Just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. Interesting stuff. Definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth. The most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.
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JW Statistical Charts - 2011-2019
by Jehalapeno injust made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. interesting stuff.
definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth.
the most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.. .
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
by minimus ingood move or bad?
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Jehalapeno
You broke it - you own it.
Imagine if the US had followed that advice when Europe was in turmoil in the 20th century.
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
by minimus ingood move or bad?
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Jehalapeno
Does no one realize that we invaded Afganistan after 9/11 and not Iraq?
The connection between Iraq and 9/11 was tenuous, and I'm being extremely generous there.
The biggest lesson Iraq taught me is that we should be extremely skeptical of the Intelligence Community. That's why I don't believe a word they say about Russia Russia Russia.
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
by minimus ingood move or bad?
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I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Fink on a geopolitical issue.
I'm not handwringing over this. If it escalates to war, that will be the Iranian's decision at this point.
What Trump did is reassert the deterrence factor. That deterrence factor became impotent when we started kissing Iran's ass and sending them pallets of cash in order for them to pinky swear they won't build a nuke. Pallets of cash that then went on to fund terror actions against western targets.
It was very naive to make a deal with a country that promotes a theocrat ideology.
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Don Adams has passed away
by RubaDub ini received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).
many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.
from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.
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I met and interacted with both Don and Joel. Joel definitely was the sourpuss.
Don was super nice, though.
While I was at Patterson Bethel, I had a nervous breakdown and had to be in the infirmary for a week because I wasn't sleeping or eating and was having suicidal thoughts.
Don would eat breakfast with me every morning in the infirmary dining room. His wife had had a stroke and was up there until she passed away, so he ate breakfast, lunch and dinner up there with her.
He was probably the most pleasant Bethel heavy I met while I was up there.
I thought he had passed away YEARS ago. Maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe I'm remembering Karl instead of Don. It's been 20 years since I was at Bethel.
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Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?
by minimus inshe certainly is passionate about climate change.
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Jehalapeno
Maybe her catchphrase is ringing true on here
You've stolen my childhood, how dare you!I think that's why she rubs some of us the wrong way. We're like, "Oh sure, Jan. We stole your childhood? Call me when you were raised a JW."
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Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?
by minimus inshe certainly is passionate about climate change.
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Jehalapeno
If this was a "crisis" and "emergency", would you take a break?
I get your point ,however ,
Apparently Jehovah`s Witnesses do that all of the time ,LOLYep...it's a cult!
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The Holidays Are No Big Deal Anymore
by minimus inyou used to hear christmas music blaring on every radio station.
not anymore.
people used to jam the roadways and malls to do their christmas shopping and now it’s no big deal.
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Jehalapeno
You used to hear Christmas music blaring on every radio station. Not anymore.
My guess: This is because of the free market. Radio stations used to mix Christmas music in with their regular programming. At some point in the last 20 years, someone got the brilliant idea to have 100% Christmas music on their station and it got all the listeners that were in the holiday spirit. So other stations decided to cater to the other side of the market who were burned out on Christmas music.
People used to jam the roadways and malls to do their Christmas shopping and now it’s no big deal.
This one's easy: technology. Amazon and ecommerce with faster shipping times has fixed the Chrismas rush.
People used to have huge XMAS lists for gift giving. Not so much now.
I don't know about this one, man. Gonna need to see some evidence for that. If it is true, maybe it's because people are more wary of going deep into debt than we were in the past before the recession of 2008.
Saying Merry Christmas is politically incorrect. Christmas is no big deal anymore.
Saying Merry Christmas is only politically incorrect to a small number of people. Most people I know say Merry Christmas. And companies like mine that include about 20% of individuals with a Jewish tradition say Happy Holidays to include our Jewish friends in our festivities. It's not about being politically correct. It's about wanting everyone to have a part in the annual traditions our company has fun with.
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Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?
by minimus inshe certainly is passionate about climate change.
🤔.
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Jehalapeno
If this was a "crisis" and "emergency", would you take a break?
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Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?
by minimus inshe certainly is passionate about climate change.
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Jehalapeno
Being vocal about the deterioration of the planet's environment isn't important ?
Even if the polluting effects by mankind in the last century hasn't caused global warming should we not watch and control what we are doing to the planet in regards to polluting the environment .
Environmental awareness and protection is important to us because we are part of the environment are we not ?It's not what you say, it's how you say it.
I consider myself an environmentalist and conservationist. I try to teach my kids to live sustainably and lead by example.
The issue people have with Greta isn't that they hate the environment, it's that they don't like being told "How Dare You?" for not agreeing with the alarmism side of the debate.
I feel she's done more harm than good for those that think we need to do better as a society. It makes the rest of us look like a bunch of loony tunes cult members.
My take on Global Cooling (70's)/Global Warming (80's & 90's)/Climate Change(00's)/Climate Crisis (2019) is not one of denial. My take is one of wanting more research to be done before making rash judgements and doomsday prophecies. I also want the discussion to be open and not a top-down cult where dissent is shouted down and skeptics are ostracized as apostates.