Comments on: Keeping despair at bay (part 13) https://pamelacross.ca/keeping-despair-at-bay-part-13/ Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:58:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pamela Cross https://pamelacross.ca/keeping-despair-at-bay-part-13/#comment-1672 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:58:17 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=3542#comment-1672 In reply to John Wise.

Hmmm. 144,000 male virgins. It’s quite a leadership concept. I hope the guy who zoom-bombed me last week during a panel discussion about gender-based violence with some very sexually explicit suggestions about what he would like to do to me isn’t among them.

]]> By: John Wise https://pamelacross.ca/keeping-despair-at-bay-part-13/#comment-1669 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:12:25 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=3542#comment-1669 I hadn’t thought about the 144k limit in the JW heaven. I did some reading, and it appears that this is based on verse in Revelations that says that, in addition to Jesus, God, and various angels, that heaven has 144,000 male virgin residents. When the number of JW adherents passed the 144k total, the JW theology was changed and the heavenly quota was maintained, but the rest of the saved would live here on an earth transformed into a paradise. The 144k are referred to as “co-rulers”. Haven’t you always wanted to be controlled by thousands of male virgins?

]]> By: Hannah https://pamelacross.ca/keeping-despair-at-bay-part-13/#comment-1668 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:15:37 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=3542#comment-1668 I like all of your posts, and this one in particular.

]]> By: Stuart Cross https://pamelacross.ca/keeping-despair-at-bay-part-13/#comment-1667 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:42:36 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=3542#comment-1667 Yay…so glad despair is still at bay!

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