Posts by Samuel Thorsen

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Major changes between the years 1968 and 2005

by White Dove in

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what are some major changes during these years that i was completely in the dark about?

these are the years that i was in.

81 (yes, eighty one) norwegian pop and rock singers/bands want to celebrate the 50 th birthday of their great music idol prince with a cd-box containing one prince cover tune from each one of them.. however prince does not think this is a good idea and he has throu his lawyers stopped the project because it containes "unautorized arrangements"..... you can read it in the norwegian paper here... http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/04/21/533175.html.

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Samuel Thorsen

81 (yes, eighty one) norwegian pop and rock singers/bands want to celebrate the 50 th birthday of their great music idol Prince with a CD-box containing one Prince cover tune from each one of them.

However Prince does not think this is a good idea and he has throu his lawyers stopped the project because it containes "unautorized arrangements"....

You can read it in the norwegian paper here... http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/04/21/533175.html

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My dad just came out... as one of the annointed

by Pwned in

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i know i don't post here that often but this just kind of blew me away.

my dad just "came out" recently as annointed and i find it so weird.

he's always been pretty level headed and he's been in for over 30 years.

Samuel Thorsen

My aunt stopped taking the crackers this year. He might have taken her place

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TATTOO LOVERS: Need some suggestions...

by feenx in

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helllloooooo peeps!

alright so with all my recent bs part of the new "me" will be a new tattoo.

i have part of it figured out, a phoenix bird, which really is perfect for me personally with my journey through life, as a silentlamb, and coming out of the borg and embracing my own life.

Samuel Thorsen

I would go for the dragon from the Revelation book

Show some ironic distance

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So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

by nicolaou in

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i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

Samuel Thorsen

The circular reasoning and the bad, bad, bad quality of everything written from the WTS.

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The Death Penalty? What do you think?

by Country Girl in

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i, as most persons, think a sexual assault of a child is a very horrible thing.

like most parents, i would want to put the person to death that assaulted my child in that way, but is that just?

i'm two ways about it: i feel for the child, and the child's family; but at the same time i am wondering if it is deserving of death?

Samuel Thorsen

Personally I think it would be much better to kill the creep and ship the money that we would otherwise spend on him to some starving children.

I have heard that a death sentence is more costly that life prison. If thats true the economic argument falls.

Im am against.

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Photos of you with someone famous?

by sacolton in

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anyone have any pictures of themselves with someone famous (singer, actor, author, etc.)?.

i got a chance to meet paul williams (singer/actor) of "phantom of the paradise" and composer of great many songs like.

"just an old fashioned love song", "the rainbow connection", "you and me against the world", "we've only just begun", etc .... .

Samuel Thorsen

Sorry. New try.

A Gilead missionary from Texas visited Norway and was extreamly proud of this picture, allthou he was blind (white stick). I happend to stick with a copy, don.t know really how.

Can you recognize anyone at this table??

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Photos of you with someone famous?

by sacolton in

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friends

anyone have any pictures of themselves with someone famous (singer, actor, author, etc.)?.

i got a chance to meet paul williams (singer/actor) of "phantom of the paradise" and composer of great many songs like.

"just an old fashioned love song", "the rainbow connection", "you and me against the world", "we've only just begun", etc .... .

Samuel Thorsen

A Gilead missionary from Texas visited Norway and was extreamly proud of this picture, allthou he was blind (white stick). I happend to stick with a copy, don.t know really how.

Can you recognize anyone at this table??

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Being told that "Not all people will die at Armageddon"

by Robert7 in

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my wife, who while still (at least partially) in, is an open thinker, agrees with me for the most part, and has made a recent observation... .

she brings up with her friends how it's difficult to believe that all non-jws, over 6 billion will die at armageddon.

plus will die becuase they didn't accept some magazine.

Samuel Thorsen

This is so true.

In fact I have not met one single dub yet who admits he believes tat all non-duds will die. Not one. Even if it's clearly staded several times in the litterature. A typica dub goes like this "Jehover will look at the hearts and not kill everyone..."

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Why Jehovah Witnesses teach a more biblical faith

by tralon in

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surprizeingly, i am not a jw but an observer and in partial agreement with the jehovah witnesses on many issues.

i have been to many churches in my 30 years and have studied many church beliefs, church history and the bible as well.

so why do i believe the jehovah witnesses are the one true faith of jehovah god?.

Samuel Thorsen

Tralon. I understand that you're not a JW.

So what religion are you? And why?