Thread: What I Dislike About Thailand

Lots of older dudes still use slide rules.

Now that's rocket science!

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

Originally Posted by RickThai

And then there's social IQ. That's where I kick ass. And for me social skills are the hardest to realize in life and the most valuable.



From the content of your posts, you could have fooled me!
Santi,

RickThai

I hate to be the person to break the news to you but forums are not real life. There's nobody nowhere on this forum or any forum that will ever be entertained, dined, talked to, will receive Christmas fruit cakes or birthday cards from me. If you don't need me and I don't need you that kinda makes it a non-tangible, non-existing relationship, nipped way before the bud. So fuck off.

Forums can be a way to let people communicate their "real" self. Free of face-to-face social conventions, and under the courage of anonymity (delusional actually) they express what they truly feel without regard to their "faceless" audience.

If I had the time or inclination, I might write a paper on the topic of web forums as a means of self-expression. (I find especially interesting how a couple or three posters will deliberately start up some off-topic, tedious conversation because they don't appreciate how a particular thread is evolving. Another, interesting aspect is how some posters develop a "crusade" to attack specific individual posters. Makes you wonder if they have any life outside of forums?)

True, some posters like to have fun and throw out a lot of "tongue-in cheek" posts (which may or may not be interpreted correctly), but many posters "act out" their real feelings on various topics. I find that refreshing in light of all the "political correctness" being forced on people in many of today's societies.

Don't you think it strange, that for all your "you are nothing to me", I am able to elicit such emotional posts from you? It appears you have spent some time and energy reading and reaching some conclusions about me, or else you wouldn't bother to post.

Think about it.

Santi,

RickThai

Originally Posted by gaysexbyproxy

The most unimaginative, monotonous, prosaic, uninspiring yet most judgmental, condescending, in-your-face religious, and delusional poster on this board has just called you out, Camel Toe





...and failed again, as usual.

My failure exists only in your head. You really should clear your mind of all the prissiness. Just think how petty and juvenile your posts look to all the other members of this forum.

Do you let your fiance and/or parents read your posts?

Santi,

RickThai

Originally Posted by RickThai

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

Originally Posted by RickThai

And then there's social IQ. That's where I kick ass. And for me social skills are the hardest to realize in life and the most valuable.



From the content of your posts, you could have fooled me!
Santi,

RickThai

I hate to be the person to break the news to you but forums are not real life. There's nobody nowhere on this forum or any forum that will ever be entertained, dined, talked to, will receive Christmas fruit cakes or birthday cards from me. If you don't need me and I don't need you that kinda makes it a non-tangible, non-existing relationship, nipped way before the bud. So fuck off.

Forums can be a way to let people communicate their "real" self. Free of face-to-face social conventions, and under the courage of anonymity (delusional actually) they express what they truly feel without regard to their "faceless" audience.

If I had the time or inclination, I might write a paper on the topic of web forums as a means of self-expression. (I find especially interesting how a couple or three posters will deliberately start up some off-topic, tedious conversation because they don't appreciate how a particular thread is evolving. Another, interesting aspect is how some posters develop a "crusade" to attack specific individual posters. Makes you wonder if they have any life outside of forums?)

True, some posters like to have fun and throw out a lot of "tongue-in cheek" posts (which may or may not be interpreted correctly), but many posters "act out" their real feelings on various topics. I find that refreshing in light of all the "political correctness" being forced on people in many of today's societies.

Don't you think it strange, that for all your "you are nothing to me", I am able to elicit such emotional posts from you? It appears you have spent some time and energy reading and reaching some conclusions about me, or else you wouldn't bother to post.

Think about it.

Santi,

RickThai

Think about it

Boy you really think you're something don't you? Over-state the obvious and come off as if we wouldn't have had a clue. Dood, you've been in the company of some really stupid people haven't you?

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

Originally Posted by RickThai

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

Originally Posted by RickThai

And then there's social IQ. That's where I kick ass. And for me social skills are the hardest to realize in life and the most valuable.



