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Poor Charles, waited all his life for this, and now he may very well abdicate in favour of William. I guess we'll have to see if he actually has the ceremony or not. It would cost a lot of money for him to become king ( bank notes, stationary etc ) and would likely be only a few years. William is the better choice, and he's popular as well, but I always doubted it was going to change as long as she was alive.

Seem to have vanished, but is that just my computer? Only alternative to the laugh one now is like and the cup one. Not going to give a like to a post I disagree with, and a laugh isn't always the best response. The puzzled one was appropriate in many cases.

For a while I was convinced, by others, that our souls were born into humans to learn stuff while on Earth. I'm no longer convinced of that, but I'm open minded as to it's possibility.

Very true. I had an epiphany about that many years ago, that what I disliked most in other people were the things I disliked about myself.

Given the topic is about God, I can't see how mentioning faith is irrelevant to the discussion.

I'm happy to see that you and I are on the same page when it comes to charging him- the sooner the better, but one should not assume he'll be convicted.

I spent hundreds of hours in bar areas of Pattaya and never once was groped by anyone. The most was the usual mating call of "hansum man". I don't know where all this groping went on outside the bars, but I suspect it's more urban legend than reality.

I spent many happy hours on walking Street, specifically on a stool at the front of Lucky Star number 2 bar, and I never once saw any man just sneak up and grope a female ( if that is what he did ). I suspect there is more to the story than we know, but given he has paid up it can be assumed he was in some way involved in inappropriate behaviour. However, the normal response would be more likely that several Thai men would assault the miscreant, than her going to the cops.

Um, it would likely incorporate a bridge somewhere for ships to pass under, as in many such schemes around the world.

Not suspicious at all. Install many boxes instead of the necessary number gives added opportunity for the usual reason.

That's fine so long as you no longer want attractive female company in their 30s or less. IMO only really rich guys get that in western countries.

One suspects they don't want the average pensioner in LOS, despite us collectively spending billions of baht on families, houses etc. One has to wonder why?

That would be millions of people then! Isn't that OTT harsh?

and yet he still became president! It always comes down to the choice between Trump and HRC, and IMO millions were voting against her, rather than for him. IMO he was a protest vote against the Washington establishment.

It's not actually necessary to spend a lot of money to save the NHS. From my 10 years working in the NHS the biggest problem is too many un necessary mangers, and wasting money on fancy buildings and interior decoration etc. Getting rid of 70% of managers would IMO be of great help to make the NHS a better service. Going back to nurses training in hospitals instead of universities would also be of benefit to patients, and while they are about it, bring back enrolled nurses, which did an excellent job for less pay than a registered nurse. There is no need for most patients to be cared for by a university educated registered nurse, given most require basic care.

All of which were very popular when they came to power. If not for WW2 they might have died in old age of natural causes, like Mao and Stalin ( don't think Franco came to a sticky end either ).

I have amended my post so you can understand it.

My political stance is nobody's business, but mine. My posts give my opinions. You are welcome to disagree with my opinions, as I am of yours, but my political beliefs are none of your concern. Anyway, enough of this sidebar.

Given you know zero about my political affiliations, other than they are opposed to such as Biden or HRC ( I'd have voted for Jack Kennedy, Carter, Bernie and voted against Nixon, Ford, both Bush's and Obama ) that I do not consider to be for the common man, you might do well to leave the personal comments to some other forum. I would vote on the issues and policies and vote for any politician that comes closest to my druthers. I suppose I'm an independent voter, sadly lacking in people I respect enough to vote for. Fact of life is that no "party" has all the policies I like, and many policies I don't, but independent candidates have a hard road to get elected.

Oh I'd say the US has a large active and purposeful slice of citizenry, but they ain't on Biden's side.

Rather like they can do an hysterectomy with only a couple of puncture wounds instead of a big cut.

Given that it's not unknown for vasectomies to fail, no way I'd agree to a "no cut" method. I had the ultimate vasectomy, when I had a radical prostatectomy. It works for sure, even though it's not what I'd have chosen. I never had the opportunity for a normal vasectomy given I never had children and in our insanely PC world they apparently won't do one till you have children, despite never wanting any. Madness!

In my opinion you are putting faith and engineering in the same category and that just doesn't work for me. My faith is no doubt different to that of every other poster ever been on this thread, but it's still faith. When it comes to faith, there is IMO no one size fits all version. You have your version and if it works for you, that's good, for you, but don't expect me or all others to agree with you on everything. Mine works for me, and that is enough for me, but whether anyone else agrees with me or not is completely irrelevant to me. I really don't care whether anyone agrees with me or not, as that's not important. What is important is being open to other's viewpoints and giving them the respect they deserve ( unless they are trolls ). I'm open to such, and have learned much about faith on these many pages, but I only use what works for myself.

Sadly, it doesn't usually end that way for them. Stalin and Mao ( 2 of the most evil men, IMO, to ever walk on this planet ) died ( far as we know ) of natural causes while still "in charge".

I have no idea what that means.