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  Looking for Podcast recommendations.

  by nicolaou in

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  2. friends

  i'm a postman so i get 4 to 5 hours every day with my headphones on and i'm really chewing through some stuff.

  i'm after science (evolutionary biology and anthropology especially), history of religion and comedy.

  old sci-fi audio books are also a favourite.

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  Comedy: Adam Carolla Show

  Knowledge: Stuff You Should Know
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  Help: project to gather statistics on JW congregation finances.

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many countries demand that charities publish a yearly summary of their finances.. where i live (netherlands), charities must publish these statements themselves, and jw do this at jw-anbi.nl.

  (i'm quite certain almost no jw knows about that site btw.).

  anyway i've been working on automatically harvesting data from all the congregation finance statements to gain more insight in how the borg is doing over time.. now it occured to me that i could do this analysis for more countries and get an even bigger picture.

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  I agree, your work to gather as many countries as possible gives a much more realistic picture of the overall increase or decline of the org.

  I put together something for Australia a few months ago you are more than welcome to use:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5750069711077376/jw-australian-finances
  
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  Anyone every heard anything about your own blood?

  by Tobyjones262 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was wondering if there was any policy from the cult about your own blood in you cut your finger and put it in your mouth out of reflex ect.

  what if any is the position of this?

  i always thought the amount of blood is not the real issue, even a drop would be a sin?.

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  This was answered in a questions from readers article back in the day. Can't remember the specifics, but the example given was if your tooth was bleeding and you swallowed the blood. Basically it was not the fact that you consumed blood, but if you willingly chose to was the sin. This was an old article so it may have been updated with the invention of LED's.
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  Who would you like to be the next President of USA?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  any takers?.

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  Attewc

  Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

  Kevin Hart, VP
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  JW Australian Finances

  by Attewc in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i imagine someone has done this already, but i couldn't find it in a search.

  feel free to move to another thread if i'm posting in the wrong one.. i've been watching leah remini's scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to jw's) and one episode talked about how australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so i decided to look for jw's reports.. link to jw's reports:.

  https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents.

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  Attewc

  Looking at the figures compared to 2017, it appears income went up 3M, but assets were down 4M which I'm guessing means they sold some properties to come up with needed cash.

  According to the JW's 2018 Service report, there were 68,247 peak publishers in Australia in 2018 and $25,853,235 collected in donations. This averages out to about $32 donations per publisher each month. Up from 2017 it was about $29 per publisher each month.

  -Attewc
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  JW Australian Finances

  by Attewc in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i imagine someone has done this already, but i couldn't find it in a search.

  feel free to move to another thread if i'm posting in the wrong one.. i've been watching leah remini's scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to jw's) and one episode talked about how australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so i decided to look for jw's reports.. link to jw's reports:.

  https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents.

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  Attewc

  2018 Amounts have now been posted and chart updated below:

  https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#ais-988da7b831b883c55fc05d0dcb075a44

  

  
  
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  Printed vs Produced

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the january 1, 2015 watchtower it says printing each issue 52,946,000 in 228 languages semimonthly.

  in that 2016 #1 issue watchtower it says produced each issue 58,987,000 in 254 languages monthly.

  what is the difference between printed and produced?.

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  Print = physical printed media.

  Produce = available in any media format. Now they can include the digital online versions and therefore higher numbers can be reported. Prints + downloads ?

  When they switched from 32 pages to 16 pages their reasoning they gave was so they "would be able to translate it into more languages". Anyone remember when that took effect ?
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  JW Australian Finances

  by Attewc in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i imagine someone has done this already, but i couldn't find it in a search.

  feel free to move to another thread if i'm posting in the wrong one.. i've been watching leah remini's scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to jw's) and one episode talked about how australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so i decided to look for jw's reports.. link to jw's reports:.

  https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents.

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  Attewc

  According to the 2018 report, there are 68,247 PEAK publishers.

  2017 Donations = $23,124,158 = A minimum of $339 per publisher per year = $28.25 per month.

  -Attewc . . .
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  2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.

  see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.

  average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).

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  Here's my summary as others have mentioned (I couldn't find reports past 2014 on jw.org):

  Link: 2018 Service Year Reports

  • Note that Russia is not on the list since 2016 with 170k average publishers.
  • JW claims 1.4% increase
  • PEAK publishers increase = 1.45%
  • AVG publisher increase = 1.35%
  • World population increase = 1.09%
  • Congregations: Mexico = 13,245 USA = 13,016 Brazil = 12,270

  As mentioned before, most increases are in poorer countries, which is not a sustainable business model.

  

  

  

  

  

  -Attewc (And then the end will come . . .)
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  JW Australian Finances

  by Attewc in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i imagine someone has done this already, but i couldn't find it in a search.

  feel free to move to another thread if i'm posting in the wrong one.. i've been watching leah remini's scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to jw's) and one episode talked about how australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so i decided to look for jw's reports.. link to jw's reports:.

  https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents.

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  Attewc

  I imagine someone has done this already, but I couldn't find it in a search. Feel free to move to another thread if I'm posting in the wrong one.

  I've been watching Leah Remini's Scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to JW's) and one episode talked about how Australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so I decided to look for JW's reports.

  Link to JW's reports:

  https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents

  I put the main numbers in Excel and produced a couple of charts to see if we can follow any trends in the future to see if their total value goes up or down. It appears that they're overall value (net income + net assets) is averaging around $14.5 million over last 4 years in Australia (2014-2017). They have to report 2018 numbers by March 2019. Will be interesting to see if the value goes down as a result of the ARC investigation.

  How many JW's are there in Australia ?

  -Attewc (And then the end will come . . .)