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soalbundy

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  1. Seriously amusing would be a more apt description.
  2. No way will they build it themselves, probably the Russians.
  3. That's just what we expats needed, another foreigner behaving like a pratt.
  4. protecting the criminals and serving themselves.....it could be their new motto, oh and protecting the public from those terrible foreigners.
  5. I think he knows that his only protection is publicity, the more he is in the press and Facebook the safer he will be.
  6. but he didn't even get that, he's a nice boy having an idealized love affair.
  7. I don't know if this is the same thing but about 6 months ago (I'm a bit vague abut the time) I read about someone being asked by 'wise' to verify their info in their wise account, because of this I contacted wise through the 'help' button and asked if wise needed verification from me and was told no, it wasn't necessary. My bank account abroad is in Germany.
  8. Is the fact that my 'wise' account is registered in Thailand the reason that I haven't received such a request?
  9. Employment tax, trust me, I'm a government official, all above board.
  10. I hope he isn't the prince who was going to give me 20% of a 100 million dollars if he could use my account, well you win some you lose some.
  11. Well you have to consider the large sums of money daddy had to pay all the way up the grape vine against putting a spoiled brat behind bars, no profit in that. As police officers they are lousy but as pragmatic businessmen they are in a class of their own. The amounts paid would have been huge to offset the risk, how that was got rid off on the tax ledgers is anybody's guess, another payment made to cause bad eyesight at the tax office perhaps.
  12. They will have been paid enough by daddy to take a mild prison sentence.
  13. Of course it is Bob, of course it is, innocence and the ease of being is a puzzle to you, try giving a smile only once in a while. The world has more good people than bad, even in Thailand.
  14. Now you believe in miracles, you are always complaining, you've lost the joy in just 'being' here a children's poem Jonathan Jo Has a mouth like an "O" And a wheelbarrow full of surprises; If you ask for a bat, Or for something like that, He has got it, whatever the size is. If you're wanting a ball, It's no trouble at all; Why, the more that you ask for, the merrier - Like a hoop and a top, And a watch that won't stop, And some sweets, and an Aberdeen terrier. Jonathan Jo Has a mouth like an "O," But this is what makes him so funny: If you give him a smile, Only once in a while, Then he never expects any money!
  15. So off to the next destination that will disappoint you. Just think.....maybe it's you that's setting yourself up for bad experiences.
  16. Good bye and good luck. Remember, you can leave a place but not yourself, Bob will always be with you.
  17. Nothing is right or wrong, only thinking makes it so. Shakespeare To understand all is to forgive all. Marie Antoinette You are neither the body nor the mind...there is no body. Nisargadatta. Ask only, who am I? if you receive an answer it will be wrong but it will show you what you are not (the neti neti statements, not this, not that) Ramana Maharshi
  18. I think you have misunderstood me, I was writing concerning the individual but I think your ideas of 'tight' control go to far. Humanity progressed due to cooperation not repression, that came later due to land possession, the earliest farming communities seem to have been egalitarian with no fixed governmental structure. The increase in population required government not for repression but for safety, the land possessed by the community had to be defended from outside communities. Property rights of the individual had to be protected with regulations. The corruption in government worldwide and the power of industrial complexes leading to wealth inequality is relatively recent, possibly only 2 to 3 thousand years old. Religion played an important role in power politics, think of 'the devine right of rule for kings', in Ancient Egypt the priesthood became so powerful that even a pharaoh had to wary of them. Early religions, as far as one can tell, weren't of a philosophical nature but based on animism and power. The Indus valley in India produced the first true spiritual deliberations which gave rise to the first mystics and eventually Hinduism which is also linked to Buddhism which came later as a less devine based religion. Certainly the Hindu 'Advaita Vedanta' and the Buddhist '4 noble truths' influenced human behaviour but it would be false to think that people in prehistory didn't know right from wrong, fairness and cooperation is built into every mammal that lives in groups. Spirituality has had to be rediscovered in the west, the basic mystical texts from the Jews leading eventually to Christianity have become so warped over time that the story has become more important than the message so that even the 14th Century German Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, was tried by the Catholic church, can't have ordinary people discovering spiritual truths, that would destroy the church.
  19. Politicians and religions make use of this weakness to profit themselves. I personally have no such use for idols of reverence, everyone has feet of clay. Certainly I can admire the achievements of others but fame is fleeting. Nobody needs a guiding hand in life, wisdom is inherent in all human beings unless they are mentally ill, the true 'I', conscious awareness, is available to all through meditation which needs no formal practice, one can sink into what is sometimes called 'empty fullness' in the office, in nature or in a taxi, it is something that frightens and disturbs the ego that wants to believe in its own false validity and needs to pump the mind with continuous thoughts which is why often, practice is needed to achieve inner stillness. The past no longer exists, the future has yet to arrive, only 'now' is available and 'now' has no lack and needs nothing, 'now' is peace....how the ego hates that, its very existence needs problems and enemies.
  20. It depends what you mean by God. The word in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions has childish associations, the spiritual teachings of the mystics have been lost and the books have been reduced to fairy stories. The teachings in the Eastern traditions have a greater validity, especially Buddhism which makes do without a deity. All religions point to the same thing, non duality, many minds but one consciousness which is the background of that which is. That which is perceived is a manifestation not a reality, as the famous Hindu mystic Nisargadatta put it, " That which is real does not change, that which changes is not real", it concerns the fact that nothing exists 'in and of itself'. This was also a consideration of the Buddha when he said, "The world is empty". This doesn't mean he denied the perception of things but that nothing had a reality of existence because nothing existed 'in and of itself'. A human needs two parents, food, water, shelter, sunlight, and a society, it is given a name and beliefs. It has phenomenal experiences due to causal events which form character and ego, hence there is no independent existence 'in and of itself'. This is why Hindus say there is only Brahman (This isn't a deity as such but more an intelligence or power). Flowers, trees, animals, stars etc. have no existence in and of themselves, they are all causal events. Only consciousness is eternal without change, whether you are 5 years old or 80 the feeling 'I am' remains the same, this is consciousness, God, Brahman, Allah, present awareness, the absolute call it what you will, you are consciousness experiencing your own manifestation, you are the space of silence between two thoughts.
  21. The Phuket tourism boss is trying to raise his profile. Thailand hasn't any greater problems with foreigners than other countries. Considering the number of tourists, the relaxed drinking laws, the sex industry and the laziness and corruption in the RTP, the criminal activities of foreigners seems statistically low. It's pretty obvious that tourist centers are going to be a hub of a few undesirables both Thai and foreigners which is why Phuket seems to get mentioned a lot but rarely Isaan where I live which seems to be an island of peace and relaxed attitude by the authorities, Bangkok could be a foreign country as far as the locals are concerned, at any rate I haven't seen any change in attitude towards me which has always been friendly and welcoming.
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