field service hours have hit new records each year, but i am seeing less people working the territory.
where is all the time spent, that people are putting in the field ministry?
it's been close to ten years, since i have seen people working certain territories.
Who's to say the numbers aren't fudged right at the top. After all they wouldn't wanna discourage the brothers with numbers going backward..
All religions are struggling these days. I drove past a catholic church the other day after service and ever single person was over
60 years of age. This generation aint buying the fairytale anymore.
just a little tidbit from the congregation i attend..... the congregation has approximately 120 publishers.. well over 1000 magazines per month are picked up, not to mention all the books, brochures, and tracts that are picked up.. there was a "local needs" part on the service meeting recently, asking for more contributions.. it seems our congregation has averaged just about $300 per month contributions to the "worldwide work" over the past year.. .
assuming 1500 magazines / month, that's just 20 cents per magazine - and that completely ignores all other literature that is picked up.. the last price the magazines had, 20+ years ago, was 25 cents per issue.
with inflation that would have been about 50 cents each now.. just another sign of how severely the contriutions to the society are drying up..... .
This is where the Mormons got it right by getting 10% of your wage and rapid breeding brings the numbers ups.
it has taken me almost 2 years to get to the bottom of the watchtower society rabbit hole.
being fully convinced that i was duped....i am still a little ashamed of myself for being so narrow minded.
i have vowed never to close off my mind like that again.
Why is it so easy to believe a talking snake made a naked woman eat a piece of fruit but evolution is impossible?
you know what i mean, that gay music that you may like that you know that's got to be in every gay man's music collection, lol.
i think i just outted myself on facebook posting this one i used to hear in the clubs years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym6ptlnkvp4 .
Future camp classic.
[stealing aguest's title.
i don't think she has a good voice.
in fact i have a very bad singing voice and she sounds like me.
Katy Perry rulez.
I made a mix of her greatest remixes last month http://www.mixcloud.com/DjBj_/the-katy-perry-mix/
No dud tracks there.
Ozbrad aka DjBj
this is a personal observation and certainly not representative of all atheists.
i enjoy discussions with folks of this persuasion; in general they appear well read and somewhat more educated than many believers.
as a group most atheists cringe and become insensed when discussing the existence of a deity with believers especially fundamentalists.
Lets see what's on which side.
On the christian believers side you have.
Jw's
The Pope
Fred Phelps
Ted Haggard
Jimmy Swaggart
Talking snakes
Worldwide floods
Living inside fish
Losing you superpowers getting a harcut.
Beating your slaves.
Marrying your rapist.
Hating gay people.
6,000 years of human existence
On the non believers side you have.
Richard Dawkins
Sir Richard Attenborough
Stephen Hawking
Carl Sagan
Science
Evolution
I know which sounds more credible to me.
there was an error on the latest awake!
cover.
here is the correct version.. .
It never ceases to amaze me how people can bag evolution but believe in talking snakes and people losing their superpowers getting a haircut.
i don't believe in the bible either, but i'm just curious as to why others don't.
ridiculous misogyny and mass murder by a petty little god are two reasons for me.
(ilovehigh-lighting) .
What about losing your super hero powers by getting a haircut. That seems plausable not..
i'm sure at some point you have mentioed it somewhere on the site, perhaps several.
but this question is i guess personal.
for those her were born into the jdub religion, why did you leave at whatever point?
I was very young at school and we were talking about creation and the flood and I remember saying to some
kid if God didn't create it who did? And the kid said who created God?
That seed of doubt stayed with me till I left on my 21st birthday.
and it is a clear night here on the east coast of the usa.. so i took a few shots of the moon.
here is one that i liked.... .
anyone else a shutter bug?.
