Who and what would you have been if not for the JWs.............. (page 2)

jaguarbass

What do you think life may have been like for you had you missed the whole JW episode...............

I have always been facinated with music and I have always been involved with music. To this day I play music professionally but not as often or for as much as I would like. Hindsight is 20/20 I wish I would have gone to college and become a school teacher had 3 months a year off to travel and recharge had the weekends off and worked days. Then I believe I would have had more time and energy to spend on music. And had I gone to college and become a school teacher. I would be retired with a great pension today and all the time I want to play and promote music, instead of having to work the next 15 years. So I guess I have some anger for these jerks pouring water on my cornflakes.

I blame my parents as much as the witnesses. The witnesses were the preditor that my parents exposed me to. And my parents were not the most nurturing responsible people on this planet or I would never have been a witnesess. I often think my parents did not want to accept the responsibility of raising me so they let some pulp book publishing company do it.

The thing about not getting an education kind of knocked my train off the track.

nvrgnbk

Architect/Author/Teacher

Hortensia

I turned down a full-freight scholarship to university. Wanted to study linguistics. Who knows what would have happened to me if not for the JW prison? Well, I suppose life would have happened, and it did anyway. I like a lot of things about my life now. I own my own business, have gotten to do a lot of interesting things, have written some books and been published (nothing along the lines of J.K.Rowling!!!), have good friends, live in a lovely part of the country. I've had some hard times, but everyone has those - it isn't the fault of JWs. The main thing is I am very very glad not to be a JW, probably the best thing I ever did was fade away from that hell.

sass_my_frass

Actually in our family, even if we weren't witnesses, I think my parents would still have had very low expectations of us. We weren't encouraged to grow, learn, and strive for things - dad always wanted us to do our best but mum didn't want us to have to strive too hard. It's a tough call; if there hadn't been a 'sense of urgency with regards to the times', I don't know if they'd have encouraged us in any other path.

Mum says she always thought I'd become something like the character played by Jodie Foster in Contact; and I ruined the moment by joking about the night I'd have with Matthew McConachey... so I guess she thought I had the potential to do something interesting, but I still got the vibe that I had to go part-time so I could pioneer and hang out with her watching TV while she got through the diseases in her head.

Abandoned

I very likely would have been on the joint chiefs of staff.....

You see, I started studying with the witnesscrites in 1987 while I was in the United States Army. In February of 1988, due completely to my study with the hypnesses, I applied for a conscientious objector discharge from the army. Now, if I wouldn't have exited early with a chapter 8 discharge, I would have probably reenlisted in 1989 and thus still been acitve duty in 1991 when the first Gulf War broke out. Since I was in an airborne unit assigned to support the 101st airborne division, I probably would have been one of the guys sent and I just know I would have kicked ass. With Saddam and his goonies running with their tails between their legs, I most likely would have been given a battlefield commission to first louie. From there, it would just be a matter of time before I received my first star. With brigadier under my belt and impressive battletime experience, I'm sure I would have easily clawed my way up to four stars by the time the second gulf war broke out -- the fake one. Now, with my experience in the first one and the complete disconnect from reality so common in the second one, I'm sure that dubya would have saw fit to appoint me to the joint chiefs where I would have built up my political clout to make a feasible attempt at president of the Unites States.

So, I basically gave up a spot on the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as my place as a candidate in the 2008 presidential elections. Damn you Teddy Jaraczs!!!

Highlander

Without the j-dubs I would not have been born. My parents met at a kingdumb hall,, without that they may have never crossed paths.

Who and what would you have been if not for the JWs..............