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 integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its 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
It's the delivery, as I said, for the one person who offers the truth to someone, there are 5 others who will tell that person reasons to not believe it or not, or to "turn off all toxic stuff and just don't discuss it". Fear makes people fight or flee, it's in our bodies. And some of the delivery is just too over the top, for the first time. It is horrible, there are humans who have gotten to power doing horrible things that an animal would not, they are the race of Cain, the elite. I don't think they are the same as normal people, it is diabolical at the source. It is also true that God created a beautiful world for us to live in. Someone spending their day staring at atrocities and then needing to tell others, out of their own need to right it, to rescue people, to try and organize to fight it, is a hero and an ally of Jesus. So we must balance it, talk about how goodness is so precious, awaken people to all the beautiful things God has made for us to live in, and then, slowly build a need to protect that, and to ask the questions of why it is like that. There are an equal amount of horrible things to show them. To take on a demon, you have to be morally clear, vigilant in prayer, and bathed daily in the Glory of God , which is right there for us to see, feel, hear, and nourish ourselves with. I don't think you can do that if so much time is spent in a negative state of mind. It's like eating vomit, to me. For example, raising my son, I waited for him to start asking, around 7 or 8, why bad things happen, he was only 3 when 911 happened. Slowly he was influenced. He was also raised and baptized and God is present in this house, through teaching etc, beauty and nature and all things created he is aware of, he KNOWS it's worth fighting for he KNOWS that people in power all over the world are 90% corrupted. He is in a group of friends who hunt predators on line, globally, internationally, researching. following the money and the corporations. If people don't have goodness to fight for, they will fight just for the joy of it, that's when the Devil steps in. It's a form of Lust and Wrath, sins. By using the same tactics, we all go full circle, not upwards and out of the spiral. Ascend.
This is the history of the world and yet so many refuse to believes it. Only way for them to udnerstand it fully, from the depth of their hearts so that their generations will never forget it - is by watching them take us to the precipice.
You never gave a practical answer to this, and as long as you dont have an answer all the hand wringing is not gonna help.