What are we doing on TV?

[n210mp]

On my third large single malt and Max, eating a few nuts and getting pro active on the keyboard whilst listening to Dire straits “brothers in arms” Nirvana or what?

What could be better, stress gone, warm feeling from the whisky and lost in that eternal question that is common for the likes of those who are waiting for death?

Thinking about some (most) of the posters on TV and assuming like me they are a frustrated lot of people searching for the answer to a question that they have not yet asked or even thought aboutd?

As an aside, Just answered a PM from SC mentioning our common interest in cycling but I think that the cycling for him and certainly for me is a way to enter a world without involvement of others influences and therefore stress

Now for those who have got to this part of my post and who feel that their time would be better spent doing a crossword, ok no problem best wishes and goodbye.

The real reason for my post is that I wonder if there are people out there who are in fact just like me, been there done that, bought and made the tee shirt who are just whiling there lives out with all sorts of different obsessions, habit and indulgences that in a way keeps them sane. (In their opinion of course)

I was talking to a Laotian monk a few months ago as I am wont to do and we were talking about our various strategies for keeping sane ( at east to those who view us on a day to day basis) I asked him what was next on his agenda. (He is about 30 years of age, from Malaysia and an ex Mafioso)

He is indeed is a reformed character and older than his years and he said “My friend I am simply waiting to die”

I was shocked at his innocent and obvious honesty. I rebelled at his statement and asked of him how He could be so low or depressed that He could think in this manner.

His answer was so simple and genuine that I was distinctly moved.

So to all those posters like me on TV what are you doing, what are you waiting for?

Can you identify like me with this young Laotian monk ?

[BobbyL]

I've returned home from my golf lesson, which was spiritual. Now I'm sat on my sofa naked eating mango and waiting for Wicked Tuna to begin on NGC.

[stoneyboy]

Unfortunately I'm waiting for the next contract to start,then it's hi ho hi oh off to work I go.

Which in a way relates to your OP because I'm just working to survive and maintain a standard of living that I'm happy with,then one day it will all be game over.

At least I won't have to get up early for work when I'm brown bread.

[ExpatOilWorker]

I am waiting for life, my first born is due in December.

[AYJAYDEE]

not WAITING for anything, too busy observing the present!

[StreetCowboy]

On yer bike, pal

[Roadman]

What am I waiting for....for sleep to overtake me again after being woken from the late night shift worker snuggling in beside me. So no spiritual awakening here....sweet awakening thou now with "sweetie I'm cold give me a cuddle". Outa here....

[bkkjames]

i am waiting for someone to close this topic...

[sdanielmcev]

I'm waiting for the sun.

[wooloomooloo]

Give it a rest, Harvey.

[Seastallion]

The OP has a nice turn of phrase. In vino veritas, and I wonder if he overly exerted himself today or got slightly dehydrated as it is only his 3rd whiskey.

Myself, insomnia from a toothache has brought me downstairs to open the laptop. Common sense says take one Panadol plus one Neurofen, and go back to bed. I do the first, but wash them down with a bourbon and milk, and do not do the second.

I crave sleep but resist the urge to take more drugs. Perhaps another bourbon? But it's 5 am! Out of principle I can't. Besides, Wifey is up now and I should make her breakfast (she is currently the bread-winner).

Lets see what happens after she leaves for work.

[JLCrab]

I like posting on ThaiVisa because -- while it's fun to have people like what you post and say it's been helpful -- it's more fun when they disagree with you and call you e.g. a clueless idiot in need of rehab. On ThaiVisa makes no difference.

This is a post on a major NGO website involved in US Federal litigation where I posted in their defense under my real name. That others might disagree I guess makes a difference, but the civil society people already have enough cheerleaders proclaiming that they are on the side of good-against-evil (modified to foil a Google search):

Wow are you ignorant or just a huckster for xyz or maybe against (civil society persons) exercising their rights?

Or my favorite go to from The Sting (1973):

Hooker: I gave him the breakout just like you said.
Gondorff: And?
Hooker: 'S good. He threatened to kill me.
Gondorff: Hell, kid, they don't do that, you know you're not getting to 'em.

Edited May 28, 2014 by JLCrab

[n210mp]

i am waiting for someone to close this topic...

Ah true to form James.

I refer you to the 5th amendment on the basis that if you cannot add anything to this thread you may well be better off keeping quiet and letting others get on with it or let it finish itself with lack of interest or no replies.

