Trentham

Buddhist hostility is an oxymoron.

Everybody is giving you good advice about eating well - lots of fibre etc. Nobody has mentioned [that I noticed] drinking lots of water.

Have you been using painkillers or other medication? If you have medically induced constipation a high fibre diet should be avoided.

BUT GO AND HAVE A COLONOSCOPY.

This so called "cardinal" is an arrogant, power hungry  man with no Christian principles. He has been at the forefront for the last couple of decades in public and shows absolutely no humility as a man of God should. There have been rumours for years about him being a pedophile and indeed he shared an apartment with one another pedophile and even accompanied him to court when he was charged and found guilty.

Hooray, hooray, hooray.

10 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

I'm surprised at the replies. The biggest drawback that was not mentioned is the fact that if the condo is in the same company as the house you cannot sell them seperately....when the time comes if you wish to sell one or the other. They would have to be sold together as they are in the one company.

Not true. A company can sell one asset and retain another.

I would suggest you don't put all your eggs in the same basket. This is Thailand - separate company with different shareholders. I have seen too many people cheated by the shareholders whom they trusted, in the companies they set up.

A corruption sniffer would be handy.

8 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

I have to disagree with that comment. Removing the shit would obviously be a long and arduous task, given the extent of it.

However, at the end, I believe there would in fact not be nothing left, there would be a sad looking, shriveled, orange haired husk, tweeting denials.

Well we will have to agree to disagree.

18 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Donald does not have a sense of humour, so he must find it quite difficult when pretty much the whole world is taking the piss out of him.

If they they took the sh?t out of Trump there would be nothing left.

18 minutes ago, mlmcleod said:

Duh, there is no chance that any American jurisdiction would ever adopt Sharia law!  This is just fake news created by rightest groups that are anti-muslim!

 

I am sure that some muslim communities follow Sharia law privately but if it is not legal they will bear the penalties for their actions.  There is no way that non-muslims can stop private adherance within the muslim coimmunity.   So called honor killings and such are and always will be murder in the USA!

 

Please don't get mad, it is just my opinion!

Almost everybody in this thread does not know what Sharia Law is. READ.....

https://yaqeeninstitute.org/en/jonathan-brown/islam-is-not-the-cause-of-honor-killings-its-part-of-the-solution/

The truth of the matter is that honor killings are not caused or encouraged by Islam. Honor killing, despite the popular rhetoric around it, is not even a problem specific to Muslims^[2]. Its most concentrated and serious occurrences don’t involve Muslims at all. This ignorance about Islam’s teachings and the realities of violence against women has serious costs. First, blaming honor crimes on Islam antagonizes Muslims unnecessarily. It feeds the narrative, prevalent in many Muslim countries, that dismisses human rights as a proxy for Westernization and cultural imperialism. Second, sensationalism over Islam deflects from a reality that many men are loath to admit: that violence against women is a global problem with roots much deeper than the doctrines of one religion or the features of one culture. It needs to be addressed as such. Finally, obsessing over Islam’s alleged acceptance of honor crimes blinds Muslims and non-Muslims to the condemnation of these crimes in Muhammad’s teachings and the Shariah.

21 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

But that is not really possible is it, it's one ore the other. To think you can live by sharia and with decent laws of a western country like the USA to which sharia is diametrically opposed is a fantasy. It's like suggesting meat eaters can really be vegetarians if they eat meat.

What a lot of nonsense. If you are a devout Muslim and follow Sharia law exactly then you obey the laws of the country where you reside.  End of story. Obfuscating the issue with a vegetarian analogy is not helpful. If some Muslims do not live by the law of the land then they are not being good Muslims. America is basically a Christian country but Christian Americans still break American laws. Nobody runs around demanding that what the bible teaches be thrown out. Besides, in most things the Koran and the bible concur. 

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Sharia law is antiquated, barbaric and abominable.There is no place for it in civilised society and Muslims need to come out of the Dark Ages and recognise so. Perhaps when they do, they will find integrating with world society will become much easier.

Sharia law states that Muslims must live by the law of the land. I am not Muslim or Christian - I am an atheist and therefore am not sticking up for my personal religion.

See http://www.daruliftaa.com/node/5852

There is no contradiction between the law of the USA and Sharia so long as the laws of the USA do not force a Muslim person to sin eg. eat pork or not go to prayer.

Before posters prattle on about Sharia being "antiquated, barbaric and abominable" they should inform themselves of the facts.

SHARIA REQUIRES MUSLIMS TO LIVE BY THE LAW OF THE USA. and any other country in which they reside .

11 hours ago, Antifreeze said:

Does not matter where the trash is from. No excuse for that. Cleaning the beaches should be a daily if not twice daily activity all year around. Want top tourists then have top beaches, clean streets... with real sidewalks... and...

It is not the visible garbage that frightens me. It is the e coli and nasty chemicals such as mercury etc. that can really do some harm to you.

I agree, the trash absolutely should be cleaned up but better still, prevent it from getting there in the first place. Science now shows that minute plastic particles from decomposing plastic is ending up in the stomachs of turtles and birds and we are also eating it in the fish we consume.

1 hour ago, islerm said:

Anyone got a good Adress for make this Work?

I'm searching exactly this...

Thanks for any Help i can find a good Companie in BKK

 

Hi islerm. This is the contact details and name of the people I used - Konzept Worx, Tel: 081499 0466

Good luck.

1 hour ago, geriatrickid said:

So all you have are "opinions" and not one actual factual example? Brilliant.

