How is it that other witnesses consider someone "anointed" just because he or she says so?
JW's have to believe it because if they don't they will die at Armegeddon. I remember being made to feel that way..you were not allowed to doubt the Annointed about anything and to do so was grieving the Holy Spirit (or something like that). Apparently because the Holy Spirit speaks to their spirit, if they feel they are of the Annointed, they are.