Well I always enjoyed reading the worldwide report in the yearbook, and I realised they could only compile the report if I submitted my report. So I had no problem doing it.
slimboyfat
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"The purpose of reporting field service time is for encouragement"
by HereIgo ini was told this when i was an aspiring jw, aka unbaptized publisher.
the above explanation didn't make sense to me then and it never did make sense throughout my jw career.
over time, it appeared to me the real purpose of field service time reporting was to gauge one's spirituality and for the ceo *cough* co to make sure the elders were on top of things during his visit..
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Statistical Analysis of the top 25 countries in the world - Average Publishers
by ILoveTTATT2 inso i looked up the 2016 numbers and the top 25 countries:.
united states.
mexico.
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slimboyfat
I was going to say that, but wanted to check first. One of the major surprises last year was a 22% increase in Congo.
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Being a jobo. It's not the same as it was.
by punkofnice ini've been hearing this from what i'd call 'dyed in the wool' type jobos.. 'it's not the same as it was a few years ago.....'.
i believe from what comes back to me via my spies -.
the dyed in the woolers are referring to how the gb are now blatantly pontificating threateningly it seems, about wanting money even from children, all the time.
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slimboyfat
There was a public talk recently where the speaker listed the things that could cause people to leave the truth, and the one he focussed on was, "all the changes we have seen recently in the organisation." He talked about people missing the group studies, the new cart witnessing, and the move toward downloads and away from printed literature. He said the changes have discouraged some people
I've heard people say they don't like Lett or Morris on the videos, that Jackson didn't do well at the ARC, and more talk about the abuse scandals generally.
I only have limited exposure, but that's what I've heard.
Not heard any comments on the ice cream money video.
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Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?
by LoveUniHateExams injust thought i'd start a thread about favourite movies.
mine, in no particular order, are .... alien - a great visual film.
the chest-bursting scene is still great to watch, no matter how many times i've seen the movie.
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Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube
by mrmagic indue to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
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slimboyfat
Maybe it was Cedars who reported them. Ha!
(Sets cat among pigeons and walks away)
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Bible contradictions.
by pleaseresearch inwhat are your biggest, funniest, scariest, etc.... wait wt says there are non hahahah.
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slimboyfat
Charles Taze Russell agreed there are mistakes in the Bible.
There are certain parts of the Bible that are purely historical. The Books of Kings and Chronicles and the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are purely historical, and there is no particular need of inspiration in regard to these, unless it would be that divine providence would guide them so that they would not leave out what should be in. But where a history is written, it is not of necessity that it should be inspired, because all truth is good. If Saint Matthew, for instance, wrote that Jesus said thus and so, he is merely telling what he heard, what he knew to be the facts. He did not need to be inspired to tell the truth, any more than you need to be inspired to go out of here and tell what I have said: you should tell it straight; so there is no need of any inspiration about it. Now, I would say there are passages in Kings and Chronicles where evidently an error has been made. These are historical books, and there are little slips somewhere in the way the thing has been recorded. Both books cover the same period of time, but one gives it a little different from the other. We may see some day just how they can be harmonized, but at present we do not.
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Another lie. This time from the UK Branch
by alanv inandrew schofield, a spokesman for jehovah’s witnesses in britain, states: “for almost 60 years, our administrative operations for britain have been located in london.
however, larger facilities became necessary due to the increased demand for bible-related literature and materials.
we began site preparation on the 34-hectare (approx.
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slimboyfat
It's up there with the classic Sam Herd comment: "we need to cut back because we are rapidly expanding". Forget the exact quote.
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Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube
by mrmagic indue to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
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slimboyfat
Are they the crazy ones? Not a great loss, some might say. Sorry if I mixed them up.
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My Story
by Lee Elder inthis is the first of a multi-part article that tells my story, and how ajwrb got started.. https://www.openmindsfoundation.org/saving-thousand-lives-year-reform-watchtowers-policy-blood-transfusions-part-one/.
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slimboyfat
Excellent, thanks. Does this mean you're no longer anonymous?
I first heard about the "liberal elder" during a meeting for field service in 1999. One of the first things I googled, or whatever the search engine was then.
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10 Graphs that show that the Watchtower is in trouble in Mexico
by ILoveTTATT2 inmexico is by far the country where the witnesses have had the most success in the entire world.
almost any statistic except the total amount of witnesses shows that mexico is where the witnesses have had the wildest success in the world.proportional to population, the witnesses in mexico are double, or nearly triple, what they are in the us or brazil.but there is "trouble in paradise".
if mexico falls, pretty much the whole watchtower falls.which is why it is so important to have jwfacts translated to spanish.i made an analysis and things are looking bad in mexico... if trends continue, mexico will become just like the 1st-world countries.here is the first graph:maximum publisher % increase:.
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slimboyfat
The decline in baptisms looks particularly bad. Even worse if it was expressed as baptisms/publisher, as Paul does for worldwide figures on jwfacts. Congregation decline too is very significant.
I guess they may have closed down some English congregations because they were "concerned" some were attending for the "wrong reasons" and just wanted to improve their English. It happens in Europe too.
I think Zambia might have a good claim to being the country where JWs have been most successful. In Zambia around 1% are JWs and around 5% attend the memorial.