I just needed to say that in answer to your rather terse and dismissive post but of course I welcome any insight that you have on why free discussion should be so severely censored or where you just having a little dig James to maybe jog my memory ?

On the other hand, does James protesteth too much I ask myself ?

Maybe like me and maybe many others on here who are spending their twilight years in a culture so remote and different from their own, do ask of themselves from time to time what are we really doing with our lives and what is coming next?

My post albeit written in a mildly merry state was as a result of the life experiences that I have had and at my age am still looking for some answers to questions, the origins of I have mostly forgotten.

In other words I know the answer but have forgotten the question.

Hoping that there would be a plethora of old timers/hands, amateur psychologists, religious people on here who have managed to live with the fact that they are in the waiting room for the next life and whom have come to terms with the rather short odds of seeing out the next decade, I thought it practical to write a thread asking for some help in dealing with old age, its many problems and the mindset that comes with too much time on ones hands.

I often think of a dear old Uncle who was absolutely Knackered in body and spent the last five years of his life in a bed unable to get about but in contrast to his frail body, his mind and mental abilities where fantastic.

Maybe boredom has some basis for this thread but never the less whilst still playing a little golf and still burning the Ks up on the bike, passing time on Thai Visa I still have time for my preoccupation with what is coming next or not and like the Laotian Monk maybe should just be resigned to fate and wait patiently and peacefully for this chapter to end and the next one to begin or not....and therein lies the question.

[n210mp]

Give it a rest, Harvey.

OK Trevor,

A question for you personally

Are these one liners a quick way of increasing a posters post count or do they have something of value to add?

Of course I am against any form of censorship but do at times urge both myself and others to self censor on the basis that sometimes its better to say nowt than making an abstract remark that is intended to either demean or play down another persons point of view

Edited May 29, 2014 by n210mp

[n210mp]

On yer bike, pal

Which I will be SC, at around 9.30 am today in the pleasant company of the " Pattaya Jungle Hash house harriers" for a trip maybe up and around lake Mabrachan that will sweat out my misdoings of last night whilst under the influence of one of James (Jimbos) gifts of a single malt on his last visit (Not BKKJames I hasten to add)

[n210mp]

not WAITING for anything, too busy observing the present!

Not yet, time give it a little more time.

[AYJAYDEE]

not WAITING for anything, too busy observing the present!

Not yet, time give it a little more time.

i already have. the present is the ONLY thing worth watching. it shows you the results of what you did in the past and,therefore, teaches you what to do in the future

[ggt]

I live everyday...doing things with people that make me happy...not worrying about when I die...when the time comes...so be it...

[Suradit69]

...people searching for the answer to a question that they have not yet asked or even thought aboutd?

If you're searching for something you haven't thought about, wouldn't that imply you thought about it even if you hadn't formulated exactly what it was?

This sounds a little like the whole Schrödinger's cat thing.

[The Usual Suspect]

We're all gonna die, there's no getting around that, but sitting around waiting for it is a waste of time. Better to concern one's self with LIVING here and now, and making it the best life we can.

[Neeeko]

I'm living for today.. the here and now. Not waiting for the future/ not being stuck in the past.

[bkkjames]

i am waiting for someone to close this topic...

Ah true to form James.

I refer you to the 5th amendment on the basis that if you cannot add anything to this thread you may well be better off keeping quiet and letting others get on with it or let it finish itself with lack of interest or no replies.

I just needed to say that in answer to your rather terse and dismissive post but of course I welcome any insight that you have on why free discussion should be so severely censored or where you just having a little dig James to maybe jog my memory ?

On the other hand, does James protesteth too much I ask myself ?

Maybe like me and maybe many others on here who are spending their twilight years in a culture so remote and different from their own, do ask of themselves from time to time what are we really doing with our lives and what is coming next?

My post albeit written in a mildly merry state was as a result of the life experiences that I have had and at my age am still looking for some answers to questions, the origins of I have mostly forgotten.

In other words I know the answer but have forgotten the question.

Hoping that there would be a plethora of old timers/hands, amateur psychologists, religious people on here who have managed to live with the fact that they are in the waiting room for the next life and whom have come to terms with the rather short odds of seeing out the next decade, I thought it practical to write a thread asking for some help in dealing with old age, its many problems and the mindset that comes with too much time on ones hands.

I often think of a dear old Uncle who was absolutely Knackered in body and spent the last five years of his life in a bed unable to get about but in contrast to his frail body, his mind and mental abilities where fantastic.

