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
Kek. It’s hilarious that one of God Most High’s diciples goes by the name penisse. He probably gets a chuckle from it too!
That nickname allows me to disciminate the pedantic from the easy going, it’s also based on Marcel Pagnol’s Panisse, a funny rich guy from Marseilles in his « Marius, Fanny, César » trilogy.
Thanks a lot for the « Most High », but I am just in the beginning of sorting my Faith out and I wouldn’t dare debate it too much at the moment, let’s say that the minute I was reprimanded for considering most of the New Testament to be highly significant but symbolically, my local Catholic Priest almost called me an heretic.
I am still not accepting that what we share during the mess is a piece of bread physically turned into Lord Jesus’ flesh. Jesus told it was and it was symbolic: nobody tasted His flesh and blood during the last supper.
Also, feeding a crowd of thousands with 5 loaves of bread… that’s symbolic: the bread actually is the Word, the hunger is the Faith. When you address people craving a Faith with the right and Holy words, you can then feed the crowd abundently.
It’s an allegory, but with magnificent symbolism: the life we have is actually purgatory, our temptations are here to test our virtues. I am slowly dressing up a philo-mathematical-logical map on what actually lays behind all this, it is based on what I believe to be true. Only Love is, and Love is the essence of God.🙏🏻🔥