Red Phoenix

Proactive???

I do my 90-day reports on-line. At my Imm Office (SiSaKet), when applying for a 1-year extension they automatically also do the 90-day report at moment of application. So when doing the 90-day report on-line with your Permission to stay expiring in less than 90 days, my Imm Office approves the 90-day report but the due date for the next 90-day report would be the expiry date of my Permission to stay. Note: In the OP's case, he should 1 - apply for the new passport asap, 2 - submit his 90-day report on-line NOW, as it can be done on-line from 14 days before due date. If it doesn't get approved, he should simply leave it at that, and when he applies for his 1-year extension, explain to Immigration why he did not do it in person (Passport renewal). In worst case he would then have to pay the 1.600,- THB fine for doing it 'late', but chances are they will accept that legitimate reason.

Yes, that's correct and it's much quicker to use the non-crowded Thai line at Airport Immigration instead of the Foreigner Line, when accompanied by your Thai wife or girlfriend.

There is no option when using Onwardticket.com to extend the validity of the flight reservation. But there are other onward flight reservation providers that do provide such option. E.g. https://bestonwardticket.com/ The ticket reservations they provide cost only 12 US $, and an additional advantage is that they provide you with the list of all airlines that offer a ticket that meets your criteria, and so you can actually CHOOSE the airline for the date of the flight reservation you are making. And if you want to extend the ticket validity for 7 days you pay 7 US $ extra, and for 14 days you pay 10 US $ on top of the regular validity of the flight reservations they provide (i.e. 48 hours). See snip >

~ Thanks Sunmaster for that clear and very recognizable rendering of the standard condition of everybody. And when people are honest with themselves they will see the truth that indeed you are more or less on autopilot until you have your coffee. But it's that last part "until you have your coffee" that I want to challenge here. I would make the argument that this 'autopilot' condition is how +99.99 % of people live their life (including myself). Everybody thinks that during their normal waking life, that they are 'not asleep' and have 'free will' but nothing could be further from the truth. In reality we are just automatons and completely pre-conditioned in all our responses and actions during the day. Yes, you can have meetings and discussions with other people, write letters, give presentations, meditate and do physical research work, and all this while you are still 'asleep'. Asleep is probably the best term to describe that condition, because it is only when you have EXPERIENCED that there is a far more encompassing level of consciousness that you will be able to appreciate the difference. Of course many when reading these words will argue that they are not asleep but wide awake. They do realize that in their present condition there are moments that they seem more aware than at other times, but they are mistaking that peak level of daily awareness with being really 'awake'. And it is very hard for most people to even consider the possibility that you are a robot driven by the whims of his Ego, but a robot nevertheless, if you have never personally experienced a different state of consciousness. Now some more personal comments. I fully agree with Sunmaster that meditation can be a path to gradually explore that other reality. But a word of caution is necessary here as even when meditating you are not necessarily in that other state of consciousness. True, while meditating you should be less distracted by the constant dialogue of your Ego, but there is still a World of Difference between that heightened level of consciousness during meditation and actually experiencing being awake. The best way to describe it is that in moments of being really awake that you experience a sort of 'enlightenment'. And when you succeed in making that state permanent you will be enlightened. Having personally experienced a glimpse of such enlightenment, I can say that it is indeed a life-changing event even if it was just some 10 minutes, in which the world bathed in a golden light and I KNEW that everything in the world is perfect and exactly the way it is meant to be. And after that realization I did go to sleep (it was during the middle of the night). And when waking up in the morning, I had fallen back into my automaton-ways but the memory of that experience is still as vivid now as +40 years ago. And even though I agree that meditation can be a path to gradually explore that other reality, personally I NEVER meditate, or at least not in the 'sitting silent and letting all thoughts go' way. But after long lapses (often days or sometimes even weeks) of living my life asleep, I try 'self-remembering' to awaken and revive what I would call more real consciousness. That technique was advocated by Gurdjieff and it has the advantage that it can be done anytime and everywhere. And it is deceptively simply as it basically consists of inwardly 'looking' from an eagle's perspective at what you are doing/ thinking. When doing that I am instantly reminded of having been deep asleep in everything I did in between. Of course my Ego resents being exposed, and so I am not able to upkeep that 'self-remembering' for more than 5-10 minutes, and then I slip back into my normal automaton ways of living my life... So far this Sunday sermon...

