I joined because I liked the idea that God wasn't going to allow the world to be blown to smithereens. I grew up in southern Nevada, about 150 miles from the Nevada Test Site, and I remember sitting on the sitting on the schoolhouse steps and watching the mushroom cloud from the above ground testing of a nuclear "device." In those days we would have air raid drills, too, where we would take cover under our desks - not much protection from a nuclear blast or fallout, so the idea of a paradise earth was appealing to me. That, plus the fact that JW's seemed to be able to answer my questions, whereas my priest hadn't, made the religion very attractive.
Unfortunately, I stayed way too long after doubts began to surface, but I finallyDA'd in 1994.
Aunthill