Thank you lionspaaw, leigha, smilinize and Eagle Heart for your love and acceptance of all the women here. Dotsie's vision has always been one of love and inclusion, not cliques and exclusion.

For anyone who is unclear on the difference between sharing and proselytizing:

SHARING is when new member SuziQ says she believes the path to salvation and nirvana is to stand on your head all day and eat ketchup. While few of us may follow her spiritual leanings, we accept that it has meaning for her, and we respect her belief system whether it's ours or not.

PROSELYTIZING is if SuziQ says we all must stand on our head and eat ketchup or we'll be damned to eternal hell (which for me would be standing on my head all day and eating ketchup )

PROSELYTIZING is also if SuziQ tells JaneDoeQ that she has the religion wrong, because JaneDoeQ eats her ketchup with a spoon and SuziQ uses a straw. To "prove" all her points, SuziQ quotes passages from the Divine Book of Standing On Your Head and Eating Ketchup.

Sharing is good; proselytizing is bad. Sharing says "This is what I believe"; proselytizing says, "This is what you should believe (or else!)" Almost everyone in this Forum understands the difference. We are here for each other in love and acceptance, not because we parrot an identical belief system, but because WE ARE HERE, all of us women trying to make our lives and the world a better place, all of us sisters in the process of BECOMING.