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13 hours ago, terryq said:

So it was more important for him to travel half way round the world for his own pursuits rather than supporting his wife when she was close to giving birth.

 

Seems somewhat selfish to me , just my opinion.

 

 

Everyone in this world is selfish....

Sometimes generous or philanthropist people just get rid of part of their wealth, knowing very well that cannot take it with them, after....

On 7/1/2025 at 8:25 PM, Quentin Zen said:

Phuket and Pattaya.

 

Want to have a safe experience, never go near these places..

I hope that you are safe at home, close to where you were born...

That's the best place for you, checking all those other places on the globe, that cannot be safe, too far from your dwelling....

Cancer spreads in various ways....

Employment opportunities very limited, legal ones that is..

Tattoo shops,

Maybe washing dishes in the back of a restaurant

Now that I know that Thai food is made of bad cheap oils, heated to a toxicity point, and then refined sugar is added to make it eatable, I cook and eat eat at home with good oils and good ingredients.

One thing is certain, the availability of fresh and good sea food and chicken is just astounding.

Just buy good oils, Olive and coconut oil, perhaps avocado oil also, and sesame oil for added flavour.

If one considers that the first part of (LGBTQIA+): Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual, which is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, as a sexual preference stemming more from DNA, something that people are born with, then the addition that other groups try to add, TQIA+, to benefit from its already accepted social view of LGB.

Principally because this addition include groups that might be considered as stemming from a 'mental disorder', or from the influence coming from left wing propaganda, then their position is that these two groups should be looked at separately. LGB, hopefully accepted in many societies, not all of course, amalgamated with mental conditions...

Some LGB groups have already dissociated with the other groups that are trying to get added acceptance by tagging along..

The more the added groups (TQIA+,) make noise, the more it will give rise to TERF.

SHHHHHHHHHHH

Oh yes, tests are needed for these farangs...

When you get get to a traffic light that just turned red, do you:

1.- Look on the right

2.- Look on the left

3.- Look on both sides

Before proceeding to go through the red light....?

"His operation reportedly charged 10% monthly."

How can anybody brought up in any religion, in any type of moral values, be able to extort that much from fellow citizens.

Enough to lose faith in humanity....

Someone must please tell these people that all the police roadblocks meant primarily to collect money from motorbike riders, mainly young new visitors,  who do not wear a helmet, it does not make me feel safer on the roads.

35 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

 

If she did the crime, and she was a stewardess, she knew what to expect if she got caught. She shouldn't be surprised about what comes next, and none of us should have any sympathy for her actions. Let her enjoy the fruits of her endeavor, I hear Sri Lanka has a wonderful prison system, she will do well.

Oh well.

Thanks for sharing your emotional disorders with this forum..

Starmer’s use of “strangers” may be less explicit, but it carries the same implication: that foreign customs, languages, and loyalties dilute the nation’s cohesion.

But it does...

A nation is defined as....

-Common history

-Common culture

-Common set of goals

-Common institutions.

Ben Shapiro...

Should not be difficult for anyone now to see a culture that cannot integrate in a new environment. But impossible to name it perhaps...

The culture here, Khap, na Khap.

Khap Phohm....

Hoping an added 'Wai' would cover it....

12 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

you could always go home

 

The problem with your comment is that 'If someone goes home, it would not stop the carnage on the roads here'.

Perhaps you could rephrase to remove the fallacy.......

17 hours ago, WHansen said:

No sympathy for either of them. The risks are well known.

Two young lives ruined.

A lack of sympathy, or empathy, is a core characteristic often associated with sociopathy, also known as antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Sociopaths tend to struggle with feeling or understanding the emotions of others. 

Just wondering if this disorder would also include lack of sympathy towards siblings, children....

Thailand creates a culture. Support this culture.

And then appears offended at the result of this culture.

Very simply, laws not enforced are the same as no law at all.

Wrote that before.

This taxi driver will get a slap on the wrist, while complaining that he had a reason....

5 hours ago, Sierra Tango said:

This may help your grades;

Known as the Tripitaka, the sacred texts of Buddhism are broken down into three sections known as baskets. Referred to in the West as the Three Baskets, the Tripitaka includes the Vinaya Pitaka, the Sutta Pitaka, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka.

My point is that in this country, if you start talking about these concepts, people will look at you and wonder from what planet you are coming from.

And I repeat myself, I did not find any Buddhism here...

6 minutes ago, connda said:

You didn't study very well.  If I was your Buddhist professor, I'd say that you flunked your course in Buddhist Studies In Thailand.  An "F" for you!  Better luck in you next academic endeavors.

So much substance in your post, I do not know where to start.....

Well, thanks for your input on Buddhist religion, that will certainly benefit the readers here....

And your teachings here will help me move from an 'F' to a 'C' I would hope.

So I will read it again, before taking your knowledge test....

12 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

This is very normal behavior you find in all countries.

 

Locals are warm and considerate with their own, and cold and inconsiderate against those outside their own tribe. Not always, but often.

 

Very normal.

How about when they have a stabbing argument within their culture. Warm and considerate, huh.

How about riding motorbikes that can break an eardrum?

How about endangering people on the roads by caring only about themselves?

How about people having to put a 'No parking' sign in their driveway?

And so on...

I find many of them smiling during an hand to hand' money transaction...

14 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

My mom, rest her soul, was a Catholic.

She had lost her first daughter at a young age. Traumatized her for life. 

She needed something to believe in.

And she maybe wasn't intellectual enough to search for any alternatives.

 

But even people who are intellectual and curious-minded enough to seek out alternatives to Catholicism, where does that usually lead them? To some other questionable belief system? To atheism? Belief in nothing?

 

I didn't watch the OP. I bet he's an atheist. Atheists love to knock religions, but they got nothing better. 

 

For some people, it served a purpose and they didn't harm anyone while following this religion.

 

I was highly critical of Catholicism growing up, but then realized that some people need it and it serves a purpose. 

 

 

Atheists love to knock religions, but they got nothing better. 

I think that Richard Dawkins did offer better alternatives to a delusional religion.

He sometimes talk about listening to beautiful poetry or music, bringing him at times to tears.

I ask my son to look at the clouds, and see the beauty in them.

And as he says, believers are taught to believe in a religion (Delusion) without proof.

The result is people who get to think that 'that is what I believe', is a perfectly good argument.

Raised under a Christian culture will shape nicely the mind of an individual.

But accepting this belief without proof, makes good people do bad things, thinking that they are right in doing so.

So how about learning how to find a purpose in life, without brainwashing ourselves into a delusion...

On 4/25/2025 at 11:56 AM, LosLobo said:

 

 

Since the Democratic party under Biden was terrified of even attempting trade negotiations and possible conflict, let alone a war, might just bring it in the scope of the topic.