Sorry - I'm a perfectionist
What will (hopefully) happen is that the document gets used as a resource, and I don't want to be accused of misleading anyone.
Start missing out stuff and fudging the figures and you become no better than the Borg.
Posts by 88JM
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312013 Report - difference in av. pubs compared to % of baptisms
by likeabird ini just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
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2013 Report - difference in av. pubs compared to % of baptisms
by likeabird ini just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
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88JM
likeabird - Burma to Myanmar is a pretty simple name change, but sometimes you get countries that split away from another country but one country still keeps the old name, e.g. recently Sudan and South Sudan. You can't really just carry on the numbers for "Sudan" as it's not really the same "country" exactly as it represents a smaller number of people. (I probably made this mistake actually, thinking about it...)
What I'd tend to do would be to have three rows in that case: Sudan, South Sudan and "Sudan + South Sudan" for when they actually were one country
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2013 Report - difference in av. pubs compared to % of baptisms
by likeabird ini just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
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88JM
88JM, perhaps you could post your spreadsheets as public documents on Google Docs? This should work well to keep them in the same location but update as necessary.
Yes, making the document more open and available was on my to-do list as it was suggested on that thread. I think jwfacts also put it on his site somewhere.
Scanning and OCR'ing the tables isn't that difficult, but it's the country changes that mess it up - countries changing their names and/or merging, splitting in two are a bit of a headache. I'm not looking forward to the working back through the troublesome 80s :(
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2013 Report - difference in av. pubs compared to % of baptisms
by likeabird ini just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
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88JM
100 years is a little ambitious I suspect - I don't think yearbooks go back that far! And (accurate) death rates probably aren't available for all countries that far back either.
50 years might be do-able - I guess I'm over half way there.
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2013 Report - difference in av. pubs compared to % of baptisms
by likeabird ini just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
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88JM
Sure - will do.
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2013 Report - difference in av. pubs compared to % of baptisms
by likeabird ini just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
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88JM
I'll be updating my 25+ year spreadsheet today or tomorrow that will allow you to make such a calculation
(yes, I know the download links are broken) http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/250532/1/25-YEARS-of-compiled-yearbook-statistics
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next week's bible reading (Gen. 1-5) stumpers.for your "in" family conversations & sly comments.
by prologos inyou may add many, but here are two:.
1) vegetation made on day 3, animals formed day 5,6, but- then.
in gen 2, man seems to be the primary creation, and vegetation and then animals were formed from the dust and brought to him to name them.
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88JM
One line that I've heard trotted out is something like: "although evolutionists may not agree with how things started in Genesis, they do agree with the order things came about". This is incorrect of course - evolutionists do not agree with the order of things in Genesis either.
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RNWT bible "large print" version due out?
by 88JM ini'd totally forgotten about it, but the literature department at the local congregation here was taking orders for "large print" versions of the new bible.. has anyone seen one in the wild?.
why isn't it on jw.org yet - i'm sure they said it would be in january?.
is it really just a "large print" version, or is it a "reference" version with extra bits?.
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88JM
I'd totally forgotten about it, but the literature department at the local congregation here was taking orders for "large print" versions of the new bible.
Has anyone seen one in the wild?
Why isn't it on JW.org yet - I'm sure they said it would be in January?
Is it really just a "large print" version, or is it a "reference" version with extra bits?
Do you think it will have the "Numbers 35" misprint?
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2014 DC in DETROIT? anymore info ? scan of the "letter"
by ?me? inso in our area, we have the circuit assemblies going on, so the "letter" about when and where our dc was delayed.
but a local elder let everyone know in their service group, and they let it out of the bag( only to have 30 comments on socal media, and only to be deleted a day later).
not a big deal, right?
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88JM
I'll try to stay awake to see that, konceptual99
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How Long Have You Been Viewing Thiis Site? Does It Serve Its Purpose For You?
by minimus ini've been here forever.... this site still gives us some of the most up to date info about jws .
it keeps evolving.
sometimes it is the place to be and i think that's especially true for newbies.
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88JM
14 years is quite mature for an internet forum. I've seen many other (non-JW) internet forums come and go in the same amount of time, even ones with slicker and more advanced features, but they can soon become redundant when they are based around a certain thing that falls out of fashion. The fact that more and more people are still joining JWN is testament that there is still very much a need for a forum like this.