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  [JPEG] Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 11,202

  by possible-san in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is a scanned picture from the japanese version "2011 yearbook of jehovahs witnesses.".

  http://ameblo.jp/musa-sabi/entry-10750966469.html.

  2010 grand totals:.

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  alanv

  Thanks for the figures but how about a scan of the whole 2010 report. Surely someone has it by now
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  [JPEG] Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 11,202

  by possible-san in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is a scanned picture from the japanese version "2011 yearbook of jehovahs witnesses.".

  http://ameblo.jp/musa-sabi/entry-10750966469.html.

  2010 grand totals:.

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  alanv

  Thanks for the figures but how about a scan of the whole 2010 report. Surely someone has it by now
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  Taking blood automatically disassociates you?

  by lostsheep82 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't get how you are disassociated if you take blood, if you are unrepentant according to the elders manual on pg 111. now do they have this same elders manual in bulgaria?.

  also if you join a nonnuetral organization you dissasociate yourself automatically.

  so i wonder if some poor janitor brother with his own business became an ngo with the un if he would have been cast out!

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  alanv

  Especially since the baptism changed question in 1985 where you have to agree to act inaccord with the organisation.

  Clearly if you take blood you have stopped of your own accord being one of Jehovah's Witnesses. From there point of view it was a clever move as it was the person themself that showed they did not want to be part of the org.
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  HI GAYLE: CAN YOU SCAN THE WORLWIDE SERVICE REPORT FROM THE 2011 YEARBOOK?

  by steve2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you kindly did this for last year's report and since no one's yet done it for the current year,i wondered if you could?

  thanks in anticipation.

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  alanv

  Can I reiterate that. Surely by now someone particulrly in the USA must have a copy. I want to see how badly Europe has done this year.

  Who will be our hero this year and get a good scan of it?

  Here's hoping!
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  Did your parents make you tell people (at xmas time) that you got gifts throughout the year

  by myusername in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i see people saying this online.

  my parents made us tell people tha we got gifts throughout the year and that we probably got more presents than kids get on birthdays and christmas.

  however, it was a complete lie.

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  alanv

  Strangely this was one thing I liked about the witnesses. I still am very against giving cards and presents because it is' that time of year.

  So many only send cards because someone will or has sent them one.

  To this day I do not like xmas and the commersialism etc.

  I believe in spontanious giving, but not giving because it is the done thing at this time of year.
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  Those affected by the economy and had to make a tough decision

  by SlipnSlide in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  have you been offered assistance by family members and they had a clause in that assistance?

  my husband lost his job and we were offered help by his father (who was once an elder but has been reaching out for years).

  my husband is not a witness, although he was raised in it.

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  alanv

  I would say go the family study and make comments that woulnn't go down well.

  Maybe like when they talk about the last days, tell them how things have been much worse in the past. If they talk of the big A as being very near remind them how often the society have been wrong in the past.

  Basically bring doubt into the study they will soon get fed up up with it and you can get back to doing what you want to do.

  You could have the same fun at the meetings.
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  Worldwide Service Report for 2010 / Yearbook 2011

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wonder if anyone had a scan available of the 2010 annual report, which can normally be found in the 2011 yearbook.. .

  thanks in advance!.

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  alanv

  Hi yadda yadda below is a link to the detailed figures for the past 20 years. It shows all the things we have spoke about very clearly

  http://www.jwfacts.com/images/numbers.JPG
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  Convention Drama -"Days of our lives" for Witnesses...why do they show all Worldly people as Evil!!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at the last convention i couldn't help but wonder what a "worldly" person would think of the drama.

  it was all about a witness youth gone astray.

  the worldy girls were of course hard drinking sluts who left him at the first sign of trouble as did the evil materialistic friend.

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  alanv

  From there point of view and not to mince matters, they believe that very soon, their god Jehovah will destroy all those who are not JWs. So these ones are ruled by Satan. That is what is at the back of their mind all the time.
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  Worldwide Service Report for 2010 / Yearbook 2011

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wonder if anyone had a scan available of the 2010 annual report, which can normally be found in the 2011 yearbook.. .

  thanks in advance!.

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  alanv

  David I agree with much of what you say. However we already know from independant sources that the JW religion is one of the most mobile in the world. It is reliabaly reported that two thirds of those brought up in the religion leave during their adulthood. So the facts already show that many leave.

  I think the figures I stated are reasonable. The only thing I didn't include was the approx 1% who die each year. So if those figures are repeated year on year the only conclusion would be that they were indeed losing many. Suposing the baptisms were increasing at 10% per year and publishers increase was 2.5%. Surely that would mean that many were being lost.

  I totally agree it does show a 2.5% increase, but it also shows that many are leaving. These figures are not a science they are purely approxamate.

  For a more in depth picture of what we are speaking of, go to the jwfacts website where the figures are explained better than my effort.
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  Damn! how hard can it be to lose 8 pounds??!!!

  by Newborn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm not at all overweight but would like to lose 8 pounds...it seems impossible!!!.

  i think my problem is that i don't exercise enough.

  however, i do walk or cycle to work every day.

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  alanv

  Strangely I have just lost 8 pounds. I bought myself a treadmill and did 30 mins brisk walking a day.

  The other thing I have done is cut out biscuits and cake (not easy)

  Sounds like your main problem is chocs and sweets. Maybe cut down on them and cut out biscuits and cake.

  Good luck