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  British Sociologist Predicts Possible Collapse in Jehovah's Witness Numbers

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. friends

  a newly published article by british sociologist david voas argues jehovah's witnesses may be about to experience a collapse in numbers.

  contrary to claims by american sociologist rodney stark who predicts strong future growth for jehovah's witnesses, voas shows that jehovah's witnesses' efforts at recruiting new members have become increasingly unsuccessful over the past few decades: the rate of increase has steadily declined, and the number of hours each publisher must preach to produce an extra convert has gone up substantially.

  voas suggests a reason for the stagnation may be that there is a natural limit to the number of people in a given population that are susceptible to conversion to sectarian groups like jehovah's witnesses - the 'carrying capacity' of the population, and that the limit has largely been reached.

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  Changes to the Kingdom Interlinear

  by PanzerZauberei in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the 1969 kit the society used a book by bible scholar justus lipsius as source material for their upright stake "stauros" doctrine of the death of christ.

  they used an image of a man hung on an upright stake with no crossbeam attached to it.

  then they placed a caption under it saying that the illustration came from lipsius.

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  NWT & KIT Prove Jesus IS Jehovah!

  by PanzerZauberei in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have not seen this discussed here before so i thought i would share it with the group.

  romans 10:9 proves that jesus is jehovah.in the jw's kingdom interlinear translation of the greek scriptures they went to great effort to show that the tetragrammaton was supposed to be in the greek texts.

  so, every time the name jehovah appears they show a footnote directing the reader to see how ky'ri*os applies always to jehovah in one or more of their j documents.

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  Judge rules Elder ineligible for confidentiality protections

  by Tatiana in

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  http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/pe_news_local_s_clergy14.47d1c14.html.

  12:02 am pdt on saturday, march 14, 2009 .

  by tammy j. mccoy.

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  ..."Lie to Me".....JW Stalker`s!.&..Sex!...

  by OUTLAW in

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  2. entertainment

  last night was the premiere of the tv show "lie to me'..............it`s about a long haired jw kid,that may have killed his teacher..........he`s basicly a good kid..he`s on the school sports team and stalks his teacher..he`s crazy about her,he follows her around and takes pictures of her..he`s even got a picture of her,dead on the sofa.............when he`s brought in for questioning,he`s asked how he felt when he heard about her death..he said:"i prayed for her soul"(only long haired jw kids on school sports teams are allowed to pray for someones soul!..lol!!

  ).................................the kids dad is an overseer..?

  ?...he loves the lord!..he says lord and god a lot!..he seems to avoid the name jehovah through the entire show.......no one in the kingdom hall likes the dad,because he is a zealous jehovah`s witness!!

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  Why more women than men?

  by Mickey mouse in

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  why do you think more women than men are drawn to the borg?.

  years ago women were more likely to be home during the day when the jw's came a-knocking but i doubt that's the case today.. my husband and i were discussing this and i said that i think more male converts would have an issue with the authoritarian structure of the organization than the female ones.

  also, i think the impositions upon a person's sexuality are especially difficult for men.

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  Hal Turner-Money to be devalued-to affect everyone

  by truthlover in

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  had a radio show, is up on things happening in the american govt... they want to change monetary system that will devalue the us dollar.

  check out google.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1954933468700958565&hi=es.

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  Can a person be a Christian and a scientologist?

  by truthlover in

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  2. friends

  looking at their web site, it seems they rely completely on mankind to solve problems, yet their message is so close to the scriptures, it makes me wonder ---if, once you have your life in order- the scientology way, mankind should resolve all their problems since they believe all are equal, etc.. they dont seem to believe in god or in satan, but that the world is in a mess because men dont work together to better themselves.. any comments??.

  theirs seem to be a perfect life, and have professionals in place to help relieve anyone of any baggage they carry from early life, ie -abuse, be it physical, emotional or religious..... .

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  What will the WBTS do about the youth problem?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  many youngsters, even ones brought up in "the truth", are leaving the organization, some never to return.

  they're not doing so because they want to party or gain wealth (as the society would have you believe) but they are doing so because they are not stupid.

  it is no longer 1974. people have much more information at their fingertips these days and nobody is closer to the signal of the internet than young people.

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  Cheers to all of you who celebrated your first Christmas ever

  by Newborn in

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  2. friends

  like myself.. i loved it.

  can i fall any deeper into this wicked system???.

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