if you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.
January broadcast cancelled too!
Annual meeting posted instead. (In previous years the annual meeting has been posted without it interfering with JW broadcast.)
I told you so. Watchtower is finished! Maybe Watchtower has already collapsed and the GB fled?
now available:.
2017 service year report worldwide: table with individually listed lands and countries.
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I see Russia has been removed from the listing and added to the "other" column. Which produces an overall decrease. Comparison of this table with yours should reveal exactly how many Russian JWs have been lost in the last year.
david splane explains newest understanding" of 'this generation" adding a 3rd group.... .
As stupid as the chart in the opening post is, the original chart by Splane was hardly much less stupid. They are beyond parody.
now available:.
2017 service year report worldwide: table with individually listed lands and countries.
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Freddo I think you mixed up 2016 and 2017 for number of congregations.
now available:.
2017 service year report worldwide: table with individually listed lands and countries.
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Annoying that they seem to be holding back the average figures for some reason.
I reckon we'll see fewer and fewer statistics released in coming years. This is just the start. In fact it's not the start. It's part of a long trend going back at least to when they ceased publishing the monthly figures in the Kingdom Ministry.
I see Russia has been removed from the listing and added to the "other" column. Which produces an overall decrease. Comparison of this table with yours should reveal exactly how many Russian JWs have been lost in the last year.
I make that out to be 165,594, down 6,234 (3.6%) from 171,828. Not that big a decrease, considering the ban.
i was just lying here thinking about mind control and thought it'd write a list just to see how much the wts does try to control every aspect of people's lives.
some of the things i've come up with are:.
xmas,.
for the holidays my girlfriend and i had planned to travel home and enjoy some time in our home area and visit with all our families.
she has several siblings and both our parents are divorced and living separately so it was a really busy time traveling around visiting each home.
my girlfriend was never a jw, but as for me i have been df'd for about 7 years now.
Article from page 16, especially last few pragraphs, studied a few weeks ago.
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_magazines/86/w_f-lp_E_201710.pdf
the watchtower in the uk are expecting volunters in the uk to travel many 100s of miles for a days work either skilled or unskilled in the new bethel at chelmsford;from edinborough in scotland its almost a 800 mile roundtrip.
Not only that, but if you submit an application you need to be vetted to see if you're suitable, is that right?
Has anyone simply asked them what the headquarters will be used for?
As for building in order to make money: I don't think the building adds value. It's the land that's worth money,
for the holidays my girlfriend and i had planned to travel home and enjoy some time in our home area and visit with all our families.
she has several siblings and both our parents are divorced and living separately so it was a really busy time traveling around visiting each home.
my girlfriend was never a jw, but as for me i have been df'd for about 7 years now.
In that case it might be because of the recent WT. It was very strong, and you had JWs with DFed relatives answering up affirming the policy.
WT has a lot to answer for.
Best to see the good in your Gran for disobeying the WT all these years. It must be difficult sometimes.
for the holidays my girlfriend and i had planned to travel home and enjoy some time in our home area and visit with all our families.
she has several siblings and both our parents are divorced and living separately so it was a really busy time traveling around visiting each home.
my girlfriend was never a jw, but as for me i have been df'd for about 7 years now.
It's probably just because she heard your girlfriend is pregnant. Even non-JWs who are old fashioned (and old) can be funny about that. Apart from anything else she might find it embarrassing. But she will probably adjust. The fact that she's wanted to talk to you all these years is a good sign, and much better treatment than many former JWs experience. I'd suggest it's far too soon to give up on your Gran. Situations can be complicated, and WT is only one factor among many.
