Posts by paulmolark

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An experience at Bethel

by joe134cd in

i was just thinking of something i observed on a visit to bethel some years back, that at the time struck me as odd, but now that i look back on it, it might be revealing about their financial situation.

please feel free to agree/disagree with me and also bear in mind this is some years back so my memory may be sketchey.

i remember walking into the front entrance of the bethel to do a tour.

paulmolark

SoCal nothing was more fun then sitting on a bench next to my Johnny mop and mop bucket picking pubic hairs from small bars of generic soap.

However for the first three months I told everyone back home about how great it was... Until the newness wore off and I realized how fucking disgusting it was

lets also not forget the best assignment of all. Every month it would rotate as to who would be on clog duty. For some reason the old people in the 25-30 building would consistently clog toilets or miss and for a full month one brother was in charge of handling all the ones that occurred

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An experience at Bethel

by joe134cd in

i was just thinking of something i observed on a visit to bethel some years back, that at the time struck me as odd, but now that i look back on it, it might be revealing about their financial situation.

please feel free to agree/disagree with me and also bear in mind this is some years back so my memory may be sketchey.

i remember walking into the front entrance of the bethel to do a tour.

paulmolark

Exactly stuckinarut2, everything that involved donating things anywhere was always related to Christendom. It was the same thing with office furniture, car parts, etc... I would take some of the real nice clothes and when I went home during my one weekend a month "my family lived in NJ" I would give some of the suits and clothes to local friends in the congregation. I even gave some to my congregation in NY because those people were dirt poor.

All the while nearly every brother at Bethel who had a name or was a "heavy" rolled around in YSL and Hugo Boss suits LOL

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An experience at Bethel

by joe134cd in

i was just thinking of something i observed on a visit to bethel some years back, that at the time struck me as odd, but now that i look back on it, it might be revealing about their financial situation.

please feel free to agree/disagree with me and also bear in mind this is some years back so my memory may be sketchey.

i remember walking into the front entrance of the bethel to do a tour.

paulmolark

What they do is make sure that they ask these people in visible areas to do things like this so that when tours come through and people see them they will obviously ask why they are doing. This gives the brothers the impression that they are not squandering money and everything is going to good use.

However they levels of wastefulness are extreme.

For instance every meal has literally tons and tons of food that never gets eaten. When I worked in recycling the amount of untouched food from just one dining hall was enough to feed over 1000 people at each meal. They would not give any to the homeless because they were afraid of the possible lawsuits.

When brothers donated clothes over 50% of said clothes were thrown into the garbage because they were unfit for bethel wear. They may have had a logo on the t-shirt etc...

The list goes on and on with how easily they waste money yet you have people donating their last pennies in order to send it to these people

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An experience at Bethel

by joe134cd in

i was just thinking of something i observed on a visit to bethel some years back, that at the time struck me as odd, but now that i look back on it, it might be revealing about their financial situation.

please feel free to agree/disagree with me and also bear in mind this is some years back so my memory may be sketchey.

i remember walking into the front entrance of the bethel to do a tour.

paulmolark

In the office complex there are only communal showers. 20 plus shower heads. We replaced the soap as needed but every Friday I'll never forget Carlos Reyes told me to collect all the soaps in the wall dishes. Get a bucket of hot water and mash them together.

If if you think that is bad I am sure a lot of people could go on for daaaaays about the Tomfoolery

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An experience at Bethel

by joe134cd in

i was just thinking of something i observed on a visit to bethel some years back, that at the time struck me as odd, but now that i look back on it, it might be revealing about their financial situation.

please feel free to agree/disagree with me and also bear in mind this is some years back so my memory may be sketchey.

i remember walking into the front entrance of the bethel to do a tour.

paulmolark

They are just stingy. I cleaned the locker ions in 3 floors when I was there. I had to collect the small pieces of soap left in the shower, put them in a bucket of hot water and mash them together to make a bigger bar to be used later.

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If They Stopped Shunning Tomorrow?

by cofty in

imagine that the cult decided to stop shunning family members on the proviso that the dfd person was not actively trying to attack the cult.. (please don't debate whether or not this is likely - it's hypothetical).

how would you respond to your family?.

personally i think i would be less than cooperative.

paulmolark

I would treat them the way they have treated me all along. I stopped reaching out when I was told it would be better if I die now then at Armageddon.

They are are dead to me

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Something terrible has just happened

by Crazyguy in

jw
friends

the neighbor child came over to play with my youngest child.

i think she's about 4 maybe 5. well anyway there was some strawberries out on the counter and she asked if she could have one and i said no.

when i looked over later i saw her sneak one.

paulmolark

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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How Soon Will We See 9-Year-Olds in Committee Meetings?

by TTATTelder in

that teddy bear baptism video was shocking.. if you haven't seen it yet.

check it out on this thread:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/271170002/on-subject-child-baptism-video.

paulmolark

I know a number of kids from the time I was younger till now who were baptized as young as 8 to about 12 years old. I can see this backfiring on them in the long run now because during those years most parents would just simply tell their children that maybe they should wait, or they simply just assumed that their kid was not ready and would just say no. Come to think of it my mom was 10

Now with the GB PROMOTING this you will have a bunch of 9 - 13 year olds get baptized, then go to high school and realize that they like boys or girls and the breaking up of families will begin earlier than before.

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How Soon Will We See 9-Year-Olds in Committee Meetings?

by TTATTelder in

that teddy bear baptism video was shocking.. if you haven't seen it yet.

check it out on this thread:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/271170002/on-subject-child-baptism-video.

one was a pioneer sister humble as could be, very caring and I think she was a really good person.

the other wore fishnet stockings and only came to the memorial. All of them in New Jersey