Posts by Buster

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anybody from west TN???

by christopherceo in

this is my first time posting and i am just curious if anyone in west tn is on this forum.

i figure the best way to begin the healing is to find out if there is someone in my former circuit who has escaped also.

Embarrassing stories..

by Aztec in

does anyone have any really embarrassing stories?

my worst story: when i was 15 i went to a slumber party at my best friends house.

i couldn't sleep so i got up to watch tv with her older brother.

My then-wife and I went to Epcot center. We went throught the technology pavilion and on the ride inside. Anyway, the ride goes slowly past this exhibit and that, explaining all sorts of interesting technology stuff. Shortly before it ended there was a flash - no big deal. But as we came around the corner I saw to my horror what the flash was for. As each car came through, it displayed a huge photo of the riders - to ... I don't know how many cars back. Oh, my wife was fine. But I was about a knucle-and-a-half up my right nostril.

That one gave me flashbacks for about 10 years.

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How Did Your Adolescence Go?

by Englishman in

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i was chatting to an old aquaintance about some of the weid and wonderful conflicts that i had gone through when i left the jw's.

she works as a therapist of some renown locally, so i was interested in her viewpoint.

she said that, in her opinion, anyone who's adolescent development was overly restricted by, for example, their religion, would have to clear away the mental stuff that had been held back during this critical time.

Buster

My dad was a non-dub, like email's. The thing I missed the most was sports - but that was at least as much due to the fact that my father's total focus was on academics. I was to be the first in my line, both sides, to go to college (first to graduate high school for that matter).

I would have gotten a lot out of association with my peers in high school. There were some pretty impressive people in my classes.

But I gotta say this: I had one excellent group of friends while growing up in the Franklin MA congregation. Depending on when and how you counted, there were anywhere from ten to twenty of us at any one time. We had some very good athletes and we could assemble a basketball team that we could take to the playgrounds and take on the other neighborhood kids. Sometimes we even went to the city and got our buts kicked on the court.

We had motorcycle phases, dirt and road. We did our first surreptitious drinking when we were 15 on overnight trail rides. I'll never forget the time Vinnie came down from a jump and his left foot pedal gave way. We rolled for what seemed like hours - us laughing, he, in pain.

Some of those guys were the funniest people I ever met - even to this day, 25 years later. They could make you wiz your drawers.

And what description of adolescence would be complete without mentioning the opposite gender. Our congregation had some of the best looking girls you ever met - a couple were the prettiest girls in their high schools. I was sure I was going to end up with Dana, until another girl's older brother married her, the bastard. By now she agrees, but its a wee bit too late for that, now isn't it?

Yeah, we had the run-ins with the JCs. I fought the mind control to the point where the only solution was to stop going - a process that started as I went to college. And speaking of college, I got a letter of recommendation to the Admissions Committee from our congregation's PO.

Believe it or not, most of my memories are fond ones. How does that compare?

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Help she is trying to get to my son part4:)

by Jesika in

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i got up at 6am and took alex to the airport:(, then i went home and jumped online looking for lawyers.

i found 186 in dallas that deal with custody.

i called about 12 and left messages.

Buster

Sounds like good news. I hope to read some more soon.

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Bill Parcells and the Cowboys

by heathen in

even i was shocked to hear that bill parcells comes out of retirement to coach the cowblows .i think there is even a rumor that troy aikman will come out of retirement to qb .

i don't know what do you think the cowboobs chances are next year?

i am hoping for the best myself .

Buster

I remember when he was coaching the Patriots. That man has one specialty: he can make players forget their losing ways, he gets their attention. I'll tell you why players play so hard for him: they don't want to walk to the sidelines and face Bill Parcells after a mistake.

On a Parcells team, do you know what an injured player does from the moment he is cleared to get out of bed? He rides an exercise bike until he is cleared to return to the field. Yup, sprain an ankle and you just bought yourself three days of exercise biking, with a coach watching the whole time. Break a leg, and you got four to six weeks pushing with your good leg. They can't wait to get back on the field.

I would say he is the best coach around for a team with a recent pattern of losing.

