Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw Jerry

Someone Calling Themselves JANE SMITH Just Left Me This Comment Below.. (see my response to Jane below her post)
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I just found your blog &find it amusing that a ex-Hoooooooterite would dedicate all his spare time in creating and maintaining a website about Hutterites. Not to mention the blog and uTube video's you already put out. So your reason for leaving was...?

What bothers me is the way you...an EX (keyword: ex) Hutterite go about throwing such phrases as "my blog is the offical Hutterite website" around. Before daring to throw that little bit of information around, please thread cautiously. Think carefully of the 2000+ people you are about to portray: I've googled "hutterites" many times,and came up with sorts of trash. Whatever u do, please don't allow your website to be biased on one of the 3 groups of hutterites, or to degrade anything or anyone as most of these sites did.

By far, the most unbiased, informative and educated site was www.hutterites.org. Very professionally made. I heard that with the elders blessing, it is the official hutterite website.
Which brings up my final question: instead of just attempting to set up your own little website, Why don't u join up with the the crew behind the hutterites.org website?

I was on there recently and saw this whole new category under hutteritehistory. Very impressive. It shows that the '.org' website is continuesly under production.

take care,
Jane Smith

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Jerry Wipf said...

Thanks for your comment.

It does not matter to me what anyone thinks about my blog, my videos, my website, I am not out to win a contest. I am out to share my knowledge with those looking for it.

I am not portraying anyone in a negative light and will never betray my culture. I am proud of how I was raised otherwise I would not write about it..The Hutterites are my family and they always will be.

As far as me calling this the official Hutterite Blog.. It is about the interaction, the experience of being able to ask a person who grew up as a Hutterite questions about his culture. Anyone can appreciate that. Anyway I used to think so. It is viewers' questions and readers insight that will make this official.

I am here to help people better understand my unique culture.

I am simply expressing myself with this blog..it is my god-given right..I live in a free country. I am not hurting anyone, I am simply trying to educate others about Hutterites.

Every time someone hears that I am a Hutterite, I spend 15 minutes explaining just what a Hutterite is.. so I decided to build a site from my point of view and that is exactly what I did.

The Hutterites from Canada who set up Hutterites.org did an excellent job and I appreciate their site. I send people over there all the time. It is very informative.

I am not "dedicating all my spare time in creating and maintaining a website about Hutterites" as you put it.. It takes about 1 hour a week to work on this little project. Hardly a full time, spare time, deal.. lol

I am helping educate others and you can take it however you want.. my friend.

As far as these other sites out there that you say you found.. excluding Huttererites.org they are merely people who hate and discriminate against Hutterites. It's tough to be different in today's world and no Hutterites are not perfect. But show me a culture that is and I will send you one million dollars.

I know I will get a lot of heat from people over this project. You basically just proved that.

NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO DENY ME MY VOICE. I AM A HUTTERITE THAT CHOSE TO LEAVE and Even though I call myself an Ex-Hutterite anyone with half a brain in their head knows that I am not denying my culture. I do not practice the Religion and that is what makes me an Ex-Hutterite. It's kinda like someone who does not practice their marriage any longer they become an ex-spouse. Get It. Pretty Simple Logic.

Peace "Jane Smith" Peace and thanks for your advice.

Jerry Wipf