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Just now, bob smith said:

I know!

 

But thankfully Thailand will no longer...

 

bob.

So off to the next destination that will disappoint you. Just think.....maybe it's you that's setting yourself up for bad experiences.

19 hours ago, bob smith said:

what a shambles that Thai gym scene is!!

talk about a bunch of narcissistic prima donnas!

awful.

 

I have cancelled my membership and have been refunded in full.

Never doin that again!

 

Today I have also liquidated the last of my Thai assets.

bringing the grand total to 852,575USD.

 

My flights are now booked,

I am taking my money and running for the hills!

never to return to this place.

Thailand is about to get savage,

hope you all enjoy doin' your 90 day reports and jumpin' through immigration's hoops every year, oh and don't forget being treated like a common criminal just because you are a farang 😉 

that will all be a distant memory for me soon.

I have served my time, I think I deserve some kind of normality.

 

The grass is looking greener,

bob smith is just getting started!

 

regards,

bob.

 

 

Good bye and good luck. Remember, you can leave a place but not yourself, Bob will always be with you.

Just now, Hummin said:

Well sumed up! 

 

Our best advantage is to create and the worst is to destroy.

 

Unfortunate power corrupts and humans have great selfdestructive qualities and apathy.

 

Easy seen around among some expats, stuck in destructive life cycle pattern, while it should had been their best years retired in paradise.

 

 

 

 

Nothing is right or wrong, only thinking makes it so. Shakespeare

To understand all is to forgive all. Marie Antoinette

You are neither the body nor the mind...there is no body. Nisargadatta.

Ask only, who am I? if you receive an answer it will be wrong but it will show you what you are not (the neti neti statements, not this, not that) Ramana Maharshi

34 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I do not think you see the whole picture! What have brought wealth and progress to people? I strong ideology brings the best in people to build infrastructure, food supplies, science, inventions.

 

If it was like you think it should be, everyone would go around think there is 19 different sexes, a personal individual god or forces, and everyone could think what is best for themselves. Smoke ganja, open bars 24 hours, family politics and taxes is a fraud, and everything will brake down, 

 

Oh wait a second, 🤔

 

Dicipline and structure combined with good leadership, is what we need, and democracy could be perfect if we where did not have hur heads up where sun never shines, and we just want to be individuals who think we can think for our self. Ego, greed and selfishness is our biggest sin

 

Everything could had been solved with good life philosophies and healthy routines, but, we ar all just humans, easy to distract

I think you have misunderstood me, I was writing concerning the individual but I think your ideas of 'tight' control go to far. Humanity progressed due to cooperation not repression, that came later due to land possession, the earliest farming communities seem to have been egalitarian with no fixed governmental structure. The increase in population required government not for repression but for safety, the land possessed by the community had to be defended from outside communities. Property rights of the individual had to be protected with regulations. The corruption in government worldwide and the power of industrial complexes leading to wealth inequality is relatively recent, possibly only 2 to 3 thousand years old. Religion played an important role in power politics, think of 'the devine right of rule for kings', in Ancient Egypt the priesthood became so powerful that even a pharaoh had to wary of them. Early religions, as far as one can tell, weren't of a philosophical nature but based on animism and power. The Indus valley in India produced the first true spiritual deliberations which gave rise to the first mystics and eventually Hinduism which is also  linked to Buddhism which came later as a less devine based religion. Certainly the Hindu 'Advaita Vedanta' and the Buddhist '4 noble truths' influenced human behaviour but it would be false to think that people in prehistory didn't know right from wrong, fairness and cooperation is built into every mammal that lives in groups.

Spirituality has had to be rediscovered in the west, the basic mystical texts from the Jews leading eventually to Christianity have become so warped over time that the story has become more important than the message so that even the 14th Century German Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, was tried by the Catholic church, can't have ordinary people discovering spiritual truths, that would destroy the church.

8 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Humans need something or someone to look up on, leaders to help them, guide them, be it god, gods, gurus, politicians, artists, in it in our nature, or to be a leader. 

