Jehovah's Witnesses: JT Life at Bethel - Episode 3 

Story time with Uncle JT. Love these :)

Great video JT. You already got 2 thumbs down when I commented on your video. Its good thing to know that active JW's are watching your videos. It means they are on the process to wake up!

I attended the Brooklyn Heights right at Bethel. We live in Greenwich Village, but we were assigned to the Brooklyn Heights. I got married at Bethel (1969} , even though I was pioneering serving in Alabama. We had many bethelites in our home. In fact my sister married a bethelite. They later served as special pioneer in St Lucia. She and I faded over 25+ years ago.

Hi JT and Lady Cee! I am Lopes and i speak from Angola (Africa); Thanks for waking me up and ilustrating for me the F.O.G wich lead me to read Crises of Conscience, some Steve Hassan articles as well yours. Thank to this, both my familly, friends and I are out of the organisation and many more are waking up.

Thanks JT, what I noticed when I left this religion was that not a single JW or one of my active JW family members showed appreciation for the time I spent in the organization.

I am from NYC when i visited North Carolina that’s what i loved the friendliness even ordering at Mcdonald’s they say “yes ma’am” i loved it ! I enjoyed this

Brother thank you for this insight and content.....When I listen to you speak I literally see and hear my childhood flash before me and thankful I never committed or became involved, being the questioning non-submissive type.....

I served in Patterson, NY and my congregation was a hour and a half away in Connecticut. I liked my congregation but that drive was a killer. Also I was born and raised in the hood in Chicago so I was very down to earth, but a lot of people in the congregation acted very reserved and shy around me or like I was Jesus himself because I had that "bethelite" title when all I wanted to do was keep it real. When I transferred to a Spanish congregation they had a homemade hot meal ready for us at the end of every weekday meeting. My English congregation had 4 bethelites and the Spanish had 8

Lol! Look at those strong thumbs down. Lol! Poor thumbs down people are desperately trying to hang on. They have obviously seen other videos. It is killing them mentally. This organization is on its way out. Hopefully these people wake up before it falls. Because that fall will hurt like non other. By the way, love the video. 👍

You look like LL Cool JT in one of those photos😂😂. I love your intellectual and informative, truthful approach my brother!

the number one channel ever

I enjoy this series! I can't wait until you get to the part where you and Lady C meet.

I grew up in a congregation in Queens, at most we had 8 bethelites. We truly loved them, showered them with love, food, and attention lol. So true what you’re saying about how a congregation assignment can make a big difference in a bethelites’ life.

Yeah, Harlem was still bad in the mid-90s I remember. Your stories bring back so many memories always :-) Good gracious, I CANNOT believe that they told you that you couldn't speak the way you speak. What the HECKKKKKK!

Brother JT, I can tell you were an EXCELLENT speaker! You do a good job of holding our attention. Thanks again for the insight! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

You one of greats in exjw storytelling! Look forward to the next installment.

Yeah really diggin this, visited bethel as a kid and thankfully never got sucked into the hype but I specifically remember getting the vibe that there was a specific type of culture there that you wouldn’t find in any book or magazine. Keep up the good work Mr. JT

Finally! I was wondering when Part III was coming out.

Brother JT I wish these could be produced every day to watch

This is some great reminiscing JT!! You are so right about NYC back in the 80's! It was a dangerous time in many parts of the city, but to be assigned in Harlem was a HUGE thing for a NC country kid! I cannot imagine. lol My family is from the Bronx but moved out to the island in the late 70s-80's...

I feel like I've been a bethelite, visited the New York branch a few years back. Just shows ya what goes on behind the facade. Thanks again for the insight. ✋😉

Thanks for sharing your Bethel experiences. I never went but it was considered a big deal when a young person in the congregation was accepted. They would have going away parties even.

This series is very informative and at the same time entertaining. Kudos!!!

JT, thank you for this video which I was eagerly awaiting. Excellent as always!

Great series JT. I am looking forward to more. I want to hear how you navigated the single sisters and their families who wanted their daughters to marry a Bethelite. Also I remember you talking about G-Jobbing when you were active on the forums. Please include that too if you can.

Very enlightning JT. Thank you.

JT, I absolutely love your videos and this particular series! Keep it up brother!!

Hey JT, watching this vid as I prepare to read the Watchtower next Sunday, PIMO life lol. Great vid man!

