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Read or listen: Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa

Try The West - where it's rife and clearly no one's paying attention.

Aside from all this gobbledygook nonsense, what do Christian biblical references/principles have anything to do with the Thai-Chinese subject matter? Almost baffled as to how some might work their Eurocentric promotions into themes that such doesn't belong.

Yeah, sure. Like this might come about anytime soon or the distant future. ???? [their reasons for existing]

Sure. that's what it's about. Some circles have to make a profit - in one form or another - on the charade.

I certainly wouldn't except them to have this test on arrival/24 hr wait procedure and the presumed glitches to come together in a working fashion at least for another couple of months. It's just the manner in which they initially organize things.

Like all of us. We age. Some of us gracefully and some of us not so. We have this manufactured and romantic notion that "celebrity types" are to remain as we remember them. This certainly isn't the reality part of it.

Should be looking forward to the next life and what it might or might not bring.

That's one way and can be satisfying in an old school way. But if one doesn't have such inclination, a backhoe should be involved - digging, pulling, whatever. Burning takes forever, as coconut stumps are very sinewy and spongy, where they could smolder days on end - even into weeks.

Clever Chinese.

Exactly. Must be profitable for one of these insider circles.

The best pillow is whatever you're comfortable with.

I don't believe that's their nature, unlike their uncouth neighbors to the south.

They're not aware of these things until it's sprung on them at the last minute - Sneaky bastards.

Fasting can be beneficial. Or just eat extremely less.

Recently? Such suspicions have been ongoing for quite some time. Besides all the suspected dodgy scallawaggery, the basic concept of the Wat and monkhood could be questioned. The contemporary practices of desiring material goods, becoming financially healed, heeding to earthly pleasures, etc is becoming much more acceptable than of yesteryear. It's become an employment conduit, less a calling.

Sure. Chinese influences and power have been a part of Siam/Thailand for ages in numerous forms, even of those circles that we're forbidden to speak of. Yet, Chinese have had an historic influence throughout much of Asia. No great revelation.

Too late for some time now. The sideshow cycle continues on.......as it has for decades.

And he keeps being referred to as a "red-shirt" or deeply involved in opposition movements. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Yet, perhaps these aspects of happiness and security are false ones. Especially were govt and corporations are your mother manipulating every frame of your existence. Developed, indeed.

Don't know if that old boy has that much pull these days....

In continuous search for invented boogiemen.

Shouldn't this quasi-protest apply all of the controlling corporate holdings? Part of the same club. Justifying that one might be better than the next is quite contradictory and hypocritical. Shop local markets.

And all this would depend on each situation, as every instance is different from the next. Most everyone I know are reasonably independent and self-sufficient, where the current downgrade is not a factor.

Yet, it was never that high priced in years gone by. The forced manipulation is at work.