Some may think activists are predisposed at birth to take up a cause. Then there are others who think activists are people who just want attention or to cause trouble for the ‘Establishment’. Finally there are people who think an activist is just someone who stands up for what is right after someone did them wrong. The true answer is a bit of all of that and even more. Continue reading Post ID 16117
- Category Archives Food For Thought
Things people should think about and give careful consideration as it may affect their lives in the future.
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Secrets to getting a top credit score
Getting a top credit score is easy if you know the simple painless tricks credit raters like. This entry covers the simple basics on how to make that happen and well before you put 30 candles in your birthday cake. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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The abortion issue a reality check
With the discovery of over 2000 fetuses at a temple in Bangkok, it is an in your face reminder that abortions will happen whether they are legal or not. To think this will happen only in Thailand is only for the naive to believe. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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The unseen mental health professionals war
It is a bit difficult to visualize two doctors having a fist fight of sorts. Although it has not come to blows as yet, there most certainly are more than a few mental health doctors displaying their fighting colors, and the reasons are both surprising as well as not surprising. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Financial posturing for pending succession
There has been a silent trend taking place this year with wealthy non Thai people living in Thailand. People that have called Thailand home for 20 years and more have been moving their money out and back to their home country as the one thing nobody wants to talk or think about draws ever closer. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Attitude to oil / terrorist countries after the well is dry
Occasionally the thought floats through peoples minds about how tolerant we will be with countries that produce oil and terrorist once the oil is gone. With the growing anger against terrorism and terrorists, the urge to plant a few radioactive mushrooms is very real in the minds of many. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Right vs popular voting vs political survival
It most certainly is a dilemma for any elected politician to do the right thing and risk getting voted out of office. Popular votes are not always the right vote, and when they are not, watch out come election day. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Today’s challenges more difficult than past
If you pick any time in history you will see the problems of that era covered in the news and history records. When you compare them to today, you will see them getting increasingly more difficult as time goes on. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Bringing what was deliberately left behind
When people up and move from one place to another, most often they do so to leave something behind. But when some people insist that they bring that undesirable whatever along, they sometimes wonder why they don’t fit in at their new home. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Thais shooting the messenger
In Thailand there has been an increasingly disturbing trend that can only be described as shooting the messenger. The messengers that are being shot are the ones who’s message the Thais don’t like. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Thailand going nuclear
From the moment the words Thailand and nuclear were said in the same sentence, the web forums simply lit up in panic. Not because Thailand would pose a serious nuclear threat to the world, but because of their past and continuing habits of how Thais act when things suddenly head south. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Having children an ethical view in today’s world
Having children is normal. In fact some may conclude that is the reason living things exist, to make more. But because of what humans are doing to the planet, we must ask ourselves do we really want to have children that will need to survive in the living hell we are creating for them. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Economic recovery or just spin?
The first part of economic recovery is getting people to believe that economic recovery is under way. The problem is the average person of any country does not have easy access to raw data, much less have the ability to decipher it. That means they simply must believe what they are told. Continue reading Post ID 16117
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Taught to hate
We hear about war and conflict all the time. In fact we hear about it so much we start to think we are incapable of having a peaceful planet. But when we see children of warring cultures playing together, we come to see that the desire for conflict and hate was something we were taught and not something we were born with. Continue reading Post ID 16117