Haha Haha. J.T. you're right about speaking to people in the city. I was born and raised in Boston. Rode the T...what we called the subway...everywhere. My mom is from Alabama and I live in Texas now. I grew not speaking to anyone and somewhat still dont today. In the Northeast stranger's dont say ANYTHING. No good morning, no hello, no how you doing. If you're not from the northeast it can come across as a very cold and unloving world. We walked to the meetings in Boston and for my cousin and I that was rough. Because dudes would clown us, say we were 'too good' because we had our 'church clothes' on. Living in the northeast is a whole different animal from the south. My aunt was always in a congregation in the hood and I remember hearing gun shots during a meeting and us seeing a guy get stabbed walking home from a meeting one night. Once I got down south it was literally night and day. Definitely less stressful. Boston will always be home, but the northeast can burn you out. Everywhere else...especially down south is like 100mph slower.

I always love your videos, thanks a ton to both you and your wife. It's funny how you both still have a good bit of that bethel vibe!

Love your southern accent JT

Your creator will surely take absolute care of you and your wife.

JT I feel so bad that I didn't do more for my Bethelites😢

Enjoying your videos! ....it is wonderful and remarkable to see such a lofty happy demeanor in you when you have been through so much! I praise God for that..l hope that’s OK to say! Keep up the great work... I’m sure you are a blessing many!👏👏

I look forward your updates in this series. I am so captivated by it. Keep it coming!

Wow JT. About 8 years ago I went to NY to film a music video for a artist that lives in Brooklyn. I never been there before. I saw the artist on BET show contest. He didnt win but I wanted to collab with his talent anyway. It was the second day shoot there and my crew member said to me look. I did and we were right to that scripture that Bethle has on the side of the building. I saw Bethle. Manhattan so big it scared me big time. I want to film on top of a large building so the artist and his people took us to Harlem. I forgot which building it was but it wasn't too far from popeyes chicken were we ate. Police helicopters was over us on the roof. They didnt get us a permit but after the police saw how professional all my gear was and saw me started filming with my crew they just left us alone. I was also nice to the people up there and they looked at me crazy. But my experience up there was unbelievable. I want to go again but this time to enjoy it not work this time.

Thank you JT.

Love those pictures of those fine looking brothers! Great video!

Been looking forward to part three!!

Enjoy JT thank you

I also got $80 a month. And I did take my car... a Pinto, LOL!

It's awesome to hear what really goes on within the organization that it is not as sweet and innocent as they try and make it out to be. With JWs image is everything so ones who don't get to go to Bethel will never know what really happens less someone comes forward and shares their story. I remember when I was a kid my Dad got the videos that was about Bethel how wonderful it was and all the publications and so on. I remember I thought to myself that I wanna go there when I did thought that, this was during the mid to late 80's when I saw that video.

I had no idea, thank you for the clarification

I love these stories very engaging and funny awesome 👏

My dad was Cajun French, and he went to Bethel. People made fun of his Cajun accent so much that he practiced every day until he lost the accent. So I grew up with a Cajun father who didn't sound Cajun at all -- until he started speaking French to the relatives, and then it came out thick and heavy!

Thanks for posting. Very interesting!!!

In 1971, allowance was $14 plus $6 travel.

Third comment, I feel privileged :)

Love your channel!!!!!

I love it!!! You guys are the best!!!

One incredible couple in "bringing down" this pseudo-organization & pointing the "way out" before it implodes. Thank you JT & Lady Cee.

Those unwritten rules were no joke. I got in trouble for giving a sister who was the cousin of a brother I worked with a one on one tour. Bethel also has unwritten rules on jewelry that brothers can wear. I didn't know brothers were only allowed to wear 2 or less rings and a watch as jewelry. So I came to Bethel with a gold chain and got in trouble for that. Then once time a housekeeper found a GQ magazine I had bought because I wanted to make a cocktail recipe that was in there. All hell broke loose over that GQ magazine which is viewed as porn in Bethel. I had to have a hour long meeting with my home overseer over a magazine I didn't know was banned in Bethel. I had to almost beg not get sent home for having it

Thank you for these video's. I remember back in the '80s, rumors of homosexual stuff. I remember a brother, Gaylen, who came back from bethel after a couple of years and was stressing out about the homosexuals. I had just got baptized in '79.

These are good stories I need my beer and popcorn. You two are like family like a aunt and uncle great video.

Part three of the symposium 🥳

Keep these stories coming, there great!

your an excellent story teller...thanks for sharing !

I love this story.

JT have you guys made a video on when you decided to leave and what drama proceeded? Reactions from the “ friends “ ? I’m still going through the videos but it sounds like you just faded and wasn’t df’d, I’m intrigued to hear the story of your stepping down from elder and how you choreographed the fade

Love your stories JT. Amazing. Keep doing what you do!

You guys rock !!! x

Great video JT. I love listening to you talk about Bethel.

I didn't really like the congregation I was assigned too when I served in the Puerto Rico Branch.

Great video!

These are cool

The part of using tokens as Bethel currency sounded so much like prison.

great

JT your juz too good , man I love you brother.

