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
-
Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
-
Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
-
Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
-
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
-
Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
-
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)
-
If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
-
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
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
--
Passion week - Tuesday: Mark 11:20-33 https://www.bible.com/bible/59/MRK.11.ESV
Thanks, read this with the wife over coffee. 🙏
Thank you for this ❤️
John 12:21
21 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
William S. Burroughs
Monday Poem...Jessica Abughattas - Watching My Mother
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158012/watching-my-mother
The Corrs - Little Wing (Unplugged, 1999)
https://youtu.be/1pkbD33CnsE?si=-borMGFgXterb33Z
Our King Is Coming: Examining Jesus’ Second Triumphal Entry
https://harbingersdaily.com/our-king-is-coming-examining-the-second-triumphal-entry/
Remembering the great Mario Vargas Llosa -- RIP
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/remembering_the_great_mario_vargas_llosa_rip.html
A newly discovered Teotihuacan altar reminds us that our child sacrifice is worse than theirs was
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/a_newly_discovered_teotihuacan_altar_reminds_us_that_our_child_sacrifice_is_worse_than_theirs_was.html
“MIKA” —THE FRIENDLY TORTOISE
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/04/14/mika-the-friendly-tortoise/
Worst Of Babylon Bee
Gretchen Whitmer Sneaks Into White House Again
https://babylonbee.com/news/gretchen-whitmer-sneaks-into-white-house-again
Top 10 Hottest Hunks According To Taylor Lorenz
https://babylonbee.com/news/top-10-hottest-hunks-according-to-taylor-lorenz
Terrified Luigi Mangione Files Restraining Order Against Taylor Lorenz
https://babylonbee.com/news/luigi-mangione-files-for-restraining-order-on-this-crazy-chick-taylor-lorenz
Man Realizes Last 8 Months Of Career Could Have Been An Email
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-realizes-last-8-months-of-career-could-have-been-an-email
Man Sadly Informs Son After Watching 'Return Of The Jedi' That They Never Made Any More Star Wars Movies
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-sadly-informs-son-after-watching-return-of-the-jedi-that-they-never-made-any-more-star-wars-movies
I just want to wish you all a wonderful day! I come here to this board often and I feel much better just knowing that somewhere out there is a group of people just like me, who are waking up or who are already wide awake and are helping to bridge the gap for those who are still quite groggy. I fall somewhere between waking up and wide awake. I still have much to learn, but I am finding that at this point, anything is possible. Here's to a lovely day, frens!
I sent a DM to Cats a while back about the site copyright still stating 2024.
Just thinking it would be a better look if we got that updated to 2025.
Can any of you mods fix that?
u/catsfive u/parallax_crow u/Fatality u/Qanaut
C. H. Spurgeon's Morning Reading (April 15th)
"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" — Psalm 22:1
We here behold the Saviour in the depth of His sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which His cry rends the air-"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" At this moment physical weakness was united with acute mental torture from the shame and ignominy through which He had to pass; and to make His grief culminate with emphasis, He suffered spiritual agony surpassing all expression, resulting from the departure of His Father's presence. This was the black midnight of His horror; then it was that He descended the abyss of suffering. No man can enter into the full meaning of these words. Some of us think at times that we could cry, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" There are seasons when the brightness of our Father's smile is eclipsed by clouds and darkness; but let us remember that God never does really forsake us. It is only a seeming forsaking with us, but in Christ's case it was a real forsaking. We grieve at a little withdrawal of our Father's love; but the real turning away of God's face from His Son, who shall calculate how deep the agony which it caused Him?
In our case, our cry is often dictated by unbelief: in His case, it was the utterance of a dreadful fact, for God had really turned away from Him for a season. O thou poor, distressed soul, who once lived in the sunshine of God's face, but art now in darkness, remember that He has not really forsaken thee. God in the clouds is as much our God as when He shines forth in all the lustre of His grace; but since even the thought that He has forsaken us gives us agony, what must the woe of the Saviour have been when He exclaimed, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
Q Posts from this day across all years:
https://qalerts.app/?q=Apr+15,+2017|Apr+15,+2018|Apr+15,+2019|Apr+15,+2020|Apr+15,+2021|Apr+15,+2022&sortasc=1
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
I own a Gucci bag that I bought for over $3000 in my 20s when I was young and brainwashed. Today I found out from TikTok it probably only cost $100.. I don't care about brand names anymore. They don't mean anything to me.