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  NEW! 2006 Worldwide Service Report

  by Joker10 in

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  6,741,444 publishers in 99,770 congregations.. .

  1,059,325 peak publishers in the lower u.s. this is a 2.3% increase.. south korea has yet, again, to post a zero or negative growth, and this being the most internet/ wired country in the world.

  publishers are up another 1%.

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  I remember when any decrease was major news - now over 25% of the countries listed have shown a decrease - hardly inspiring eh?
  
  Over half of the worlds population has never even heard of Jehovahs witnesses.
  
  The Catholics had a bigger increase percentage wise than the witnesses.
  
  There were more memorial partakers this year than 18 years ago!
  
  Overall, not very good reading I'd say.
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  2006 WorldWide Service Report

  by Midget-Sasquatch in

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  here it is scanned straight from the feb 1 2007 wt:.

  http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5103/rep01dc4.jpg.

  http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3761/rep02xh5.jpg.

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  Apparently the number of partakers is higher now than it was 18 years ago!!!!
  
  Woops!
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  Hell hath no fury....

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/11/16/bashkircannibal.shtml.

  woman gets 11 years for cooking boyfriend and feeding him to guestscreated: 16.11.2006 13:29 msk (gmt +3), updated: 14:20 msk.

  a court in the russian internal republic of bashkortostan has passed an 11-year sentence to a woman who killed her boyfriend with an axe and then cooked him in a variety of dishes which she fed to her guests at a new year party.. .

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  ....and I thought my ex was mad....maybe I'm lucky after all!
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  A year goes by

  by cyberdyne systems 101 in

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  wow i've just realised that its been just over a year that i've been here, how time flies.

  well i've had many ups and downs in life over that time, found new friends, learned a few important lessons and so on.

  i feel much further away from the jw mindset than i was a year ago.

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  I am really pleased that you joined this site and that you went to the Apostacurry - it was great meeting you and I would like to say happy anniversary and here's to many many more!
  
  All the best,
  
  SAB
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  Just What Is The WT Up To Now?

  by lovelylil in

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  2. scandals

  has anyone heard about what is going on inside the organization these days regarding those who claim to be "anointed" christians?

  i have had at least three different people now who live in different areas of the country tell me that the elders are systematically pushing out people who claim to have become anointed within the last few years.

  these would be younger ones who are now professing the heavenly rather than earthly hope.. i find this interesting for several reasons.

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  Surely though they still want to have annointed ones on earth to keep up their claim about that class giving everyone else their spiritual food.
  
  I suppose a cull would look good as then the numbers would decrease and they could say that that is eveidence that the end is near.
  
  Oh, I'm getting a bit confused over all this, they change things so quietly but so often and it's only us on the outside that can see that it is not 'new light', it's old bullshit in another guise!
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  Where does most of the WBT$ Literature really go?

  by OUTLAW in

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  the wbt$ prints an incredible amount of literature..jehovah`s witness`s usually buy multiple copies of everything..where does it all go?..you can`t throw it away or burn it,only satan burns watchtower literature..lol!

  !..my mom has floor to ceiling copies of all of it..every jw i know has a garage,basement or spare bedroom filled with it..there must be millions of dollars worth of wbt$ literature that has never been placed door to door..where did most of your wbt$ literature really go?...outlaw

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  One thing that always troubled me about the Witto's was that they are not evironment aware.
  
  Surely all the trees that have to be felled to make the literature is a complete waste and helps to destroy the planet?
  
  Also they don't want you to have the latest low emmissions vehicle because that would be a showy display of ones means of life - no, any old banger spewing out tons and tons of noxious fumes will do, it doesn't matter, Jehover will sort it all out in the new order.
  
  How crass.
  
  SAB
  
  of the Never Used to Worry About the Environment but now recycles everything class.
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  Someone isn't happy with me

  by dedpoet in

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  i just received this email from a jw.

  he isn't the first person to send me his views on my website, i've had plenty of correspondence lately, but at least this one isn't full of abusive language, which many of them have been.

  those ones tend to get deleted, though i have sent a few, with the email addresses included, to wts headquarters.

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  I thought your response to him was very polite Dedpoet.
  
  The JW's have a real problem don't they? They aren't meant to be looking on the internet at anything to do with the Witnesses yet when they do and they find something that questions their beliefs they become all agitated and feel they have to reply - but they never seem to reply in a Godlike manner!
  
  As for bloodguilt, well - don't mention Malawi or the ever changing stance on blood transfusions eh?!
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  **cough it's my bday**

  by lola28 in

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  yay, it's my birthday today i'm a whole 23 years old!.

  lola.

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  Here's to a happy birthday Lola, from someone who is really old, but who has only in the last few years started celebrating his own birthday.
  
  Congratulations and have a good day.
  
  Regards
  
  Ian
  
  SAB
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  LITERATURE DENIED for NONPAYMENT. Has this occured on congo level?

  by uwishufish in

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  does anyone know if this has happened in any 1st world countries?

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  In reply to Nelly136 I believe that many countries in the world do not operate the donation arrangement.
  
  I understand that the WTS has only bought it in to countries where there would be tax implications if they 'charged' for the literature.
  
  So again they are just maximising their profits.
  
  SAB
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  Now Linda is ill!!

  by dedpoet in

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  first it was her mum in hospital, then it was me, just for a night, though i've been ordered to rest and given 6 weeks off work, and now linda (fullofdoubtnow) is ill. she has a really bad bout of flu, which started yesterday, and i expect she'll be in bed for a few days.

  i just fed her some soup, which is about all she can manage at the moment, and she's gone back to sleep now.

  she sends her love to everyone on the board,i expect she will be posting again in a few days, but for now, she's confined to bed..

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  Hi Trev,
  
  Sorry to hear that it is one thing after another for you at the moment.
  
  Give my regards to Linda and I hope she gets better soon.
  
  There is a lot of it around at the moment isn't there?
  
  All the best,
  
  SAB