also this would only work if you had never pioneered, done rbc work or bethel or appointed as a ms or elder because these would all be clear evidence of your baptism
Make Them Prove That You Were Baptized!
by VM44 28 Replies latest jw friends
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VM44
AnnB provided this important information:
"If the elders can't find two witnesses to your actual baptism they can fall back on "proof" that two people have heard you identify yourself as a JW and are living as a JW (going out in field service, "making disciples")."
So the "Make them Prove you were Baptized" approach would only work if you had been away from the congregation for so long that no one there remembered you having going out in field service, or you having said that you were a JW.
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designs
Interesting angle.
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blondie
unbaptized people go door to door...how can that be proof?
In the person's case I mentioned above, nothing had been written on their publisher card. There is a place for "date of baptism"
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VM44
blondie,
Is it mkr32208's story that you are thinking of?
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jam
Tell them you were mentally diseased when you got
Baptized and over the years it became progressively worst.
Now how would it look if you DF a person that have mental
issues. Plea the 5th.
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Yan Bibiyan
Tell them you were mentally diseased when you got Baptized and over the years it became progressively worst.
Pffff, perfect!
They already knew from the pubs that you are mentally diseased as an apostate, now you just confirmed it...
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Slidin Fast
I was about 10 years old, even I can't remember it. I certainly could not tell you the date. There was no vow of allegience to the society or organisation. There was no ban on tobacco then either.
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jam
Oh yea, tell them you have anger issues , and I just don,t know
what will happen if I,am DF. Satan speaks to me each nite.
I guarantee you they will leave you along.
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AnneB
Blondie: I wondered about that myself (unbaptized publishers). The difference is that an unbaptized publisher is already known to the local elders while a person who hasn't been in the same congregation since baptism might not be known, thus require outside evidence in the form of testimonials.