What kind of "service" did you do as a premie?
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Joe ®

12/13/2005, 15:59:00
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Somebody was talking about all wht weird jobs they had as ashram premies or just as community premies over the years.  I was just thinking of some of mine (and this is not a complete list).  All of these were done as an ashram premie over a period of about 10 years, in addition to being ashram housefather;

I chopped and bundled firewood to be sold;

I worked in a cult-owned car wash;

I worked in the produce section of a supermarket;

I worked in a cult health food store;

I cleaned newly constructed, vacant apartments;

I cleaned a disgusting kitchen of an old hotel;

I worked in a furniture warehouse;

I delivered furniture for a furniture store;

I worked as a zookeeper in the bird division of a zoo;

I worked binding reports for an accounting firm;

I worked as a proofreader and later editor in a management consulting firm;

I worked as a paralegal in a law firm;

I worked in "business development" at IHQ for Elan Vital;

I was a community coordinator for Elan Vital in 3 cities;

I worked in the legal department at DECA;

I sold flowers on the street;

I NEVER -- went around to universities trying to "buy books" that had been given free to professors so they could be resold as "used" books.

I NEVER -- sold Mexican pots, knights, or stuffed animals on the street, although I did sell flowers, just like the Moonies.

I NEVER sold "And It is Divine" door to door.

I NEVER had to do furniture jumbling for Divine Sales;

I NEVER cleaned Prem Rawat's driveway with a toothbrush.

Daddy, what did you do during the war?







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C'mon Joe
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PatD ®

12/13/2005, 16:57:03
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You're not trying to tell me you'd rather have been a buttondown stuffed shirt corporate employee since whenever.  If variety is the spice of life then that's certainly one of the plus points of having been a follower of the Lord of the Universe.

On the other hand, we're lucky we got out of there alive, some didn't.

Ah, the bliss of swaying around on badly put up scaffolding, demolishing chimneys with a sledgehammer on Holy Name. I mean there was no way it could ever collapse, right, not with God holding everything together, & He also protected the passer by's from being hit with the bricks tossed from 40' up into a skip on the pavement.

I can still see the face of the greedy little bastard who had me doing that as part of the process of putting central heating into old industrial revolution era houses.

He had the same piss taking jokey manner as the dear Lordy too, & the 'you're fired' attitude, but above all he could smell a mug from 5 miles away.

That makes him a 'looser' really.....Rawat could smell a mug from 5000 miles.








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Hey, a fellow wood chopper!
Re: What kind of "service" did you do as a premie? -- Joe Top of thread Archive
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JHB ®

12/13/2005, 17:18:10
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But I never did it for the Lord, just to keep warm in winter, and for cooking.

I can't claim the range of jobs as you, Joe, but selling Divine Times door to door while jumbling was fun and embarrassing at the same time. Fun, when I focused on the service element and that fact we worked as a group, trying to finish quickly so we could get to satsang; embarrassing if I allowed my mind to actually think about what I was doing.

The sales pitch was something like this:-

Knock, knock.  Door opens.
"Hello, do you have any jumble for charity?  We left a leaflet on Sunday."
(either they give something or don't.)
"Would you like to buy a newspaper for world peace?"

And now? Has it changed? Not really - just visit tprf.org.

John.






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