part 1. i when to bethel march 21,1970. at the time you had to be a pioneer for two years to apply, by the time i left in 1974 they were calling people in who had never pioneered..........average stay was 5 months (they had signed up for 4 years)..........the reason they left was......well, it was hell.. one of the reasons was, knorr hated bethelites, but he loved the gilead students and why?
because when they screwed up they were thousands of miles away!........just before i got there, they had kicked out over 30!
homosexuals (at one time) ....the would kick out 1-2 bethelites a week.
My room mate was gay, Joel Reed, I was not but he and I got along ok, he went his way and I went my way. The press operator that I was an assistant operator was very gay. Press #2 He died of AIDES two years after leaving.
I'm starting to have some issues with the "truth" of some of these stories. As I understand it your talking 1976 while AIDS was in the 80's. Who knows what to believe anymore..sigh.
there were other people who either killed themselves or tried to kill themselves while they were at "the house of god.
one person who did kill himself was richard wheelock, press room overseer ......he jumped out of a window at the watchtower farm one day.
it seemed, he was never quite the same after his wife "willy" died.
New boy Have a question for you. Wanted to get your insight into this matter because you were around the chemicals etc. What are your thoughts?
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/watch-tower-faces-clean-up-bill-for-ruining-the-earth
Just a few of my thoughts were posted. Not happy about this at all!
