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Spokane 2016 Convention dates - "darkest weekend"

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i came across an odd remark concerning the booking of a jw convention in an article from spokane.. visit spokane’s cheryl kilday: meeting expectations.

since cheryl kilday returned to the northwest 5 1/2 years ago, the spokane convention center has been expanded, a 750-room hotel has opened across from it, and a number of smaller investments have added dining and shopping options in the city’s core.

all of the changes have added options or improved the pitch for spokane for kilday, who as the president and ceo of visit spokane heads up the organization tasked with bringing more people and events to town.

OrphanCrow

Dio: Kinda hoping for the wacky stuff!
Who is woodworth?!

For all things wacky and wonderful, Clayton Woodworth is the go to guy.

He was the co-author of the "Finished Mystery" - went to jail with Rutherford...

There is lots and lots about this strange and demented character from the Watchtower's past here on this forum and elsewhere. He confessed to being demon possessed for a time. One of the editors of the Golden Age magazine.

Lunar things always remind me of Woody - he had a big fight with Rutherford over the calendar he had made - "Jehovah's Calendar". It was based on Woodworth's lunar madness.

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Filmmaker’s mission to turn camera on religion - "Blood"

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filmmaker’s mission to turn camera on religion.

standing outside a former kingdom hall in old south, alex riker reflects for a minute on all he’s gone through since walking away from the jehovah’s witnesses 25 years ago.“i’ve not seen a member of my family since,” he said.

“as a 19 year old, and before the dawn of the internet, i was completely alone.

OrphanCrow

Filmmaker’s mission to turn camera on religion

Standing outside a former Kingdom Hall in Old South, Alex Riker reflects for a minute on all he’s gone through since walking away from the Jehovah’s Witnesses 25 years ago.
“I’ve not seen a member of my family since,” he said. “As a 19 year old, and before the dawn of the Internet, I was completely alone. But I got out of it and I never had the urge to go back.”
Now, Riker has made it his mission to take one of the religion’s most controversial issues with a film project titled simply, Blood.

Read rest of article here:

http://www.ourlondon.ca/news-story/6240476-filmmaker-s-mission-to-turn-camera-on-religion/

With the prologue currently making the rounds on YouTube, the crew is geared up for auditions in March, while production is scheduled to begin in November with several scenes to be shot in London.

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Spokane 2016 Convention dates - "darkest weekend"

by OrphanCrow in

i came across an odd remark concerning the booking of a jw convention in an article from spokane.. visit spokane’s cheryl kilday: meeting expectations.

since cheryl kilday returned to the northwest 5 1/2 years ago, the spokane convention center has been expanded, a 750-room hotel has opened across from it, and a number of smaller investments have added dining and shopping options in the city’s core.

all of the changes have added options or improved the pitch for spokane for kilday, who as the president and ceo of visit spokane heads up the organization tasked with bringing more people and events to town.

OrphanCrow

Listener: Least busy for conventions

Oohhh... convention "doublespeak" for "nobody else will book".

Got it

:)

I sort of like the lunar thing better...haha!

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Spokane 2016 Convention dates - "darkest weekend"

by OrphanCrow in

i came across an odd remark concerning the booking of a jw convention in an article from spokane.. visit spokane’s cheryl kilday: meeting expectations.

since cheryl kilday returned to the northwest 5 1/2 years ago, the spokane convention center has been expanded, a 750-room hotel has opened across from it, and a number of smaller investments have added dining and shopping options in the city’s core.

all of the changes have added options or improved the pitch for spokane for kilday, who as the president and ceo of visit spokane heads up the organization tasked with bringing more people and events to town.

OrphanCrow

I came across an odd remark concerning the booking of a JW convention in an article from Spokane.

Visit Spokane’s Cheryl Kilday: Meeting expectations

Since Cheryl Kilday returned to the Northwest 5 1/2 years ago, the Spokane Convention Center has been expanded, a 750-room hotel has opened across from it, and a number of smaller investments have added dining and shopping options in the city’s core.
All of the changes have added options or improved the pitch for Spokane for Kilday, who as the president and CEO of Visit Spokane heads up the organization tasked with bringing more people and events to town.
We took some time with Kilday during the quieter part of the convention calendar, while some of the year’s biggest events are still on the horizon.

The article continues to discuss the convention trade in Spokane and then says this in the interview:

Journal: What have been some of your biggest wins in terms of landing conventions over the last year or so?
Kilday: In 2015, we booked the Lions Clubs International, which is a really good and significant group for us. It’s the Canadian delegation, as well as the Western delegation of the Lions, so we’re really excited about that.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have booked for their Watchtower convention.
What they do is look at booking in the darkest weekend of the year, so they’ll be here the Fourth of July. They’ll fill the arena, and that will be later this year.
The Executive Women International booked last year. It’s a smaller group, but it’s a really important group. It really shows the support of our community for our own Executive Women International chapter.

