LoongJohn

7 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

No rare mirrors or brain failure? Wait, i see the car has rare mirrors, so it has to be brain failure. Total surprise....

'Rare' mirror - one that is seldom used.

Had to be brits who dropped that one US hit most of there targets Think that one said this is for you Hitler your chicken sucks.

You're joking, right?

"No need to panic chaps - it's one of ours!"

...The people of Thailand once again see demroracy hijacked.!

Definition: DEMOCRACY - The best poltical system money can buy.

Some people choose to ignore the basic weakness of Democracy.

Democracy is 'government by the people' - in practice, the majority of votes cast by the people.

The majority of people are thick.

Therefore Democracy is government by the thick.

Sad but true.

"day of final war", "final battle".

That's what he said. No, really!!

There are morons and there are morons and there are morons.

And then deep below that are the Cambrian and Creatacious layers of moronicity.

Keep going.

And further down.

And further down.

Under that, lying in a deep pool of moronic slime, we may find Mr Suthep and his idiotic supporters.

Some people say that such total, utter, profound stupidity cannot exist. I say, "believe what you hear". Mr Suthep has spoken: this is proof that utter, anti-social, crazy, untouchable, mad-as-a-hatter ideas can exist in the modern world - when we thought we had consigned the nutters and Nazis to the "fields where only horses and loonies may roam".

No Mr Suthep is there, free as a bird.

He can say anything he wants.

He can do anything he likes.

Nobody can stop this wild-as-a-buffalo from doing anything that his untamed will tells him to do.

Given that such totally wild forms-of-life can be allowed to express their nutcase ideas, perhaps it is time for falangs to leave Thailand? Or, alternatively, is it time for the genuinely democratic redshirts to express their vision of a democratic future and start to control these mad-as a-hatter crazies? And to get the authorities to arrest this specimen of pre-civilisation?

Why not admit it - you don't really support Suthep, do you?

nobody dies from a shot to testicles, unless the bullet entered through testicles and lodged in the femoral aorta, abdomen, ribcage.

Prove it!

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It's hard to believe that Ms Yingluck would have anything to do with such behaviour - she's got such a nice smile!

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99 counts of murder? Why do the numbers keep increasing?

It's called Inflation.

Whatever her abilties, or lack of them, it must be admitted that she's a fine-looking woman.

Should it not be possible to get her married off to a rich Arab?

Silly young sod - perhaps he'll have learned something from the experience.

Good policy that: when faced with an emergency, have a bit of a cry. It helps no end.

Does any of this strike anyone as a very handy diversion?

A certain gentleman in England has lodged or is about to lodge an application for Political Asylum.

To claim that it would be dangerous for him to return to a country where the people are holding peaceful protests against a corrupt government lacks a certain something.

However, he can now point to the violence and bloodshed in the streets and squeal that he might be torn limb from limb if he has to return to such an awful place. He would have a point, too!

:D

There seems to be something missing in this whole business.

I can understand the Thai people wanting to oust the present Government - but what do they propose to put in its place. If not Samak or one of Thaksin's toadies - then who?

And can anyone tell me the name of a Thai leader who wasn't corrupt?

This isn't a rhetorical question - I'd really like to know...

It's hard to believe that these are the actual questions used - they're full of misspellings, poor grammar and faulty punctuation. Some of them are so garbled as to be meaningless.

A sign of the times?

This thread was going very well for a while - does anyone remember what the topic was?

Sitting on a bus stuck in a traffic jam with nothing to do but sit and watch the girls go by...

Happy Birthday to His Majesty King Bhumipol Adulyadej.

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Wholeheartedly seconded!

A remarkable man indeed. You only have to compare Thailand with its neighbours: Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam to appreciate just how much he has achieved during his reign.

Long may he reign!

Ruentong & John

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I prefer the Japanese Style Buddha Images (not too fat, not too thin - the middle way)

One of the strengths of Buddhism is that you are free to choose...

Millions of years of evolution to produce the human being and we wind up with sheep.

Sheep have got more sense than to hand over thousands of dollars to a complete stranger on the strength of an unsolicited phone call!

The Buddha recommended that we should examine each question for ourselves, and if the suggested solution made sense, then we should accept it.

I am unconvinced as to the principle of rebirth as it applies to being reborn after death since, as far as I can see, any belief can only be based on speculation.

However, whether I believe in it or not will make no difference to whether or not it is a fact.

I am quite happy to leave the final decision until I can prove it to my own satisfaction one way or the other and am fully prepared to be surprised when the time comes!

LoongJohn

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Spirits good and bad have a big significance in Thailand, is this part of Theravada  Buddhist belief?

Gd'day DeDanan

My wife assures me that the belief in spirits (other than Mekong) predates Buddhism in Thailand. Spirit houses abound - to keep the phii happy. Phii-paa live in the forest, to (hopefully) protect the trees from foreign timber interests. There are also spirits to protect the waterways. The belief in spirits goes back to pre-Buddhist animism and served a useful purpose. Chinese ancestor-worship sits side-by-side with Buddhism.

My (Chinese) Thai brother-in-law had a hair -raising habit of always taking both hands off the wheel to offer a wai when driving past a shrine of any sort in Bangkok. It didn't matter if it was Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, Christian or Innuit - he saluted them all. I asked him about this - if he was a Buddhist, why wai the others? He replied: "Insurance!"

Seems fair enough - Why take chances?

LoongJohn

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Over the years, I've come to believe that the essence of life, for me, is simply, "Do good, get good, Do bad, get bad".

That's all I need to know 

It's also what I try to teach others 

I agree entirely Ajarn.

Buddhism is about what works for you - the fact that so many others seem to be getting it wrong has no bearing on one's own beliefs or practice.

Metta

John

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Although in India Avalokiteshwara is regarded as male, the personification of the Compassion of the Buddha Nature appears in China in both female and male forms and is known as Kuan-yin. In Japan Avalokiteshwara also appears in both male and female form and is called Kanzeon.

Avalokiteshwara's vow is to appear in whatever form is necessary in order to lead beings out of suffering. Therefore, Avalokiteshwara is sometimes depicted in female mode and sometimes in male mode, but the true nature of compassion transcends these opposites.

Avalokiteshwara is often shown holding a vase for pouring out the water of compassion and a willow twig with which to asperge this spiritual water in blessing.

(Lifted from <www.buddhistsupplies.com/avalo.html>)