It has recently occured to me after visiting one of Americas largest family theme parks that there are similarities between the WTS and Disney.
We all know how the WTS puts much emphasis on appearances. eg...Men must wear suits, ties, no beards, no hair touching the ear or collar, no pants for women, nothing that would appear "wordly" (for those of you not informed, "wordly" refers to anyone not a JW)
While touring Disney earlier this year, i had the oppurtunity to leave the magazines with a nice young......HAAAA!!!!!!!! Caught you dozing off. Ok, it wasnt funny. Anyway, i met a guy who used to work for Disney on his summer break, (he was a college student) and somehow the subject came up about the safety of the rides at the park, ect... and he informed me that an undetermined ammount of people had died from accidents at the park. This really didnt surprise me too much, considering the stupid things people do, and the rides themselves are subject to failure. But what caught my attention was when he said NO ONE HAS EVER DIED ON PARK PROPERTY. But i thought you just said..... I did. Apparantly, they have an around the clock coroner, who when someone dies for whatever reason, throws the body in his car, and drives just far enough to be off park property, then pronounces them dead!! That way they can boast that no one has ever died at Disney. Then he told me a grizzly story of some guy who got out of his log on the log ride while it was moving slow, then tried to re-enter it, and was run over by the next log behind it. No problem. The ride was stalled long enough for several guys (in suits) to clean up the mess, haul the body off the park property, and proclaim it dead!! Downtime for the log ride? About 30 minutes.
Trash is supposed to be picked up within minutes of being thrown down,by an amazing ammount of janitors. Mickey and his friends are always somewhere in the park, but its not the same mickey. The entire park is connected by underground tunnels. So when Mickey leaves one section of the park at 3:30 pm, another Mickey pops up at 3:31 on the other side.
No one who is employed by Disney is allowed to have a visible tattoo on them, and if its a guy, no ear rings, or body peircing of any kind. Hmmmmm i wonder if they allow it on National Gay and Lesbian week?
The similarities of two corporate giants were starting to emerge in my mind, when we visited MGM studios, and my wife and friends asked me to ride the TOWER OF TERROR. I explained that i had already ridden it for most of my life!!! Needless to say, i rode the Disney version of it too. Although i must say, the ride itself, while fast and scary, was over in a relatively short time, and i could leave it mentally and physically in one piece!! And all my friends were still my friends when it was over.