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expatbrit

The latest blather from Watchtower media:

For Immediate Release
February 20, 2003

Highlights of 2002 include using the Web to spread the Word

In the past year, Jehovah's Witnesses around the world spent over 1.2 billion hours seeking out people who want to find answers to life's deepest questions. This tally represents their greatest peak to date, encompassing the time spent both in their signature door-to-door Bible education work to the public and in individual Bible instruction.

There have also been exciting developments this past year with the online medium, www.watchtower.org, as month after month additional translations of educational material were added to the Web site. In fact, as of February 20, 2003, this Web site publishes educational articles in 105 languages! The available languages include common ones, such as English, Chinese, French and Spanish, as well as many less-familiar tongues, such as Chamorro, Faeroese and Sranantongo.

By means of the online request feature of watchtower.org, more than 300 requests a month come in from individuals who wish to participate in an individually tailored Bible study program. The Watchtower is the most widely translated magazine in the world, published in 146 languages in either semimonthly or monthly editions. It has a circulation of 25,203,000.

Media contact: J. R. Brown, telephone: (718) 560-5600

hillary_step

In the past year, Jehovah's Witnesses around the world spent over 1.2 billion hours seeking out people who want to find answers to life's deepest questions.

Lifes deepest questions such as :

If I answer up more questions at the meetings will I get appointed as an elder?

Why is growing a beard outlawed in this religion, at least for the men?

Why do I have to report each month how long I preach?

Why will I be visited by two men who wash windows for a living if I only go to 3 of the five meetings per week?

These questions have more to do with what this religion truly means than its core of doctrine.

And the beat goes on.....HS

A Paduan

1.2 billion hours spent hunting down the information poor - none spent seeking out the people with the answers though - no doubt they already know them all - as long as you don't ask the wrong questions.

funkyderek

1.2 billion hours and 265,469 baptisms. That's 4520 hours of preaching per baptism. That's four years of preaching from the most dedicated of pioneers, just to get one conversion, or 40 years plus for the average publisher. Truly, Jehovah must be blessing them

gumby

Truly, Jehovah must be blessing them

LOL Funkymeister !

What makes those figures even worse is many of those baptisms are of those raised in it.....not converts.