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  2017 Yearbook released

  by bohm in

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  2. friends

  i saw this on reddit:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

  overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

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  never a jw

  I agree with Steve. Skewing statistics is not a good idea. In order to alter the numbers the governing body has to collude with all the branches around the world, and I doubt they would do that. Not wise to cheat when yo know that there are witnesses watching. They are dishonest, not stupid.
  
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  117

  2017 Yearbook released

  by bohm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this on reddit:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

  overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

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  never a jw

  But when gravity catches up with JWs, I wonder how precipitous the fall will be.

  Gravity will be in full effect when the internet generation enters full maturity (over 30) and will get gradually worse. The internet is a game changer.
  
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  Documentary on the problem of child abuse within the Organisation.

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just watched the following documentary.

  it is absolutely mind boggling the lengths the organisation goes to keep their squeaky clean image, regardless!.

  what struck me was the sneakiness of elders in one particular hall hiding files on a pedophile, and the fact that the organisation arrogantly refuses to speak to journalists.

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  never a jw

  Slim,

  JW's at the lowest levels are the kindest and most innocent, but that gradually changes for the worse as you go up the hierarchy.
  
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  Finally, after almost 3 years, they want to visit with me

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i ended up going to the meeting yesterday.

  i have been absent for almost 2 months.

  my wife was also absent as long but mostly out of chance.

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  never a jw

  Just social? JW's are the only ones who invite themselves to someone else's house.
  
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  117

  2017 Yearbook released

  by bohm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this on reddit:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

  overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

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  never a jw

  Below are figures from Mexico (a country with one of the highest numbers of JW's) that show a rather dramatic decline in growth of average publishers, which peaked at 4% (2009 and 2010). In just six years fell to only 1.36 %. It's not just developed countries that see the BS of the Watchtower.
  

  
  

  AVERAGE PUBLISHERS REPORTED

  YEAR BOOK 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

  AVG PUB 829793 818481 802903 777429 749585 724690 696749 668876

  GROWTH 1.36% 1.90% 3.17% 3.58 % 3.32% 3.86% 4.00% 4.04%
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  117

  2017 Yearbook released

  by bohm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this on reddit:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

  overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

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  never a jw

  “I feel as if Jehovah were talking to me right in my room when I listen to members of the Governing Body and their helpers,” says Agatha, a circuit overseer’s wife in Ghana. “Without this tool, how could a poor girl like me in a small corner of the earth have such a great privilege? It has really brought us much closer to our dear brothers and sisters around the world.” p.24-25 YB2017

  A "poor" girl in Ghana... with internet. We have to thank Satan's system of things for this. It used to be that poor people were starving. Now they even have internet.
  

  
  
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  2017 Yearbook released

  by bohm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this on reddit:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

  overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

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  never a jw

  @Slimboy: this is a religion that is beginning serious decline

  I am glad that you finally saw the light
  
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  An interesting reasoning for the existence of God (from JW public talk)

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was on an official tour last week to another part of my country.

  on my way to the hotel, i noticed sign-board of jw kingdom hall.

  i thought i would attend sunday meeting as i knew no one would recognize me.. seeing “a new-comer” in the audience, public speaker adapted his material making it especially appealing to me.

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  Anointed

  Quoting Bertrand Russell??

  So you trust him as an authority. Interesting. Search what he has to say about your ideas
  
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  Aethiest

  by midnight in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what happens if you openly declare you are an aethiest, i don't mean go round forcing my view on everyone , but when pressured to go to the kingdom hall etc you stated you are an aethiest and no longer believe in god , surely you can't be accused of apostasy as you simply don't believe in anything ?

  anyone experienced this ?.

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  never a jw

  Try lying
  

  " I am burned out"

  "I am stressed and tired"

  "I am depressed"

  "I am taking a break"

  "I want a personal relationship with Jehovah, without the interference of others"
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  An interesting reasoning for the existence of God (from JW public talk)

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was on an official tour last week to another part of my country.

  on my way to the hotel, i noticed sign-board of jw kingdom hall.

  i thought i would attend sunday meeting as i knew no one would recognize me.. seeing “a new-comer” in the audience, public speaker adapted his material making it especially appealing to me.

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  never a jw

  that a scientific world view that does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds cannot claim the “pretension of completeness.

  The scientific world has never made that claim, nor will it ever. That claim is contrary to the essence and methods of science. You and a bunch of theistic apologist make that claim up.
  

  Science may have not learned yet everything about consciousness, but it's miles ahead of any sacred text ever written to explain everything else. Wishful thinking is what makes you embrace bad analogies