Honestly, we're all having a good guffaw at this, but do you really think the dubs are going to notice? Last year, we had the Noo Light involving the overlapping generation, and no one really batted an eye! And that was HUGE! Monumental! Yet...if you were to ask any of them today what the Noo Light is regarding the Generation, they'd probably still spout the Old Light or look at you like "What Noo Light??".
I think this will fizzle just like the last one. I take it to mean that the toes mean NOTHING AT ALL in the grand scheme of things and that there is ZERO prophetic meaning in the toes. In other words, they are saying "Because the toes weren't numbered, we can't be sure that it was ten, so therefore we can't say with certainty that it symbolizes 'Earthly Completeness' as it was purported to in the past".
For my parents, this will be something to talk about I think. My mom specifically is known for saying "*gasp* Well ya know, we're already down to the very tips of the toes!!" (how she knows this, I have no idea, but I think she heard it in a talk). Maybe hearing that they mean diddly squat now will do something, but I doubt it.
I think the big issue here is that these people need to hear reasons why they should keep hanging on. They have nothing left, really. They can't live in the real world and associate and LIVE They're waiting on the next world to start living, but yet in this world they're barely hanging on and they're clinging to this hope that it will get better if they can just keep hanging on. And usually around convention time is when they get tired and feel like saying "To hell with it" and that's when they get new books, new brochures, new DVD's, Noo Light... It's tantamount to a JW Christmas! All of these meager scraps of watered-down and rearranged "truth" that they eagerly devour in hopes that it will keep them going...and it does for awhile...until they start winding down again. But, lo and behold, there's an assembly, and a few months later, another one! Enough to carry them through to the next convention when they will once again get their rations so they can just exist for another year. And on and on it goes.
