dropoffyourkeylee

Joined

• started 77 topics
• posted 2,404 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

• 
  15

  Hello all just moved to Lakewood NY

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has been along time since i have posted something.

  my wife and i have just moved to ny just west of jamestown.

  our log house in pa was so far from everything it was costing us to much time and money.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  dropoffyourkeylee

  Love the area. My grandfather was from Ripley( tiny place not far from Jamestown)
• 
  38

  Most Poorly Written JW Book

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i was thinking the other day that the wt corp has produced thousands of books over the years.

  although the writers have changed the style is almost always the same.

  however, some books are just worse than others.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  dropoffyourkeylee

  Speaking of really old books, the Three Worlds written by Barbour and financed by Russell was terrible. Unreadable
• 
  38

  Most Poorly Written JW Book

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i was thinking the other day that the wt corp has produced thousands of books over the years.

  although the writers have changed the style is almost always the same.

  however, some books are just worse than others.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  dropoffyourkeylee

  My dad used to refer to those books as 'deep', when in fact they were just plain bad. They were boring and unintelligible because they were badly written and their logic and analysis were just wrong. I am referring to all the 384 page books up to the 70's, and the 192 p books in the 80's and 90's. Oddly the only one I liked was the Commentary on James, and found out later it was written by an apostate!
• 
  11

  Are you related to me?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
  2. current

  the chances that anyone on this forum is my biological brother or sister, purely from a statistical point of view, is rather low.

  but how many generations back would we have to go to have a fair chance that one of my ancestors married one of your ancestors (or procreated anyway)?.

  i was born in 1985. less than 20 years before my birth my two parents were being conceived by a combined 4 parents of their own.. and if we go back even further, to 40 years before my birth, then i'll find an additional 8 ancestors.. around the 60 year mark i have another 16 ancestors.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  dropoffyourkeylee

  Hmmm , families are sure different. All my great grandparents were born between 1850 and 1868. So different from the OP.
• 
  7

  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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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%.
• 
  26

  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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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.
• 
  44

  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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  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.
• 
  26

  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. .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  dropoffyourkeylee

  The biggest exodus in this time frame was from 1996 thru 2000, both in numbers and in percent.
• 
  26

  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. .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  dropoffyourkeylee

  
  
• 
  26

  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. .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  dropoffyourkeylee