What Excuses Did You Have For Missing Meetings? (page 4)

DazedAndConfused

I remember in the mid 80's when I had 3 small children being stuck at home 24/7 due to chicken pox s-l-o-w-l-y rolling from one child to the other. At first it was great to stay home from the meetings, but since I was a stay-at-home mom it got tedious after a while. I would, out of desperation for some sort of outside contact, ask my (then) husband if I could go to the hall and he stay with the kids. That was a no-go. So for 9 solid weeks I was stuck home with no outside contact. No phone calls, no meetings, no one coming over,...etc.

Funny thing is (not so funny?) I was the one in the end getting counseled for not attending. My ex was praised for ALWAYS attending, no matter what. gggrrrrrrrrrrrrr...............

dannyboy

Reading these posts reminds me of how dedicated and "obedient" I was. I really did try not to miss any meetings, even when health issues arose. Yes, a true believer. Never looked down on others who weren't quite as a dedicated as me.....had to set a good example, you know.

Now just see myself as a (formerly) dumba$% sucker.

---Dan

joannadandy

Toward the end I used homework a lot..."Sorry I have a paper due tomorrow and I have so many re-writes to make I don't think I can go to the meeting"

Then I started taking night classes on Tuesday or Thursday saying "It's the ONLY night it's offered!--it's only for a semester anyway!"

shera

I'm sick

My apartment makes me feel ILL....lol I told them the carpet is old. LOL

At the end,I was hung over every sunday.....so I was sick (being a JW,drove me too drink)tsk tsk

drahcir yarrum

syphillus flare up and genital warts

FiveShadows

i once called up my elder ont he day of the meeting, i believe, that i had a number 2 talk on...and told him that i couldn't go because i got stung by a bee and my leg was swollen really bad and i was in pain. Although this all was true ...i know i could've still gone to the meeting and done my talk...

~FS

emancipated

When I went for help and got treated like an asshole for asking questions, I just quit going.

alfie

MISSING MEETINGS?!!!- Sinners, how could you even entertain such thinking? Why, your very life is in the balance. Yeah, that's just about what I sounded like sometimes; you'd only have to ask my daughter. She turned out normal anyway. About the only way we'd miss a meeting was if we had a note from the doctor verifying we had a strange and rare deadly communicable disease.

alfie

hurt

whatiloveaboutwater wrote:

One elder just last week asked me why I had missed the book study. "Not feeling well?" he suggested after a moment of silence. "No, I was fine, I replied" and just looked at him straight in the eye for a few seconds. That was kind of awkward, but it was over soon enough and then he said that he would see me later anyway. Don't know what he must have thought.

Right on! That eply is stunning, I've seen. Poor elder brother won't know what to say. I'd been asked the same way, elder brother trying to make an excuse for me. Welcome back, he said, you've been ill? No, I've been fine, I answered.. Too much work? Er... no, I answered again. He held my gaze and said to talk together later. Fine, I said. He hasn't attempted to want to talk yet. When you begin to reach the point of feeling you don'thave to answer to anyone, when the madness of the JW world begins to get to you, when you begin to feel the legitimacy of the doubts you have and the decisions you have to make, and have no desire or ambitions in the JW world, the elder losses his power over you. And then you know that the power he had you gave to him.

justhuman

My best excuse is WORK

So when elders ask me with that Sherlok Holms look: 'We haven't see you at the meetings lately" I always say the same answer. I WORK

I hope very soon I will add something more to my answer:

DO YOU KNOW WHY I NEED TO WORK 14 HOURS A DAY? BECAUSE I SPENT MY BEST YEARS AS A PIONEER PREACHING THE FANTASY OF A BUNCH OF FALSE PROPHETS IN BROOKLYN? THAT IS WHY I WORKED SO HARD BECAUSE NO ONE HIRES A PERSON WITH NO CERTIFICATES. BECAUSE THAT FALSE PROPHETS PROMISED ME THAT I WILL NOT NEED HIGHER EDUCATION SINCE THE END IS NEAR, AND BY BECOMING PIONEER I WOULD HAVE A CERTAIN FUTURE...

BUT I TELL YOU WHAT IS MY FUTURE...TO WORK 14 HOURS A DAY UNTIL I DIE JUST EARN THE NECCECARY THINGS IN LIFE... THAT IS MY FUTURE

What Excuses Did You Have For Missing Meetings?

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