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.. .
Nevertheless it's interesting to see how for example, the number of baptisms are going up, though I doubt it's in the West, since on any given assembly, there is only a handful of suckers.
Honestly, the baptism figures are all over the place. I wouldn't say it's trending up. It just shows that the baptism figure is flatlining.
Look at these numbers:
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.. .
Peak Publisher Inc/Dec by year - This charts the difference of the year's publishers compared to last years. So if there were 7,900,000 publishers in Year 1 and 8,100,000 publishers in Year 2, the number charted would be 200,000.
Same for the other charts, just using the reported Average Publisher, Baptism & Congregation data.
Charting this info is useful for showing growth trends over time.
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.. .
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.
good move or bad?
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You broke it - you own it.
Imagine if the US had followed that advice when Europe was in turmoil in the 20th century.
good move or bad?
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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.
good 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.
i 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.
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.
she certainly is passionate about climate change.
🤔.
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."
she certainly is passionate about climate change.
🤔.
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 ,LOL
Yep...it's a cult!
you 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.
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.
