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
Answer of the Day:
Seriously, we don't just come here for answers, do we.
I love the way that GAW brings a lot of news to the fore, but I wish there was a heavier emphasis on analysis and deciphering of the "news". We get some really good content but not enough, imo. I sort of wonder how many of our new, incoming anons from the last 2 - 3 years really work the information, instead of just reacting, accepting or responding to it.
On that note, I really enjoyed reading some of the comments by u/sleepydude under his post about DeSantis. Really good stuff. Balanced, applied logic, and (seemed to me) relatively free from emotional biases (which is what I tend to see too much of around GAW these days - could be my focus that does that....).
Anyway, check it out. I like the way this anon's brain works.
https://greatawakening.win/p/16aA4PcFAe/x/c/4Tq14ieABii
By what I've seen, very few users do this in general. You see this a lot with people posting article headlines that say something very different from the content. A lot of people here are terrible at doing their own research, and will accept fragments of information to form opinions on huge issues
I feel you. I consider myself a new anon. Definitely not a digger. More a corelator. Glue guy, soaking up as much of others' analysis as possible and trying to big picture it. The analysis of news has been "less" lately. I think overall burn out is definitely a factor, but on the plus side there's a LOT more habbenings to keep up with. I try to reconcile it with "this is for the normies", because I feel like if we as a community are struggling to keep up with everything, the normies are absolutely being forced to hide deeper and deeper in what little comfortable fantasy remains for them.
Feels like soon. 2024 with the inevitable DeSantis push is going to be very interesting. And hopefully, the true beginning of the end.
I suspect burnout is a factor. I don't have the same vigour with a lot of stories/narratives that pop up these days (but I do have a lot of long-distance stamina, and am pretty comfy as things come and go. The narrative acts, like balloons, well, I just ignore them now and wait and watch the outcomes.)
Also, good point: lots of habbenings.
We do have some really great emergings, tho. For example, I guess Just Human and Burning Bright are sort of new anons (I think, at least, BB is) but their working of the info sphere is absolutely top notch, imo.