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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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
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
Senator Henry Clay anecdote: “Government is a trust, and the officers of government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people”. May 16, 1829 speech he gave in Lexington, Kentucky.____ quote on page 400, and full speech begins page 399, Nile’s Weekly Register, Volume 36 https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=2MPsVx_KGwMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=Government%20is%20a%20trust&f=false
Watching Trump address the Libertarian National Convention right now. So much pro-Trump energy! This is awesome. He says on day 1 he will commute the sentence for Ross Ulbricht, the guy who ran Silk Road. Never heard of him before.
I’ve heard the name but can’t remember any details about him. Time for a mind refresh I guess. 🥴
❓Question of the Day❓
If you could back in time, what period of history would you go back to and why? What would you like to do there?
(Many of you know that my mom has an account here, but she doesn’t have her password. The above is her question of the day. u/basedpedegrandma)
Hmm, that’s a hard one. I believe I would go back to 1986 when I got married. Don’t get me wrong I adore my children, but I would’ve insisted that we wait a little longer before marrying. Even though I loved him with all my heart, I knew he was not the one God had for me. I did it anyway, and after a few years things started to come to surface that I just wasn’t aware of.
I would go back to a time when I sold my condo and moved into a house. It was a huge mistake. I should’ve stayed at the condo, and lived across the street from the church, and had my relationship grow in Christ. However, I chose the house, in the end it was a big mistake, and I fell away from the Lord. I think that was around 2000.
Other than that, I have no desire to go back to anytime in my life, or before that. I like having air conditioning, and the comforts in life.
My only desire is to have been a better Christian example to my daughter, so she wouldn’t be a leftist.
I'd go back to the early '80s and hang out at game arcades. Go see some concerts for my favorite bands I was too young at the time to appreciate.
Yeah, I'm a nerd like that.
What is your kind yet truthful, concise, thought-inducing answer to someone asking "why are so many people dying?" Keep in mind that one of her children got jabbed.
Happy Saturday!!
Psalm 31
In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord, my faithful God.
SInging and worshipping God cannot be used as a political act. That's like saying I will stop kissing my husband until Trump is back in the office. God or love cannot be used as pawn? or leverage? Idk.. Holy Spirit is pleased when we sing and worship and speak in tongue, it builds our faith.
Exodus 14:14 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
Happy to hear that. I understand her conviction, however, she should never stop singing praises to the Lord. Also… I’m sure you enjoy her voice. It’s probably beautiful. Nothing wrong with bringing joy to your husband.
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it’s not a matter of could I…, I think it’s would I… But I don’t feel led by the Lord to give up music. So the answer would be no. Worship music is a huge part of my life helps me with my mental health and dealing with life as we know it. So absolutely not for me.
GOODWILL - Refuses to donate a pair of shoes to a homeless person, after being asked by a police officer!
https://youtu.be/c-uQislUXOQ
Navy Seal Jason Redman on how to approach Memorial Day
Memorial Day
nice, as a veteran i approve.
and Happy memorial day Grandpa, i wish i could have known you.
Very very disrespectful
https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/149589104168939520
😂😂😂 Thanks for the belly laugh
One of the greatest tweets in history kek
So, I have something you guys might get a chuckle out of. I will say NSFW because of the language (only because he says N__a a few times) and visuals, but - Southpark has done 100x worse lol. Theres some cartoon lady twerking, that kinda stuff.
It's from nearly 20 years ago... but if you replace magazines and sports pages with tiktok and etc its relevant as ever lol
(heads up: its a comedy rap song in the tune of a Lil Jon song, but its basically a PSA telling people to quit soaking up the garbage and READ A BOOK, READ A MF BOOK lmao
It's a good message though, I can't remember the last time I sat down and read a good book honestly.
anyway, if you wanna kill a few minutes and get a laugh, here ya go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8
Either way - god bless all of you and if today was a good day embrace that, if it wasnt just remember tomorrows a new one.
That video is a classic. Wow 16 years old. Can't believe it's been that long
The Bible is a good one to read daily. Am thankful for those that share their reads on GAW. 👍
speaking of books, has anyone read Guns of the South? When I was taking care of my grandpa he had a copy so I read it. It was an absolute movie in my head I could picture it all so vivid. The author also used alot of factual elements like locations and times and people etc. Basically it's about "what if a party outside of the nation time traveled to the civil war and supplied them with AKs"
that's probably the last great book I sat down and got sucked into.
Colossians 2:8-10
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Amen.
first - yes, actually. considering that i'm a previous moderator (evspra), i'm quite confident in my recollection of how heavily upvoted my threads used to be
secondly - yes, obviously
third - i don't see an explanation in your comment, just passive-aggressiveness. is that why this place is dead now? superiority complexes left and right?
What ails you brother? You always show up at interesting times
Hey, I thought you started your own dotwin, I am sure you are getting thousands of updoots on it
nothing "ails" me, nor is there anything interesting about it. i'm constantly on tdw. i was just wondering how things are going here, and it seems to be a shell of it's former self.
anyways, not a single response as to what happened here activity-wise, and just more passive-aggressiveness. do you just not have an answer explaining as to why threads are struggling to reach 50 updoots nowadays?
It's like boot camp. You have a larger number at first but then people fall off. Personally I think we are stronger then ever. Numbers Arent everything imo. Over time this place will grow
Oh and good to see you evspra. Hope all is well
nice to see you as well. i'm amazed that you're still doing daily prayer threads. it's been like 3+ years at this point. what an incredible level of devotion
Thanks for the kind words fren. It's a blessing to do them. I care about this place and am just wanting to play whatever role God wills. Appreciate you for helping start it all those years ago :)
We are as active as ever. You can simply click on the front page to realise you can't even make up a good lie.
You are now coming here boasting like Biden and using words like "passive-aggressive" when we gently point out your lies.
Srsly dude, at least I used to be able to have a good banter with you when you show up every time we exterminated some sleeper shills, what happened to you?
the standard for "active as ever" has significantly dropped, unless you're telling me to not believe my own eyes. we didn't even need to sticky threads for them to see 400+ upvotes, but now the stickied threads can't even seem to reach that, not even monthly top posts.
what lie is that, exactly? https://greatawakening.win/top?sort=all
you can see for yourself how "active as ever", this place used to be.
are you accusing me of "boasting" for asking why threads are no longer as upvoted as they used to be?
as for the banter comment, i genuinely have no idea as to who you are. i dropped by to see old man c5, not some new mod.
"exterminated some sleeper shills", i hope you also play gigachad music in the background while you stomp them down. you're so alpha, idk how you do it
"boasting" is when you claim your shitposts would get 1000+ upvoted after you deleted your account and made sure there was no trace of it.
lol, talk about "passive aggressive", but nah the point is not about how we exterminate them, but how you show up every time we do it.
I can only talk about since I became a mod.
You already dropped him a note in the modmail, you can wait there while he responds.