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Breakfast/daytext/table overseer.
I always seemed to be hungry. My table head was Dave Mercante, Zone Servant and personal secretary to one of the GB. I always kind of felt like I was privy to some pretty private stuff around him. He liked to brag about how much he knew and of course I thought I was pretty special to be the "teacher's pet." How retarded I was.
Monday night WT study
Waste of time. Never studied ahead for it and when I followed along during the study I got even less out of it than I would have if I would have studied on my own.
Tuesdays Bookstudy at one of the Local Cong.
The most worthless meeting. Traveling an hour and a half each way for a one hour meeting? Come on!
Wednesday evening fieldservice
Never did that. Wednesday evenings was for sleeping.
Thursdays parts on the service meeting
A less than enthoused audience listening to a less than grand speaker.
Fridays "family evening" / evening fieldservice
Fridays was "get drunk night." It was also a good time to get together with friends to play chess.
SUNDAYS FIELD SERVICE/MEETING/LATE SUPPER
All I ever wanted to do on Sunday's was sleep. At Bethel is when I started to hate the Sunday meeting.
Daily sisters housekeeping/snooping through your possessions
Hide your porn carefully
What I hated most was the attitude of most people there. (Oh course I had it too, I was a product of the same system) The "I'm better than you" attitude that everyone had. And everyone had it. From the sister checking my ID (such authority she wielded) to the newbies who were supposed to be following my lead (everyone wanted to be in charge of everyone else) everyone thought they were something special. If it weren't for my own low self esteem I probably would have been a real a$$ myself. Sadly what I miss most about Bethel is the view of NYC. I loved walking out on the prominade and just marveling at the beauty of the island of Manhattan. I haven't been back there since I left Bethel in 99. I'm getting all nostalgic now. I think I'm going to cry! (or not!)
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When I was a commuter Bethelite my Father still wanted me to sit in on the Saturday night borefest Watchtower study despite doint it at bethel Monday nights. So what I would do is tell him I was attending the Monday night Watchtower Study to get out of doing the Monday night Family Tuesday Night Family Bookstudy. Monday nights was beer drinking night!
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- Breakfast/daytext/table overseer.
When I was at a GB table it was kinda cool because they didn't care what I did. When I wasn't at a GB table, I'd have some asshole trying to quiz me on an obscure point that he discovered in the insight book. For breakfast, the food SUCKED. There was evidently some GB members that loved prunes and granola because we had that shit more often than not at Brooklyn, while cats at the farm and patterson were having pancakes and french toast......you know a REAL breakfast. I was once counseled for not appreciating spiritual things when I brought a McDonald's breakfast to the table.
- Monday night WT study
Absolute waste of time. However, one of my roommates was a techie-wizard and was able to hook things up so that we could get the program on our television set. We could watch it from our room and feel that we didn't miss a beat.
- Tuesdays Bookstudy at one of the Local Cong.
Another waste. Traveling an hour to an hour and a half for an hour study. ASSININE.
- Wednesday evening fieldservice
Never attempted this.
- Thursdays parts on the service meeting
I actually liked these, because I usually was assigned good parts.
- Fridays "family evening" / evening fieldservice
You are basically at the mercy of old-ass Bethelites who have no since of entertainment and leisure. It was a giant step for African-Americans one year, when they had a group of black brothers sing a Boys II Men tune. Other than that, the evening was a complete waste of time, energy and intentions.
- Saturdays Quick Build Hall construction assistance
Never got involved in this.
- SUNDAYS FIELD SERVICE/MEETING/LATE SUPPER
Absolutely sucked, because for brothers, Sundays was the only day that you didn't have to work and you STILL couldn't sleep in.
- Daily sisters housekeeping/snooping through your possessions
I had some cool housekeepers for the most part. But there were some horror stories with others.
- Car pools
I carpooled with "company men" who basically talked "shop" the whole time. BORING.
- Allowance day
Was okay except for those months where you basically transported you money to accounting to pay for that high phone bill.
- Laundry day / missing clothing / badly sewed clothing
Didn't really dig having numbers on all my clothes, but it saved me time from having to wash them all the time.
- Boring library
I enjoyed the library and wished I could have extracted a couple jewels from there (i.e. - Branch Book)
- farm duty !!! stalls vs $#IT vs gardening
Never heard of this. I was a Brooklynite.
- Inking the press!
Never.
- Digging/carpentry/bricklaying/box packing/loading
Nope.
- Nasty crotch grabbin roomies
Didn't have to worry about this. I made sure I roomed with cats that I knew after my first 6 months or so there.
- Not gettin sum..except nasty looks from roomies
Wasn't a problem at the time.
- Lousy infermary (basic asprin cures all !!!)
Infirmary was a fuckin' joke. And don't be a newbie and get injured playing basketball. You get all of these weird, judgmental looks and sneers.
- Longest pompous a$$ prayers going on and on and on....
Only the ones trying to climb the ladder would do this. The ones who owned the ladder had nothing to prove.
- Old anointed bro's ..that pee themselves and need help !
They weren't that bad and were really kinda down-to-earth for the most part. I had no problem with them.
- Assembly sound duty OMG!
Nope.
- Food Service overseeing
Nope.
- Parking attendant work
Nope.
- Apostate lookout/Security work (it does exist guys !)
When I was a night-watchman, this would come up from time to time.
- That wake up bell OMG OMG OMG !!
INSIPID. Like we were cattle of something. I would have preferred the cowbell.