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Embarrassing stories..

by Aztec in

does anyone have any really embarrassing stories?

my worst story: when i was 15 i went to a slumber party at my best friends house.

i couldn't sleep so i got up to watch tv with her older brother.

Buster

I posted this on a 'clothes' thread a couple months back:

OK, this is painful to share. I was in my late teens during the height of the disco era. So, I just had to have my hair parted down the middle. No it didn't want to go there by iteself, so I got a ... a .... perm - j ust a wave-perm that my 15-year-old sister did. Even so, it took a dog's age to blow-dry it so it would lay down on the upstream side, sort of.

But here goes (ouch!):

-Green VELVET Three-piece suit with a gold silk lining. Oh yeah, tight enough to read the year of the quarter in my pants pocket.

-Wide, tooled leather green belt.

-Light green BIG-collar plastic shirt.

-But to finish off the look, the piesta resistance - Green Patent Leather shoes, white tops, green tassles

I used to wear that monstrosity to the hall. I was in a clothes-horse competition with Darryl D. I thought it would be cathartic to write this. But I'm not so sure.

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Embarrassing stories..

by Aztec in

does anyone have any really embarrassing stories?

my worst story: when i was 15 i went to a slumber party at my best friends house.

i couldn't sleep so i got up to watch tv with her older brother.

Buster

So, a Witness girl asked me to take her friend to the Bellingham prom. It would be fun. My friend would go with Rita and I would take ... I forget her name. Anyway, she and I talked on the phone a couple times and decided it would be easier at the prom if we went out once before. Great idea huh?

So I picked her up to take her to the movies. So far, so good. Except, I, or we, decide to see "Friday the 13th." Now these slasher films may seem uproariously silly today. But back then they were new. Bad combination - I'm a coward, and this is one scary flick. I spent the whole movie with both hands on the chair arms, in abject, white-knuckled fear. The only good part was the end. I was so happy. All the killing complete, sun coming up, the last pretty girl survives in the canoe - remember?

Remember when the body leaps out of the water and drags that last girl under? ... accompanied by a sudden jolt of music? Well I sure do. I was so scared, I jumped up onto the chair arm between us - reaching across her to the next arm. I was so scared, I didn't come to my senses until the cognitive part of the brain heard the boys behind us laughing - yup, at my expense.

Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the trip from the arm back into one's seat takes hours?

Epilogue: Nope, she found a reason to go to the prom with someone else. But I went anyway, with a girl that was voted prom princess. And I wore my green velvet suit (Another emabarassing story that I've already told on another thread).

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You Know You're Gettin Old........................

by ISP in

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.......when the kids kick you're ass at video games.

hmmmmmm.

isp.

Buster

I bought my son, then five years old, a Nintendo 64. We bought the Stars Wars pod racing game for him. It was a bit over his head so we bought the Lego Racer game. A 10-year old from across the street showed him some tricks.

Ok, he's seven, and I can't get within a country mile of him on any games. I have to pull out the chess board, and make up some rules as we go along.

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"COC"=any effect?

by mackey in

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i posted about a week ago on another forum about a very close friend of mine whom i am trying to get out of the org.

she was baptized when she was 15 and she's now 24. i want to marry her,but i have to get her out first, which i know all to well is extremely difficult.

through extensive research it seems to me my only chance is to get her to read "coc" and "isocf", which she has agreed to do.

Buster

I'm gonna agree with Dan. The Franz books are a gentle guide out the door. I remember when I got the books, I expected a hard-bitten attack on all things WTS. But his tone was so soft, that the books drew me in more and more. But I have been out for many years.

The object of your affection can rationalize better than you can imagine. She can justify 1914, 1975, the WTS stand on the blood issue, shunning close family members - all that stuff.

Good luck

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Ever run into a DF'd person & didn't know it?

by DanTheMan in

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'bout 3 or 4 years before i left the borg i ran into a dub acquaintance that i hadn't seen in a while while grocery shopping.

i was at her congo for 5+ years, and she knew who i was.

as i approached her she quickly looked away and started looking at some items on the shelf.

Buster

I think it would be fun to talk to her dad. I'll look for an opportunity.