Posts by HbgDude

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How did you feel when you got baptized?

by Schnufti in

back in 2005, i remember sitting in the stadium in the special rows with 42 others.

8000 people were looking at us - maybe even with a binocular - while listening to the speech.

my family and my friends among them, being all proud of me.. i don't remember being enthusiastic.

HbgDude

I got baptized at the "Lovers of freedom" convention. Whatever year that was.

After that, I immediately felt the freedom to scope out hot looking, single older sisters for potential mates. At one point I was talking to 4 sisters at a time.

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What will you be doing on the evening of the 11th ?

by Phizzy in

mrs phizzy and myself will be eating out, sure in the knowledge we will not have jw's using the same restaurant.. i may have a cigar along with my brandy at the meal's end to celebrate my (our) freedom..

HbgDude

April 11th 2017? I was on a date with a beautiful woman who I hope will want to marry me someday.

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Craziest thing you ever did during intermission at a Circuit Assembly

by Esse quam videri in

1970 - there was a local drag strip a few miles away from the hall rented for the circuit assembly.

i was 18 , tim o. was 16 and wayne d. was 18. wayne had a 1955 chevy 4 door, 6 cylinder and fresh paint job.

tim had his dad'ss 1965 chevy half ton.

HbgDude

I'm glad someone brought this up.

I'll tell the truth. Shortly after I was baptized. I went to an assembly at the Grantville assembly hall. During intermission I had the urge to deficate. So I went to the bathroom and took a dump. While sitting there on the toilet I started to think of how boring the program was and also how hot some of the sisters looked.

I thought of this one sister in particular who was wearing a tight skirt above the knee and the sexiest strappy, high heeled sandals and I thought about how much I wanted to lick and kiss her legs and feet and...I got excited and did something about it there on the can.

Next thing I know I wake up to someone pounding on the stall door, still with my pants down around my ankles.

I had fallen asleep on the can through the rest of the assembly and the volunteer cleaners were waking me up. LOL

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What has been your own personal experience of shunning?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i am interested in finding out on a small scale the extent of which shunning has impacted on you personally.. my own experience is that when i faded about 12 years ago.

the woman whose house the book study was held at (and who was virtually a neighbour) walked right past me in my own street.

i remember it so well.

HbgDude

I don't remember how long I was dfed and I was at the mall. I seen a married sister whom I had a crush on come out of CVS walked right passed me while looking at me. For about 2 seconds I smiled and was getting ready to greet her. Then she walked right passed me without even a word.

I do remember at first feeling embarrassed and then hurt. Good thing I've always had thick skin.

Another time I was with my wife at the time (now my ex) at the broad st market and having the pho soup. A sister came over and chatted with my wife and after a few minutes not even acknowledging my existence. I got really upset and went on a loud profanity-laced tirade directed at her that got me barred from there by the security.

I realize getting bent out of shape like that didn't help my case. They're trained to think you're somehow possessed by demons when you get upset. But someone treating you that way is enough to get upset about. I was not possessed, I was genuinely pissed about being treated that way. How are you going to be all warm and friendly with someone I'm with and at the same time make it obvious you're trying to somehow teach me a lesson by ignoring my very existence when previously you didn't? That is just plain rude.

There are just too many instances to enumerate here. I'll be typing for hours. But it just really irritates me when previously you're all buddy buddy with me and caring and then just don't wanna talk to me for no reason. I never did anything to those people. Yet, they chose to treat me like I have some type of plague.

I've always felt that if it were really true (and I do not believe it is) that the only people left on Earth would be jws, I'd rather be dead.

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My families shunning has gone to a whole new level

by pale.emperor in

8 months df'd.

loving a life of freedom.

however, my family are all shunning me.

HbgDude

Wow! They're really playing that victim card hard. Sorry to hear what they are putting you through.

If it were me, I'd be half tempted to try and get reinstated for the sole purpose of shunning them while you are in. For example, after I get reinstated I'd tell them 'you aren't welcome on my property and stay away from my daughter.'

But you have to live your life. Life is too short for vengeful crap like that. You have to think big thoughts now, not the small, cultish thoughts of jws.

Be strong, even when you feel like crying.

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Harrisburg, PA Area Anyone?

by HbgDude in

just wanted to see if anyone is here from the harrisburg, pa area.

trying to see what's going on atound the area as far as jw related stuff.

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HbgDude

Started in Swatara cong. Then to Edgemont and then to Mountainside congs. Wondering if anyone I knew broke free from the BS.

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Harrisburg, PA Area Anyone?

by HbgDude in

just wanted to see if anyone is here from the harrisburg, pa area.

trying to see what's going on atound the area as far as jw related stuff.

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HbgDude

Just wanted to see if anyone is here from the HARRISBURG, PA area. Trying to see what's going on atound the area as far as JW related stuff.

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Who of us has ever thought, 'What's the point? I'm going to die anyway'

by Funchback in

when i truly believed the jws had the truth, i usually reverted back to 'what's the point?

i'm going to die anyway' as a way to justify for doing so-called bad things or not doing so-called good things in jw land.. i shouldn't be watching this r-rated movie.

(why stop?

HbgDude

No, whenever I wanted to do something that was Un JW-like my reasoning would be that " I know every seat-warming JW must be into something that's just as bad as what I want to do".

For example, I can't be the only JW smoking pot. Or I can't be the only JW sneaking around having sex with women I'm not married to, etc

I never took seriously being destroyed at armageddon.