Top 10 Memorial Excuses

by rebel8 84 Replies latest jw friends

  • GLTirebiter
    GLTirebiter

    • Can't make it, I'm going to a Passover seder.
    • It's Palm Sunday, so I'll be busy replacing all the old palms behind the crucifixes.
  • Found Sheep
    Found Sheep

    Going would hurt my trained conscience. I used that and got a blank stare back

  • nugget
    nugget

    can't go since the hall has no food safety certificate so should not be serving beverages.

    I will drink my own wine at home I object to sharing a glass with goodness knows how many others.

    Are the elders who will be passing beverages to my children properly certified to work with children.

    Can they guarantee the speaker will be better than last time the sound of snoring from several rows was very off putting.

    My only clean clothes are slutty dresses I wouldn't want to stumble the brothers.

    There is a good horror movie on TV and I would rather not miss it.

    It is a pointless ceremony that does not follow bible guidelines and is an offense to God and Jesus I'll only attend if I can do the talk.

  • palmtree67
    palmtree67

    "The Voices" told me not to go........

  • therevealer
    therevealer

    I find that cheap red wine upsets the tum tum.

  • blondie
    blondie

    Do you go to the other meetings? If so, I'd just go and wear and ear bud and put a radio or mp3 player in my pocket.

  • notjustyet
    notjustyet

    How about putting some old dentures in your mouth and accidently drop them into the wine glass. Okay, Okay, I know, that's a stretch, how about just a tooth

  • ziddina
    ziddina

    Hah!! Blondie, that's a good one!!!

    Here's another one...

    "I've just developed a hearing problem - I go selectively deaf when hammered with scriptural inexactitudes..." [with a thanks to the movie "Easy A"...]

  • bats in the belfry
    bats in the belfry

    Q.: Why did you not attend the memorial?

    A.: Despite saying 'i t is important to attend' there is no scriptural backup. Actually, I have been quite sick from travelling to and fro the many meetings, so I read all the scriptural accounts myself at home.

    Those who are of Jesus’ “other sheep” class, with the hope of everlasting life on a paradise earth, are not under command to partake of the bread and the wine. (John 10:16) It is important to attend the annual celebration, but they do not partake of the emblems. So if one of them is sick or is traveling and thus not with any congregation that evening, he or she could privately read over appropriate scriptures (including the account of Jesus’ instituting the celebration) and pray for Jehovah’s blessing on the event worldwide. But in this case there is no need for any additional arrangement for a meeting or a special Biblical discussion a month later.

    w93 2/1 p. 31, Questions From Readers

  • Slidin Fast
    Slidin Fast

    Testicula neuralgia. Ball ache.

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