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
For me, living in Japan and separating myself from American society and media gave me an opportunity to think critically. it was in 2013 when an Australian friend of mine challenged me to find footage of a plane hitting the Pentagon. It is the most highly-guarded building in the USA, so surely there must be a ton of cameras pointed at it, right? All I could find is a low-framerate video feed showing a small streak and then an explosion. Not big enough to be an actual plane. And after the explosion, there was no burning hulk of a plane with its tail sticking out of the building. The plane just vanished somehow. Bullcrap. The laughing Sandy Hook “father” was my first big wake up call to make me realize that we are being lied to, then the Pentagon and Building 7 thing is what really cemented the whole “conspiracy theorist” into my personality. I’m not really a “conspiracy theorist.” I just don’t appreciate being lied to, so I do my own research.
If I could only track down those Truthers I had argued with on YouTube and such and tell them "you were right," I'd feel better. But they planted the seeds in my mind to question everything.
Now you are a conspiracy Analyst !!!