This is what I am curious about:

What they do is look at booking in the darkest weekend of the year

Firstly, I am not sure about "darkest weekend of the year" because July 4th, 2016 is right after the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

However, July 4th is the date of the new moon that month. So, it is the darkest weekend of the month.

It is a strange thing for Kilday to say...does anyone know anything about odd and unusual ways of picking JW convention dates??? Do the powers that be in the WT still stick to some strange and wacky leftovers of lunar magic from the Woodworth days?

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Books I read when I deprogrammed

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blondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.

canadian exjws from calagary.

an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.

OrphanCrow

MW: "I'm Perfect, You're Doomed" by Kyria Abrahams

Kyria Abrahams is brilliant.

I haven't read her book, but I have watched several of her videos on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL8xVBWJLbw

And Kyria as Cynthea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiHmZrqCf9U

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Books I read when I deprogrammed

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

blondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.

canadian exjws from calagary.

an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.

OrphanCrow

MuddyWaters: She mentioned Schnell, who wrote "Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave", which I have also read, but it was a little hard going at times. He gives insight into the mind of Rutherford and the goals of the early days of the organization, and the DELIBERATE campaign to get rank and file members jailed or persecuted in order to gain publicity.

MW, it took me years to track that book down and read it - or, I should say...get up the nerve to read it. I first saw it - just the cover - when I was about 12 years old. It had been published in 1956 and was one of the hot apostate books of its time. We had a family friend who was a JW that was close to my mom and dad. I remember him showing up at the house one day with that book and another one. He tried to get my mom to read them but she adamantly refused. I read it years later.

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Books I read when I deprogrammed

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

blondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.

canadian exjws from calagary.

an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.

OrphanCrow

Stan: in fact--i wonder if C of C had been available in free public libraries whether all this copyright fuss could have been avoided.

That is true. I did a search in both the university and public library system locally and CofC isn't available in either.

Once the book is in legitimate hard copy circulation, it would be a good idea to go to the library systems and get them to purchase a copy. Libraries have purchasing budgets for patron requests.

Both of Penton's books are available in my local public library system.

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Books I read when I deprogrammed

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

blondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.

canadian exjws from calagary.

an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.

OrphanCrow

kate: Penton does not sell an electronic version.

An electronic version is available here for $31.16 Canadian*:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=W1X2BgAAQBAJ&dq=apocalypse+delayed

*which means that it is pretty inexpensive right now...our dollar is in the toilet

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Books I read when I deprogrammed

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

blondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.

canadian exjws from calagary.

an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.

OrphanCrow

Kate, keep looking for the book. It is a very good resource for "ripping the veil" from the WTS.

Are you able to access a public library or a university library? It would definitely be available there.

I don't have the money to buy books, either, but I use the public lending systems a lot. Even if some books haven't been available through the libraries, I have had them order the books I want.

The issue is not just about money, though, Kate. It is also about authenticity.

And besides, I totally support Penton's retirement fund. He worked hard for it...really hard and he, and his family, deserve every single penny that is made from the sale of his work. The money gives his work, and him, credibility and value.

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Books I read when I deprogrammed

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

blondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.

canadian exjws from calagary.

an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.

OrphanCrow

talesin: Dr. Penton's earlier book had the greatest influence on me.

Me too, Talesin.

I had first read his book "Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada: Champions of Freedom of Speech and Worship" that was published in 1976. It was in the public library on the shelf right beside Bottings' book about 1984, and I checked it out at the same time. When Penton wrote that book, he was an active JW and I was a bit disappointed in his proJW stance in it, but it was useful background.

Then, when I heard that Penton had written another book in response to being allowed "inside" of the Watchtower (actually hired by the WT to write a book about the history of the org) and finding out stuff that caused him to question the WTS and get disfellowshipped, his book became a must read for me.

James Penton is a Canadian and I was so excited one day, back in '87, when he was the guest on the local radio talk show. I got up my nerve and phoned in to the talk line...and got to talk to him! I was so stoked...he was very nice and I asked him on air if there were any support groups for exJWs. He said there was little support that he knew of, only a few Christian exJWs, and I was resistant to that notion. I replied that I wanted "just a group of people who didn't care about all the God stuff"...I was interested in just getting better. He replied that maybe...someday, maybe, that would be possible. And he sent me a letter. By the time I received it, I had already ordered his book from the local book store.

Yep, Penton was, and still is, one of my heroes.