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Ok I have a freind who is now doing a ED visa but learning Russian and says he has no hassle at immigration so far. He has left the country and return in the last 12 months but he didn't say when he changed to Russian but did say it was the school idea as cant get Thai. His next Trip is not till next March. I told him they may not let him back in.

3 hours ago, kenk24 said:

The reason they are not interested in your incomprehensible rambling is that they are afraid of a miscommunication because they cannot understand... they probably have had experience or at least know stories where foreigners get angry [very culturally uncool]

 

Patience. [ they are also afraid that impatience is 1/2 way to anger ] They really really do not want a problem... 

I don't where this comes from that Thai people are patience and don't get angry. In the 20 years I have travelled to Thailand and now have a Thai relative if they don't get there own way or don't understand some thing they throw fit or sulk. Their are not pushy like Chinese put differently not patience.

2 hours ago, Canuckabroad said:

The most valuable stolen passports have photos of East or South Asian men or women of average height.  They still have plenty of use going between borders outside the region they were obtained in, and if it's good enough onto a plane to UK, Canada or Australia they can flush it midroute and request asylum.

Ever check your taxi drivers id, we do it in Bali most of the time they reply  not me my cousin.

1 hour ago, marcusarelus said:

I guess that's why Thailand has 40 tourists to Vietnam's 1.

Not for long.

2 hours ago, Barber said:

I was just in Thailand. Had the last part of my ( what turned out to be expensive) holiday spoiled by the last two day falling in to a alcohol ban period. I lived in Thailand for a few years and I do respect Thai culture. But is it really a good idea to subject a heavily tourist populated area like Pattaya, to a blanket ban. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to give special licences out to these areas.

Can you explain why it turned out to expensive and was it compared to last time?

On 6/19/2019 at 11:51 PM, VincentRJ said:

Perhaps I can help you understand the situation. As a prince, or at least the son of a major warrior chieftain, Gautama was in a very privileged environment, living in a guarded palace with lots of servants and workers taking care of all chores.

 

Leaving his wife and child would presumably have had an emotional effect on his wife, but not directly on the child who was too young to have any conception of a father. Both of them would have been fully taken care of, despite the temporary absence of the husband for a period of 6 years.

 

My own father was also absent for the first 3 to 4 years of my life, because he was a soldier in WWII. I was born in 1942. I have no memory of his absence. My first memories begin from the age of around 4, or maybe 3 & 1/2.

 

If you've ever traveled abroad to significantly undeveloped countries, you should have been emotionally affected by the suffering of homeless, sick and deformed people, often sitting, lying down, and sleeping by the road-side in the most awful conditions.

 

During the times of the Buddha, about 2,500 years ago in India, one can only imagine how awful conditions must have been for so many poor and underprivileged people, without the benefit of modern medication, painkillers, anesthetics, and surgery.

 

That someone from a protected and privileged environment would voluntarily leave that environment (palace) in order to find a solution to the awful suffering he had witnessed outside of the palace, is very commendable and very unselfish.

 

Unfortunately, there are no written scripts from those times. Everything was transmitted through memory. The following story of events, from the book "Old Path White Clouds" by Thich Nhat Hanh, reads like a reasonable re-creation of what could have happened.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Gautam-Buddha-leave-his-wife-only-after-one-night

 

"In short - Siddhartha was disgusted by the corruption, thirst of power, selfish ambitions and jealousy among people in politics. He was aware that true liberation from suffering won't come from mere social works and changing social rules, but from inner transformation of individuals. And he wanted to find a way which can give true liberation to people."

 

Read the 'long story' for more details. 

Bullshit he desert his family and responsibilities, he wandered around country side with servants till they got the shits and went home. He then was begging food, then laying under a tree while hallucinating from starvation started sprouting words of wisdom and people stated following him around like a flock of sheep. But just let as say it happen this way,  In name of B or in the name of god or Jesus said is true because people hundreds years after they died wrote it down. Record history has been proven wrong so many times.

6 hours ago, Creasy said:

In 2018 Australia the death count was 1143 for the year.

 

My God. Thailand has 7000 in 6 months .

 

 

During calendar 2018 there were 1,140 road deaths (provisional).

For 2019, there have been 546 deaths (provisional). This is 64 deaths (13.3%) higher than the same period last year.

The 2018 report says road accidents killed 22,491 people in Thailand – putting the road traffic fatality rate at 32.7 per 100,000 people. This improves on the 2015 rate of 36.2 rate, or 24,237 recorded.

Comparing Australia and Thailand road statics is like apple and oranges.

I don't believe in God so I can't help you. Now if you believed in a caring person donating money I could help elevate your stress.

If you watch this series and still don't question the validity of the bible you don't need to take drugs, your already delusional.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/rf-watch-online/tv-shows/biblical-mysteries-explained

And if you try an debunk this show, you would still have to follow the up what is stated and this would only led to more facts and questions. If you say you don't need watch this because you know what you believe in without questioning and learn every thing about your belief and its originality then your delusional.

The fact that the Great B was a prince who deserted his young wife and child on the night of his birth, is such a great role model to many Asian countries defies my logical thinking.

On 4/15/2019 at 1:27 AM, mauGR1 said:

We can't understand the concept of infinite, we can't understand lots of other things.

I think it's logical to think there are superior beings, and an intelligent design.

You don't throw around randomly screws and bolts and metal planks to build an airplane, right ?

People who mock God, mock something they don't understand.

Just like those who believe in something they don't understand.

On 4/15/2019 at 1:28 AM, marcusarelus said:

How about those who deny medical treatment to their children in the name of god?  How about those who stone women in the name of god?  How about those who commit mass suicide in the name of god?  Is that OK?

A big No! not ok but it still goes on in our educated world.