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2 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

Speak for yourself.

I can only assume you are baiting me so bye.

Just now, Tippaporn said:

God has no purpose?

Have you read nothing I've written? God is beyond our understanding.

1 minute ago, Tippaporn said:

For what purpose?

Why are you ascribing human characteristics to God? God knows, I don't.

10 hours ago, sirineou said:

are you sure you have enough dots? or will you be getting an incomplete picture. 

No human can ever have the complete picture. There is so much information out there that no individual could ever acquire it all even in a century.

We all get by on what we can acquire, however much that may be.

11 hours ago, sirineou said:

It is not a "TV Show" no ladyboys or midgets involved. It is a seminar. But if you have learned all that you need and rather watch the sky as you said, good for you, You are a better man than me. 

Seminars are only as good as the presenter. I've been to seminars where the supposedly expert, great mind was an absolute charlatan.

11 hours ago, mauGR1 said:

I'd rather look at the sky.

To those that are open to the spiritual, the sky is all the "proof" we need that God exists. I went through most of my life not even thinking about the sky, but now it's a temple of wonder. I'm not saying the sky is God, but that God gave me the ability to see the beauty in the sky, and in all nature.

I've yet to see a herd of cows admiring a sunset.

1 minute ago, Sunmaster said:

2) subjective experiences do exist, but can not be measured through the scientific method 

That's the only option that makes sense, and science can NOT measure a subjective experience.

9 hours ago, sirineou said:

I don't believe in a biblical or  a God with a personal interest in me or humans above all else.  What remains if you want to call God for lack of a better term , I don't mind, 

Seems we agree on "God" then.

25 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

And it's still riddled with holes big enough to drive a universe through.  Just as new evidence was discovered to support the inane theory perhaps in another 120 years new evidence will emerge to toss it into the dustbin of demolished theories history.

 

At best it's a standalone theory which does not at all tie together the whole.

Don't know why you scorn it so. Seems logical that all the matter that makes up the universe emerged from a singular point and expanded outwards, forming galaxies as it went. Eventually everything falls into a black hole and is reborn as another universe in another big bang, for ever and ever and ever.

On 2/28/2020 at 9:46 PM, canuckamuck said:

It is my opinion that Hell is a place in creation that God has removed Himself from. In order for there to be a place separate from him. This is done to allow people the choice to be separate from God as an aspect of their free will. Hell is separation form God, not necessarily a place.

I don't believe that God occupies a "space". I believe that God is outside time and physical space. To define God with "space" would assign human qualities to God and that is ridiculous, IMO.

I agree that hell is something seperate from God. While I'd like hell to exist for Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc, I think such is so far below the notice of the creator that it makes no difference where we end up how bad we are. It'd be like punishing cats for killing birds.

I haven't been on here a while because TVF has been so awful to use, but although I thought the thread was dead a while back, it's flourishing still. Ivor must be happy.

15 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

Some concerning responses all around.

Most people it seems would just carry on rather than visit 

the Thai medical system....

self isolation is good but if you have got it and not on some 

strong measures like a ventilator and powerful medication

you could die.

I believe most deaths on covid are due to poor health care,

poor immunity or a mix of both.

no point eating onions and garlic after you've got it.

Hmmmmm. The death rate is about 3% and most people that get it will just feel unwell. Ventilators are required only for those with respiratory difficulty. If every person in China with Corona was requiring a ventilator not enough in the country to do that. What medication would a virus require? Meds don't cure viruses. Only your immune system combats a virus. So far there is no vaccine.

15 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Not being a snob but the last place you want to be is in the government hospitals go in there with one problem and come out with two more, Im sure they do a great job with the resources they have.

Some friends of ours had to take their daughter to one in Phuket we went to visit her like bodies everywhere people sleeping under the beds obviously the parents looked like a refugee camp I said what you doing putting her in here I wouldn't mind they have money just being sticky

I stayed in a private hospital with bronchitis for a couple of days. I'd have to be really sick to go back. As a registered nurse I was shocked at how poor the care was. No one ever explained anything that was happening. It was like the bad old days of western hospitals when Drs were "god".

Assuming you mean Corona virus ( headline doesn't say ) I'd do the same as with any flue virus. How many go to hospital with normal virus? How many with flue go wandering around in public giving it to others?

