bye... bye.... no more new printing presses for jw.org... the growth is so tremendous (irony...).. all printing work in europe will be arrange in the next month only in selters (germany), but no renovation or upgrading in printing presses is expected... it will be a full outsourcing :).
a worldly company axel s******* will be used.
this company is known to be printing bild newspaper... the interesting part of it is the logistics will be as well outsourced.
Extraordinary!
However, I am slightly disappointed. This is a sound commercial decision. Not only will a commercial printer probably be cheaper and more efficient, it will mean that they won't have a need for lots of bethelites, with associated costs of housing them, they won't have a need for expensive depreciating machinery etc.
looking at the figures for 2014 to 2015 the numbers have dropped from 180,343 to 176,585.. any idea why?.
Hi dropoffyourkeelee,
I think there is more to it, than that. Here is your table, with the number of baptised added as an extra column:
2010 151,842 10,711
2011 161,298 6.2% 11,593
2012 163,349 1.3% 10,668
2013 174,687 6.9% 19,501
2014 180,343 3.2% 11,052
2015 176,585 -2.1% 10,274
Over the same period, population increased by 13% but publisher numbers increased by 16%.
If the figures are to be believed, what they seem to show is that over the past few years, they are very good at baptizing people, but poor at retaining them. Last year, baptisms were a little down and retention was even worse. If the figures were fudged, they were probably fudged every year.
My bet is that it is a retention issue.
Also, for logistical and geographical reasons, I don't think a significant number could have gone across a border, to (for example) Angola. It is a very big country in both area and population. May be a few, but not 10% or more.
message from designer stubble to the former jwr members.
first of all i am glad to see that many of you have found your way to this great forum, facilitated by simon.
i am sure that after the dust of the jwr shutdown has settled, you will find this to be a good new home.. i would like to apologize for the sudden closure of jwr.
Was there quality stuff on there like there is in the archives here from Leolaia, AlanF and so on that it would be a shame to lose?
Just going from memory:
I am sure others can add to, or correct, this list.
message from designer stubble to the former jwr members.
first of all i am glad to see that many of you have found your way to this great forum, facilitated by simon.
i am sure that after the dust of the jwr shutdown has settled, you will find this to be a good new home.. i would like to apologize for the sudden closure of jwr.
I cannot believe the schoolyard slapping that is going on now. It sure isn't making us X JWR's looking any good.
I was thinking the ex JWR's are very quickly adapting to the culture of this site. In my limited experience, people have always been less afraid to debate a point here.
By the way, I am so glad so many people have made it here from JWR. Even though I didn't post a lot there, I read it a lot and I feel like I know many of you. There are still a number of regulars that haven't made it here, thus far.
I am hoping someone can recover some of those meme's from JWR. They were brilliant.
http://www.warwickdailynews.com.au/news/church-elders-covered-rape-young-girl/3047470/.
and archived forever via the wayback machine.
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Smiddy - Is it not a criminal offence to know about a crime and not report it to the police / Law /authorities ?
Yes it is, or was, a criminal offence. In English common law it is called "misprison of felony". Here is a wikipedia link explaining it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony
The link says the offence has been abolished in NSW, "and other Australian States and Territories". However, I am pretty sure that it survives in at least one major Australian State.
The offence itself is only a misdemeanor. At a guess, the reason we haven't heard of any prosecutions may be that there are statute of limitations issues, or that misdemeanor convictions don't often get reported in the newspapers.
message from designer stubble to the former jwr members.
first of all i am glad to see that many of you have found your way to this great forum, facilitated by simon.
i am sure that after the dust of the jwr shutdown has settled, you will find this to be a good new home.. i would like to apologize for the sudden closure of jwr.
OneGen - One of the first things I thought when I got wind of the plug being pulled:
"Oh shit! Fugue's posts!"
I thought exactly the same thing!
http://www.warwickdailynews.com.au/news/church-elders-covered-rape-young-girl/3047470/.
and archived forever via the wayback machine.
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I just want to address one point raised by jwundubbed, simon and flipper.
The article read in part:
In sentencing Harvey, Mr Andrews told him he had taken into consideration the fact he had already been punished by the church and through the breakdown of his marriage.
I am no expert on this, but my understanding is that an Australian Judge pronouncing a sentence will explicitly list all matters justifying a reduction in sentence, as part of the process. The reason to do this is to block the defendant appealing and seeking a lower sentence. I actually saw that happen in a fraud case, a long time ago. The Judge didn't mention a specific matter, and defendant got a reduced sentence on appeal for that reason only.
So when the Judge says he took those matters into consideration, it does not mean that they made any significant difference to the outcome. He is just stitching up one avenue of appeal.
To be clear, I am not defending the sentence given; I just wanted to clarify that point.
in 1966 microbiologist kwang jeon was studying a population of amoebae in the lab when they began to die off unexpectedly.
he noticed thousands of tiny dots in the cytoplasm of each individual which turned out to be a bacterial infection.
most of them weakened and died but surprisingly a small percentage recovered and seemed to be back to normal.
Sorry, vidqun, you have lost me now.
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i just tried to go to the site and there is a goodbye message.
i was a member there since 2010. i was really surprised.
i had just started posting there again after being away for a while.
Well that is a shock! People need to move on, I guess.
I would like to thank Designer Stubble and those at JWR for all their collective efforts. I would also like to pass on my best wishes to the various members there. Even though I did not interact a lot on that site, I did read a lot of their stories and viewpoints. It was very helpful to me.
in 1966 microbiologist kwang jeon was studying a population of amoebae in the lab when they began to die off unexpectedly.
he noticed thousands of tiny dots in the cytoplasm of each individual which turned out to be a bacterial infection.
most of them weakened and died but surprisingly a small percentage recovered and seemed to be back to normal.
Oh no! Not the flagella motor!
Years ago, my wife and my mother in law sat me down and made me watch an hour long video by the "Discovery Institute" (a group that, according to Wikipedia is "best known for its advocacy of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design"). The video gave 3 arguments for intelligent design, the best of them being that flagella motor. All arguments could have been comprehensively covered in 5 mins, but it was stretched to an hour with lots of cartoon graphics and repeated explanations.
That was one hour of my life I can never get back. Of course you can easily go on the Internet and find articles debunking the whole issue within seconds, but I could not get my wife or m.i.l. to even look at them.
