Posts by slimboyfat

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Watchtower has fallen from 700k words/year to now to just 170k words/year
by ComingOutaMyCage in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this is one of the many charts on my jw lib analytics.. i have also attached the top 500 scriptures from 1950-2022. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/viewwordsperyear.html?publication=watchtower&normal=1.

https://i.postimg.cc/503yg1f7/word-count-watchtower.png.

https://i.postimg.cc/gdmskjv-lib-analytics-view-top-scriptures-html.png.
slimboyfat

To be fair, should add the words in video output, if that’s not included.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

Any chance I could have my likes restored, Simon?
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

It’s completely pointless for me to click the like buttons at all because for some reason my likes were disabled sometime back in 2014 or thereabouts 😉
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2022-07-01--Additional Contribution Box!
by Atlantis in
1. jw
2. friends
the watchtower wants more money!.

https://we.tl/t-jyt0susog5.

atlantis!.
slimboyfat

I think they are frustrated that online donations mean that it is difficult now for them to track exactly what each congregation is contributing. Maybe this is an attempt to regain some control over information about which congregations are contributing less money than others. Because in the past circuit overseers could see exactly how much the congregation was contributing and address the issue with the elders. But now the elders could truthfully say, “in this congregation the publishers donate online, so we can’t know how much they are donating”. Even if the circuit overseer or the branch suspects that a congregation is not pulling its weight, as they see it, it may be more difficult to identity these days.
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The Morning Star was given me last year - 'hidden manna' now available for your review
by JohnRossStar in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
hi - quite the introduction, huh?

so the 'morning star' is christ himself and he has guided my thinking and studies to uncover where exactly the wtb&ts went off track, offending jehovah greatly and causing him to 'abandon his sanctuary'.

i've posted the information on reddit jwexwatchtower - please study the articles carefully and put them to the test versus scripture.
slimboyfat

When I saw the “Morning Star” heading I thought I might open it to read about the imminent collapse of capitalism from a comrade.
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2022-July-S-147-Announcements-English and German!
by Atlantis in
1. jw
2. friends
2022-july-s-147-announcements and reminders .

in english and german.. .

https://www.filemail.com/d/vzdsfllhgxpkdmc.
slimboyfat

Thank you Atlantis!
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Rates of PIMOs in bethel as apposed to R&F
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
with all the bethel leaks.

i started to think about the levels of pimos with in bethel as apposed to the rank and file.

would there be higher rates of pimos bethel due to seeing the more unsavoury side of it.
slimboyfat

Every religion has members who don’t believe. From my experience the numbers of sceptical adherents is probably higher in other religious groups than JWs because it’s easier to be a nominal member of other groups.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

All those long form channels consist of interviews with interesting people with novel and important ideas. This does not apply to LE. I know of no other review channel where the review takes longer than the subject of the review.
Mark Kermode for example reviews 3 hour long movies in under ten minutes.
LE’s style is not popular. Only around ten percent of his subscribers watch it. That’s terrible compared with most other channels. His success seems to be based on fooling a lot of people into creating content for free, pretending his leaks are “exclusive”, and the sheer volume of his output because he likes to hear the sound of his own voice.
Take The Truth Hurts channel. He’s got 50,000 subscribers but many of his videos have over 100,000 views and some are over 1 million.
https://youtu.be/S84wg-XMNEc
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

Yes you’re right. Some YouTubers make smaller clips, but it’s only selected pieces of particular interest, and often on a separate channel for clips. They don’t take a three hour video and cut it into 20 10 minute videos the way LE does. Like you say, it takes his audience for fools.
Unfortunately some of the YouTubers attempting to replace LE seem to be copying his longer videos which is hopeless.
If somebody made a channel that summarises the conventions in about 10 to 20 minutes it would be much more successful. You might even get active JWs watching it because it would be easier than watching the real thing. Faders could watch it as a cheat sheet so they can pretend they watched the actual convention in conversations.
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Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers
by fulltimestudent in
1. jw
2. friends
this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

"for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

read more?
slimboyfat

Yes I think most groups suffered decrease due to the pandemic whereas it seems that JWs benefitted from the crisis. It’s probably more due to people returning to the religion in time of crisis rather than new converts.