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
Darwin was as paid to write that fraudulent trash.
Ideas evolve, people adapt, adaptation to an enviroment or a culture ( conversion to Christianity), causes an evolution of consciousness, reflected in a different culture and way of life, which in turn, changes the enviroment for the next generation, and things like metallurgy, tool making, crude engineering, take place. Adapting to the ice age, gave a jump start to tool and weapon creating, for hunting. This did not happen with the apes, and it did not happen with us until it had to, adaptation, social groups formed around need, that is evolution. Growing more hair or increase in brain size due to eating animal protein is not evolution. Birds develop color patterns for mating and camouflage is an adaptation. We were created in a garden, the food was there for us, without killing animals, there was food for animals too, without killing. We were defiant with our Creator, we lost the garden through his wrath. We were not monkeys in the garden, but there were probably monkeys in the garden. God caused the ice age, but in his mercy, what we had to eat also evolved us, due to our brains growing smarter. No need for that when the earth warmed again, so Esau's birthright was handed over to Jacob, agriculture and animal husbandry, both meat and grain. We evolved into a smarter man, and as out consciousness expanded with this bigger brain, mono theism returned us to God, our Father. Reducing us to apes, in Darwins theory, kept the elite in control of the wealth, because something had to stop Gods plan for us to return to the holy life he wants us to live. All evolution of consciousness returns us to HIM, all denial of HIM, returns us to a crude dog eat dog world of war and greed and resource guarding. We lost the ability to adapt freely, once the system imprisoned us. God will free us, but we must also force ourselves to adapt to what it will be like when HE destroys the system, it will be like the iceage when it all comes tumbling down , the shock will be the same. That, to me, is the awakening.