Memorial Partaker numbers must stop before Armageddon comes.

by gumby 29 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  TheListener

  Here is what I have:

  Year	Partakers	% Loss/Gain
  1935	52,465	0.00%
  1940	27,711	-47.18%
  1945	22,328	-19.43%
  1948	25,395	13.74%
  1950	22,723	-10.52%
  1954	17,884	-21.30%
  1955	16,815	-5.98%
  1959	14,511	-13.70%
  1960	13,911	-4.13%
  1963	12,292	-11.64%
  1965	11,550	-6.04%
  1969	10,368	-10.23%
  1970	10,526	1.52%
  1975	10,550	0.23%
  1979	9,727	-7.80%
  1980	9,564	-1.68%
  1981	9,601	0.39%
  1982	9,529	-0.75%
  1983	9,292	-2.49%
  1984	9,081	-2.27%
  1985	9,051	-0.33%
  1986	8,927	-1.37%
  1987	8,808	-1.33%
  1988	8,685	-1.40%
  1989	8,734	0.56%
  1990	8,869	1.55%
  1991	8,850	-0.21%
  1992	8,683	-1.89%
  1993	8,693	0.12%
  1994	8,617	-0.87%
  1995	8,645	0.32%
  1996	8,757	1.30%
  1997	8,795	0.43%
  1998	8,756	-0.44%
  1999	8,755	-0.01%
  2000	8,661	-1.07%
  2001	8,730	0.80%
  2002	8,760	0.34%
  2003	8,565	-2.23%
  2004	8,570	0.06%
  2005	8,524	-0.54%
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  gumby

  Listener.....thanks so much for your work in this

  Do you realise in about 20 years ( from 1986 - 2005), their numbers only dropped by 400 as far as partakers.......yet if you go back to when all these annointed were much much younger such as in the late 1930's and 1940's each year the drop was a 1000 or more.

  So the question.....why did the numbers drop so dramatically in the earlier years when these annointed were young........ much more than the past two decades when the old farts should be dyin of old age?

  Gumby
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  LittleToe

  BURP!!!
  Oops, excuse me
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  gumby

  LT....you belchin bastard....is that all you've got to say to me this mornin? And....you never commented on my Maryann and ginger thread either dammit. Now then, say sumthin meaningful here or I'm gonna shun yer arse!

  Gumshunner
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  unclebruce

  My first thoughts matched Blondie (I'll have what she's having ). As usual the Brooklyn mafia are playing it both ways.where can I get a WT CD?

  Listener thankyou very much for the figures - where can I get a WT CD?

  Now Gumby I don't think little toe meant that Burp to be taken so literally. It sounded somewhat metaphoric to me, like an antitypical fullfillment of habakuks second vision ..... nah maybe he just burped and by the way ..where can I get a WT CD?
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  MissBehave

  Listener, thanks so much. That is very interesting. And right on, gumby, they should be dropping like flies.
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  kittyeatzjdubs

  i don't see the borg having any problem drawing this annointed thing out for as long as they have to. one major loophole they have is that the annointed are not perfect, so they will sin and make mistakes. when one gets dsf'd or whatever, jehoover calls another one to take his/her place. this could go on for milleniums.

  luv, jojo
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  gumby

  one major loophole they have is that the annointed are not perfect, so they will sin and make mistakes. when one gets dsf'd or whatever, jehoover calls another one to take his/her place. this could go on for milleniums.

  luv, jojo

  Jojo ya cute little rascle, they have stated that since 1935 the number was sealed and that it would be a "rare event" for one to fall away and need replacing. They have stated if it DID happen it would no doubt be a replacement by one with many faithful years of service.......which is why they frown on a younger one who begins to partake.

  They on one hand say their sealing is a permenant seal and glued shut, and have recieved a "token" to their heavenly future reward.....then on the other hand claim one can fall to apostasy or some other sin deeming them unworthy and needing replacement.

  Gumby
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  unclebruce

  hey gumby ..pst... come here a minute... now keep your voice down bro... for the plan i'm about to reveal to work .. we gotta keep schtum ok? Now here's what I recon. Over the next 20 - 30 years the remnant are bound to start dropping like grannies during a cold snap. Now I'm nearly 50 but with all this fresh air and exercise i'm gett'n, i recon i'll be arround for another 30-40 years and you'll likely be the same. Ok It goes like this:

  2010AD ticks over ..remnant is arround 8,000 ...2014 comes a big crash ..along with natural attrition numbers drop to circa 6,000 ... and so on ..2034 comes and we're down to 12 left .. then the murders start nah forget that ...where was i ..oh yeah ..then in 2040 the whole JW world attention is fixed on one grumpy old bugger in backwoods slovakia .. the last man standing (albeit with a walking frame, an incontinence bag and a nurse each side).

  So what will happen? Will the death of Milo Slekzovich trigger the end of the world? Watchtower articles and blog sites are abuzz with stories about Milo .. the very last of the 144,000 chosen for heavenly glory.

  Now this is where we come in. shhhh you'll like this cunning plan ... at the height of all the speculation, you petend to be of the annointed class and gazump the moth eaten slavic bugger thowing the JW world into compete and utter kaos! Of course we'll need to make some sacrafices for this noble endevor to work. You'll have to start going to meetings again ... now calm down .. were not talking many meetings .. if you develop some plausible disease you could get away with as few as 3 or 4 a month .. and whatever you do DON'T MISS The Annual Cannibal Feast!
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  gumby

  at the height of all the speculation, you petend to be of the annointed class

  Gumby