Recovering JWs Mailbox

Recovering JWs Mailbox

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From N in Australia just saying hello and showing appreciation for your website, especially the section for ex-jw’s. i am an eighteen-year old female from australia and have not been to a meeting for a couple of years, since my mother got disfellowshipped. i was hurt and disgusted by the way these ‘christians’, whom i had grown up believing were the best and only friends i would ever have, treated this beautiful, good-hearted, hardworking woman who continually gave everything she…

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May She Be the New Jesus (so to speak)

May She Be the New Jesus (so to speak)

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I have something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban on late-term abortions, whether or not the pregnancy endangers the woman’s life. I’m a pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility, and I cannot be silent. I cannot pretend that I don’t understand the next step in this game. If you stop for a moment to think about it, what will be required next is blindingly obvious. A dead woman. All you vultures will sit…

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Aeschlyus VirusHead

Aeschlyus VirusHead

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Evidently there is a new movie on the horizon called “The Golden Compass.” At the movie site, they are offering to ask you a few questions to establish your Daemon personality match. My daemonic match is “Aeschylus” the butterfly: Modest, a leader, sociable, shy and fickle. Since my daemon is for some reason supposed to be the opposite gender, it is male (do they have it confused with anima/us? or perhaps a familiar? a totem?) I don’t think of Aeschylus…

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Thinking Blogger Award for VirusHead

Thinking Blogger Award for VirusHead

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I’ve been selected for the Thinking Blogger Award! Jolly Roger at Reconstitution was kind enough to name me as a Thinking Blogger. VirusHead – Heidi is a recovered Jehova’s Witness and first rate progressive thinker. She covers everything from warm and personal to wretched and Presidential. Thank you, JR! You’d have been on my picks, too, but I suppose that tagging you right back wouldn’t be in the spirit of the thing. The Thinking Blogger award is actually a meme,…

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Geeking Out

Geeking Out

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Here at VirusHead, I have a different host than at work. If any of you use WordPress at Yahoo Small Business, this post will interest you. If not – really – skip it. I had to spend almost two days addressing the problems of upgrading WordPress at Yahoo Small Business hosting. Even now, I can’t really update any of the plugins that came with the Yahoo installation because of some funky permissions thing they do. The first time I tried…

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