Tell it TERRY !!!! Tell it !!!!!
You know for yourself, their accountin' ain't good ;)
WT Mar 15th 2012 - 144,000 no longer a literal number?
by dozy 81 Replies latest watchtower bible
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undercover
I'm guessing that the next step will be to announce that only the Governing Body members themselves comprise the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" and that it does not apply to any others professing to have the 'heavenly hope'
And at the rate they're dying off and having to be replaced, they'll be up to 144,000 in just a few short (overlapping) generations...
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wha happened?
It's a cluster I know. With their history, any nutty idea is on the table. Technology just got ahead of them.
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james_woods
Technology just got ahead of them.
Technology like the ability to COUNT...
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wha happened?
too funny. BTW why are u always harrassing the Griffin family on Family Guy?
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james_woods
too funny. BTW why are u always harrassing the Griffin family on Family Guy?
Because they continue to disrespect the high school named after me.
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nancy drew
144000 bottles of beer on the wall 144000 bottles of beer if one of those bottles should happen to fall 139999 bottles of beer on the wall
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wha happened?
and if one of bottles should happen to fall, a newly baptized delusional publisher will be there to make up the 1 bottle that fell
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Dogpatch
Mary is spot on on this one:
I think they've been slowly laying the groundwork for changing this doctrine for the past few years. They've made it quite clear in the WT study articles over the last couple of years that none of the 'annointed', outside of the Slobbering Body members, have any special "insight" into anything, and even made the comment a few years ago that they have no more 'Holy Spirit' than the R&F. This is obviously being done for two reasons: 1) So no 'annointed' person can ask any uncomfortable doctrinal questions and 2)To elevate the goons at the top even further.
I'm guessing that the next step will be to announce that only the Governing Body members themselves comprise the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" and that it does not apply to any others professing to have the 'heavenly hope' (if they haven't done this already). This will probably be somewhat shocking to alot of JWs, but they'll just carry on business as per usual. Once this has been accepted, it won't matter one bit to the GB if they make the '144,000' a "symbolic number" since they will effectively have reduced any sort of power or 'special insight', to that of the R&F with the 'earthy hope'. After that, you'll probably see the number of partakers skyrocket.
Anyone who understands the powers that be in Brooklyn/Patterson knows they are waging an all -out campaign to discredit the "specialness" of being "anointed." as this is the most likely frontal challenge to their authority next up. It's all politics folks, why even listen to their doctrinal crap? It's only a diversion for the stupid ones.
Randy
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WTWizard
Another reactive alteration. They are reacting, not to new understanding of the Bible, but to that people are going to figure out that things are not adding up. Now that you have unlimited people becoming "anointed", there is room for more than 144,000. Adding in that probably more than a million were anointed in the first century alone, people are now seeing that the numbers are not adding up. I guess that trying to get children to sleep through their math class isn't working--all it takes is someone that was recruited that is a math whiz, and that blows that.