thaibeachlovers

Perhaps many don't want to face reality, but reality says that for most of the human species, life is indeed random and short, though nothing proves consciousness is finite. The biological machine that carries us around ends, though it just becomes something else as nothing is actually lost on the planet, just gets recycled. You may be correct that we all want "something" or "someone" to be in control, so we invent ways to pretend that the world isn't actually chaos, but humans, as the only animals with free will, are still mentally in the cave, fearful of the unknown and the "other". 50,000 years of existence and we still can't stop killing anyone we don't like, or destroying the environment. If God actually had human like emotions, God would have sent another asteroid last century about 1918, IMO.

Does it just co incidentally look like a Cyberman? Congrats for staying out of it for so long. I tried, but I got sucked back in. The other long time member of the thread seems to have successfully escaped for good.

If Trump is as bad as you proclaim, why is he doing better in opinion polls than Biden? Everyone knows what he is, and what Biden is and more people choose Trump.

Do you ever think about what you post? How many wars did Trump start? Avoiding boys coming home in a bag is all a good president has to do.

One suspects the "evidence" is not true beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Is that a rhetorical question? Obviously a great deal of money is involved, though I suspect a great deal of subterfuge is being used to avoid telling the British taxpayer just how much is involved.

Certainly safer than being a Palestinian in Gaza. I'm constantly bemused by claims that anyone has a "right" to be taken care of by British taxpayers as long as they can arrive on a leaky rubber boat. If it's the "law", then the "law" or rather the <deleted>s that wrote it is/ are <deleted>, In My Opinion. If Thailand had the same nuttso laws, I could have turned up on a leaky rubber boat and be living the life of Riley there. Unfortunately it doesn't, so kudos to them for not being sucked into the morass of western lunacy.

Trump hasn't been in government for 3 years, so if he was the problem, why has it not been fixed? Perhaps because Biden talks to dead people instead of fixing the economy.

Indeed. IMO the only reason China has such influence and military might is that the USA and other western nations gave them the money to become so. Another reason to dislike the 1% that exported all the real jobs to China, so they could get even richer exploiting poor Chinese.

I liked Tucker, and I was always entertained by hoping to see a different expression on his face, but never did. Regardless of how Fox portrays itself, it's an opinion channel, not a news channel, other than the weather report. Obviously I refer to the shows, like Tucker's and Hannity's, not to the items showing destruction by yet another whirlwind or hurricane etc.

Just follow the money if one wants to know why countries on a certain continent are a disaster. Look at who has got most of it.

Seems like a good way to develop a better culture, but the forces of darkness will never allow it to flourish, IMO. Seems to me that the bad people are winning. I fear for the future, and hope not to be around to see the end.

Capitalism is a rotten system and deserves to sent into the sun. Unfortunately the 1% will see it survive, as otherwise they are in the tumbrils. I lived under a REAL socialist system for a year and it works, but only if the lazy and criminal are absent. What would be a better system, you ask; certainly not communism. The best actual society I lived in was in 1970s Singapore under a benevolent dictatorship, but that was a small country with a small population and zero tolerance of lazy or criminal elements. Perhaps an AI dictatorship would be of benefit to those not lazy or criminal, backed up by police that actually rid society of bad elements. You refer to the pension by which I eke out my remaining years- certainly not a generous one. Regardless, when I was young it took 5 people working on a farm I know to produce a livable income for all those on it. The same income is generated by 2 people now. For those that are ignorant of farming lives, machinery has replaced people, and soon even those overseas fruit pickers that arrive on our shores every year will be replaced by a machine. As long as other countries need food and timber, NZ will earn money to pay pensions despite having less people working. What would render us into poverty would be many more unemployable bodies, as every extra unemployed body sucks the available funds into smaller portions. NZ actually needs less people, not more- machines will do the work and the bodies will find work in caring for the aged. The survival of the Human race is, Because, as far as we know, humans are the only way the the Universe has by which to examine itself. Sorry, you lost me there, but if you think humans are the only "intelligent" species in the universe you should go out on a dark and cloudless night, look at the countless billions of stars in just our tiny portion of the universe, and wonder if we are the only ones that can think about such things. BTW, I use the term "intelligent" with caution when referring to humans, given the mess we have made of the planet. Also, humans are, like the dinosaurs, just a temporary visitor on planet Earth, and if we keep going the way we are, gone even sooner than expected. Like death, ends are inevitable.

