was df'd for marrying a disfellowshipped man.

they were both free to remarry 'scripturally' - in their late-middle years of life.

i asked one of the local pharrasies why?

slimboyfat

Being disfellowshipped for smoking seems a bit harsh... I knew a few.

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

slimboyfat

Willyoman,

Good point about the 15 minute rule. But do remember, that was not introduced during the service year covered in the new report. It was introduced in the service year covered in last year's repost. What is my point?

Well, since the addition of those submitting 15 minute reports inflated the figures last year already, then it cannot do so again this year. In other words, 2.6% may have been artificially added to the make the 2.2% increase last year (actually a decrease of 0.4% if we accept your proposal), but it cannot logically be said to have inflated the new figures relative to last year, since the 15 minute rule was operational in both years.

In short, while the validity of last year's 2.2% increase over the year previous to that may be questioned, the 2.0% increase in the new service report is not affected one way or the other by the 15 minute rule relative to last year.

When comparing this year and future years with years previosu to 2003, then you are correct, the difference in counting method brought on by the 15 minute rule should be taken into account.

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

slimboyfat

After 1975 nearly half of all the Jehovah's Witnesses in the Philippines at that time defected. This country had one of the worst fall outs from the 1975 expectation build-up anywhere in the world (other bad reactions were in African countries like the Congo and in the Netherlands, as has been documented by Singelenberg).

THe problem was so bad post-1975 in the Philippines that the Yearbook dealing with the history of the Philippines actually makes mention of the great disappointment at that time (usually such histories of countries in the yearbooks do not mention the dejection of members following 1975).

So perhaps those in the Philippines are reacting post-1995 (generation change) the same way they did in the 70s and 80s.

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Biography of J. F. Rutherford

by slimboyfat in

i read here a while back that someone was working on a biography of rutherford that could be quite revealing, especially as regards his relations with members of the opposite sex (including his wife).

is there any more news on that?

who was it working on that again?

slimboyfat

I read here a while back that someone was working on a biography of Rutherford that could be quite revealing, especially as regards his relations with members of the opposite sex (including his wife). Is there any more news on that? Who was it working on that again? Have they found a publisher? Anywhere near setting a date for publication?

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

slimboyfat

Cambodia: 19% up from 145 to 172

Singapore not listed

Vietnam not listed

Japan: 0% up from 217,020 to 217,097

Philippines up 1%

Indonesia up 5%

Korea up 1%

Hong Kong 0% (actually up by 1 publisher!)

Thailand up 3&aiwan up 7%

East Timor 0% (remained at 38 pub)

Malaysia up 3%

Slovenia: 1% from 1,835 to 1,853, 42 baptised.

Croatia: 0% up from 5,394 to 5,409, 119 baptised.

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

slimboyfat

Poland: up 1% to 127,377 from 126,573.

Ireland: up 2% to 4,757 from 4,666. The report does not list partakers (you would need to see Kingdom Ministry for Ireland in either the July or August edition for that figure, and even then I am not sure if KMs still show this figure). Mem attend in Ireland was 9,196.

Is anyone interested in any of the other countries?

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

slimboyfat

Shamus - see the site Simon posted because it compares Witness growth to growth in world population graphically. Worldwide population growth is consistently below 1% annually, so Jehovah's Witnesses are still doing marginally better than population growth.

US figures - 0.46% growth in ave pub. Peak pub down 10,000 from last year to 1,019,696. Pio, cong, ave bib stud, hours and mem attend is all up from last year in the US.