So What Was The First Thing That You Did... (page 2)

MrMoe

I felt fake and phoney. And guilt, I remember guilt for thinking I had made a terrible mistake.

P.S. I was 12.

Jesika

Well, I remember it like it was yesterday.

I had to wear a t-shirt over my bathing suit (can't arouse anyone), so I picked a special t-shirt. It was black, with a big florescent pink smiley face on it.

I only got baptised to 1) get elder father off my back 2) to get df'd. So, I was smiling, but not for the reason everyone thought I was smiling for. I found it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny, that I was not only laughing on the inside but on the outside (my shirt) at everyone. I kept thinking "If they oooonnnly knew".

I came out of the water with a "glow" alright, I knew I was even closer than ever to getting the hell out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, 9 months later, I got my wish!!!!!!!!!!! And now I am here with my beloved apostates standing proud and roaring loud!!!!!!!!

IronGland

I dried off, went to my car and smoked a cigarette.

ThiChi

I was thirteen and I went out with some friends to West LA for dinner. Was grounded for a month when I was dropped off at 3:00 am.

Swan

I went pale and almost fainted from the cold, so they put me in a hot shower to warm me up and get my circulation going again. It was an outdoor pool in one of the coldest, rainiest, summers ever in Vancouver, BC. I don't think I was ever that cold in all my life, except when I got frostbite in Alaska as a child.

Brrrrrr!

Tammy

bay64me

Felt proud that I could sing song number 113

imanaliento

I thought I would feel some kind of holy spirit working through me, but the only thing that happened was I was able to open my bible to the page the scripture was on.

ashitaka

I came up, people clapped, and I walked out of the pool, dressed and ate lunch. People came up and "congratulated" me on getting baptised. They might as well have high-fived the holy spirit.

all in all, it was quite meaningless beyond the fact that I was spared certain harassments because I did take the dip (I was twelve).

In the end, I was a fat lonely kid who got baptised in order to try to rustle up some friends, because I had no money, was not a looker, was not good at sports, and the people at school who I did get along with, I wasn't allowed to hang out with.

Waste of the best part of my youth.

ash

kelpie

I didnt feel any different.. It was a cold day when I got dunked so I straight away and got changed.

Grunt

I was baptized in Houston, Texas at the Astrodome. Big assembly and a lot of people getting dunked. I was surprized that none of the "brothers and Sisters" seemed very friendly. That was unusual. I guess some of them were having the feelings described above. I felt pretty good. I was sure of the "Truth" at that time. My poor wife had to put up with it all. I will never be able to repay her for her love and patience during my know-it-all days as a cult member. Wow. Know it all, what a joke. Believe it all, maybe, and know nothing. I am still amazed I was ever conned into being a part of such a group and ashamed of the pain I caused people I loved. The results of that ill-fated decision to get baptized still reverberate through my now disjointed family. My brother summed it up pretty good when he said, "That religion ate into our family like a cancer."

Grunt

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