Here is what she said about me: lol

"Okay....let's look at the ACVTUAL story.

According to Michele's own posts, here is what really happened.....

Michele has always hated being a jw. She hated and resented being forced to be baptized and practice this faith...a faith that she never really believed anyways. When she was old enough, she left. She simply walked away. Was she disfellowshipped? No. Was she shunned simply because she left? No. According to her own testimony, she stayed in contact with her mom all those years. 23 YEARS after leaving, she still hadn't been shunned by anyone.
So what happened? Well, again, according to Michele's own posts, she and her sister started visiting ex-jw sites. Somehow her mom found out about it. If her mom has been studying the Bible for years and years, she knows what it says about stopping contact with apostates. Reasonably, she went to her elders and explained the situation, and asked if she would have to shun Michele for this. What did the elders tell her mom? They told her that there was no reason to shun Michele. She had been out for 23 years! She was no longer considered a JW....so what she chose to do, whereever she chose to spend her time was her business. No reason to shun.

Then, Michele states that she was furious at her mom. She was mad that her mom would even consider possibly shunning her own daughter!! She said that once her mom had mentioned it, that she was worried that POSSIBLY, SOMEDAY, for SOME REASON, she MIGHT feel that Michele COULD do something that would force her mom to have to shun her. Michele said that she got tired of living with that fear. In Michele's OWN WORDS, she did what she had to do.. "I took the bull by the horns and shunned her first!!!". "I want the JW's to HAVE to boot my ass out!!!"

BEFORE writing the letter of DA, Michele went to all her ex-jw friends and told them what she wanted to do. MANY of them asked why she would do that AFTER being out for over 2 decades! They told her that she had drifted away....she had't been disfellowshipped, and that even though they had problems in their relationship, michele and her mom still had contact. They asked her to think about all the consequences of what writing the letter would bring BEFORE she wrote it. Michele then made a conscious and informed decision to write it anyway. Her mom honored that letter requesting to stop associating with her own daughter....at MICHELE'S REQUEST.

Michele has come to refo and now here, and keeps bringing this up. She keeps saying that "shunning is wrong, wrong, wrong, no matter who does it!!!". Once again, was Michele shunned by JW's or her JW mother when she left 25 years ago? Nope. Was her mom "forced to shun her" after she found out that Michele was going to apostate sites? Nope! In fact, the elder CLEARLY told her mom that she hadn't done anything to be shunned for! So why is Michele REALLY being shunned? Because as Michele said herself...."I will shun her first!!!!"....after her mom clearly told her that she didn't need to shun Michele.

The FACTS, by Michele's own posts, are that she was angry at her mom for even having to ask an elder about it. She couldn't believe that her mom would even consider it at all! She was sick of hearing all the JW "crappola" by her mom. She wanted her mom to know that she was in a "mind-controlling cult!!", but her mom wouldn't listen. And that the possibility that her mom "MIGHT" have to shun her someday was like a "loaded gun being pointed at my head" that she felt the need "to take the bullets out of". Michele says that her MAIN reason for writing the letter was that since her baptism was a public demonstration of becoming a JW...that the letter was necessary as another public demonstration of her desire to no longer be one. Michele had been out for 23 years. At that point, NO JW thought of her as a member still.

We have gone over this so many times that it is ridiculous to keep doing it. We know what we believe and why. If you don't agree, that's fine. For those of you in other faiths....keep in mind that YOUR CHURCH has their own policies regarding this as well. Your church has their beliefs as to why it does what it does. As wrong and cruel as YOU might think the JW's are on this.....we may feel the same way about yours. ....and yet YOU are mot the ones being dragged through all of this. Only us.

If anyone needs or wants proof of what I have stated regarding posts made by Michele herself, I will post them if necessary. I don't want to...but i will.

With this all being said, I am now officially done with all of this drama. Believe whoever you want....feel however you want to feel about us. All I can say is that we have asked the "moderators" of this forum to be aware of what Michele is(and has been) trying to do....exactly what has been done in these threads.....attack the JW's and get everyone else all fired up......and from this thread alone, it looks like it is still working. They told us that as long as Michele slams us and tells her lies and twisted verions of the truth "within the context of a thread....that is okay". I guess I should let DanH and BroD, and LV all know that as long as they say "In my experience..." before they slam someone else, then according to the moderators of this forum....then that will be acceptable. If this is now the rule that excuses what Michele does...then in all fairness, it should excuse thei behavior of other trolls as well. Right? Since they(mods) will make no effort to step up and actually do something to keep this situation at a minimum.....I will . It's really too bad that this is a sanctuary for everyone BUT the JW's.

I'm not throwing a fit, I am not angry at anyone, and I don't dislike anyone. I just feel that when a SANCTUARY is no longer a place of peace , but rather a continued breeding ground for one persons hate against a specific group....then it is no longer a sanstuary for me."

She came here and read my story and went to the other site to try and make me look bad. She totally made up what she said about folks on here trying to talk me out of writing the letter. I have no clue where she got that from. Keep in mind, she is the one who asked me questions claiming that she was just trying to understand my position in her own post about unconditional love. I gave my opinion on her post and didn't even mention my mother or situation. She brought it up and asked me questions saying that she was not trying to hurt me more than I have already been hurt, but that she was just trying to understand me better. We were having a very civil discussion and then another nasty JW came on and started attacking me. Then this poster turned ugly on me too. She is not baptized and I think that she is having a hard time accepting the conditional love that the JWs have to offer. She has been through a lot in her life and I have a lot of admiration and respect for that. She even told me that her faith was shaken a number of months ago and she came here to read my story. It appears that she is now being bullied into using my own story against me on the other site. I don't think she would do that otherwise. Maybe she would, who knows? Well, I have definitely hit a nerve with these women and know that what I say is 100% true about their religion and they know it. Otherwise, why get so angry and be so vicious and defensive?