according to this list there are 29 helpers at the moment: https://jwleaks.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/jehovahs-witnesses-governing-body-committees.jpg.
i wonder how many of these are "anointed"?
all the current seven gb members were helpers first and then appointed to be gb members.
The 1/15/15 w is trying to discourage witnesses from partaking- the 144,000 cannot be literal if people keep partaking.
Mark Noumair was not annointed when he studied with me, so he cannot be now, otherwise the 144,000 is not literal and what he taught me was a lie.
Of course I know it is all fake, but if he really believes in it, he will NOT claim to be annointed.
Maybe the gb will remove being annointed as a required qualification for being on the gb.
i always thought that when someone says they are anointed or the anointed....it has and still does conjour up the image of dungeons and dragons.
all fantasy!!!!!!.
it's all make belief and bulls&&t !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
The 1/15/15 w has an article warning witnesses not to partake at the memorial if they are not really annointed. I know it is fake, but the society is trying to discourage people from partaking.
The 144,000 is not so literal anymore, is it?
http://www.lansingstar.com/news-page/11090-local-farmers-concerned-about-kingdom-farm-sale.
but the soil is not that good.
"this town has the best soil of all the towns in the county," said roth.
I did not know it had not been sold. Thanks for the article.
i hear people saying it is not the same religion that i knew.
what is the major difference?.
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Very good comments.
i hear people saying it is not the same religion that i knew.
what is the major difference?.
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When I believed in it, I figured Jehovah can create whatever is needed for his people in the new world, electricity, food, anything, he was bringing armageddon and could also provide for his people's needs in the new world.
Also, why would he destroy the bethel bldgs? I believed they would all be used in the new world. Building them now was also for the new world, armageddon was still close.
When I was a witness I really believed these things.
anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.
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I think that the national average of hrs, which used to be ten per month, has dropped off so sharply, that this basic pioneer arrangement is simply to get the pubs to put in 10 hrs monthly again, it is a special title for them,,, regular pios will still put in 70 and aux pios still 30 or 50.
But when they get millions as "Basic Pioneers" will they combine this with the other pios and claim a new all- time peak?
anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.
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Thank you Absolam! Did they mention anything about a new peak of publishers?
from barbara anderson, former watchtower headquarters researcher and writer, on another recent thread:.
it is expected that at the 2014 annual meeting, usually held the first saturday in october, will serve watchtower leaders well to cover-up all the 100-years of prophetic nonsense.
rumor has it they are going to celebrate their 100-years of announcing the kingdom in an adroit way by featuring a move of "great" significance to do with the expansion of the governing body to an "apostolic" 12 or some other fantasy idea.. .
St George- its funny you mention Mark. That is exactly what I thought when they introduced him as a helper to the gb.
But Mark was not annointed when he studied with me, if he is now, ( its academic anyway, the teachings are fake), then the 144,000 is not literal.
from barbara anderson, former watchtower headquarters researcher and writer, on another recent thread:.
it is expected that at the 2014 annual meeting, usually held the first saturday in october, will serve watchtower leaders well to cover-up all the 100-years of prophetic nonsense.
rumor has it they are going to celebrate their 100-years of announcing the kingdom in an adroit way by featuring a move of "great" significance to do with the expansion of the governing body to an "apostolic" 12 or some other fantasy idea.. .
I wonder if the brother who studied with me, who was one of the speakers at the convention and was introduced as a helper to the gb will be appointed as a member of the gb? But he was not one of Jesus' brothers back then and the gb must be.
Of course, he could claim that he was annointed more recently. They can say whatever they want. I thought about that when he was introduced as a helper to the gb.
If so, Jehovah changed his mind and annointed him? The 144,000 just keeps on growing!
Just my guess anyway based on what Londo111 suggested.
