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How can atheist make this world a better place?
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
Well, most scientists are atheists. We can always use more science.
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@GipsyOfNewSpain (sigh) It's just a joke. Not to be taken seriously.
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
Well, most scientists are atheists. We can always use more science.
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@GipsyOfNewSpain (sigh) It's just a joke. Not to be taken seriously.
Where were you when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated?
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
I was on noon break at our tiny elementary mission school in Haiti.
When we were told the news, I was in shock. I couldn't grasp it.
Since we didn't have TVs in those days, our mission showed the funeral on a big screen at the front of the big mission church.
I was puzzled as to why the ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@FrayedBear My parents were United Methodists, and liberal in many ways, as was our mission. My dad was a radio engineer, but had been a TV engineer before he went to Haiti., my mom was the program manager and had her own popular radio shows. The mission's goal was to help Haitians help themselves..people came from the US and built a clinic, schools, teaching farm, all intending the Haitians to take over for themselves, which they did, and the missionaries left. I just rode my horses and played with my friends.
But childhood MK (missionary kid) friends from other missions weren't so liberal, and it was their hateful memes on my Facebook page that was the last straw, although bad treatment by my US church when I was divorced had already convinced me to quit going to church.
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
I was on noon break at our tiny elementary mission school in Haiti.
When we were told the news, I was in shock. I couldn't grasp it.
Since we didn't have TVs in those days, our mission showed the funeral on a big screen at the front of the big mission church.
I was puzzled as to why the ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@FrayedBear My parents were United Methodists, and liberal in many ways, as was our mission. My dad was a radio engineer, but had been a TV engineer before he went to Haiti., my mom was the program manager and had her own popular radio shows. The mission's goal was to help Haitians help themselves..people came from the US and built a clinic, schools, teaching farm, all intending the Haitians to take over for themselves, which they did, and the missionaries left. I just rode my horses and played with my friends.
But childhood MK (missionary kid) friends from other missions weren't so liberal, and it was their hateful memes on my Facebook page that was the last straw, although bad treatment by my US church when I was divorced had already convinced me to quit going to church.
How can atheist make this world a better place?
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
Well, most scientists are atheists. We can always use more science.
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@GipsyOfNewSpain Various vampire movies and traditions say that sunlight kills vampires, but during the day, werewolves were simply normal looking humans.
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
Well, most scientists are atheists. We can always use more science.
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@GipsyOfNewSpain Various vampire movies and traditions say that sunlight kills vampires, but during the day, werewolves were simply normal looking humans.
Where were you when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated?
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
I was on noon break at our tiny elementary mission school in Haiti.
When we were told the news, I was in shock. I couldn't grasp it.
Since we didn't have TVs in those days, our mission showed the funeral on a big screen at the front of the big mission church.
I was puzzled as to why the ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@FrayedBear Thanks. I added a few photos of birds I've photographed to the profile. I was the middle child..two younger sisters. "Homebody" is a US term for a someone who likes to stay home, so I was making the comment that I'm the opposite.
My parents' moving to Haiti was great for me; I got to grow up in a tropical paradise, swim at the beach on Christmas, have horses and piles of exotic pets, plus allowed to do stuff most people never will do.
I was soon taking turns running controls as a radio operator, doing live music request shows, editing big reel-to-reel tapes we used back then, playing parts in hilarious dramatized shows, writing stories, drawing illustrations, singing on air in five different languages, accompanying various groups on piano, electric base, or skin drums. We also made two records, that included five languages, and did island tours.
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
I was on noon break at our tiny elementary mission school in Haiti.
When we were told the news, I was in shock. I couldn't grasp it.
Since we didn't have TVs in those days, our mission showed the funeral on a big screen at the front of the big mission church.
I was puzzled as to why the ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@FrayedBear Thanks. I added a few photos of birds I've photographed to the profile. I was the middle child..two younger sisters. "Homebody" is a US term for a someone who likes to stay home, so I was making the comment that I'm the opposite.
My parents' moving to Haiti was great for me; I got to grow up in a tropical paradise, swim at the beach on Christmas, have horses and piles of exotic pets, plus allowed to do stuff most people never will do.
