Best and worst experience in your religion?

haujobbz

Ill tell you my best experience in my belief was being totally drunk at my mates wedding surrounded by jehovahs witnesses who were trying to talk to me even though i didnt want to talk to them (and they were the ones who ignored me at meetings LOL)and all i could do is smile at them because i couldnt understand what the hell they were speaking about,and i was so happy and they were so offended because i was PIS~@D. And my worst experience was getting baptised in front of 2000 jws, because when they dipped me into the pool, my shorts fell down with the pressure of the water , so i guess i was baptised naked.lovely

Lady Lee

My best and worst eh?

Well my best was being there when my friend died. She opted to die at home and hard as I tried to get the elders to encourage some sisters to come to help only 1 showed up once. I was there and held her hand with her flishly sister and was able to help the family shortly after (the family was deaf and needed an interpreter to deal with the medical people who came in) But to be there with her at that moment was one of the most love filled moments in my life (other than having my babies) It was also one of the worst because I was severely criticized by my elder husband for neglecting him and my responsibilities to go to meetings and door to door

My worst was being DFed. I had to talk about my sexual abuse in my marriage and a rape (with all the horrid details) But in the long run this was the best because it got me out

Dizzy Cat

Lady Lee -

Those are moving tales. I cannot even imagine what those experiences felt like. To be with somebody when they are dying is a noble act indeed.

I am sorry to hear about your own abusive experiences and hope the years have helped you heal in many ways.

/DC

Guest 77

haujobbz, I'm wondering if others like you showed that it took balls to get baptized?

Guest 77

SpiceItUp

lol @ Guest 77

haujobbz

I suppose i did impress the audience,made a few sisters jump though

The_Bad_Seed

Worst experience: 19A in the Borg

Best Experience: Leaving

Carmel

Worst; being "counciled" in front of the entire congregation for asking questions, Best, working in Israel for four years at the Baha'i Centre.

carm

Incense_and_Peppermints

worst experience: there was this really huge, jolly older brother. one day after the meeting we were all milling around and i was talking to a friend, gesturing with my hands. my left hand slammed into the jolly brother's bottom and just kept... going. it was like being sucked into a marshmallow. i looked up at him and he had a huge smile on his face. i have never forgotten that.

(of course i've had worse experiences, which i've already posted somewhere )

p.s. i can't think of a single "best" experience, other than leaving.

SYN

Best Experience: None that I can remember. There were no good experiences for me in the BORG.

Worst Experience: Many, too many to recount here.

Getting baptized and not feeling anything. I'd expected to receive some sort of divine vision or something, but it was just cold and wet.
Absolute sexual frustration (soon remedied even before I left )
Being counselled in front of my entire bookstudy for asking a question during the Study. Delightful!
Being counselled for reading a Scripture virtually every time I answered in the Hall or at the Study - they didn't like THAT much! I was only supposed to regurgitate stuff from the Tower's literature, apparently.
Conventions. Long, stupendously, brain-wanting-to-leave-confines-of-my-bloody-skull style boredom. Sore ass afterwards too. And you thought you only got a sore ass in prison!
Other "youngsters" who shunned me because my family was poor. Now apparently (from what I hear through the grapevine) they are all working at McJobs while I use the programming skills I taught myself on nights when I wasn't attending meetings in High School to maintain my own apartment (unlike them, still with parents, thumbs down!), earn a decent living, and drive my own car (almost, the engine is being replaced soon ) while they go out in Field Service and I sleep in! HAHAHA! Look who I am NOW!
Being smacked by a particularly nasty Elder when I was a kid and I played with some building equipment during a Quickbuild. Hurt for days!
Meetings. URGH. Nuff said.
Never getting to do all the "priviliges" (SP?) Now that I look back on it, this is probably a good thing, as holding microphones isn't a skill of mine anyway.
Most exciting Dub on Dub conversation I ever had: Talking about the internal functioning of the Kingdom Hall's CD player with the Brother manning the Kingdom Songs playback that night. Oh, the humanity!
Being counselled for dancing like a wild ostrich on acid with a bug up it's ass at a "get-together". Apparently Dubs aren't supposed to shake their asses. This is slightly understandeable as I couldn't dance to save my life back then
Having the Elders who gave me my Disassociation hearing tell me they'd "heard things about what I'd been doing with worldly girls". So they had been listening to rumours behind my back the whole time. Excellent. If they could see me now, they'd probably blush when they find out what I'm getting up to now
Having to prance about in a cheap, stuffy half-suit on a baking summer's day when I should have been in the waves breaking a few hundred meters away from the houses in our territory.
Seeing Brothers and Sisters who worked at Bethel scrape by on just enough money to buy toothpaste and shoelaces for decades.
Only finding out about the TRUE nature of the BORG once I'd left it for a couple of years and stumbled on Watchtower Observer. Quite a shock that one was!
The absolute emptiness and loneliness I experienced after I DAd myself - I was religionless, friendless, and of course, basically shunned by my family for a while.

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