Maybe boredom has some basis for this thread but never the less whilst still playing a little golf and still burning the Ks up on the bike, passing time on Thai Visa I still have time for my preoccupation with what is coming next or not and like the Laotian Monk maybe should just be resigned to fate and wait patiently and peacefully for this chapter to end and the next one to begin or not....and therein lies the question.

....sorry I only meant to answer your 2nd to last question and to ask another. What has this got to do with Thailand?

then again I think we should all start topics for no particular reason.

Here's a couple I am working..

1) My 5 year old said the other day "it hurts 'the' hell". I replied, son if you are gonna curse, do it correctly. Do you correct your Son's swearing - New Topic.

2) My 2 year old son, upon finishing his ice cream (walls small tub) and mom took the spoon to the kitchen, walked over the cable box and removed the card and started to use it as a spoon to get the last drops of ice cream out of the tub. Topic on TV : Should I yell at my wife for not taking away the tub or applaud my 2 year old for his problem solving abilities?

[joshstiles]

I think you really missed the point.....'the monk is waiting to die'.....

you don't understand what he is referring to

he is waiting to move on.....to a better life....for those that have figured it out....life goes on....their is only the death of the body....for those who don't figure it out....you get to come back and relive life in this world again and again....it's your choice of course....

I with the monk....can't wait to move on....I am not low or depressed....I just realize that this world has nothing to offer

just like most of the post on this site.

[Thaijack2014]

I look at the questions and sometimes am amazed with the stupidity some people go through life. In my last job, I was always told that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers... the opposite is proved to me by reading TV and a site called: good question (in the Netherlands)... Maybe I'm intollerant or I think that I'm very clever, but nonetheless I find that there are people out there who are able to ask things which are to stupid to bother to give an answer.

But there are also many interesting topics and questions and these make me curious...like the above one.

So, that's what I'm doing here... reading and thinking... it is fun.

Edited May 29, 2014 by Thaijack2014

[Rockhopper]

What if it's true?

Nirvana - when you realize that this is it!

[ThaidDown]

On my third large single malt and Max,

Shocked, so did not read further. Usually nothing should be added to a single malt, but if you insist then more of the same single malt is acceptable.

[JLCrab]

Suggested answer to Post #22 item 2):

That all depends whether the cable box still works.

[arjunadawn]

Is this similar to ambien writing, where later you ask "I posted what?" (I've done that with ambien and Amazon shopping).

The overall topic of the OP, if there is one, would have to be what the monk said. "...waiting to die." There's actually nothing monkish, brilliant, advanced in spiritual reasoing, or even remotely penetrating about this statement. Perhaps contemplating death in its varied forms is a cathartic, and the "risen" again sense we have is constructive- helps us deeply grasp impermanence; but this is not "waiting to die." I'd suggest your monk friend is not advanced for his years but rather childish. Anyone who is healthy that announced they are only waiting to die does not reveal a sage pearl, they reveal an apathy and preoccupation with a matter that clearly runs contrary to their faith's goal or intending what matters. I don't think any thoughtful monk or laymen would think it even suggested wisdom.

[Strikerxxx]

Wow, deep subject, but you actually got my attention. We all have followed different paths in our lives and because of this we see life different. I think part of what the monk stated has to do with he knows who he is and is truthful with himself about what he has done with his life. Many of us have lived protected lives, always working to the end only to look back and see there were so many things we could have done and didn't. Then when we allow ourselves to step outside the lines, we find we have lost the desire or capabilities and then dread the end hopping that maybe something will happen to fulfill our need for adventure.

Me, I'm with the monk. I spent 30 years in the U.S., 3 in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan watching strangers lives pass through my fingers and it was my job, my mission to save them. You just cant save them all, but I know the job I did was good and was appreciated.

Do I want to die, no, I'm just not afraid to die, nor would I turn away from a situation that kill me if I knew it would benefit one person. The lack of fear of death, I have seen a lot of that fear, comes from knowing you did the best you could and no one can take that from you.

Now, I know there are going to be some of you that blaze me on this but that's ok, because it makes you feel good and your out of my LOS (line of sight) LOL.

[bkkjames]

Well the last 2 posts certainly have tried to turn this topic around. While well-thought-out and I applaud the use of important sounding words like 'cathartic' and 'impermanence', the real question that needs answering is this...

Should one drink single malts and post on TV? TB or not TB, this is the question, consumption be done about it?