I was soon taking turns running controls as a radio operator, doing live music request shows, editing big reel-to-reel tapes we used back then, playing parts in hilarious dramatized shows, writing stories, drawing illustrations, singing on air in five different languages, accompanying various groups on piano, electric base, or skin drums. We also made two records, that included five languages, and did island tours.
I switched the television on tonight and caught most of "The Fifth Element" on Syfy.
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
That's one of my favorite movies, and years ago, back when I had it on DVD, I used to just leave it in the VCR and hit play whenever I sat down. It didn't matter where in the movie it was, since I had it memorized and thought it all was hilarious.
Very Robert A. Heinlein universe!
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@AuntieMame LOVE it, and recently reread it.
I regularly run through my vast Kindle Robert A. Heinlein collection. If I've recently read them all, there are other writers, inspired by Heinlein, who are just as good, or better, like John Scalzi, and his Old Man's War series. Also, Joe Haldeman. I found these writers by searching for authors "like Heinlein."
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
That's one of my favorite movies, and years ago, back when I had it on DVD, I used to just leave it in the VCR and hit play whenever I sat down. It didn't matter where in the movie it was, since I had it memorized and thought it all was hilarious.
Very Robert A. Heinlein universe!
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@AuntieMame LOVE it, and recently reread it.
I regularly run through my vast Kindle Robert A. Heinlein collection. If I've recently read them all, there are other writers, inspired by Heinlein, who are just as good, or better, like John Scalzi, and his Old Man's War series. Also, Joe Haldeman. I found these writers by searching for authors "like Heinlein."
Truth in advertising:
realistic bathroom sign in Hat Yai, Thailand
David1955 comments on Feb 10, 2018:
And in English too. The Thais must have thought it was better to be unambiguous in case the Farang missed it. Last time I was in Hat Yai there were few English signs at all. But that was years ago.
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
This was a brand new mall that looked like it was still being built, so that was likely the case. But most bathroom signs in big malls and stores have "toilets" in English next to Thai writing.
David1955 comments on Feb 10, 2018:
And in English too. The Thais must have thought it was better to be unambiguous in case the Farang missed it. Last time I was in Hat Yai there were few English signs at all. But that was years ago.
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
This was a brand new mall that looked like it was still being built, so that was likely the case. But most bathroom signs in big malls and stores have "toilets" in English next to Thai writing.
Where were you when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated?
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
I was on noon break at our tiny elementary mission school in Haiti.
When we were told the news, I was in shock. I couldn't grasp it.
Since we didn't have TVs in those days, our mission showed the funeral on a big screen at the front of the big mission church.
I was puzzled as to why the ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@FrayedBear My American missionary parents went there to help build a radio station and I was born a few months later. My mom is apparently an intrepid person as my brother is only 11 months older than I am, and my oldest brother was five at the time.
My parents only had one-way tickets, and the other missionaries packed up and left as soon as they arrived!
Quite the adventurous sort of people. I'm not exactly a homebody, and I came by it honestly.
birdingnut comments on Feb 10, 2018:
I was on noon break at our tiny elementary mission school in Haiti.
When we were told the news, I was in shock. I couldn't grasp it.
Since we didn't have TVs in those days, our mission showed the funeral on a big screen at the front of the big mission church.
I was puzzled as to why the ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@FrayedBear My American missionary parents went there to help build a radio station and I was born a few months later. My mom is apparently an intrepid person as my brother is only 11 months older than I am, and my oldest brother was five at the time.
My parents only had one-way tickets, and the other missionaries packed up and left as soon as they arrived!
Quite the adventurous sort of people. I'm not exactly a homebody, and I came by it honestly.
How do you feel about the way the American government disregarded every treaty ever made with Native...
Leutrelle comments on Feb 10, 2018:
People all over the world have been conquered through out history. I don't see how what you are promoting helps;)
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@Leutrelle True, but people love their illusions, LOL!
Leutrelle comments on Feb 10, 2018:
People all over the world have been conquered through out history. I don't see how what you are promoting helps;)
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@Leutrelle True, but people love their illusions, LOL!
How do you feel about the way the American government disregarded every treaty ever made with Native...
