Andre0720

All those who smiled back at me......

Sex is dangerous. But we can all feel more safe now....

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have. Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. The question of how to assign responsibility for actions if they are caused entirely by past events. But in order to establish rules for living morally in a society, it is a pre-requisite to pretend that people possess free-will. The justice system is based on the existence of free-will, even if it includes the possibility of claiming insanity... The result would simply be a different type of freedom limitation. This guy is certainly just not lucky, to have a behavior that is contrary to his own well-being.. All about luck..

Trying to find the other factors that lead to this accident, based on cultural 'facts', you consider 'disgraceful'... Your silly 'R.I.P.' is totally meaningless for deceased people.

This is Thailand, it is all about a given 'mental attitude'. As you always wear a helmet, your mental attitude would certainly indicate that you are careful while driving on these roads. Hopefully including not using a phone while driving, driving at a reasonable speed, all the way to not blocking half a lane to park a car while at a mini mart, a danger to other motorists, as so many people here do. Well, just that you might still be alive for more than just wearing a helmet...

So you are, again, saying that experiences like this one from a Belgian woman, about Moroccans, are just meaningless. Well, meaningless, unless the comment comes from you....

Trying to get closure on this hehe. So 'People who fail to recognise that they’ve made intellectually dishonest or critically flawed comments often respond this way" So you are saying that I am intellectually dishonest because I wrote that a policeman said that 'all tourist cars get broken in in Naples', or something similar. Well, that is what HE said. And that I am intellectually dishonest because I wrote that the Algerian lady told me that if I would leave my car windows open a bit while parked, that I would come back to an empty car. Well, that is what she said. So nobody can talk about their experiences, because that would be only anecdotal, and meaningless. So let's all remain quiet, to avoid anecdotes, as this is what experience is all about. Everybody is wrong, obviously. You must be quite bigoted. But no, that would be wrong because merely be anecdotal. Such as there were no locks on houses where I lived as a child. No need for that. Oh well, just an anecdote. Such as the police services informed recently an eventual buyer of a property in my area of town, that this area was very safe. Oh, just anecdotal, so meaningless. Certainly as many crimes as in any other areas in this world.

I see now why some people are against trump, they are just as thick as all those lefties....

I understand that calling someone 'racist' used to be a way to silence someone. But now the tides have changed, as people realized that races do exist, and that it indicates the type of culture a person was subjected to in his upbringing...

If they stayed home and fought for their country, they would not be "refugees". The common sense of Trump understands that....

I am amazed at how you refuse information that can distinguish facts from silly generalizations, as you just did. This here is stupid sir: "As would happen in most cities in the UK and throughout Europe..." I tried to put a bit of humor in my saying that 'when something happens in general, I have a tendency to generalize'. But you say it as if it was true, throughout Europe. Perhaps you should visit there sometime... If you do not want to appear pretentious, you better change your style of writing. I did rent a car and drove over Europe, from Paris, down to Lyon, crossed the Alps, over toward Milan, than spent some days in Venice. Then crossed over to Greece, mount Olympus, then Pyreus, the Greek islands and back. Then drove across Greece to Patras, then a ferry to Brindisi Italy. Then spent some days along the Adriatic sea, before going up towards Rome. Then a stop in Naples before. Parked the car, again, near a hotel, where we spent the night. At booking, the clerk told me to be careful about my car. Keep nothing in view, make sure that it is all locked. A bit surprising. In the morning, going to the car only to find out that it had been broken in, and that our camping gear etc had been stolen. Headed to the police station to report the crime, as my gf was still very nervous. To our amazement, the police officer to calm down, that "everybody gets robbed in Naples", meaning tourists I presume. The hotel clerk had told us, the only place in all of our itinerary in the small part of Europe I must admit, but still indicative enough to "generalize" about Naples being one hell of a dangerous place to visit, if one cares about his belongings. And confirmed at the police station, by an officer in uniform. Might be better than statistics that are skewed by a refusal by authorities to mention the culture involved in crimes. Now, what is more credible, that Naples sticks out as a culture of thieves and thefts, or your generalization "most cities in the UK and throughout Europe". As we drove to Rome, parked our car to spend a few days, no warnings and no thefts, same as our trip from Paris all the way to Brindisi.. And then over to the Mediterranean, parked the car again, no problems, then all the way up towards Paris, no problems. Sometimes generalizations are called for, as expressed also by people who were born and raised in a major citiy in Algeria, and says that 'if you leave your car windows open by a few inches when parked, there would be nothing left in your car when you come back. I had not taken seriously the warning of the hotel clerk in Naples, but I now take very seriously this warning from the Algerian lady. Her generalizations are based on experience. But yours are simply baseless sir.

His name Arezy does not indicate clearly an ethnicity. So it was not my inclination to use ethnicity in my post. But here is what I had read about the name: " The "Arezi" family name is likely a variation of the surname "Arazi," which has roots in both Hebrew and Arabic cultures and is associated with the Middle East and North Africa. It can be linked to Jewish communities in regions like Poland, the Middle East, and North Africa, and Arabic-speaking populations in the Middle East. The name may derive from the Hebrew word araz ("to hide") or the Arabic word Arabi ("Arab"). So ethnicity is unclear, so this is why I wrote: "a French Nationals of Arab descent). Because if so, people of that culture in general are thieves by nature". And I do not base on statistics this description of north African Arabs, it is based on comments from north African Arab themselves. When I am asked by a stunned Algerian lady why I am leaving my car front windows open by some 2 inches before going shopping with her. I simply said, hot day, leaving a bit of air flow during our shopping. She told me that if I did that in Alger, I would come back to find everything removable gone from my car.... That a Tunisian and a Moroccan both broke into my valuables before leaving my house, where they were guests. That when my mother visited Tunisia, they woke up in the morning to find that all the clothes drying on the clothesline were gone... Then I understood why some previous Algerian guests, honest educated ones, were always locking up everything they could. This is all the statistics that I needed, to understand that the "culture" in north Africa is not the same as the culture in my country.

