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Any day that I have to leave the safety of my own little sanctuary castle that I live in.....is a bad day. It all begins when I get on the roads and have to drive alongside absolute morons when it comes to road safety, and then when I get to where I am going, I have to interact with the braindead employees in all assortments of the food or service industry, from doctors to restaurants to banking....you name it. Things seldom go as planned, and it is just one stressful situation after another. If you run into a hurdle in any of these places, you will hear 100 reasons why they can't help you, and zero solutions to your problem. It's absolutely ridiculous!

I was simply playing the odds. Germany has the largest population in the world that identify as Lutherans. Germany 11,440,694 out of a population of 84, 866,000. Actually, I was thinking of Norway, and I got it confused with Germany. Norway is 67% Lutheran. My bad!

No, I have lived in Thailand now for 15 years, and I spent the first 3 trying to assimilate into the culture and finally decided it was a waste of my time and energy. I cannot speak for the character of every Thai, but I can only tell you that on my path I have met only liars and scammers and never met a Thai man that proved himself worthy of my trust. In order for me to cope, I decided to put up walls to protect my heart, and my money, and I am very comfortable living in my own little world with just my Thai wife and her family. I'm as happy as I'm every going to get, and I'm at peace with that.

No, but she should gently be trying to share the Gospel of Christ with you so that you will submit your life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and then you two will be on the same page. Jesus warns us about yoking ourselves intimately with an unbeliever because he knows that there will always be a "push and pull" in the marriage relationship, and ultimately there will be days filled with conflict. If she's not doing that and she gets along fine with you, then she should be questioning her relationship with Christ. The world is full of people who identify as Christians, but they haven't a clue. It's as if they have just checked the Christian box on an employment application because they were certain that the other boxes didn't apply, and that was the only box that seemed to fit, but it really didn't. And by the way, you are disqualified from being the spiritual head of your household because you are not being let by The Holy Spirit but by the anti-Christ spirit of this world. If you are an atheist, then you are being led by the wisdom, knowledge and understanding that you get from the world instead of from Above, and you will never be able to attain the leadership role that God has purposed for you. My prayer for you is that one day the Holy Spirit will open your eyes so that you can see the Light and no longer walk in darkness.

Consider yourself fortunate that you don't have Thai male friends. If so, you would only be opening yourself up to trouble and grief. Loyalty and honesty are foreign words to them, generally speaking of course. The odds are not in your favor that anything good would come of such a relationship.

I suppose I wrongfully assumed that any upstanding German Lutheran would know the Holy Scriptures, so he should know better. Being the spiritual head of his household, he should never let his wife's Buddhist ideology usurp Christian principles, unless of course, he's not a Christian.

Matthew 6:1-4... Giving to the Needy: “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in Heaven. “So, when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. IN OTHER WORDS, MAKING MERIT FOR THE PRAISE OF MAN TO BE PUBLISHED ONLINE FOR ALL TO SEE PROFITS YOU NOTHING FROM ABOVE! A PAT ON THE BACK AND A FEW "AT A BOYS" IS ALL YOU WILL EVER RECEIVE!

If it weren't for us "southern bible thumping nutjobs" who are the apple of God's eye, NY would already have been destroyed. God's love for HIS PEOPLE is the only thing holding back the wrath of God on the US of A. If you have never received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, then you are NOT in the family of God, and your father is Satan.....forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth. John 3:36 says "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him".

When Thailand legalized same sex marriage, they opened up a can of worms that they will not be able to contain. It opened the way for every LGBTQ+ activist in the world to flood into Thailand and coach these mentally ill people into putting their cause into the spotlight and demanding every conceivable concession they can dream up. Parents had better keep a close eye on their children because the groomers are salivating over the idea of changing the social structure of this once conservative country for the worse and not the better.

How does this affect the shops that sell on the internet and ship direct to one's home? Will all of those be shut down? Will they require one to upload a copy of their doctor's certificate....... which is easily photo shopped? I also read yesterday that sellers are required to keep contact information for all purchasers and make that information available to the authorities if asked. I don't use, but it seems to me that would be a huge deterrent to keep customers away.

Just because you haven't experienced it, doesn't mean that dual pricing at hospitals doesn't exist. I was diagnosed with Leukemia in Sept 2023, and my first batch of meds cost me $25 per month for 90 days at the local government hospital. The next batch cost me $200 for the same meds, so I found my own supplier in Bangkok and got it for $20. I contested the charges and was told that farangs pay double if not more. An exotic blood test cost me 11,990 Baht and the sample was sent to a lab in Bangkok. When the same test was due after 6 months, I went to The Army Hospital and paid only 4,900 Baht for the same exact test using the same lab in Bangkok. Not only are the government hospitals ripping off farangs, but the private hospitals are much worse.

Yes, but only if the asset remains in your name after marriage and has never been shared jointly during your marriage. For example, even a bank account that was in your name remains your property after marriage so long as your wife never has access to those funds after marriage.

Frankly, I have never understood the "bring two photos" thing. In Udon Thani when one goes for an extension of stay, the officer takes all of the info on one's application form and transfers it to a form on their computer, then they take a photo of you and superimpose that on their computer-generated form. In my case, they took my photos off of my application form and threw them in the garbage. My theory is that they want to make sure that the person in the photo is the same as the one sitting in front of them, and since the photo in their passport may be as old as 10 years, the newer photo helps them to confirm that you are who you say you are in order to cut down on fraud. After all, some races say that members of other races all look the same anyway!

"The incident occurred near MBK Centre, where the traffic police allegedly did not establish a formal checkpoint. Instead, they acted upon spotting the passenger without a helmet, leading to a chase and subsequent fall"......... So, the real root of this problem is that the public actually believes that the only time that police can act on crime is when they are standing in the street at an established formal checkpoint. The fact that a policeman would give chase to an alleged lawbreaker outside of a formal checkpoint is totally foreign to them, so they just naturally assume that the policeman is at fault because he didn't follow the long-established norm for the way police do their job. It's time the boys in brown got off their lazy entitled butts and did their jobs wherever they see wrongdoing being committed and take a more aggressive approach to policing.

SM007, you stole my post. I was going to write the same word for word. When I grew up it was "finders keepers, losers weepers". If there were CCTV cameras nearby, then it would be obvious that the owners could be found, but if not, then nothing wrong with taking the money into your own apartment to safeguard it, and if nobody came forth to claim it, then leave town and have a happy life on a beach in the Med.