Have I got this right?

why144000

There are now 4 classes of annointed.

1. Those alive in Jesus day who heard him say "this generation will by no means pass away..."

These are all dead and buried.

2. This group was on hand in 1914, and they readily discerned the sign of Christ’s presence in that year. Those who made up this group were not merely alive in 1914, but they were spirit-anointed as sons of God in or before that year. This group are now all dead and buried.

3. This group included in “this generation” are anointed contemporaries of the first group. They were not simply alive during the lifetime of those in the first group, but they were anointed with holy spirit during the time that those of the first group were still on earth.(WT 1/14). If we take Fred Franz as the last of this group then only people anointed prior to 1992 would be included in this group.

4 This group became anointed after the last of group 2 died and are not included in the 'generation' Jesus spoke about.

So we now have 4 groups of anointed but in reality only 8 men are the faithful and discreet slave (only when they meet together).

Why does this sound batshit crazy to me?

cantleave

Why does this sound batshit crazy to me?

What part of the JW cult's theology doesn't sound bat shit crazy?

Ding

Now you know why you need the faithful and discreet slave to explain things to you...

whathappened

It sounds batshit crazy because it is batshit crazy. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck...it's a duck.

anonymouz

Such is the effect on logic when non-anointed actors at Bethel have been running the joint for almost 40 years. Of course they cannot explain any aspects of what they themselves are not a part of. Instead they produce stumbling blocks as the trade of their origination. (John8:44).

It is now obvious by all the lawlessness and UN NGO, Bethel is just a "superfine apostle" act and production. (2Cor11:13-15; 2Thess2:3) They merely echo the past endlessly and present themselves in pretty suits to aid the overall delusion and the TOTAL stagnation and JW ministerial derailing.

Don't expect any actual insight from those frauds.

(Revelation 2:2) ‘I know your deeds, and your labor and endurance, and that you cannot bear bad men, and that you put those to the test who say they are apostles, but they are not, and you found them liars.

No wonder that was Christ's first commendation to the congregations in Rev2-3. If only JWs would put the Bethel liars to the test, but now the liars run and own the whole Bethel proper. (Zech3:1-3) It is too late for a human initiated recovery of JWs. (Zech3:4-5)

Phizzy

"It is too late for a human initiated recovery of JWs." Recovery ? in what sense ?

The WT/JW's never had the truth, and were certainly never God's Organization, as Paul said "What fellowship does light have with darkness ?".

Black Sheep

Google 'contemporaries'

It does not mean that lives overlapped. Your son is not a contemporary of your grandfather even if you do have a photo of them together. The WT uses the word illegitimately and the passage they are misusing doesn't use it at all.