• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Are you talking about Jehovah’s Witnesses? I believe the number was 144,000. Long since passed, btw, IDK how they get new converts any more.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Because a dozen dozen thousand was basically their way of saying a billion million brazilian. It was senselessly large in their eyes.

          • lars
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            1 year ago

            And they don’t even provide it anymore. When’s the last time someone stole a planet from you?