i have heard that a lot of the english congregations in mexico are shutting down... they are condensing 5 congregations into one, or in some areas even disbanding the only english congregation.
jw's who have been living in mexico for many years and probably were sheltered by being in the english congregations will now have to move to spanish congregations.... .
ilttatt.
Too many U.S. JWs going to Mexico to "serve where the need is greater." Haha. Pub. to population in Mexico 2012 is one pub per pop. of 150. U.S. stat is one pub per pop. 262!
The need is 'greater' in the U.S. now. Haha. The "English" congs. not increasing. The 'English' need help.
The WTS want those who are retiring or whatever to keep their money in U.S. because the WTS wants/needs their money more!
it seems the finland branch has taken over the work from estonia, latvia and lithuania (see http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/offices/finland/).
Wiki says there are "30 Zones." There is an organizational "lopping" of branches for sure. May help with expenses and better control as well.
if the wbts is just another business?
then what do the gb get out of all this?.
tim cook (ceo apple) makes around 378 million a year.. donald trump makes around 60 million a year.. i understand the wbts may have vast property holdings, stocks, bonds, and revenue from donations.. but i can't grasp the incentive for the gb to make this stuff up.
Unquestioned adoration.
it seems the finland branch has taken over the work from estonia, latvia and lithuania (see http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/offices/finland/).
So how many branches does that leave now?
2012 Report listed 96.
up to about 5 minutes ago... i still had the notion that maybe jw's predicted something and got it right... that the league of nations was going to rise and become the united nations.
i think that jw prophecies/predictions are like a shotgun: shoots many projectiles, one of them has got to hit.
you cannot predict 5 different things and then, when one of them gets partly fulfilled, drop the other 4.5 things, change the 1/2 thing you predicted that was right and make it seem like that was the only thing you predicted, and make the entire one point fit after the fact.. reading watchtower literature throughout the years (1879 till now), and then coming here and getting awesome explanations from people like leolaia and other researchers, i finally understand the claim that most apostate websites make: the wt has a 100% prediction failure rate.. they were lucky that something big happened in 1914... but now i am much wiser and i know that everything they predicted for 1914 did not turn out as they predicted... 1914 has been a date with many different hats... from the start of armageddon, to the beginning of the last days... etc.... thank you very much jwn for completely opening my mind.
Fortune tellers know how to play the fame. Nostradamus, some will claim, prophesied or did interpretations, but not accurate either.
just found out my 12 year old niece got baptized on saturday.
that is the same age i got baptized....as we all know it just should not be allowed.
if a child is not mature enough in other areas of life how can they be mature enough to commit their lives to the borg?
yes, it is sickening to see,,but must have hope,,you left it, I left it tho baptized there at 11 yrs old. Children are leaving in high percentage,,with Internet exposure.. hopefully they are processing things sooner. The organization is getting less desirable more and more.
service year reports:.
2010 - 1/259.
so, the wts is not keeping up with the u.s. population (and they know it), though it rants about increasing pubs., etc..
Service Year Reports:
2010 - 1/259
2011 - 1/261
2012 - 1/262
So, the WTS is not keeping up with the U.S. population (and they know it), though it rants about increasing pubs., etc.
over the past couple years, i've confided my whole "apostate experience" to one of my coworkers, everything from 607 and 1914, to disfellowshipping and being raised with the constant fear my worldly family would die in armageddon.
so he knows the whole witness thing.. anyway, he tells me this experience he had on tuesday:.
you wouldn't believe this, boc.
Wow, for a jw or even just a bible study,,that would be quite a flip,,with all the books out, makes me think maybe it was a Bible study going on,,can't see how any jws can defend themselves on these past dominant teachings anymore, other than "stuck" mode. Of course, they stuck with 1914, when it went with visible to "invisible." ugh
Worldwide:
2007 298,304
2008 289,678
2009 276,233
2010 294,368
2011 263,131
2012 268,777
U.S.
2007 37,243
2008 35,597
2009 34,739
2010 35,120
2011 32,953
2012 32,039
- 23 day to go .. annual meeting unofficial rumors.
- new bible.
- new nwt (revision).
It just seems if the ones who have been denied to "commune" (partake) on Memorial all these decades, and start to partake that they would 'in time' begin to think that they also should be able to think and have opinions or personal conscience in a 'new' kind of 'personal' relationship with Christ. For the GB to open that door, it will cause the GB extreme trouble of their control.
