seri thai

Hardback, on 2010-09-21 09:35:38, said:

Agreed, simple cowardice.  Instead of accepting responsibility for their actions, it is easier to simply say: "well it's everyone's fault"  Then no one has to accept blame and the elite get off scott-free.
That notion of compromise instead of justice in Thailand will be this country's downfall.

Quite how the ordinary person with no power is as responsible as the power players after having their cake and eating it is as responsible for the mess is open to question.

The players are obviously manouvering around trying to find a large common ground so things can get back to normal with mosty of the old players back in the game. That is what "we are all responsible" means.

FarangBuddha, on 2010-09-13 17:28:24, said:

Well they are doing their little bit, I never read or heard anywhere that the grey man was trying to solve all world issues.

You seem so critical of their efforts, I imagine it must be because you have done so much more OR is that just more of that stuff coming out of your avatars rear end?

It must be so hard for you sitting up on your high horse, looking down on everyone and everything they do

Giving your money away isn't necessary a spiritual activity. The majority of people who donate usually want some recognition for their largeness thus negating any spiritual reason for this.

LivinLOS, on 2010-08-21 06:14:31, said:

Exactly. It's an inanimate object and the Buddhist tenet: "The cessation of suffering: freedom from attachment and aversion" needs noting by the abbot.

All this flashiness and desire to create a magnificent structure is not what the Buddha was about.

seri thai, on 2010-08-19 17:06:09, said:

Deeral indicated that Australia "had periods of huge denials and creativity when it comes to history" so I was looking for examples of Australian revisionism.

Deeral, on 2010-07-28 22:40:30, said:

That's exactly my point. In my opinion that has to change before there will be any true heirs to the future wealth of Thailand.
The potential for wealth amongst new groups in society is relative to their creative capacity, I would say..

Just think of the fact that basically everything we surround us with today in the modern society was invented and developed by stubborn individuals,
many times seen as lunatics, fools and odd outsiders before it came to public use.
For example; the light tube, air condition, batteries, telephone, aircraft, cars, radio, penicillin and much much more..

Until the day that Thailand will foster and accept strong, free thinking individuals - regardless of their family origins - there will be no real wealth generation
in Thailand. And, yes, I define "wealth" as true original value that increases the living standards for people - thus sellable in any situation - rather than short-term stock exchange gains or money made on serving rich CEO's at golf courses, as that - in my opinion - is highly volatile and doomed to be depending on those CEO's making their golf course money somewhere else first - thus eternally putting Thailand in dependancy of other's wealth.

Now, how many internatioally recognised companies producing anything does Thailand have ? Except for maybe Singha beer ??
Compare that to for example Germany with a similar population count..


And, of course,..
until the day that Thailand will foster and accept strong, free thinking individuals - regardless of their family origins - there will be no change in Thailand's political or economical structure either.

Anyway, I'm an optimist. My son is only seven years old now, but wait and see..