We have had lunch at Bethel, tupperware and head of the table. Very funny, I can resonate with that. Kate xx
Tech49 visits Bethel: Part 1-Patterson
by Tech49 17 Replies latest jw experiences
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konceptual99
Had lunch at Mill Hill Bethel a couple of years ago. Freaky.
I thought the trip would help cement the global nature of the org into my kids. It just added fuel to the growing fire of discontent in my heart.
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blondie
The tupperware scoop up....called gleaning officially by Bethelites I knew; I called it scavenging. They aren't supposed to take food from occupied tables while people are still eating...you can continue eating after the prayer or to the dishes the servers take over to an unoccupied table. Bethelites, especially couples, like to eat in their rooms alone and heat up leftovers. Some were quite good at combining leftovers. I do believe that you are only required to go to your table for breakfast. The head (and the foot) brothers will note when you are late and "talk" to you about it.
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BluesBrother
I went to Brooklyn back in the day, many decades ago when on a Society trip to N Y Assembly. We got asked for lunch, which was nice but I had no idea at the time that it was such a privilige in their eyes. As I recall, it was certainly regimented to a strict time table and rule - bound.
Tech, your thoughts remind me of Huxley's " Brave New World" where everybody is indoctrinated from birth, and programmed prior to that , into perpetuating the system, and only the outsider could see it for what it was.....
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