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  Tracking U.S. Growth through KMs

  by TheListener in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to get about 30,000 people baptized during the service year the dubs need to dunk about 2,500 people a month.

  i've been following their dunking numbers with the kms and they are about on, maybe a little low.

  i've also noticed that the overall number of u.s. dubs isn't really increasing too much even with the new dunkees.

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  Help with Israelite Example

  by TheListener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've searched and searched and can find nothing that specifically addresses this issue.

  i've checked coc and isocf.

  please help me or at least point me in the right direction.. this is the subject that i'm not good at discussing or refuting:.

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  Noah did not preach

  by TheListener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't believe noah preached.. the society says he did.. it's me against them - .

  genesis agrees with me and 2 peter 2:5 agrees with them.

  please provide any insight.

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  Declining Meeting Attendance-CO visit

  by TheListener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we have our circuit overseer this week.

  we're getting the crap kicked out of us (figuratively) for our meeting attendance.

  we have attendance in the 70% range for some of our meetings.

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  Mindless Meetings and Bored Dubs

  by TheListener in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  "we'd like to excuse those that have talks in the second school, and those that would like to listen.".

  alright, so i am sitting at the meeting last week and i hear that very typical repetitive announcement.

  i start to look around and i realize that it is the same people every week who go to the back to sit in the second school.

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  Circuit Overseers

  by TheListener in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone know how many circuits and districts there are in the u.s.?

  what about a list of cos?

  also, for the last several years they've been going to school in ny.

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  Open Minded Elder about Blood

  by TheListener in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  has anyone else seen the debate on another religious board (beliefnet -is that ok?

  ) about blood?.

  apparently someone who has stated he's an elder has asked some questions about blood.

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  new year fade is tough

  by TheListener in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  god, this is the worst.

  the new year is a tough time around the ole watchtower cult.

  first it's the dpa cards and filling them out with your cong.

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  Lessons require less thinking

  by TheListener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have noticed something for the last couple of years.

  the lessons appear to me much easier and less meaty (this has been discussed at length).

  however, something i haven't seen discussed too often is the changes that have occurred in the thinking portion of preparing for the meetings.

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  New here (sort of)

  by TheListener in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  although this is my first post i must say that i feel like i know so many here very well.

  your posts have helped me tremendously.

  as i become more comfortable i hope to join in the topics and begin to share more about myself.. for now i'll say that i am currently a jw that began researching information about two years ago to improve my faith and knowledge.

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