Smiddy,
You make a good point about the Society not knowing who the anointed on earth are. The Organization knows who the pioneeers are, and the ministerial servants, the elders, COs, DOs, special pioneers, missionaries, etc. But the anointed, the ones that will rule side by side with Jesus Christ, who are of an elite group comprised of only 144,000, only a few thousand of which are still on earth, are not kept track of.
It makes you wonder about what is really important to the Society.
Here is the Watchtower that makes the remark,
(W 8-15-11 p22)
"Memorial partakers. This is the number of baptized individuals who partake of the emblems at the Memorial worldwide. Does this total represent the number of anointed ones on earth? Not necessarily. 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. We thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know. The Governing Body does not keep a list of all partakers, for it does not maintain a global network of anointed ones."
