Thanks blondie, another excellent review, and I'm glad your health is improving.
It is hard to believe that over almost 2000 years that 144,000 had not been reached. That is only 72 people a year. Over 90,434 at the memorial in 1925 at a time when all were anointed, ten years before the "great crowd" doctrine was presented in 1935. There are 120, plus 3,000 then 5,000 alone reported in the first few years of the Christian congregation.
It's more than hard to believe that, it's impossible. Anyone doing an in-depth study of wts ideas like this one would surely conclude that the idea that there are still members of the 144,000 still on earth is bizarre. I can't understand how so many jws accept this without question, yet I did accept it for over half my life. I guess we don't really look closely enough at the doctrines until we have doubts, or have left the org.