> On Mar 16, 4:59 pm, her...@hotmail.com wrote:
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>> On Mar 16, 11:52 am, vannasay hotmail.com> wrote:

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>>> Thanouxay,

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>>> Don't worry, that's the shortfall of the human nature with short
>>> memory, but plenty of self-seving extravagant
>>> pretentiousness...particularly that will make themselves feel good or
>>> even important for a few minutes...but it's all unconnected with the
>>> most painstaking reality in which the real merit needs action, then
>>> action is more important than word.

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>>> Vannassay,

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>>> On Mar 16, 2:25 am, thanouxay hotmail.com> wrote:

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>>>> Dear,

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>>>> Everything is completely normal except you who is completely out of
>>>> context. Just recall how your life was and how your parents were
>>>> living 20 over years ago.

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>>>> I am exhausted by those who got short memory and shows arrogance
>>>> toward her/his past history except you are born in the State. Then
>>>> learn from your parent how was the situation then and only come and
>>>> show your arrogance here.

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>>>> You are the most ridiculous.

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>>>> Sok dee

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>>>> On Mar 16, 9:47 am, her...@hotmail.com wrote:

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>>>>> Some leaders, in 2008 --- in a society of which those leaders proclaim
>>>>> to be open, progressive, free, democratic, etc. --- drive out, in
>>>>> bullet proof 2008 Mercedes Benz or BMW, or some other luxrious western
>>>>> made vehicles......  no more than a few dozen kilometers from their
>>>>> capital.... to see a few dozen citizens who "returned" to the country
>>>>> to live like the poorest of European peasants lived in the 9th to 12th
>>>>> century, IN THE YEAR 2008.... and you gentle, smart people, inside and
>>>>> outside of Laos, PROUDLY BROADCASTED these pictures?

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>>>>> To tell the world HOW WELL THE LOVING, GENTLE LAO LEADERS are welcome
>>>>> these "misguided" people,,, back to where they belong?, a country of
>>>>> hope, prosperity, free, harmonious?

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>>>>> I mean, what is really wrong with you people?

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>>>>> This is the year 2008, not the year 1108 or even Fa Ngum's time.

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>>>>> Don't you think there is something FUNDAMENTALLY wrong with a society
>>>>> --- at least at the governance level --- when the leaders can drive in
>>>>> hundred thousand dollar western made luxurious vehicles to visit
>>>>> citizens, no more than a few dozen miles from their capital city,,,,
>>>>> citizens who look starved, frightened, disturbed (they may smile but
>>>>> they are afraid, disturbed, and not sure what's going on) ....
>>>>> citizens who have to use crudely made cattail-like brooms to sweep the
>>>>> dirty "streets" hours before the arrival of their leaders.... citizens
>>>>> who are given NOTHING MORE THAN A SACK of rice or two, worth no more
>>>>> than $1.00 or two, who are told to smile, to extend their hands, to
>>>>> welcome the good leaders.... citizens whose pictures are taken and
>>>>> loaded into the Internet almost as soon as those pictures are
>>>>> taken...to be broadcasted around the world...

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>>>>> You don't think there is something WRONG, fundamentally wrong --- or
>>>>> not working --- with such a society?

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>>>>> There's really nothing fundamentally wrong with those small, starved-
>>>>> looking people/children, y'know.... I was like one of those kids 30
>>>>> odd years ago, living in northern Vientiane, too,,,, so perhaps not so
>>>>> far away from that "welcome back" village....

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>>>>> But in my country ---- through a series of circumstances I had no
>>>>> country over I found myself growing and maturing in a society in MY
>>>>> COUNTRY here in the USA --- I and even the poorest children have
>>>>> access to all the things in the world, the bad, the good, and the
>>>>> ugly.  And we get to make choices, even very poor choices....

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>>>>> I can't believe y'all who took these pictures are so proudly
>>>>> exhibiting them, with the mighty and benevolent leaders of such a
>>>>> twisted little isolated communist country smiling so generously toward
>>>>> such starved-looking, desperate citizens, who LIVE --- not just look
>>>>> like it but actually live --- in some 12th century looking
>>>>> landscape.....

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>>>>> about your thinking, if you think these pictures are pictures of a
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>> it is the MERIT of the "action" that counts, NOT simply that you take
>> some action!

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>> i can masturbate 5 hours a action and that's A LOT of "action", but
>> the merit of masturbation is HIGHLY UNLIKELY to be the same thing as
>> studying how how mitochondrians and hemoglobins work; or how you,
>> using valid statistical algorithms, calculate the SUCCESS CHANCES and
>> FAILURE chances of a certain thinking and the "action" put in place
>> BECAUSE OF such a thinking!

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>> surely people --- even those in Laos --- even those in higher places,
>> like Thanouxay, are CAPABLE of distinguishing between the MERIT of
>> some ACTIONS from others!

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>> ACTIONS that stem from THINKING and WORDS (thoughts) THAT produce
>> Yahoo, Microsoft, BMW, super-computer, the Internet, Toyota, Google,
>> etc. SEEM to be the kinds that SUCCESSFUL society and people emulate;
>> and those who emulate them better, take lead, creating more similar
>> "actions."

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>> "Actions" that produce poverty, or keep most people in the society in
>> restrictions --- either in physicality or thought or both --- like
>> Laos, Vietnam, China, North Korea, Burma, etc., because suc "actions"
>> STEM FROM the "thinking" (not other action but thinking) that says ONE
>> PERSON, one SYSTEM, knows best, knows it all, and ALL YOU HAVE TO DO,
>> all the citizens have to do, is SIMPLY behaves as IT, the "correct"
>> group or leadership WISELY and benevolently decree and peace,
>> prosperity, democarcy, etc. will EITHER continue to exist or expend in
>> such a way that the people/society will serve as a good working model
>> from broad people from across the world to see, to copy, to follow
>> ---------- SUCH idiotic "actions" and thinking can not, may not, be
>> criticized?

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> No Herlao, you are wrong and for once I would like to see if you can
> admit when you are wrong.  Action is what matters.  Thoughts are good,
> but unless they lead to action nothing happens.  You can think and
> philosophize all you want, but at the end of the day if you don't take
> ACTION, the kids will not get fed, the electricity and the water will
> be turned off, eventually you will get evicted.  You can study
> mitochondrion and hemoglobin all you want, but unless you start doing
> lab work, discover new breakthrough techniques, writing papers about
> your discoveries and get published, you have taken no ACTION.  You can
> yank on your MAA KOU for 5 hours, yes that's a lot of action and
> hopefully you'll get RESULT, but if you just sit back and think about
> feeding the kids in Phalak or the kids in White Water, unless you
> actually give them some food, they wont get fed.
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> You can criticize the Lao Government all you want, but that wont get
> the kids fed.  The Lao Government, on the other hand is feeding those
> kids.
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> The Lao Government is not the US Government.  They have totally
> different settings and resources to work with than the US Government.
> To try to compare the two is like comparing night and day or, as SSMM
> put it, apples to oranges.
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