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 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
That is exactly what I was getting at. Even drinking heavily and daily I was still me, loan friends money when they need, help my elderly neighbor rebuild his fence after a bad storm, let a coworker crash on my couch when there's trouble at home... so many people enabled my drinking or at least overlooked it because I'm a good person and a productive member of society. I have a problem with projection, I assume everyone is honest and moral.
Now that I don't drink I notice EVERYTHING and there really is some evil in people at places I hadn't expected to find it like AA. A lot are so busy stroking each other's egos for being sober that they choose not to see the demons in the room. At least an addict has the excuse of being too fucked up to notice the sins being committed or they've made but some of these people are full on working for the devil consciously.