Posts by besty

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Yearbook Chart Re-posted - Math explained. Top 7 countries account for 50% growth

by Westenddave in

sorted from high to low.

net increase in publishers2013 ave. pubs2012 ave. pubsincrease/ decrease in publishersincrease in pubs cumulative.

% increase cumulative columnabcde =a-b mexico (g-31)777,429749,58527,84427,84417.47%legend united states of america (e-32)1,167,7231,156,15011,57339,41724.73%red: latin/spanish landscongo, dem.

besty

@alanv

Besty I dont think Britain will be at all pleased with 0.5% increase. It shows they cant even keep their kids in the org. Millions of hours spent knocking on doors and that is the result. It is only slightly higher than the population increase.

yes I didn't word that very well - what I meant was Britain contributed 0.5% of the global increase. You could reasonably expect a country with 2% of the publishers to contribute 2% of the increase - hence my sarcastic comment about them being pleased. Not. Strong underperform.

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

besty

there are missing pieces in the conversation.

its impossible to know what they are :-)

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

besty

wow jgnat - that is the best piece of forumsmithing ever

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Active JW understands flaws in WTS doctrine but believes in the Bible

by flamegrilled in

perhaps this is a common topic for newbies on the site, but i have browsed for a while and not seen this exactly answered.. as an active jw who understands the flaws in wts doctrine, but believes in the bible, how do i identify a form of worship that meets all the criterea:.

1) by this all will know you are my disciples if you have love among yourselves (john 13:35).

sure i know that not all jws do this, and that people from other religions or non-religious people do this also, but as an official doctrine jws will not kill one another in war, and in general there is a genuine effort to exercise "agape" love not widely found in the world at large.. 2) preach the good news.

besty

bttt

@flamegrilled - have you a moment to give us an update on your OP?

thanks!

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

besty

good to see the energy still here on thread...

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

besty

@flamegrilled - you are giving God a free pass on natural disasters because 0.1% potential disconfirmation* of your worldview is an acceptable cost to you

atheists (me, us, cofty, whoever) have used a different scale in our observation. Massive scale death of the innocents are yet more evidence 'He' probably doesn't exist.

* " If a good friend told you the truth 999 times, but then said said something that appeared to be untruthful..."

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

besty

94 pages in and here we are:

If intervention in natural disasters at this time is counter to God's ultimate purpose for his creation then I am prepared to accept that there is good reason for that.

Theist believers want to believe, sans evidence

Atheists haven't seen evidence yet.

I'm sure there is a genetic or personality type aspect to this, but I dont have the evidence yet ;-)

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Should I meet with the elders?

by winnie12 in

so i posted my story somewhere on this board but long story short i have been expressing my doubts to my mom who is a jw.

i have been fading since december 2013 and went to a sunday meeting for the first time maybe two weeks ago.

i went only because i wanted to use the library that my hall has which had books published by the society from the early 1900's.

besty

welcome to JWN

your opening post is here if you cant find it...http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/268774/1/New-here#.UuJZw43FK2w

don't meet with elder(s)

make a plan for moving on with your life before planning on how to help your family

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Top evolution researchers agree: There is A Creator! The Watchtower is Right!

by mariu in

jw
friends

okay, it's just one scientist: http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201404/frederic-dumoulin-interview/.

but he's a very eminent one!.

for more than a decade, frederic dumoulin has worked in the field of pharmaceutical research ... studied the effects of medications and toxins on living creatures ... such design simply could not have evolved.

besty

" For me, such design simply could not have evolved."

appeal to personal incredulity, much?

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The future according to Bill Gates

by sspo in

http://b-gat.es/1g26ks2.

the world has never been better than what we have today and the future is very bright..... how different from the gloomy world that the witness preach about, the bad conditions we live in and the that the world is getting worse.. .

besty

great letter #stopthemyth