Posts by alanv

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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 in

the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

alanv

I think it is certainly true that many immigrants are more vulnerable to conversion by JWs. Of course this only makes a difference to the countries they emigrate to in their end of year service reports. The overall worldwide report would still give the correct worldwide percentage increase figure. So yes it may be that many of the more developed countries would show less publishers if it were not for the immigrants that accept the JW religion.

Certainly over the years the UK have had more than their fair share of immigrants, so it would be interesting to hear from JWs if the 1% increase most years is made up of many immigrants joining the faith.

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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 in

the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

alanv

ozbrad, there are always going to be ups and downs of average publishers over a number of years. Their service report for those years you mention agree with the census. But since then it has gone up slightly, but overall it is less than 1% per year over the last 20 years. You can see the figures in the link

http://jehovah.net.au/aust_statistics.html

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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 in

the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

alanv

UK figure for memorial attendance in 2013 was 223845, which is actually 3000 less than the all time high of 226924 in 1993.

Also peak publishers last year for UK were 136993

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Not on JW.org: New Jehovah's Witness employee refuses to work Sundays or Thursday night and sues employer.

by Balaamsass2 in

food lion hit with eeoc suit over jehovahs witness firingshare us on: by brandon lowrey.

law360, los angeles (august 20, 2014, 2:07 pm et) -- the equal employment opportunity commission on wednesday slapped food lion llc with a federal employment discrimination suit alleging the north carolina-based grocery retailer fired an employee because he was unavailable to work on days he had to attend jehovah's witness services and meetings.. .

the complaint alleges food lion hired victaurius l. bailey as a meat cutter in june 2011 and violated the civil rights act when it fired him weeks later over his faith-based refusal to work on sundays or on thursday evenings.

alanv

Just had a look at the article and apparantly the guy was an elder who told his employer he needed those two times off when he started his employment. He was later transferred to another branch where the manager told him he had to work Sunday. He would not work Sunday so he was fired.

So I think in this instance the elder did nothing wrong. Here is a link to the story

http://www.counton2.com/story/26328925/eeoc-files-lawsuit-against-food-lion-over-firing

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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 in

the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

alanv

Thanks for the update konceptual99. Lets hope the fact they didnt report memorial was because there was no increase. I would say looking at those figures, that Britain is on course to have a less than 1% increase again this year. Considering that most witnesses just give everything away now and mainly pay for it themselves, those figures are not at all impresive.

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How do BACs and JWs explain animals that practice "homosexual" activities?

by booker-t in

i absolutely love watching the animal channel and just observing the animal kingdom has really brought up some serious questions for any devout anti-gay religions such as born-again christians(bacs) and jws.

some animals such as deers practice lesbianism when there is no male deer around.

i almost fell out of my chair when watching this.

alanv

Take a look at this video. It is part of a one hour program on animal homosexual behaviour. Other portions of it are also available on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFeXwKnCUNI

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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 in

the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

alanv

Anyone have access to the British Kingdom Ministry for November? It will likely have the memorial attendance for the British Isles for 2014

Steve2. The October 2014 KM has only recently become available, so Nov won't be available till early September I believe. But if other countries reported in the October KM, I dont see why UK would not have theirs out already.

So final plea to anyone who has access to Oct KM for UK. Can you please publish the memorial attendance for UK. Thanks

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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 in

the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

alanv

Don't have the 2013 numbers here to compare but the 2014 numbers are:

Estonia: 6,875

Latvia: 3,725

Lithuania: 5,451

Finland: 26,669

Looks like 0.5% increase in these countries.

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2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 in

the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

alanv

With any luck the lack of replies on this thread may mean that other countries attendaces were not reported in local Kingdom Ministries. I also asked for anyone knowing the UK figure but nothing has turned up so far. So maybe in many lands there has been no increase.

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Watchtower November 2014: Witnesses can't donate blood

by opusdei1972 in

let us read a recent watchtower publication:.

many medical professionals and other advocates of blood transfusion appeal to people to donate blood in hopes of saving lives.

however, jehovahs holy people acknowledge that the creator has the right to say how blood is to be treated.

alanv

So they can accept parts of blood, but cannot donate so that witnesses can benifit from those parts. Mad!