You should probably include "faithful slave" and "slave class" in your count. Next, do one on "governing body".
It is interesting that 2014 saw the lowest occurrences of the FDS variants in many years (9 total). Even "governing body" was on the low side (23). I'm counting occurrences in The Watchtower only, not in other publications.
i've made some updates to the user section of the site.
besides some cosmetic tweaks the most notable new feature is the ability to see a listing of the topics someone has posted on - this includes topics they started as well as topics they replied to.. it will look like this when you go to a user page or your own profile page:.
simon.
Are the topics started and posted on sync'd with the old site? I ask because it says I have only started 1 topic and posted 31 times. I think that's since the new site debuted. Although topics posted shows all the topics. I think something isn't linking quite right. Maybe it's just my account???
Still... great job on the new forum.
on jw tv.
anthony morris is ranting against higher education.
he is blaming parents for enrolling their kids in college.
I finally got the nerve to watch this. Morris started off saying they haven't said much about higher education since the 2005 article. To be fair, he said they didn't talk about is as in-depth as that article. However, I mapped the frequency which the phrase "higher education" is found in The Watchtower since 1950. I only counted number of articles the phrase was found in, not the number of times the phrase is actually used. The 2005 article uses the phrase 16 times in a single article. Results are quite telling.
1950-1959 - 5 articles
1960-1969 - 8 articles
1970-1979 - 7 articles
1980-1989 - 18 articles
1990-1999 - 13 articles
2000-2009 - 13 articles
2010-2014 - 17 articles
so i have gotten into arguements with my wife in the past about this cult.
now a days after reading steve hassan books...i just try and avoid anything jdub with her.
try to keep her in authentic mode..(not sure she really has one).
last week we had an elder giving a talk, cant remember the title.. the thing that was of interest is the experience he gave:.
"a brother who was working in a hospital had to leave his job which was paying him good money because the nurses wanted to sleep with him and they kept putting notes for him on his desk!".
this is not the first time i hear similar experience.
A brother who was working in a hospital had to leave his job which was paying him good money because the nurses wanted to sleep with him and they kept putting notes for him on his desk!
Was this in the U.S.? If so, I call BS on this. There are laws in the U.S. against sexual harassment. A person can be fired for what most people consider innocent flirting. But when a written note is involved, all that brother had to do was bring it to the HR department and lodge a complaint. Problem solved.
from a source:.
2015 hotel arrangements... click the link by the blue arrow.. https://www.sendspace.com/file/qp1oxc.
.. .. 2015 january 2, boe.. https://www.sendspace.com/file/n9duoj.
Wait... ibsaconvention.org? ibsa? Seriously?
in the long winter nights you need some good tv shows to watch while you wait for the eternity between seasons of game of thrones.. we've watched marco polo (pretty good) and have just started watching orange is the new black which is not at all what i imagined (didn't know it was funny!).
house of cards is on the list too as we've heard good things about that.. anyone have any others that are worth seeing?.
i am going to switch the site over in the next hour, if you have any problems then contact me ([email protected]) and include as much information as possible about what is wrong, what you were expecting, what browser and version you are using etc... i'll also be monitoring the logs to proactively spot issues.. please be patient - i may be working on issues in preference to replying so don't get antsy if you don't get an immediate reply :).
unless there is a catastrophic problem i'll probably try and work through any issues but if things do go pear shaped when i might switch back to the old site.
if this happens then anything posted on the new one *may* be lost so hold off posting anything important without keeping a copy just in case.. .
Hi, Simon,
I still have a -1 next to the message envelope. Not sure why. I opened all the messages that were sent to me just in case I hadn't read one. Thought I would mention it to you.
~LQ
the 2014 grand totals page has been released onto facebook.. .
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i have started updating the statistics and graphs at jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php, and will release highlights as i work through it during the rest of the day..
Another interesting statistic is the number of congregations. It is also steadily declining in growth.
2011-2012, an additional 2316
2012-2013, an additional 2104
2013-2014, an additional 1593
I'm curious about what warrants these additional congregations in the first place. With 275,581 baptized, this amounts to an average of 2.38 additional publishers per congregation (using the 2014 number of congregations, or 2.42 using the 2013 number of congregations). This certainly isn't enough to warrant all these new congregations. It's not as if large numbers of people are being converted in a local area to the point where new congregations are being formed purely out of new converts.
My speculation is that these are smaller language groups that were formed in years past and that now have been converted over to actual congregations. Other than that, I can't really account for the additional congregations.
does anyone have the 2014 stats from the 2015 yearbook yet?.
(isn't it usually out by now - or are they waiting to celebrate new year's day?
).
Just for comparison to the stats for Mormons for 2013:
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/2013-statistical-report-2014-april-general-conference
