Allan

ummm...does it say it's copyrighted ? I thought it's sub heading is quoted as the authors opinion !! btw, you realize your frog avatar is copyrighted ! Darn, this Glenfiddich is yummy

@Johniam...too funny bro ! @Rocky...I wouldn't have thought anyone would look at this article as satire, rules for life, someone's personal experience, a health food alternative, medical opinion, but rather as simply something that someone can read and think "hey, that's me, what a good idea, or, "interesting, I might try that, see if it works" ?! Kind of like Fox news runs an article on a squirrel that attacks a dog, or a jellybean falls from a plane and lands in someone's drink....do you really neeedddd the link and/or acknowledgement on EVERYTHING ??!! So, the person that originally penned the article is an obscure journalist from an obscure country...does this add or detract anything from the article ? This is called Greasespot 'Café', it's not an accredited centre of learning for God's sake !!

Good night lol...you guys still havn a heatwave ? We're in for our coldest week in 15 years !! This global warming thing just might be for real...or not

Really ? I tried the link thing earlier, that's why there's a 'blank' post below it. Seriously, you prefer a link or source for EVERYTHING ?! Why not just enjoy an article for it's little bit of wisdom or humour that it may bring ?! The title ( ironically enough is PERFECTIONISM ) and it is from an article in the New Zealand ( yes, it's a country, not an obscure U.S. state )Herald, by a columnist. I can get back to you with her name, however I seem to recall she is of Asian ethnicity, around 5' 3, quite pretty !!

Hands up if you are a bit of a perfectionist? Thought so. Hands up if you also feel overwhelmed quite a lot. Uh-huh. Stressed out? Check. Here's the thing about perfectionism. We wear it like a badge of honour. Like it's a thing that's bad about us, but is actually - secretly - good. It's the stock answer to the classic interview "What are your greatest weaknesses?" question. "I'm a bit of a perfectionist!" pretty much every candidate will trill triumphantly. It's the traditional negative turned into a positive response, so common in fact that I wonder how many people who say it are indeed perfectionists? Maybe it's just the perfect answer to that question? Perfectionism - the perfect double-edged sword. It can be a useful quality, no doubt about that. If I am having surgery I definitely want that surgeon to exercise her perfectionist qualities at that moment, yessiree. High risk. High stakes. Great time to pull out the perfectionist tendency. Do it. Making a regular weeknight dinner? Not so necessary. Low stakes, medium to low reward. Good enough here is - well - perfectly good enough. This is the key when dealing with your own perfectionism: exercising the lost art of discernment. Treating perfectionism like a special sauce and being discerning about when you apply it. It doesn't have to be like the kid going through the phase where they put tomato ketchup on everything. There are some things you just don't need to put ketchup on, and they have not yet figured out how to be discerning. Perfectionism - think of it like mental ketchup. The perfect complement to some life situations, and a completely unnecessary addition to others. Look at the risk and reward, then discern how much of your perfectionist special sauce needs applying. Don't assume you need to apply it liberally to everything by default. Sometimes good enough really is good enough. Applying perfectionism as your modus operandi, blanket strategy across all situations presented to you in life, is one of the fastest routes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, irritable and burned-out. It's like a one-way ticket to Overwhelmsville. And it's very little fun to live there. Sure, it's perfectly neat and organised, but it's not very fun, and the To Do list is never-ending. Much of the time "Done" really is better than "Perfect". As a general rule the world doesn't reward perfectionists - it rewards people who get stuff done. Most of the time, Done will trump Perfect. That way you fast-track out of overwhelm, get more done and still get to maximise that quality when it really counts. Save your perfect ketchup for the times it really counts.

m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid

My life changed for the better, considering where it quite likely would have ended up. I didn't cop too much flak whilst in, the flak from their religious toads came when I left lol. When I left, life improved even more, mentally, spiritually, financially, by about 500 percent.

