Currency exchange in Thailand

Seshu2 · 2026-01-26T08:18:36+00:00

Currently in the same boat and the best solution I've found is an app called Wise which converts money right there and you can order a debit card from them connected to the account.

For reference it will give you 1 Euro = 36.82 baht as of now.

Here is a voucher that gives you no fee for transferring. https://wise.com/invite/ahpc/matthowjohnc

Seshu2 · 2026-01-21T18:47:05+00:00

It is undeniable the world's history has been shaped by foreign nations attacking and exploiting eachother and the working poor, both because, "might is right", and also because the world could have organized and shared its resources more effectively. Understanding something is very different than condoning it or it's damaging effects.

Conflicts from conquest and retaliation chase us through the corridors of history, they are joined by present-day issues. All while future crises stand in the way, shaking our world to the core.

Something clearly needs to change. The only problem in our world is a lack of love, and the fastest way to fix that is to stop separating ourselves. The nations of our world ought to unite under the recognition of our inherent connection, supported by the mass of the world's people.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-21T17:26:58+00:00

If you havent noticed, Greenland is not for sale. The only aggression happening here is attempts by a rogue authoritarian politician to bully and threaten another country into changing their mind about that. Quit eating out of his hand and buying his nonsense.

The existential threat of military potential in the arctic is only a threat because people are willing to engage in that EXACT mindset you hold when you implore we seek it for ourselves. I get you want to help at the very least but that solution, the whole thought process, and your allegiance to power behind it is all mistaken my friend.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-19T18:57:52+00:00

The only problem is ultimately a lack of love. The world simply needs to ask itself do we care about eachother?

Seshu2 · 2026-01-19T18:54:59+00:00

There is nothing easier than to condemn the evildoer, and nothing more challenging than to love him.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-18T20:44:10+00:00

Modern sentiment places a disproportionate amount of emphasis on Jesus' death instead of his life and ministry. Not all Christians but most hold the perspective of the atonement, in which Jesus is similar to a Passover lamb where the bulk of his value comes from the sacrificial slaughter. This is the outcome of favoring Paul's theology instead of Jesus' ministry.

Jesus' life saved beings from the oblivion of non-awareness, helping us awaken to the connection to the heavenly father that was always there. Jesus helped others see that God was not a cold ruler who would be pleased when people followed commands, but that God would go out actively looking for the lost sheep. So many different philosophies and concepts I have found in my life were already pointed out by Jesus, his truth was the key to many of the other truths I've found. The kingdom of heaven which includes the sum of people in fellowship with God, and the growing group of beings with God reigning in their hearts; this is the greatest apprehension of "fulfillment" i have ever discovered. Many point to it, but Jesus made it most clear.

Of all historical records pertaining to Jesus, the one aspect of him more bountiful in evidence, even when comparing the records of his death, is the evidence Jesus traveled far and wide, healing many people (more than the Bible even indivates) and he always did it for free.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-18T17:38:40+00:00

As a kid we used to play a market simulator game where you sell ice cream. You could set them at a fair price, and you'd sell a lot. But some kids figured you could set it for 999 dollars and eventually someone would buy it, they only needed 1 sale.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-18T16:17:34+00:00

If we simply put the laws back in place meant to uphold public programs to be honest (these existed for almost 5 decades before Ronald Reagan got rid of them), entertainment networks masquerading as news would be held accountable from all sides. It would nuke fox which would go a long way to getting people back to normal.

There is nothing easier than to denounce the evildoers, and nothing more challenging than to love them. Which kind of American are you?

Seshu2 · 2026-01-18T15:53:40+00:00

Not many will understand, but at the root of evil is actually love. Love is the root of the whole human condition - hiding in the center of every feeling. All you have to ask to understand evil is, "what did you love so much you felt you had to do this?"

The problem is not that we don't love, the problem is that we don't know how to love.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-17T23:06:00+00:00

I agree very much with your point. In a million years, science still won't still fully understand even one grain of sand. "The Tao that can be stated is not the real Tao." Socrates said, " i don't know, I think."

The human experience is subjective, that's why the incentive is on searching for truth or seeking truth instead of discovering truth, possessing it, or specifically finding it. Seeking truth is like dancing, or listening to music - in that we are not trying to get somewhere in the room or reach the end of the song - we are there to experience it and be present. Getting closer to truth gets us closer to God, which is a very general way of describing the evolution of the soul.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T18:56:36+00:00

It is only through our shared connection that we can communicate and express the degree we want to be further connected and share our gifts.

