Elizabeth, make your mind up on what you want and what you want to do but let me tell you.
My Stepdad (who is a baptized witness, who wants to be a MS or elder and will probably end up being one) used to hit me, push me around and used the fact that in Jehovahs eyes he's head of household to do it. I had to leave home for a while and at one point hit him back to get it to stop.
Mum was told, i kept telling her but at first she didn't believe me. She can't leave him (she has said so) because she married him. Even if the Elders would let her, because of the Society her conscience won't allow it. She wants me to go with her to the elders to tell them what Phil has done, if i don't go with her they won't be able to do much because the society prefer/like it out of the mouth of two witnesses (two people).
i've seen elders steal from work, then instead of gettin the police dealing with it elders disfellowshipped them. That guy could got in a lot of trouble but didn't. The excuse was to "stop reproach coming on Jehovahs name". Wonder how many WORSE and BIGGER things this happened with?
You'll be under a lot of pressure to move on and progress, giving talks e.t.c might seem fun but before long you'll be brainwashed into a certain thinking, for example encouraged not to speak to ex-jw's. The truth is NOT the Watchtower Society. Since when did Jesus speak of an organization? He spoke of Christians! people who believe in him.
The witnesses aren't gonna admit all this, i can promise that and will prolly come up with some forms of answers. The members are brainwashed/conditioned. It only takes the repeating of certain things and a few well phrased sentences and suddenly you think YOU thought of it and/or GOD said it, when in actual fact its the Society.
Your life will not be right if you join and become a witness, LEAVE and walk away, tell them to leave you alone. Yes i admit some nice people are witnesses but its not them, that are the problem. The Society have a lot to answer for and i and many others here can prove they have lied about things, changed things they said in books/mags e.t.c
The truth is the message/hope jesus gave, NOT an organization.
(Mark 9:38-41) 38 John said to him: "Teacher, we saw a certain man expelling demons by the use of your name and we tried to prevent him, because he was not accompanying us." 39 But Jesus said: "Do not try to prevent him, for there is no one that will do a powerful work on the basis of my name that will quickly be able to revile me; 40 for he that is not against us is for us. 41 For whoever gives YOU a cup of water to drink on the ground that YOU belong to Christ, I truly tell YOU, he will by no means lose his reward.
That scripture basically shows that we don't need to be witnesses to get a reward (or any other ORG) though churches are good, the witnesses put them down and DO NOT LIKE THEM but there are some nice churches and bad churches. Same as some JW congregations.
Also read 1Timothy 2:5 which shows what is in our relationship with God. NO SOCIETY!!
Jesus never belonged to an organization.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/112856/1.ashx - That topic has loads of scriptures in to show that God does not have an organization, he works on individual levels with us as people, because he has time for that.
