JensenZ

The guy was found hanging from a rope. What other cause of death might it have been? Do you think it might have been staged? Someone killed him and hanged him to make it look like suicide?

It's not interesting that you're posting again as you're just baiting at this stage. You know why I'm here and you know the topic of the thread. I don't need your permission to post here.

That reply was not to you. I have no idea of your religious affiliations or beliefs based on the few posts I've read in the last few days. I do sense much confusion though...

Your clues are wasted on me, as you seem very confused. The topic is "do you believe in God and why" with no mention of the word "religion". More interesting topics are just about any topic other than debating the difference between God and religion. The dictionary definition servers me well. No further explanations are necessary.

Why do I think God is "good" or "bad"? I was actually forwarding some philosophical concepts that keep people up at night. Theodicy and "the problem of evil". Apart from that, the Bible mentions that God is good 36 times. https://www.biblelyfe.com/blog/bible-verses-about-the-goodness-of-god#:~:text=Psalm 25%3A8-9,teaches the humble his way. Now I'm not sure if you use the Bible as a reference, but it should answer your question.

No one is explaining anything, especially on religious matters, merely giving opinions. I'll stick to the dictionary definition as "religion" is a word that has a specific meaning, and explanations are unnecessary. Here's another: "the service and worship of God or the supernatural". That's good enough for me. If you want to make the issue more complicated than it needs to be, that's your prerogative, but I have more interesting topics to debate.

Unfortunately drug takers are the not the problem but drug pushers. Punishing the takers doesn't help at all... and they're only a danger to themselves, unlike DUI drivers. I think the breath testing road stops are random as they don't test all drivers on all roads, but just at random points. I'm yet to understand the danger of overstayers and how catching them will make me feel safer. Any ideas on that?

That would be perfect time to lawyer-up.

There is no similarity between testing under suspicion of DUI and turning on the lights and testing an entire crowd within a night venue. Then you might want to bring up random breath testing as being a similar event, which by its name is "random", not the entire occupants in a building. Then there's the testing method, of requiring 300 people to piss into vials. It's absurd and there's no simularity as you suggested. In addition to that, testing people suspected of DUI is removing a clear and present danger from the roads. No danger is being prevented by raiding the 300 strong crowd of the night venue and testing everyone.

Don Lemon was fired from CNN today too. What's your take on him?

The people who are still dry are the ultimate targets and much more "fun" for the participants to douse than people who are already wet.

That's it, guilty until proven innocent. It's absurd and it should be embarrassing, but these cops are shameless.

It's a typical response from people who claim to enjoy Sonkran Week in Pattaya - "people who don't enjoy it must be miserable". In response to that I'd have to say that any mature adult who can enjoy throwing or being doused by water for a week must have the mentality of a child... or they are senile and suffering from their second childhood. I enjoyed Songkran for a week, at home. I was never miserable, not for moment.

Songkran activities in Pattaya are not Thai tradition, not even close. It goes on for a week (also not Thai tradition) and many of the participants act aggressively with high pressure water guns, buckets and ice water in order to produce as much negative response as possible. He got a response, just more than he exptected. We don't know what happened leading up to the attack, but it's quite possible the Turk asked the Thai guy not to do it.

I suspect these raids will affect the profit of these night venues and make it harder for find drug users/sellers who will partake/sell elsewhere where they don't expect such raids. They are doing everything they can to f*** the tourist trade now that it is recovering.

I'm sure it does a lot of damage as tourists go home and recount their experiences of police raids. The problem is it cannot be assessed due to the volume of tourists arriving here. I can't imagine a tourist going home and telling his friends that the police raided a club and took urine samples would help promote Thailand.

Good work on the reseach. Upon looking again, my meter has as follows: 3*5(100)A 3*230/400V 50Hz 3-Phase 4-Wire Kh = 1.0 Wh/P Energy MAX EMS34J

That's where I found the type, not on the meter.

Yes, it's new one that was installed a few years ago.

I see PEA 3*5(100)A on the meter. Type 1124

OK thanks. I don't really concern myself with the breakdown of charge details. I divide my bill by my units as that is what I pay, and it has gone up 25% this year (per unit). From low 4s to low 5s - 25% increase.

Above I mentioned my type is 1124, in a condo. Do you know what it means? Bradiston is type 1125, but his per unit charge is identical to mine.

The electricity charges have gone up by about 25% since late last year. I'm paying about 1 baht more per KWh than last year.

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If you ran the units, even in the low 20s I think that would make the difference, depending on how well insulated the room is. I don't know anything about Type 1124 or 1125... I'd never even noticed it until a member above mentioned it today. If you find out, please lelt me know. My condo is owned by a foreigner, so in a company name. Maybe that's the difference, although our per unit rate is identical. In addition I run 2 very inefficient, very old commerical style AC units in 2 other rooms. One is in my gym, and that runs about 1 to 2 hours per day, and the other one in my office is getting some use now... and they are real electricity hogs... and 2 fridges. One big and one medium size. One is old and one is a more efficient new model.