Makes sense. Hard to imagine membership isn't plummeting between the aging adherents, poor youth retention rate, internet and religion's downfall in the country. Guess shunning is quite the successful tactic.
Thanks.
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28Current JW growth in the United States in historical perspective and in comparison with other groups
by slimboyfat incurrent jw growth is slower than during most of their history.
the only probable exceptions are following 1975 when there was a brief worldwide decrease, the late 1920s when around half of the members left the movement, perhaps around the 1917 schism, and various schisms during russell’s time.
there were also periods of sluggish growth during the 1950/60s and around 2000. .
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Montana News
by AuntBee inhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2020-01-08/court-reverses-35m-verdict-against-jehovahs-witnesses.
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Not good news and evil prevails.
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I can just imagine the hype that is going on in Australia about how close armageddon is now with all of these bushfires occurring.
by smiddy3 init brings to mind my niece when she see`s how dry the countryside is ,how armageddon must be so close..
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I can't watch the link or the coverage - unreal. I hope other countries are in their helping fly/provide the necessary anti-fire methods/means.
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
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You are absolutely right, MINIMUS! He is beyond calculating and will stand up for himself and the country. He is clearly getting the news abroad re/protecting this country and not being the big dufus any longer off the backs of the American taxpayer while our roads/highways/bridges rot and no money for infrastructure. No one has exposed (eva) the DC dirtbag/corruption like President Trump (both parties) and he's no where close to scraping the bottom of the barrel. The left can cry a river - might help the drought crisis and global warming.
Sanctions, whatever, but, hopefully, there's ways/means to choke the evil and the innocent masses of Iranian people won't have to sacrifice.
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If only they had dumped the stiff in the water (good idea Min and I heard that from more than one person there couldn't have been a body to lay out inside of crate) millions would have been able to celebrate their joy at home with the rest of planet earth. Iran probably spent their reserves (1.6 billion thx to Obama/Biden and Ketchup Kerry) for the outlandish display of crazy. He was no more a true general of armed forces or a great leader as the kook left is portraying - nonstop crazy.
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Current JW growth in the United States in historical perspective and in comparison with other groups
by slimboyfat incurrent jw growth is slower than during most of their history.
the only probable exceptions are following 1975 when there was a brief worldwide decrease, the late 1920s when around half of the members left the movement, perhaps around the 1917 schism, and various schisms during russell’s time.
there were also periods of sluggish growth during the 1950/60s and around 2000. .
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If they're doing "pretty well" why the dumping/consolidations in their easy money countries.
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The sky is falling- maybe
by joey jojo ini am actually not a 'sky is falling' guy, but i wanted to comment on the australian bushfires.. you may or may not believe the science behind global warming, however i personally put more faith in verified, scientific data than the words of fat cat, self-serving politicians.
climate science has predicted, based on data, that we will see more prolonged, extreme weather events, higher average temperatures, rising sea levels due to ocean expansion and glacial melting.
and this is exactly whats happening.
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What Simon said ^^^^ - shepherdess, good points and I'll check out your links.
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Current JW growth in the United States in historical perspective and in comparison with other groups
by slimboyfat incurrent jw growth is slower than during most of their history.
the only probable exceptions are following 1975 when there was a brief worldwide decrease, the late 1920s when around half of the members left the movement, perhaps around the 1917 schism, and various schisms during russell’s time.
there were also periods of sluggish growth during the 1950/60s and around 2000. .
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Good topic - from my observation baby boomers' lineage seem to be hangin' in there or at least some probably because of the WT's hateful shunning rule. Conventions were way down at least 10 yrs ago so I'm not so sure I'd trust their stats -- or anything else as doomsday hype, etc., swelled their base more than once. Mormans don't seem to be such an overwhelming group like they were but still pretty big stuff here. Think they cornered the dental/law market -- medical, too. They learned from the Jewish religion re/education and built their own base -- prolifically.
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
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Pres Trump considering options in response to Iranian missile attacks - 15 total/4 failures on US troops in Iraq. No US casualties yet. They've taken oil tankers, killed Americans, attacked the American Embassy, targeting Americans just to name a couple of negatives. They are clearly a nuclear threat. They're the #1 state sponsored terror organization in the world and someone has to stand up to them - finally.
Obama's policy was appeasement -- the billions he flooded to Iran are the missiles being displayed today.
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Indeed, punk and it's scary!