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  What proportion of Jehovah's Witnesses will make a convert in their lifetime?

  by stapler99 in

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  2. friends

  in another thread it was being discussed how inefficient the door-to-door preaching is, and i thought this raised an interesting question - what proportion of jehovah's witnesses will make a convert in their lifetime?.

  in my experience, i can think of two or three people that my parents have studied with and who were later baptized.

  but i know of so few baptisms that it is hard for me to think about it.

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  Soldier77

  I have numbers to this!

  In 2009 there were 276,233 baptized.

  In 2009, 1,557,788,344 hours were spent in FS.

  That = 5,639 hours spent per new baptized for the year.

  If I was the CEO of the Corporation, I would fire the whole company. 5,639 hours to recruit one new person per year is ridiculously inefficient. Since I have my spreadsheet up I'll share another interesting nugget of analysis of 2009:

  276,233 were baptized. Average Publisher increase through the year, 188,730. What happened to 87,503 publishers through the year? Hmmm?
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  How many of you have had these in your congregation?

  by bottleofwater in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  brother smart: the serious brother who thinks that he is an intellectual and believes he is "smart"sister armageddon: the sister who says "armageddon!!!

  " after any little thing in the newschase: the little boy who is always running around and crawling under the seats no matter what the parents sayjohnny: the little boy who keeps on leaving his snot on the sides of the bathroom stallbrother squeaky: the one in charge of cleaning who tells everyone what to do, but just stands there and conversessister coquette: the congregation slut... or as close to a slut as she can get... flirting with every brother... oh yeah and she was raised in the "truth"brother borrow: the brother who owes everyone money... and still asks to borrow from othersgreg: the boy or girl whose parents are so restrictive that the kid can't watch anything higher than g-rated moviesstormy: the teenage boy or girl who you could bet does stuff behind the scenes, so to speaki'm just speaking from past memories.

  not in all of this anymore.

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  Yes... to all of the above... lol
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  Manifestation in Rome against the ostracism

  by abuonconsiglio in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  on first of december we had a manifestation to condemn the ostracism practiced from jehovah's witnesses against every disfellowshipped.

  we made this manifestation in rome near the chamber of deputies.

  at the event were present people from all over italy and some from switzerland.. what was done?.

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  Awesome! Welcome to the information age WTS, may you rust in pieces.
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  Mother-in-law sending me dvd...need input

  by TweetieBird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother-in-law called me today and said that she is sending us a dvd that came out at summer convention about the history of the organization and why it is "being used by jehovah".

  she asked if we would watch it cause she knows that we don't think wts is being used by god.

  i told her that we would watch it and send back to her.

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  Jay, that picture is real. It's in the dvd. When I saw it, my mouth hit the floor. I mean really WTS? That was pretty ridiculous!
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  Mother-in-law sending me dvd...need input

  by TweetieBird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother-in-law called me today and said that she is sending us a dvd that came out at summer convention about the history of the organization and why it is "being used by jehovah".

  she asked if we would watch it cause she knows that we don't think wts is being used by god.

  i told her that we would watch it and send back to her.

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  thanks for the link Jamie!

  When I watcherd the DVD a few months ago I wanted to puke my guts out. There's so many lies, misdirection, half-stories told in it. It's an EPIC FAIL dvd. Propaganda at it's finest...
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  Did this talk ever happen?

  by bottleofwater in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard that in a certain congregation an elder was giving a talk about profanity and the need to avoid it.. he started then counting on his fingers different obscenities and saying them out loud.. those in the audience were shocked.

  he was taken off the stage and had his elder book taken from him.. .

  did anyone ever hear of this happening?

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  Hmm I call shenanigans. But okay....
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  I must be a genius- I did a perfect Windows 7 upgrade.

  by moshe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my 20006 dell e510 was getting pretty long in the tooth and when i saw that dell had the win7 family pack 3 upgrade license on sale this past weekend for $125, i bit the bullet.

  my next stop was the local compusa store for a galaxy 256mb pci-e video card- with a nvidia 8400gs chipset for $19.95 after rebate.

  i installed it in on my old xp computer and then ran the win 7 upgrade advisor from microsoft- showing-- a 3ghz p4 cpu, 1.5gb memory and the new video card passed the requirements for the win7 aero screen- all tests were in the green.

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  moshe, I will say that I hate Windows, more exactly, I hate Microsoft. But, I will say I was the guinespig in my company to be the first and test subject to install and run Win7 in a pro environment. Well, I will be the first to say that I like what they did with it. Very well implemented and delivered. Blows Vista out of the water.

  Now if onlh they would implement everything as well as Apple. :)
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  Just how much of a SUCCESS is God..........so far?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  you can't be god if nobody exists but you.. sure, you are taller.

  but, taller than what?.

  see, a superlative is the last step among comparisons: good, better....best!.

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  agonus, point well said. Satan is more feared of than Jehovah by the Jdubs imo. My own mother is more afraid of what 'Satan' can do to us than what Jehovah can. She made the statement to me a week ago, "Satan is out to kill each and everyone of us, how can you not realize that he is out to get you?"

  I told her point blankly, "I'm not afraid of Satan, he has no power over me." She was speechless. Like I defied all that was 'written' in the WTBS publications.

  I stand by what I said, and I still do.
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  How many reasons can you think of for a worldly not to join the Watchtower?

  by dgp in

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  2. scandals

  not that i'm joining .

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  Every single reason you can think of for joining a religion, and those are the reasons why you SHOULD NOT join the JW cult.
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  Just how much of a SUCCESS is God..........so far?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  you can't be god if nobody exists but you.. sure, you are taller.

  but, taller than what?.

  see, a superlative is the last step among comparisons: good, better....best!.

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  You are absolutely correct Terry. If 99.99% of the world's population has to be destroyed and only .001% will make it seems to be an EPIC FAILURE on his part. I mean if he can destroy 99.99% at one time, why not save that many the clear majority, and win the whole debate of this 'sovereignty' dispute that the JWs are so focused on.

  If God played by JW rules, he loses. Not so good for him.