Hi I'm back again!😂I don't know how many times I've listened to this story. I can listen to you all day long!

My wife lived in North Carolina for a year serving in a Spanish Congregation where the need was greater.

Good stuff!

JT I could listen to you all day, you could talk abot anything and make it interesting

Many people have to leave their religion, but most of us do not tell what secrets they know, because the religion will continue until God ends it. I obey God directly, and will never put a man or woman over me. I am polite, but I am not a push over.

Lady Cee looking gorgeous

Great videos JT...enjoying all of them, how many do you think you’ll make??

I'm guessing you didn't get a version of the Pillowgate Welcome Video, did you? I know I didn't in the Puerto Rico Branch. LOL!

The tokens payment existed everywhere in the world then? The unwritten rules happen in the KHs too, right? I'm addicted to ur videos, JT

Man that sounds like a system that would be made in prison. The unwritten rules The why the money works The bonds of "friendship"

I remember visiting Bethel at 13 and seeing all the beautiful women that told me for 40 years they've been a button presser or a knob Turner and I knew from the door it was not for me thank you for these wonderful videos! Lol

JT I grew up in Chicago stopped going to the hall Year’s ago. All my family on my mom side are still in the truth. My question to you is what was the exact point where you said this isn’t for me.

JT love ,love,love... your videos just asking which church do you go to now?

Had me laughing when JT talked about the money allowance to be handed out at Bethel.

i miss a lot about JW. I never worry about going home alone. Folks looked out for me.

Was it ok to watch Welcome Back Kotter as a Brooklyn congregational member?

JD you said you had a roommate from Chicago, I’m from Chicago and I remember one of the young brother going to Bethel back in the 80s. He was only there for about a year and came back to Chicago. Do you remember his name?

So who do you think the faithful and Discreet Slave is?

I understand the accent thing, I’m from South Carolina and moved to New Mexico and everyone says I have a southern accent, I don’t hear it tho 🤣

Commentators with the thumbs down. Did JT lie about something?

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Why in the world anymore would be in this religion is BEYOND me

Hot off the press!!!

Anybody ever seen BTS in concert? They are the bomb!!!

"Your howdy doody ways"😂😂😂Hey I came from the country to Brixton which was, I guess, in the 80s the British equivilent of Harlem. I have to say, though, despite the large Jamaican/Caribbean population as a white sister you certainly didnt feel the slightest bit strange ( and oh boy the food!! 😁)so its kinda weird and sad Watchtower was cagey about where they sent their white Bethelites. Racist hangover from previous generation...gives me the creeps.

It where are you from Gates County I know you flew out of Norfolk

"Who gonna rob these guys at Bethel?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

7:32 You're from North Carolina? At least, you come from a town that is more populated than the place I lived in at one time. I don't even think Como should even count as a town.

When you started talking about understanding the culture it sounds like what happens in prison. 😂

What type of labor is performed at bethel?... is it hard work that the bethelites are doing for free?

Bethel mean House of God. But this sound like satan house.

