R&R, not an excuse, but maybe an explanation:
Is it possible the nasty remarks you received were from the resentful business owner and/or their friends/family? Some online review sites are actively "trolled" by paying advertisers whose reputations are at stake.
Worse, some "reviewers" will post fake negative experiences to disparage rival businesses. Not that you were doing that, it's just a sad reality in today's economic climate, and the Internet gives voice to all sorts of crappy characters.
When I first moved here and didn't know a soul yet, I found online reviews for stuff like restaurants, hair salons and dry cleaners could be dicey owing to both scenarios.
~Sue
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People can be so mean, nasty and insulting on internet forums!
by RULES & REGULATIONS ini asked a simple question on the internet site yelp.
anyone can post a review and rating of local travel,food,entertainment,events and what's on your mind.
i asked a simple question on the forum and the responses were pretty mean and nasty.
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October 1975 - VS May 2011
by brotherdan indoes anyone have any articles from outside media sources about the 1975 wt scandal that were written before or just after 1975?
i wanted to put that type of article side by side with the article regarding the may 2011 rapture prediction and see how they were similar.. does anyone have any of these outside news items about 1975?.
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Dan you are so incredibly rude I don't know why I bother except that others will benefit
Ditto here. That's why I ignore his nasty-gram PMs. But I like to help out if/when I can so here goes:
Do a Google News search for jehovah 1975. Click on Archives.
From there you can target the specific year 1975, or do a Custom range from say, 1966 to 1978 for the lead-up and fallout, then sort by date.
(As an added bonus, you'll hit some Malawi persecution articles. Fun times… NOT! But now I know how my mom got pressured into baptism before she knew what she was getting into, spiritual slavery.)
1975 Predictions in Awake Magazine by Jehovah's Witnesses is also good resource to compare what the Society was publishing at the time vs. "worldly" news reports they deny to this day.
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so what have i missed???
by oompa inbeen very self absorbed for awhilel....shame on me!!
but i called that crazy canadian chick the other day....god i love her voice and personality...and if you ever get to call or see mouthy...go for it!!!
!...she has more life in her now than i ever will.
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Welcome back Oompa!
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Perfetto update: Child porn on laptop, police say
by betterdaze in(do a search on "perfetto" for previous stories, he's "still a jw" and long-time sex offender.).
child porn on laptop, police say.
by maddie hanna / monitor staff.
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(Do a search on "Perfetto" for previous stories, he's "still a JW" and long-time sex offender.)
Child porn on laptop, police say
By Maddie Hanna / Monitor staff
January 6, 2011
A repeat sex offender who briefly lived in a Concord parking garage after serving a prison sentence has again been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography.
Jonathan Perfetto, 36, of Manchester was reported to the police last month by a Manchester pawn shop owner, who found pornographic images on a laptop Perfetto had sold, according to the Manchester police.
Perfetto, who had bought the laptop from the shop several weeks earlier, told the police he was having urges for children and received pornographic images from people over the internet, a number of which he saved to his laptop so he could "burn them to a CD-R for later use," according to a police affidavit.
The police arrested him Tuesday and charged him with five counts of possession of child pornography. He was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail during an arraignment yesterday in Manchester District Court.
The arrest marks the latest in a series of sex-related charges against Perfetto, who told the Monitor in 2008 that at the age of 17 he began sexually assaulting people, including a young relative. For that assault, he served a short sentence at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester.
In 1999, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and was sent to the Merrimack County jail, where he stayed until July 2000.
But he was caught with child pornography on his laptop in 2001 and arrested. He pleaded guilty in March 2002 to 61 counts of possession of child pornography.
On those charges, Perfetto was sentenced to 3½ to seven years in state prison, with a 14- to 28-year sentence suspended for 10 years on condition of good behavior.
He left prison without the supervision of a parole officer in October 2008 after maxing out his sentence. He couldn't find housing and slept in a Concord parking garage, telling the Monitor he was scared he would reoffend.
Although he soon found a place to rent in Manchester, he was sent back to jail in 2009 after he was convicted of making a false report about his cellmate in the prison.
He left the Hillsborough County jail Nov. 16, and since then had been living in a furnished room on Chestnut Street in Manchester, according to his mother, Jackie Bennett.
