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TWI screwed me over: they took (accepted)my money, part of my youth, degraded me and built in me a mis-trust for all non-traditional Christian evangelical organizations. I consider myself blessed or just plain lucky that I had a number of adult years under my belt when the twi exprience started. While in twi, it could have went super bad at any point, I almost applied for the WC but some debts preventeded me; never considered debts to be a blessing (sorry about that Uncle Harry). The twi blessing to my life was totally inadvertent and unintended by twi. I put me in the right places at the right times to push forward in life. Well, I could always thank the school bully who used to kick my foot for making me tougher and ....ed off enough to eventually take him down a few notches and thus, provide a sense of courage and capability. That's how I view twi; luckily: no long standing damage. Strangely, the bully stopped being a bully and we became friends but that never happended with twi. How can anyone not be empathetic to what twinky posted; twi makes folks more vulnerable in their lives (dependent) and then takes advantage of that vulnerability. (sorry, off topic and it's a thread I started).

Two things: 1) if you hate the internet, why are you on it? 2) the medium is inherently limited. It doesn't facilitate discussion, partly because it doesn't permit anyone to read non-verbal communication of the other parties to what otherwise could be a productive discussion. It's not about people being fundamentally bad. It's the limitations of the medium for communication.