Buddhist Monks Warned To Stop Using Social Networks To Flirt With Girls
from the friend-to-buddha dept
You certainly see some bizarre stories about older cultures adapting to newer technologies, but this might be one of the most bizarre. Thai officials are apparently warning Buddhist monks to behave themselves on social networking sites and to stop using them to flirt with women. If there ever were a quote I didn't expect I'd hear, it would probably be this one, from Ladda Thangsupachai, head of Thailand's Cultural Surveillance Centre."Instead of using the Net to flirt with young girls, monks should find ways to preach Dharma and lead them in the right direction."Maybe they just haven't found the right Facebook apps yet.
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mmhmmm
Should be a big hit
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Instead of waisting ur time in the city center to flirt with young girls, monks should find ways to preach Dharma and lead them in the right direction.
for once the Internet isn't being blamed for the problem its recognized as a medium of communication.
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girls vs. boys.
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No one noticed this?
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Re: girls vs. boys.
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bad translation
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Re: corruption as you will
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This seems proportionally accurate to me.
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Re: Re: girls vs. boys.
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cultural misunderstandings
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Doesn't suprise me in the least..
Inu-Yasha I think...? That monk was a horn-dog!
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Thai women...
To explain... most goodlooking women there are men. Either Boob-jobbed or just Cross-dressing ones. The first common mistake of every US Service man that has gone there... so I wouldn't doubt if it were men they were flirting with.
CHECK THE PACKAGE FIRST!!!
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Re: Thai women...
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thai buddhist monk
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Bah
Selfish as hell, but humans tend to be. And really fucking bad for the kid, so I mean thy deserve the punishment they get for fornicating with children... but maybe we should attack the cause as well as the problem?
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that better be a joke
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Buddhist monks flirts
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Re: that better be a joke
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Many monks deserve no respect.
I am a self confessed disillusioned buddhist.
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stupide
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but why
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Thai Monks Marriage To Thai Police Organised Crime World
commence a campaign to turn the Thai Buddhist Monks on their heads
and find out just what some of them have been hiding behind their
orange robes...I had found a monk in one temple just south of the river between the Taksin Bridge
and the Thon Buri district of Bangkok looking at hard core sex pornography in his room (door wide open) at 7.30pm one evening..
.... and look what fell from beneath their orange
robes...... I wrote to some Buddhist monks and warned them of my
intentions........
The Royal Thai Police knew about the 1700 Dead Foetus
issue/business for more than five years. Perhaps over 50,000 babies
have been killed in the past few years.
How many of the mothers of these aborted babies have died due to
poor medical standards for the abortions? Where are their bodies?
There are a number of girls I knew who disappeared, perhaps for an
abortion, whom I never ever found again. These girls have not been
seen for years by anyone, I walked over 15,000 kilometres of the
streets of Bangkok and Pattaya and other cities trying to find
these girls and others who vanished without trace. Nobody wanted to
help with the problem, not the locals nor the Thai police.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/207261/hundreds-of-foetuses-found-at-thai-temple-police
I knew about this problem and I got a member of The Royal Thai
Police to come to a house where I thought someone was being abused,
abortions in unmedical surroundings off Chalong Kreung Road
Bangkok.. However the policeman refused to enter the property, he
seemed to know about the place. He was from a police station
opposite the large hotel off Chalong Kreung Menam Hotel that
fronts onto the river near Soi 85 Chalong Kreung. I know another
location near Soi Satthupradit 42 where something similar may have
been going on behind some large red Chinese style gates.
The Royal Thai Police refused to assist claiming the home owner was
a Judge in The Thai Courts. The home owner declared to me he had
been appointed a special position in the Court by His Majesty The
King of Thailand. I did not believe him and wrote a letter to The
Principle Private Secretary of His Majesty King Bhumibol advising
the King's secretary of these claims. I believe the man was
possibly using the address for abortions, there was a constant flow
of young girls coming and going from this property. An upstairs
room always kept windows sealed, never opened the shutters.
It doesn't come as a surprise that one Thai-English dictionary
translates Tamluat as Satan's Police.
According to one long time case-worker in Thailand in 2009, despite
the trainings, many policemen still consider sex with teen-age
children “to be OK”. Only a handful of police officers across the
Kingdom are trained on the proper treatment of children in police
custody. http://www.thailawforum.com/sex-crimes-in-thailand-part3-3.html
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Don't cut foot to suit the shoes!
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