question on anullment

by zev 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  zev

  i've been getting allot of email of late from ex's and current jw's.

  i am glad to say almost everyone is waking up to whats really going on inside da "borg".

  i got this email recently, and after an "ok" by the sender to post it, they want to "anull" their jw baptism. i never heard of such a thing. is it possible and where can i turn this person to for information?

  Zev,
  Hi I was on line searching for any information as to weather the
  Governing Body has ever anulled a baptisum. I happened upon your
  website. I can't remember where I linked from, but I'm here.
  I'm trying to get them to anull my 1973 baptisum, because it was forced on me.

  Is there anyway you can help, or do you know of anyone who's actually gotten this
  accomplished, who might help?
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  dungbeetle

  The only thing I can think of is for people to start DOING it. Send Watchtower a letter, make a public announcement in a newspaper, and go from there.

  I would use fraud as a reason, or that I was a minor. I was 16, but not a mature 16. I didn't even know what a judicial committee was, I was told you only get disfellowshiped for 'serious offenses' and if you are 'unrepentant' and so on. But you can see from Watchtower history going back to Olin Moyle and William Schnell that this is not the case.

  And then there were the lies. "Jehovah's Witnesses were the only ones that predicted 1914 would be a special year". Liars!!! They said 1914 would be the end of the world, and when it didn't come, the backpedaled.

  When I was baptised, they also said to me that "Watchtower never said in print that the end would come in 1975." That was a lie. They said it in no uncertain terms, and when it didn't happen they backpedaled.

  A 16 year old in the 1970's doesn't think about researching to see if these things are true. In addition, Watchtower had conveniently left off providing the relevant books and bound volumes that expose their lies (Much of this is only coming out, watchtoers and awakes on cd's etc.)

  It may not hold up in court, but who cares. The occasional public announcenment in the paper would at least vaccinate the average newspaper reader that SOMETHING is going on. And that's really all that matters.

  So who will go first?
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  Dutchie

  I think a disassociation letter will nullify your baptism, the problem is the shunning factor. There is no such thing as an annullment within the organization where you can just walk away because they make all the rules.

  Edited by - Dutchie on 10 June 2002 13:48:20
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  Dutchie

  Zaev, just looked at your website. Great information!
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  metatron

  Here's the rule they apply in the Service Dept:

  If you claimed to be a Witness at any time after being baptised, the baptism cannot be annuled

  no matter what. - minors/being forced/ etc. don't matter, they don't care. Once you shake hands

  "congratulations on your baptism", that's it.

  metatron