Leutrelle comments on Feb 10, 2018:
People all over the world have been conquered through out history. I don't see how what you are promoting helps;)
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
Perhaps because the US often tries to pose as a moral compass for the world.
Maybe not so much these recent days, though!
Leutrelle comments on Feb 10, 2018:
People all over the world have been conquered through out history. I don't see how what you are promoting helps;)
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
Perhaps because the US often tries to pose as a moral compass for the world.
Maybe not so much these recent days, though!
Truth in advertising:
realistic bathroom sign in Hat Yai, Thailand
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 10, 2018:
heh heh... cute... Curious: is there a significance of the red & black colors?
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
Colors have significance in Thailand, but only in relationship to the days of the week and when you were born.
In this case, the woman is pink, so might be catering to foreigners, who often see pink as feminine, since it shows pictures instead of the usual Thai language sign.
Thai men commonly wear pink, but some are aware of Western customs.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 10, 2018:
heh heh... cute... Curious: is there a significance of the red & black colors?
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
Colors have significance in Thailand, but only in relationship to the days of the week and when you were born.
In this case, the woman is pink, so might be catering to foreigners, who often see pink as feminine, since it shows pictures instead of the usual Thai language sign.
Thai men commonly wear pink, but some are aware of Western customs.
I'm going out on a limb here, and some of you may think I fell out the tree bumped my head.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
I have, and that theory has supposedly been disproven, at least by what we currently understand.
One debunker figured out that no computer could be powerful enough to simulate the entire universe and all the possibilities. But he also admitted that our computer knowledge is probably primitive....
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@PeaceContagion I'll buy that. In fact, that's probably the answer.
Besides, we are co-creating our own reality:
“I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
I have, and that theory has supposedly been disproven, at least by what we currently understand.
One debunker figured out that no computer could be powerful enough to simulate the entire universe and all the possibilities. But he also admitted that our computer knowledge is probably primitive....
birdingnut replies on Feb 10, 2018:
@PeaceContagion I'll buy that. In fact, that's probably the answer.
Besides, we are co-creating our own reality:
“I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
Who is that one musical voice that sets your soul straight?
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Showing my age here, but singer/song writer Michael McDonald.
Here's the hit that put him on my radar and can make my day anytime.
Doobie Brothers ~ What A fool Believes (1979) Classic Rock R&B Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJe1iUuAW4M
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@Ride_Captain My pet male Asian Fairy-bluebird was crazy over this song also even though he was "wild-caught" and afraid of people, when I first bought him.
He'd begin singing and dancing wildly whenever I played it, and also loved other Michael McDonald songs, and my other favorite bands such as Three Dog Night.
He had his own musical opinions, though, suddenly bursting into song and flying over to the TV to dance in front of it when some song on the Thai MTV channel tickled his fancy, or even theme music during a movie.
This bird quickly decided I was his mate, sang to me, nibbled on my fingers, tried to build me a nest, flew freely around the apartment and went into the cage whenever I told him to.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Showing my age here, but singer/song writer Michael McDonald.
Here's the hit that put him on my radar and can make my day anytime.
Doobie Brothers ~ What A fool Believes (1979) Classic Rock R&B Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJe1iUuAW4M
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@Ride_Captain My pet male Asian Fairy-bluebird was crazy over this song also even though he was "wild-caught" and afraid of people, when I first bought him.
He'd begin singing and dancing wildly whenever I played it, and also loved other Michael McDonald songs, and my other favorite bands such as Three Dog Night.
He had his own musical opinions, though, suddenly bursting into song and flying over to the TV to dance in front of it when some song on the Thai MTV channel tickled his fancy, or even theme music during a movie.
This bird quickly decided I was his mate, sang to me, nibbled on my fingers, tried to build me a nest, flew freely around the apartment and went into the cage whenever I told him to.
I find myself questioning the critical thinking skills of anyone I meet who I find to be religious.
birdingnut comments on Feb 8, 2018:
I automatically discount their IQs, at least for Christians, but not for Muslims.
In their case, they usually have no choice as to their religion, and most of the Muslims I know, or taught, were almost scary smart.
Snarky humor, too.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@Billiwip I do know intelligent Christians, including my parents and siblings, but the part where they can believe that some blood-thirsty god that tells his people to slaughter men, women, children, and animals, plus cut all the trees and sow the land with salt, is a "loving God" is hard to swallow.
