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
We all start somewhere & if this is it, avoid the desire to firehose her with more. Those in my fam & wife's fam, who were beginning to wake up, got overloaded when too much came too fast.
They need to ask for more, or have a desire to learn more. Probing questions is best. Let them teach you what they know & then ask questions that lead them further on the path of truth that they need to find answers too.
Once I came along, the weird cousin/in-law in my wife's family had someone to talk to. The firehouse was directed at me, and since I was aware of the content they were discussing, it didn't blow me away. Though I was able to help keep that hose off others & interestingly the fam took more notice of the truths he dropped because it didn't come at them, but rather the information splatter they heard was now able to be processed better & then they could interrupt "our" conversation to ask questions. Luckily I had been blessed to have gone through his stage as a teen & was able to keep his eagerness focused on my "mistakes" (ie directed to speaking to me) when I explained things that I was also looking into.
Fire hose effect shuts down curiosity. Allowing those waking up to "be the expert" or educate you is a very effective tool.