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  The most widely distributed magazine in the US !!!

  by Calebs Airplane in

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  2. beliefs

  1. watchtower & awake - under review as these is now a 16-page anorexic pamphlets (not magazines) .

  2. espn: 42.9 million 3. people: 28 million 4. allrecipes: 24.5 million 5. forbes: 21.6 million 6. time: 18.1 million 7. entertainment weekly: 14.3 million 8. cosmopolitan: 13.7 million 9. bloomberg businessweek: 11.2 million 10. new york: 9.8 million .

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  its an impressive stat, it cant be denied, but they never publish stats of how many unread mags there are out there, they clearly must know because when we as jw's would return to houses where they had taken them and asked " did you get the chance to read the mags we left last time?"

  how many times would the answer be NO? yet we'd say " well perhaps you would like to read these new ones?"

  and the usual stupid pattern would emerge of the RV! pointless, wasteful and lazy, typical of life as a jw.
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  Massive Plunge in Number of New JW Congregations from 1990 to 2014

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in a separate thread on the very latest figures for the current world wide annual report of jws, discussion turned to how "we'll know decline has really set in.

  one of the posters said: .

  the figure that interests me most is the number of congregations.

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  a few in London have merged and disbanded in recent years, old traditional congs that have been around since the Russell era, of course they are the fastest and biggest growing religious group on the planet though
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  Jehovah's witnesses are the fastest growing religion.

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that is what the speaker said in his public talk this morning.

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  jookbeard

  at the same time they are undergoing a worldwide billion dollar construction project that will see 30 Tabernacles/Temples constructed, the sure sign of a group in massive decline.
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  Jehovah's witnesses are the fastest growing religion.

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that is what the speaker said in his public talk this morning.

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  jookbeard

  not by the 2014/15 report, a clear embarrassment for them, after their decades of boasting , the celestial chariot moving at speed! maybe the CoLDS have a more accurate, realistic and honest approach in the way they report their world wide growth, and dont put a pathetic spin on everything like the WTS does, wonder what the 15/16 report will be like? they have they fall out of the ARC to deal with.
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  2015 Worldwide Memorial Attendance: Another Sign of Decline

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw memorial attendance last year - 2014 - was about 50,000 shy of 20 million.

  some posters on this forum had confidently predicted before the 2014 memorial that attendance would hit more than 20 milion.

  they were wrong.. now, in 2015, and the memorial falling on a weekend night (where attendance is historically much higher), attendance has not only failed to top 20 milion but has declined by more than 87,000 in attendance over 2014:.

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  jookbeard

  20 million next year? they have to deal with the fallout of the ARC yet!
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  2015 Worldwide Memorial Attendance: Another Sign of Decline

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw memorial attendance last year - 2014 - was about 50,000 shy of 20 million.

  some posters on this forum had confidently predicted before the 2014 memorial that attendance would hit more than 20 milion.

  they were wrong.. now, in 2015, and the memorial falling on a weekend night (where attendance is historically much higher), attendance has not only failed to top 20 milion but has declined by more than 87,000 in attendance over 2014:.

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  jookbeard

  steve2 , I see Mormons in my area in the high street and in the D2D every week, sometimes more than that, there seems to be a bit of a Mormon stronghold around these parts, the Tabernacle a few miles away is packed out every week, it causes traffic chaos, the local KH sees a small handful of cars parked outside it.
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  2015 Worldwide Memorial Attendance: Another Sign of Decline

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw memorial attendance last year - 2014 - was about 50,000 shy of 20 million.

  some posters on this forum had confidently predicted before the 2014 memorial that attendance would hit more than 20 milion.

  they were wrong.. now, in 2015, and the memorial falling on a weekend night (where attendance is historically much higher), attendance has not only failed to top 20 milion but has declined by more than 87,000 in attendance over 2014:.

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  I remember a time when they used to have a special month in the FS distributing tracts for the up coming memorial, I remember the vast amount of "folding" of the tracts we had to do as kids to get them ready to be left on the D2D, probably another waste of time , cant have done it for years.
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  2015 Worldwide Memorial Attendance: Another Sign of Decline

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw memorial attendance last year - 2014 - was about 50,000 shy of 20 million.

  some posters on this forum had confidently predicted before the 2014 memorial that attendance would hit more than 20 milion.

  they were wrong.. now, in 2015, and the memorial falling on a weekend night (where attendance is historically much higher), attendance has not only failed to top 20 milion but has declined by more than 87,000 in attendance over 2014:.

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  I never ever see jw's on the D2D work around here, a big suburb of London, just never happens at all, and I'm talking about a good almost 4 years since I moved here, I moved to the borough in 2004 and can say I've never seen them at all in D2D, just the usual lazy sitting around the carts gossiping and playing with their phones.
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  Where's Mouthy?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been a while since she's posted.

  i'm hoping she's ok.. for those who are new here mouthy (grace) is our forum's adopted grandma.

  she has been posting here since the beginning.

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  lets hope she is keeping well enjoying life, a good sort.
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  New Book About Jehovah’s Witnesses Starts Creating a Buzz in The JW and Ex JW Community

  by GodZoo in

  1. social
  2. current

  a recently published book, by best selling author eugene walker has started creating a buzz inside the jehovahs witness community.

  in his new book, "jehovah's witnesses exposed - what really goes on inside the kingdom hall walls", eugene walker brings to light hidden issues that many jehovah's witnesses now face in the organisation.. .

  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/11/prweb13083118.htm.

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  jookbeard

  surprised its creating a buzz in the jw community as it would be completely censured and classified as spiritual pornography, unless they are ignoring instructions?