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  As a JW Kid Were You Expected To Get Baptised By Your Parents/ Congregation

  by Hairyhegoat in

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  here is a quote from a ex-jw about this subject, i myself had alot of pressure from my family to get baptised and finally gave in at 14, wish i had left them a present on the way out of the pool that floated..at the dudley assembley hall .

  i can't justify my entire family (parents, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandma) and friends shunning me because i chose not to uphold a dedication i made at twelve years old.

  sure it was my "choice" to get baptized.

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  essjay

  I guess my story's a little different. I wasn't brought up in the truth, as it used to be called, but I started a b/s when I was 12. my dad's parents were j.w's and my grandfather claimed to be of the annointed. My dad's 2 brothers were witnessses and my dad and his other sibling were not. My dad had a study and my step mother too. they dropped out but I carried on. went to my first assembly which was an international one at wembly in 1969. it made a great impact on me, I made a decision to become one of j.w's there and then. When I got home that night my dad said I wasnt to go again, ever. I did go, but my dad and I clashed big time. Well eventually i was introduced to my dad's brother and his wife and at the age of 16 I went to live with them and carried on going to meetings. I got baptized alongside my cousin Phillip at southend in 1971...was quite emotional for me cos they did husbands and wives together first and then discovered we were cousins so they baptized us together. a nice touch. so I made the decision to be baptized on my own but it was also tinged by the need to be accepted, I also had other issues that would make this type of religion more easy for me to accept. Sadly I am no longer one of j.w's, I was disfellowshipped in 1992, i had been married for 20 years and had 4 children. all of a sudden my home, my husband, my children, my friends, my way of life was gone just like that...it was tough but I am a survivor and now I am enjoying life again. Oddly enough my ex husband still is one of j.w's, has married again and...surprisingly, my eldest daughter is now having a study at the age of 33...and so it begins again.