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How do you guys get on with memorizing and using all of the different classifiers related to their nouns? The Thai language seems to use them a lot more than English does.

Well it is obvious to me at least he/she is Thai and feels that his/her country is being threatened or changed my western influence. Seeing as you are a buddhist frog, you should accept that all things are impernanent and subject to change. Some things are beyond our control, others are not. The thi...

lol, nice view you on the bird story. Well in buddhism it is taught in most traditions that it is unskilful to kill/harm any sentient being, however there are situations where you would need to weigh up the situation as to what would be more wise to do. But as for animals being lower, I do not mean ...

Rock Star, that is so random, such as the cow story. Do you kno wwhat kind of species it was? @Frig I was not saddened, I just noticed how much we were speaking off of topic and running away with things on the board. I am use to getting a slap on the wrist for that in other forums.

If you want to talk about Buddhism, please feel free to private message me with your questions and opinions as it is not fair on the board to flood topics with off topic material

Well, the animal realm is considered a lower form of life as they are more controlled by impulses and instict, which is easier for them to create negative karma. I have been studying Buddhism for around 4 years now, a little before I came to Thailand. Yes attachments lead to suffering, if you study ...

That is true, but there is skilful compassion and then there is also unskilful compassion, which is also known as idiot compassion. The buddha taught a lot about the middle way, sometimes being blunt and tough is skilful compassion. However, that has little/nothing to do with what has been said ^^^

lol, maybe, maybe not. Past karma can be diluted by generating Bodhicitta in the present moment from day to day. I may have helped prevent my partner from being bitten by the centipede, who knows, but of all the karma I have generated, operating under ignorance and in a selfish way is not my normal ...

kee-neow has already been done :p I think we are almost out of options. It has been noted that basically kee means waste and you can apply it in many ways. However, I do not understand how 'kee-ow' translates to what it does :/

Another one I just heard from my GF, kee-ow hehe

I will make a trip down to soi 68 and see what's going on down there if the couple does not come before May comes. The fact is that we have so much we cannot keep it lying around. It looks bad in huge black backs, and some of it is starting to smell, guessing that would be drops of beer left in bott...

I have those centipedes in my house, redy/brown in colour? Quite fast and seem to sway from right to left as they charge? Those things are meant to be quite poisonous. When I first saw one, like the niave fool that I am, I went to try and pick it up before my girlfriend started shouting at me in Tha...

Only annoyed that I don't really know someone's name, not the loong bit. The habit of calling an elder person uncle or auntie is an Asian thing, something I was brought up with in post-colonial Singapore. I can live with that. As far as nicknames go, there are about seventy Thais working in my comp...

And yes, Thais tend to address complete strangers with mother, uncle, aunt, grandfather etc. Female friends refer to each other as sister although they are not related in any way. Shows respect in a way and I do not see the annoying part? Yes, agreed. But it does result in a bizarre tendency to hav...

lol, It is funny because I have a friend who a bit older than me, she is called Nong, so I have to call her Pi-Nong. As nong means young/small in relation to age, it is kind of paradoxical to call her Pi-Nong hehe. I don't know what tone you use with the 'ta' but I only know it in Thai to mean 'if' ...