The affairs going on between differn't married couples at family campus was enough for us to check out of the 'hotel'

Okaaayyyy....no violence in todays twi ? are you freakn serious ??!! I have 'relatives' still in who like to resort to violence and threats of violence...no sexual impropriety in todays twi ? again are you freakn serious ??!! I know people who are in leadership positions in twi TODAY who have been men whores on a regular basis...and yes I have 2, 3 more witnesses to this....wake the f up and smell the f'n coffee dwaynebrain

http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/4639/ian-wisharts-new-book-totalitaria-his-most-controversial-ever/

If not down the toilet, someones hand is certainly on the flush handle ! Everything from Halal certification on every product purchased in supermarkets to climate change not 'having' to be on every new piece of legislation ( a newspaper quote from New Zealands prime minister...yep, sadly scary.

To be honest that David Thorne dude sounds like a bit of a smug, conceited and what we call downunda a wank....a bit like me before I got born again lol

Pretty much all of the Australian and New Zealand ones have fallen by the wayside...so that's the southern hemisphere accounted/unaccounted for

To Bluzeman, I agree, climate change ( remember when it was called global warming) ? ( til there was a flurry of wintry conditions) IS political, hijacked by scientists and others and speaking of irony....will become religious...I 'believe' the united nations agenda 21 is on track as is their gaia religion...pretty soon it won't matter what any of us believe !! sweet sleeps peops could it possibly be true ?! "tell me what you think of Jesus and I'll tell you how far you'll go spiritually"

MWRAP...sorry but to me you come across as someone who joined ( very recently that is ) to seemingly appear genuine in concern, interest and need regarding ex-twi peops and to promote a life ( Christian or not ) outside of twi ? Yet I can't help wondering if you were just biding your time ( you could have waited a little longer :o )to convey your true 'mission'...to vilify the peops that post here ?? I'm just saying what I think and maybe some others. I'm not a forum mod, so I don't mind saying this...and hey, you and anyone else feel free to correct me if my hunch is wrong :) I've had my run-ins with Raf, WordWolf etc..but I try not to take it personally and just move on ( posting that is :)

Interesting that the book of Revelation written by John around...? contains references to past, present and future

glad to hear Hazel !! Our cat is a Bengal, he is huge, watched him the other night send a fox away with it's tail between it's legs lol

I still hold pretty much to majority of beliefs I was presented with. Why change what works ? ( for me )

Bit of a strrreettcchhh from cows being milked to nazi death camps doncha thunk ??

Exactly WS...now...it's 4 p.m. on a beautiful sunny sunday afternoon ( approx. 70 o ) down here in Australia; I figure it's early hours there, wachu doing up lol

exactly JJ ! Talk is good, just let people say what they want to say, how they want to say it...Let's not forget that the whole site is or was originally about us and 'them' (twi). Even tho I may totally be at loggerheads with Wordwolf and Raf over some things, I respect them for what they do and even more for what they've done especially the honesty to get out of twi. I think people like myself and for example St.George who post our thinking about the good WE believe twi did for us at the time should be respected as well. We're just being honest, not trying to trick anyone into thinking the same as us, just being honest...the way WE see it...Long live Greasespot

That's a good story/account trust and obey ! same for me and my spouse...entered the corps and saw many things that didn't 'add up' so to speak...the beginning of the end

I think cults and abuse ( of all sorts ) go hand in hand....the exception to this would be organizations like the catholics that are not a cult as such, yet has more than it's fair share of paedophilac abusers :wacko:

Thanks Raf, got ur p.m ...all gud

I intentionally gave a vague answer as I presumed we can post, reply, response in our own way we wished as long as it's not abusive ? A nice request from Raf would have gone a long way towards an even more detailed response but then with a lot of topics to me , they are no more than a passing perusal type of interest anyway and I'll respond to the degree I'm interested. I certainly cannot be bothered sitting down in front of the keyboard sweating over every grammatical point and whether I've got the tense, verbs, adjectives, inflections correct ! If I was interested in that type of thing I would myself enrol in a writing course or some such...but it doesn't INTEREST ME having said that I think you're all an awsum bunch