Why isn't Philippines the upcoming

[BigBruv]

 

He seems OK but doesn't prove anything - just bluff / theories on the origin of life & this realm.

 

Are you also a fan of Stephen Hawkings?

 

FWIW as far as I can tell he never made it to the Phillipines.

 

 

Edited May 16 by BigBruv

[baansgr]

On 5/14/2024 at 2:41 AM, JensenZ said:

As the world's largest exporter of an English-speaking labour force, the Philippines will be doing well in the following decades. As a close neighbour, I predict Thailand will be relying heavily on labour from The Philippines as its population ages due to a low fertility rate.

 

Thailand has a similar (low) fertility rate and population growth to most Western nations with a similar median age, in the low 40s. Its population is ageing rapidly (and documented in recent media reports). The Philippines has a median age of 25.4 years vs 41 years in Thailand. The population under 20 years of age are 21.26% in Thailand vs 39.81% in the Philippines (of a much larger population).

 

The population growth of Thailand is currently about 0.2% vs 1.58% for the Philippines.

 

 

 

 

There are Burmese and Cambodians to fill the labour shortage here..OFWs prefer Middle East or Europe.....solely because of the salaries offered here

[Random8]

On 5/14/2024 at 12:43 AM, BigBruv said:

 

Me.

Partnering with people of different faiths (esp. the demonic stuff prevalent in Thailand) is pretty risky.

 

Let's also not forget that western civilisation was built on the shared values of Christianity.

Western societies been falling apart since Christianity was ditched in the 60s (eg. family disintegration, 25% of

boomer women on antidepressants (UK & US + 12% of boomer men) and so on.

 

But now we all 'follow the science' and believe in a 'big bang' and that the world and our lives are an accident,

nothing has any meaning, there will be no hell after death etc.

 

Christianity isn't bad as beliefs go.

 

Hmmm...  An all knowing, all seeing, supreme being who condemns you to hell if you don't believe in it.  And you're complaining about "demonic" Thais?

 

You're blaming an increase in depression on a decline in Christianity?  Nonsense.  I claim Christianity is declining because of an increase in the use of antidepressants.  Christianity is depressing.

 

Western morals exist and maintain their validity in the absence of some crazy deity.

 

Just because you can't find meaning in life without Christianity, doesn't mean the majority of the rest of us can't.

 

And lastly, ask any professor of Religious Studies and they will confirm that the overwhelming majority of people who identify with one religion or another, don't participate in religious activities due to faith, they participate due to the support the community provides.  If society provides some other form of support and a sense of community, there is no need for religion for most people.

[Random8]

On 5/13/2024 at 8:12 PM, AreYouGerman said:

 

Once the US has no more money to finance the warmongering against China, it will let the Phillipines go and it can align it self with China and China will flood it with money because of the cheap work force. We can only hope the mad brute, the US, will sink sooner than later. But it will.

 

Young, ungrateful German forgot about the Marshall Plan.  Forgot about reunification.  It disgusts me.

 

Leck mich...

[BigBruv]

17 hours ago, Random8 said:

 

Hmmm...  An all knowing, all seeing, supreme being who condemns you to hell if you don't believe in it.  And you're complaining about "demonic" Thais?

 

You're blaming an increase in depression on a decline in Christianity?  Nonsense.  I claim Christianity is declining because of an increase in the use of antidepressants.  Christianity is depressing.

 

Western morals exist and maintain their validity in the absence of some crazy deity.

 

Just because you can't find meaning in life without Christianity, doesn't mean the majority of the rest of us can't.

 

And lastly, ask any professor of Religious Studies and they will confirm that the overwhelming majority of people who identify with one religion or another, don't participate in religious activities due to faith, they participate due to the support the community provides.  If society provides some other form of support and a sense of community, there is no need for religion for most people.

 

You're projecting strawman arguments.

 

MANY Thai people go to mor doos in order to practice witchcraft/magick - whether you believe or not, It's demonic.

 

Let's also not forget that western civilisation was built on the shared values of Christianity.

Western societies been falling apart since Christianity was ditched in the 60s (eg. family disintegration, 25% of

boomer women on antidepressants (UK & US + 12% of boomer men) and so on.

 

But now we all 'follow the science' and believe in a 'big bang' and that the world and our lives are an accident,

nothing has any meaning, there will be no hell after death etc.

 

Christianity isn't bad as beliefs go.

 

 

 

 

[AreYouGerman]

On 5/25/2024 at 6:55 PM, Random8 said:

 

Young, ungrateful German forgot about the Marshall Plan.  Forgot about reunification.  It disgusts me.

 

Leck mich...

 

'Ungrateful'? Why would a nation have to be grateful for losing a war? What are you on. Look at the Taliban. After 20+ years of occupation they are finally free. Guess what. German is still occupied.Just shut up, nobody likes you.

 

 

[BritManToo]

On 5/14/2024 at 12:43 AM, BigBruv said:

Let's also not forget that western civilisation was built on the shared values of Christianity.

Western societies been falling apart since Christianity was ditched in the 60s (eg. family disintegration, 25% of

boomer women on antidepressants (UK & US + 12% of boomer men) and so on.

Disagree,

Western civilisation is falling apart because it allowed women choices.

And their choices are nearly always selfish and destructive (to themselves and their families).

 

Are they really any happier than when they were the property of men?

How has our world become better after female equality and independence?

 

[BigBruv]

On 5/29/2024 at 12:40 AM, BritManToo said:

Disagree,

Western civilisation is falling apart because it allowed women choices.

And their choices are nearly always selfish and destructive (to themselves and their families).

 

Are they really any happier than when they were the property of men?

How has our world become better after female equality and independence?

 

 

IMHO giving women choices was part of the ditching of Christendom so same thing.

In your case for the framework/religion of Marxism

 

Feminism is just a subsect of marxism in which :..

 

‘the bourgeoisie’ is replaced with 'men' 

and 

‘the proletariat’ is replaced with ‘women’..

 

Do you think your ex could have worked that out?

 

Marx and Engels said family is a bourgeois value and it must be destroyed.

Feminism thinks marriage is a patriarchal institution.

Queer theory thinks that family is a form of oppression. It's all the same thing, only vocabulary has changed.

https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/History/Faculty/Weikart/Marx-Engels-and-the-Abolition-of-the-Family.pdf

 

Wokeism (the current Marx derived cancer on western civilisation) goes further: replacing ‘the bourgeoisie’  with current protected ‘victim’ groups based on skin colour, sexual orientation, and so on.

 

Maybe you were all (the boomers) just brainwashed, psyoped & mugged off by the Tavistock type social engineers though:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jenkins9039]

On 5/12/2024 at 6:37 PM, georgegeorgia said:

When I went to Manila last year I was disappointed 

3 hours from Bangkok and only parts of it are similar to Bangkok ,when I see parts only a few streets look great 

 

The public transport is rubbish decrepit 

The question is why Manila  Philippines is not a major city with great infrastructure tourism etc like Bangkok

Why not?

They have great english etc but their city is BS ,why ?

 

American allie, rather than sitting in the middle to be wooed like Thailand?

[BangkokReady]

They were colonised by the Spanish.  Countries that were colonised by the Spanish don't do well due to the way they developed socially and politically.