the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.
in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.
if so, could you direct me to the source(s).
They lie about everything else who's to say any of these numbers are real.
Just looked up the Australian census for people who identify as JWs and it was down 2.8 percent in the 5 years from 1996-2001
Scientologists are always on about their increasing numbers but the census says otherwise as well
i believe in god but i'm not sure of anything....what about you?.
I dont believe you insult anyone Cofty. Religious people feel any attack on their beliefs is a personal assault on their intelligence.
If you believe in talking snakes and worldwide floods you deserve to be mocked.Too many christians not enough lions.
wow, it's true - they don't call to 'promote god's kingdom' anymore but just their website!.
we just had an old lady call and tell us that was exactly what they were doing and it has "lots of good things on their for children".
yeah, right ... sparlock?.
Have you heard about this new thing called the internet? Yeah people sell shit on it .
here's a thought: we're told over and over how employers sing the praises of their jw employees, sometimes with a vague quote about how 'if we could only hire jws, we would as they are so honest'.
however, while some jw employers themselves may hire jw employees (usually cheap entry level positions), most don't.
in fact, many jw's in general who have businesses have a rule not to do work with jws, even those in their congregation.
Forgot to add she came crying to my mum and dad to confess she'd lost their money and said they could have her 10 carat diamond ring as collateral till she paid them back. Mum took it to a jeweller to have it valued and they said it wasnt a diamond and was worthless.
here's a thought: we're told over and over how employers sing the praises of their jw employees, sometimes with a vague quote about how 'if we could only hire jws, we would as they are so honest'.
however, while some jw employers themselves may hire jw employees (usually cheap entry level positions), most don't.
in fact, many jw's in general who have businesses have a rule not to do work with jws, even those in their congregation.
My parent used a sister who was a paralegal secretary to do the bookwork on an inheritance they got when my grandmother died.
She knew how much they got so hit them for a loan of 40 grand promising to pay back with a high interest rate.
She also got her aging parent to remortgage their house and ended up losing the lot when her investment in a business went belly up.
I think she lost nearly 200,000 altogether.
i had a flash back yesterday.
my non jw husband and i went to disneyland and bought my young daughter a set of 7 dwarf toys.
after a few months i felt guilty and threw them away, thinking they were demonized.
I used to get old 45's off the Jukebox for 20 cents when they replaced them with newer ones.
I had over 3,000 and 500 odd albums all burned or made to be sold in case they had backward masking on them.
I ended up having a huge fight with my father over it and told him that was it. I left saying I was never going back.
Were's all these satanists who read Harry Potter novels and bought Beatles albums. Must be millions of them.
End sarcasm.
i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .
i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .
uun.
0 to 21 never baptised.
my dad came into the jw's because someone studied the "creation" book with him.
it pains me deeply that he sent me an e-mail recently saying that to keep the peace with my mom, he will stop communicating with me as much as possible.
i should communicate with him only if i have an emergency.. it upsets me to no end, but i cannot do anything or much about it.
rutherford began the millions campaign in 1918. new light suggests that he was obviously talking about babies who were born that year and now, in 2014 they would only be 96 years old.. .
i was looking through a census bureau report on people aged 90+ in the united states 2006-2008, with projections to the year 2050. according to the chart provided there are about 2 million people just in the united states that are over 90 years old.
we could conservatively cut that number in half to reach the 96 year-olds and then add in the rest of the world's figures.. .
feel free to skip the intro down to the actual purpose of the thread lol!!.
i'm a born in, 32 years in and almost 6 out.
i've been out of the jw's since october of 2008. i came out due to a variety of factors, blood, historical roots, false teachings etc... my older sister helped me out back in 2008 and i subsequently helped my brother exit and the 3 of us became "born again" christians.. i've been mostly lurking but occasionally posting on jwn for around 5 years.
