I have put these figures into a spreadsheet and had it calculate a trend. No doubt, the current figures and that of 2007 are clearly a break with the historic trend. More pioneers and aux pioneers, and even the reg publishers throwing in more hours.
I think they cooked the books based on the cooked reports many JW is putting in, as we know. How about having an external auditor doing this for a change and see where we land. :-)
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2008 Publisher figures only poor countries increase and Japan still dead!?
by Witness 007 inonly poor 3rd world countries seem to be booming, not like the old days!.
azebaijan 799 17% inc. burundi 8,233 12% inc. cambodia 329 25%.
east timor 123 29%.
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Most definitely he is. Check Gen 11 and answer this question: Who is responsible for human kind NOT being able to 1) achieve their goals, 2) cooperate easily without interference 3) easily rid free themselves from religious bigotry?
It's a four letter word...................in Hebrew.
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Ban unnatural and perverted Left-Handed Marriage!
by Elsewhere inthe sanctity of marriage is under attack by perverted left-handed people wanting to get married!!!
it's disgusting!!!
these perverted left-handed people need to be stopped from ruining the sanctity of marriage!!!
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Is this guy for real?
What a bunch of religious bigotry. Unless of course he meant it as a joke....
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Schoolteacher loses job for telling kids the truth
by BluesBrother inhttp://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/community-news/17526/santa-isnt-real-teacher-banned-from-school-after-christmas-blunder.
what do you think?.
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This might be the translation into dubdumb:
God isn't real' - JW banned from congregation after TMS blunder
Reporter: local for Awake
Date online: 11/12/2008
A JW has been banned from a congregation after telling the attendees that God wasn't real.
A congregation of about 70 were left with their dreams dashed when the 4th talk conductor blurted out that their celestial hero was in fact made up, and it was ordinary who really took care of their needs Furious elders stormed into the congregation and made complaints after the members told them what they had heard, and an apology was sent out by the TMS conductor, Angelo McCormick.
The JW has been barred from working at the Oldham congregation and a complaint has been lodged with WTS.
Confused congregation members have now been given extra studies on Drawing closer to God and have sent letters to WTS HQ.
A spokesman from circuit said: “I can confirm that the JW was a member of the Rochdale and Oldham congregation "As part of our investigation into the matter, we have spoken to the congregation who have asked that the JW is not used for future talks at the TMS.”
The apology letter from the congregation read: “Profuse apologies to all our members and WTS HQ "I have spoken to the BOE concerned and have completed a complaint form. The members are unscathed and are back on track thanks to the ‘magic’ of our BOE and the lovely studies we have all appreciated this week.”
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Well, Well, seems the global economy is falling apart more & more
by unbaptized inis it just me or does it seem like a major tribulation brewing?
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A true Christian JW troll (TM)
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Cross, Knife and Gun
by moomanchu inmy dad says "if someone shot and killed your wife, would you put the gun on a wall, make a replica of it and .
hang it around your neck?
that's how stupid christendom is with the cross.".
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Why put a gun on the wall.....why not a picture of the one who allowed the trigger to be pulled.........
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The bible just manuscripts of ancient mythology and ignorance
by Homerovah the Almighty inthe bible in my own understanding and others is just a gathering of ancient manuscripts of ancient mythology and of course written history,.
and nothing more, it documents well the history of human ignorance as it logicaly should.. nevertheless people seem to think its a connection to the spiritual world and the god of the universe.. why is it then that people separate that human ignorance of what mankind was living 2, 3000 years ago and then wholeheartedly.
take it as some sort of spiritual wisdom and truth, when there is so much real wisdom and truth coming out of are universities and collages.. maybe its a case of ignorance has no where else to go but to support itself from other ignorance.. the biggest sin may actually be not realizing and accepting are given human ignorance and demeaning of are potential.
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Literature......from L. lit(t)eratura "learning, writing, grammar.....so in that sense you are right. Whether or not it provides a window into the thoughts of "the"people of that age.....I guess it pertains especially to those who wrote and manipulated the text depending on the message they wanted to get across.
However, it is a product of the time in which it has been written and manipulated and therefore reflects it's ignorance. In this day and age we have a natural explanation for many of the mystic events the bible relates. Thunder? No such thing as a God driven thunder....
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HOW would you find out your SO really really loves you??
by hamsterbait ini have to ask, how often do those of us in loving relationships torment our partner, to find out from how they react: do they really love/want me?.
yet according to the witlesses, god does this to us constantly!!!.
child molestors getting away with it - jehovah is testing/sifting us .
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Hamsterbait,
It's not Jehovah who is tormenting us! It's the debbil!.........You know, Jehovah has to run with Satan's plans otherwise he might say: see, you give them all they want. And that leaves the omnipotent quite impotent......
Maybe a viagra would help......
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Freedom tastes like a good beer - let's have another. Personal update
by truthseeker init's been six months since my fade - other than a couple of calls from the elders concerned about my meeting attendance, i have been pretty much left alone.. freedom from the organization has given me peace of mind - i don't worry about being ignored by "the friends", i don't have to fake my hours and i don't have to rush to get to the service meeting minutes after getting home from work.. according to jw lore, i should be weeping and gnashing my teeth but i am feeling better by the day.
i still believe in god, still identify with christianity and am still looking for answers to life's questions.
i don't pretend to have the answers but i have the freedom to look for them.. .
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To Freedom! Cheers Borgia
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NON-LAUGHTER OF THE EXALTED FATHER IS AN ACCIDENT
Indeed............quite................rather..............
N L O T E F I A A
NO LAAFTEiR
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