Same response as what I posted on the Topic you created regarding the UK jab-reluctance, U.K. less prepared for pandemic than pre-Covid, former vaccine chief warns So here the slightly redacted US-version... = = = Whose bread one eats, whose word one speaks... Didn't expect anything else from the CDC. What the CDC sees as a threat to pandemic preparedness, is actually Good News. Besides Big Vax Pharma, the Public Health jab-pushers (makes them feel important) and the small contingent of deluded pandemic fearful fanatics, the public has - finally - come to its senses having experienced the devastation created by the 'jab everybody' madness and all the other pandemic mitigation-measures insanities. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Whose bread one eats, whose word one speaks... Didn't expect anything else from the UK's former 'Vaccine Chief'. What he sees as a threat to pandemic vaccine preparedness, is actually Good News. Besides Big Vax Pharma, the Public Health jab-pushers (makes them feel important) and the small contingent of deluded pro-vax fanatics, the public has - finally - come to its senses having experienced the devastation created by the 'jab everybody' insanity. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

It would be a grave mistake to assume from that short fragment that Harari is a nature-lover and cherishes all life in the human, animal and plant world. On the contrary, he surely doesn't think that each living creature has 'a sacred right to life', least of all the 'useless eaters' as he calls them.

Meet the Ultimate Materialist... Yuval Noah HARARI probably qualifies as the Ultimate Materialist, when he declared that “human rights are fiction, just like God.” Harari is often credited as the mastermind behind the WEF’s anti-human agenda. He serves as a senior advisor to the globalist organization and its founder and chairman, Professor Klaus Schwab. The comments were made in a recently unearthed video of him. During a Ted Talk, WEF architect Harari explains to the crowd why he believes “useless humans” should have no rights. Before comparing human beings to “jellyfish” and chimpanzees, Harari ridicules members of the general public for their “belief in human rights.” “But human rights are just like Heaven, and like God – it’s just a fictional story that we’ve invented and spread around,” Harari declares. “It may be a very nice story,” he continues. “It may be a very attractive story. “You want to believe it but it’s just a story. “It is not a reality,” he asserts. “It is not a biological reality. “Just as jellyfish, and woodpeckers, and ostriches have no rights, homo sapiens have no rights also. “Take a human, cut him open, look inside,” he explained. “You find the blood, and you find the heart and the lungs and the kidneys, but you don’t find there any rights. “The only place you find rights is in the fiction stories that humans have invented and spread around.” Harari then pivoted his point to promote the WEF’s borderless globalist agenda. “The same thing is also true in the political field,” he said. “States and nations are also, like human rights, and like God, and like Heaven – they too are just stories.” Harari then expanded on his open-border narrative by attacking America and Israel, which he claims don’t exist in “reality.” = = = Needless to say that Harari's reality could not be further away from my world-view... WEF Mastermind Yuval Noah Harari Says Human Rights Are Fiction, Just Like God.mp4

Yes, a friend of mine did exactly as you are planning. He was on a 1-year extension of his Non Imm O-A Visa, and exited Thailand without a Re-Entry Permit before his Permission to stay from that 1-year extension expired. He did a same-day border-run and returned VisaExempt. And then he applied at his SiRacha Imm Office in Pattaya for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa for reason of retirement. Like yourself he had +800.000 THB on a personal Thai bank-account which was seasoned already for long time (so no need to prove foreign origins). Note: If you are exiting Thailand while your Non Imm O-A Visa did not expire yet, you will have to convince border-immigration to stamp you in VisaExempt on your return, instead of providing you once again with a 1-year Permission to stay (capped to the expiry of your Non Imm O-A compliant health insurance).

~ Are you sure that it is 1 million THB in any bank-account? In Belgium - my homecountry - there is a similar bank-deposit guarantee and limited to 100.000,- Euro. But it is not per bank account, but refers to the total of all bank-accounts you have at a specific bank.

