"They just know"
By way of background I spent 25 years in the org after converting in my early 20's. I stopped attending 16 years ago and you could put me in the drifting away category. I don't pay attention to the...
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I have wondered the same thing. We had one "anointed" in our hall. I remember asking him how he knew when I was a kid and never got anything more informative than "I just know". If any younger ones...
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No explanation because there isn't one. I summise it's just an individual wanting to be a cut above or it's because they are just delusional. I met some oddball 'annointed(TM)' folks in my time so...
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The more important question is why I'm still checking this board sixteen years after I last set foot in a KH. It's the religion that "keeps on giving".
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wingnut wrote: The more important question is why I'm still checking this board sixteen years after I last set foot in a KH. It's the religion that "keeps on giving". Because we're cool!We have...
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I had a different take on this subject. You see my two paternal grandparents claimed to be of the anointed. I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that they planned on going to heaven and leave all...
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Inspector, from my recollection last year all "active" members were invited to this special meeting that previously was only for the anointed. Other posters here, and I correct on this?
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We had one 'annointed' sister in our hall. She ended up killing herself in her car by setting it on fire while she was inside. I guess she was mistaken.
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Well I was always told the same thing....that they just knew, just like I knew that I was a woman, they knew that they were going to heaven. The entire thing is bizarre because they c hanged it all...
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I haven't been keeping up with the organizational changes so thanks for bringing them to my attention. There are some very interesting observations and lines of reasoning in this thread. Thanks.
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One more quick point about why I brought this up. If there isn't any verifiable supernatural experience associated with "just knowing" anyone can claim to "just know" and I think it's pretty well...
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This thread did make me chuckle Wingie! I've grown up with the 'just know' and the 'you know' and the 'they know'. Plus the 'just knew', 'you knew' and 'they knew'. Always a source of amusement in the...
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My grandparents were "anointed". They were born in the 1880s, 1890s, and became Bible Students after reading Millions Now Living Will Never Die in 1920-25. They had taken communion in their previous...
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The WBT$ seems to think the 'annointed(tm)' are not all that:- Anointed are nuts - August 15, 2011 Watchtower (the study edition) pg 22 QfR: Memorial partakers. This is the numberof baptized...
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We thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to knowOh. I see.The 'annointed' just know, but the GB don't know.Yup. Makes perfect sense.
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I remember a woman who was "anointed" in my hall. I asked my friends who'd been JWs for a long time how she knew. They told me "she just knows." The woman had a reputation for being a bit ditzy, but...
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"jehovah made it apparent to me" was the explanation I got when I asked. Seemed like a pretty vague/evasive answer at the time. Oh-- the joys of being raised , or spending time in a cult environment.
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Locutus wrote: Oh-- the joys of being raised , or spending time in a cult environment. Yes. I feel it has skewed my view of reality. It has made my life abnormal so I feel I don't fit in anywhere.My...
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So if I decided I was one of the so-called anointed, how could anyone prove I'm not? I 'just know'. I met one of the anointed when he visited our KH. His wife was not anointed and I thought how sad...
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I managed to convince myself I was one of the anointed after praying about it. I thought that was how it was done.
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Both my paternal grandparents 'professed' as did their first two children. Their firstborn son became a member of the GB later in life. My grandfather found the 'truff' in 1913 or 14. My aunt and...
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