@ vientotz
I myself was baptized in the early 1970s. Spent many thousands of hours going from door to door, making return visits, going to meetings and assemblies, and more.
I think most people here are not so much criticizing Jehovah's Witnesses, but giving you the benefit of their personal experience. I continue to believe that the religion attracts good people. But the religion itself is bad in many ways. The good people find themselves trapped in a belief system that often doesn't make sense.
The religion changes the way people think. It gets them to accept things that don't really make sense, as I mentioned in the above post regarding the double standard in pagan based observances. Once you have gotten in, it isn't easy to get out, at least if you have relatives or other people you care about who are in.
They say they only reject, or disfellowship, hard-core sinners, but you will be considered a hard-core sinner if you disagree with them on such common things as birthdays, or the medical use of blood. Even though these are things that most normal people would have no problem with, you will be viewed as "mentally diseased," and an "evil apostate" if you disagree with them after you are in.
When a person is disfellowshipped, a brief announcement is made to the congregation, but the congregation will never know why a person is disfellowshipped. They are conditioned to shun anyone who leaves the religion, either voluntarily or by being disfellowshipped, regardless of the reason they left.
You are on the right road now, because you are thinking, and getting information from others. I wish I had done this before I got in. It would have changed the path I took in life.
Regarding thinking, after you are in it is something they will not tolerate. They put a negative spin on it by callling it 'independent thinking.' Who wants to be independent? It makes it sound like you are rebelling against God by thinking. They never put a positive spin on thinking by calling it critical thinking, positive thinking, forward thinking, or clear thinking; that is unless you agree with the religion on everything!
Consider their low rate of keeping their own people. The Bible says at Prov 22:6,
"Train up a boy according to the way for him; even when he grows old he will not turn aside from it."
In my personal experience I have observed that no more than half of the children born to Jehovah's Witnesses are still in into adulthood. I have read that about 2/3 of the born-ins leave. This is completely contradictory to what the Bible says. But, shhh, we are not supposed to notice that!