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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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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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
Why is it gender "dysphoria" when one thinks they are the opposite gender and want to take drastic measures like loping off body parts yet it is body "dysmorphia" when a person hates their body and wants to take drastic measures like weight loss pills, extreme dieting, and even trying to seek other medical ways to lose weight? BOTH (gender & body) deal with having a false sense of reality on what their own appearance truly is.
Dysphoria is a general dissatisfaction/uneasiness. (The opposite being euphoria) It does NOT require medical intervention as it is not detrimentally impacting the persons day to day life, not give them thoughts of suicide, etc.
Dysmorphia is an extreme obsession that SEVERELY impacts ones mental state, and requires professional treatment.
Those who
Its not "gender dysphoria" that is going on that is causing all these people to want to chemically & medically castrate themselves. Its GENDER DYSMORPHIA and I am sick of the medical community, the media, ect, trying to change how words are used/defined in order to conceal agendas.
Me too fren, and it requires hundreds of thousands (if not millions) to die needlessly, before the general public can wake up to this.
So they just shot down a third object over Canada, can we officially call this a "sky event"
Why did the US shoot it down rather than Canada's military?
Wondering if and when they will start banning balloons at kids parties....
Clown world be clown world.
I have a new neighbor that moved in across the street. Within the first two weeks they had removed two trees from the yard, and redid the whole grading. They also put up a flag pole next to the mailbox, and it’s an American flag with the name Trump on it. I told my mom… We have have an awesome new neighbor!
Here’s a list of other flags in our neighborhood
American flags - all up and down the street at least 10 of them
Trump 2024
Biden is not my president
All lives matter
Various American flag designs with the words of Jesus on them.
This is just one block that I live on. I’m so grateful.
When my daughter moved back from Europe, she’ll be staying at our house for a month while I’m in Hawaii. She’s a complete leftist, I think she may have a meltdown and get triggered from all the flags. Lol.!
Ahhh..... One can only dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrGldq3tYUA
American flag with an Ultra MAGA flag under it, hi on a flagpole at our place. The Let' Go Brandon flag wore out from heavy winds.
She will be ok, maybe she will convert 🤗. I have my Trump flag flying high. God bless America 🇺🇸
There was an update on the givesendgo page for the rancher in AZ, Mr Kelly, who shot the illegal on his property. Mr Kelly is holding up well and he has spoken with his wife. They are very grateful for all the support of prayers and money. So far, givesendgo is 227k and spotfund is 27k so over 250k. I would like to thank my frens here for helping a patriot in need. He has a hearing Wed for bail reduction.
I'm not medically trained. How do nurses know where to inject a shot so that it goes into the muscle. Is it untrained that are putting it into the bloodstream or harm seekers?
Nurses are trained in anatomy. Procedural injections are practiced on mannequins and supervised by experienced instructors before they provide injections on people.
However, they aren’t trained to question what is in the injection but only that they need to learn how to provide them “according to the PinkBook schedule”.
Spez to add link to the PinkBook: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/index.html
Someone shows them. Hopefully it is someone that was shown the right way when they were taught.
In the cv commercial featuring Martha Stewart, it just doesn't look like it's her. She hasn't been as visible as she used to be so maybe I just haven't seen her much. What do you think?
Second, are people now being told to see a Dr if they have a fever because it could be cv?
What do you think happens when the shots stop. Do you think it becomes the reverse iver. That people are so convinced that it works they order them secretly?
Where are the fauci files?
In the pfizer vax sword commercial? Martha did look like she had such an enormous amount of work done. A few years ago she had already looked extremely over plastic surgeried. Or maybe she was replaced... who knows. It seems part of the satanic agenda to turn people into almost grotesque caricatures.
Anger is not Persuasive, and Hate is not productive.
Disclaimer: feeling meditative this morning. Your comment here has inspired a few thoughts. Read on, if you dare. :p
Anger is an emotion and has an important function. All emotions have important functions, but when they leave the sphere of correct balance, they can become toxic.
A beautiful analogy is respiration within the body. Cells breaking down sugars in the presence of oxygen will produce energy and carbon dioxide. The body uses the energy and dispels the CO2 via the lungs. Cells breaking down sugars without oxygen enter into anaerobic respiration, which produces lactic acid, which accumulates in the cells and drags them down, eventually becoming toxic because it cannot be dispelled as effectively as CO2.
When our emotions function in the presence of love (their natural environment) in the heart, they produce clear and healthy results, but when they function in an absence of love, they produce toxic results which, if accumulated enough, can really mess things up.
This is one fundamental reason why love is so important. We are meant to be conceived in love, born in love, raised in love, and live in love. Originally, it should be perfect love. That's how we were designed and created.
But through tragedy, we lost our connection to perfect love. So we are conceived in less than complete love, born in less than complete love, and are raised and live in less than complete love. So, for each and every human, we struggle through the course of our lives with emotions that sometimes work properly, but at other times are out of kilter.
Even a faithful person who strives to be one with Christ is (not yet) born, conceived, raised or lives in complete love, because although the spirit can be reborn via Christ, the flesh is still under the dominion of the enemy. Which is why the Second Coming is necessary; the purpose of the second coming is to liberate the flesh from the dominion of Satan. This will be done when our lineages are physically reborn so that as parents, we can conceive, give born to, and raise our children fully in God's presence, because our flesh is no longer under the devil's claim. (Paul talks about the redemption of our bodies, etc, quite a bit).
When we, the descendants of fallen parents, are reborn in both spirit AND flesh, so that both are under God's true governance, then the life cycle for each new child will start on the right footing. The kingdom of God will then begin to emerge naturally in both in heaven AND on earth. (Up until now, we've only experienced the kingdom spiritually, not in the physical realm.)
As for hate, well, that too is an emotion, but there is 'hate' and there is 'hate. God utterly detests evil and abhors 'love' that has been twisted for evil purposes, but this will never prevent God from loving even his enemy. One might say that God 'hates' evil. But 'hate' out of kilter is irredeemable toxicity. So in that sense, that sort of "hate" is a dark shadow of the emotion that 'abhors evil, but still has the capacity to love'. "hate" in the toxic sense means the capacity to give love has been lost.
The 'hate' that one might experience towards evil is not actually the same as the 'hate' that evil has towards good. One of these still has access to God's love, the other, only dust and ashes.
In conclusion, we should always remember that what defines the value of our human experience is whether we are, and how much we are, plugged into the source of love, life and lineage: God and God's love.
Yeah, lol, I got it from a hippy dude. It sounded good. At the moment. Believe me, I am a Red Headed Woman, and I used to really get my point across - very loudly. Not anymore.. too stressful.
Arent we technically playing one now? Pay up ;)
Pinochle
I guess that would be my time to finally take on a completionist run of Persona 5 Royal. It has been sitting in my backlog forever
Okay, so I will fess up, I've played World of Warcraft for12 years, it is the only game I play except spider solitaire and chess, I guess I could easily play WOW for 2 weeks straight, I have one main and 12 alts, lots of leveling ahead of me.