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Was idly thinking this evening about the internet, perhaps triggered by the disclosures about Facebook. Had the internet been around when many posters here became enmeshed with TWI - they would have checked it out first. Had the net been widely available when I got enmeshed - again, I'd've checked it out first. Today's potential victims, likely mostly young people, have great opportunity to check TWI out first. Maybe they went along to a couple of fellowships with their mates, but decided to check out the organization before they got more involved. Well, well! When I was (in my ignorance) planning to crawl back to TWI, I googled them and the first site up was - GreaseSpot Cafe! And so it still may be, for random people googling TWI, depending on how they phrase their enquiry. BUT, at least with Google, there's lots of other potential or similar sites listed, both after the main site and at the bottom of the first page. TWI's own boring, very static, site appears high in the list - closely followed by a few anti-TWI sites. We who have been here for a long time know how much GSC has helped us, and most of us remain so that we can help others too. What we can't know is how many people have encountered GSC, had a quick look, and zoomed off the other way. They've never been "helped" by having to de-tox here, because they never got "toxed" in the first place. Good for them, I say!

Just for the record - I’ve mentioned this before - the definition for “hard hitting” as often associated with tough journalists who do their job - is uncompromisingly direct and honest, especially in revealing unpalatable facts...so forgive me if I don’t consider your dodging and relentless promotion of a charlatan like wierwille as “hard hitting”...and honestly in my humble opinion that’s about as hard hitting as a wet noodle Especially when you often display a flair for distorting facts or simply re-imagining an “alternate truth or facts, or history” - revisionist style ! . and I find this odd too - when you said - “I've been at this a very long time, I was lucky to get a LOT of facts that none knew here, and I was sheltered from a lot of the BS of the Corps.” I tend to think the stories, incidents, facts as told by former corps, staff, WOWs, etc on Grease Spot are truly hard hitting - they reveal the dark underbelly of the charlatan ! so I’m not sure if that is the BS you’re talking about?

We all know John 10:10. Here's a slightly different version, from HCSB: Read something interesting today: - Joyce Meyer Here is where joy should come from: - International Standard Version, Psalm 43:4 - well worth a look at other versions I think I'm going to try thinking of things this way, for a little while, see what difference it makes. Does what I'm doing, seeing, being - enhance my joy? Or take away from it?

Modcat5, great post! However, I know a bit about Cancer, first hand. I wish Cancer didn't exsist, but unfortunately it does. For anyone undergoing Cancer, it can be a unpleasant, sometimes terrifying ordeal, with nasty side effects. I strongly encourage people diagnosed with it, to get competent medical help. I did, and 14 years later, I am still alive. Praise God, and the angels at the DCVAMC, who helped me through my ordeal.

The internet is the enemy of twi and those like twi. Grateful for GSC. That’s for sure.