hello.
i have a question about the number of publishers reported on the yearbook.
i was wondering if this number refers only to the number of publishers baptized or to the overall number of publisher(baptized & not baptized).
Even dfd people come to the memorial plus all the submariners, and then some partake when they get home, or also when out on the town. Even the apostles did not got the count right, 11.12 or 13? if you count in Jesus, who did not drink that cup , but if he did he would be the only anointed to do so, the other had an earthly hope, and were served. Remember the count that David did, a costly affair. so, count me out.
Publisher count is flat, partaker count doubles every 10 years. cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlchmi0cc00
the 2016 yearbook is up on jw.orgbranches of jehovahs witnesses: 89 (was 90)number of lands reporting: 240 (was 239)total congregations: 118016 (was 115416)worldwide memorial attendance: 19,862,763 (was 19,950,019) decreasememorial partakers worldwide: 15,177 (was 14,121 in 2013:13,204) large increasepeak of publishers in kingdom service: 8,220,105 (was 8,201,205) minor increaseaverage publishers preaching each month: 7,987,279 (was 7,867,958)percentage of increase over 2014: 1.5 (was 2.2)total number baptized: 260,273 (was 275,581)average auxiliary pioneer publishers each month: 443,504 (was 635,298) huge decreaseaverage pioneer publishers each month: 1,135,210 (was 1,089,446)total hours spent in field: 1,933,473,727 (was 1,945,487,604) decreaseaverage home bible studies each month: 9,708,968 (was 9,499,933)
Blondies question: At the current annual increase when will they reach 144,000?
based on the 2005-2015 increase, ~30 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlchmi0cc00
bohm, implications would be predictions, when observed, by necessity indirectly, it would not prove a specific proposed theory but put it within range of the competing ones. --The emerging additional energy during the accelerated expansion raise the question of the definition of emptiness:-- is that inside or outside the 3D space of the universe; for me, the 4st dimension is a given. It is the movement through time that starts with or prior these coagulations. imho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlchmi0cc00
Just last night I came to page 276 of "Before the Big Bang" by B Clegg. "--the cosmological multiverses theory could be impossible to prove or disprove. As with many beliefs, this ends up with something other than science it is in effect theology, and has no place in cosmological sciences.
shepherless:"-- completely empty space is unstable and via statistics and probability, lumps of energy and mass will coagulate within that space.--"
The problem with these theories is,that they assume the existence of this latent energy in the pre-space nothingness, or empty space, and the nothingness is the "frontier" with space that is empty, still for anything to coagulate, even virtually, it has to have time, time even to the second power. so, I am not versed in multiverses.
there are days that i drop to the ground and kiss the earth in gratitude that i was born a woman.
at least women didn't have anything to do with writing the bibble.
and women don't come up with this nonsense.
any body know?
i remember growing up preparing for the number 2 talk and reading over the verses.
one time i had a chapter in joshua to read.
i started reading and i was like "wtf?
any body know?
the 7000 year figure is not correct no matter how derived, If you want to chop the "preparation" of the planet for us into 6 periods, you get 750 000 000 years per "day", and our current rest day should be that long too. which would leave another 5 days like that to the end of the endless planet
The nearly endless overlapping
