Alison,
You indicated in your post that you would take advice as well as constructive criticism, therefore here are some things to add to the very good comments from all the others who have answered you:
Despite the fact that you were/are really in love with your boyfriend, you must realize that the jehovah witness 'religion' is not just a religion. It is a mind controlling cult. To the witnesses, you are a "worldly person" who has no future hope of life, or even any right to a future unless you become one of them. They teach that god is going to destroy you and 6 billion other people no matter how honest or nice a person you may be simply because you are not a jehovah witness. And that includes any of your family and friends who are not, or never become jw's also. Do you really believe that personally? I hope not because that teaching is one of the most dishonest teachings ever to be taught on this planet.
Ask yourself: Do you really want to become part of a group such as the jw's who are guilty of false prophecies of claiming that the end of the world was coming such as in 1914, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1945, 1975, 1984, 2000? In fact in 1917, they published a book, entitled "The Finished Mystery", of which I have the original edition, where they stated that all other religions except theirs would be destroyed by god no later than the year 1920. Well as you can see, the world is still here and there are even more thousands of religions in existence than there were in 1917 or 1920. And they made all these predictions while claiming to the nth degree that they were gods chosen ones and that the information came from god himself and that god only works through them.In other words, they claim that they are gods only channel.
Ask yourself: Do you really want to become part of a cult that is guilty of the murders of thousands of its own members because of forbidding them the freedom to make the type of choices in crisis situations that would have saved their lives. The watchtower society is bloodguilty because over the years it forbade its members to take blood transfusions, transplants, and other medical therapies that would have saved these people's lives.
What about you? From what I can gather about you from your posts, you seem like a relatively nice young woman who has a bright future in whatever field you are in or may choose to be in. Would you really want to throw your life away if in a crisis situation, such as an accident, it was determined that a blood transfusion was the only thing that could save your life? Remember, your conscious life is your most valuable asset. Even though the jw's NOW claim that they are not against a person making their own choices for their health, in actual practice this is not true. If you were a jw and you took a blood transfusion to save your life, and the elders in your congregation found out, you would be eventually excommunicated, or as they say, disfellowshipped. This means your name would be announced to the entire congregation at one of the meetings, (that your boyfriend now attends), signalling all of your new jw 'friends' to never speak or associate with you ever again. You would be as good as DEAD to them. So do you really want to be a part of such a cult? All in the name of love?
The watchtower society is also guilty of purposely initiating persecution of its own members resulting in the rape, killings and murders of its own members with the objective of dishonestly claimging that they are the chosen ones because they were being persecuted. Check the Mexico/Malawi situation as well as others.
Ask yourself: What if you do somehow win him back from the other sisters who are interested in him, and you start becoming a jw, but your conscience doesn't allow you to agree with ALL of their teachings? You would have questions. And let me tell you: The watchtower society and their local congregations with the elders do not like anyone questioning anything, no matter how nice they may seem. They are a mind controlling cult, just like the Branch Davidians under David Koresh, and just like the Jim Jones cult who under his mind control convinced his followers to commit mass suicide.
Alison, I was born into the jw religion and I served in every capacity.My father was an elder for decades and I was an elder for 10 years. You can trust that what I have stated here in honest and true. I invite you to communicate with me further.Just e-mail me through this board if you want more information and I will gladly supply you with it. I did not read everyone's posts so I may have repeated somethings already said, but you should take everyone's comments seriously.
Worf
