International conventions - Seattle

by Lynnie 32 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  leaving_quietly

  @ADCMC... also, there are no downtown hotels on the official lodging list. None. Not a single one. I was looking at that list a couple of weeks ago just to see. That part of the email is pure bull****. The most expensive room costs $124 per night for a four person occupancy. Most range from $79 to $119, with the bulk at the lower end of that range.

  About the only thing that MIGHT be true is that Husky Stadium has never been rented out, that is, the NEWLY RENOVATED Husky Stadium, and only because it was completed last summer. Well, duh!
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  LQ: Yes, I also checked on Seattle hotel prices at the same time I was searcing for the stadium info. The $300/night rooms were for luxury hotels in the area, and there weren't many of them. Most rooms were in the $100-$150 range. As you said, that part of the "experience" is also BS.

  The fact is, that even without "Jehovah's™" help and the WTs crack team of negotiators, JWs still could've easily gotten a hotel room for $140/night.

  But, of course, WT has to spin this to 'prove' how great they are and how much their god Jehovah™ does for them.
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  Londo111

  I wonder who comes up with such emails.
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  KateWild

  Interesting piece of research ADCMS, thanks. Kate xx
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  Lynnie

  Thanks for the great info ADCMS. Love how the JW's always have to lie a little to make it sound like

  they have overcome insurmountable obstacles to get what they want. How much are they charging

  per person to be bussed to the stadium I wonder? doesn't seem like a huge amount of people expected

  either but I was used to attending the big conventions in Vancouver BC back in the '70's. Hope the JW enjoy

  the U District with all the homeless kids and gang bangers! It's a high crime area, students are always getting

  mugged for their Iphones or Ipads or whatever.
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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  Lynnie. I was wondering and so I will bounce this off of you (or anyone else. Just chime in).

  Do you think possibly WT/GB wants places like the University district in Seattle and the really terrible venue area in Detroit for JW's to attend, knowing some will probably get mugged, their car broken into etc ? It sounds awful to say that in print... Or to even accuse anyone thinking that way, but come on, we are not talking normal people here. We are talking about the Watch Tower Business Corp.

  Having District Conventions in bad areas feeds right into WT/GB's mind set of a religion... The whole world is wicked. Worldly people are awful. (When someone gets mugged, or worse) Time and unforseen circumstances befall us all.

  Or the spin if no one gets mugged, or their car broken into... See. Jehovah God protects his faithful!

  Geeze . lol

  LoisLane
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  new hope and happiness

  Lois, i put myself as a defence attorny and i am sure sure the powers that i represent are guilty of many things. But i find your revelation SENSATIONAL. Yes i fully realise my clients are sneeky unprincipled enterprising publishers, making a great deal of money but they are also uneducated and too stupid to come up with that plan.

  I rest my case.
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  @ Lois:

  WT has no problem putting JWs in harm's way, although I cannot say what they are thinking in regards to the convention locations.

  I guess if next year's conventions are held in places like Fallujah, Baghdad or the Crimea, we'll have to revisit your idea.

  Until then, just be 'faithful' and go to Detroit...if you get mugged, stabbed or killed, that's what "Jehovah™ willed" for you. "Listen, obey and be mugged blessed".

  One thing is certain: your wallet will definitely be mugged by WT regardless of where a JW attends.
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  Lynnie

  Yes you are probably correct ADCMS, put the JW's in harm's way and see what happens! Love the comment

  about their wallets being "mugged" by the society, so true. Can't wait to see how this whole convention thing goes

  at Husky Stadium, hope it rains like it often does around here on the 4th of July! After the convention the JW's

  can go hang out and watch the worldly fireworks on Lake Union which is right by the stadium. HA!
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  cha ching

  Hey Lois, maybe you saw me there, in Pasadena! an 8 day assembly? (or was it 9?) I was about 8 years old, and remember the concrete benches we sat on from 9 am to 9 pm.. also, we had garbage bags with holes in the top so that we c/slip them over our heads like a raincoat, whiles we held umbrellas over our heads... It was also hot there at times.

  I also remember the loooooong drive down there from the bay area, no super freeways then, and we went with another sister and her 2 girls. My mom (her two girls) and the others made 6 in our pink Impala sation wagon... good thing we could lay down in the back in those days! We stayed with a fam down there.... I can't remember if it was this assembly or another LA ordeal, but at one of them I got a terrible, terrible bloody nose (from the heat?) and another one I broke out in a rash from the heat, barely got my mom to agree to take me back to the house we stayed in, but had to lay in the hallway because our car was blocked by other friendly 'parkers' and I had to take a cold cold shower to get rid of the bumps... such sacrifices for what? What do you remember from those conventions? blah, blah, blah....

  The only thing I loved about those assemblies, the only thing that made them tolerable, the only thing that kept me alive, were the noon time dishes of ice cream topped with nectarines! Yum!