Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an intergral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on it's evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Depends. Perhaps the point is to look for the right question.
Any answer to an unquestioning mind is useless.
Perhaps the point is to start at the beginning, instead of making up answers and then trying to find questions that would suit them.
Any answer without substance isn't an answer
You seem unhappy or dissatisfied. What are you after? Do you want the question to which this is the answer? I can help, but frankly I'm concerned about your attitude.
Well, hang on. I'm the one who wrote and posted this. That means that I had a purpose (point) for doing so. If you wish you superimpose YOUR purpose and point on MY work, well, that's not going to work.
You asked, "what is this?" I'm happy to explore the topic, but if you only want things on your own terms, it's going to be pretty tough.
Cheers.
Yes modeler is a very angry person. I had to look up so many things for him the past couple days because "he couldn't find them on his own".. then he will continue bad mouthing you haha. He finds faults in everything but the vaccine apparently.
Yes, clearly a sourpuss. Just went out of his way to try to bring me down with a (foolish) insult. I'm sorry I spent the time I did on him, but one lives and learns. Some folks just live in a toxic soup.
I'm in a hotel room currently, just finished some pork belly and veggies, and it's been a gorgeous gorgeous day. Right now all I'm after is a nice teeth brush and a roll into these covers as I crank the AC, and that's on the docket in the next 10 minutes.
I don't think you know the question to which this is the answer, because I don't think it's an answer. I think it's a nice thing you wrote, but mostly meaningless and at times deliberately vague (not unlike your standard horoscope).
I think your purpose was to get people to pay attention to you, which is fine and all, but you're pretending you're saying something monumental or important, when it's largely just platitudes with some creative little <flair> thrown in just to make it look fun.
Obviously, Answer of the Day is a play on Rooftops' "Question of the Day" series.
I don't know that I'm "pretending you're saying something monumental or important". I'm a writer, and for this particular contribution, I chose a style that could appear to be pretending, given the tone, but its not. Is it monumental? no. Is it important? Well, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
There are many points and a larger theme here that I hope stimulates the reader to think about certain things. I'd be surprised if someone didn't recognize the obvious motif: "the map is not the territory", a concept that is, in my opinion, actually very important. (If you are not familiar with this, you might look it up.) So, while the writing itself may not be important, some of the ideas are (again, my opinion).
Other ideas, like the concept of a destination correlating with purpose, and reflections on purpose in terms of what our purpose is, etc, well, in my thinking, they are certainly meaningful. Too bad that you found no meaning.
As for vagueness, that is specifically employed as a tool to stimulate a specific frame of mind that triggers the imagination, the imagination being the doorway to creative thinking and expansion of the mind. But it doesn't work for everyone.
The <flair> as you put it, is a means to highlight specific ideas or elements in the overall framework. Like pieces of a puzzle, or parts of a machine, it's how those elements work together to create the larger whole picture - that is the focus of the write up.
Happily, some of the readers appear to have gained something, or be stimulated to some worthwhile thoughts by the small essay, and that really is the point.
What is it? Yes, obviously, it's not an answer to a specific question, but rather, a an essay of sorts designed to inspire and stimulate. As far as that goes, I'm pretty happy with it.
I hope you enjoy your stay in the hotel room.