by whereami 9 Replies latest jw friends
A real display of true Christianity at work.
Please read and view the encouraging Memorial service.
Click on the link also!
This says SO much about our brotherhood! Please read below! I know you received the link about the friends that died in the plane crash But were you aware of the greed of the world in this situation. Please read below Lots of people are still talking about this. At our Special Day Assembly on |
Thanks for posting this, Whereami.
The j.w.'s really did give them a nice sendoff, even though they also did turn it into a sales pitch for the Watchtower.
It was also good of them to not charge for using the Hall.
It was bad that "The Theater" wanted to charge them for using theirs. It certainly didn't give a "good witness" for non-believers. Shame on them.(Of course, considering that this is a true version of what really happened).
Hubert
If only this were representative of the WTS itself. Dare I mention how they robbed victims of Hurricane Katrina?
StAnn
The family went to a local theater and explained the
situation, requesting to use the theater for a Memorial service for the 4 family
members.
Does anybody else think this sounds like a weird request?
"Say, would you guys mind if we dismantled the set for 'Hello Dolly' so we can invite 3000 of our closest friends to hear a funeral talk?"
Something just sounds.....fishy.
I agree, that does sound a bit odd. Usually funerals are in the church of the people who passed.
This story does not pass the smell test in many ways..............
Perhaps most funerals do not attract 1500 people....
Shame on the theatre for upping the price if the airline were going to pay for it...
I read the link and I remember reading about this crash at the time..The family here described seem to be decent loving people..So sad!..I still feel a certain kinship with individual dubs who suffer misfortune, even though I have been out a long time ......
Thanks to wereami for posting this one
I don't see anything fishy about renting a theater. The people may have been well known. And multiple deaths usually evokes more sympathy for the surviving family. And the deaths were probably highly publicized (being a plane crash). So it's very possible the Kingdom Hall wouldn't fit all of the people the expected. If my dad had died when he was younger and got around the circuit more, and more of his old friends were still alive, I don't think the Hall he had his funeral in would have held him. As it was, the place was pretty full.
And nobody says they were in the middle of a production. Even so, a lot of stages have a curtain that could seperate the speaker from any potential fixtures set up for a play. By theater, they could have also meant a movie theater. The ones by rent out for business meetings. Why not a funeral service - especially if it's just the service and no body is present?
As for the price difference, that could be policy. At least in the software industry, I can sometimes order a single user license for a lot cheaper than the corporate price. It's a way to get the software being used, being talked about, being spread about, and then you make your money off corporate licenses. $20,000 may have been the going price. They may have sized the people up and offered it for cheaper because it looks like they couldn't/wouldn't pay $20,000. But if Continental was paying, back to the normal rate. That kind of turns the tables. It's not them trying to get all the money they can out of the corporation, it's them being sympathetic to the regular guy.
Now what doesn't pass the smell test to me is the timing. OK, the family is trying to arrange for the funeral. The theater ups the price. Now people at the branch hear about it? How? Is that really the first call you make after you get off the phone with the theater? And if Continental wasn't complaining, I don't see why they'd tell a bunch of people about it. If Continental refused to pay or was given one price and now a higher price and was suspicious, I could see talking to people like "theater's a no-go, what do we do now"?
If anything, moving it to the Stanley Theater was a publicity stunt specifically designed so they could brag about it.
Every time I read or here "give/gave a good witness" I just want to throw up my insides! Idiots!
nj
Wow I am surprised that at least the furneral was real. I thought I would google it to find out that it was on snopes.com. But I didn't instead I found the newspapaer article of the plane crash victims.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/new_jersey_family_killed_in_bu.html
