I was sitting here thinking of the crazy things that the society keeps dreaming up and changing at their whim, and also reading several articles by the society and secular on the greek words hieron and naos, the outer temple and the sanctuary etc. The society has been flip flopping on this alot. My idea is that the society could finally admit that russell was correct in the first place, that the great crowd is also in heaven. Then they could say that there will still be a greater crowd living on the earth. That would explain all the people that attend the memorial.
The way they could explain it, would be that those that attend all the meetings and go in field service and all the other goodie two shoe things, would be the great crowd going to heaven with the 144,000. The other even larger group of people are just the ones like the gentiles in the old testament that just came along for the ride so to speak, but are not so spiritual, these pions would be the ones that the real great crowd would rule over. This senario would really please the more sanctimonious jws, and make the foot draggers more relaxed about being a jw.
All this would take some scriptural twisting and turning but that is what the society is good at.
This way the third group could just buy the other watchtower and donat money etc. without actually exerting too much of thier lives and not feeling guilty about not doing much spiritually.
I mean who knows. It would fit in with all thier other crazy ideas. As I am writing this I have a mischevious grin on my face.