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  How was Albert D. Schroeder (GB) able to raise his child at Bethel?

  by Boxed elder bugs in

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  2. experiences

  i am just curious, maybe this topic has gotten covered before but when i was at bethel the policy was that nobody could have a child there, if you had children you had to leave?

  so how was governing body member albert d. schroeder able to bypass those rules and raise his son judah there at bethel, judah was there when i was there and worked as a waiter and seemed like a nice kid but why the exception, don't bethel rules apply to everybody?

  this is the only case i know of at any of the societies headquarters where someone was allowed to raise their child there and didn't have to leave.

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  I served under Knorr at Bethel and what Samuel Johnson said applies...

  by Boxed elder bugs in

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  i served under nathan knorr at bethel during the seventies and what the writer samuel johnson said applies to him, "he is not only dull, he is the cause of dullness in others.".

  the only time he wasn't a dull montone voice on the bethel t.v.

  was when he was berating some 'new boy' for some minor transgression.

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  Does Jehovah wear underwear?

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  2. humour

  well he is often pictured in a old hebrew version of what looks like a toga, and you know some of the angels flying behind him have to be curious.

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  House of pleasure /House of pain

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  2. humour

  for me brooklyn bethel was a house of pain.

  when i arrived they were remodeling the towers hotel which they had just purchased and they put me in a room with four other guys.

  then they put me on the night shift in the bindery.

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  Nathan Knorr and Bethel Life in the seventies

  by Boxed elder bugs in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i was at bethel in the 70's the president of the watchtower society nathan knorr was really unpopular among a lot of bethelites because he supported the four year oblligation for bethelites to stay at bethel and stay single for four years.

  i had heard that over nintey percent of the people who left bethel fell away from the jw religion afterwards, i was among that number, and i had heard that the majority of people who came to bethel did not keep there four year commitment but left in less than a year, i know the majority of people i started with lasted about a year at bethel, i was dumb enough to stay at bethel three and one half years.

  i guess it was because i was raised in the witnesses and didn't know what to do after i lost my faith in that religion while i was there.

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