But, to be fair, they are liberal United Methodists, and not that serious about their religion.
As for Muslims, since I don't follow their beliefs, or care, I am only making observations on their apparent intelligence, while engaging with them. This is unfair, since I'm being much more lenient on religions I've never been a part of.
birdingnut comments on Feb 8, 2018:
I automatically discount their IQs, at least for Christians, but not for Muslims.
In their case, they usually have no choice as to their religion, and most of the Muslims I know, or taught, were almost scary smart.
Snarky humor, too.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@Billiwip I do know intelligent Christians, including my parents and siblings, but the part where they can believe that some blood-thirsty god that tells his people to slaughter men, women, children, and animals, plus cut all the trees and sow the land with salt, is a "loving God" is hard to swallow.
But, to be fair, they are liberal United Methodists, and not that serious about their religion.
As for Muslims, since I don't follow their beliefs, or care, I am only making observations on their apparent intelligence, while engaging with them. This is unfair, since I'm being much more lenient on religions I've never been a part of.
We often take English for granted.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Is that.... a batman logo? over his left shoulder?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@Dick_Martin Thanks!
My daughter had another word for it.."loser," but changed her tune when she visited me for two months in 2016.
She finally admitted, "No wonder you came here..you are living in paradise!" True to form (she's lived with the natives all over the world, becoming fluent in their languages) she quickly picked up enough Thai to get around both Songkhla and Hat Yai, two cities, while I was at work.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Is that.... a batman logo? over his left shoulder?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@Dick_Martin Thanks!
My daughter had another word for it.."loser," but changed her tune when she visited me for two months in 2016.
She finally admitted, "No wonder you came here..you are living in paradise!" True to form (she's lived with the natives all over the world, becoming fluent in their languages) she quickly picked up enough Thai to get around both Songkhla and Hat Yai, two cities, while I was at work.
I find myself questioning the critical thinking skills of anyone I meet who I find to be religious.
LeighShelton comments on Feb 9, 2018:
fuck yes. it's like someone telling you how honest they are while shoplifting. it just brings a person down to a moronic sheep mode instantly for me.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
C'mon. Wild sheep species are smart enough to stay alive.
LeighShelton comments on Feb 9, 2018:
fuck yes. it's like someone telling you how honest they are while shoplifting. it just brings a person down to a moronic sheep mode instantly for me.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
C'mon. Wild sheep species are smart enough to stay alive.
2018 Winter Olympics, who's watching?
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Plus, there's the north and south Korea combined team drama.
Right now, I'm avoiding anything that might stress me-including news on #45, so I might skip it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@mistymoon77 I guess I'm afraid of watching the Olympics suddenly turn deadly if North Korea becomes offended. I've been through that before.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Plus, there's the north and south Korea combined team drama.
Right now, I'm avoiding anything that might stress me-including news on #45, so I might skip it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@mistymoon77 I guess I'm afraid of watching the Olympics suddenly turn deadly if North Korea becomes offended. I've been through that before.
I'm a big fan of stand up comedy.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Both Louis CK and Aziz Ansari are still on Netflix, despite sexual misconduct/assualt accusations, and are still hilarious, although some of their humor can be dark, even borderline sexual predator at times.
Perhaps they recorded the comedy specials before the accusations.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@BawdyTales I play Netflix stand up every night to ease the misery of juicing piles of veggies, then cleaning out the big juicer..a tedious process I have to do in the bathroom where there's a sink, and I can't see the TV. Because of that, I constantly replay various Netflix stand up comedy specials, although by now I've stopped choosing any skatalogical/genital-fixated comedians.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Both Louis CK and Aziz Ansari are still on Netflix, despite sexual misconduct/assualt accusations, and are still hilarious, although some of their humor can be dark, even borderline sexual predator at times.
Perhaps they recorded the comedy specials before the accusations.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@BawdyTales I play Netflix stand up every night to ease the misery of juicing piles of veggies, then cleaning out the big juicer..a tedious process I have to do in the bathroom where there's a sink, and I can't see the TV. Because of that, I constantly replay various Netflix stand up comedy specials, although by now I've stopped choosing any skatalogical/genital-fixated comedians.
