it seems like at least once a month he is brought up as a good example in the study wt.
it seems like he is given more praise than jesus.
have you noticed this?
To me it seems like the JWs use David to make their favourite point of "it's what's in your heart that matters" and then twist that into obedience. As a cult, they don't just want your outward obedience, but they want (brainwashed) "heartfelt obedience" - THEY WANT YOUR BRAAAINS!
It doesn't matter how much adultery or how many people you murder, it's "obedience to Jehovah" (i.e. obey the GB) that counts.
many of us know where we were during 9/11 or when john kennedy and martin luther king were killed.. it seems that when faced with ttatt, real truth is dismissed as "ol' light" or "an imperfect group of men" but from what i gather, many of you, at some point, were hit with a component of ttatt that shattered all of those cliches that allowed you to brush off the obvious reality that something was very wrong.
some of you may remember the hours following your earliest exposures to an undeniably true tatt.
did you zone completely out?
OMG! OMG!, how do I get out of this.
This ^
607 was the killer blow for me
And this ^
does anyone know where there might be a link to an english watchtower library 2013?
i don't know why i download an illegal copy every year - probably so i can take the mick...... all i can find is an italian version - the only italian i can speak is on the menu at our local restaurant......
PM me also please, if someone wouldn't mind ...
Many thanks
interesting video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1hi7s85ge.
Send that " tight pants" video to all the major gay forums and see what happens....
I see a mass protest outside bethel by people in tight pants. That could be interesting.
i'm sure topics like this have already come up but they tend to get hilarious with the absolute absurdity that goes on in the kh.
i was once counseled for not shaving after two days.
i was also counseled by a sister for eating lucky charms cereal.
I was counseled for flirting with a young sister.
I'm gay
forgot who started to post these , but does anyone remember them?
they were very funny, anyone got any links to show them again?.
i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
I think my figures were wrong for Slovakia, sorry (I obviously missed a "1")
They actually only went down by 38.
Need to correct my master spreadsheet...
i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
Italy really dropped off a cliff from being the 5th fastest growing, from having a 10k increase around 1990, to an increase of only 600 less than 10 years later:
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
Italy |
7,101 | 6,705 | 6,219 | 4,714 | 3,559 | 600 | 644 | 935 | 1,464 | 1,773 | 960 | 1,180 | 1,171 | 2,882 | 1,625 | 2,524 | 1,561 | 1,631 | 1,872 | 1,933 |
Were they really quick to take up the internet in Italy or something? This is representative of a lot of countries though.
This is what the countries at the bottom of the table for 2013 look like - a negative number is a decrease. Lots of eastern European countries:
| Country or Territory | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| Slovakia | -150 | -288 | -275 | -59 | -178 | -19 | 21 | 46 | -87 | -10,038 |
| Poland | 804 | 352 | -902 | 140 | -1,286 | -2 | -486 | -361 | -540 | -1,014 |
| Japan | 77 | 130 | -46 | 748 | -590 | 191 | -290 | 112 | -660 | -726 |
| Germany | 149 | -580 | -651 | 1,204 | -521 | 346 | -279 | 283 | -189 | -246 |
