i attended a circuit arsesemblancey today.
melbourne, melton arsembley hall.
western suburbs area.. 1. re hearing negative reports in the media about jws.
" would you entertain a negative report about your spouse?" You love your spouse so you know it's wrong"
See how the GB twist such things!!! They turn on anyone who question them (GB); as suggesting if the spouse "loves" their spouse they would not have to be concerned about any accusation. Crazy illustration when there have been millions of lying, unfaithful marriage partners who have needed to be questioned!
https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.
interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.
no love for the person.. g..
2018 Average Bible Studies Each Month: 10,079,709. Only less than 3% on average graduated to baptism (281,744) Extremely poor production and any real school/schooling would shutter at such a record of graduates.
Yes, it's mostly only JW kids already that are even boosting this record at all and many JW kids are putting baptism off as long as possible or at all.
The GB leadership seem to acknowledge these 'empty' hours and 'empty' Bible Study (b***s***) reports.
It seems to me this 're-visited' restriction to discontinuing those long-term Bible Studies is a form of an organizational 'whipping' to many and especially pioneers.
2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
Near half of their JW "Lands Reporting" had 'decreases' in Memorial Attendance last year (2018)! "58%" of attenders are of the 'non-publishing' group/class :) ! Hopefully, many more of these 'non-publishers' do not attend this year!
without a doubt, jw life is boring.
and those meetings!
5 congregation meetings, meetings for field service, elders meetings, judicial meetings, meetings to figure out who was qualified to clean the toilets....🤔.
The list of things we 'could have done' that would have been more stimulating and valuable!
Very sad, but even just watching tv all those hours would have been more stimulating and realistic. All the WT hours spent were 100% pointless.
when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.the world of 1947--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.
everywhere you found telephone booths!
a call was a nickel.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.
Happy Birthday, Terry!! I am a couple months older than you. Our next birthday we will have lived in parts of "9" decades! Hey, we can make that, right?!! 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's, 20's - Wheeeeee!
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/01/utrecht-university-to-investigate-sex-abuse-claims-against-jehovahs-witnesses/.
https://www.trouw.nl/home/overheid-laat-onderzoeken-hoe-jehovah-s-getuigen-omgaan-met-misbruik~aa9e6840/ (in dutch).
Wow! Ratio comparing total pubs. (29,603) in Netherland with the noted 276 potential such cases to total pubs. in U.S. (1,234,877) could suspect possibility of 11,513 potential such cases! Worldwide? With WT. claim of Peak Pubs. of 8,579,909, potential such cases would come to 79,994!
I think the WT "dike" is crumbling!
http://www.kptv.com/story/37498850/sheriff-jehovahs-witness-sexual-abuse-suspect-arrested-in-clackamas-co. .
sheriff: jehovah's witness sexual abuse suspect arrested in clackamas co.. posted: feb 13, 2018 5:39 pm cstupdated: feb 13, 2018 6:21 pm cst.
by fox 12 staff.
Is there an ongoing "list" of all these Jehovah's Witnesses child abuse cases (listing per countries/states) for these last several years?
2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
So peak pubs. increased almost 123,000 last year. So Armageddon delayed another year for them. So nice Jehovah - awesome! However, now because of this wonderful delay, now over 133M+ births this last year, more babies to for Jehovah has to destroy. Nice - :(
http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/How-Many-Babies-Are-Born-Each-Day
2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
"During the 2018 service year, * Jehovah’s Witnesses spent over $214 million in caring for special pioneers, missionaries, and circuit overseers in their field service assignments. Worldwide, a total of 20,331 ordained ministers staff the branch facilities. All are members of the Worldwide Order of Special Full-Time Servants of Jehovah’s Witnesses."
Yet, 'more' money (+6%) ???into their "staff" (while closing 3 branches) when they admit they are putting more money out than they are receiving ???
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
