ThaiRebound

If he were a Thai cop, this would have made more sense. 

My apologies. Also wasn't sure where this belonged. 

Does anyone know what the best data plan is for mobile if high data is wanted?

Thank you, JackDD, top-notch! 

I'm sorry if this is miscategorized. How would I best get from Udon Thani (Metropolitan) to Laos Airport, and how long should I budget, conservatively?

Jackdd, Vientienne, and Thanks!

If I were denied entry at Laos into Thailand on the final 60 days of METV, how would I best get back into Thailand? Would the visa-exempt 30 day be an option on that day, the next day, or only another border? Would there likely be a way back in with that method, or would an education visa still be allowed? I'm wondering if I'm blacklisted at that point for any amount of time due to being rejected entry?

3 hours ago, elviajero said:

Yes, but it’s unlikely unless you’re a serial tourist.

Would you say that having stayed here since April 2019 on tourist visas would qualify one as a serial tourist? What would you have ready? Flight tickets, how much in cash or savings?

When re-entering for a two-month extension on METV, do they ever ask for proof/plans of travel out of Thailand? Proof of amount of cash or savings?

On 9/17/2019 at 1:13 AM, Frequenc1 said:

I'll take a bag with my important things. If they deny me, I'll leave the rest behind in my hotel room -- along with 2 weeks pre-paid on a hotel room I rent by the month (not that cheap, either). Maybe it's time for a downsize~

What an original thought

To all you recovering Catholics, if you die and get to Heaven, what are you going to say to Jesus or God? Did he betray you? I'll bet you'll really tear into him, huh?

20 hours ago, sirineou said:

Lemon meringue pies at twenty paces?

pie contest. Lemon does not suit as a pie flavor. 

1 hour ago, sirineou said:

Netflix is proof that god does not exist!

Settle it with a DUEL! Repent, pagan!

What school/s can offer a 1-year ED Visa with a few hours time commitment a week?

Not C, definitely not C

3 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

Please note that you cannot stay indefinitely as a Tourist in Thailand, so after your 9 month stay on METV there are ways to prolonge, but if you are going to stay more than 180 days per year in Thailand, you risk that your application can be denied during the process of extending your stay.

Does this also mean you risk not being permitted back into the country when leaving and entering after the second set of 90 days (60+30, 60+30)?

Nobody can prove or disprove anything regarding the existence of a supreme being, so which is the best case scenario:

A. God doesn't exist, and therefore no continuation of consciousness

B. God exists and it becomes proven. We will be judged in the afterlife according to our actions from this point forward in time and based on the bible's laws.

C. God exists and it becomes proven, and a good afterlife is assured for all, but the internet will disappear for eternity in 10 seconds, including Netflix. (There will be a Blockbuster Video, but returns are 24 hours and you MUST rewind!)

Wow, Cambodia is potentially becoming habitable? This is great news. I wonder where they'll all migrate to? So much newfound respect for Cambodia.

If the psychology behind arguing that god exists is to reaffirm one's comfort about death, then what's the psychology among those who argue the "truth" that he doesn't exist? What is the neurosis of people who have to insist that they are right? I can't of any other reason to disprove god then either because of bad personal experience with religion, need to be "right," or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

I'm not a physicist, but supposedly if plank's constant or some other dimensions had been off by some tiny fraction, things couldn't get together. If there's a multiverse of 900000000000000000000000000:1 odds where physics weren't right enough, then it's very unlikely that I would exist. I exist, and therefore I have to go by that one data point

5 minutes ago, VincentRJ said:

You're right. I was stuck on the term 'too coincidental'. Having now checked the term 'fine-tuned universe', I find the following argument the most persuasive, from Wikipedia.

"The fine-tuned universe argument has also been criticized as an argument by lack of imagination, as it assumes no other forms of life, sometimes referred to as carbon chauvinism. Conceptually, alternative biochemistry or other forms of life are possible. Regarding this, Stenger argued: "We have no reason to believe that our kind of carbon-based life is all that is possible. Furthermore, modern cosmology theorises that multiple universes may exist with different constants and laws of physics. So, it is not surprising that we live in the one suited for us. The universe is not fine-tuned to life; life is fine-tuned to the universe."

 

In addition, critics argue that humans are adapted to the universe through the process of evolution, rather than the universe being adapted to humans. They also see it as an example of the logical flaw of hubris or anthropocentrism in its assertion that humans are the purpose of the universe."
 

 

It was the mice. Everyone knows that! Thanks for all the fish

This is a great and original topic. In addition, the daily discoveries add so much to this thousands of years old debate. I expect you will get closer to the truth. 

1 hour ago, VincentRJ said:

Why do you find that too coincidental to believe? 

 

There are between 100 and 200 billions stars or suns in the Milky Way galaxy, and perhaps as many as 400 billion. According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe, and possibly as many as 1,000 billion. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is considered to be an average size galaxy.

 

We have no idea how many planets exist in the entire universe, but it seems reasonable to guess that there would be trillions of trillions.

 

Of those trillions of trillions, most would likely have no conditions suitable for life. However, if just a very tiny fraction of those trillions of trillions of planets were similar to the Earth, that could still amount to one trillion planets with the elements and conditions for life to evolve, as it has on our planet.

 

Some people, even some scientists, think it's too improbable for the first reproducing types of micro-organisms to form in a soupy sea of chemicals by chance, because no scientist has been able to create a new form of life in a laboratory, so far. The explanation of an 'Intelligent Designer' might seem more probable.

 

However, such reasoning would only apply if one ignores the fact that there are probably a trillion planets in the universe, similar to ours.

 

Imagine a bet using a huge roulette table with a thousand different balls.  The chances that all the thousand balls would fall into the  predicted, betted numbers would be very slim. A person could bet everyday for his whole life without winning once.

 

But supposing every bet with a thousand different numbers was applied simultaneously to a trillion roulette tables in different locations. The chances of a win in at least one of the roulette tables would be very high, if not certain. Okay? ????
 

Wow, you totally missed the point. I was referring to physics itself. Anyway, if you can't be bothered to look up "fine-tuned universe" and read about it to discover that I was referring to physics, then I don't know what to tell you. 

Nah, it's too coincidental, again. It makes for great scifi, though. I'm not suggesting we are here for any reason. We might be a side-effect. But the universe itself seems purposed for something.

I'm not sure about the biblical god, but the "settings" of the universe being just-so in order that atoms could form and thus we could arise is too coincidental for me to believe that this life-conducive universe came into existence by chance. See Fine-tuned Universe