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Thinking from below the belt again huh? Do yourself a favor and actually go out and do some humanitarian work - help some less fortunate people. It has been and is one of the most fulfilling things I've done with my life. To bring a smile to an orphaned child's face, to bring hope to a hopeless person. To give of oneself to the underprivileged. These things have brought me peace and happiness - things that no amount of money can buy. If you wish to help, and I sincerely wish you do. Get away from the computer and unhinge from the so called conservative media banter. it's all BS created for the rich to get richer. You want to know true happiness. it can be found in selflessness. Peace out...

Insightful and relevant post. Thank you. A refreshing rational contribution. I have been focusing on prevention. I agree that, of course the crimes need to be rooted out when and wherever possible, perpetrators identified, prosecuted and seperated from society or reformed if at all possible. And as you suggest prevention needs to be implemented in just the way you describe. This takes quite a lot of work and effort but I'd like to think one day humanity may be able to greatly reduce crime. It seems to me Japan has been doing a fairly good job at controlling crime in their society. I do believe most forward thinking societies are moving in this direction. I was quite appalled at some of the backward thinking suggestions on this terrible issue of human trafficking minors for sex.

Today my account has been banned from the app for 'hate speech' - I presume because of the 'No Trans' statement, they don't say. ? Your entire post is based on this assumption? (you presume?} Me thinks you may have wrote something else in a reply or message that got you banned

Of course pedophiles are born that way? You really believe this? Your hyperbole and warped logic are readily apparent. You equate homosexuality and heterosexuality with pedophilia? What kind of monkey logic is that? You and others that believe people are born evil are a troubled lot. I pity you and your dim view of humanity. Show me any extensive scientific studies that support your sophomoric conclusions. Your crude ideas of criminal reform and social policy have been proven over and over to be ineffective and you want to double down on these mid-evil practices. Reminds me of Americans "War on Drugs" ... a completely failed attempt at solving a huge social problem. Nobody every tried to look at it the other way solving the root cause - why there is a market in the first place. You know why? Too many folks like you (so called conservatives with "traditional" values) like "war". They love conflict and fighting. Killing, fighting and beating is the solution. You'd probably be in the front row at the gladiator games of ancient Rome cheering the death sports. Let's "fight" the bad guys. We need to "execute" the wrong doers. Such a sad state of mind.

Listen, it's obvious you are not a doctor of sociology, humanities or a Doctor of anything for that matter and what you say is hyperbolic (look up the word if you don't know what it means). No, people like Epstein or Prince Andrew or anybody who is a pedophile is a very sick person. We can all see that yea? They were NOT BORN THAT WAY! Something probably many things happened along the way to make them sick. Abuse likely being the primary cause. You need to do more research my friend. And you will need a good comprehension of the English language to do it. There are may studies done which identify that a HIGH PERCENTAGE of pedophiles were preyed upon and abused themselves! Get it? Are you following along here?? So if society was more diligent about making sure children are spared from abuse, have good education, have parents who are well educated and take care of them properly etc etc.. the likely hood of them growing up to be well adjusted members of society is a lot higher. There is a reason why so many African American men wind up in US prisons. Broken homes, abuse, drug addicted parents, poverty stricken neighborhoods rife with gangs and crime. This kind of environment DOES NOT PRODUCE WELL ADJUST MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. GET IT?? Is that too difficult to understand? So a way to make society better is to get out there and HELP MAKE IT BETTER YOURSELF. Volunteer at an orphanage. Give you time to be a mentor to a fatherless child etc. etc. Feed the homeless, donate to well established charities doing this kind of work etc.

Where do you get this stuff? What are you suggesting? All hail the all knowing King Bday Prang!! We are all waiting with anticipation for your book on how to improve the world

You seem to be helping the movement backwards quite a bit with these neanderthal notions of justice and criminal reform. What real contributions have you made to society? Seems to me all you do is pour out this verbal sophomoric nonsense at your desk. Do yourself a favor. Get up out of your chair, turn off the computer, go out and volunteer to help some less fortunate people in the world. There are loads of them here in Thailand. Actually make a contribution to society. I'd be very surprised if you have ever done any humanitarian work. You want to help solve some problems? Make an effort. These kids may have not have ever been abducted in the first place if more people actually gave their idle time and helped these underprivileged people who were preyed upon in the first place. The people who preyed upon them may have never done so had they had help in the form of better education, a good home, proper nutrition and the like. You are clueless.

I am assuming you did not really pay attention in your studies of sociology, humanities or psychology. if you even went to university. What you suggest is such a step backwards in social policy and society building you might as well be living in the dark ages. You do realize what you are suggesting is more or less considered vigilantism. If there was a way for me to not see any of your posts I'd be a lot happier. In fact I will not be reading anything you write again. Just complete nonsense.

Oh man, you really put me in my place 🤣🤣🤣🤣. You blew my mind man. Wow, you made me have such a revelation. I'm going to the Wat today, shave my head and rethink my entire existence.

Don't get your panties in a wad .. I'm just joking around. Having a sense of humor makes life a lot easier and brighter, especially those of us who are towards the end of it.

This weekly (or probably daily) event should just be a running headline. Foreigners in Pattaya have been and will be screwing on the beach tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. In other news long term stay foreigners, surprisingly enough never take the time to learn Thai, familiarize themselves with local culture, try Thai food more than a few times and retire in Thailand expecting to find the love of their life but wind up losing their shirts!!

Airing stuff like this on this forum is tantamount to asking for help from a verbal fire hose .. I mean a verbal thunderstorm. Do what you want. If you are looking for punishment or to be confused out of your mind ask for advice here 🤣🤣🤣

While I do agree that the "customers" deserve punishment. I'd like to think we live in a world where "execution" is no solution. These "customers" are extremely sick people and need to be locked up etc but not killed. Comments like this are what suck oxygen out of a room and deprive the rest of space to make more rational conversation.