I think what surprises me most is the look of confusion on people's face when you say that you don't...
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Aaaw! It's sweet they are still trying to make you seem OK to their "God," despite your apparent heresy.
I had a similar disbelieving reaction here in Thailand before I could speak Thai, since foreigners are rare in the places I taught.
Students just couldn't comprehend that an adult human ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@resserts Like most Americans, most Thai never travel out of the country, unless they live near the border, as I do, here in Songkhla. Also, the entire country speaks Thai, and even though certain sub-populations have language variations, they can still understand each other.
Because of that, many Thai people who have never met a foreigner can't even grasp the concept of someone not understanding them. Much like many Americans. I've been in areas where people had never even SEEN a Caucasian foreigner and couldn't even understand that I wasn't Thai, even though, by then I could speak Thai and explained it to them. They just didn't get it.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Aaaw! It's sweet they are still trying to make you seem OK to their "God," despite your apparent heresy.
I had a similar disbelieving reaction here in Thailand before I could speak Thai, since foreigners are rare in the places I taught.
Students just couldn't comprehend that an adult human ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@resserts Like most Americans, most Thai never travel out of the country, unless they live near the border, as I do, here in Songkhla. Also, the entire country speaks Thai, and even though certain sub-populations have language variations, they can still understand each other.
Because of that, many Thai people who have never met a foreigner can't even grasp the concept of someone not understanding them. Much like many Americans. I've been in areas where people had never even SEEN a Caucasian foreigner and couldn't even understand that I wasn't Thai, even though, by then I could speak Thai and explained it to them. They just didn't get it.
We often take English for granted.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Is that.... a batman logo? over his left shoulder?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@DUCHESSA Since I arrived in 2010, I have lived in places not frequented by tourists or foreigners, only visited Bangkok when I had to visit the embassy, or wanted to buy another DVD US TV series set (before Netflix came to Thailand), so missed seeing the palace, sadly. But there are many beautiful temples, palaces, and national parks I've seen that most people haven't.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Is that.... a batman logo? over his left shoulder?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@DUCHESSA Since I arrived in 2010, I have lived in places not frequented by tourists or foreigners, only visited Bangkok when I had to visit the embassy, or wanted to buy another DVD US TV series set (before Netflix came to Thailand), so missed seeing the palace, sadly. But there are many beautiful temples, palaces, and national parks I've seen that most people haven't.
What pets do you have? Show pictures!
dbaecht comments on Feb 8, 2018:
Three Rat Terriers, two toy and one standard.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Aaaw! Looks like my Toy Fox Terrier, and Rat Terrier (we had both, but not at the same time).
dbaecht comments on Feb 8, 2018:
Three Rat Terriers, two toy and one standard.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Aaaw! Looks like my Toy Fox Terrier, and Rat Terrier (we had both, but not at the same time).
On my way from there to here.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Yup.
Waking up from the Matrix dream can be..traumatic in some cases.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@ScienceBiker I agree with some of his observations, but not most of his conclusions.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Yup.
Waking up from the Matrix dream can be..traumatic in some cases.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@ScienceBiker I agree with some of his observations, but not most of his conclusions.
I'm a big fan of stand up comedy.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Both Louis CK and Aziz Ansari are still on Netflix, despite sexual misconduct/assualt accusations, and are still hilarious, although some of their humor can be dark, even borderline sexual predator at times.
Perhaps they recorded the comedy specials before the accusations.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@BenPike He's better in stand-up.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Both Louis CK and Aziz Ansari are still on Netflix, despite sexual misconduct/assualt accusations, and are still hilarious, although some of their humor can be dark, even borderline sexual predator at times.
Perhaps they recorded the comedy specials before the accusations.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@BenPike He's better in stand-up.
I'm a big fan of stand up comedy.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Both Louis CK and Aziz Ansari are still on Netflix, despite sexual misconduct/assualt accusations, and are still hilarious, although some of their humor can be dark, even borderline sexual predator at times.
Perhaps they recorded the comedy specials before the accusations.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@BawdyTales He's an Indian comic, and hilarious, but has some dark humor about women.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Both Louis CK and Aziz Ansari are still on Netflix, despite sexual misconduct/assualt accusations, and are still hilarious, although some of their humor can be dark, even borderline sexual predator at times.
