hello,.
i've posted the 2016 yearbook service report in excel format for public download.
here's the link: http://www.filedropper.com/2016yearbookofjwinexcelformat.
As someone mentioned on another post, Ukraine's negative is nearly offset by Russia's positive. I wasn't aware of it, but there has been some restructuring of boundaries apparently.
Also, I am a little surprised to see large decreases in some of the poorest African nations like Malawi, Congo, and Congo DR, while most of the other African nations have relatively large increases.
In 2014 they had a special month (April or May, I forget) which allowed only 30 hours to aux pioneer. It was a new initiative, and in our congregation loads of people did it, something like 70 out of 120 publishers. The repeat of the same thing in 2015 had much less response. I think this would explain a lot of the drop off in aux pioneers in 2015.
Of course lowering the bar increases the statistics, but eventually they will run out of options.
in this experiment, mice were given a perfect environment in which to live.
for the mice you would think this was 'paradise'.
but due to their nature it did not take long for this to become a horrible place to live.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z760xny4vm.
the 2016 yearbook is now on the official site.
pdf.
it has been added to the archive of all prior yearbooks.
doesn't that throw off the date?.
*** w51 6/15 p. 383 questions from readers ***.
in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.
i think it was gary and heather bottings' book the orwellian world of jehovah's wifnesses that noted the function of the habit of the watchtower organisation of changing organisational terminology periodically.
congregations became companies and then back to congregations again.
circuit overseers became circuit servants and then back again.
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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Boonville Missouri, pop 8319, not to be confused with JF Rutherford's home town, Boozeville.
i find it interesting that samuel herd (as co) promoted the book angels and women in his talk "fear of giants".
he called it a fascinating book, once you pick it up you cant put it down without reading it from cover to cover!
he also mentions that russell wrote the foreword of the book and that it can be found in the gilead library.. .
I have a copy of Angels and Women, but not of Selma. It is definitely a bit of early science fiction, of the kind I found fun to read when I was growing up. It may have seemed a bit strange at the time it was written (about 1870 or so) but it is not the 'inspired by demons' book that some have made it out to be. H G Wells novels aren't much different.
i also have a copy of Atla by the same author, mrs JG Smith. She was Ann Eliza Brainerd, wife of JG Smith who was a very wealthy railroad baron and one time governor of Vermont.
