just made a fast check on yearly watchtower report.
bulgaria numbers 2022 was +1.
for 2023 they + 4. uruguay for 2022.
Dreary weather Why will it boost the numbers?
Clearly because previously if you had no service time for 6 months plus you would no longer be considered an active publisher🙄With zero time requirements they'll more or less be counting all baptised publishers unless they've been df or DA (or literally refuse to tick the box)
is it likely to be removed from the list of disfellowshippable offences?
given that the ban on smoking 🚬 is completely unbiblical*, might they ever remove it?.
*even mainstream christianity can only come up with one verse "against" it, the one that says that the body is the temple of the holy spirit.
Even mainstream Christianity can only come up with one verse "against" it, the one that says that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. But on that basis, eating too much fatty or sugary food is equally sinful.
That's the scripture they use to ban smoking. In fact there's more than one scripture that makes over eating sugary foods unscriptural (if you also include that one)....but then half the GB would have to DF themselves!
https://youtu.be/pi7sn2rnrke?si=lnvklqct6nuayv2q.
branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 85 (= down one from 86 from the previous year and quite possibly they are referring to the hong kong bethel that closed down recently).
number of lands reporting: 239 ( =the same as 2022).
"....number of ordained ministers at branches worldwide (21,629 in the last report). Unless they published these figures somewhere else this time?"
Hmmmm....would there be any particular reason for this aside from not wanting to trumpet drop in numbers? Perhaps Fudging the numbers, should need arise, in time of war?(or am I over thinking things?)
https://youtu.be/pi7sn2rnrke?si=lnvklqct6nuayv2q.
branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 85 (= down one from 86 from the previous year and quite possibly they are referring to the hong kong bethel that closed down recently).
number of lands reporting: 239 ( =the same as 2022).
I'm wondering if they started panicking about Publisher numbers tanking and so made the rule about not having to count service time??
I think congregation numbers are also important to the brothers and sisters....I wonder how they wangled that increase? I'm guessing most Cong increase is in Africa (I haven't looked). Or at any rate somewhere building's are worthless in terms of sale price lol
future gb: "please come back!
all is forgiven!".
would it work?
Do you know....in all the years I've been in/read/listened to/watched various exJW or JW sites, I don't think I've actually come across this suggestion!
I can imagine the GB helpers reading this and saying "By george! I think (s)he's got it!"
With all the recent changes, I could actually see this, with something like Elderberry's scenario happening🤔 They are deluded enough to think it will work...
Definitely taking it out of power tripping elders hands iss a must as a first step. All these pedo's proves for all time they don't have holy spirit. A simple I'm sorry should suffice.
fyi, i posted this prediction on my facebook page last night and it has received 224 likes and there have been 83 comments made.
many of the comments are hilarious.. .
a beard prediction for 2024:.
I wonder if they now will let the men shave their heads, like bald guys that don't have much hair to start with, or those with other reasons.
Blondie I'd say a few of the GB have shaved heads....we can't all be like Gerrit Losche with his luscious locks😉
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
Slim You can have him as yourcologist if you like but I don’t want him to be mycologist! 😁
🤣🤣🙌🏻🙌🏻
folks: i don't mean to be a "forum grammar policeman", but there is something that i've noticed a few times.
i've noticed that a few---not all---but some, members of the forum who use the abbreviation "ect" when they want to use the abbreviation of "etc.
" for your education today, the term "etc" is the abbreviation for the latin term "et cetera.
.....I'm probably a culprit😂
Thanks! I do get spelling completely incorrect since the menopause....I've literally lost a few IQ points in the last few years. Either that or early onset Alzheimer's. I forget pretty basic names/words, too. Thank goodness for Google is all I can say!
what’s keeping them?
this has got to be the latest it’s ever been.
maybe it’s the last one they’ll ever publish too, after dropping reporting hours for publishers ….
Not formerI'm surprised that "service" was not one of the words used by "Christendom" that Da Judge jettisoned to differentiate the organisation from other sects
Yes and an important word too. Mind you, perhaps he was a bit skittish because in reality the early watchtower colporteurs were salesman....I guess he didn't want to call it "sales"!
Elena isn’t he the one still single? A 60 something year old virgin ?
Nope.....twice married. You're thinking of Marc Saunderson
Vidiot whilst all along, privately smug about how he pulled one over on ‘em, snuck in a surprising nugget of honesty, and helped a handful more see through the horseshit
Now ya got me thinking again!!🤔😉
