The Rosebud MEGATHREAD

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Rosebud's rant is now available!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apgS9qPH0vk

[Bond]

Lady is batshit.

[Marcus]

Rosebud's rant is now available!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apgS9qPH0vk

Oh boy. Rosebud's complaint letter was one of the most inappropriate things I've seen in a long time. By that I mean, regardless of her story, why on earth would she think that, in a complaint to the Washington. Bar assoc. about a specific attorney, the association would want to hear her 10 year old complaints about Dehlin, her beef with the Open Stories Foundation board, her opinion about her state of mental wellness, or about the lds church and Utah's 'problem' with (in her mind only, being fully debunked decades ago) ... Satanic ritual child abuse?????? I kid you not. That last one was in there.

I really started to feel bad for her toward the end. That complaint was written by a person who is not mentally well.

Eta: On a very personal note, her (everpresent, as usual, unending) complaint about John Dehlin was couched in terms of her being up against a 'male public figure,' with the implication being that she was helpless as a 'female' to fight back. Dear god. Yes, Rosebud, sexism exists. No, rosebud, playing the victim is not how you fight it. Quit giving your fellow women a bad name.

[Rosebud]

I didn’t know it was happening. I don’t follow RFM. I’ll watch it in a few months when I have more time and will then respond as promised. It’s not at the top of my priority list at present. What a dunce.

But I do have something I would like to say to John right now.

I was having troubles drifting off to sleep tonight. I remembered that conversation you had with my dad at the church’s awful mall. Then I remembered the time I was sitting with my brother after I had rescued him from some of the worst consequences of his extreme mental illness and he told me that you had talked to him on the phone about his public claims a few times. I remembered your media behavior during the suicide contagion epidemic among the people I loved just after the 2015 LGBTQ policy announcement. (As a trained psychologist!) I remembered that you publicly exposed Jenn as a victim of child sexual abuse live on the air without her consent.

And the word that repetitively came to my mind was the word “evil.” What you are doing has been documented and is already in the hands of others who are more powerful than me.

Tonight what I was wondering is whether or not you’re doing this for money or if there is another reason — an even worse reason. There is a small part of me, even after witnessing all of this, that remembers when I felt love for you. I now feel compassion for that part of me…. the me who did so much for exMormonism out of love and who was so harassed, manipulated and deceived, but I can remember what that love I had for you then felt like. And that small memory of something that has been so erased by what I’ve witnessed from you since wonders if you even have an opportunity to come clean and make things right so that more people don’t get hurt.

After I have that thought, I remind myself that you’re not likely capable and that I’m projecting what I know about being a good person onto you and that the part of me who cared about you then wishes for something better for you than who you really are and where your actions have taken you.

And it all makes me sad. I’m sad for you. And then I remind myself that you don’t deserve my grief or my compassion. You are the one who has taken these actions. There is no history of you that can legitimately ignore them.

-Rosebud

[Rosebud]

Also, don’t waste any time, energy or donor money…. what’s documented is not subpoena-able.

[Imwashingmypirate]

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[Rosebud]

Remember the days when exMormon the men were all crowding around McKenna Denson, pretending to be knights in white armor? Until they weren’t.

And now we begin to see what’s more real… the way it really works.

What I love is watching true heroes get born. Enough of all this fake stuff. I admire real courage that comes from deep within and that can’t be erased by men wearing old fashioned metal.

Looking forward to the next podcasts!

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If I recall, her story had some untruths and omissions in it.

Kind of similar story with a certain other woman…

[Rivendale]

If I recall, her story had some untruths and omissions in it.

Kind of similar story with a certain other woman…

Yea, her OJ drano story was as believable as OJ's. And in real life OJ got away with it.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Remember the days when exMormon the men were all crowding around McKenna Denson, pretending to be knights in white armor?

Who? Specifically.

- Doc