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  2016 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 2016 yearbook is now on the official site.

  pdf.

  it has been added to the archive of all prior yearbooks.

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  bohm

  Thanks for posting!

  Huge shoutout for the poster who first leaked these numbers. I got to say I think these numbers are better for the WTBS than I expected with no drop in the western world. This indicates (?) the lack of growth is in 3rd world countries (someone should figure out where the reduction in growth is happening) and with these being the most affected by cutbacks the coming year 2016 is properly not going to be stellar either.

  That said, with growth curves there is a regression towards the mean implying that we should be expect 2016 not to be as bad as this year for the WTBS.

  Interesting times...
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  Yearbook 2016

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  stil no 2016 yearbook on jw.org, due to my fade i forgot the normal publishing date.

  do you remember when the yearbook was released?

  i'm just curious about the 2015 publisher data.

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  bohm

  First jw book i am looking forward to reading.
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  Congregation in U.K. "executed"!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  latest from a reliable source: .

  "more news from the south-west of england.cinderford congregation has been terminated.

  if you look on jw.org it hasn't disappeared yet (dec 20th 2015) but it's meeting time is shown as sunday at 10.00 am and that is not possible, as lydney who shared the same hall are listed as sunday at 10.30 am.cinderford and lydney shared a hall in parkend, lydney, gloucestershire.

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  bohm

  Great stuff, i love these updates
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  Jeb Bush would kill a baby !

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  ok, specifically he was talking about hitler.

  apparently he was asked whether, if he could go back in time, he would kill him when he was a baby.. and he said "hell yeah !".

  but still wtf?

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  bohm

  Simon: He had three options:

  1) duck the question

  2) say he would kill a baby

  3) say he would allow the holocaust

  All three options are bad & none of them give us any insight in his politics, morals or anything relevant. If this is not an example of a stupid question I can't say what is.

  Why is this anymore relevant than:

  Jeb Bush, have you stopped beating your wife?
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  Jeb Bush would kill a baby !

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  ok, specifically he was talking about hitler.

  apparently he was asked whether, if he could go back in time, he would kill him when he was a baby.. and he said "hell yeah !".

  but still wtf?

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  bohm

  In related news: "Jeb Bush, would you sleep with your mom if it cured cancer?"

  headline: "Jeb Bush admits: 'I am a motherfucker'"

  yah... really classy journalism.
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  Reason of financial problems WTS

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a non-witness insider told me this week that the wts has financial problems.

  that lead to halting down their building plans and lay off the special pioneers and.

  bethelites.. the reason of the financial stagnation is beside some bad investments,.

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  bohm

  Thanks Gorby, it seems there are more and more indications of critical voices within the org. One has to wonder if forcing them to stay in at high positions is really all that great for the org in the long run.
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  Reason of financial problems WTS

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a non-witness insider told me this week that the wts has financial problems.

  that lead to halting down their building plans and lay off the special pioneers and.

  bethelites.. the reason of the financial stagnation is beside some bad investments,.

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  bohm

  I second what dropoffyourkeylee said, you can PM me if you like (promise it won't go any further).
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  Warwick to finish EARLY

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, story time.. anon asks me via pm:.

  just heard from a wallkill bethelite that warwick will finish early.

  can you confirm?.

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  bohm

  antes8080: For real? Insider info?

  Damn. Jehovah must really be turning the couches around in his heavenly sofa looking for cash.
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  How confident are you about various so called facts?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  no facts about the world are absolutely certain.

  that being the case i wonder how others would rank amd rate their confidence in various factual statements about the world.

  i am going to rate my confidence in ten items of "knowledge" as a percentage.

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  bohm

  no seriously, the idea your beliefs can be ranked in terms of degree of certainty on the same scale is pure Bayesian theory of confirmation
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  How confident are you about various so called facts?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  no facts about the world are absolutely certain.

  that being the case i wonder how others would rank amd rate their confidence in various factual statements about the world.

  i am going to rate my confidence in ten items of "knowledge" as a percentage.

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  bohm

  lol :-D