ALARMING FACT #1. Dramatic DECREASE in WT &
Awake! Issues Per Year and a DECREASE in # of Pages (from 32 to 16) Per Issue.
Watchtower, Public Edition. Number of Issues Each
Year.
AWAKE! Magazine. Number of Issues Each Year.
WHY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ISSUES PRINTED EACH YEAR?
TO CUT COSTS! JWs have Little or No Growth in High
Income Countries but Experience Growth in Low Income Countries.
WHY INCOME IS IMPORTANT. Witnesses appear to increase in poorer nations where personal computers, smartphones and other devices cost more and internet access is problematic. WT increases are offset by little or no increase in Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan where income is high and most people own computers, etc. and have reliable internet access.
WHY COMPUTERS AND INTERNET ACCESS IS IMPORTANT. The world is changing with new technology. The internet has been a challenge for the JWs who knock on doors globally BUT seek to isolate its members from outside information as much as possible. Former members organize online to bring reform and shed a BRIGHT LIGHT on doctrinal inconsistencies, false prophecies and the many government investigations into policies relating to sexual assault. THE WATCH TOWER CAN NO LONGER HIDE FROM THE WORLD!
JWs STATED REASON FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF PAGES PRINTED “FEWER PAGES MORE LANGUAGES, IT’S NOT TO CUT COSTS” or IS IT?
Just Looking at the AWAKE! Magazine—How much money did the WT Save?
MY CALCULATIONS: The WT is very secretive about its Income and Expenses. Therefore, I had to rely on 3rd Party resources, like GOOGLE, for this information.
ALERT: A Sure sign of a CULT is secrecy involving ‘INCOME’ and ‘EXPENCES’.
Number of PAGES Printed in a Typical Month &
Year (I chose 1984) [Source:
Google “how many the awake! magazines were printed in 1984”]
20 Million Magazines Printed Per Month X 32 Pages Per Magazine = 640 Million Pages Printed Per Month X 12 = 7.68 Billion Pages Printed in 1 Year
TODAY’s AWAKE! Is Printed Once a Year. In all Languages 31.46 Million Magazines Printed X 16 Pages Per Magazine ≈ 503 Million Pages in 1 Year [Source: Google: “AWAKE! Magazine Wikipedia”]
SAVINGS TO THE WT due to “FEWER PAGES PRINTED” 7.68 Billion Printed (1984) – 503.36 Million Printed (Today) ≈ 7.177 Billion Fewer Pages Printed each Year
7.177 Billion Fewer Pages Printed ÷ by 16 (# of Pages in 1 AWAKE!) ≈ 449 Million, the # of AWAKE!s NOT PRINTED X 10¢ (“In the US the suggested donation to COVER COSTS per issue was 5¢ in 1950, gradually increasing to 25¢ in 1989”—I USED 10¢ as an Average) [Source: Google: “AWAKE! Magazine Wikipedia] ≈ MONEY SAVED by Reducing the # of AWAKE! Magazines Equals $44,900,000
THE COST TO TRANSLATE an Issue of the AWAKE! Magazine (or any publication) into hundreds of languages is surprisingly LOW due to:
(1) VOLUNTEERS (a person who freely, Zero Cost, offers to take part in an enterprise or a task) to work in remote translation offices (RTOs) around the world.
(2) TRANSLATION TOOLS such as computerized dictionaries, language tools, and research materials speed up the process of Translation but are relatively inexpensive.
(3) MULTILANGUAGE ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING SYSTEM* (MEPS) owned by IBM, also called "Integrated Publishing System" (IPS) allows text to be entered in any number of different languages and then Published Simultaneously in hundreds of different Languages. For example, the April 1, 1984, issue of The Watchtower (using MEPS) became the first to BE PUBLISHED IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY (occurring at the same time).
In 1985, the number of simultaneous languages grew
to 23. And by 2021, the STUDY EDITION OF THE WATCHTOWER WAS BEING
PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN MORE THAN 390 LANGUAGES!
ALARMING
FACT #2—IF YOU WERE RAISED A JW, CHANCES ARE YOU ARE NOT
NOW A JW. JWs HAVE THE LOWEST RETENTION RATE OF ANY RELIGION.
Only 34% of All Those Who Say They Were Raised as JWs Still Identify Themselves as JWs.
ALARMING FACT #3. % Increase in JW Publishers is
LESS THAN % Increase in World Population. THE WATCH TOWER IS SHRINKING!
ALARMING FACT #4. The Watch Tower sold their Iconic Brooklyn Properties for $1+ Billion Dollars*. Their New HQ (Warwick) cost $0.00 to build. WHERE DID THE $1 BILLION GO??
INTERESTING FACT: The Cost to Build the WTs Warwick HQ=$0.00*
From the Link Below*: “Richard Devine, is a spokesperson for the Jehovah’s Witnesses and one of the five-man committee that oversaw construction of the Witnesses’ massive new headquarters in Warwick, NY.”
“Once Warwick approved the site plan in 2013, an army of 28,000 volunteer Witnesses converged and, along with construction crews, finished the 1.6 million square-foot campus in just three years.”
“Devine declined to share costs, except to say ‘the Witnesses are COMPLETELY FINANCED BY DONATIONS.’”
INTERESTING CONJECTURE. What if, “The Pope
announced that Vatican City is to be put
up for sale.” Would you believe the Catholic Church was facing some kind of
financial crises?
*https://www.dirt-mag.com/special-spots/witnesses-fresh-new-hq-GEDM20161024161029995
ALARMING FACT #5. When someone says “it is not
about the money,” be assured IT’S ABOUT THE MONEY!”
If it is not about the MONEY, what is it about? WT Speak is in BLACK, my comments are in BLUE.
“Because the magazines will contain less material, translation teams will be able to make them available in more languages.”
Having a team translate something from ENGLISH into a native tongue has been eliminated by MEPS, which simultaneously can translate ENGLISH into any one or all of 390 Languages (more are added all the time.) ‘AWAKE! is printed in over 100 Languages.’ Source at JW.ORG, “Breaking the Language Barrier—A Look Behind the Scenes”
“In order to put more emphasis on starting Bible studies and to reduce the amount of material that our brothers must read, the Governing Body recently made a number of exciting decisions (reducing the # of issues and # of pages of AWAKE! and Watchtower Magazines plus eliminating other Publications).
But the brothers & sisters needn't worry, this absolutely doesn’t mean that the WT is in financial difficulties! No-o-o-o, it’s not like that at all! You shouldn’t feel sad or dejected, you should be excited! The Governing Body has just lovingly decided to reduce the amount of material that the brothers & sisters must read. Great! Over Joyed! What about ceasing to publish any material whatsoever? Imagine how much time the brothers and sisters will save then!
The Governing Body reduced the number of Awake! magazines published each year because they shifted their focus to digital platforms like their official website.
Not to mention saving $44.9 million each year and that just from the savings in
reducing the AWAKE! Magazine. It is a lot cheaper to post something on the
internet than to print, package and mail that same amount of printed material.
Remember, it is NOT ABOUT THE MONEY! By the way, Don’t forget Brothers & Sisters, “Avoid independent thinking . . . questioning the counsel that is provided by God’s visible organization (WTBTS).” WT, Jan. 15, 1983, p. 22. AND “In submitting to …[the] organization, we must be in full and complete agreement with every feature of its apostolic procedure and requirements.” WT, Oct. 1, 1967, p. 592.
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