The thought that come to my mind when reading this and it is probably way off the scale but here goes:
We all know that the legal department are getting bigger due to their harmful doctrines and how the GB are removing themselves from accountability. The 144,000 = the anointed = faithful and discreet slave including the GB themselves
When they state " A number of factors including past religious beliefs or even mental or emotional imbalance might cause some to assume mistakenly that they have the heavenly calling" is that them leagally omiting ownership due to their own mental or emotional imbalance. For example, the blood doctrine, child abuse situation, the whole of human society is wising up to human rights, injustices, laws changing etc the GB have caused so many needless deaths and needless messed up childhoods, people are taking a stand now and some are trying to sue them. So if they omit ownership and accountability and print it in double speak when things do go to court in liabel cases they can use what they print to their advantage eg. we never maintained that we were perfect, some of us had mental health problems.
Lets just say if in the near future (hopefully very near) that they are uncovered to the whole world their genocide to a vast majority of humans through the past with their blood doctrine, that their child abuse doctrines make bigger news than the catholics and they are brought to trial. In order to save their little sagging arses, instead of being shown to the world as evil dictators to vulnerable people, therefore losing all their followers they use a simular excuse to what they did in after 1975, "A few people run away with themselves". A few members on the GB 1.0 had mental or emotional imbalances, we stated that the annointed beleived they had the heavenly calling due to their mental, emotional imbalance in August 15, 2001 WT, that they are not accountable.
Like i said probably way of scale but the part where they say they do not know or care to know how many annointed we do not keep lists is another way for GB to get out of a liabel court cases esp for GB 2.0.
Also what baffles me is that they do not know or care to know who the annointed = faithful and discreet slave are but they state they are also the ones taking the lead and feeding the followers the accurate oops BS knowledge today.
This is my personal opinion, I felt exactly the same when i heard the generation talk being delivered at the 2010 convention, removing themselves further and further away from any kind of accountability in double speak.
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