You got that right YY2! They are desperate to show a positive increase year over year, they run it like a business because it is a marketing business.
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More JW STATS from this year's CA: Gods Word Is Beneficial for Teaching
by suavojr inthis past weekend i wasted my time at another jw ca, during this time this is what our new do shared with all the drones and i just wanted to share with all of the current awaken jw's or ex-jw's.. .
public address: who is rocking the nations, and how?.
we all know the jw leaders love talk about numbers!.
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More JW STATS from this year's CA: Gods Word Is Beneficial for Teaching
by suavojr inthis past weekend i wasted my time at another jw ca, during this time this is what our new do shared with all the drones and i just wanted to share with all of the current awaken jw's or ex-jw's.. .
public address: who is rocking the nations, and how?.
we all know the jw leaders love talk about numbers!.
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Attention Governing Body: October 2, 2014 is only 940 days away...
by Alfred inin 1823, john aquila brown (a man who is not mentioned in any wt publication) came up with a bizarre mathematical calculation which totalled 2,520 years (in an unauthorized attempt to predict the end of the gentile times).... several religions recycled this bizarre calculation, including the adventists and the bible students... when armageddon didn't come on the variety of early 20th century dates predicted by several "dooms-day" religions of that time (including charles taze russell's bible students who predicted that the big a would start in 1914), they all finally realized that this 2,520-year calculation was nothing more than arbitrary mathematical speculation derived from erratic biblical extrapolation.... except for the bible students who continued to move up the date for armageddon 2 more times (1918, 1925) and then decided to use wwi as the starting point for the "last days".. all the while, one thing that seems to remain intact is the october 2, 1914 date.
oddly, for the watchtower bible & tract publishing cult, this particular date still marks the end of the 2,520-year period (that john aquila brown referred to in his bizarre 1823 book "the even tide")... again, no mention of this in any watchtower publication.
but, for jws, that date still remains the starting point for the period of time often referred to as the "last days" or even "the generation that shall not pass".. because of this, the governing body has been forced to change the definition of "the generation that shall not pass" countless times since the early 1970's.
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suavojr
247 days until Thursday October 02 2014 or 8 months and 4 days from today
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WoW, when you see these pictures you can tell how the leaders promoted themselves. How could we buy the idea that they were chosen by God?
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More JW STATS from this year's CA: Gods Word Is Beneficial for Teaching
by suavojr inthis past weekend i wasted my time at another jw ca, during this time this is what our new do shared with all the drones and i just wanted to share with all of the current awaken jw's or ex-jw's.. .
public address: who is rocking the nations, and how?.
we all know the jw leaders love talk about numbers!.
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That is a great sales report besty! All you have to do with the JW's is analyze them just like you do with a business traded in Nasdaq.
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Talking with a nonbeliever...
by suavojr inin my search for the truth and the burning desire to become free from all forms of dogma and wishful thinking.
i have approached my first crossroads in my life, should i continue to believe in a god or not?.
currently i am leaning toward agnosticism, but all the suffering in the world, all the loss and pain in my own life makes it hard for me to simply let go of the idea and hope that at the end justice will prevail, that one day god can make it all good.. .
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Jgnat
I will check your links tomorrow morning. Thank you!
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Talking with a nonbeliever...
by suavojr inin my search for the truth and the burning desire to become free from all forms of dogma and wishful thinking.
i have approached my first crossroads in my life, should i continue to believe in a god or not?.
currently i am leaning toward agnosticism, but all the suffering in the world, all the loss and pain in my own life makes it hard for me to simply let go of the idea and hope that at the end justice will prevail, that one day god can make it all good.. .
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Is not easy to wash away 33 years of JW indoctrination but after learning TTATT, I have come to the conclusion that you don't need an answer to everything. The danger comes in thinking you have to have an answer, resulting in giving opinions dressed as answers. I have also fully understood that if something can happen, it can happen to you, or someone you love.
But not having the belief in a God leaves you with no real comfort, and with the realization that you will see your loved ones die.
Yet, like cofty said: the evidence for God is unconvincing.
But I still get hung up on the question of a first cause… you know, what came before the “big bang”
HOW WOULD I LOVE TO KNOW THE ANSWER!
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Talking with a nonbeliever...
by suavojr inin my search for the truth and the burning desire to become free from all forms of dogma and wishful thinking.
i have approached my first crossroads in my life, should i continue to believe in a god or not?.
currently i am leaning toward agnosticism, but all the suffering in the world, all the loss and pain in my own life makes it hard for me to simply let go of the idea and hope that at the end justice will prevail, that one day god can make it all good.. .
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jam,
I never could grasp the idea of sin even as a beleiver, all I always saw were cells simply deteriorating.
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More JW STATS from this year's CA: Gods Word Is Beneficial for Teaching
by suavojr inthis past weekend i wasted my time at another jw ca, during this time this is what our new do shared with all the drones and i just wanted to share with all of the current awaken jw's or ex-jw's.. .
public address: who is rocking the nations, and how?.
we all know the jw leaders love talk about numbers!.
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suavojr
This past weekend I wasted my time at another JW CA, during this time this is what our new DO shared with all the drones and I just wanted to share with all of the current awaken JW's or ex-JW's.
Public Address: Who Is “Rocking” the Nations, and How?
We all know the JW leaders love talk about numbers!
Interesting stats
- We preach in 239 different nations and in 600 different languages
- Our literature is in over 650 languages, and during this year our goal is to translate our literature into 1000 different languages! There is not a single corner of the planet that is out of our reach.
- We are 8 million JW’s!
- Our website JW.org reaches 230 nations, and it is available in 316 languages, with literature in 600 languages. Our website also receives 900,000 unique visits daily and 5 million videos are streamed monthly.
He stated ‘the JW’s do not interpret the bible, the bible interprets itself” he later read Hebrews 12:26: 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."
This has been occurring since 1914, for one century Jehovah has been shaking the earth. The organization will NOT BE SHAKEN in the GT and during the big A.
FINAL TALK
Work Hard to Remain in Jehovah’s Teaching!
The DO mentioned how in Mexico they allowed a 6 year old girl to get baptized.
He ended the talk by saying that this year’s DC will bring big surprises for all JW’s, STAY TUNED...
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Talking with a nonbeliever...
by suavojr inin my search for the truth and the burning desire to become free from all forms of dogma and wishful thinking.
i have approached my first crossroads in my life, should i continue to believe in a god or not?.
currently i am leaning toward agnosticism, but all the suffering in the world, all the loss and pain in my own life makes it hard for me to simply let go of the idea and hope that at the end justice will prevail, that one day god can make it all good.. .
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Punkofnice said:
The human race will cease to exist. We will never know because we'll be long dead.
Very true, because evolution does not distinguish any species and thus the strongest always survive. But we also have to be honest to ourselves and admit that no one has the answer to the source of life and all the energy that surrounds us. At the same time, I also understand that an entity like an all-powerful God with an unlimited amount of energy is a more complicated and improbable hypothesis than having no God.
Galaxie said:
Non religious people have more focus to look at solutions more objectively IE not searching for deistic/theological solutions, but concentrating on the humanistic causes.
That is what I mean! When take out the God of the gaps, we realize that we can do more to bring change.
Can we go beyond what we have accomplished? How can we bring a positive change into this world as a species?
But mankind suffers from a darker side as well, i.g. greed, lust, wrath, envy, pride, etc… I also suspect that this is the reason why the God of any literature reflects these human features.