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Have you ever had a near-death experience (NDE)? If you have had one, what was your experience? Has it altered your perspective on life? Do you now fear death more, or do you view death with acceptance? Do you believe that consciousness transcends death or that the jaws of nothingness slams shut at the end of life? If you believe that NDEs are just a DMT hit before you expire into nihilistic nothingness, that's Ok too, explain why you hold that opinion as well as what led you to believe the way you do?

Wow bob. Social commentary. Way cool. "..When people say things like 'Liars always get found out'... This is a total fallacy and factually untrue." Agreed 100%. A quintessential example: politicians. Politicians lie with abandon. "Liar" is pretty much a synonym for "politician."

Gotta agree. If it's important enough it will make it to the SCOTUS in due time. Just not as fast as some would like. However, partisan judges seems to be more of an issue now than in the past. That's the bad thing. On the flip side, that is a two-way street. Which is a bad thing too imho. Judges should be impartial, but not nowadays it would seem.

Next we'll hear of the "Perils of Man-Made Global Sinking." Of course, there is a solution for that. Just sell all the land, like Oahu, to billionaires and force the commoners to the mainland "for their own safety," of course!

Four fingers into a bottle of scotch, 'eh bobby? Time to heave out the lines and set the star-drag, and set to motor to idle and pour another.

If Somchai and Nok want to win Darwin Awards, why complain. It's their lives. "Up to you!"

They should probably put lithium in the water supply, well, at least the water Thai Big Wigs drink. Thai Immigration Policy as a Tolkien book: "We loves tourist. Tourist bring monies. Thai make billions and billions of $$$ from tourist!" "TOURIST BAD! BAD TOURIST!" "But we loves the tourists, don'ts we my preciousssss." "END EASY VISA! DON'T LET TOURIST STAY. BAD TOURIST." "But whats about all the monies my preciousssss?" "TOURIST BAD! BAD TOURIST!"

See Geese. See Geese lay Golden Eggs. See Geese that lay Golden Eggs get into pecking match with Thai chickens and poop on the commons. See Farmer cull the Geese that lay Golden Eggs. The End. -Khun Aesop

You people are quite sick as are the journalists who are to promoting this trash. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna deconstructs this hit piece: "“I seldom respond to nasty headlines because I don’t like giving trash credibility, however, being that there is allegedly a book coming out with me named and attacking @POTUS, his marriage, our first lady, and frankly implying something distasteful about me, I am responding,“ Luna wrote in response to a Daily Beast post on X titled, “‘Don’t Tell Melania': Trump Once Offered Rising MAGA Star His Bed.” That post has since been tagged with a Community Note stating that it is devoid of context. Luna continued: “I was very pregnant and at the time experiencing pre-eclampsia symptoms, but was not diagnosed.” “As soon as @realDonaldTrump boarded the plane, being the gentleman and good person that he is, said if I did not feel well, I could use the back room,” she explained. “He did this in a respectful way and in front of my husband, of which we thanked him. He also assured me that they had a medical team on board in case anything happened and they were aware of how pregnant I was.”" -Source MSN Good job leaving out all of the context OP. You should consider getting professional help considering you've been dragged this low by your hatred of the US POTUS. You're quite ill.

None of them look like the Filipinas or Thai gals I've been with. I not really a fan of the "whitened" and "Hiso-polished" types that make their way into beauty contests and modeling jobs. I've met some really beautiful gals that fit "the girl next door" and "down-to-earth" categories which I personally prefer.

I've listened to this same propaganda from the US and the West my entire life. Worded exactly that way. Do you know who that propaganda is for? It's for the consumption of Western citizens. <Enter name of target country here> is run by a ruthless dictator who kills and enslaved his own people and then attacks his neighbors without provocation...... <add embellishments here> Every country which fails to bend a knee to US primacy eventually gets tagged with the same propaganda, virtually word for word, in order to get the US public (and the Western public in general) on board to support never-ending "Forever Wars", US/NATO bombing campaigns, and eventually "boots on the ground." Funny that when the US/NATO invades a country, it's called "a responsibility to protect." When a "target country" defends it borders it's called "unprovoked aggression." When you listen to this for 70+ years, including when you are on active duty and see it first hand, some of us wake up to the facts and see right though the propaganda. Once you get to that point, you begin to promote actually peace, promote the end of conflict, promote anti-war ideals, and you can tell who the actually "aggressors" are as opposed to whom you are told the "aggressors" are. I'd say there is a large majority of AN members who buy the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. And as such these same people literally hate Russia, hate Russians (actually hate everyone their leaders tell them to hate), and can see no end of this conflict except with the strategic defeat of Russia. And the only way that happens is via WWIII or nuclear war. So by extension, these members want to see WWIII even if it leads to nuclear war. "We must give our lives to keep Russia from winning!" No - you can give YOUR life. Please - go volunteer to join the Ukrainian military and give your life to stop the Ruskies. Don't volunteer mine in some f***ed up WWIII culminating in a nuclear exchange. I've no dog in this fight other than in support of the end of war in all its forms. In my book, Russia is in the right given the history of European aggression toward Russia over the last centuries, and then NATO expansion since the early 1990s. Russia and Russians are the victims who are now pushing back on the actual aggressors.