Bennett, who previously expressed concern that Perfetto wasn't being monitored after his release, said in a phone conversation yesterday that she was upset to learn of the latest charges.
Since getting out of jail in November, Perfetto had been seeing a therapist once a week, and "he seemed to be doing pretty well," Bennett said.
Bennett, who lives in Manchester, said she had seen Perfetto often in the past two months and supervised him on trips to the library. She said Perfetto is still a practicing Jehovah's Witness, though the state Supreme Court recently denied his request to be allowed to worship at a congregation where children might be present.
Perfetto also talked about moving out of state and starting life over, Bennett said.
"I just don't understand why Jonathan did this," she said. "It doesn't make any sense to me."
According to the police affidavit, Perfetto bought the computer Dec. 2 and sold it back to the shop Dec. 24. As part of his practice, the owner of the shop - N.H. Pawn Shop on Elm Street - inspected the computer's contents, according to the affidavit.
He called the police after finding pornographic images, which the police said were saved on the computer's desktop in a folder named "John," according to the affidavit.Perfetto told the police he was the only person who had control over the computer, according to the affidavit.
Possession of child pornography is a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. State statute says anyone previously convicted of child pornography can be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors may also seek to impose the suspended sentence Perfetto received when he pleaded guilty to the child pornography charges in 2002.
Barbara Keshen, the staff attorney with the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union who represented Perfetto in his appeal to the Supreme Court, said in September that Perfetto's suspended sentence barred him from owning or accessing a computer.
Maureen O'Neil of the Hillsborough County Attorney's Office, who prosecuted the earlier pornography charges against Perfetto, said she didn't have access to Perfetto's file yesterday and couldn't comment on the conditions of the suspended sentence.
"We will be reviewing his closed file in relation to the new arrest," she said.(Maddie Hanna can be reached at 369-3321 or [email protected].)
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Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?
by Witness 007 ina couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!
not encouraging.
this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!
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(((Roski))) that is so tragic. I used to worry about my mom… but then I told her I would "Sue the elders' asses into the ground" if they required her go out in FS anymore with all her myriad health issues. And I think she told THEM.
About the cruddy food from Jah, I remember some Gilead missionaries visiting our home when I was a kid. They were assigned to a far-flung, poverty-stricken "land" where all they had were eggs. Poor roads, which turned to mud in the rainy season, so it was difficult to get foodstuffs through, and the locals wanted to pay for their studies with all they had: eggs. So daily, they'd load up baskets of fresh eggs at the door.
Eggs for breakfast, eggs for lunch, eggs for dinner. Praise Jah, "We lived on eggs seven days a week! And we LIKED it!"
I was about 9 or 10 and thought, "Why doesn't Jehovah The Almighty at least send them a little bread and cheese to go with their eggs?" In my young mind, Jesus had the power to multiply it, right? So they could share it back with the studies, too. But nothing in the Watchtower ever worked that way. Always about SACRAFICE to the point of malnutrition.
That and other Gileads' experiences totally turned me off to the ministry. These folks told of MAJOR sacrifices, to be assigned to some really hellish and often dangerous living conditions, and Jehovah could never seem to keep them warm, dry, fed or clean as we could cats and dogs.
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Brotherdan seems like he really DID leave
by sabastious inhe was an interesting presence on this board.
he had integral knowledge about bethel and the like.
i am an emotional guy too so i can kind of relate to why he left.. but, you gotta get thick skin on the forum.
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I said nothing against Zid.
Ah, but looky here, you did:I understand Zids reaction. However, she claimed to try and contact me many times.
She never made such a claim. This is in fact what Zid said:
Frankly, I haven't asked for the books back; I'm very concerned that Brother Dan would completely ignore my request.I DO have Bro Dan's address, as it happens... I may still have his cell phone # in my phone, too... If he hasn't changed either, I SHOULD contact him and ask about my books...
But I am being a coward, in not contacting him, too...
About the books - I'm going to bide my time.
Will keep you people posted as I rebuild...
I'll try contacting him; first I'll post a comment on his blog. Then, if I don't get a response, I'll send him an email or letter...
* * *Just keeping it straight for ya's, because Dan apparently cannot.
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Apostate Artwork
by sacolton infor use on any jw discussion/website .... .