From the content of your posts, you could have fooled me!
Santi,

RickThai

I hate to be the person to break the news to you but forums are not real life. There's nobody nowhere on this forum or any forum that will ever be entertained, dined, talked to, will receive Christmas fruit cakes or birthday cards from me. If you don't need me and I don't need you that kinda makes it a non-tangible, non-existing relationship, nipped way before the bud. So fuck off.

Forums can be a way to let people communicate their "real" self. Free of face-to-face social conventions, and under the courage of anonymity (delusional actually) they express what they truly feel without regard to their "faceless" audience.

If I had the time or inclination, I might write a paper on the topic of web forums as a means of self-expression. (I find especially interesting how a couple or three posters will deliberately start up some off-topic, tedious conversation because they don't appreciate how a particular thread is evolving. Another, interesting aspect is how some posters develop a "crusade" to attack specific individual posters. Makes you wonder if they have any life outside of forums?)

True, some posters like to have fun and throw out a lot of "tongue-in cheek" posts (which may or may not be interpreted correctly), but many posters "act out" their real feelings on various topics. I find that refreshing in light of all the "political correctness" being forced on people in many of today's societies.

Don't you think it strange, that for all your "you are nothing to me", I am able to elicit such emotional posts from you? It appears you have spent some time and energy reading and reaching some conclusions about me, or else you wouldn't bother to post.

Think about it.

Santi,

RickThai

Think about it

Boy you really think you're something don't you? Over-state the obvious and come off as if we wouldn't have had a clue. Dood, you've been in the company of some really stupid people haven't you?

Anyone with a healthy "self-esteem" will respect their own opinions and acknowledge that everyone can not understand or agree with those opinions. The trick is to not get tied up in knots when someone disagrees with you. I don't, you apparently do. That makes me the winner

Santi,

RickThai

Originally Posted by RickThai

Anyone with a healthy "self-esteem"

No real Buddhist has the term 'self', let alone 'self esteem' in his dictionary.

Originally Posted by RickThai

That makes me the winner

Nor would one ever say that.


It's as pseudish and as fake a pose as Steven Seagal's Hollywood, designer Buddhism.

^ He does seem to be inventing his very own version of Buddhism just to suit his own needs.

I'd rather tell Rick he's a phoney than Seagal though.

Originally Posted by RickThai

Anyone with a healthy "self-esteem" will respect their own opinions and acknowledge that everyone can not understand or agree with those opinions. The trick is to not get tied up in knots when someone disagrees with you. I don't, you apparently do. That makes me the winner

Santi,

RickThai

"The Sun will rise tomorrow" Is that an opinion? Nobody is in a knot. Do you really believe you have the wherewithal to to draw out emotions in me? And you want the case to rest on one's self esteem? That means yours is high and mine is low, right?

Self esteem, gotcha, yours comes from a neurotic sense of superiority or entitlement. Which could only mean you're a fat trout in a little brook or an overly-consented mama's boy. No doubt you avoid those who out-gun you. There's a way to feel superior. Besides, if you were what you try to project you are you'd have to reason to remind us or convince us .. we'd have already been convinced. Too bad you can't buy a personality.

Originally Posted by Aberlour

^ He does seem to be inventing his very own version of Buddhism just to suit his own needs.

I'd rather tell Rick he's a phoney than Seagal though.

Truer words, Mate.

Originally Posted by ENT

Buddha taught that the "self" as a western concept of "you" as an autonomous, individual identity separate from the rest of the universe, or as ego, is not valid, but illusory, the anatman.

Buddha was wrong.

^^Nicely done ENT. No greens but you don't need one for this.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by ltnt

^^Nicely done ENT. No greens but you don't need one for this.

Yes, an amazing piece of copying and pasting sourced from the great cyber exo-brain.

We hardly need human memory anymore - just the ability to highlight text and click.

^So, does this mean you are not finding the post appropriate to the thread? Can't resist the need to do a dance about can you M? Of course you've never done a cut an paste....hummmm

Originally Posted by ENT

Buddha taught that the "self" as a western concept of "you" as an autonomous, individual identity separate from the rest of the universe, or as ego, is not valid, but illusory, the anatman.

