Posts by besty

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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Scottish?

by RottenRiley in

my experience with jws, often they were very frugal and cheap, willing to use my car in field circus every weekend.

why are jehovah's witnesses so dense and obtuse when it comes to sharing costs and contributing?

has the topic of district convention 'tight-ass cheap-skating' jehovah's witnesses been talked about?

besty

you're scottish as much as I'm english - pull the other one RottenRiley...

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

besty

Before you make way too much fuzz over Slovakia - the figure is totally and utterly wrong!

keep up theoldhippie - 88JM already noted his own type earlier on in the thread

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UK Family Law re child custody where one parent is a JW and the other is not

by Frazzled UBM in

for those who are interested i came across this case relating to a dispute about how much exposure a jw parent could give her child to the jw'religion'.

the case is interested because it shows how much weight the courts put on freedom of religion and the right for a parent to expose the child to their religion provided the religion is 'socially acceptable' while also being mindful of the impact on the child's welfare.

i think the judgement is quite naive in its assessment of the potential harm and spends to much time concentrating on blood issues and birthdays and christams and not enough on the wbts techniques for recruiting and manipulating members while they are vulnerable children.

besty

would be great if N's dad (or even mum) would show up on JWN at some point...

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

besty

nice to see that Brazil had a new record in 2013 - 'smallest increase for at least 10 years' - won't be broadcasting that one I guess...

wow - Germany and Japan are basically death of a 1000 cuts - these are heartland countries for JW's

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Witnesses: Why The 1/19/14 WT Lesson Is Dangerous

by Apognophos in

today's watchtower lesson touched on the history of hezekiah's reign, and then made a surprising modern-day application.

having used my time before the meeting to research the underlying material instead of highlighting my magazine, i personally found this to be an upsetting study, and decided to put this warning here in the hopes that some active witnesses read it.. the most important thing i want to say to you is that the actual flow of events in this bible account were severely misrepresented, and that there are some disturbing implications in the distortions that were made.

1. hezekiah's father ahaz makes himself a vassal to assyria out of fear of their overwhelming might (2 kings 16:7, 8).. 2. upon becoming king, hezekiah rebels against assyria (2 kings 18:7).

besty

great post apognophos - thanks

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

besty

would also be interesting to see if there is a reason for the 21% Mexico figure in 2004

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

besty

sorry I meant your post 389 on the previous page

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

besty

@88JM is your table 2011 2012 or 2012 2013

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... like the fine print in a fraudulent contract

by cofty in

daniel dennett has accused apologists of double-standards in a column in the washington post.. like all things that are worth saying it made me want to go away and really think it through for a while.

perhaps pat robinson was just being more honest about the real implications of faith?.

one of the striking differences between modern, "organized" religion and tribal or folk religions--religions without seminaries and theologians and official books--is that in tribal religions they have no double standard!

besty

I was just praying for a decent post on this topic to come up....:-)

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

besty

love the Italians...:-) they never saw a new idea they didn;t like...