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  1. 2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

    Thailand is currently ranked 166th on the tests per million ! 166th ! Barely more per million than Ethiopia, Uganda, Lesotho and Guinea Bissau. Sorry, but,  I think Thailand is completely incompetent when it comes to testing - their own figures prove it !

     

    UK - basically same population - has testing of 711,000 per million more ! 

     

     

    I thought of it too. But if they didn't have any cases only because they didn't test then a significantly higher mortality should have been noticed, right? But has anyone noticed?

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  2. 50 minutes ago, VincentRJ said:

     

    There seems to be an enormous confusion in this thread between a 'belief' and a 'lack of belief'. A 'lack of belief' is not a belief.

    As long as people insist that god does not exist it is a belief.

    - Until they can prove god is not existing.

    The confusion seems to be on your side.

     

    Lack of belief is when somebody thinks they should believe (or are supposed to) in something but are not convinced.

    You can believe something is true or you can believe it is not true. Both are beliefs.

  3. 2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

    Ok, let try this:

    There is this super-model girl out there. She looks beautiful, cute, the best looking girl in the universe. She can also cook and is great in bed. And best of all, she loves you. Only you!

    Now who of us should prove to the other if that girl exists or not?

    You prove it. Take her to me and introduce her to me. Can't wait.

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  4. It still seems that most of the posters on this thread have some idea of God as a personal being we are separate from.
    A few thoughts on that:
    2 people sleep in the same room. Everyone dreams and everyone dreams something different. During the dream the world is just as real for everyone as the world they perceive while they are awake.  And the world in which they experience themselves while awake does not exist. Each dream is a universe.

     

    Where is the world that you live in while you dream? In the brain? Some kind of computer memory? And where are all these dream worlds after physical death? Could it be said that this world of dreams is simply a piece of consciousness, separate from the consciousness of the world of day? A single universe? It might be possible that in deep meditation one continues to experience oneself as existing, while  experiencing that the space (the world we perceive as real while we are awake) does not exist, or rather does not exist in itself but only as a concept or a content in consciousness - and consciousness is all that is.


    If so, then there is only one thing and that is consciousness. And this all-encompassing consciousness would then be God. And then we all exist as a part of this great consciousness that has (temporarily?) forgotten the whole. And how would this unique awareness feel about itself? Perhaps what is called love and some associate with God.

     

    During the dream we "know" that what we experience is true. When we are awake we "know" that what we are experiencing is true. Where's the difference? When we think we know something, that is one of the greatest illusions. This to those who think they "know" something and "know" they are therefore superior to people who believe otherwise. Knowledge is nothing more than a subspecies of belief and one should not be fooled into.

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