Anyone else an Ex Bethel "volunteer" (page 8)

darth frosty

We need a whole separate thread on the people who if we see now are getting an automatic beatdown

Watchtower-Free

Heres a list of of people on this site who were in Bethel . From another thread

abyss57
AllTimeJeff
AndersonsInfo
Awakened at Gilead
Balaamsass
belbab
Bethelite Elder
biff_mcfly
Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Black Man
Brad Wilson
Bro Dan
Cabasilas
Chrisjoel
ClubSandwich
compound complex former pioneer, elder and Bethelite
Crisis of Conscience
cult classic
cyberjesus
daniel-P
darth frosty bethel
discreet slave
dissed
Dogpatch
dwtnphotog
elderelite
exwhyzee
Fisherman
fjtoth
Gamaliel
Gayle
gymbob
hepcat
huxley2.0
Intel
IT Support
ithinkisee
j_homebrew
JeffT
Jeremy C
joelbear69
jschwehm
jt
just n from bethel
jwfacts
Leavingwt
Life Is To Short
lifestooshort
LittleMac
LivingTheDream
lrkr
mann377
MC RubberMallet
MochaLatte
MrDarkKnight
mythreesons
nvrgnbk
oneairhead
owenfieldreams
Pachemu Nyet
Paulapollos
Podobear
puffthedragon
RayPublisher
rekless
Room 215 , ex-Bethelite (department overseer there)
seenitall
shadow
Shawn10538
slmdf
sparky1
TheListener
The_Present_Truth
Tom Cabeen
Uzzah
Was New Boy
What-A-Coincidence
wheres caleb?
winstonchurchill2.0
wschroeder
wunce_wuz
yareyare
zengalileo
jam

Julia Orwell

A young sister from a cong I was in a coupla year's back went to bethel after she got married and pioneered a bit. She was such a two faced, snobby, self righteous bitch and I thought she must have come good and turned nice to get into bethel. Now I know from JWN that she wouldn't have changed at all; actually her personality would help her there. I don't know what her husband was like, only he was a small beige coloured man with a pretty sweet disposition.

BackseatDevil

@Watchtower-Free you would of been a total hit during the McCarthy trials. LOL!!

I'm just kidding. Thanks so much. :-)

Julia Orwell

Hey Devil, how did you reconcile your sexuality with your Organisation career goals? I notice your story foregrounds your sexuality above all else, and Jehovah and the whole ritual involving him like prayer and bible reading is marginalised or silenced. I was a convert so I chose the religion, and for me, it was Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah all the way. You, as a born in, seem more like a regular guy stuck in the 'culture' of Jehovah and climbing up a corporate ladder in your story, rather than one of those fanatical JWs who live and breathe Watchtower.

I don't mean the above points as criticism: perhaps you really were a bit of a WT fanatic but chose to make your story focus more on your sexuality.

darth frosty

I have the bethel entrants manual somewhere. I posted it 3-4 yrs ago but the link is dead.

RobertT18

Well, I think it's time for me to start reading , thanks for sharing your story with us.

JW_Researcher

Brooklyn 1983 - 1985

BackseatDevil

@Julia Orwell That's actually a very good question. I had to think on it. LOL.

Growing up a "golden boy" of sorts, I gained an arrogance that, to this day i feel shameful for. I was brash, would say some of the most awful things to people just to shock them because I thought I was untouchable. And I was. I considered sexuality something... fun, a past time, a minor blip on the screen of my life, and for a long time I thought I would be married, have kids, and then never have sex with my wife, and on occasion fuck around with some guy. That's how I reconciled it. And I made peace with that. That was going to be my life.

Being raised in the "truth" everything regarding function in the congregation was automatic. I would comment without thinking, I could do field service in my sleep - read who the person was by the time they said "hi", give impromptu talks talks flawlessly, I was never nervous during assembly parts (Although the talk I gave at the Astrodome one time was a little overshelming), but even drafting was a no-brainer. My sexuality was the only time i had to THINK and I thought something was wrong with me... I was a deviant, but come to find out for a normal guy that age sexuality is ALWAYS on the brain... lol.

Ollie (in the story) really f'ed me over because I was moved in a way I never knew I could be, I didn't know that even existed. But by the time that happened, I already had the Bethel mechanism in play. To think about sex AND the be overpowered with emotion is (as any guy will tell you) somewhat frightening lol. I can say honestly that with bethel, it wasn't reconciled at all. I honestly did not know what I was going to do.

RobertT18

Holy crap, this story is so good, already in chapter 5.

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