Pattaya Police Arrest Teenage Gang After Brutal Attack on Belgian Tourist

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[atpeace]

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Well good on the police for apprehending these low-life street vermin. Slashing somebody with a 22 inch blade in the skull is acting with murderous intent and at the minimum they should be charged with attempted murder and locked up for 20 plus years. One stupid act and their life is finished, and that's what they deserve. Their parents should also be punished severely for practicing an extreme lack of parenting skills. 

Been drinking a little but gave this post some disjointed thought. The cost of locking them up for 20 years would be excessive and they would probably exit prison as a worse person when they entered.  Why not just chop off the hand of the kid that used the knife and the thumbs of the accomplices? Little cost and definitely a deterrent.

[Andre0720]

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Can you tell us all that you know about Buddhism?

 

[rhetorical]

Oh, so now you are interested in reaching my intellectual level through this forum.

You do not trust books so it would appear.... Fear of failure is it?

Give it a try.

[AngryMan]

26 minutes ago, atpeace said:

Been drinking a little but gave this post some disjointed thought. The cost of locking them up for 20 years would be excessive and they would probably exit prison as a worse person when they entered.  Why not just chop off the hand of the kid that used the knife and the thumbs of the accomplices? Little cost and definitely a deterrent.

This is by far,  the best post with a practical solution...

Furthermore, if the scum who cut the old man is right handed, then that's the one to chop off! And use the actul Machette they were carrying! In fact to make thing more interesting have one of the gang members do it and then he saves his thumb!

 

Bring back the old Roman military rules of "Decimation"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)

 

[steven100]

13 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Can you tell us all that you know about Buddhism?

 

[rhetorical]

all smoke & mirrors 

[iLuvThai]

23 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

props"  ?   what does that mean?

It's a pat on the back for a job well (quickly) done.

[Andre0720]

18 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Can you tell us all that you know about Buddhism?

 

[rhetorical]

I am not sure if I misconstrued your reply.

But if you were genuinely interested in MY KNOWLEDGE of Buddhism, instead of simply using Google.

But I do use Google to add to my knowledge of many subjects.

 

 

Some of my knowledge comes from Siddharta, from Herman Hesse. And friends who were also studying the subject. One German lady for example I met on Samui, who was going on a silent retreat for a week, in Koh Panghan if I remember correctly. And German friends in Greece interested in the same way.

 

I have a copy in PDF of the book from Hesse, not sure if I can add it, considering copyrights.  Wonderful book.

 

Some info on it:

SIDDHARTA from Herman Hesse, Hermann Hesse.

Prelude: “What does it mean If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him?

In the ninth century, the Buddhist sage Lin Chi told a monk, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." He meant that those who think they've found all the answers in any religion need to start questioning.”

 

Excerpt 1

A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of

thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow.

Excerpt 2

Siddhartha learned a lot when he was with the Samanas, many ways leading

away from the self he learned to go. He went the way of self-denial by means

of pain, through voluntarily suffering and overcoming pain, hunger, thirst,

tiredness. He went the way of self-denial by means of meditation, through

imagining the mind to be void of all conceptions. These and other ways he

learned to go, a thousand times he left his self, for hours and days he

remained in the non-self. But though the ways led away from the self, their

end nevertheless always led back to the self. Though Siddhartha fled from the

self a thousand times, stayed in nothingness, stayed in the animal, in the stone,

the return was inevitable, inescapable was the hour, when he found himself

back in the sunshine or in the moonlight, in the shade or in the rain, and was

once again his self and Siddhartha, and again felt the agony of the cycle

which had been forced upon him.

Excerpt 3

But in the evening, when the heat cooled down and everyone in the camp

started to bustle about and gathered around, they heard the Buddha teaching.

They heard his voice, and it was also perfected, was of perfect calmness,

was full of peace. Gotama taught the teachings of suffering, of the origin of

suffering, of the way to relieve suffering. Calmly and clearly his quiet speech

flowed on. Suffering was life, full of suffering was the world, but salvation

from suffering had been found: salvation was obtained by him who would

walk the path of the Buddha.

Excerpt 4

There is nothing to opinions,

they may be beautiful or ugly, smart or foolish, everyone can support them or

discard them. But the teachings, you’ve heard from me, are no opinion, and

their goal is not to explain the world to those who seek knowledge. They

have a different goal; their goal is salvation from suffering. This is what

Gotama teaches, nothing else.”

Excerpt 5

I saw a man, Siddhartha thought, a single man, before whom I would have to

lower my glance. I do not want to lower my glance before any other, not

before any other. No teachings will entice me any more, since this man’s

teachings have not enticed me.

But then, in Thai culture: What does wai mean in Thai?

The wai gesture originated in Buddhism and has similar origins as namaste in Hinduism. It was basically a yogic posture of the palms and signifies the equal meeting of the two palms. It means that the other party is treated as an equal human being.

But then the culture in Thailand has deviated from that, to a point of signifying something completely opposite. “Greetings are accompanied by the gesture known as a 'wai', which is the placing of two palms together, with fingertips touching the nose. A wai indicates the level of respect for another person and is an acknowledgement of seniority.”

 

Excerpt 6

….of me being Siddhartha! And

there is nothing in this world I know less about than about me, about

Siddhartha!”

“What does it mean If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him?

In the ninth century, the Buddhist sage Lin Chi told a monk, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." He meant that those who think they've found all the answers in any religion need to start questioning.”

 

And I remember asking Thai people what was in their minds when they bowed to monks, or Buddha figures, I never got a reply.

And afterwards it appeared to me that any links to Buddhism is related to asking for luck. Never found anything related to spirituality.

And forcing kids to wai at elders, because the elders would be better than them. At some point, when they reach the level of Phu Yai, hey have had enough of that. And resentment happens, as they no longer want to be treated as inferiors any longer.

Might very well be...

And the words used to show respect, have become only noise.

Where I have seen the most signs of respect, there were no such noise to be heard in the conversation.

 

Buddhism, Oh well, the only thing good about it here, is that it is not a religion.