13 hours ago, Pharoticus said:

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Information like that got a thread I started closed. It's against forum rules. Please stick to generalities, not specifics.

On 2/29/2020 at 3:51 AM, pdtokyo said:

Hmmm ... ads = free site ?

Are you seriously believing that many of us would post on here if we had to pay for it? The site only exists because of us posters in the first place, so why should we pay?

On 2/29/2020 at 6:35 PM, brokenbone said:

i and many others fear that warming is now coming to an end,

and we are about to enter a reverse, maybe even another minor ice age

If that is true, seems that Gaia is about to do something about humans destroying our environment with exploitation and pollution. If the doomsayers are correct, and the world we live in vanishes Gaia wins either way.

It's interesting to me that while the pro man made warming masses are running around saying that we "must do something" ( though ideas are in short supply for things affordable, acceptable and doable ) the forests in Sth America, Africa and SEA disappear before our eyes in a cloud of smoke, with barely a wimper of protest.

17 hours ago, Bundooman said:

His too.

He's a 'Sir' He's been in the job 33 years. He knows 'everything about the Home Office and he thinks, obviously, that his knowledge is better than anyone else's.

Patel is the second woman that Putnam has worked for. It is the second time that he has clashed with a woman. I wonder why?

 

Maybe he thought HE should be in line for that top job and not them?

He comes across as a proper little 'girl's blouse' - doesn't like being told what to do by a woman.

I bet he did as he was told by Maggie Thatcher!

He is a prissy little pratt!

Civil servants can't become ministers unless they get elected, far as I know, so just what are you talking about?

Perhaps both women that he worked for were bullies? I worked for many female bullies so that would not surprise me.

1 hour ago, ivor bigun said:

believe me i sympathise with anyone who has lived there for 60 yrs ,its got noisier ,but like church bells when newcomers complain of the noise ,just dont go and live near there . 

there is no way on Gods earth Heathrow is going to be moved ,

 

I think Windsor Palace and Eton were there a bit before Heathrow airport. ( they are under the flight path )

10 hours ago, UbonThani said:

Let's see

- you are in your late 70s

- ex nurse

- worked in nz and uk

- divorced at 30, woman took a lot and you still <deleted> about it

- 2 friends betrayed you

- you hate Bangkok

- you like villages

- you live in the north

- you cannot speak Thai

- like animals more than people

- rate girls 10s in gogos

- know lots about ladyboys

- most fun you had in life was sleeping with bargirls

 

Only half right. You really don't know much about me

11 hours ago, UbonThani said:

How do you know all this?

You are obviously just trying to bait me.

Bye

17 hours ago, watthong said:

As a gay man, I don't feel nausea watching a lesbo sex scene or a guy going down on a gal - for me  whether genital to genital or mouth to genital it's the whole spectrum of human sexuality, nothing revolting about it. A human body is a human body, regardless of gender.

 

What revolting is the behaviour of damning other people's sexuality simply because it's not like yours. Why is it ok for a male's mouth going at it on a vagina or a female's mouth, but not ok on another male's dick or his mouth? As long as it's not pedophilia or necrophilia or bestiality - in short any sexual rigmarole between consensual human adults that's not injurious or wounding or involving children and animals (simply because these two groups could not consent to have sex with anyone) then it's all "normal" sex to me. I did find revolting the subject of a docu (not porn) some years ago about a group of gay men having sex with horses, some deaths resulted from such sexual activities - luckily not on the part of the horses I might say.

 

Brokeback Mountain was able to cross the gay barrier because it had a sad ending for the male closeted character. Had he come out of his closet and been able to live a decent open gay life, the movie would not have been that popular. I did not see BM simply because it promoted such defeatist life-style for the gay community. BM's director, Ang Lee ("Crouching tiger", "the life of Pi" etc.) also made an earlier movie ("the Wedding Banquet") in which the gay character had to get married and on wedding night had sex with his bride while highly inebriated, that did not sit well with me either.

I would prefer not to see anyone of any gender having pretend sex in a movie. It's never a necessary part of the movie and adds nothing of importance. If I wanted to watch people copulating I'd get a porno.

It wasn't necessary in the 50s and they made good movies then.