Perhaps they recorded the comedy specials before the accusations.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@BawdyTales He's an Indian comic, and hilarious, but has some dark humor about women.
Is it worth it
Rugglesby comments on Feb 8, 2018:
Sorry man, I can't help, all I know is I have dated a couple of widows, and there was no way the relationships would have gone anywhere, they were looking for sex, some companionship, but a part of their life was still full with no room for another.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Yeah..same with widowers, and why I wouldn't date them.
Rugglesby comments on Feb 8, 2018:
Sorry man, I can't help, all I know is I have dated a couple of widows, and there was no way the relationships would have gone anywhere, they were looking for sex, some companionship, but a part of their life was still full with no room for another.
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Yeah..same with widowers, and why I wouldn't date them.
We often take English for granted.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Is that.... a batman logo? over his left shoulder?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Could be. We were at a mall in Hat Yai, Thailand, to launch the English version of the Thai pop hit, "Country Boy," because I, and several of my fellow foreign teachers had been drafted by our boss to be actors in the music video. I was even famous that year, with Thai people calling out my lines to me as I passed them.
Dick_Martin comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Is that.... a batman logo? over his left shoulder?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Could be. We were at a mall in Hat Yai, Thailand, to launch the English version of the Thai pop hit, "Country Boy," because I, and several of my fellow foreign teachers had been drafted by our boss to be actors in the music video. I was even famous that year, with Thai people calling out my lines to me as I passed them.
If someone is dying and a bystander chooses not to help, should they be held responsible?
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Well, Seinfeld and his gang were arrested mocking a robbery victim and doing nothing.
Just kidding.
It's not illegal to do nothing, but others will likely judge you if you do nothing.
When I was growing up my tiny younger sister rescued several people in front of everyone, while we all stood...
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@silvereyes That's amazing!
As for my little sister, nobody was surprised when she became a nurse, and went on saving people.
birdingnut comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Well, Seinfeld and his gang were arrested mocking a robbery victim and doing nothing.
Just kidding.
It's not illegal to do nothing, but others will likely judge you if you do nothing.
When I was growing up my tiny younger sister rescued several people in front of everyone, while we all stood...
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
@silvereyes That's amazing!
As for my little sister, nobody was surprised when she became a nurse, and went on saving people.
I really like this come back.
Cynical-lion comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Sadly people are still thick and won't let the basic logical premise sink in. I remember bringing up Scientology and Mormonism as prime examples of how religions are massive con jobs...and yet they shirked it off as some exception...what?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Thinking for oneself is scary. I still miss thinking God is watching over me.
Cynical-lion comments on Feb 9, 2018:
Sadly people are still thick and won't let the basic logical premise sink in. I remember bringing up Scientology and Mormonism as prime examples of how religions are massive con jobs...and yet they shirked it off as some exception...what?
birdingnut replies on Feb 9, 2018:
Thinking for oneself is scary. I still miss thinking God is watching over me.
blocking a god believer?
birdingnut comments on Feb 8, 2018:
Seriously? I didn't know anyone religious was on this forum.
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@walklightly Wait. I'm confused. Why would people from religious forums want to join this group unless they felt it was their mission to "convert" us?
birdingnut comments on Feb 8, 2018:
Seriously? I didn't know anyone religious was on this forum.
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@walklightly Wait. I'm confused. Why would people from religious forums want to join this group unless they felt it was their mission to "convert" us?
Before you were born, you had no consequence on the billions of people alive throughout time.
birdingnut comments on Feb 7, 2018:
LOL! You remind me of an old movie where a Greek seer brought back to modern times is drafted into being a psychic in a modern carnival.
When a giggling older woman asks hopefully about meeting a tall, dark, and handsome stranger, he reads her palm, then says that her life has been meaningless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@icolan I tried to remember, but my google search was in vain. It was some 80s movie, sort of like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Someone accidentally brought famous people back into modern times.
birdingnut comments on Feb 7, 2018:
LOL! You remind me of an old movie where a Greek seer brought back to modern times is drafted into being a psychic in a modern carnival.
