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  Who is from Michigan? Plz check-in!!!

  by outnfree in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just noticed another poster who is from michigan (as am i).

  it was on jourles "name three posters you'd like to meet" thread.

  i have met a lot of jwd members, most of whom i got to know better in chat (those were the days!

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  Yo.
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  Let's play a game - Follow the WTS $$ trail

  by watch the tower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a huge question that i have in the back of my mind regarding the wts is where all of the money ends up.

  no one really has a conclusive answer to that.

  i think it would reveal a lot if we were able to find out.. i know there have been various threads in the past where it revealed a clue here and a clue there.

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  The vatican releases its annual budget - does the WTS?

  http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=30675
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  Quiz..Which World Leader Are You Like?

  by Legolas in

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  http://similarminds.com/leader.html

  you have to pick how many questions you want to answer, i picked the 45 questions!

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  Oxford Bible?

  by jstalin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  howdy all,.

  i'm looking for a good annotated bible to better understand the context and historical meaning of biblical stories.

  i'm looking at both the oxford annotated bible and the oxford bible commentary.

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  Could you all let me know why you like those particular sets?
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  Oxford Bible?

  by jstalin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  howdy all,.

  i'm looking for a good annotated bible to better understand the context and historical meaning of biblical stories.

  i'm looking at both the oxford annotated bible and the oxford bible commentary.

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  Howdy all,

  I'm looking for a good annotated bible to better understand the context and historical meaning of biblical stories. I'm looking at both the Oxford Annotated Bible and the Oxford Bible Commentary. Can anyone recommend one or the other? What's the difference?
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  GUNS?!

  by thepackage in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  guns, should jw's have them?

  i know brothers that hunt on wt property in ny for deer.

  what is the answer????

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  No private citizen should have guns of any sort.

  Of couse, because there's no history of abuse when only government has guns.
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  WT "publisher" numbers in the US

  by jstalin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was looking at the info on jwic.com and realized the following about the us "publishers" numbers:.

  between 1994 and 2004 the number of us publishers rose from about 900,000 to about 1,000,000. that's about 11% over those ten years, or about 1% compounded annually (well below the population growth rate).

  in addition, between 1994 and 2004 about 392,000 people were baptised.

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  Ah, I get it... those are approximate death rates... looks like the average death rate in the US is about .8% per year. Using that, a rough estimate of the number of JW deaths between 1994 and 2004 is 80,000. That would mean the actual increase of the number of JWs between 94 and 2004 is 180,000. Therefore, the attrition rate would be lower... about 54%.
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  WT "publisher" numbers in the US

  by jstalin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was looking at the info on jwic.com and realized the following about the us "publishers" numbers:.

  between 1994 and 2004 the number of us publishers rose from about 900,000 to about 1,000,000. that's about 11% over those ten years, or about 1% compounded annually (well below the population growth rate).

  in addition, between 1994 and 2004 about 392,000 people were baptised.

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  Elsewhere... what are those numbers on the right? 8.8, 8.3, etc...
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  WTS Bible Reading for Nov. 21-27, 2005

  by TheListener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2 chronicles, chapters 1-5.

  2 chronicles 1 1and sol omon the son of david continued to get strength in his kingship, and jehovah his god was with him and kept making him surpassingly great 2 and sol omon proceeded to say the word to all israel, to the chiefs of the thousands and of the hundreds and to the judges and to all the chieftains of all israel, the heads of the paternal houses.

  3 then sol omon and all the congregation with him went to the high place that was at gib eon; for there was where the tent of meeting of the [true] god, which moses the servant of jehovah had made in the wilderness, happened to be.

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  The indescriminate addition of "Jehovah" in the new testament?
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  WT "publisher" numbers in the US

  by jstalin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was looking at the info on jwic.com and realized the following about the us "publishers" numbers:.

  between 1994 and 2004 the number of us publishers rose from about 900,000 to about 1,000,000. that's about 11% over those ten years, or about 1% compounded annually (well below the population growth rate).

  in addition, between 1994 and 2004 about 392,000 people were baptised.

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  jstalin

  I was looking at the info on jwic.com and realized the following about the US "publishers" numbers:

  Between 1994 and 2004 the number of US publishers rose from about 900,000 to about 1,000,000. That's about 11% over those ten years, or about 1% compounded annually (well below the population growth rate).

  In addition, between 1994 and 2004 about 392,000 people were baptised. That means the attrition rate between those baptised and those who stay is about 75% over the ten year period .

  Does anyone have the actual publishers numbers for the last ten years for the US? The jwic site only has the graphs and no exact numbers.