by rebel8 26 Replies latest jw friends
That's a good question. I'm sure the gb will soon find some obscure scripture to twist that will justify their counting even the "unworthy" partakers. It will probably by under the guise of "the end is really, really , really close."
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
Still doesn't make sense.
Why did they start reporting it? To prove Thee End is approaching. We used to get so excited to see the numbers go down every year!
Why keep reporting, when the numbers show we are moving further away from Thee End instead of coming closer?
I think the witnesses have always had a more than average share of crazies. So why are so many people partaking the last few years? Why the increase? You'd think that the elders would kindly talk to some of the partakers and explain things to them and the number would go back down.
Each year the GB are probably praying that this will be the year of a decrease in partakers. I'd love to see a huge partaker increase. That would really freak the dubs out.
It may now have become a control and/or persecution tactic.
Now that the # of partakers are actually increasing anyone who questions this is either a 'weak Witness' who needs shepherding or an apostate and is persecuting them.
Why did they start reporting it? To prove Thee End is approaching. We used to get so excited to see the numbers go down every year!
Why keep reporting, when the numbers show we are moving further away from Thee End instead of coming closer?
It used to be that the number of FDS still alive was important, signalling the nearness of the end. Personally, I'm not sure that I have much confidence in the numbers they reported during some of those years where they reported the decreases and I wonder if the current number of partakers is higher than they report.
If anything, I think they report it because they don't know what else to do. To stop reporting it would need some more nulite explanation. Trying to justify the increase would require some nulite. So they seem to report the number, but ignore it. They publish articles trying to discourage partakers, but the number has continued to increase.
In conversation with my parents, it becomes difficult because they try to reason, "Lots of these are not genuinely anointed." But how do you gauge that? "The anointed would only be old and experienced." But the current GB is all younger than my parents, with Sanderson little older than I am (although he looks much, much older than I do.) How do you draw a line between who is or isn't really anointed? The whole thing about being anointed (and qualifying for the GB) is the ability to nibble and sip once per year with a sincere-looking expression on their faces.
If anything, I think they report it because they don't know what else to do. To stop reporting it would need some more nulite explanation. Trying to justify the increase would require some nulite. So they seem to report the number, but ignore it.
Well said Billy! To stop doing it now will only draw more than necessary attention to it.
And you're right: To the best of my knowledge they have never put anything in print that acknowledges the consecutive years of increase. Funny that - because any other time there is an "increase", they advertise, advertise, advertise it.
In years gone by , in the 60`s /70`s those who were partakers , anointed were , decreasing year by year in accord with the belief that as the big " A" got closer , the partakers would be few .
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The reality , that the numbers are actually increasing is nothing short of an embarassment to this organisation.
So what this highlights is the fact that "Witnesses" have failed miserably in instructing new converts and older ones in their "theology" , the core doctrines taught by the Governing Body.
smiddy
I do remember when the dwindling number of partakers was supposed to be a sign that the end was near.
I would have to go back and look and see where are the lands where the biggest increases in anointed have come from? Is it across the board, or it is in land's where people are not that educated?
