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
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal
Tuesday Poem...Pat Mora - Ode to Teachers
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58830/ode-to-teachers
Bobby Darin “Beyond The Sea”
https://youtu.be/4T_7M-0lwds?si=y06pRRK4UvcjhmcI
Fighting Monarch - THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD...Below you can read about some of the technology that is used to attack targeted individuals with microwave harassment, neurostrike, and voice-to-skull.
https://fightingmonarch.com/2025/05/06/the-ordeal-of-gilbert-pinfold/
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https://babylonbee.com/news/democrat-leaders-offer-illegal-immigrants-1001-to-stay-in-us
Woman Terrified Of White Men Leaves Africa For Minnesota
https://babylonbee.com/news/woman-terrified-of-white-men-leaves-africa-for-minnesota
Corporal Klinger Finally Discharged From Army After Trans Military Ban
https://babylonbee.com/news/corporal-klinger-finally-discharged-from-army-after-trans-military-ban
Parents Distraught After Finding Soccer Ball Under Son’s Bed
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C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (May 6th)
"All the days of my appointed time will I wait." — Job 14:14
A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure to alarms. The bitter quassia cups of earth will give a relish to the new wine which sparkles in the golden bowls of glory. Our battered armour and scarred countenances will render more illustrious our victory above, when we are welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We should not have full fellowship with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn below, for He was baptized with a baptism of suffering among men, and we must be baptized with the same if we would share his kingdom. Fellowship with Christ is so honourable that the sorest sorrow is a light price by which to procure it. Another reason for our lingering here is for the good of others. We would not wish to enter heaven till our work is done, and it may be that we are yet ordained to minister light to souls benighted in the wilderness of sin. Our prolonged stay here is doubtless for God's glory. A tried saint, like a well-cut diamond, glitters much in the King's crown. Nothing reflects so much honour on a workman as a protracted and severe trial of his work, and its triumphant endurance of the ordeal without giving way in any part. We are God's workmanship, in whom He will be glorified by our afflictions. It is for the honour of Jesus that we endure the trial of our faith with sacred joy. Let each man surrender his own longings to the glory of Jesus, and feel, "If my lying in the dust would elevate my Lord by so much as an inch, let me still lie among the pots of earth. If to live on earth for ever would make my Lord more glorious, it should be my heaven to be shut out of heaven." Our time is fixed and settled by eternal decree. Let us not be anxious about it, but wait with patience till the gates of pearl shall open.