Dhammakaya unperturbed by Internet blackout

By The Nation

 

Officials check food supplies of the Dhammakaya Temple before letting workers to bring them in Saturday.

 

Pathum Thani-based Dhammakaya Temple's monks remain defiant on Saturday despite the Department of Special Investigation (DSI)'s measure to cut phone and Internet signal in and around the temple, which was now declared a controlled area by the junta's order.

 

Phra Sanitwong Chareonrattawong, the communication chief of the temple, said in his Facebook page that thousands of people staying within the 500-metre radius from temple were marooned from outside world through the signal disconnection but they must not be panic. 

 

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Yup they inspect the trucks very well......

27 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Phra Sanitwong Chareonrattawong, the communication chief of the temple, said in his Facebook page that thousands of people staying within the 500-metre radius from temple were marooned from outside world through the signal disconnection but they must not be panic. 

 

No internet but they must not panic? Are you crazy?!? 

Being marooned from the outside world is the very definintion of religon, isn't it?

 

Monks don't need the Internet. They need quiet time and to practice what they preach. 

Can't do Internet banking without the Internet.

Somebody is going to be sorry when Gort the Robot comes out of the UFO.

1 hour ago, fruitman said:

Yup they inspect the trucks very well......

If they are equally loaded on the way out?

Do I smell a possibility for the robbers to escape?

 

Food? Why do they deliver food?

It would surely raise motivation to surrender if they wouldn't.

Water is enough.

 

45 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Monks don't need the Internet. They need quiet time and to practice what they preach. 

A major part of the these "monks" are just a shame.

Strolling around the IT malls, being updated by young ladies about the latest smartphone models. Throwing around cash, smoking cigarettes, frequenting "service ladies" etc. etc.

And who could be astonished when you notice that monasteries take over the role of shelter for homeless, broken men, alcoholics, fugitives from marriage.

 

In our village we have a big shop across the road.

The owner was a pathological alcoholic, his wife and son-in-law did the work.

Some three years ago I noticed that I do not see him anymore.

Asked my wife. "He is a monk in the forest monastery" (some 3 miles away).

Recently I recognized him in the group collecting the alms.

 

 

Thailand's officials obviously still have to learn a lot about medieval siege tactics, the 101 of any respectable crack force past and present. For how long do you think a castle siege would drag on if the besiegers allowed food delivery carts in every so often?

 

Just three days without food supplies and those defiant lay people will come streaming through the gates like lemmings. The monks? Well, that is another matter. They are allegedly holy after all and surely can sustain themselves through meditation alone.

 

Besides: Have those monks never heard of the age-old "feeding 5,000 with a few fish and loaves of bread" trick?

Edited February 25, 20179 yr by Misterwhisper
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