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I wouldn't call getting threatened and robbed trivial.

Quite a jungle out there.

Or the circumstantial evidence, whichever you consider logical.

Probably with two nationalities. Just for fun, give me your immediate mental image when someone says American,.....correct, small build, black hair, mandel eyes. It's like, give me a mental image when someone says British,.....correct, an Islamist with dark complexion, wearing a bed sheet and sandals. How about a mental image of 'woke',.....correct, desperate, hypocritical, doesn't get any.

A letter is no longer being issued.

Why should she have to press charges, it was an attempted robbery in a public place.

She couldn't remember what he looked like but gave an exact description of his dick.

depends who you are with at the time, otherwise it is merely a cleaning up operation.

Yes, my cousin is bipolar since his teens, now as an old man he has discarded his medication after engaging in mindfulness meditation, his big breakthrough came when during meditation he tried to find what it was that was depressed and couldn't find it, he has improved tremendously and rarely has an attack.

If you are unhappy in a situation there are only 3 options, (1) change it, (2) leave it, (3) accept it without internal complaint, anything else is madness. Those are not cliches, the ego needs enemies to fight which results in tension, the ego isn't real per se, it is a collection of indoctrinations and societal norms bundled up as a package with the mind and determines the 'me', once the 'me' is seen for what it is, an illusion, you can become the non judgmental observer of 'what is'. As Shakespeare said, "nothing is good or bad, only thinking makes it so." It is my belief,and that of many wise sages, that you are an independent unit of consciousness that has identified with its avatar, it is covered in layers of ego, thoughts and fears, once these layers are stripped away it will realize its full potential and act accordingly, only then will things change for the better, you will find peace.....sorry for the sermon.

Not now, he has the document to prove it.

I've studied the philosophies of Buddhism and Hinduism as well as modern physicists examining consciousness for over 30 years, they all seem to basically align, spacetime exists but isn't fundamental, consciousness is the basis, the absolute, although the 14th century German Christian mystic postulated that beyond consciousness was the void of nothing. Buddha was right I think when he said there is no self, no doer of action and the world is empty because nothing exists in and of itself, everything relies on everything else for their temporary brief manifestations which manifest within the field of consciousness. As the Indian sage Nisargadatta said, "You are not the body nor are you the mind, there is nobody", it is a mistake to think of yourself as a person but rather the true self is a localization of the absolute which, as the NASA physicist Tom Campbell (my big T.O.E) wrote, is itself evolving, we, as avatars, exist in the data stream of consciousness to lower its entropy, this is similar but more extreme than the cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman ('The end of Spacetime') who as an emirate at an American university is producing mathematics and computer simulations with his international team to show that everything is made up of agents of consciousness and the reality that we perceive is only 'eye candy'. All seem to converge to one basic idea, only consciousness is real. Again, Nisargadatta said, "That which is real does not change, that which changes is not real". Through deep introspective meditation one can come to the conclusion, inside you are emptiness, nothing, outside you are everything. The direct path to awakening was proscribed by the revered 20th century Indian sage Ramana Maharshi as to simply meditate on 'who am I', the question won't result in an answer but is designed to dissolve the questioner.

He's been married to his schoolyard sweetheart for 50 years.

Yes of course but it is as it is especially i rural areas, in Isaan I often see mothers loaded with shopping on the motorbike which is being driven by their 12+ years old daughters or sons, many of that age drive themselves to school. There is no point in breaking a lance on this issue.

I used VFS, an agent, just send passport, form, proof of address and two photos to their office in Chonburi via EMS. just received an email from VFS Global that my application has been forwarded to HMPO. Total cost 11,000 Baht which includes passport fees and passport delivery to my house, saves me the cost of travelling to BKK twice from Isaan and all the other hassle, turnaround time is about 6 weeks they tell me.

I've been here 20 years so I've gotten used to every twist and turn they make, no it isn't exotic anymore, it's just home where I'm tolerated by the authorities.

His fleece is white as snow.

What happens to the avatar of 'me' is of no consequence but knowing that you are the immortal screen on which the avatar acts out its life and not the avatar itself brings about the peace that is our essential being. No doubt he will live to be 90 if he can give up his extreme fitness regime, I think it's his way of pushing away the boundary of his mortality but then we all have our methods of coping.

Yes but I don't think these two experiences, which should have been a spiritual wake up call, will initiate any fundamental change in him, he has, on a material level no need or desire to change. He is a millionaire, happy, successful in his business and private life, likable and courageous. This shock will fade, his humour will plaster over his existential fear, he said to his surgeon, "If I can't take it with me, I'm not going" but who knows where he really goes when he sleeps.

Just a harmless bit of spit roasting on the beach, they possibly got confused with the term, they brought their own meat and didn't need a fire.

There's something missing here, so did they just beat the $hit out of him, nick all his stuff and then set him free with the words, "don't tell the cops"?

Calm down Ali, pigs (if you'll excuse the metaphor) can be found everywhere.

who was the victim, Ali Baba? I have a different understanding of socializing but perhaps it's a Muslim thing.

one of life's great questions.

Never had any and still don't, everybody has an agenda and feet of clay. One person that I admire and still do is David Attenborough but that isn't the same as a role model.