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The 4th of July "Independence" Day Celebration - From MY View
I need to rant about this...because it still pisses me off. Everything genuine in this world is substituted by proxy. Everything that's supposed to be genuine, authentic and bonafide, is substituted for some diet coke bullshit that we're just supposed to accept as the real McCoy - while we Forrest Gump our way through this world half asleep and hypnotised by whatever facet of the gajillion number of distractions we most gravitate towards. Endless culdesacs of circle jerking at every turn - whether you're genuinely, and heartily, pursuing the ultimate destination of your immortal soul through religion or some other path - desperate to find answers - only to seduce you into believing you "finally figured it out!" - only to find yourself back on the trail after you realize you've been fooled (again) - but NEXT TIME it'll be different, fueled by the notion that you're now much wiser and like Bush Jr said, "Fool me twice...You can't get fooled again!". Yeah...right.
So there you are, working hard, playing the proverbial game - getting taxed to shit on this here tax farm - to the rhythm of 5 days a slave, 2 days a drunk (or whatever flavor of "excape" you prefer) - and in cyclical fashion another forced day off - holiday aka Holy Day - is here and that's the time when you do what's expected of you. You force yourself to celebrate whatever the hell you're supposed to, wearing some outfit you probaby aren't comfortable wearing, eating and doing shit you don't even want, but you put that good face on and do it anyway...until you can turn your back, finally get in your car and GTFOO there and back to doing whatever REALLY wanted to do all day, which is probably putting your face so far into your "matrix" screen that your consciousness gets completely sucked into another dimension like the Stargate "chappa'ai". Ah...sweet escape. How many are just on "cruise control" with their hands barely on the wheel, just rolling along - going with the program, completely unconscious?
And that brings me to the 4th of July - Living here in the "land of the free" - Oh yeah? Free you say? Where? Ain't NOTHIN' here "free" son. From cradle to grave - all your ass are belong to them. No freedom. In ANY context whatsoever. I'd say the only ones that are actually free are wild animals. That's it. Everyone else and everything else is completely under some authority - farmed, controlled, governed - gotta govern that mente - can't have humans just running about all willy-nilly doing whatever they want! It'd be absolute chaos! (Bullshit) - But where is this so called "freedom" and "independence" we are supposed to be celebrating? WHERE IS IT? "Oh, well we're celebrating our independence from Britain, everybody knows THAT!" - Oh really? So we've been perpetuating celebrating this alleged "independence" from Britain for nearly 250 years - BUT if we dig a little, we can clearly see that we've been living in the corporation of the united states since 1871 - AND there have been other things before and after that, pointing to the fact that we aren't ANY kind of "free". You're either FREE or you're NOT FREE. It's like being a little pregnant. You are or aren't. Period. (No pun intended)
So here I find myself...4th of July approaching quickly. It's a holiday in the country where retards on 2 acres butting up to farms set off football stadium sized fireworks that are illegal in the state (even with pyrotech license) - and they have a 6' cross on their front lawn they drape with purple or some shit around easter to use as a shield to ward off anyone thinking that they aren't a "good Christian" like a virtue signalling fucking shield, that somehow gives them permission to do whatever they want, like get drunk and carry on like assholes DEEP into the night...explosions causing the livestock in the surrounding farms to stampede - damaging both the animals and structures they're in and terrorizing countless domestic animals with massive explosions - clearly experiencing confusion and PTSD - to the point where you have to DRUG YOUR DOGS to calm them down as they lay across your throat with the TV cranked way up as a distraction in absolute fear. You get up wiht the sun to feed the animals in the morning, BTW... Meanwhile - this time of year there's usually some kind of drought, with the fields dry and ready to go up. It's been so bad that if you make hay and ted it - watch the tedder doesn't catch a rock and spark - it'll make that field go up in minutes...So - while you're TRYING to comfort hysterical pets, you have to keep an eye out on the back 40 because the wind is blowing from the 2 acre jerkoff's house and the flaming trash that wrapped up the literal rockets are landing in the crispy dry fields...Can't call the cops because they aren't going to do anything...it's 4th of July after all. It's your patriotic DUTY to nearly blow your fingers off and potentially start a forest fire. YOUR FUCKING DUTY!
So for me, from my perspective - until we TRULY are free from both a devolution and tax burden standpoint and mature enough to open carry, should I need to, or choose to, like a "grown ass adult" - you can stick your diet coke "independence day" celebration directly up your ass - along with your fuse lit "I'm a second grader" fireworks. It's all bullshit. It's DUMB. It's all fucking dumb. Yeah we got a HUGE break with the Chevron Deference getting nuked, but we've got WAY further to go.
So I'm sure there'll only be a handful of people that actually get what I am saying here...but so be it. Just know that not all of us are going to be waving a flag patting each other on the back for living in the "greatest country in the history of the world" and "home of the free and the brave" - Some of us see the lameness of it all and only wish we could TRULY celebrate TRUE independence from the banxsters and every other entity seen and unseen that have their claws in our pound of flesh.
I hear you and I share your feelings. A lot of things could be said about all holidays. There’s one about every month and I’m SICK of the consumeristic bullshit that comes along with it.
Thanks...yeah didn't even think about the consumer bs that goes along with it. Aren't halloween decorations out already? Or is it back to school sale time?
It's all very pretentious - and MANY of us have forgot we are pretending just to cling on to sanity in this insane world they've crafted.
Do you guys remember that we're pretending just to get on/along? Can you wake up and remember again?
Yeah, I hear ya about the idiots and the fireworks! I have the same problems. I’ve got pups that aren’t yet a year old that I’ll be up babysitting to make sure they’re ok. Fortunately we’ve had rain this year.