this is an 'off-topic' continuation of this discussion.
steve2: in britain, growth of publishers is slowing down, if not stagnating.
darkspilver: .
I just remember that as a kid in the UK, Earnest.
The latest OD book almost gives a green light to count what you like. I mean with trolleys and incidental and "on-line" (whether admitted or not) you can count virtually anything.
I reckon Fisherman counts his time on here!
let's play devils advocate here.. put yourself in the governing body's shoes.
they are well aware of all the issues they are facing.
they know their numbers (they 'do the math' as they say in the us).
They have no need to turn things around. They will all be dead or dribbling within 20 years. Plenty of lolly and income for them, legal dept, accounts dept and a dozen "helpers" and hangers-on to run the show from Warwick.
Just keep reducing the branches and committees as and when. Ditto travelling overseers.
Just shout "the love of the greater number is cooling off", sell KH's as needed, keep begging for cash and highlighting "relief works" to get it.
The gullible widows with their property from their unbelieving mates will keep them afloat as they send 1% in disaster relief and crow about it.
Then 10% to JWTV Channel, 10% to running the enforcers (Travelling Overseers), 10% to the cash cows (On line donations, Assembly Halls and property), 20% to Child abuse settlements and the rest to Lakeside central!
my spies tell me that the attendance for hellaby this last sunday was only 600.. that's all i know.
i imagine some on here have perhaps some more insights into why.
however, it seems rather low, don't you think?.
I know Hellaby. Easily would seat 1,000.
This is a pure guess and speculation. Perhaps the circuit that attended is 20 congs x 80 publishers so equals about 1600 pubishers. So too big for one assembly so they divide it in two. So in theory 800 per session.
Apathy could easily drop this into the 600's.
Any football matches in Sheffield that weekend to distract? Oh yes - Sheffield Wednesday vs Barnsley in the Championship league - local match and all that.
hello everyone, my wife wants nothing to do with my awakening.
every time i try explaining something she tells me she doesn't want to hear it.
i believe she's afraid of learning something she's not ready for.
Oh that there was a magic bullet!
I feel your pain.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=exjw.
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https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=jw.org.
Looking at berrygerry's (thank you) jborg graph I note a couple of interesting points.
There is a high-ish plateau throughout 2013 - anything to do with the hoopla about the new 2013 revised bible and beamed in meetings from HQ?
Then a drop followed by an all time peak at August 2014 - the big hoopla 100 years conventions - so might the traffic be to do with these?
Then an inexorable drop to a low point now with a slight blip upwards for April 2017 - maybe because that co-relates to the Russia legal ban on jw's? Also this drop is when the GB showed its collective ugly mug on jborg TV!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64xhcoowr6y.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhuvmvbjk-q.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bejhmfrzl0.
Looking forward to hearing about it.
Don't forget - goatees, bandannas and sticks and a large inflatable helium filled seven headed dragon.
As per Revelation book pics.
for those who don't know, asexual is someone who feels no sexual desire for other people.
they may often want the companionship of a relationship but with no benefits.
what would the jws view be of a jw dating an asexual worldly person?
Two things ... Worldly Person. Opposite Sex.
Here is the order of things.
1. Counsel.
Then depending whose feathers are ruffled
2. Whispered counsel to others to avoid you then possibly "Marking" for walking disorderly.
3. As mentioned - if you have a snooze on their sofa overnight and the "police" know about it then judicial. They may us their new catch-all "brazen conduct" to do the dirty.
this is a video from down with the tower.
it's excellent.
enjoy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0lvvy2qurm.
I have in my hand the 2016 yearbook which shows 2,187 congs for the 2015 service year.
2015 peak publishers 165,754 ave 163,871
our co-ordinator put his hand up and commented saying that people who go on about how depressed or anxious they are just need to stop giving in to impulses and show more self control without letting their emotions rule their lives.. if anyone from the media, a government agency or some other public body heard a comment like that, they'd have a hard time exercising self control over the rubbish this elder spouted, which my friends and family with genuine depression found insulting..
He would have done well to "exercise self-control" in his answering and show some patience towards the depressed.
1st Thess. 5 v 14 (2013 rnwt)
crime.
daniel macias said.. investigators learned that ramos was an elder at a jehovah’s witnesses church in the 4000 block of west mckinley avenue.
there, he met a teen girl and her family three years ago.. .
Fisherman, have you pre-studied your WT for tomorrow? Self-control is the subject for indoctrination.
Does your posting (your drivel) on here demonstrate self-control according to the Governing Body of your religion?
