If You Weren't A JW>>>> (page 2)

no more kool aid

I would have went to college right after high school ( I wasn't allowed). Who really knows if we were raised that the sky is the limit what we all could have been. I probably wouldn't have married so young. Would have had a little more fun while I was young (minus the meetings,service assemblies). I would have had more children.

ziddina

College degree in geology. Perhaps specializing in paleontology. Possible that I might have found T-Rex nicknamed 'Sue', as I have non-JW relatives with land in that area... Would never have wasted any time believing that a 3,500 year-old Middle Eastern regional deity had anything to do with evolution of 4 billion-year-old earth... No miserable 9-year marriage to a JW gambling beer-drinking pool shark. Would own my own townhome/condo. Would have healthy savings account... retirement plan... Wouldn't have all those implanted cult beliefs still messing with my sub-conscious... Would be much happier and healthier... Zid

jamiebowers

Would've gone to college right outof high school instead of in my early thirties, wouldn't have married at 17, never would've stayed in a dangerous marriage for several years, and wouldn't have lost association with my mom.

Scarred for life

I'm like Nicolai, a more pertinent question for me would be if my parents had never become JWs how would my life have been different?

I would like to think that my family would have spent more time together doing fun things and becoming closer instead of wasting all that time at meetings and assembies and field service etc.

I think I would not have felt like I was so different, so apart from the majority of people.

I think I would have been involved in more activities in high school and maybe have taken more classes outside of school when I was young like dance or maybe done a sport like swimming.

yknot

Socially abundant, a high school yearbook filled with extracurricular activities citations.

I would have probably gone into politics too

.... just normal....

purplesofa

I was DF for nine years in my 30's, but still held that the JW's had the truth.

I would have married during that time in my life, I met alot of nice "worldly" men with fascinating careers and were wild about me, but never once considered them for marriage as i always had it in my mind I needed to marry a brother

I would not have committed career suicide either. I had a great career going, got reinstated, and bought into the whole, I am materialistic, not putting service first, and let all those years of hard work go. I have been out too long to ever be able to regain what I lost.

Initially becoming a JW was great, but I soon learned that it was smothering and was doing nothing to help my personal growth.

My decisions have led me down a very interesting path and I am happy with the way things have turned out, well, I tell myself that, BUT

I will always wonder if I had been able to leave the Organiztion with my heart and mind how my decisions would have been altered and how differently my life would be now.

purps

iknowall558

I would have went to my dad's funeral in the church !

minimus

We would've been more "normal" growing up.

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