Surely Ukraine can only WIN if Zelensky leads his troops into the Kremlin to arrest Putin? Short of that, a negotiated truce along the more or less present front lines would be a WIN for all those that don't have to die. There are those that are hoping for Putin to exit, but it's likely his replacement would carry on, given Putin is not the only official committed to the cause. Of course, Gorbachev may be resurrected from the grave to end it, like he ended the Afghanistan fiasco, but don't hold your breath.

The lack of new posts was already obvious before the site went down. Even before the Gaza conflict. That's what happens when nothing much is happening there. A "few weeks"? Doesn't "few" mean 3 or more?

How many of the over 5,000 children killed by israeli ( and American ) bombs were Hamas fighters?

Yes, that the israelis apparently brought in themselves.

Do you actually know any Muslims? Doesn't seem like it. I do, and of the thousands I met none were sadistic members of a violent death cult. Parroting obvious hate speech isn't doing your case any good.

Seems somewhat puzzling for me that since 1967 the israelis have chosen to live in such fear of Palestinians that they have to brutalise generations of their own by sending them to oppress Palestinians on their own land. It's not like any of them don't know that they are doing so on land that they are illegally occupying and stealing. What goes through their minds when they raid Palestinian residential areas, break into houses and destroy the occupants possessions, destroy cars, rip up roads, water mains and power lines, arrest children for throwing stones, and leave dead people behind? Perhaps they are so brainwashed up to now that they think it's ok to do that, but no longer is the world ignoring it, so they should be getting the message loud and clear any time they go traveling, if they are actually brave enough to leave the country.

I think that had I lived in the 1930s Europe, I would have read similar items in the newspapers of a certain country back then. BTW, the death toll is already 14,000 civilians, not counting those under the rubble of their homes, and once israel resumes bombing in 4 days it will get higher, so how many deaths qualify as "that high", 100,000 or 1,000,000, or how about 2.3 million? It's somewhat ironic that certain posters that were so outraged by Russian conduct in Ukraine are now defending the same sort of thing by israel.

Are you pleased about the over 5,000 Palestinian children that have been bombed to death as well? I guess that some might think that as they would just grow up to be Hamas supporters it's OK to kill them before they grew up. After all, according to some israeli officials, apparently all Palestinians in Gaza deserve to be killed. Now where in history have I read about officials saying things like that.............? https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gaza-genocide Israeli MP Says It Clearly for World to Hear: 'Erase All of Gaza From the Face of the Earth' https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/israeli-lawmakers-kill-all-palestinians-remarks-resurface Controversial statements by a former Israeli minister who called for the death of all Palestinians was remembered on social media and came under fire again.

I see the poster you quoted is resorting to the usual baiting by calling anyone that does not support bombing thousands of innocent children to death a Hamas supporter. If it wasn't about such a tragic situation it'd be pathetic. It's that sort of baiting that has made me put so many of them on ignore. At least I don't see their vile insults unless someone quotes them

and it'll be hello jail for that <deleted> once he's no longer PM. Israel is going to go the same way as apartheid South Africa IMO. They are so arrogant that they think they can just keep bombing thousands of children to bits and the US will cover for them forever. Even Biden has had enough of it and made noises about the 2 state solution, and no israeli occupation of Gaza after ( assuming there are any Palestinians left alive in Gaza after the winter ).

Absolutely not. They are not to be trusted. They already broke the terms of the agreement, which was why the last captives were not released for some hours. Apparently wouldn't allow aid into the north and shot someone walking along a road. Just as well the US isn't guaranteeing the agreement, or it'd be cancelled already. Vile scum to shoot unarmed people. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli-troops-fire-at-palestinians-attempting-to-return-to-northern-gaza-during-cease-fire DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinians and wounded 11 others

Thai women are very clever at making silly farangs think they understand the rubbish they are spouting at the unfortunate women. I used to listen in to the farangs one sided conversations in bars and wonder how the girls knew about the subjects they were holding forth on, till I wised up that they were pretending.