Bethel Rules

brotherdan

This was brought up just in passing on another thread. But I wanted to see if there are any bethelites or ex bethelites that remember some of the crazy rules we had to follow when we were there.

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brotherdan

Here are the ones that I remembered:

1. The table head decides which direction the food will be passed

2. No licking your fingers (even when you eat bbq ribs)

3. Only shirts with collars were allowed unless you worked construction

4. No shirts with logos of any kind were allowed

5. The door must be wide open if a guy and a girl are in the same room (including an office)

6. You are expected to meet or exceed the national average (for service hours) even though you worked on saturdays and sunday was the meeting

7. You are to pay $3.00 to the person that drives in your car group from bethel to the meeting

8. You must go to EVERY morning worship, and never be so much as 1 second late. There is a clock displayed so that you know the SECOND it turns 7:00am.

9. No heavy metal or rap music is allowed. It's grounds for termination

10. No R rated movies of any sort. Again, grounds for termination

11. Couples can not make "noise" while having sex. In fact when a brother gets married he is to meet with his overseer before the wedding to have a "sex" talk about what is appropriate (missionary only) and what is not (oral, anal, nasal...)

12. You cannot use the elevator (if you are a male) until you have 15 years of full-time service

13. Your bed must be made every morning military style (they have a certain way to fold the sheets and bed spread)

14. The housekeeper is to report you if they find anything "inappropriate" in your room. But they are not allowed to look in the closets (go figure)

15. You CAN subscribe to sports illustrated, but you had to sign a waiver that they could "destroy" the swimsuit edition and not deliver it to you