My sponsor told me somethings that are really helpful. One important thing we have been reading in the AA book is that it promises in many places that Alcoholics who completely follow the path of the 12 step program can become recovered!! from alcoholism. I hear people say they are recovering alcoholics in meetings. But my sponsor pointed out on many pages of the AA book where they say that had recovered. I love that. It is a very hopeful thing. He showed me the 10th step promise and what it looks like to be a recovered alcoholic. It is a wonderful thing. Another thing he pointed out to me is that if I am willing to "thoroughly follow the path" by taking all 12 steps I won't need good luck. I will have Gods help and I seem to be getting it. Thanks for your encouragement

Respectfully sir, it appears to me that you are making an incorrect assumption about the people who frequent this forum. I noticed most all your posts have zero responses. I think there is a good explanation for this. I've noticed almost all your posts deal with AA and your "Agnostic" brand. I think you might be mistaken in thinking that a lot of people already in AA visit this forum. I for one did not visit this forum looking for "advanced" AA advice or agnostic methods for doing the AA program (which I personally have found through study of the literature with my sponsor cannot be done) I did however find a post that spoke about online AA meetings and that post was very helpful. I would have probably never gone to an AA meeting had I not known they could be visited online using these new video chat apps. Perhaps you'd have more success is getting discussions started (or advertising your book) on recovery forums. my two cents as a new AA member.

I had been having a pretty bad drinking problem. It was suggested that I attend some online meetings of AA on this forum. I used this link to find a couple groups online in Thailand. I really like the online Zoom meetings. I didn't need to turn on my video and I just listened for the first few times. No need to even leave my condo. Just turn on the computer and use the Zoom video chat app. https://aa-intergroup.org/meetings/ I have an AA sponsor and have been doing the AA 12 steps. It appears to be working. I've been sober awhile now. Anybody with a drinking problem who might think they are alcoholic I would urge to check out an AA online meeting. best, SI

Respectfully, I have no idea what you are talking about and it's my business what step I am on. I've been looking for help here and trying to get recovery from alcoholism. My advice to you is, if you wish to help people here, that you not communicate in riddles.

What's even better is that my sponsor explained to me that the fellowship meetings will not give me recovery from alcoholism. He told me he drank again by only going to meetings. So we are talking 30 min everyday and studying how to do the steps in the AA book and I just did step 2. I heard about the Roundup but my focus is on recovering from alcoholism now. Not socializing in the fellowship. My sponsor explained that meetings are nice but not required for recovery. I go to some meetings sure, but meeting with my sponsor has been the focus. Doing the 12 steps is my focus now. When I do go to meetings I hear very little about what I'm studying with my sponsor. I told him about this and he said it's normal. Very few people study the AA book. I'm looking for a Big Book solution based AA meeting. Someone told me aathailand.info has a good meeting.

Respectfully, this sounds condescending. I'm finding the help that I want and need is in the AA book. I found a sponsor who uses the AA book to take me through the steps. Now I'm starting to understand what is and is not AA when people speak in meetings.

Who told you a VPN prevents "hacking into your finances"? that's complete BS. All a VPN does is make your connections to websites appear to come from an IP address that different than the local IP address provided by your ISP. VPN's are especially useful when in a country, say, like China restrics access to content using their control on China based ISPs' A VPN does add an extra layer of encryption but it is not really necessary. However, if someone is using a lot of public WiFi access like in a Starbucks that using a VPN is a good idea because it does ad a layer of encryption across the wireless network (which could easily be hacked and snooped) However for private home use it's not really necessary, in fact I would not use a paid VPN service because if they get hacked then access to ALL YOUR INTERNET traffic can be snooped by hackers of the service. I use my own VPN ... but that's because I know how to build a private VPN using Amazon viritual machines etc. (I'm a systems engineer) All connections to any reputable financial institution already use SSL/TLS via https (encrypted connections) .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS all modern day websites use HTTPS (encryption using TLS) over the interent. The old http protocol was in clear text across the Internet and could be easily snooped. regarding the OP. Thai ISP's are so clueless, cheap and have no relationships with content producers like in the USA. I never worry about using a torrent apps over a Thai ISP. They are too cheap to buy the equipment and manpower it would take to track torrents and have no incentive to do it .. unlike ISP's in the West who have serious pressure from Movie studios and content producers etc.

I am getting the help I want. I've been told something important. People with drinking problems are not necessarily alcoholic. They told me that people with drinking problems who can stop on their own are not alcoholics. Alcoholics are people with a drinking problem, try to stop and then cannot on their own. I think I might qualify. But it's not necessarily because I only have a drinking problem. It's because I tried to stop but could not do it for every long on my own.

I see there are things called open meetings. How do you know that all the other people there are all alcoholics? Maybe they are just like me checking it out and not sure. I need someone to make sense to me here. How about online meetings? you go to those at all?

Where do you get this stuff? How do you know non-alcoholics don't worry that they are alcoholics? Are you a doctor? I'll bet there are also a lot of alcoholics that don't think they are alcoholics. Is this from the AA book I've been seeing on the web site? Sounds like double talk to me. I need someone to make sense. I think I might have a problem and need some real help.

Why are you so concerned with my statements? You felt very motivated to click, quote and respond to my post. You started all this. Let's get back to you. Why are you so concerned?

Folks that are really high might think that's clever and humorous. Those of us who have their wits about them chuckle at the failed attempt at humor. Don't quit your day job (although a lot of pot heads don't have one to begin with)