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22 hours ago, transam said:

No, the rest of Earths creatures have not been brainwashed, humans are good at the brainwashing stuff...We even have religious folk committing suicide blowing themselves up, together with their own believers because an EARTH BOUND BLOKE told them that is what THEIR god wants.....Now how do they know that if they have never had a chat with their god.....But wait, they follow a book written by guess what.......An Earth bound bloke....????

 

I asked in another post if humans can be hypnotized, nobody has answered my question because they know where I will go with it...????

I discovered (many decades later) that I used to hypnotise myself as a young child....

A bit odd, as a hypnotist couldn't hypnotise me.

Most of us have responsibilities, whether family or pets here in Thailand - so a 'go bag' isn't really on the cards.

9 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

1.  The rules have changed to keep certain ethnic minorities out of Thailand.  I heard this from Immigration workers. 

 

2.  The rules have changed for 4 other countries because the embassy workers are lazy. 

 

3.  Further rule changes will follow in May. 

 

If you have any other questions feel free to ask.

Ummm, it was Joe Mc that posted that comment - not me!  I just replied to it!

Please quote the correct post....

3 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I never knew what new documents they were going to ask for when I did my extensions, which was why I used an agent the last couple of times.

Same here.  I just got tired of the endlessly changing 'rules', which resulted in my becoming very stressed every time I had to go to Immigration for 90 day reports/retirement extensions.

Far less stress now that I've employed an agent to deal with this on my behalf.  Even so, when renewing my extension this year, I was told that I needed to go to Immigration for a 'photo to be taken by them.  Thankfully, it was as easy as my agent promised, and I was in and out within minutes, although I did notice that all the employees in the office turned to stare at me!

Presumably they were curious as to why on earth I would pay an agent a lot of money, when I am perfectly legal ????!

39 minutes ago, Joe Mcseismic said:

Money is the easiest way to cull the herd. Get rid of the poorer expats and keep the richer.

This kills two birds with one stone. Reducing the total amount of retirees and increasing the perceived quality of the remaining retirees.

 

I still haven't heard anyone come up with an explanation as to WHY the rules have changed.

"I still haven't heard anyone come up with an explanation as to WHY the rules have changed."

Purely my opinion of course, but I think Immigration indicated strongly that they expected the Embassies to verify income - before issuing 'proof of income' letters.  An almost impossible task for any embassy, and so a few decided to just not bother providing the proof of income letters anymore.....

This resulted in a headache for Immigration, as it was the 'big players' that decided to stop providing income letters.....

Consequently, they had to come up with new ideas for the 'proof of income' method (for expats from those countries), which resulted in a total overhaul of the requirements for retirement visas.....

6 minutes ago, transam said:

For sure all "gods" creatures that we kull every day to eat may have the same thoughts....????

I see no reason to differentiate between human and other animals' souls.

2 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

No way i want convince you of anything, but good and bad ( or the dual judgement) are nothing else than  "tools of knowledge" in this specific reality ; you cannot have the day without the night and so on.

I'm told that there are ways to reach more evolved realities, but then, you'll have to "open the door" by yourself.

 

I don't much care about "evolved realities" - as I prefer to live a life trying not to cause harm.

Hopefully I'll find out that our 'soul' is just 'energy that is part of the universe' - but of course, it's impossible to know.

At the end of the day, if there is a god I would spit in his eye if I were able to meet him, for allowing such cruelty in the world 'he' apparently created, and (having absolute control/powers) could prevent......

But of course I'll never be allowed near 'him' for having these views ????.

17 hours ago, mauGR1 said:

When is the last time someone forced you to accept religion ?

When I felt strong enough to stand up for myself at the age of 15 (IIRC).

I'd spent the previous few years arguing about having to go to 'meetings' and 'assemblies' - but until then I hadn't felt brave enough to outright refuse.....

Sadly, I still have nightmares (even though it's nearly 50 years later.....) about the 'fight' ☹️.

On 4/15/2019 at 1:30 PM, Kwasaki said:

Yeah religions interesting subject so many but as said if some people find comfort " so be it " Amen.

 

I fit in as a sort of agnostic type not an atheist. 

 

Remember talking in a congenial way to a Jehovah witness and he said I would burn in Hell, well I said, seeing as I want to be cremated in my demise it don't really matter does it.  ????

Rubbish.  I was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness by my mother - and they don't believe in hell!

Just now, kenk24 said:

Is it possible that they had no idea how to help fix the thing... I am generous but have no mechanical aptitude. If you are giving a gift, then asking others to help the recipient, you are giving them a job they might not want to do or be capable of... and then they are put in a position of having to say "No." [not polite] or admit they are not capable [not fun] - neither of which is comfortable for them... it doesn't sound to me as if they were being cruel or not generous, just not knowing how to react in an uncomfortable situation... 

 

I have spent near 20 years living in a Thai village -your generosity will be noted and appreciated but likely nobody will ever verbalize it... 

As I said previously, they rushed to help when I had problems starting the samlor....

They also rushed over when a friend had problems starting his car.....

I'm not trying to be dramatic about this, but the change of attitude was clear to see ☹️.

1 minute ago, kenk24 said:

Well, that's nice - - glad to hear something positive... sorry if I was too sensitive but I am just tired of the "all Thai" generalizations followed by a bash... I have noted in my village and nearby city that people are not only kind but generous in helping the-d least fortunate... I am glad he found a good use for the samlor. 

