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Post by clusium on Jul 22, 2019 14:36:26 GMT
Have you ever seen any past Popes, Geode? I got to see Pope St. John Paul II right up close, back in 2002 (actually, I've also seen the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, Bartholomew I, back when he came to the GTA as well, but, seeing JP II felt greater). I saw John Paull II at a mass celebrating Mother Teresa at the Vatican when she was beatified. It was very tedious as his Parkinson's disease was very advanced at that point. His parkinson's was very advanced when I saw him also. When I saw him up close, sitting in the golf cart, he was hunched right over.
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Post by general313 on Jul 22, 2019 14:40:13 GMT
I got the chance to visit about 30 years ago, and it is overall great, except I found Bangkok kind of a mixed bag: lots of beauty and interesting places and people, but very crowded, congested and polluted air. I really liked Chiang Mai. What's hooked me from the films I've seen is how they've depicted the nature there more than the cities. I'm specifically thinking of the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who's perhaps my favorite new filmmaker of this century). Interesting, could you recommend one of his films as a good starting point?
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Post by geode on Jul 24, 2019 10:42:16 GMT
Yes, indeed. Maybe you'll get a chance to see Pope Francis up close, when he's in Thailand. That would be wonderful. Cry uncle
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Post by Morgana on Jul 28, 2019 8:30:03 GMT
From the films I've seen, Thailand seems like such a gorgeous place. Wouldn't mind visiting myself. One of my relatives just got back from there. She said it was beautiful but the food was horrible. I don't think she's very adventurous.
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