I only have 2 personal Thai bank-accounts, both with Kasikorn Bank. The regular Savings Account with a debit-card for daily transactions, and the Fixed Deposit Account where I keep my +800.000,- Thb to meet the financial requirement for the annual 1-year extension of stay based on my Non Imm O Visa for reason of retirement. >> But I want to open a Thai bank-account with another major Thai Bank, in case of any problems with the Kasikorn accounts. Unfortunately the closest BangkokBank, Siam Commercial Bank and KrungSri Bank branches are +40 km from where I live, otherwise I would have already opened an account there. Any suggestions or caveats to opening an account with other Thai banks, there is a KrungThai branche and a GSB (Governments Savings Bank) relatively close to where I live.

~ One of the scientists that has been exploring this field for decades is biologist Rupert Sheldrake. You might be interested in checking out Chapter 4 - Is Matter Unconscious? of his 2012 book 'The Science Delusion' (updated in 2020) > see attached PDF. Here the intro paragraph of that chapter: The central doctrine of materialism is that matter is the only reality. Therefore consciousness ought not to exist. Materialism’s biggest problem is that consciousness does exist. You are conscious now. The main opposing theory, dualism, accepts the reality of consciousness, but has no convincing explanation for its interaction with the body and the brain. Dualist-materialist arguments have gone on for centuries. In this chapter I suggest how we can move forwards from this sterile opposition. But no matter what evidence he provides from the experiments he conducted, 'mainstream science' rejects it as it goes against their dogmatic "scientish" belief systems... The Science Delusion ( PDFDrive ).pdf

~ Yes, and GM to you too!

~ A Friendly Warning from the Red Phoenix: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery on the Day of the Lord Or Fire and Brimstone will be Your Destiny...

It also depends whether the Imm Office of the province where you are residing. does provide the option of a 1-year extension of stay for reason of a Thai dependant child. So best to enquire at your local Imm Offices whether they provide that option. Also and in contrast with a 1-year extension of stay for reason of Marriage to a Thai national, the 400.000 THB only need to be on your personal Thai bank-account at moment of application, with no seasoning requirement. An option therefore is to lend the required amount for a short time, and you could even enquire at your local Imm Office whether it needs to be on your personal Thai bank-account during the under consideration period or whether it is just at moment of application.

They appear as images (or should I say graphical Gestalts) at my end, but they might camouflage as 'conscious texts' on Sunmaster's PC.

~Naaah, It's a Tippasaurus - the even more verbose version of the dreaded Thesaurus... = = = No offence meant Tippa, just poking some harmless fun (but with an underlying message)...

Thesaurus Rex...

A recent peer-reviewed study of public covid data in six northern European countries (prof Norman FENTON being on of the several authors) has discovered that the pre-existing seasonal nature of coronaviruses had more impact on reported covid ‘case’ and ‘death’ numbers than any of the government public health interventions – including vaccinations, lockdowns, masks and travel restrictions. The scientific study was published in the peer-reviewed, Journal of Clinical Medicine. > https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/2/334#B104-jcm-13-00334

You can buy Skype phone-credit, which allows you to make cheap calls to non-Skype users. Or as KannikaP suggested, install WhatsApp for free on your mobile, which allows you to call, message and video-chat any other WhatsApp users worldwide for free (your current phone-number will be your WhatsApp number).

Be aware that when you fly to Thailand VisaExempt (without a Visa), that the airline might refuse you boarding unless you can show evidence of an onward flight reservation from Thailand to an international destination on a date PRIOR to the 30-days Permission to stay you will be stamped in by Thai border-immigration on arrival. The easiest way to meet that requirement for such onward flight reservation, is to book a fully legit reservation from a service provider like onwardticket.com . It costs only 16 US $ and is normally delivered within minutes in your e-mail box on payment by credit-card. It is a genuine flight-reservation but the service-provider will automatically cancel it 48 to 72 hours after issuance, so it's a matter of making that onward-flight booking the evening before or morning of your flight departure date from Brussels. = = = As drJack54 mentioned in his earlier response. If you plan to stay less than 60 days in Thailand, you also have the very easy option to apply for a 30-day extension of stay of your VisaExempt Permission to stay at any Thai provincial Immigration Office. Those 30 days are added to the expiry date of your original Permission to Stay, so there is no need to wait till last days to do it, and at most Imm Offices you can do it from 14 days before your Permission to stay expires. = = = If you did plan to make a trip to Laos before your Permission to stay expires, there is no need to apply for such 30-day extension in Thailand. On your return from Laos and re-entering Thailand Visa Exempt, you will be once again provided with a 30-day Permission, this time by Thai landborder Immigration. = = = Enjy your stay in LoS!

