watchtower to sell 6 brooklyn heights properties.
brooklyn daily eagle, ny -7 minutes ago.
... residential and all in brooklyn heights, according to david semonian, a spokesperson for the watchtower society, also known as the jehovahs witnesses.
One of these resisdences, 34 Orange, if I recall correctly, had quite the party one night. Got out of hand to the point that the police showed up to quiet things down.
This of course resulted in the usual commitee meetings. One item that came out was that one of the attendees to this party (Bethelite) took a leak out the 2nd story window. Apparently to much beer and not enough bathrooms...
One of the more infamous parties to take place while there.... how did I ever miss that invite?....
the jw's will say that in jesus time, it was ok to have a beard because it was their custom back then, and today jw's should not have a beard because it's not our custom to have one today.. since the world is ever changing, it will continue changing, and beards might come back and be popular once more.. it's only a cheap excuse on their part, because they will never accept beards, even if every man wore one today..
Alligator Wisdom made this statement, "Not long ago the circuit overseer had one elder shave off his mustache."
When I entered Bethel I also had a mustache. I and others get our work assignment, we meet the floor overseer. I get pulled aside. So brother newboy (me) you happen to see the latest magazine? I say yes. The article is about evolution. Within the article is a picture of a white scientist at a blackboard. This white scientist has a mustache.
So, in the floor overseers mind, if you are white and have a mustache you believe in evolution.
I am thinking, I have not been at Bethel a full week and I got 47 more weeks of people that think or may think like this, what did I get myself into....
do you feel there was a "gap" between those who had more materially and those families or individuals who had less?.
example: did those who had "less" materially not get invited to private homes for get togethers as frequently or not at all?.
thanks for your input.. juni .
I remember moving to an area where the cost of living was much less than where I was, which allowed for a much nicer/larger apartment for about the same price. I had invited some over from the congo to visit. Shortly after that start getting comments of being materialistic, blah, blah, blah. They being clueless that where I lived prior was very tiny and not that nice of a place. Jealously.
i just happen to catch part of a steve martin movie called, "the jerk".
the scene is cat juggling.
so i google cat juggling out of curiosity and i get this: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/cat_juggling.
I just happen to catch part of a Steve Martin movie called, "The jerk". The scene is cat juggling. So I google cat juggling out of curiosity and I get this: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Cat_Juggling. Then I see a link that leads to this, http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses. The section on " How To Stop Jehovah's Witnesses Coming To Your Home" is pretty funny. Oddly enough I knew a coworker who pulled a simliar stunt. He had a company car. After he was terminated his boss came over to pick up his car. As his boss was going through his car he called the police and said his car was being broken into....
the new york times of november 19, 1974 reports a bethel building had first and second floor windows blown out by a pipe bomb exploded in its doorway.
an apartment building across the street sustained damage, too.
does anyone here know more about this incident?.
The New York Times of November 19, 1974 reports a Bethel building had first and second floor windows blown out by a pipe bomb exploded in its doorway. An apartment building across the street sustained damage, too. Does anyone here know more about this incident?
The New York Times of November 19, 1974 reports a Bethel building had first and second floor windows blown out by a pipe bomb exploded in its doorway. An apartment building across the street sustained damage, too. Does anyone here know more about this incident?
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I was at Bethel at that time. Remember hearing it go off early morning. About 500 yds away from point of detonation. At that distance it was very loud. Do not recall if they ever found person or a specific reason given.
how much to bethalites get paid today?
i know it varies by length of service and marital status.
does anyone know?
They paid you in CASH??! What years were you there? How much of that $100 went to subways to attend your congregation's Kingdom Hall? When I entered it was $18/month. When I left it was $35 if I recall. Used to be a running joke amongst some of my friends...how many meetings can you afford to miss... so you can have more money for beer, pizza, and weekend trips.
thank you for this place in cyber space, this is therapy for me.
there is something about writing things down, that helps put things in perspective........ the day i left it was pouring rain........i really screwed up, i found out the night before, as i was packing things up, that i had way under estimated how much stuff i had.
i had two large suit cases (that i could barely shut the lids on) and a large army duffel bag.
I remember when I was told I had 30 days to leave Bethel. Something about getting fired that makes one outlook a bit more focused. My book study conductor is df'd for "apostasy". In typical Bethel elder mentality I was guilty also. The fact that I never really hung around with the guy except at the book study was enough. We almost never even traveled together back and forth to the book study. During the judial committee meeting two of the elders knew this was bullshit, and the third could not get rid of me soon enough. A number of years later I came back for a visit. The one elder, that I had been good friends with, told me that I got caught in the cross fire-collaterial damge. I had no problem with this, it was time to leave anyway--had enough. The other elder who could not wait to get rid of me, was my work boss. What an incompetent manager. I had about 15 people working under me and we were always at odds about management style. He was later removed from being a floor overseer. Apparently everyone eventually hated working under this guy. Just because one is an elder does not automatically make you a leader of men--in a production environment. An simple obvious fact lost on the upper management at Bethel.
Anyway, I am told 30 days to be gone. I get a vehicle through a vehicle delivery service and am gone a week later. Twelve weeks later I start college. Got canned at just the right time.
maybe you're afraid of rats, or afraid to walk under a ladder or go in your basement for some reason .
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Vestiphobia...
...better yet if my girlfriend had vestiphobia....lol
"i" who was marked as someone bad to associate with simply because i wanted to make enough to support my family and the approved professions (which our congregation was already saturated with) of window washers, carpet cleaners, janitorial services, and siding and window replacement workers did not appeal to me.
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Thank goodness I went to a congregation where most of the elders had college degrees or at least some college time. Those that did not, some of their kids were in college.
there were guys at bethel, who had great jobs........like don brouex.....he was the receptionist at the 124 desk....checking in and "checking out" ......all the bethel tours and "hot" sisters......on there way through the "home tour"............that my friend, is not a real bethel job.. there were guys at bethel, that had great congergations with maybe only 2-4 bethelities in their halls.
one hall, midtown had over 80 bethelites there.............. 3 old ladies 4 kids and a dog.
odds of getting a home cook meal on sunday 0%.
When I was at Bethel the head of my table mentioned he had a car. One day he is walking to work and his car drives by him. And the driver is no one he recognized and that was the end of his car as his car as it disappeared into the horizon.
