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What was really going on with Abel? Does anyone find the story of Cain and Abel screwed up.
by liam in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ever wonder about the story of cain and abel?

why did jehovah like abel's sacrifice more than cain's?

maybe there's a subtle reason why jehovah likes animal sacrifices.
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Did the WT Policy on Lying Bother You When You Were a JW?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
here's the wt standard for lying: "while malicious lying is definitely condemned in the bible, this does not mean that a person is under obligation to divulge truthful information to people who are not entitled to it" - insight pp.

244-245. vs. websters dictionary:.

lie, noun.
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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.
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Can someone remind me the reason's you could be disfellowshipped?
by SydBarrett in
1. jw
2. friends
the only reasons i can remember are smoking, sexual immorality and of course, apostasy.

there must be others but having been out since 1990, i'm drawing a blank.

i was thinking perhaps serious criminal offenses that result in prison, but then i remembered a brother in my congregation in the 1980's who went to prison.
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Making Friends with Babylon the Great: Watchtower’s New Goal
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/iv_uifab-qg?si=ttnajiuizmtqlte9.

it began during the last annual meeting of 2014 and now is trikling down to their watchtower magazines, this new "live and let live" attitude towards people of other faiths, or as they were known as babylon the great soon to be dead in the hands of god members.but it is a new different story, so let's read paragraph 15 from study article 15:.

"jehovah is kind to both the righteous and the unrighteous.
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Pa. Has Charged 14 Jehovah's Witnesses With CSA Just Since Last Fall ! More Expected.
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwk6pxprkg&ab_channel=thethornbushwasblazing%26yetdidn%27tburnup.
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Canada exploring changes to tax rules that exempt religious organizations
by Scully in
1. jw
2. friends
https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-oppose-removal-of-tax-status-in-canadian-proposal.html.

the proposed change will revoke charitable status of canadian churches who have an anti-abortion position, and will not give tax exemptions to organizations whose sole claim is to promote religion, which is the basic claim for all jw related entities in canada.

this will be interesting!.
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Age Appropriate Friends
by Riley in
1. jw
2. friends
we have a 25 year guy in our hall who is also a pioneer (which means he lives off his parents money), who likes to spend a lot of time with a 16 year old girl in the hall.

it is usually in a group setting but he seems to gravitate toward her.

he even has her auxilary pioneering , which is something i don't think any student trying to make the grades needs.
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Rethinking WT Charity Status in Canada.
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
rethinking wt charity status in canada.. .

https://avoidjw.org/news/canada-rethinking-charity-status-project-straight-arrow/ .
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Pidgin English
by markweatherill in
1. social
2. humour
https://www.jw.org/hwc.

i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.

they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..