the 2012 yearbook has released the publisher statistics for the 2011 service year.
a scan of the report can be found at http://www.jwfacts.com/images/2011-publisher-report.pdf and i have started updating the graphs at http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php.
as expected, it is following on from similar trends to the last 15 years.
they have mental or emotional problems
I find this a strange explanation for the increase in partakers, because one could then take this to mean that the percentage of folks who attend the memorial who have said problems is also on the rise.....this will be an interesting thing to watch how it is resolved, maybe they will start having 'anointed qualifications', so they can carry anointed cards....
part of my 'rebirth' after my leaving jws was to rediscover and undo the 38 missing years of my love of music.. before i was baptised i was playing a trumpet in bands and orchestras... then came the empty years (we all know the stories).. long story short, i relearned my instrument through a music school.
from there i joined a brass band, but recently we moved house and it was some way from the band i played in.
so, i searched for a new band and found one more local to me... they even have their own band room.
I bet it will be a strange feeling, at least the place is being repurposed for the good!
www.1260days.com www.answerjw.com www.bibleanswermachine.ww7.com .
www.bibleforetoldholocaust.com www.bluehelmetstojerusalem.com .
www.cftf.com www.christiansrepent.com www.jerusalemverses.com .
Good stuff!!!
have anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?
its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .
if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?
Feel this should be brought bttt
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/12/gossip_the_untrivial_pursuit_reviewed_joseph_epstein_s_book_on_gossip.html.
this is my new book on my to read list.
has anyone read it or heard of it.
Thanks for this post, interesting and applies to everywhere!!
at the kind advice of so many of you (and hassan) on this board....i ceased attempting to discuss doctrine/failures with my wife many months ago.
but unfortunately that does not prevent her from grilling me from time to time.
during one of our infamous "discussions" she said she was going to "investigate" this supposed "proof" that is out there regarding 587bc.
I think it is alleymom who has a KISS (keep it simple stupid) post on the date using watchtower literature.
a website created by jehovah's witnesses devoted to exposing "apostates" on facebook.. http://witnesswatchdog.blogspot.com/.
yes, i made the list.
- colton.
How to find an apostate: Look at their pages! They will say they are not apostate, but most support apostate sites.
That's like a homosexual saying he is not homosexual, but he looks homosexual, and supports 'I love gays'!
I love the above quotes from the site, 'he looks homosexual', so there is a standard look????
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2072678_2072683_2072697,00.html.
Most folks on this board will also realize that the JWs made it with #1, the Millerites, since that is really what spawned the JWs, I wish the article would have mentioned that.
my personal favorite, popular in my area in 1982, was the story that little plastic "smurf" dolls were biting the ankles of hapless witness moms who had bought the demonic toys for their little children.
does everyone have a favorite laugh-out-loud jw urban legend?
please share!.
My wife's brother told me the smurf legend a couple of years ago, he said it happened in California.
my personal favorite, popular in my area in 1982, was the story that little plastic "smurf" dolls were biting the ankles of hapless witness moms who had bought the demonic toys for their little children.
does everyone have a favorite laugh-out-loud jw urban legend?
please share!.
How about that the world was going to end in 1975.....oh wait, that was not a legend, that is documented in their literature....
