I believe the only real indicator of watchtower growth is the number of newly baptised each year. Each year the number of newly baptised "should" increase by about 1.5% (approx world growth) over the previous year.
It would be nice to see a graph of percentage increase in baptismal numbers per year as this would give a nice representation of how the watchtower really is going.
Another great graph would be world_population_increase/newly_baptised per year... I believe this would give the best indicator of watchtower growth vs world growth.
Has anybody been able to generate such graphs? I'd love to do it myself but don't have all the data i need to do it at the moment. Would be nice if someone has all the stats in a form (csv perhaps?) i can load into a database and run some reports and generate some graphs against it.
Cheers
DK
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Watchtower Decline Confirmed - Only 1.9% growth in 2006!
by Neo inthe official watchtower 2006 service year report is not out yet, but i have it on good sources that this year's increase on publishers number is 1.9%.
the average number of publishers will be around 6,500,000. .
here's the % increase for this decade:.
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After seeing Harmison's shocker of a first ball I had the feeling that this series may not be much of a contest.
By the end of the day that feeling was proved right.
Let's just hope the poms have something better to offer tomorrow...(Although they probably won't :P)
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Dub attack!!
by unclebruce inthis evening i went for a stroll around the headland, camera at the ready hoping one of the last of the migrating whales appeared.
oh look, there's a fluffy dog.
ain't he cute ... [ .
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Cute dog! Shame about the owner though.
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Lightening exits woman's bottom
by misspeaches inread the article here... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20548077-13762,00.html.
lightning exits woman's bottom.
a woman has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.. natasha timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building.
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She'd come in handy if you run out of power points to plug your kettle in... :D
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Words and expressions a JW can't say
by JH inname few words or expressions a normal person can say, but not a jw.. when someone sneezes, you can't say bless ya !.
if you want to surprise a jw, you can't say boo !!!
http://www.prankcallsunlimited.com/pcu/booecho.mp3.
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Wanker, Bitch, Bloody Hell, Anything with the F word (instant heart attack for any JW within proximity) "The Finger" (ok it's not a word but it's an expression)
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Interesting article about Brethren dealings and financials in Australia/NZ
by Dark Knight inhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/22/1158431902557.html?from=top5
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Nope, Some of us are young farts :D
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What's the best Martial Art to take up??
by dorayakii in.
i'm thinkinf of taking up kendo...... but lots of people have been advising karate, taekwondo, jujitsu, judo and aikido to me.... does anyone on this board do any of the oriental martial arts?
any suggestions on the benefits and disadvantages of the martial arts?
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The 3 most effective martial arts i've seen are BJJ, Thai Boxing and Wing Chun Kung Fu. The biggest obstacle to the practicality of thai boxing is it's tough demands on the body and the need for alot of conditioning work. BJJ has won alot of fans in the last few years mostly because of it's success in MMA(Mixed Martial Arts) tournaments. BJJ is awesome especially if it's one on one... but it's techniques are grapple oriented and not as effective against multiple attackers. Wing Chun (also spelt Ving Tsun) is a very well rounded martial art that focuses on maxamising the amount of force generated from your body movements and redirecting and harnessing incoming force and using it against the attacker or attackers and not relying on the use of brute force. It's not very pretty or fancy (unlike other forms of kung fu) but it is extremely effective. Cheers DK
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OFFICIAL WORLD CUP THREAD! "here we go, here we go, here we go"!
by nicolaou inless than 2 hours before it all starts and a quarter of the earth's population will be watching!
- c'mon you americans, get on board.
germany kick-off against costa rica at 5pm to be followed by poland v ecuador at 8pm (bst)
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I think that was a world first in the oz vs croatia game: A player getting 3 yellow cards! Seriously, Australia should've won that game 4-1. WATCH OUT ITALY, YOU'RE NEXT!!
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This REFUTES Watchtower Blood policies and exposes the LIE
by Terry inhere is something hardly anybody is aware of.
it is an outright refutation of watchtower blood policies.
the rule against blood as we have come to know it through jehovah's witnesses is a bogus misrepresentation of already existing laws which the non-jews were under as far as jews were concerned.
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And only if it was found dead. They couldn't strangle an animal and then sell it.