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JW scams elderly woman, WTBT$ is beneficiary
by betterdaze inpolice: man scammed elderly woman.
by andrew gant, staff writer .
december 10, 2010 12:05 am.
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JW scams elderly woman, WTBT$ is beneficiary
by betterdaze inpolice: man scammed elderly woman.
by andrew gant, staff writer .
december 10, 2010 12:05 am.
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Police: Man scammed elderly woman
By ANDREW GANT, Staff writer
December 10, 2010 12:05 AM
A Crescent City man scammed a DeLand woman out of more than $250,000 after knocking at her door with a Bible in hand, according to an arrest report released Thursday.
Francis L. Paul III, 46, was charged Wednesday with exploitation of an elderly person after a more than four-month investigation by DeLand police.
Paul fooled the 84-year-old woman into signing away her savings and stock holdings -- totaling about $255,000, according to the report.
Detective David Hiers wrote that the woman -- who is not being named because she is vulnerable -- was willing to sign several blank pieces of paper he handed her without explanation.
"It became apparent that (she) could be talked into signing anything," Hiers wrote.
A son visiting from California discovered the thefts in July and reported them to police, the report states.
The Department of Children & Families declared the woman mentally incompetent and police said she "suffers from the infirmities of aging."
Police said Paul -- who also goes by the name Francis P. Lipani III -- "showed up at (the woman's) door one day with a Bible in his hand" and befriended her. In an interview with police, the woman said she "liked him and was comfortable around him" and signed some papers he provided so they could "go into the lawn business together."
Subpoenaed documents from several banks -- Paul used at least seven, investigators said -- showed the beneficiary on many of Paul's accounts was theWatchtower Bible and Tract Society, an organization of Jehovah's Witnesses.
His arrest report listed his occupation as a salesman.
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Knocking.org releases (dis)information page
by betterdaze inknocking.org releases information page on jehovah's witnesses.
beliefs, history, practices and controversies discussed.
"accurate information on jehovah's witnesses is available but you need to know where to find it.
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"Accurate information on Jehovah's Witnesses is available but you need to know where to find it. Knocking.org presents an award winning PBS documentary on the subject of Jehovah's Witnesses. It is pleased to announce a new information page on the subject of Jehovah's Witnesses, which provides a detailed account of the history, beliefs and practices of Jehovah's Witnesses."
Newark, NJ (1888PressRelease) January 01, 2011 - Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion whose modern day history that traces back to around 1879 with Charles Taze Russell and his associates. They were an independent Bible study group with loose ties to Adventist thought (not to be confused with Seventh Day Adventists).
Russell and his associates came to the conclusion that much of the teachings associated with mainstream Christianity of that time were not in harmony with the Bible. They wanted to start from scratch, as it were, and go back to the Bible to see what it really said about such topics as the immortal soul, the time of the end, paradise, hellfire, salvation and heaven. They rejected the concept of human evolution and in 1916, the International Bible Students produced the Photo Drama of Creation, which aimed to show the scientific basis of Scripture. An estimated nine million people viewed the presentation in 1914.
After Russell's death in 1916, Joseph F. Rutherford became the second to direct what became, under his administration, Jehovah's Witnesses, in 1931. His rough style and fiery manner were in stark contrast to that of Russell. With Rutherford, Witnesses placed increased empasis on house-to-house preaching. This method of evangelizing has continued until today.
The Knocking.org site, presents and unvarnished account of Jehovah's Witnesses history, beliefs and practices, that is both accurate and unbiased.
Some of the topics covered on the Knocking Jehovah's Witness page are,
Sreading the Word - Charles T. Russell, The Watchtower Society & IBSA; Post-War Expansion; Missionary Activity and Expectation; Doctrinal Development and Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses; Jehovah's Witnesses and Entertainment Choices, Morality, Disfellowshipping; Jehovah's Witnesses Demography and Statistics; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND CIVIL RIGHTS; Historical Background; Jehovah's Witnesses and the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Knocking.org main page presents a 10,000-plus word article that covers nearly every facet of the topic of Jehovah's Witnesses. It is the most complete article on Jehovah's Witnesses that is available on the Internet.
In the coming months, historical photos will gradually be added to the site. We encourage journalists and researchers to use the site for their research. The information is not produced by Jehovah's Witnesses themselves, but by a team of independent San Francisco journalists.
http://www.knocking.org
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