He did though teach that a full awareness of the nature of self is essential for enlightenment.

Thie concept of self (anatman) which limits on individual, arises from the five skandhas,(heaps or baskets or collections of aspects of human being) where the first skandha of form, is one's physical form, the second of sensation is our emotional and physical feelings and senses, the thirdof perception, comprising of thoughts and concepts associated with identities of things and the fourth of mental forms involving desire, willfulness and prejudices and how karma comes from that and the fifth of consciousness that involving our conscious awareness of all things.

Once this is understood, ego consciousness is seen as illusory and a hindrance to further enlightenment, so can be disregarded, thus no-self concept.

Good post. Awareness of self is very different than attachment to self. I fully realize that my "ego-personality" is just a by-product of being alive (like consciousness) and will not be reborn when I am reborn.

Perhaps that is why I have absolutely no hate or animosity to posters who mock my comments or attack me personally. I am just objectively stating my views (and occasionally having a little fun "That makes me the winner".).

I think most posters would have a much happier life if they didn't take themselves so seriously. A forum is a wonderful opportunity to learn and consider different viewpoints. Attachments to ones "ego-personality" cause posters to lash out in anger, rather than just accept another viewpoint as another viewpoint.

Santi,

RickThai

Agreed.

and on another note, feel free to martyr yourself on TV. they'd absolutely lap it up.

Btw, your ego-personlity not being reborn is a flagrant misunderstanding you have regarding Buddhism. It is, according to principles, entirely possible. I'd not like to be you, given the circumstances.

Originally Posted by The Ghost Of The Moog

Originally Posted by ltnt

^^Nicely done ENT. No greens but you don't need one for this.

Yes, an amazing piece of copying and pasting sourced from the great cyber exo-brain.

We hardly need human memory anymore - just the ability to highlight text and click.

A fool like you, used to that form of academic prowess that you indicate in your post, would think that, as you have neither the mental nor creative ability to be able to string more than a couple of sentences together in any original form other than in a pseudo-legalistic fashion designed to fool the hoi polloi and obscure your errors without a surfeit of overt castigation by your superiors and betters.

Try studying just a single paper at a decent university and begin submitting essays for appraisal by those superior in academic achievement to both you and those you normally associate with.
You'll find the effort either exhilerating or anxiety ridden, depending on how many of your sexually-deviational over-stimulated and cholesterol affected neurons are still functional.

By the way, are you still wearing for your predilection and enjoyment Jimmy Savile's pantaloons that you so desired and bought?

Re: the OP- I am seeing more and more overweight, loud (yelling everything all the time), rude and carrying a "Big Boss" attitude little boys. And to a lesser extent girls. No common courtesy/respect/manners. If that's how it's always been and I missed this, that's a real shame. If it's a new occurrence, it's even worse. What will be Thailand like when these obese spoiled children start running the country?

Hey, Ld, u iz a little prick.

U and your kind have quietly destroyed this forum over the last two years.

You will never know the joy of giving, of being honest, for you are too full of fear of ridicule.

I got a little something to tell ya.

You're 57 yoa now.

I was that 10 years ago, and I went to Uni for the first time the next year.

I hope you will do something similar with your time.

Three years later I walked out with a degree in anthropology and half a degree in a double major in geology amd anatomy.
I also completed my first paper in forensic science.

That took me a total of exactly 3 years, no mean feat.

I then took a leave of absence to do my practical stuidies in SAsia fo four years.
I did a perambulatory survey of anthropologic and archaelogical landscape of South and SE Asia.

To augment my finances, I taught art and English and managed a guest house and engaged in business advice.

I also painted, many paintings, created mosaics and sculpture and supported and fostered several children and families in Chiangmai, Laos and India.

I then left Asia.

I was 100% self financed throughout.

Meanwhile, what have you done except try to be the biggest piece of point scoring shit on this forum?

^ If all that's true, then you are way too smart to sound as dumb as you do on here mate. What gives?