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  Stats for assembly in La Feria TX - Saturday 2/6/16

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  attendance was 1200 in the morning, 1146 in the afternoon.

  5 baptisms, mostly young girls (18-20 range) and one that look older (over 20).

  cost of the assembly $8500.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  5/1200 = 0.4%

  This is on the low end of the ratio being reported in the last couple of years, which seems to be running 0.4% to 0.6%.
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  Is a piano inevitable?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was at a concert last night and the presence and stature of the piano struck me.

  and i thought: if the piano wasn't invented when it was, would it have been invented by someone else instead?

  or if there was a world the same as our, except with a different history, would it have pianos now too or would it be modern world, similar in many respects, only without pianos?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Actually the harpsichord has plucked strings too, but the point is well taken. The clavichord had struck strings. It's curious that the keyboard instrument was a product of Europe, not of the other civilization centers.
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  Rutherford and William Jennings Bryan

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does anyone know where it mentioned that rutherford was involved in william jennings bryan's presidential campaign(s)?

  also, i recall reading that rutherford said bryan was god's choice as president for the usa!

  if that was so, then it is very strange that bryan was never elected president!.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  If Rutherford campaigned for Bryan, it was to Bryan's detriment. Poe guy, no wonder he lost three times.
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  Watchtower Farms

  by Lostandfound in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with the ending of large scale catering at all bethels what has happened to the farms?.

  i may have missed this but cannot find any reference to them.

  or are they producing delicacies for the private kitchens serving the elite?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The Kingdom Farm in E Lansing NY sold about a year ago.
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  The fraud that is the WT member numbers

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ok i'm just thinking out load here so to speak.

  but let say in the year 2000 the wt says they have 1 million publishers and at the end of the year they say they had 300,000 people get baptized so in the beginning of the year 2001 they show 1,300,000 publishers.

  then in this new year they state another 300,000 get baptized but with 50,000 deaths and 50,000 disfellowshippings they stated at the end of year 2001 a total of 1,500,000 total members.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The crude death rate is indeed about 8 per thousand.
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  Is the reasoning book no longer in use ?

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to know if witnesses are still using the reasoning book in the field service.

  i am asking about it, because i had read that it is currently out of print, doesn't it??

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Funny, I have a Bible with the old Make Sure book combined in the back of it, and some of the younger JWs had never heard of it. Now the Reasoning Book is going the same way
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  Kinda Sad Re: Cart "Witnessing"

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  slightly redacted for privacy of those involved.. so, this is "park witnessing" in oklahoma.. the parks in this community are basically walking trails and some tatty playground equipment.

  most of the time, sparsely used, and today was a very blustery day.. notice the justifying comment- "quite a few" checking out the cart.

  i am sure they were..... .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  There's definitely a devil's face in the bush, next to the alien tripod.
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  Babylonians Discovered Calculus

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  it had been assumed that rudimentary calculus was developed in europe in the 14th century but now it turns out that the babylonians worked it out more than 2000 years ago.. researchers have deciphered a detail on a cuneiform tablet held at the british museum and revealed that it describes the movement of jupiter.. babylonians believed that jupiter's position was integral to predicting the weather, the price of goods, and the fluctuating river levels throughout the year.. "the now-decoded 'text a' describes a procedure for calculating jupiter’s displacement across the ecliptic plane.. by tracking jupiter’s speed as a function of time and determining the area under a time-velocity curve.".

  read more here....

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I knew they were evil!
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  Books I read when I deprogrammed

  by OrphanCrow in

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  2. friends

  blondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.

  canadian exjws from calagary.

  an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The Wrong Way Home, uncovering the patterns of Cult Behavior in American society, by Arthur Deikman.
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  Some thoughts on the new midweek meeting

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the new midweek meeting has been running for a month now.

  here are my thoughts on how it is going so far:.

  1) elders are looking frazzled from being on virtually every meeting and having to prepare unfamiliar formats for items.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Haven't been to one yet, so I don't know what you are talking about.