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  Have you seen any JW's with "strange" appearence?

  by XPeterX in

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  for example someone with piercings,tattoos,beard etc?.

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  I've seen tattoos and piercings on active sisters. Can't remember a brother that did either though. No beards.
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  GB Member Barr dies

  by Red Piller in

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  heard this today from a reliable source.

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  I just got an email from a JW friend about his death. Looks like it's going around on the internet. Of course I wonder where the info was leaked first!
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  GB Member Barr dies

  by Red Piller in

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  heard this today from a reliable source.

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  7 members left. 4 are needed for a 2/3 vote. GB 2.0 is in control now. No old gaurd, no reference point. The grip of the WTS will do its tightening at a faster pace. Suffocating more and more of it's members.

  I wonder how many R&F actually are aware that Barr has died? I know a couple months after Jaracz died many still didn't know. Think about it, 3 GB members (I include Ray into that number just by association) died this year. One a tyrant, one a follower and one a revealer of truth.

  With all of the changes going on with the 'corporate downsizing' across the globe by the WTS, makes you wonder what major changes will be coming in the next 2-3 years. The face of the Society will once again change. It's a like a Hollywood actor having done too much plastic surgery, the original face is completely gone.

  Truly we are living in the last days! .... Of the WTS (hopeful thinking.)
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  When was the last 7-Day Convention held?

  by VM44 in

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  does anyone know when the watchtower held the last 7-day convention?.

  these conventions lasted from 9am to 9pm every day for a whole week, except perhaps for sunday.. they were mostly held in open-air stadiums and people had to endure the burning heat during the day, and the cold at night.. it took endurance to sit throughout the whole thing.. making people attend those things really was an expression of love from the watchtower!

  did the watchtower drop right away to the 3-day program, or were 5 day conventions held for awhile?.

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  I'm approaching mid-thirties and I cannot remember a 7 day Convention and I'm a born-in. I remember 4 1/2 day conventions though, Started Wednesday afternoon through Sunday. Well, I think it was 4 1/2 days... I can remember one time at least... then it dropped to 3 1/2 then 3 as it is now. I can see them dropping it to just Sat/Sun. I know attendance on Fridays has been horrible for years.
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  What proportion of Jehovah's Witnesses will make a convert in their lifetime?

  by stapler99 in

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  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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  Does anyone know what 'status' you fall into on the official records as far as a baptized publisher that is just 'inactive', no removal of privileges, just not reporting time for 6 months or more? Do they not qualify as being counted as a pub? Just wondering if they are still counted then that skews the numbers even more.
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  What proportion of Jehovah's Witnesses will make a convert in their lifetime?

  by stapler99 in

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  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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  Oh yeah, those were just numbers. I agree with all of your statements about born-ins. That makes the numbers even worse!
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  What proportion of Jehovah's Witnesses will make a convert in their lifetime?

  by stapler99 in

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  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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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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!