Ditto. The reality on the ground is that Ukraine, and by extension NATO, has lost. But? This ends up looking like a real life version of The Black Knight skit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail with those in the West who viscerally hate Russia and all ethnic Russians, rooting the Ukrainian troops onwards to their deaths. Why not - these people have no skin in the game. So in their deluded minds, Ukraine should keep feeding troops into the Russian meat-grinder, and when they are consumed, begin the process and conscripting European young men and women and begin to feed them into the meat-grinder too. Admit defeat (they have lost the war and, yes, Russia has won on the ground), surrender, and get on with creating a "Neutral," disarmed, Ukraine which will never host NATO or Western troops on the Russia border - ever. Then it ends. But you know how insane these people are, like those AN members screaming that "Russia can't be allowed to win?" The only other recourse is using nukes against Russia, and my guess is many of the real, virulent Russia-haters want a nuclear war to happens so that "Russia can't be allowed to win." Kill us all so Russia doesn't win!!!" Insanity. "Tis but a flesh wound!"

Essentially what the pro-Ukraine members here are saying from the comfort of their bar-stools is that Ukrainian troops should all willingly go to their deaths in order to support NATO expansionist aggression as their country and their troops are used by European elites and US neo-cons as an expendable battering ram to harm Russia, and then following up with the dumbest idea in the modern history of warfare and actually invade Russian territory. And they keep ignoring the fact that this war was over in April 2022 when Russia and Ukraine had initialed the Istanbul Communiqué until Boris Johnson acting on behalf of the US and NATO talked Zelensky out of signing the agreement - and here we are: Ukraine is on the verge of losing four more oblasts and perhaps even more land if they fail to accept the reality of the war on the ground and sign a surrender. Ukraine, and by extension NATO (as Ukraine is nothing more than a NATO proxy) have lost.

It was the dumbest thing on the planet to do. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the Russia psyche and the affect that the last two European incursions into Russia has on the literal soul of the average Russian person. The WWII invasion of Russian is still in the generational memory of Russia and Russians, which is why pushing NATO troops closer and closer to the Russian border and then using an expendable Ukraine proxy for NATO to push troops right on top of the Russian border provoked the reaction it received. That was bad enough. And then some moron in the UK and US thought it was a good idea to tell the little man in a green sweatshirt to go ahead and actually invade Russia in an oblast where a major battle between the Nazis and the Russian forces played out during The Battle of Kursk. Worse, German generals are on record urging on the invasion of Russia though Kursk. I guess today we will see as this is the deadline that President Putin set for the surrender of Ukrainian troops in Kursk. Yep - invading Russia though Kursk will go down as one of the dumbest moves in the history of modern warfare. Well, accept in Europe where the New Battle Of Kursk will go down as one of NATO's Ukraine's most gallant Victories! We truly live in Bizarro-World, where right is left, up is down, and defeat is victory.

🇺🇦 Obvious lies and Pootin Propaganda. Grrrrr!!! The brave Ukrainians have Ivan and the North Koreans running back to Moscow with their tails between their spindly cockroach legs. Putin's on his deathbed, and the Ruskies are out of weapons and ammo, and are down to throwing rocks and building ineffective missiles out of North Korean washing machines. The war is all but over as the AFU is posed to send the war-criminal Pootin to the Hague and then break-up Russia and give it to war-hero and chief, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy The Brave and Lion-Hearted. Slava Ukraine!!! 🇺🇦

If they'd actually move back toward the center they could probably sweep elections.

Who Will Lead the Democratic Party in 2028? The Battle for Leadership Begins My personal guess? The worst possible candidate that the political leadership can promotes with the DNC machine. Someone who is very old (braindead). Someone who is out of touch with reality (braindead). Someone who is out of touch with the Democrat base and aligned with the Democrat far-Left (woke).

The EU Is Authoritarian and Hates Democracy Yep - Authoritarian bordering on Totalitarian and glibly called "Democracy." Keep annulling elections, candidates, and parties and calling it "Saving Our Democracy." Nope. That's just holding onto power no matter what it takes which is Fascistic. But there you have it.

Stupid is as stupid does. Enjoy Thai prison.

So the US isn't in the regime change business any longer. Well, probably still is, but now it will just be privatized.

No. But I have been practicing the bass-line for Dazed and Confused. Not too bad until mid-song when my fingers begin to protest around the 4 minute mark. A whole bunch of ABDEGAGE fingering at a bpm faster than I can handle at the moment. Love the rest of the bass-line though! It's interesting to have lived when Led Zepplin was formed and then watched as successive generations of rockers discover LZ. That rock/blues never gets old.

I really do find it amazing that posters here are actually crying that US state media propaganda outlets are being closed. Propaganda sorta IS the tool of autocracies. A free and open press is antithetical to autocracies. VOA was anything BUT a free and open press. It was state funded propaganda.

Bait the hook, heave out the lines, set the stardrags, set the engine to idle, pop the top on a 40 ouncer, and troll away dear bobby boy...

Go back to American and take violence to the streets. Best of luck with that. I'll stay here and watch the videos on Youtube.