Posted by felix a [angler] on March 28, 1999 at 08:26:06 {XXuUsiPcoAHgYrwbvVTQMWXJwrLA196zE}:
In Reply to: To Catch a Bethelite posted by Mary on March 27, 1999 at 19:01:11:
Mary,
I wanted to enclose an old joke I've had floating around since my days at Bethel for you to pass along. It was a hunting license for Bethelites and Pioneers - Your Choice. Just can't seem top find it now. Imagine that, after a mere 17 years I can't find a Bethel Joke to share when I need it.
These days we have the sisters who want to catch a Bethelite migrating to Brooklyn to serve where the need is great. They pioneer here, they commute to the house part-time to show how devoted they are to God and so all us single boys can see what fine sisters they are. ;-) Then guess what happens???
Just before I was leaving home to go to NY and serve at Bethel, so many of the older sisters and friends came up and warned this poor hick rube boy about the dangers of those city girls who just couldn't wait to catch themselves a Bethelite. Boy did they have that wrong...
Well guess what, the real city girls don't want to have to much to do with a bunch of dumb young bucks who think they have been chosen by God to serve at his house and therefore are special. Otherwise known as Gods gift to women and therefore allowed to be irrepressible moochs both here and abroad. Most of them looked at us boys as just that and we would have to prove ourselves otherwise over time. The greatest headhunters/trophy chasers were the ones we met back home or in our travels who believed all the myths of Brooklyn.
So let her find her bethel boy, marry him, and they can both have their eyes opened as the fantasy world created in the land of OZ disappears and the little man and woman behind the curtain appear as the illusion disappears.
Regards
Felix A.