Posts by betterdaze

as one of the main drivers to us exiting the cult he is very excited about never going to a meeting again.. if i knew how to load pictures i would let you see his plan for christmas lights next year.

apparently we are having a sleigh with reigndeers.

betterdaze

Little Cantleave, may you have so many happy of these you lose count:

~Sue

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People can be so mean, nasty and insulting on internet forums!

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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i 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.

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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October 1975 - VS May 2011

by brotherdan in

does 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?.

betterdaze

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.

~Sue

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so what have i missed???

by oompa in

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been 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.

betterdaze

Welcome back Oompa!

~Sue

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.

betterdaze

(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 in

a 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!

betterdaze

(((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.

~Sue

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Brotherdan seems like he really DID leave

by sabastious in

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he 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.

betterdaze

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.

~Sue

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Apostate Artwork

by sacolton in

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for use on any jw discussion/website .... .

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(insert your captions here).

betterdaze

Reposting with many thanks to the poster who found a typo, now corrected: