News 24 Would like to interview some members via skype

Holla everyone,

Weve had a request from a reporter to do a few quick interviews via skype for an article. This is what info I have...

"What i like to do is to interview some of you for a short interview (5 min) for a piece im doing about the subject. I like to know basic elements of your faith, practice, personal experiance and your expectations fron the new movie. If possible please send me your availble time for intv +gmt is preferred"

If anyone is interested, please PM me and Ill organize from there.


Thanks!

Although we must of course expect more interest because of the films... I hope they do not try and make it seem that we will be integrating the new fiction into our doctrine etc... Questions like 'your expectations from the new movie', in combination with questions about the temple suggest they may think us roleplayers.

I think members of our council and some of the Master Knights should be the ones to speak, since they know more about the faith and would be able to inform more than distort something.

Edan wrote: Although we must of course expect more interest because of the films... I hope they do not try and make it seem that we will be integrating the new fiction into our doctrine etc... Questions like 'your expectations from the new movie', in combination with questions about the temple suggest they may think us roleplayers.

I just had one like that this morning ... :dry:

She even told me at the end that our conversation wasn't at all what she was expecting : that I was impatient to find out something else about the Force from the new film ... that I already had my cinema ticket and "couldn't wait". :pinch:

Then all she really got was some psycho-babble about monomyth, inconscient referential processes and uncertainty -- and that I didn't really even know when the film was coming out. What ? :ohmy: :huh:

I wonder what this is going to look like in next Wednesday's paper ...

Cheers, Brenna, but may I sit this one out ?

Almeida wrote: I think members of our council and some of the Master Knights should be the ones to speak, since they know more about the faith and would be able to inform more than distort something.

Agreed... We need to be careful what is said

Hmm, whilst I'm not interested in being interviewed myself (hate being on camera) I would think any Knight of our Temple could be trusted to represent our faith, rather than come over like an overstimulated Star Wars fanboy.

Knighthood takes years of study, after all...

Edan wrote: Although we must of course expect more interest because of the films... I hope they do not try and make it seem that we will be integrating the new fiction into our doctrine etc... Questions like 'your expectations from the new movie', in combination with questions about the temple suggest they may think us roleplayers.

Agreed. And I think its a perfect opportunity to be very clear about the separation. Wes and I did an interview last week that was similar.

I'm available if interviewers are still in need.

Almeida wrote: I think members of our council and some of the Master Knights should be the ones to speak, since they know more about the faith and would be able to inform more than distort something.

Typically, we have always ask Knights to do the work around TOTJO...

They have shown (mostly) they are not going to just disappear, sometimes putting in months, but most of the time, years, toward the betterment of what we are trying to accomplish...

It is why Akkarin has done more of our interviews than anyone, he speaks well, the accent is killer (lol), and, he is serious, little roleplaying... He owns a robe, I think, and that is about it... Maybe a saber, we discuss stuff like that so seldom that IM not sure, lol... And the interviews are then consistent...

Our (TOTJO) level of roleplaying matches a sports fans, they have team t-shirts, we have Jedi/Force tshitrts... They have footballs, baseballs, and other sports equipment, we have robes, lightsabers and other things... They have WEEKLY events, we have fiction that we enjoy, but do not worship with the same vigor... Actually, we are not even as rabid as they are, lol...

When TOTJO is contacted, and someone answers that call, theat person is speaking for TOTJO... While we are also speaking for the community at large, it IS TOTJO they contacted, they had their choice of the entire internet, and any offline groups they can find in their area... And, it is TOTJO version of the Jedi that we know best, and should be speaking on...

However, we should always state we are not the only Jedi on the internet, and even it varies from "me to Brenna" on our exact beliefs...

FOr that reason, I think we should always continue to have interviews be done by Knights... Period...

I watched an interview with M on UK TV the other day, and he said he didn't have a saber.

I don't even have a robe... jus' sayin'