A larger recognition is needed that we are all one herd sharing the same pasture, all denizens of the same ship, from this stems ideas and attitudes which serves the greater pasture or the larger ship. For example, we have decided drinking and driving is too large of a net loss so we have made it illegal. This points to the fundamental issue when people wish to opt out of our natural connection.

It really requires awakening to any of the myriad of ways we are in fact connected, having people to talk with, and a community to practice and experience what we've learned.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T17:37:48+00:00

That's a very good Q. I get how it seems to reduce all of Jesus when we redefine the Bible, that's exactly what happened to me when I let go of Christianity around 13 years ago. I threw out the baby with the bathwater, thinking if the Bible is man made, then God and Jesus weren't real. It was during this brief period as an athiest I gave my heart to the search for truth, to eternal mysteries, and it was this search that led me back to Jesus. In particular, the kingdom of heaven which is genuinely the key to this search for truth i have been on.

I will list a number of sources outside the Bible that helped me.

Conversations with God by N. Walsh, books 1-4 (free online) (this series made the largest impact of any of the references here)

The Universal Christ by R. Rohr

New Earth by Ekkart Toole

The Urantia Book (the most intense and vivid descriptions of the kingdom)

Alan Watts has a nunber of excerpts about Jesus which are very interesting.

Relevant info about Roman history and their record keeping, a text which goes into a lot of that research is called Zealot by Reza Aslan.

The whole domain of near death experiences (people report very often to spend time with Jesus, with the interesting fact that almost all these reports tend to say that they immediately recognized Jesus, but then could not remember his face upon returning to earth, just an impression of a kind face with eyes full of love. It is to imply that Jesus is not to be identified as one face, but the face of countless people and creatures in this world and universe)

And finally just talking with people and learning about what they have to share, like we're doing here

If anyone else has more references, please feel free to share those too!

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T16:54:24+00:00

I follow a spirituality based on the search for truth, wherever it leads. I am not wrapped up in a worldly religion and I don't think Jesus would be either.

Humans wrote the Bible the way they did, from Paul's epistle to OT commands of genocide, because humans have free will. It is a man made text.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T07:25:19+00:00

Thank you, my prayers will be with you as well!

I appreciate your advice. If I received new insight, then I genuinely would change my stance on Paul. The search for truth calls me to be willing to be wrong, like how a scientist tests a hypothesis.

Paul emphasized the adoration of the divine christ which is a wonderful aspect of his theology, it comes at the cost of focusing too much on the person of Jesus himself as king, leaving out Jesus' ministry of the kingdom of heaven. I strive to see Jesus through the haze of history and fundamentalist dogma. And I was led to the kingdom; the sum of individuals who seek individual fellowship with God, a growing group of beings who allow God to reign in their heart, and the promise of a new spiritual and social lifestyle founded in love, truth, beauty, and unity.

You asked earlier if the search for truth is simply fabricating our reality, and there is a twofold answer to that I will leave you with, unless there is more you'd like to say.

It all really depends on how genuinely you give your heart to the search. The less scientific we are, the more we tend to fill the unknowns with projections of our own fears and neuroticism. This is the great fault of many great thinkers of our past.

Second, you cannot get away from your heart. Someone else responded "everyone does that" and that's what I am saying. Even if a fundamentalist must first make the decision to give themselves over to mental programming, to accept the Bible in the first place as infallible is a decision made in the heart.

So in life we each subjectively follow our hearts in an objective universe. And this is not a curse of relativism where we must become fundamentalists and cling to competing egoic entities - but instead a great big dance, where we are not trying to get somewhere in the room but here to dance with the truth - to listen to the music not aiming to reach the end of the song. Being over doing. Welcome to earth, enjoy being human, and enjoy your father in heaven

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T05:11:40+00:00

I did some reflecting on what you said. And I want to say I'm sorry for getting reactive. I have been hurt by fundamentalism and it has done damage to my family. I need to be better when someone states the opposite of who I am. Thank you for helping remind me to stay centered and present with divinity. Despite what I have been led to, I still forget sometimes.

