Posts by TheOldHippie

And by the way, the great philosopher of the 18th century Enlightenment Age, Voltaire, dismissed the whole idea of fossils and dinosaurs and stated the bones found were nothing but left-overs from earlier generations' lunch parties.

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The myth of persecution, early Christians weren't persecuted.

by jam in

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friends

anyone read candida moss book how early christians invented.

a story of martydom.

the romans did not terget, hunt or.

TheOldHippie

So far, Finkelstein's cur-and-paste has been nothing more than taking it from the easiest of all sources,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians

So much for "heavy researching"

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JW.org statistics and the decline in first world countries.

by OneEyedJoe in

cross posting from another thread.

it seems that i might not be the only nerd here that's interested in statistics like this so maybe it deserves it's own topic.. so i was playing around with google.com/trends with some jw related search terms.

i found the results a bit surprising, and certainly interesting, so i figured i'd share.. first off, the link to what i tried.. one of the most surprising things that stood out was the regional interest.

TheOldHippie

I found a 50 % increase from June to August in "jw.org" when I did the search you started the thread with ...............

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Chile and the flag: It's true!! Undeniable evidence!!

by ILoveTTATT in

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friends

joe, sorry, you'll have to eat some humble pie.. .

thank you so much for the poster on extj.com who sent these pics!!

can't have been better!!.

TheOldHippie

"How would the U S A Witnesses react if one of their number took to wearing a lapel pin of the national flag?"

How did they react when the Williams sisters saluted the flag as they won the Olympics?

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JW.org statistics and the decline in first world countries.

by OneEyedJoe in

cross posting from another thread.

it seems that i might not be the only nerd here that's interested in statistics like this so maybe it deserves it's own topic.. so i was playing around with google.com/trends with some jw related search terms.

i found the results a bit surprising, and certainly interesting, so i figured i'd share.. first off, the link to what i tried.. one of the most surprising things that stood out was the regional interest.

TheOldHippie

"Decline in real numbers must be seen as a fact, and future decline, I predict, will accelerate."

Funny how that line has been repeated over and over again ever since around 1978, but still the numbers are growing .

Kaik, your comments are worth reading for all those commenting on decline or growth in individual countries. Japan has an ageing population, I even think it is declining, and therefore it is not to be expected that a growth should take place. Poland, Lithuania, Roumania and other countries see the young people leave the country and set out for Western Europe, and so the remaining population is ageing and declining. In some of the Northwestern European countries, the especially Polish immigrants constitute aroung 7-8-9-10 per cent of the JWs.

So in stead of quickly and easily looking at the figures for Poland and shouting out that "Look! There is decline in the number of Polish JWs!", you would have to add the members of the Polish-speaking congregations throughout Europe as well as the ones being in the "native speaking" congregations.

Statistics is becoming more and more tricky with this damned open world - it was easier when there were walls dividing us

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JW.Org Signs For Sales

by Bangalore in

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friends

check it out.. .

http://khsignage.com/jworg-signs.html.

bangalore.

TheOldHippie

OK, breakfast, point taken - I run to wannabefree's opinion fast as %¤!

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JW.Org Signs For Sales

by Bangalore in

jw
friends

check it out.. .

http://khsignage.com/jworg-signs.html.

bangalore.

TheOldHippie

It is a bit strange that the dot is the starting sign of the second line.

In stead of jw/.org I would have found it more natural to write jw./org

Or is that just me?

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Are Jehovah's Witnesses THAT Bad?

by minimus in

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friends

i'm not fond of any religious fanatic.

islamic fundies can be downright crazy.

mormonism seems silly to me.

TheOldHippie

But IS it true that it is no honourable way to leave? In my congregation's area, there are around 10 persons who are baptised and no longer attend any meetings, not because they are old and sick, but because they simply have stopped attending. They are in the age range of 30/35 to 65. They are greeted when met, from time to time invited to outings, have magazines put in their mailbox from time to time - they are not shunned in any way. So is this point of no honourable leaving a thing from the past that is stuck in the mind of people who have themselves been shunned, but things are slowly changing these days - or are there areas in Europe where the good old liberals still exist?

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I HAD MY BICYCLE STOLEN!

by Terry in

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friends

three months ago i had to stop driving my car.

it wouldn't pass inspection and it would cost about $3k to get it up to par.. well, it's a 98 honda accord with about 179 thousand miles on it, what did i expect?.

.. i decided i would switch to riding a bicycle instead.. it has worked out fairly well.. i put about 10 miles a day on it.

TheOldHippie

So that is how it is living in a police state. 4 cars for one bicycle thief. If someone steals your car, they send in the Airforce?