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  Baptisms and Assembly attendances

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last year we had a thread posting baptisms in relation to assembly attendances.

  the numbers seemed to be down.. please keep'em coming.

  and describe whether you think they might be born-in (kids/teens) or adults from outside.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  There have been several threads along these lines for the past few years. The ratio has been running about 0.4% to 0.6%, that is:

  # baptized/ # in attendance

  I had an old assembly program from 1973 and the ratio was over 2%.
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  Evidence of Human Activity in Northern Siberia 45,000 years ago.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  this information makes the biblical dating of human origins a sad joke.

  quote: " when they dated the remains, the researchers got another surprise: the mammoth died 45,000 years ago.

  that means that humans lived in the arctic more than 10,000 years earlier than scientists believed, according to a new study.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I'm not sure anyone believes in the 6000 years of human existence anymore. It's so out of touch with reality so as to be a joke.
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  Is there evidence for networks of abuse?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i tend to avoid the subject because it's too depressing, so i've probably missed lots of discussion about this issue.

  but i read a comment on youtube yesterday that shocked me and made me wonder.

  the person claimed that many years ago abusers in society generally identified jws as a safe haven for abusers and joined en masse order to exploit the situation.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  There is no evidence that I am aware of or have ever heard of. One phenomenon that could be happening is that abusers may be attracted to an environment where they feel comfortable and not challenged about their past. They are then more likely to make it through the studies, etc, to become a JW than they are to become involved in another religion, club, or other organization where their past is brought up all the time and confronted with it. In this way it might appear that there is a conspiracy of sorts to bring in abusers.
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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

  by the comet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  The biggest exodus in this time frame was from 1996 thru 2000, both in numbers and in percent.
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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

  by the comet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

  by the comet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

  by the comet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I'll take a stab at it over the years 1988-2015.

  
  
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  Question about the number 2,520 and the book “New Heavens and a New Earth” (1953)

  by Hecce in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  question about the number 2,520 and the book “new heavens and a new earth” (1953).

  there is a footnote on page 138 of this book; it has to do with the number 2,520 being a perfect number and the result of multiplying the four perfect numbers in sequence.

  i have done the math and it works.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I thought I had heard it all, but this is new to me. Really interesting. I expect the 'perfect number' bit predates the WT by a long shot. Probably Franz picked it out of some old Adventist literature, or even older. He was known to consult Jewish commentaries on the OT at times.
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  Massive Plunge in Number of New JW Congregations from 1990 to 2014

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in a separate thread on the very latest figures for the current world wide annual report of jws, discussion turned to how "we'll know decline has really set in.

  one of the posters said: .

  the figure that interests me most is the number of congregations.

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  It is apparent that the number of congregations tracks the number of publishers. The number of publishers per congregation is comparatively flat.
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  Massive Plunge in Number of New JW Congregations from 1990 to 2014

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in a separate thread on the very latest figures for the current world wide annual report of jws, discussion turned to how "we'll know decline has really set in.

  one of the posters said: .

  the figure that interests me most is the number of congregations.

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  dropoffyourkeylee