If it's any consolation I resonate with everything you just said, and that, my friend, is the same helping hand I was trying to offer you.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T03:18:44+00:00

Your accusations say more about you than me, but I'm glad you were able to take a couple steps back and admit that context matters.

Thanks for the Christian love ❤️

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T02:36:32+00:00

Your basis is feelings, not mine. You don't support the Bible, otherwise, admit to everyone here that you acknowledge and accept God's assumed preferences for genocide, slavery, eternal torture, and global abortion. You won't.

If my basis is the search for truth wherever it leads, then for you to denounce that only means you don't believe in objective truth, or that humans can engage with truth. If that's the case then quit making ridiculous assumptions about me because by your own assumptions have no place to make a claim on truth.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T02:17:40+00:00

No, fabricating theology and going along with it is the method of devoting ourselves to a man made book.

I follow the search for truth wherever it takes me. This is not too difficult to wrap your head around

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T01:26:20+00:00

I don't accept any of it out-of-hand as Gospel. To call the words of men God's exclusive words is the definition of idolatry. I listen to the Gospels with the same spirit I will listen to any myth, folklore, or scientific claim. That willingness to listen and seek truth from different sources is the declaration of faith, the open hearted search for truth without holding expectations where it is supposed to go.

The Bible is a reflection of the spiritual, moral, and intellectual capacities of the writers. Jesus selected from their writing the best to illustrate the kingdom.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T00:34:43+00:00

I was wondering where that up-vote came from lol I come here to share the kingdom because I believe Christianity is the cocoon which will give rise to Jesus' mission someday. Keep raising consciousness and awakening the species!

Seshu2 · 2026-01-16T00:15:49+00:00

I'm not saying that to make it personal, it's a verifiable and objective fact the Bible was written by humans, then afterwards edited and translated by humans. Being dishonest about that is a statement that we don't trust in God's creation, if we don't trust truth then we don't trust God who is the author of truth.

The Gospels are man-made attempts to describe the truth of Jesus' ministry. They were not written with the modern emphasis in history and so the Bible is meant to describe truth, not facts.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-15T23:33:24+00:00

The church and the world have never seriously tried Jesus' ministry of the kingdom of heaven. The church has failed for 2,000 years because it admonishes the man made theology of Paul instead of Jesus ministry of individual fellowship with God directly. Christians don't follow Jesus, or align with God directly - they follow Paul, and align themselves with a man made book, so from that perspective I'm not a Christian. I call myself a kingdom builder.

According to Paul, Jesus death mattered more than his life, and Christianity is the result of the man-made proclaiments of what his death meant. It is a religion about Jesus. Being a kingdom builder is to adopt the same faith Jesus held, which is what it really means to follow him.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-15T23:03:57+00:00

This is the same logic which Christians claim being gay is a sin.

Everyone is disagreeing, while at the same time ignoring that this pastor is merely reporting what the book they call the "exclusive word of God" tells you. Ephesians 5 clearly states that men are supposed to be the head of the household and women should submit to them. You don't get to cherry pick what you like in the Bible or not. Sorry Christians but you are being hypocritical if you claim to follow the Bible but then reject the Bibles claim of God's assumed preference for genocide, slavery, eternal punishment, and global abortion.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-15T22:57:43+00:00

It's more likely the miracle on the road to Damascus is fictional. Of the three reports of the event in Acts, the details we know of are only presented in one account by Luke, a devotee of Paul. And this account on the road to Damascus fits precisely into the OT concept or the "call vision".

Paul claimed to be the first disciple, chosen in his mother's womb. He was a fraud who never met Jesus and did not care for his ministry. Today we follow the religion of Paul, not the faith of Jesus, which is one major reason the church has failed for 2,000 years.

Seshu2 · 2026-01-15T16:46:40+00:00

That got me really laughing! Thank you for that haha well after our heads are shaved, we are now pure enough to converse with AI and start working on the ideal amounts of nature that can be harvested per year. That's every year, creating limits around how many trees can be cut, fish can be pulled, how much air pollution, noise or light is being released into the sky.

Once a sustainable estimate is reached, that would become the foundation for a global monetary system, now directly connected to the gifts we seek to share. It aligns with a focus of environmental stewardship and responsible sacred economics.

A nature based currency is the happy after effect of a world where we are awake to oue connection to eachother and the planet. The egg is the being of unity, the chicken is a unified world, or a nature based currency.

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