I've been asking myself that question. Why did I become one. For me it was ignorance and a need of companionship. I was newly married, my husband was raised a witness although he wasn't baptised yet he believed it to be the truth. I had just had a baby and I wanted to raise him with God in his life, I always had a deep beleif in God, I was raised Episcopalian, but as a teenager my parents did study with Mormons and I attended their church in high school. I had a deep desire to do what was right. The witnesses gave me the Live Forever book and I read it front to back in a day or two, however I didn't look up all the scriptures I looked up a few but just took the ones that were cited as proof, it made sense, and my husband was so convinced, even though I had some doubts I was told that was satan. I didn't have a lot of friends because you see I moved around alot when I was growing up and when you come into the truth, you suddenly have couples and people to do things with. They are moral people for the most part and so was I so you just become a part of them and of course they are your only friends. I didn't work but part-time when my kids were young so you surround yourself only with these people and it becomes your world.........then I began waking up from the sleep....it was slow for me over a couple of years...I let myself listen to the voice inside me and say is this logical really....then I started looking up information in their publications..really looking things up....scriptures...I had this talk on the 1914 thing and I thought I would really do some research...then I found this 587-607 BCE web site....I showed it to my husband...he really didn't pay much attention and told me not to look at that stuff. I then started looking at a few websites even though I knew I shouldn't and I ordered Ray's book. I figured if this is the truth, why should I be afraid to read this book. The truth can stand on it's own or it should be able to. That was it I read that book and it confirmed my suspicions I knew I could never turn back.
"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself."
Rita Mae Brown