Well, I guess it would depend on the definition of active member. In my former congregation, only about 40% were "regular" meeting attenders. And in my experience after DAing, there are a lot of "marginal" folks who have doubts and are just going through the motions. The threat of losing all contact through disfellowshipping keeps alot of them staying just active enough to remain on the roles. But I personally don't see any mass exodus in the future.
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Jehovah's Witnesses / Apostate statistics.....
by ScoobySnax inok ok....don't bite at the "apostate" label.
but recently someone on here told me that disaffected/inactive/d/f jws now must out number jws as a whole.. i (funny enough) disagreed.
does anyone have proof otherwise?
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Remember the summer of 76? Apparently, it was the best year all round
by Simon inhttp://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2658020
'life's never been as good as in 1976' .
by rachel williams, pa news .
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Oh yes, I was ten, and we just moved back to the US from Europe. I was in culture shock, having lived in Germany since the age of five. I missed my Gummi Bears and yogurt (our town in the states didn't get them until four years later), but I took to Big Macs and the show "Little House on the Prairie" right away. And it was the Bicentennial to boot, so we put up a flag and went to the fourth of July parade and to see the fireworks. I had my OWN room for the first time in my life (with orange and yellow shag carpet, lol), a garden to play in, and a river to fish in. And cable TV!! Yep, it WAS the best year all around:)
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Jehovah's Witnesses / Apostate statistics.....
by ScoobySnax inok ok....don't bite at the "apostate" label.
but recently someone on here told me that disaffected/inactive/d/f jws now must out number jws as a whole.. i (funny enough) disagreed.
does anyone have proof otherwise?
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The summmer before I quit, they said at an assembly that around 40,000 people per year leave the organisation. It occurred to me then that about as many that were baptised were leaving. I started to wonder why. Maybe that's why they don't mention the numbers too often:)
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Things you threw away when becoming a witness
by JH inare there any things you threw away when you became a witness that you now regret throwing away?
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I bought and threw out the same Nine Inch Nails album twice, lol. All of my brand new Christmas decorations:( But my Grandma gave me almost all of hers when we quit, and they have much more sentimental value to me, as I remember them from my childhood:) A picture of Jesus that my mom scrimped to buy me the Christmas after she and my dad divorced and she was broke:( Later on, I refused to throw out a picture of the Last Supper that my husband's grandparents gave me, though.The memory of losing the other picture was just too painful. My kid's Harry Potter book he got from the school book fair. Fortunately, he got a replacement copy on his first birthday we were out:) But he still likes to tease me.
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What would be your dream career?
by LyinEyes inif you could have any job, career .......something you are very passionate about , what would it be?.
i would be a photographer,,,,,,,taking picutures world wide, and hopefully be on the cover of time magazine , national geographic.. my second choice would be a makeup artist like kevin alcoin ( sp) , he could do magic and make anyone look like who he wanted them to be.
truely an artist and too bad he passed away.
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I'd like to be a traditional midwife that attends home births. I assisted a midwife for awhile and LOVE it, but unfortunately, due to health problems and familiy obligations, couldn't continue.
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Do you have a favorite piece of music?
by MorpheuzX ini don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?
i know the question seems juvenile.
but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.
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Schubert's "Ave Maria" for guitar Erik Satie's Gymnopedies and Gnossienne No. 4 Vivaldi's Four Seasons Everything Enya Creed's "What If"-I will forever be greatful to the band for that song-it's one that really made me THINK Evanescence's "My Immortal" Pink Floyd's album The Wall, and the song, "Dark Side of the Moon" Tori Amos' "Carnival" Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity" And, gearing up for St Patty's day- Metallica's "Whiskey In a Jar";) There is also a piece that I heard in my history of music class that I keep thinking about.It's been driving me NUTS for the past few weeks, because little bits of it keep running through my head, but I can't remember the name of it!
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Favorite Cars
by dustyb in.
i'm a youngster, so i don't like the old cars as much as i do the new cars.
my #1 favorite car is (any year) ferarri f50, but a 1993.5 toyota supra comes close.......
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OOOOH Fark, I'm so jealous! You actually got to see... A Bugatti;)
I had an '87 Daytona Shelby Z for awhile. The former owner rode her pretty hard, though, and I blew her engine up (waaaahhh-my poor baby!!). I couldn't find a turbo replacement, and HATED the regular engine that was installed, so I sold it.No comparison to the original, of course:)
I have a Talon now. No turbo, but it gets me around.
My landlord collects Indy cars. We have two of them in our basement. They are the second and third concept cars that were built, but I can't for the life of me remember what they are! -
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What kind of pets do you have?
by dustyb ini have 2 german shepherds, one white and one black and grey.
also granny has a little yorkie terrier, he's my little buddy.
he'll follow me anywhere.
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Yep-full blown lizard lover here, lol. I think I was smitten when I was living in the Philipines. I don't remember much about living there-I was only two. I do remember the lizards that "stuck" to the ceiling, though.
Geckos are definitely grouchy. I talked to the owner of a pet store about them, and she said she hated to clean their cages.
My sister has an iguana, but I find them a little big and a bit touchy. My sis got slapped by hers when she tried to get her out to clean her tank. I guess they can really whip ya with their tails. I prefer a smaller lizard, thank you:)
Have you ever heard of a Chinese Water Dragon? They are very pretty, but get to be five feet long when full grown. -
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Well, in theory I shouldn't have, but I could never grasp the concept of eternal life. I planned my whole funeral when I was a JW in my mid twenties, lol (I insisted on being cremated). I used to visit cemetaries, and found them very peaceful places. It seemed to me that death was harder on the living than on those who had died. And the idea of dying at Armageddon didn't seem like such an awful thing, anyway. I couldn't fathom a God of love being sadistic when he killed people. It wasn't until just before I quit that I realized how barbaric the idea of a God killing off a whole bunch of people just because they wouldn't worship him the way he required seemed ludacrist.
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Absolute truth of life's mysteries can not really be proven ..,,right?
by LyinEyes inshe really believes in some of the things she said, others things she is speculating on she admitted.... i admired her open mind to not thinkng she has all the answers.
she is not a christain she said.
my son and husband sat up for along time, comparing notes , debating on comparing what the bible says, what scientific evidence, historical evidence says, regarding jesus.
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I know where you're coming from, Dede. I've wrestled with this issue even before I left the organisation.
Now I'm not so sure I want to know the absolute truth. The magic is in the mystery. I'll never stop learning, and I'm not so keen on authoritative anything now. I'm finding experiencing much more to my liking.Are my experiences "truth"? I don't know, and I don't really care. I think the person who said "It isn't the destination, it's the journey that counts" had a good point.