saintdomingo

The man did a runner, no chance to present his bill.

I wonder what the Swede was arrested for.

So they WERE arrested for just playing bridge, no illegality there. What was the point of your first post Lou, everyone knew what was being referred to and what the circumstances were.

For some reason he is evading answering your question "Are you the taxman? A priest?" Being a taxman is a perfectly honourable profession.

Increasingly you have to wonder whether things like this are brainfarts or spellchecker losing it's grip.

As a clueless youth along with a few others at work, the Joe Cool character we aspired to be was McGill Man in a Suitcase. What's his name again, something Bradford.?

Not at all, it's a kind of sick fascination like listening to a 13 year old showing off cause he's drinking alcohol.

Well they teach and insist that the wafer changes substance and becomes "really, truly and substantially the Body of Christ" "whilst retaining the appearance and properties of a wafer." Added to this they believe the mass is a continuation of the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary. The Bible teaches that Calvary was a once for all, perfect finished sacrifice for sin. And no further sacrifices are Most Protestant denominations view Holy Communion as purely a commemoration. Some only holding it twice a year.

So you think that the RC mass has both "a real meaning" and "efficacy". I am genuinely looking forward to the explanations of these two Sunmaster. Also to hearing what was transformed in the first place.

BTW you had nothing to do with it either so what are you on about.

What about the non-plonkers who drink Leo, Tiger or Guinness.

Never read so much shoyte.

I like bygone ages Mike.

Your memory obviously differs from mine, I am thinking of the vendors on foot who used to sell in the soi Yamato area. The coffee would be in a polythene bag, plus straw, and the customers in the main were the ladies in the small bars. I am going back at least two decades.

The one "true" church arf arf.

Used to be people all over Pattaya selling it like that.

He probably meant more products of immigration policies committing crimes. There are enough local born criminals without adding to them and without ensuring that they are not added to. The whole thing does sound a bit iffy, doubt there'll be any clear explanation.

Most places in the world that used to be different and worth visiting have been changed by mass tourism and are not the same or interesting anymore.

It is still RC doctrine from the Council of Trent. The wafer "becomes really, truly and substantially the Body of Christ." "whilst retaining the appearance and properties of a wafer." Pew Research of Washington, DC conducted a survey of RCs a few years ago which showed that of those polled only 25% understood transubstantiation and that of those who understood only 25% believed it. So Mr Frog you are interested enough in the subject to contribute to it and you did not know that this was a basic teaching of those who tell us they are "The One True Church." Makes you wonder what the uninterested majority know and think. Seems Rome are not pushing their message properly.

Plus it's not only the Liberal left according to previous citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Well it always seemed to apply to Sinn Fein/PIRA.

Well Mary Magdalene didn't last long as the secret to eternal life, one challenge and she was tossed aside like last night's Echo as we used to say. Muhammed, don't know much about him. Worked with any number of his adherents in London and just ignored them, going on all the time. Religion I once read is the search for eternal life. Theology I also read is the structure of religion. It is theology that interests me, basically the Reformation. But enough for my first shift, no doubt we will communicate again soon. Cheers.

The Bible is God's word revealed to man and the only basis for Christianity. It is the final authority, above all myths, legends, rituals, traditions, councils and hallucinations. No problem with Mary Magdalene but there is the Holy Trinity and there is the rest of us. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. None are righteous no not one.

The Bible makes no mention of it. Any doctrine that cannot be proven from Scripture is not a true Christian doctrine. I am the way, the truth and the life no-one comes to the Father but through me. Christ speaking of himself not Mary Magdalene.

The rural bit never grabbed me but 5 years or so in a mid size town with a population of approx 80,000 was fine. Plenty shops, hospitals, markets, farang drinking company a few times a week and good travel connections to Bangkok, resorts and islands helped as well. Certainly not for everybody but it was OK for me.