i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
It isn't actually percent increase. It is the percent OF THE TOTAL increase. The countries listed account for 83.31% of all the JWs growth in 2013. ALL other countries combined only account for 16.69% of growth.
If he had shown his formulas it would have been more obvious where the numbers come from.
minister walks into an costco store and saw labels on the.
bible $14.95, fiction.
the news media contacted the office of.
I don't think most modern, educated Jewish people believe the history as presented in the Bible is totally factual. Some of the stuff sort of happened but not in the way it is presented. Its value is cultural, as an early mythology of the people.
that's what my jw mother said.
folks, there are plenty of reasons not to watch how i met your mother, but a gay actor playing a straight part is not one of them.
i should give her a list of known gay actors and ruin a bunch of movies and t.v.
NPH is AWESOME!
really, the bible was written by nothin' but goat herders?
i don't post much but this does irk me.
yes a few may have been shepherds or fisherman, but a fair amount were far more educated and were professionals in their fields of occupation.
The mockery of the Bible writers isn't so much the best that critics can do - there is much better criticism that can be leveled against the Bible and its authors here on JWN and in libraries and websites around the world.
We mock because it's fun and because it tweaks the self-righteous and gullible followers of an ancient book.
As for how advanced they were, LMAO. They knew some things and imagined a LOT of things. They were primitive.
a woman i've known for years recently confided in me.
she told me she found out her jw husband had been secretly e-mailing his jw ex-girlfriend.
he was telling his ex about how difficult it had been for him since his wife was now basically an apostate.
I think recommendations on what to do depend largely upon what she wants at this point.
Is being married to an active JW a marriage worth saving? Is any marriage in this situation worth saving?
I was raised Borg and got married young. Never lived on my own until my divorce in my 40s. Had I known earlier what I know now, I'd have ended the marriage years ago. So I guess one of my points is that this could be a great opportunity.
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
Another great way to avoid reading and learning: drag discussions off-topic into hashing out personal offenses.
Brilliant.
i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
Unless you're a super-miraculous typist, it takes far longer to type long rambling posts on these threads than it would to actually research and read about evolution. Then, rather than go out of your way to show the world how much you don't know, you'll actually know things and be able to add productively to the discussion.
as reported from a recent co visit talk: .
the man with the inkhorn is picturing the governing body, who has the task of marking people for salvation ezek.
9:2,4.. it used to be christ's brothers, the remnant, the anointed, and you better help them* or be a goat as per the math:25 judgement.
We can only hope this all backfires on them.
I can see this borganization continuing to dwindle in growth until they actually start shrinking.
uncensored discussions and information for anyone interested in the advocates for awareness of watchtower abuses or 'aawa' http://aawa.co/ (previously known as "the association of anti-watchtower activists http://jwactivists.org/) and how it's handled and responded to privacy issues and put people at risk:.
aawa is here!!
(the association of anti-watchtower activists)an invitation to a new effort- aawawhy when i logged onto aawa did it go to facebook ?in regards to aawaaawa - every generation needs a new revolution - thomas jeffersonnotice how the introduction of the aawa has brought out the loonies lately?will aawa become another cult?
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4 hours ago. . .
Seems legit. Not a troll at all.
and why did you choose it?
if you have a avatar, what is it and why did you pick it?.
ok ill start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Sweeney
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods#Characters
I just thought it was cool.
