Henry's reaction was amazing. After listening to the music he spoke clearly, and sang. I was very surprised at the result.
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The best shepherding call in the universe EVER...
by usualusername inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkdxuce7leq&list=fl868j_zisuing3g1hj8rtjw&index=2&feature=plpp_video.
if i had such interest in me i may have stayed a witness!.
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Great news. There are more of the 144,000 left than ever before!
However, the number use to be in decline, which the Society said was proof that we are in the last days. Hers's the quote,
(W 1-15-2000 p13) Subheading, Six convincing lines of evidence [that we are in the last days]…
"Sixth, the number of genuine anointed disciples of Christ is dwindling, though some will evidently still be on earth when the great tribulation begins. Most of the remnant are quite elderly, and over the years the number of those who are truly anointed has been getting smaller.”
But today the number of partakers is on the increase. Here are the numbers.
Yr Partakers
2000 - 8661
2001 - 8730
2002 - 8760
2003 - 8565
2004 - 8570
2005 - 8524
2006 - 8758
2007 - 9105
2008 - 9986
2009 - 10857
2010 - 11202
2011 - 11824This presents a slight problem for Watchtower. How do they explain this reversal? By suggesting that some partakers are nuts.
(W 8-15-11 p22)
"Memorial partakers. This is the number of baptized individuals who partake of the emblems at the Memorial worldwide. Does this total represent the number of anointed ones on earth? Not necessarily. A number of factors - including past religious beliefs or even mental or emotional imbalance - might cause some to assume mistakenly that they have the heavenly calling. We thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know. The Governing Body does not keep a list of all partakers, for it does not maintain a global network of anointed ones." -
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Bullet list of major (recent) changes
by RN init is with great interest that i recently read ceders article on the decline of the wts.
his article along with many of the comments really drives home just how many major changes there have been in a fairly short peroid of time.. somewhere in the recent past i could swear that someone had posted a bullet list of major changes with the corresponding year.
when i saw this (or something like it) my first thought was that this simple list made it all the more shocking; and since i have searched and cannot find anything like it.. so i dug around and started one of my own, please feel free to add/corrects events.
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If they were truly chosen of God, why all this dwindling over the years?
You're not looking at it right. Here's how it works.
When there is a growth in numbers, an increase in pioneers and publishers, more KHs being built, more printing presses being bought, and more literature being printed for distrubution to the public, and expansion everywhere, what does it prove?
That Jehovah is moving his organization forward!
But when there is a decline in rate of growth, KHs being sold and congregations merged, Branch property being sold off, a reduction in printed literature, and cost cutting moves being made everywhere, what does it prove?
That Jehovah is moving his organization forward!
Does it make sense now?
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- Jack Nicholson character in 'The Shining' (Heeeere's Johnny!)
- Anton Chigurh (the hitman in 'No Country for Old Men')
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There is a JW fraud, sex and murder story on 48 hours right now!
by serenitynow! incheck it out..
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It's being broadcast on the West Coast right now on CBS. Started at 10 PM.
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2005 - The year the Society began its decline (without anyone noticing)!
by cedars ini've just finished an article for randy over on freeminds.org, which i've submitted to him for review.
hopefully it should be online soon, so please keep checking!.
the article discusses the fact that the watch tower society is already in decline, and suggests the year 2005 as the turning point.
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One thing that suggests the Society is in dire financial straits is that the properites in Brooklyn and the branch facilities are being sold when economic times are bad, meaning those properties are bringing in much less money than they would in a better economy.
Why can't the Organization wait util the economy improves to sell? Anyone with property to sell will wait til the market goes up, if at all possible, in order to maximize the returns. The fact that the sell-off is happening now indicates financial stress. It appears to be a fire sale.
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This site, Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo (for email) virtually every day.
JWfacts, Freeminds, and a few other JW related sites often.
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What apostates fail to recognize is...
by nananana inyou can cut & paste all the excerpts from articles you want...you can leak all the boe letters, you can pretend to be witnesses and come to the conventions and meetings...but.
no other organization can begin to rival the success and magnitude of the prophecy found in mt 24:14. so apostates....don't waste your time spending countless hours digging up articles and reading books to convince yourself to turn away from jh's organization.
no matter what "evidence" you find you cannot ignore the obvious fulfillment of matthew 24:14.. .
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There is much more to Christianity than Matthew 24:14. When you isolate your proof of truth down to one scripture and declare that no one else is doing that, you have thrown away the great majority of God's Word.
Why don't you accept the scriptures that point to false prophets, also found in Mt, and other scriptures? No organization can be God's people and be false prophets at the same time. If you tried to widen out in your view and accept all of the Bible, I think you would see much more of the true picture about Jehovah's Witnesses and their leaders.
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Is Watchtower Having Financial Problems?
by 2tone ini have to wonder if the watchtower is having financial problems of some sort.
at the very least they are spending more than they are taking in.
which would explain all of the cutbacks of the last decade.
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Which would explain all of the cutbacks of the last decade.
Their cost cuttig goes back much more than a decade. Cost cutting started not long after the expected events of 1975 failed to happen. A few things are,
- Food service at assemblies was eliminated. ("Jehovah feeds his people physically and spiritually" is a remark you heard in those days. No more.)
- Fewer literature releases at District Conventions.
- District Conventions shortened from 5 days (or more) to 3 days. (Saves rental costs of building)
- Studying the same publications at the Book Study over and over (Daniel and Revelation books for example)
- Subscriptions for Watchtower and Awake magazines eliminated. (Mailing costs were huge)
More cutbacks have happened, and continue to happen.
These are the same cost cutting measures that any corporate business would make when income drops, which it did after the 1975 debacle. If the Society has maintained a healthy level of cash on deposit it's because of cutting costs.
When the Brooklyn properties are sold and new buildings are constructed at a fraction of the money received from the sale, the Society will have hundreds of millions of dollars more in the bank. It can survive for many years to come on those profits.