Jay, Greetings Mr. Comedian. I don't know why I can't leave you alone. I just relate to you. But see what you think about this Bible teaching which JWs have no clue about. In Jesus day, there were two groups of Christians; those who would live out a normal life and die of old age and then need resurreecteing, and some who were chosen never to die at all, but live down to the time of Christ in the 21st Century. Now the main reason for this was the 144,000. You see, God took 90% of the kingdom away from the Jews (Isa. 6:13) but allowed the Abrahamic covenant to be fulfilled with 10% through the 12 tribes of Israel, the 144,000. Problem is, the 12 tribes did not exist as 12 tribes in Jesus' day, but individuals from the 12 tribes did. So the decision was made to choose some from each tribe who had genealogy papers and have them live down to our time and then marry into indigenous tribes, have multiple wives and children in the first generations and then within a couple hundred years re-produce the 12 tribes of Israel (Isaiah 60:22 "The little one will become a thousand... I will speed it up in its own time."). But inaddition to those who would re-create the 12 tribes of Israel in our time, other individuals were chosen never to die. Those included the Apostle John, Jesus' mother Mary, and the Apostle Paul. Now 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 clearly shows that Paul included himself among those who would not die but would "survive" down to our time. (1 Thess. 4:15-18 "...WE the living who survive down to the Lord's day..") But the question came up as to who would end up in heaven first, those who would be resurrected or those who were still alive at Christ's return? A good question! Paul explained that no one would precede anyone else to heaven, but that those who were dead in Christ would rise first back into a physical body to join those still alive, then some time "afterwards" all would be changed into spiritual bodies. But then the question arises "How long afterwards"? Turns out it would be over 1000 years! The "rapture" of the saints into spiritual bodies does not occur until after Judgment Day, which is after the 1000-year reign of Christ. Of course, this is another false teaching by the WTS, that Judgment Day and the second resurrection would occur during the 1000-year reign of Christ. Wrong! Nobody is resurrected during the 1000-year reign of Christ. The dead in Christ get an early resurrection and rule with Christ for 1000 years, then after Satan is destroyed, Judgment Day occurs along with the second resurrection. After the last person has been killed in the lake of fire and Judgment Day is over, then the saints, currently all in physical bodies along with Christ himself, get changed into spiritual their bodies "together." Now this is what the Bible teaches. It is either REAL, or it's not. In my case, being one of the "anointed" and Jesus Christ as well, I get a lot of inside stuff thrown at me. One of those things is meeting John, Paul and Mary, still alive from the 1st Century! Plus since the first resurrection occurs just before the second coming, I also am aware of the new identities of a few Bible characters, including Daniel and the Apostle Peter. Which is another specific Bible truth; the sainthood of faithful ones of old, like Abraham, Daniel and Moses. When God resurrects the saints, he does not resurrect their bodies! 1 Corinthians 15:37 clearly says that "as for what you sow, you sow, NOT THE BODY... but the BARE GRAIN." What is a person without their body?: Their mind and memory. Verse 38 says, "but God gives it a body just as it has pleased him, and to each of the seeds its own body." Meaning? In modern vernacular, it means God downloads the memories and minds of the saints into modern bodies, just like information was downloaded into the mind in the "Matrix." That means the resurrected peron has a modern, living body and a new identity. It means there are no years wasted educating them to adapt to the modern world, they have access to a modern mind and knowledge. Plus the 1st resurrection is entirely invisible!!! That, again, means that if Christ appeared in December of 1992, then the 1st resurrection had taken place before then. So, of course, being the Christ, I got a chance to know some of the new identities of some Bible characters, like Daniel and the Apostle Peter!! They all have new bodies and identities now. And this means what to you? You can't believe any of this. You've rejected the Bible as untrue and unreliable. So now you have something else to deny isn't real. That the 1st resurrection doesn't exist and didn't take place and that nobody from the 1st Century is still alive today. Hahaha. But, of course, I know the Bible is true and that is precisely what has happened. But you'd have to take my word for it. Point being, I wouldn't have discovered these things in the Bible unless I had a partial experience with them, like meeting Mary and John! So my whole experience of being of the "anointed" is a whole different world than those of you who are not chosen. In fact, it would seem as though God has deliberately blinded the minds of the non-believers so that real spiritual things seem like complete nonsense to them. So as I said, I'm at the opposite end of the pole when it comes to being an XJW. Some come out as atheists, not believing in the Bible or even God. Some believe in a divine being but not the Bible. I believe the Bible and have proof of everything being true, even getting a chance to meet some people who are still alive from the 1st Century, as well as some newly resurrected ones in a new body! Isn't that amazing? Now you don't have to believe I've met these people or that these people are still supposed to be alive. All you need to know is that the Bible makes that claim, so you now have something else to dismiss as a non-reality; even though it actually IS a reality. Bottom line, the "anointed" get more the light and more modern miracles, but everybody else remains in darkness. That darkness now overshadows the GB and the WTS!! They have no clue Paul is still alive, even though it is right there in their Bibles. They have no idea the 1st resurrection is just of the mind and memory and not the body. Of course, if everybody is back in a physical body first, when Abraham, Isaac and Jacob get resurrected back into a physical body, there is nothing preventing them from being anointed by holy spirit, right? After all, the only requirement for getting anointed into the kingdom is being alive again in a physical body after Pentecost. So all those faithful men of old, Abraham and Daniel and others who come back in a physical way at the 1st resurrection will get anointed retroactively and end up in the kingdom spiritual class. So even though the WTS clearly reads how many see "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" (Matt. 8:11, 12)) sitting in the kingdom but the "sons of the kingdom" (meaning the anointed GB and other anointed "foolish virgins") will be outside. That is, clearly Abraham and many other faithful ones of old are in the heavenly kingdom! That's another one of the WTS' false teachings. Can you imagine thinking Abraham, Moses and Daniel won't be part of the heavenly class? Of course they are part of the hevenly class! But that is not something JWs were given to understand; that is, until now. Now they can understand the GB is a false prophet and not teaching the whole truth. Imagine the 12 tribes of Israel now existing, but the WTS wasn't told about it!!! Well, that's enough for now. While you're driving your car, you can be wondering if I'm pulling your leg or telling the truth. I'll be laughing too, since I know the truth. Everybody needs a good laugh everyday, right? Have a great day!!!