> Game - Seth - Match

~ When you entered Thailand with a stil valid 1-year Multiple Entry Non Imm O Visa, you will be stamped in by border-immigration with a Permission to stay for 90 days. It would be difficult to 'loose track' on that one, as the expiry date of that Permission to stay is stamped in your Passport. And at the end of the 90 days you have 2 options: - Apply in the final days of that 90-day Permission to stay at your local Imm Office for a 60-day extension of stay for visiting your wife (requirements are addressed in previous posts in this thread); - Exit Thailand latest on last day of that Permission to stay, and either returning when the 1-year ME Non Imm O Visa has not expired and is still valid, which will provide you once again with a 90-days Permission to stay; - Apply for a NEW 1-year MultipleEntry Non Imm O Visa, when he old one has expired (the Thai consulate in Savannakhet being one of the easiest ways to get hold of such NEW Visa - note that they now require proof of +400.000,- THB on a personal Thai bank-account as part of the application requirements. Failing to do so, they will only provide you with a 90-day Single Entry Non Imm O Visa.

~ Your post reminded me of this saying by Lao Tze - "the way that can be spoken is not the true way" That quote can be explained in many ways, but instead of trying to put its meaning in my owns word (or rather how I interpret it), I consulted the Brainly website, and the answer that came up addressed it in a far more eloquent way than what I would have written. > The meaning of this phrase is that the true nature of things cannot be fully captured or explained through words or language. It suggests that there is a deeper, more profound reality that lies beyond our ability to understand or express it through language. It highlights the limitations of human understanding and language and encourages us to seek a deeper understanding of the world beyond what we can see or hear. This phrase is also interpreted as a reminder that language and concepts can only point to the true reality, they cannot capture it. It is a reminder that words and concepts are limited and that the world is full of mystery, and that it's important to avoid becoming too attached to ideas, concepts or words as they can limit one's understanding of the true reality. It suggests that true understanding comes from intuition and direct experience rather than through language or concepts. = = = Why this quote? Because all religions / teachings are by definition an imperfect way of trying to convey in words/writing what cannot be expressed in language. And so when choosing which Path (if any) to follow on your individual journey towards Truth, it is only natural that you will be attracted to that religion / teaching which is most aligned with you current level of consciousness. For Tippa that's Seth, for Sunmaster it are the Hindu yogi's, sages and masters. For me it's Gurdjieff and the Sufi sages. Let me be clear > Imo there is no wrong or right Path, but it is the path that helps you on your journey which is the right one for you. And the closer you get to the Truth (or actual Reality as Tippa would say), the more you will recognize and appreciate the unspoken same undercurrent in all of these spiritual approaches. Which finally brings me to the point that I wanted to make, that there is indeed - as Seth channeled - a tendency in Western seekers to search for truth 'far from home'. With 'home' meaning their own cultural background. Every religion / teaching did emerge within a specific setting, i.e. the cultural traditions of the people they wanted to reach at that time using text/language fit and adapted for that specific setting in order to convey a glimpse of the Truth that cannot be expressed in words. It is useful to remember that there is a rich Western esoteric tradition that is actually more fit to our cultural background than the 'exotic' Eastern religions and teachings that were established for people from a different age, time and tradition. And this is no critique of Seekers that have chosen a non-Western teaching that coincides with their current spiritual needs, as I wrote higher: you have to be opportunistic on your journey and opt for that which helps you further. A touch of humor always helps, so here one of my favorite cartoons...