FrankWTower
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11,824 Memorial Partakers in 2011
by FrankWTower inthere were 11,202 partakers in 2010. and 11,824 partakers in 2011.. there was an increase of 622 or 5.5% in one year.. your thoughts?.
source: 2012 yearbook (in spanish).
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Exit Strategy - My plan to leave
by FrankWTower ini've been intellectually awake for about three years now.
it's taken me time but i've figured out an exit strategy to leave the jw's as frictionless as possible.
it's impossible to leave with my dignity in tact but, leaving will be worth it.
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More Elders than MS's For First Time in WT History
by FrankWTower inhave you heard the good news?.
i heard from a reliable source that for the first time in watchtower history, there are more elders now than ministerial servants.
this is not just a regional issue either, it's worldwide..
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Stay Alive Til 2020
by FrankWTower ini've been playing around with wt statistics recently, helped by the great data available on jwfacts.com.
i wanted to share somehting with the community, maybe you've seen something like this before.. continuing the trend of decline seen during the last 30 years, i was able to extrapolate the year when wt growth might finally end.
if trends continue, we may only have to wait about 8 more years, 9 years to see it reported if the wt decides to report it at all, to see publisher growth end and possibly reverse.. the graph shows the annual growth rate of average publishers during the last 31 years.
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Social Networks are a threat to the Watchtower Society
by FrankWTower inin recent months there have been massive protests and demonstrations against autocratic rulers in the middle east and north africa.
many of these were possible in part because the protesters used social media services like facebook, youtube and twitter to get the word out and let the world know what was going on.
these services are so threatening to many governments that they're blocked in order to control their people.
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May 21st, 2011, Judgement Day?
by FrankWTower inwhile on the subject of some wacko making yet another prediction, i found this info on time.com.. .
the onset of world war i freaked a lot of people out.
but it was especially trippy for the zion's watch tower tract society, a group that's now called jehovah's witnesses.
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Matthew 24:14
by FrankWTower ini don't know if you've read anything like this before, but i'd like to share anyway.
as you know, we hear time and time again how we've preached pretty much in every country on earth (with a few exceptions for safety reasons).
well, maybe we have, but that doesn't mean we've reached even half of the people on earth.
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This Week's # 2
by FrankWTower ini've been noticing for a while now how the watchtower sometimes seems to change the meanings of words in the english language in order to not label jw's as anything that has anything to do with the rest of the world.. for example, this week's number 2 part in the theocratic ministry school dealt with: are jehovah's witnesses a sect?.
when i look to dictionaries for the definition of this word they all have similar meanings, albeit with different wording.
a group of people forming a distinct unit within a larger group by virtue of certain refinements or distinctions of belief or practice.
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Ouija boards and science
by FrankWTower inthere is an interesting new article at guardian.com on things like dowsing, ouija boards and other scams.
it illustrates how there is a scientific explanation for ouija boards, and how dowsing won't stand up to scientific scrutiny.. here's a summary:.
the ideomotor effect is also behind the supposed power of ouija boards to communicate with the dead.
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I'm Not Spiritual
by FrankWTower ini remember listening and thinking about other people and how spiritual they are.
some jw's eat, sleep and breathe watchtower.
and i used to think, "why can't i be like them?