What a great start to my morning! I was NOT expecting to get a Bethel tour in before I got ready for work!
I can imagine the NY Bethel is much the same. I remember announcing that I wanted to go work at bethel when I was a kid, and being told in no uncertain terms that very few women obtained the privilege (read: closeted lesbians?) and that I should focus on being a full-time pioneer until my JW charms attracted a newly minted Elder, or at the very least, a ministerial servant. I lost the urge to get baptized not long after that. Oddly enough, that decision now allows me to talk to people from my old congregation. All the kids who drank the koolaid and then later changed their minds (or admitted they never believed the hype) are treated like dead people. Lucky me.
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Date: 2010-08-26 01:44 pm (UTC)From:I can imagine the NY Bethel is much the same. I remember announcing that I wanted to go work at bethel when I was a kid, and being told in no uncertain terms that very few women obtained the privilege (read: closeted lesbians?) and that I should focus on being a full-time pioneer until my JW charms attracted a newly minted Elder, or at the very least, a ministerial servant. I lost the urge to get baptized not long after that. Oddly enough, that decision now allows me to talk to people from my old congregation. All the kids who drank the koolaid and then later changed their minds (or admitted they never believed the hype) are treated like dead people. Lucky me.