Jehovah's Witnesses prepare for meeting

by Kent 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Kent

  HUNTINGTON -- It's not that the Huntington Civic Arena is dirty. It's just that William "Pat" Thompson's organization has higher standards of cleanliness.

  Thompson is among 6,000 Jehovah's Witnesses attending the religious group's annual District 12 convention Friday through Sunday.

  A small group of Jehovah's Witnesses arrived a day early and spent Thursday sweeping, scrubbing and painting the Civic Arena in preparation for the gathering.

  "This is our place of worship for three days," Thompson said. "So we have to clean Jehovah's house."

  "The Civic Arena does a good job, but our standards are higher," he said. "Gum, cigarette butts, cups, all types of trash might have been missed. If we meet outdoors, the grounds would be swept."

  Huntington's business community welcomed the influx of visitors.

  "They have a positive impact not only on the hotels, but also on the restaurants, all the shops in the downtown area, everybody here," said Richard Monga, general manager of the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites.

  Monga said only a few Jehovah's Witnesses are staying at his hotel, but that's only because people connected with a beauty pageant and several weddings got the rooms first.

  Yakki Da

  Kent

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  Prisca

  Sorry if I missed the point, but what is so special about this article? JWs clean up convention sites all the time.
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  Tina

  Hi Kent,

  I don't know if this was asked before. If so,I missed it.
  But when these backroom negotiations are going on regarding the rental of these venues....do they tell the owners that 'our people"(read-r/f slaves) will clean the place? Does that help them get a discounted price on the place?
  Always wondered about that,hugs,Tina
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  Roamingfeline

  Excellent point, Tina! They tell the rank and file that "Jehovah's house MUST be cleaner than all the rest" to get them to totally spruce up the place, when all the while they are getting a discount for having their people make the place better than it was before they came in. All to save the Org some moolah. I bet you hit the nail on the head!

  RCat
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  Mommie Dark

  "do they tell the owners that 'our people"(read-r/f slaves) will clean the place? Does that help them get a discounted price on the place?"

  I know that leverage got used here in NE OH in the past, Tina. My b.i.l. was one of the guys who went to the Richfield Coliseum to clean before conventions. They always scheduled the assemblies the day after big arena rock shows, usually some heavy metal band with a real rowdy crowd. The JWs would go into the coliseum after the concert crowd left, and clean all night and set up the assembly. He told stories of emptying oil drums full of urine and sopping up puddles of vomit in the corridors, finding joints and paraphernalia and works under the seats, all sorts of stuff. Then the Coliseum management would schedule a family-oriented show like Muppets on Ice for the day after, sometimes even for Sunday evening, so the JWs would scramble like mad to get the place cleared and cleaned in their signature manner before the next show was due to set up.

  These cleanings were part of the package from what he said. Otherwise management would have preferred a couple of big venue shows on Fri & Sat nights!

  I remember an assembly in Amarillo where I was appalled to see trash cans overflowing everywhere. Turns out there was some politicking between Convention Center and JWs regarding trash removal(venue management was accustomed to providing sanitation services for a fee at Center events, JWs of course do things their way or no way)... so during the stalemate nobody took care of the trash! They had taped over all the vending machines, too, and attendants would steer you away from trying them anyway.
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  Tina

  Hey rcat!
  Hey MD,thanks for the info.....always boils down to money doesn't it? So much for the importance of the spiritual pap they serve up...muppets on ice ROFL luv ya.Tina