Bill that is good news and bad news. I might still be numbered in the 144,000, reluctantly! I've been lying about my status, unknowingly! And I might still be on the rolls of a certain large church in the Rocky Mountain region since I never requested removal. 

See, I got off to a bad start being baptized at eight years of age in Hooker, Oklahoma. All civil and criminal records have been purged from that place since no one wants that city named on their documents! It is physically still there, but is on the list of forbidden cities name-wise. So, maybe my fading baptismal certificate signed in Hooker is invalid! Oh well.

Wait until I pass your information about irrevocable membership on to a couple of buddies who, unlike me, after 45 years, are still consumed with anger and embarrassment about their SDA experience. 

I still have my ordination certificate. I could burn it! No, I don't regret my history. I'm humbly proud of it! Re-baptism isn't in the cards!