 

an absolute truth: Power corrupts

Politicians and religions make use of this weakness to profit themselves. I personally have no such use for idols of reverence, everyone has feet of clay. Certainly I can admire the achievements of others but fame is fleeting. Nobody needs a guiding hand in life, wisdom is inherent in all human beings unless they are mentally ill, the true 'I', conscious awareness, is available to all through meditation which needs no formal practice, one can sink into what is sometimes called 'empty fullness'  in the office, in nature or in a taxi, it is something that frightens and disturbs the ego that wants to believe in its own false validity and needs to pump the mind with continuous thoughts which is why often, practice is needed to achieve inner stillness. The past no longer exists, the future has yet to arrive, only 'now' is available and 'now' has no lack and needs nothing, 'now' is peace....how the ego hates that, its very existence needs problems and enemies.

18 hours ago, tomgreen said:

I was sent this video by a friend , and his question was ........... If there is a God why would he allow this to happen .

 

I’m in no way a religious man , but my friends question got me thinking .

 

So whats your thoughts on ........  If there is a God why would he allow this to happen 

 

 

Link to the video below

 

https://streamable.com/vb63wj

 

Tom

 

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18 hours ago, tomgreen said:

I was sent this video by a friend , and his question was ........... If there is a God why would he allow this to happen .

 

I’m in no way a religious man , but my friends question got me thinking .

 

So whats your thoughts on ........  If there is a God why would he allow this to happen 

 

 

Link to the video below

 

https://streamable.com/vb63wj

 

Tom

 

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It depends what you mean by God. The word in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions has childish associations, the spiritual teachings of the mystics have been lost and the books have been reduced to fairy stories. The teachings in the Eastern traditions have a greater validity, especially Buddhism which makes do without a deity. All religions point to the same thing, non duality, many minds but one consciousness which is the background of that which is. That which is perceived is a manifestation not a reality, as the famous Hindu mystic Nisargadatta put it, " That which is real does not change, that which changes is not real", it concerns the fact that nothing exists 'in and of itself'. This was also a consideration of the Buddha when he said, "The world is empty". This doesn't mean he denied the perception of things but that nothing had a reality of existence because nothing existed 'in and of itself'. A human needs two parents, food, water, shelter, sunlight, and  a society, it is given a name and beliefs. It has phenomenal experiences due to causal events which form character and ego, hence there is no independent existence 'in and of itself'. This is why Hindus say there is only Brahman (This isn't a deity as such but more an intelligence or power). Flowers, trees, animals, stars etc. have no existence in and of themselves, they are all causal events. Only consciousness is eternal without change, whether you are 5 years old or 80 the feeling 'I am' remains the same, this is consciousness, God, Brahman, Allah, present awareness, the absolute call it what you will, you are consciousness experiencing your own manifestation, you are the space of silence between two thoughts.

Watch out, they've got a mandate.

4 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

This is the wrong way round . It is people who are posing a threat to wild elephants, and it people who are invading elephant territory.

But then again we have reality.

11 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Police academy and training should be difficult and stressful. Sounds like she may not have the fortitude and mental strength required to be a cop.

Police officers get training?

9 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Wow how really really interesting. I must follow her on social media at 26 her brain has just finished developing. Cough cough.  

I wouldn't say that, quite clever really getting a load of idiots to pay for your life style, she's probably never done a useful job of work in her life, good luck to her, she's living the dream,  working hard for someone else doesn't pay dividends. Lots of teens in low paying jobs and single mums on benefits will follow her and sigh in envy but she got to where she is using her brains. Sure she's a bit self elevated now but I wouldn't mind betting that a wealthy Mr. Right will turn up someday if she is mixing in the right circles, no "would you like fries with that" for her.

6 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

The UK is the perfect place for hin.

Not Dubai then?

12 hours ago, scorecard said:

And did the ceremony / event just continue?

Or did it end when the punch up happened?

I can imagine the old couple who were to be blessed saying, "errrrm, we'll come back tomorrow when you're not so busy"

15 hours ago, stoner said:

 

are the offerings for the temple or the monk ? i had thought the offering of money was for the temple as monks have vowed against money.....right ? 

 

 

A bit like beggars fighting over their pitch on the high street.

Hello darling, meet my friend Stanley

No foreigners causing trouble today, just Thais, must be a first.

9 hours ago, johng said:

What on earth is the problem with this ???????   its an advert an opinion a joke,  that some take everything so seriously is quite depressing.

Woke is the joke.