The fact of the matter it is impossible that there can ever be a sharia like "christian" law in the USA because of the US Constitution. Human rights are protected. There is a separation of church and state that cannot be overturned.

 

Everybody should be aware that Sharia law states that Muslims must live by the law of the land in which they are. Therefore there should be no contradiction between USA law and Sharia law. That applies to all non-Muslim countries.

32 minutes ago, ddavidovsky said:

I have an anthropological theory on this (you may not be surprised) that is apparently unique - at least I've never heard it elsewhere. Thus:

 

The apparent paradox that homosexuality is selected for so widely can be explained as an evolutionary process like any other, only nobody understands why. The explanation is that homosexuals are basically freed from the drudgery of procreation to develop society in other ways - intellectual/artistic pursuits, and also in vital service activities such as grooming (and interior decorating, to jest just a little). It's no coincidence that most (yes, most) of the greatest artists and intellectuals through history, right back to Socrates, have been gay. The effect of the biological liberation of this group has literally been, on a macro level over the ages, to develop the human mind and effectively boost human evolution. In that sense I would claim that homosexuality has actually been essential to the development of the human species.

 

So. Far from being vilified, homosexuals should be honoured for their special gifts, right? Why is the whole notion of homosexuality still taboo and repressed to the point of illegality in some countries? The answer relates to the country's stage of social development. Societies that are still struggling to establish themselves hold mere procreation to be of primary importance. Everyone knows that homosexuality still exists and recognises the contribution they make, but removing the taboo from homosexuality would encourage effeteness and decadence before their society is ready for it - they consider that they still have building and fighting to do. Socio-economically advanced countries have already made it - the macho struggle for survival and for establishing a secure and affluent society is now over and they can now relax and open up. Hence we see different attitudes among different societies.

 

This concludes the analysis. Put my Nobel in the post. I thang yew.

Well I am sorry to destroy your chance of a Nobel prize but when I was a kid there was an artificial insemination station for dairy farmers who wanted the best bull semen for their milking cows. The best bull available and much in demand by the farmers was a gay bull. For the collection of his semen he would only mount another bull. Now the interesting thing is that this bull had no artistic talent. He was unable to write a Socratic dissertation for the intellectual advancement of his kind and he was not  freed from the drudgery of procreation. However he was a delight for all the macho farmers who were highly amused by it all and got beautiful calves as well. He was also free from all kinds of sexism and his society's taboos.

Homosexuality is just as prevalent in the natural world as it is in the homo sapiens' world.  

17 hours ago, Usernames said:

Their country, their rules. Don't go there if you don't like it.  And don't invite them in as residents of your country if you don't want to import their values.

The undertones to your comment, and this applies to those who clicked like to it, show you to be quite heartless. Perhaps you wish you could have been one of the observers.

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Bothe passports numbers are off by 2 from each other and the signatures are

done in similar hand writings... with subcontinent looking guys with Portuguese

passports... well, is that the best those forgers could come up with?...

Does that mean that number E97276971 was not even picked up???

3 hours ago, Prbkk said:

Disgraceful but it is noted that assurances from the good General that loan-sharking is under control appear to be premature.

BTW, the punt in the orange shirt should have his testicles removed . Repulsive creature.

.....and forced to eat them.

I am not a veterinarian or doctor but I am worried about lung inflammation causing causing an abdominal lump.

33 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

He will freely take it off your hands.

I have been a collector of antiques for 50 years [Western. Not Asian] I know without doubt that I have not been "burnt". When you handle the piece you can see and feel its antiquity. It has a great patina about it that does not come through in the pics. The incredible fineness of the sandstone is nothing like the tourist rubbish. Anyway faking of antiques was not common 30 or so years ago. It is certainly Khmer style but whether it is from the Angkor region or from the old Khmer areas of Thailand I do not know. It certainly looks very similar to what I have seen in the Angkor temples. My problem is that if I show it to an expert it may be confiscated. 

If I knew that it was definitely from Angkor I would probably want to donate it back to them but then it would just disappear and turn up on some wealthy collectors shelf in the USA or Europe.

About 1986 I bought this Buddha head in  a dusty old Sukhumwit  Rd. shop no longer there. It looks very Khmer to me. It was about the same time pillagers were ripping out stuff from the Angkor Wat region and selling it off everywhere.I don't want to show it to Cambodian experts because if it is the real thing I may not get it back.

Is there anybody out there who can help identify if it might be a genuine Angkor piece? It is very fine and beautiful workmanship and certainly not the cheap touristy crap that is available. 

Thanks in advance.

I met an old Canadian bloke when he came here for some work on his wrinkly old face. Part of the surgery was around his ears. A week later he was at the airport on his way home and the bandage slipped. He went to the bathroom for a mirror to re-tie it. When he unwound the thing his ear fell off. He cancelled his flight and went back to the hospital. It was re-attached and he went off home again. I never saw him again so cannot give you the end result.

5 hours ago, sobriquet said:

To quote the Joker circa 1989, this town needs an enema. 

Fleet or Picolax would be better. [ For the younger members they are bowel preparations pre-colonoscopy ]

11 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Such a sad story - and probable one of many many. Wonder if there was any real investigation or inquest? Of course at that time no one dared question the word of a representative of the Catholic Church.

 

If ever there was a Satan then surely the CC was his creation.

The pope is Satan. Do some research on the number 666, Satan and the pope [deliberately not capitalised].  I am an atheist anyway so don't believe any of their dogma.

I wonder how many of them died while being sexually abused.