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as i understand it, the 2001 service year ended on 2001.09.01 and that all of the numbers generated by the congregations have to be in to brooklyn by the first of october.

perhaps most of the reports are already there.. questions:.

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Bizzarely, some figures may actually improve!

As tens of thousands of JW's become inactive or are DA'd/DF'd their usually lacklustre field service reports cease to effect a dead weight 'drag' on the figures.

For example:
Of 10 publishers, 8 report 15 hours each, 5 rv's each and 2 bible studies between them. The other 2 have simply been putting in a 'token' report of 1 or 2 hours to avoid the stigma of being labelled 'inactive'.

The averages (of which the Society seem so obsessed) are thus:

Hours = 12.3 Return Visits = 4 Bible Studies = 0.2

Take the 'deadwood' (people like me) out of the equation and you get the new inproved figures:

Hours = 15 Return Visits = 5 Bible Studies = 0.25

No extra hours have been put in, no extra return visits have been carried out, no extra bible studies have been conducted and yet these figures will be presented as evidence of "Jehovah's backing"!

Go figure!

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Finally! We can all support the FDS.

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Witnesses steal cop car, go joyriding

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mass genocide in action.

a bit light on the gory details...but whos counting all the dead bodies anyway.

http://www.witnessesonline.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/witnessesonline/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000098.

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What a bunch of crap. I am so glad I am out of that mess. The story said something about the Kingdumb Hell having windows. Since when? The Kingdumb Hells around here don't have windows.

You got that right jayhawk1!!

An apostate in the fold!!

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hmmmm! Can't get the link to work. If the picture doesn't show, try 'cutting & pasting' this URL into your browser. (Remove the $$$ first!)

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An apostate in the fold!!

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JW Stumper Questions!!!

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if the organization did not actually prophesy the end in 1925 and 1975, then how come so many witnesses left the faith immediately afterwards?

("they lost roughly three-quarters of the movement between 1925 and 1928, then suffered huge losses after 1975, when the end didn't come as they had implied over and over again," said jim penton, an ex-witness who writes entries on jehovah's witnesses for the encyclopedia americana.

if the watchtower organization rejects others calling them "inspired" yet the watchtower organization does call themselves "god's spirit-directed prophet" what is the difference?

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Who was the most successful preacher, Jesus Christ or Charles Taze Russell?
[You may need to remind your dub that no more than about 85,000 individuals were 'anointed' before Russell established the Watchtower Society.]

Show me from Scripture how you arrive at 2520 years for the length of the Gentile Times.

In Daniel 4:20-22 Jehovah's Prophet applies the meaning of the tree to Nebuchadnezzar, an idolatrous, God defying, pagan!
The Watchtower applies the meaning of the tree to Jehovah God himself ['Live Forever' page 139 "this heaven-high tree, comes to represent the supreme rulership of God"]- who is correct, Daniel or the Watchtower?

In Matthew 24:3 Jesus disciples asked him "what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?"

If, as the Watchtower asserts, the timing of these exact events had been pinpointed and prophecied by Daniel more than 5 centuries earlier [1914]- why would the disciples, who were very familiar with the book of Daniel, even ask such an obvious question?

But having asked it, why did Jesus not refer them back to Daniel for the answer?

Questions, questions.....
don't get me started.

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dnc - coming soon!

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UK Posters: C'mon Gimme a Smiley :)

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hello britains .

i am trying to get as many uk posters to sign in.

so post up please, whether you love the queen's corgis or think they should be nationalised!.

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West Midlands and proud of it!

However I used to live in Northampton and I actually got baptised at Bowes Rd.

So Philo, care to explain the difference between these two pic's?

personally I'm happy with either of them - much nicer than the 'Steve Martin' look.
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dnc - coming soon!

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stats

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check out the 'stats' page - 'the hottest topics of all time' are now all over 100 posts long!.

chatty bunch aren't we?.

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Check out the 'stats' page - 'The hottest topics of all time' are now all over 100 posts long!

Chatty bunch aren't we?

Nic'

dnc - coming soon!