in this article gerrit talks about his father in the first and last paragraphs, what he says about him and his hope for him goes against all that witnesses have preached about the worldly for the last 100 years... as i recall aren't all the worldly supposed to be destroyed and never have a hope of everlasting life like jw's are, and isn't that the purpose of the preaching work to baptize and warn the worldly of this???
if not why do jws even preach, or even become jws in the first place if all have a hope of everlasting life, jw and non-jw, are they releasing a little hint at new light to come???
or am i just missing or over analyzing something?.
BTW: 'There is to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous (those heretofore unacquainted with God's will).'
Then that can include just about anyone and everyone as no one at all knows what God's will is. What we think God's will is entirely based upon heresay and simply the words and opinion of another person. That is not knowing God's will.
in a 2013 article currently on jw.org (reference 1), the jws bragged about how their website is translated into 300 languages and that it reaches, according to alexa statistics, 890,000 unique users every day.. what about the monthly stats?
the site websitetrafficspy.com (reference 2), which draws its statistics from alexa, reports that there are an estimated 3.2 million unique visitors every month for jw.org.*.
since the 2013 memorial had an attendance of 19.2 million (reference 3), this could be understood as 1/6 of the jws and their friends visited the site on a monthly basis.. this is not unexpected as the internet itself is used only by 39% of the planet at this time (reference 4).. hence, the number of languages in which the website is translated does not offer any guaranty as to its information being accessed or even be accessible at all to most of the planets population.. .
Those stats are rubbish..
There are 7,782,346 active publishes in the world.
Jw.org has received an estimated 7,639,900 visits over the last 30 days. The number of visits differs from visitors (or unique visitors). Visits includes multiple visits from the same individual (repeat visits).
That's 254,662 non-unique visitors a day.
So.. if we assume each member visits jw.org just once a month this alone will account for the websites total visitors. The truth is that vast numbers of these members probably visits the site easily 10 times a day every single day (repeat visits) and on multiple devices so these visitor figures plummet drastically.
So.. yes jw.org is being heavily promoted but mostly only among themselves. The world on the other had really does not seem to give a dam.
.. this song was just sent to me... it`s funny!...
.. "i don't look good naked anymore" .....the snake oil willie band.
click the link below:.
I thought we were about to be treated to a photo of OUTLAW in the buff!!.
has anyone had success with a high traffic website or blog ?.
it might take a team of people to accomplish.. ads pay and people count, lots and lots of people.
does jehovahs-witness.net make money every time someone looks at the web site?
You deserve every penny Simon..
i put the kingdom first - by sheree stokell.
so they dunked me in a pool.
armageddon would be here soon.
Maybe that should read: "I Put the Organisation First".
Very sad though..
so we went to calgary zoo today and i'm torn between zoo's being great for conservation vs using animals to make money.
i think on the whole they are a good thing but it's sad to see some of the animals caged up - somehow i always end up staring into the eyes of a gorilla and it makes me sad.. but that isn't what struck me ... it's these things:.
http://www.amazon.com/step2-wagon-two-plus-blue/dp/b0048wqhgw/ref=zg_bs_166419011_2.
Zoos don't make that much money from just entry fees.
London zoo seems to get by..
2009 Financial report:
For ZSL London Zoo it was the second-best year since,1993 with 1.059,million visitors. May, half-term, summer, holidays and Halloween were the most notable successes. Overall for the year, we finished 34,170 visitors ahead of,budget and 20,140 up on 2008. £10,740,000 admission revenue was generated which is an increase of £711,000 from,2008 (£10,029,000).
http://www.zsl.org/sites/default/files/document/2014-02/zsl-financial-report2009-1119.pdf
How they manage this from only an average 2,730 visitors a day I don't know.
i found a way to get the entire spreadsheet into google so that people can take a look at it.... i also made a spreadsheet that shows the doctrines with most # of changes, ranked from most to least:.
https://sites.google.com/site/laverdadtj2/number-of-changes.
I get a blank page.. and this in Firefox..
The same with Safari..
But works fine in Chrome.
what was the most outrageous comment you ever heard during a wt study?.
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please share your experiences..
Said in the kingdom hall but not on the mic.
1. Two of the oldest and most mature elder sisters in my congregation told me once: "never go to the elders for anything.. they are like weak little boys"
2. Said by ministerial servant after platform demo at theocratic ministry school meeting involving exemplary long serving pioneer sister: "Dam that sister is a real bitch"
I quit meetings a month later.
please read this short article and then think for a minute on how this apply to those amongst the jehovah's witnessses who enforce organizational policies that harm people (such as shunning, for example, but there are others, such as blood, rejection of higher education etc), and those who blindly comply with such pratices - both of them otherwise "nice, good people" in every other regards, and who apparently don't see anything wrong in doing something harmful, even evil, to their brethren.. what is this?
the "banality of evil", or, instead, because there's such a strong identification with a cause, people just accept they are doing the right thing simply because the authority that is regarded as legitimatly representing such cause has instructed them to do so?.
interesting thought - and this question too: if one ceases to see such "authority" as the legitimate agent of the cause, will that simple change cause the blind to finally become aware of the evil they've been enforcing / complying to?.
Eye drops help...
an atheist airman is being denied the ability to re-enlist in the us air force because he refuses to use the word god in his oath of office, according to the american humanist association (aha).. the unnamed member of the air force refused to take the oath containing so help me god, wanting a secular affirmation instead.
so he crossed out the phrase on his contract.
the airman was told by his superiors that he must swear to god or leave the air force, the aha said in a press release.
It always seemed to me that believing in God and being in the military were completely contrary to each other. I don't understand how an oath like that can make any sense in the first place.
