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Grover

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  1. replace "happiness" with "not suffering" and it would be a little closer to Buddhism.

    This is excellent. Although surely it applies to all (most?) philosophies?

    definitely not the modern materialistic philosophy of get-spend-have ! :o

  2. I think its completely reasonable to say the coup has more than majority support (in the sense they are supporting not necessarily the end of the Thaksin regime but relief from the end of fierce national division brought to boiling point - which was ENDED by the coup).

    Without trying to be rude younghusband, I believe most Thais would not agree with your (for reasons probably unknown to both of us) unsubstantiated subjective conclusions.

    I think you have a serious misconception of the coup, and what comprises national division in Thailand. There are many layers of reality here, and the divisions in society are multifold.

    About the national division:

    yes. divisions in any society are multifold like you point out. However I was specifically referring to the "fierce national division brought to boiling point" - an extreme and dangerous nation-wide tension which was completely in a class of its own.

    Presently the stage is set for something possibly very ugly again.

    Perhaps, but that is only one of many possibilities at this stage. The ugliness right before the coup was a dangerous reality.

  3. I think its completely reasonable to say the coup has more than majority support (in the sense they are supporting not necessarily the end of the Thaksin regime but relief from the end of fierce national division brought to boiling point - which was ENDED by the coup).

    Without trying to be rude younghusband, I believe most Thais would not agree with your (for reasons probably unknown to both of us) unsubstantiated subjective conclusions.

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