| Portugal | 61 | -274 | -71 | 542 | 25 | 492 | 122 | 234 | 83 | -206 |
| Greece | -77 | -59 | 14 | 211 | 64 | 380 | 310 | 127 | -3 | -199 |
| Moldova | -134 | 213 | 358 | 728 | 271 | 400 | 246 | 135 | -33 | -164 |
| Guadeloupe | 31 | 71 | 193 | 263 | 22 | 170 | 16 | 68 | -222 | -96 |
| Puerto Rico | -97 | -401 | 34 | 398 | -37 | 409 | 369 | 290 | 13 | -75 |
| Hungary | 13 | -7 | 206 | 577 | 187 | 492 | 315 | 94 | -147 | -67 |
| Finland | -93 | -183 | -53 | 184 | -80 | -22 | -70 | -19 | -141 | -67 |
| Armenia | 473 | 414 | 310 | 406 | 350 | 509 | 431 | 247 | 9 | -54 |
| Estonia | 70 | 40 | 48 | 47 | -5 | 29 | 7 | -24 | -27 | -44 |
| Croatia | 15 | -16 | -7 | 47 | 18 | 59 | 24 | 22 | -4 | -43 |
| Sudan | 0 | 1267 | 99 | 99 | 109 | 102 | 17 | -103 | -1095 | -39 |
| Latvia | 48 | 46 | 11 | -4 | -16 | 42 | -13 | -10 | -10 | -37 |
| Slovenia | 18 | 31 | 3 | 24 | 4 | 35 | 24 | 13 | -4 | -35 |
| Luxembourg | 5 | 25 | 39 | 47 | 34 | 58 | 47 | 32 | -21 | -25 |
| Czech Republic | -8 | -115 | -150 | 102 | -147 | 9 | -11 | 26 | -11 | -23 |
i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
As far as declining increases go, Russia and the Ukraine are probably the most striking, from Russia being the 3rd biggest growing JW country in 1997, Ukraine being the 3rd biggest in 1999, to Russia being 23rd now in 2013 and Ukraine 48th:
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
| Russia % of world growth |
9 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Russia Actual Growth |
17,025 | 13,854 | 9,791 | 6,710 | 4,914 | 6,361 | 6,398 | 6,082 | 3,748 | 3,518 | 6,133 | 2,874 | 5,136 | 2,978 | 3,959 | 1,424 | 1,439 |
| Ukraine % of world growth |
7 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ukraine Actual Growth |
12,879 | 11,812 | 9,922 | 8,186 | 6,193 | 4,946 | 4,475 | 3,963 | 1,926 | 2,022 | 4,961 | 2,809 | 4,130 | 2,778 | 2,122 | 690 | 398 |
i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
Here are the actual numerical increases (average publisher difference, anyway) for those "top" countries for the last 10 years:
| Country or Territory | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| Mexico | 25,998 | 4,850 | 13,847 | 20,125 | 21,361 | 27,042 | 27,873 | 27,941 | 24,895 | 27,844 |
| United States of America | 4,567 | 2,207 | 13,189 | 32,303 | 16,790 | 37,507 | 19,589 | 21,406 | 10,427 | 11,573 |
| Congo, Dem. Republic of | 5,746 | 4,859 | 4,581 | 2,951 | 4,835 | 4,495 | 7,145 | 9,456 | 2,051 | 11,338 |
| Brazil | 20,286 | 12,608 | 15,177 | 25,632 | 18,021 | 21,784 | 17,122 | 14,197 | 17,055 | 10,989 |
| Nigeria | 4,993 | 4,465 | 3,998 | 9,144 | 8,322 | 9,226 | 7,297 | 5,361 | 8,414 | 8,338 |
| Angola | 2,743 | 3,299 | 3,793 | 4,301 | 4,219 | 4,119 | 2,928 | 5,083 | 6,842 | 7,380 |
| Philippines | 893 | 1,498 | 3,311 | 5,168 | 3,122 | 7,235 | 6,449 | 4,353 | 5,018 | 6,920 |
| Colombia | 2,401 | 2,632 | 1,591 | 5,236 | 4,140 | 5,420 | 4,982 | 4,591 | 3,513 | 5,115 |
| Venezuela | 2,467 | 1,128 | 1,369 | 3,890 | 3,103 | 6,052 | 5,192 | 5,820 | 4,137 | 4,614 |
| Ghana | 2,428 | 1,887 | 2,657 | 4,881 | 3,703 | 7,035 | 7,547 | 4,384 | 4,367 | 4,307 |
| Peru | 4,257 | 3,774 | 2,683 | 3,088 | 3,401 | 4,209 | 4,172 | 3,182 | 2,387 | 3,502 |
| Zambia | 3,311 | 1,742 | 4,031 | 4,031 | 3,162 | 9,216 | 7,364 | 4,521 | 4,763 | 3,313 |
| Ecuador | 2,563 | 2,283 | 2,507 | 4,219 | 4,038 | 4,302 | 4,146 | 3,445 | 3,087 | 2,979 |
| Guatemala | 521 | 642 | 678 | 1,370 | 1,039 | 1,409 | 1,454 | 1,703 | 2,505 | 2,581 |
| Malawi | 3,236 | 4,956 | 607 | 2,809 | 2,186 | 2,208 | 1,248 | 3,013 | 2,578 | 1,950 |
