How are the rank and file reacting to the news that the anointed numbers they have been waiting decades for to decrease, are actually increasing?
Are there any murmerings about this in your hall?
A question for those still in about the new anointed #'s
by lovelylil 6 Replies latest jw friends
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The Scotsman
A recent watchtower mentioned that JWs should be grateful that anointed are still here with them in these last days.
Generally that is the response in my hall, but that will only last a certain amount of time - if the number of partakers keeps going up a doctrinal change will need to happen.
But the typical JW just absorbs change like a sponge - they rationalize that the light is just getting brighter.
The Scotsman
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V
There is a disconnect happening. The old excuse is still very much in play:
"It's the mentally imbalanced that are partaking."
But the figures keep acknowledging - that's the key word: "acknowledging" - that the Governing Body accepts this growth for three reasons:
1) They clearly print in the Annual Report
2) Two new Governing Body members appointed in their 50's
3) New change dismisses 1935 cutoff date
On this account I expect a huge jump in partakers for 2008. Some of the most loyal, hard-core JWs are considering heaven for the first time...
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Mrs Smith
I don't think they've even realised what this means. I think I should give my mom a call and explain it to her, she has no idea.
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lookingnow25
I'm dealing horribly with it. My Brother In Law (31) announced he's anointed just a few weeks ago. I started a thread about it.
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freydi
What do you think would happen if say they had 200,000 partakers?
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lovelylil
A long while back, I cannot find my post, I stated that the WT would have to become a little more "main-stream" if they wanted to keep growing. Especially here in the U.S.
My thoughts were that they would make a drastic change, (for instance to the "anointed" teaching) and that while they may loose a large group of old-timers right away (like when hundreds of thousands left after 1975), the WT would hope that this change would eventually bring in a surge of a new younger generation of people. Because lets face it, the organization is stagnant at this time.
Since the WT is ultimately a business, it would make good business sense to cut your loses and change your strategies. That way they have at least a 50/50 chance of new growth. If they don't do this, well then their days are surely numbered.
Many others here had the same thought that a drastic big change was coming. I guess we will have to wait and see but it does seem that the foundation for "new light" has been laid.
I guess in a way I am hoping that if this happens, it is the beginning of the real end of the WT corporation. I am very surprised though that more people in the org. are not waking up already to what is going on. But as someone pointed out they have that "new light" doctrine the society will put out of its hat and that will at least smooth things over for the oldtimers for a while anyway. Peace, Lilly