I've never been the type to post generalisations, followed by a bash - as most Thais have gone out of their way to help me when I was in trouble.

I was just shocked at their reaction to an extremely poor (destitute?) guy, as they've nearly always been so good to me!

FWIW - I've just heard from a friend (who would recognise my old samlor) that he saw the guy to who it was given.

Apparently the side car was full of tin cans/plastic etc.

So hopefully I was able to help him in a small way ????.

1 minute ago, kenk24 said:

ok - i get it now - he was happy to get the samlor, you think, and then you wanted other people to help him with mechanical issues and they were either not wanting to or not capable of helping, and by that, you conclude that NO Thai people are helpful or generous... ??? 

I give up (again) as I've already pointed out that I've received lots of help from Thais.

My post was directed at the attitude of Thais towards the obviously 'down and out' Thais.

3 minutes ago, nausea said:

All I can say is that no-one starves in Thailand, not even the down and out Farangs, not even the dogs. As for attitudes to poor people, I remember my SO saying to some old lady rubbish collector "Bai nai", she said "Bai ha gig". Ha! 

Disagree entirely with most of your post having rescued a soi dog that were was very sick - it turned out to be pneumonia.

The 'local' Thais couldn't understand why she wasn't keen on left-over rice and curry anymore.....

13 minutes ago, Paradise Pete said:

If the people you asked were from your own country you would have thought "those people don't want to help the poor." But because they were from a different country you said Thais don't want to help the poor. 

You're possibly right.

It just came as a shock - as they've always been so helpful to me.

5 minutes ago, bbbbooboo said:

Hmmmm....I don’t know about thais being kind but in my experience as a farang being kind it seems to be seen as a weakness

As a female, I've only experienced this a couple of times.

I've mostly been lucky insofar as Thais have always rushed to my help when in a bad situation.  Which is why I was so shocked and depressed yesterday at their reaction to an obviously very poor, Thai guy.

11 minutes ago, donim said:

Not really, just a bad choice of words and title setup from the OP.  He is not using 'expensive' wording as some here. If you had readed the thread first..

 

So did you queue up in that line?

I think he is grown up more than some roony

What you had to write is 'grow some skin' 

 

"Grow some skin" may well be right ☹️, but I'm unlikely to do so as it's impossible to change our personalities.

6 minutes ago, kenk24 said:

So, you could not think of some better gift for an old poor person than an old samlor that has a starter problem? Did you throw in a couple of pairs of used underwear too?

 

How can he repay such generosity? And why isn't everyone overwhelmed by your generous nature? He probably can't drive the samlor anyway... 

I'm willing to bet that he won't turn up at my house asking for money.  He was just genuinely excited and happy to be given a free samlor.  And I did my best to make it very clear that I had another samlor, and so didn't want the old one that needs to be started every couple of days.

He may well sell it for the money, but it doesn't matter.

3 minutes ago, donim said:

Not really, just a bad choice of words and title setup from the OP.  He is not using 'expensive' wording as some here. If you had readed the thread first..

 

So did you queue up in that line?

I think he is grown up more than some roony

What you had to write is 'grow some skin' 

 

Yes. I was in a bad mood when I posted (not to mention more than a bit pissed as a consequence of what had happened....). ☹️

20 hours ago, Farangwithaplan said:

In fairness, you mentioned nothing of this in the initial post. And besides, what Sheryl mentioned still stands up. I'm not sure why people think Thai people are so different to the rest of humanity. There are a few different nationalist quirks as do all nationalities, but they all live, love, laugh, cry and have a full range of emotions just like everybody else in this world. Those emotions might just be triggered by different social situation to what you were nurtured to follow.

 

I was at a funeral not too long back and as we all went up to the casket, the family and the junior monks all started throwing little packages of money. Some guy, in need of a good wash and a feed who had been lurking on the sidelines of the temple, got straight into the crowd and bagged as many of those parcels as he could. No-one blinked an eye. This poor soul wandered off with  plastic shopping bag about a 3rd full of packages filled with coins.

 

I'd say if your blanket statement of "Thais' attitude to the very poor amongst them" were true, that poor urchin would have found himself in jail beaten to 10 different shades of purple. But he wasn't. And no one seemed to mind. In fact I think it gave more than a few a smile. It briefly had me laughing until a little bit of wee nearly came out.

 

Then it just left me with a smile knowing he was going to have a decent feed - at least for that day.

 

Why not ask the people in question why they were so negative to offer assistance? It will possibly answer all your questions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Why not ask the people in question why they were so negative to offer assistance? It will possibly answer all your questions."

Because that really would cause 'loss of face'?  Plus, my Thai is far from good enough to get into this type of discussion.

8 minutes ago, Benroon said:

But you didn't say that did you - you said "it left a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to THAIS attitude - ie the entire nation - blatant stereotyping!

You misunderstand, I've nothing against Thais at all and have frequently been astounded by the way they've helped me out when I was in a 'bad' situation.

Which is why I was so shocked at their reaction yesterday to a very poor guy.

But I do agree that I was wrong to stereotype in this way, based on the reaction of a small number of Thais.

7 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Sorry, I thought that the guy was living near you, and the shop / other people you asked to help with the bike were neighbours or in the same village.

 

People know everything about everyone in a small village.  

I've no idea where the guy lives, but do 'know' the neighbours and 'bike repair man.

Living in a relatively isolated area in Rawai, Phuket is admittedly not the same as living in a small village.