That was my first thought, a French Nationals of Arab descent). Because if so, people of that culture in general are thieves by nature, and when I know something like that for a fact, I have a tendency to generalize...😊 And I do know some exceptions that confirm the rule....

A name can suggest a country of origin, and it follows that the culture of that country might get under the microscope. Nothing to do with race... The culture. And if all cultures were equal, there would be no need to look at that characteristic..

Just that many people use the same type of argumentation to try to negate the damage that tobacco does to people...

Thanks, great videos... I have been following the rules of Anthony Robbins for years... Simple terms, easy to understand, no drugs, sometimes referred to as 'medication'... ''Make some 50% of your food fresh fruit and vegetables. Meaning not even cooked..." Permanently... In sync with this doctor's view, as explained at 4 min in his video. "Permanent change in a lifestyle, the way you eat". But then how to distinguish healthy food from the poison on our tables. Healthy eating: Focus on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins, while reducing processed foods, sugary drinks, and unhealthy fats. Taking medication to control diabetes while eating poison food is a good way to fail. 1.- Processed food, eliminate 2.- Sugary drinks, eliminate, as they are laced with 'refined sugar', the poisonous one. Sugar from fruit, not a problem. It is natural. Eliminate all sources of refined sugar. 3.- Avoid unhealthy fats, must start with using only good oils, not from seeds, like canola for example. Olive oil, coconut oil are the main good oils.. Nearly all the food cooked in Thailand contains unhealthy components. The main flavoring of food in Thailand is the addition of refined sugar, as no one knows how to properly cook food here. And one important source of this refined sugar is inside the bottle of sauces, that are all ubiquitous on cooking tables of restaurants, bought in food stores. So start by eating food that you cook yourself. With no processed meats, no refined sugars, no bottles of sauces, and no unhealthy oils. As one of my good friend from back home said one time, "I thought I was eating healthy". When we found out that all (a challenge to find food with no added refined sugars) the food here contained refined sugars, that we thought we were avoiding... Eating poisons and taking meds after, is not the way... Good luck...

I would think that what is to get immigration rules based on clear objectives, instead of silly requirements designed to produce more and more papers in the immigration process. And to get someone in every IO to be responsible to make decisions, based on whether the individual showing up at an immigration point would contribute to the main objectives. Now the system is designed for clerks who look blindly at paper works, no objective in mind. So eliminate the refusal of individual at an immigration point, who has documentation of 15 years of an income way above the requirements, but in one instance, one piece of paper is missing... Clerks at work. Literally blindfolded, and feeling all powerful to make a decision, based on papers, not on objectives. An officer at a bank in my country, quick look at a banking history and credit history, can make a quick decision. An officer that person is. Clerks have a purpose, but they do not wear a uniform that would indicate a decisional power.

When life is that bad, that even tattoos and ketamine all fail to spice it up, there must be a better way to put an end to it....

Hope this car driver offered a "Na Khap", and a "Wai", after, as it is customary, politeness oblige...

Oh well, The damage to the US created by the failed Left wing ideology is so deep rooted in all facets of the economy, that fixing it is a larger task than anticipated. Just never vote again for any Democrat style of governing, and hope for improvements. No other solution available. Out of these millions of US citizens, Trump was the one chosen. Lucky to have anyone wanting such a job, certainly not to be found here, the forum of complaints and vitriol.

I suggest that you revise your style of writing....

Right wing policies. Keeping the country safe... Oh, the US is under that philosophy now. I will be back after comparing the results of their similar ideology... BRB...

Sir, The consumer product that kills the most people is tobacco. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death globally, responsible for approximately 8 million deaths every year. Key facts about tobacco-related mortality: More than 7 million of these deaths are the result of direct tobacco use. Around 1.6 million deaths are among non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke. Tobacco is the only legal consumer product that kills up to half of its users when used exactly as intended by the manufacturer. Smoking-related illnesses kill more people annually than the total of all deaths due to alcohol, opioids, suicides, murders, and traffic collisions combined in some regions.

Way to go Mr. President. The people voted for you, to enact right wing policies, to replace the failed left wing ones.. And the left wing will still try to stop the better policies to be implemented. Now is the time for families to take care of their own, instead of relying on government programs. Nos is the time to reduce the size of the government, against the failing strength of democrats under left wing policies. I was there, reduction of the bureaucracy always failed, because bureaucracy protects itself. The bigger it remains, the bigger the salaries at the top. The people voted for a right wing government. The left should step aside, and let the people see the results that they voted for....

Dying on the roads is so familiar here that Thais do not fear it. If they were on a plane, they would buckle up, and hope that the pilot is experienced... Just the way it is. Perhaps the idea of drowning would make them react... People want to die in a familiar way....