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  Comparing Total Numbers Baptized During the 1990s and the Last Ten Years:

  by steve2 in

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  2. beliefs

  sometimes, comparing raw numbers provides a more clear-cut numerical picture of growth or otherwise than percentages.

  below are the numbers for peak publishers (rounded off so that 4,1 represents more than 4,100,000) for each year throughout the 1990s and those for the last ten years.. year: peak* baptisms.

  * peak publishers abbreviated - simply to show annual baptisms in relation to peak publishers.. the main point: .

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  2000-2005 missing. can you add them? I am trying to see a continuous trend.

  Comparing the two blocks of data (nineties and the last 10 years) we get an average decline of 7.6 percent. (from an average of 323,481 to 298,856)
  
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  Study with an Elder - propose a question.

  by CitizenofEarth in

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  2. bible

  hello there.. as some of you might remember i am keeping my facade up by "studying" with an elder.

  this study however is more of a session where i put hard questions about the org, doctrine and so on, on the table.

  the time has come for the next session in a couple of days, and i have quite frankly lost the will to keep digging up things that just shouldn't be happening.

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  Question: Why are you guys so full of yourselves, especially as you climb in the hierarchy?
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  Watchtower study today - best practice in word

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  due to family reasons gorby was present today.. the watchtower study was about refugee's.. how to treat refugee's, jw and non believers, and help them spiritual, not financial.

  nothing new.. what i mentioned is the juridical message underneath the whole story.

  don't talk politics, listen to government regulations etc.. most bizar is that a whole congregation that normaly avoid giving any aid to people in need, this morning gave the best practice in word about what to do with refugee's.. if the subject was not that serious, this hypocracy could be funny.

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  Gorby...where are the quotes and the context. Has anyone who has made a comment even read the article, the full article.

  I am not defending the despicable cult that has brainwashed my daughter, I just need support for the claims of those attacking it so the attacks can have credibility.
  
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  Anointed Ratios

  by Labate in

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  2. beliefs

  another recent topic got me thinking.

  has there ever been any kind of study of the ratio of male to female anointed?

  if the female anointed will be co-rulers in heaven with morris and company, why are they not represented as gb members and helpers before armageddon arrives?.

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  Didn't you hear brother Herd? Women have smaller brain, therefore not equipped for leadership and should be in subjection to men. And even if smarter than men, they should play dumb

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqzc2M8_MBA
  
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  we have a laid off bethelite with an engineering degree!

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. beliefs

  this guy have been at bethel for 25 years when he could have been making 75-100 thousand a year as an engineer.

  so they kick him to the curb so they don't have to house him and his wife anymore.

  they run into a problem at warwick and they ask him to come back for 3 weeks.

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  "I know seven JWs with engineering degrees"

  Where do you live?... I have yet to encounter a JW who is an engineer. Accountants only...now these are definitely professionals who overall can't function without rules and procedures. No course that develop critical thinking skills is included in their curriculum.

  Aren't you a bit supercilious when speaking of your peers and teachers?
  
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  Just heard that the WT sent money to help brothers in Russia

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

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  2. scandals

  clyde and i had lunch with a friend who attended the assembly with his wife.

  he told us that he was sure he heard that the wt had sent money to russia to help the brothers financially.

  i told him that i heard the opposite....that they are directing witnesses to meet in private homes and set up a donation jar for the sole purpose of sending money to the wt, giving explicit instructions on how to transmit the funds.

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  rank and file can swallow any lie, especially those that make WT look the opposite of what they really are, scumbags.
  
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  Forcing a meaning?

  by CitizenofEarth in

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  2. experiences

  i was looking for the word that jwfacts.com used for "forcing a meaning" into ex.

  a scripture.

  fx.

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  Pesher
  
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses a cult just as evil and dangerous as Islam?

  by cookiemaster in

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  2. beliefs

  i know you might think i'm exaggerating but if you really think about it, maybe i'm not.

  these two religions originate with the same ancient belief system.

  islam is a dangerous middle eastern cult that seeks to control every aspect of its members' lives.

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  "That's one of the most idiotic claims"

  Ouch! Opinionated...aren't you?
  
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  She's here and early! 27 weeks 1day.

  by Darkknight757 in

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  2. experiences

  so as of july 2nd my wife delivered by c-section our little one pound, three ounce daughter izabella.

  it was a very scary night that started with a decel and turned into multiple decels that greatly concerned the doctors.

  by early morning they felt the need to take her for her safety.

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  Best wishes to your family.

  Congratulations!

  Be glad Izabella was born in the XXI century. She will be fine.
  
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  Last Memorial Experiences

  by NoviceLocs14 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'll share mine first.... i had never missed a memorial for at least a quarter of a century of my life.

  i was kind of raised to believe that missing the memorial was a sin in itself.. by 2013 memorial season, i was missing most of my meetings (even though i was still technically part of my foreign language congregation), and i had just come off the pioneer list.

  i still made plans to attend the memorial (god forbid if i missed that lol).. i knew that typically our memorials were around 9 pm, since we usually got last priority (being a foreign language hall and all).

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  " I was kind of raised to believe that missing the memorial was a sin in itself"

  Interestingly enough I share that part of the story. I am 52, but when I was about ten or eleven I began to question that the loving God of the bible was going to throw me in hell for not attending the Catholic mass (one of five capital sins, I think). That was the beginning of my conversion to atheism which was well settled by the time I was 15. The second phase came about six years ago when I researched the JW religion, the bible and pretty much everything about Christianity. Now you can call me a[nti]theist, even the antichrist. I would take that as a compliment.