@stuckinarut2 i came here (as a lurker) every now and then way before i became a witness. I did read (and still have) CoC and some other anti-jw books, and explored almost every apostate site that i could find during the years after 2000.
But i must say this site and other apostate sites did not attract me at all,.. it did not convince me. It felt not right... for some reason i did not like what i heard on those sites. JW's on the other hand felt, in my case, right. So i did several years of research... the pro's and con's without prejudices,.. objective and i decided to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Anyway i made an account to be able to pm several persons. Short time after i signed up the most important one left this forum as i will do too ... soon