watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
Id venture to say to cut that number of true believers by 1/2 maybe even 1/3 of that.
If that be true then these people are choosing not to identify as such, when given the freedom to do so in the census. As a general rule, around the world, the census figure is usually twice that of what is stated by Wt.
watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
Slimboy- We are both on the same line of thought here. There’s the proof from Mormon stories about membership. You have backed it up with similar data. What else can you do???.
watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
I have one helluva hard time believing membership is ANYWHERE NEAR 9 million. No fuggin' way! Probably more around 3 million.
Well here is your proof!!
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4801405261447168/comparison-between-jws-lds-sda-mexico
for those still in the organization what is your meeting attendance like these days?.
when i left in 2017 there were around 80 publishers and the average meeting attendance was 70..
While PIMO, I had the assignment of counting the attendance. I noted that 2/3 of the cong were 50+ in age. I also saw a photo of an elders school. All of them were grey headed. This was 11 years ago. I’d hate to think what it’s like now
i don't think so lol.
lol.
lol.
I wonder what she would think now. With all that has happened.
i wasn't surprised they didn't go online, i was shocked.
the perfect opportunity handed in a silver plate.
more time goes, more proof coming they took wrong decision going back to hall's.
Despite short term gains, of lowering the chance of liability, and freeing up money in realestate. The long term effects of going on line would finish them. It’s a religion that relies on a physical presence. When you don’t know who the person is because their camera is off, or their exact location, you lose the ability to control.
Nothing beats face to face contact. Even with my aged PIMI father I literally push him out the door to physically attend the meetings. This is the best course of action both physically and mentally for him Humans are designed to interact in person.
about a month ago, some unknown poster who looked like one of those guys with a tin foil hat posted on a youtube video that north korea soldiers were landing on russia, during the night, armed to the teeth.
he was making these crazy comments that north korea had committed to help russia fight against nato and that they were getting ready to use nukes against nato countries if nato started using them first.
in less the an hour the video was taken down.
I’m probably going to get shot (no pun intended) for saying this, and I have no doubt this has been discussed before. But I fully support what Putin did, and in hindsight I probably would have done the same thing. This was never about Russia wanting to take over or dominate Ukraine. This was about missiles been built in Ukraine that left the Russian borders vulnerable to attack. The exact same thing happened in the Cold War between Cuba/ USA. I bet if it were the drug gangs in Mexico, building atomic weaponry in Tijuana, something would have been done about it pretty quickly. The Ukrainian government could have not decided to join natio, and this whole thing would have never happened. A terrorist can be very subjective, depending on what side of the line you are on.
ttps://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350446426/leaving-cult-jehovahs-witnesses-behind.
the press.
october 12, 2024 .
I personally know Shane, via the internet. Hell of a nice guy.
https://youtu.be/93h5zpbil6k?si=ffatfxjuxmj_na9i.
I remember, years ago they released renditions of kingdom songs been sung by members of the GB/Bethel family. I was an orthodox PIMI at the time, and I remember openly commenting about how bad they all sounded, and that I was embarrassed listening to it. I just wished it had been the thing to have woken me up. Would have saved me decades.
not sure if anyone really remembers this case, it was huge at the time.
the very interesting point though about this was that at the time the parents were known to be very active in the jw religion.
i also believe that the father may have been an elder(i could be mistaken, though).
I remember watching a mini series about this. I don’t recall this ever been brought out in the movie. In fact this is the first time I’ve heard of it. I’d have to assume, that them been JWs was not the case.
