I do see it, another WTS vanity project that is both pointless and non productive and badly thought out, 2 weeks with your noses forced into WT publications is a tired and lazy way in equipping people in the field who in all honesty will forget a vast amount of the course in a matter of hours and days, another example of the WT continuing to do something that has ridiculous real time results, how many hours does it take to convert a member from the D2D? 7000 plus hours? lunacy!
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Is the Pioneer School being eliminated?
by wannaexit ini heard from the semi reliable source that the pioneer schools will go the way of the dodo bird next year.. i could see this happening.
it used to be that you went to the the pioneer school once.
then they allowed dubs to go every 5 years.
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De muslim rebels are try to enforce Islam on my family and de village.
by Ogwambi-Odoki inmy name is ogwambi odoki, but my friends dey call me og.
i live in a village in rural uganda near the city of gulu.
my family has been jehovah witnesses for two genorations since de first missionaries came to de village many moons ago.
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De muslim rebels are try to enforce Islam on my family and de village.
by Ogwambi-Odoki inmy name is ogwambi odoki, but my friends dey call me og.
i live in a village in rural uganda near the city of gulu.
my family has been jehovah witnesses for two genorations since de first missionaries came to de village many moons ago.
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I've had to pull over in my Lamborghini to read this! -
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Has Watchtower financial strategy taken a very dark turn?
by slimboyfat inas shepherdless pointed out on another thread, the watchtower business model of using free labour to produce and sell books and magazines for profit started to break down when charging for the literature ended in 1990, and has now begun disintegrating completely in the face of the internet and declining donations.
over this same period there has been a noted increase in hardline rhetoric on disfellowshipping and pushing early baptism.
might these hardline trends actually be related to their money woes?
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the WTS never ever do things that seem logical or appear that they have used common sense, an extreme hard line stance will simply haemorrhage more members, we know this, can they survive for decades with very little contributions coming in? running Warwick, Walkill ,Patterson etc will continue to be incredibly expensive do they sit on their nest egg in this coming years? -
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What are the economics of cart witnessing?
by slimboyfat inon another thread shepherdless sketched out the past business model of jws and its demise.
until 1990 they were a straightforward publishing business with the tremendous advantage of free labour in production and free distribution agents.
since then they've been relying on donations for literature to keep the old model going.
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clearly they cannot be making any money at all, their literature is distributed for free and every time I see a cart I pick up a couple of mags to take home to throw in my recycling bin, I even ordered a silver sword bible a few weeks ago and true to their word they had one for me the following day, I took it and walked back to my car I wasn't going to give them a penny. -
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240 'Lands'
by Jeffro injehovah's witnesses are purportedly 'active' in 240 'lands', quite a remarkable feat for a planet with only about 200 sovereign states (206 if you count all that are recognised by at least one un member, of which jws are present in 166).
more than half of all jws worldwide are in just 10 countries.
over 90% are in 45 countries.. to achieve this mathematical miracle, various places that are not separate countries are counted as 'lands'.. tahiti is counted as a separate 'land' though it is part of the society islands, which is part of french polynesia, which is part of... france.
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Are Magicians Spawns of Satan the Devil?
by Cold Steel ini was perusing the internet not long ago and came upon this series of videos by a guy calling himself xendrius.
it declares that many of today's best magicians are in league with the devil.
his claims are based on his observation that the tricks would be impossible to do unless the magicians had made unholy pacts with the devil.. so what's the take of the wtbts?
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has he seen any of the Breaking the Magicians Code TV shows? they are NOT performing magic, just illusions,conjuring and tricks, its very clever though, David Copperfield performed one particular trick which to this day I dont know how the hell he did it but there is sure to be an explanation, David Blanes levitation trick at the outset looked amazing but broken down it seems simple -
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What's a better story that Beth-sarim
by eyeuse2badub inhttp://nyp.st/1mgz4ql.
this group built a place for non other than jesus-heck with those "ancient worthies".. just saying!.
eyeuse2badub.
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2016 Yearbook service report stats - Excel spreadsheet download available
by Westenddave inhello,.
i've posted the 2016 yearbook service report in excel format for public download.
here's the link: http://www.filedropper.com/2016yearbookofjwinexcelformat.
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Yearbook 2016: Annual Report (15177 Partakers)
by Designer Stubble inthe 2016 yearbook is up on jw.orgbranches of jehovahs witnesses: 89 (was 90)number of lands reporting: 240 (was 239)total congregations: 118016 (was 115416)worldwide memorial attendance: 19,862,763 (was 19,950,019) decreasememorial partakers worldwide: 15,177 (was 14,121 in 2013:13,204) large increasepeak of publishers in kingdom service: 8,220,105 (was 8,201,205) minor increaseaverage publishers preaching each month: 7,987,279 (was 7,867,958)percentage of increase over 2014: 1.5 (was 2.2)total number baptized: 260,273 (was 275,581)average auxiliary pioneer publishers each month: 443,504 (was 635,298) huge decreaseaverage pioneer publishers each month: 1,135,210 (was 1,089,446)total hours spent in field: 1,933,473,727 (was 1,945,487,604) decreaseaverage home bible studies each month: 9,708,968 (was 9,499,933)
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are the reports for the individual countries shown?