Posts by Cadellin

63

2013 DC new releases - rumors ???

by obarac in

there is rumors that in this years dc nwt will be released and also new tracts.

any other rumors about new releases?.

Symposium: Beware of Apostates! - 'God's Word is Truth!' District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses 2013 - not on JW.ORG

by mindnumbed in

symposium: beware of apostates!.

satanhuman apostates also of interest ..... the truth brings "not peace, but a sword" .

Cadellin

Thanks for posting this information!

datadog: I had my own doubts years before I visited any "apostate" websites. Then when I did, they only confirmed what I'd long suspected.

It was good to know I wasn't alone.

BINGO! The GB's renewed hysteria in the form of ad hominen attacks and paranoid us-vs-them posturing is a clear sign that more and more people are starting to wake up. Every cult needs a scape goat or a whipping boy (is that an appropriate term? Hmm) and wicked apostates are ideal. Yet the fact is, even if there were no apostates, a thinking person can find out the TTATT

18

Should I try to get my parents out?

by Gabriel_Walker in

jw
friends

hi everyone.. i'm guessing you get this a lot, but i have to ask anyway.. first some context.. i'm 25, i was raised in the "truth" but i never got baptized, i haven't been in a kingdom's hall in 6 years, i live with my parents and we have a good relationship.. my dad doesn't have jw relatives, my mom has a few though and both have wordly friends.. so, should i try it?

if you need more information just ask.. ps: english is not my first language so please forgive any gramatical or spelling mistakes you may find, also corrections are greatly apretiated.. pps: if this the wrong section please accept my apologies and move the thread..

Cadellin

I think it depends on the age and circumstances of your parents. If your parents are in their 40s or 50s, then they might cope okay. My parents are in their late 70s and early 80s--it would be far too shocking to try to "wake up" an elderly person. This breaks my heart, but it's better for them emotionally to simply remain where they are.

427

If man evolved?

by tornapart in

i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.

however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?

surely there'd have been many billions by then?.

Cadellin

Thanks for the link to Wien's excellent article. I read it years ago when I was first learning TTATT and it was all so painful and shocking--how much I didn't know, how badly I'd been misled by the WT's abominable pseudo-science writing. It's so much easier to look away, to avoid reading credible information and to simply continue on believing comfy falsehoods.

10

Science vs. God Debate

by frankiespeakin in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtnpvrexze.

Cadellin

Larsinger: No. Not in any substantive way. Sorry.

44

Newby here

by 1009 in

jw
friends

i am new here and briefly want to introduce myself.. my name is michel and i am from the netherlands.

became baptized when i was 14, started pioneering when i got 18 and i've been ms for a number of years.

i married another pioneer and after a while we joined a foreign language congregation.

Cadellin

Welcome to both Netherland newbies: I want to chime in on the asexual thing in women, speaking as a woman who was raised a good JW.

First, female sexuality operates completely differently then men (okay, flaming obvious, right?) As a woman, at least for me, desire moves in tandem with ovulation. Ovulation=horniness. Wrong time of the month? Men are just not that appealing--it's not that desire is completely gone, but the flames need to be very deliberately fanned through fantasy and erotica. Most good JW women wouldn't dream of doing such things and so, if it's a non-ovulating time, they're going to be as dead as doornails. I suspect most good JW wives are like that A LOT of the time. Plus they're not going to experiment with new moves, like oral sex, that can stir the flames nicely.

21

Does anyone remember letter from GB "end is imminent" around 2009?

by cha ching in

my sister remembers, hearing at her congregation, a strongly worded letter from "the society" that hinted that "we may not be getting any more letters from the society, as the end is coming soon.".

she thinks it was around 2009, or after.. anyone remember this?.

as a result of this letter:.

Cadellin

You might be thinking of the 2009 DC, where the word "imminent" was used in literally (yes, literally) every talk to describe the end. I was already on the way out and I leaned over and whispered to my husband, "So what does "imminent" mean?" I told him later that if the end comes within six months of that DC, then the WT is right; otherwise, they are liars.

Well, it's all history now.

30

WT: Train your kids to shut up - April 2013 OKM

by aposta-Z in

quote from april 2013 our kingdom ministry; available on here: http://jwleaks.org/ .

" even if they are too young to understand everything that is discussed, children can be trained to remain awake and sit.

quietly.

Cadellin

"TRAINED to remain awake..."???

That assumes that falling asleep is a VOLUNTARY action. This is the stupidest, most inhumane thing I've seen in a LONG, long time from this organization. And that's saying something...

6

LEAVING THE WITNESS A PREACHER FINDS FREEDOM TO THINK IN TOTALITARIAN CHINA

by BroMac in

i don't know if this has been on here before but i came across it from a google news search for "jehovahs witnesses".

would someone be so kind as to make this link clickable!

http://www.autostraddle.com/things-i-read-that-i-love-66-reading-in-underpants-161749/.

Cadellin

I read that and thought it was amazing.

50

Does anyone think there was a great deliverance of the Hebrews from Egyptian captivity?

by humbled in

Cadellin

As has already been stated, there's no way to correlate the Biblical timeline of the exodus with current findings. The Oxford History of the Biblical World (1998) (hardly a liberal or revisionist source) has this to say:

"At no point in the known archeological sequence for Egypty, Sinai and Palestine does the extant archeological record accord with that expected from the Exodus (or, for that matter, conquest) account in the Bible. No archeological evidence from Egypt can be construed as representing a resident group of Israelites in the delta or elsewhere, unless one accepts a general equation of the Exodus group with the Hyksos...Compromise and selectivity are thus the keys to all hypotheses that have been adbvanced to date the Exodus events" (p. 104).

Equating the Israelites with the Hyksos raises its own problems. It puts the conquest of Canaan around the beginning of the 15th century, which means the times of the judges would have had to last four hundred years, before the rise of the monarchy. Moreover, the Biblical record has the Israelites interacting with Ammon, Edom and Moab and archeological digs have revealed that those settlements simply weren't populated at that time.

There's other difficulties, too, with trying to reconcile the literal Biblical account with archeology. The Bible puts the number of persons leaving Egypt at more than 2,000,000, when you count such "non-persons" as women and children--yet the entire population of Egypt was only around 2,000,000 during this supposed time period. Moreover, such a large crowd roaming the area identified in scripture would leave ample evidence of their presence. Assuming a modern mortality rate (which is overly conservative, since ancient mortality rates were much higher), there would have been at least 10,000 people dying of natural causes every month, month after month. That's a LOT of bodies to dispose of, even by burning. Plenty of bones would have been discovered, as well as pottery shards from ordinary trash. Yet--nothing.