When a giggling older woman asks hopefully about meeting a tall, dark, and handsome stranger, he reads her palm, then says that her life has been meaningless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@icolan I tried to remember, but my google search was in vain. It was some 80s movie, sort of like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Someone accidentally brought famous people back into modern times.
When you are feeling down, lonely, unwanted.
birdingnut comments on Feb 7, 2018:
YUP!
Hey, do you also watch Abraham Hicks on YouTube?
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@HeyHiHullo I mentioned Hicks because what you said in your post is exactly what they teach. Almost word for word.
birdingnut comments on Feb 7, 2018:
YUP!
Hey, do you also watch Abraham Hicks on YouTube?
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@HeyHiHullo I mentioned Hicks because what you said in your post is exactly what they teach. Almost word for word.
Any Birders..? If so, what last caught your eye.?
birdingnut comments on Feb 8, 2018:
White-throated Kingfisher with a common sun skink, near my place, Songkhla, Thailand
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@Varn The White-throats will also go after fledglings, so I sometimes see other bird species mobbing them. Here's an Indian Roller I saw near Nakhon, Thailand
birdingnut comments on Feb 8, 2018:
White-throated Kingfisher with a common sun skink, near my place, Songkhla, Thailand
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@Varn The White-throats will also go after fledglings, so I sometimes see other bird species mobbing them. Here's an Indian Roller I saw near Nakhon, Thailand
Lgbt?
Tiitilayo comments on Feb 7, 2018:
I'm a lesbian. a big one. LOL
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
I love that movie also (First Wives Club quote)!
Tiitilayo comments on Feb 7, 2018:
I'm a lesbian. a big one. LOL
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
I love that movie also (First Wives Club quote)!
Finding agnostic or atheist partners
Stevil comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Im an old fashioned guy. I meet women by hitting them over the head with my club then dragging then back to my cave. I've heard Bill Cosby and his "here take this pill" instead of Netflix and. Chill worked well for a few years with him. Don't be like Stanford students! If you find a girl laying next...
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@Stevil But they're already trained to be obedient to old white men, cook meals, take care of the house, be faithful to the death, etc. Almost as good marrying an Asian girl before they wised up.
Stevil comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Im an old fashioned guy. I meet women by hitting them over the head with my club then dragging then back to my cave. I've heard Bill Cosby and his "here take this pill" instead of Netflix and. Chill worked well for a few years with him. Don't be like Stanford students! If you find a girl laying next...
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@Stevil But they're already trained to be obedient to old white men, cook meals, take care of the house, be faithful to the death, etc. Almost as good marrying an Asian girl before they wised up.
"Socialism has a lot better chance of working in the US than elsewhere since we're the one country ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 7, 2018:
LOL! Unless the alt-right movement can be considered a sort of "invasion."
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@Dick_Martin In all fairness, the DNC shot itself in the foot by blocking Bernie, who would have won in a landslide according to exit polls.
birdingnut comments on Feb 7, 2018:
LOL! Unless the alt-right movement can be considered a sort of "invasion."
birdingnut replies on Feb 8, 2018:
@Dick_Martin In all fairness, the DNC shot itself in the foot by blocking Bernie, who would have won in a landslide according to exit polls.
My favorite quote of all time
273kelvin comments on Feb 7, 2018:
Sorry but best quote ever has to go to George W Bush. " The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur ".
birdingnut replies on Feb 7, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
OK, that one is worthy of Trump, except that nobody expects anything intelligent out of Trump anymore.
273kelvin comments on Feb 7, 2018:
Sorry but best quote ever has to go to George W Bush. " The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur ".
birdingnut replies on Feb 7, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
OK, that one is worthy of Trump, except that nobody expects anything intelligent out of Trump anymore.
Any Birders..? If so, what last caught your eye.?
DharmaBum50 comments on Feb 5, 2018:
My brother is actually the birder in the family, but I recently went out with him to the Audubon-protected Corkscrew Swamp area in Florida and got some wonderful pictures of anhingas, limkins, and a red-shouldered hawk devouring a catch up on a high branch. I was the one who spotted the limkin, but...
birdingnut replies on Feb 7, 2018:
@Varn I hand-raised a baby Limpkin in Haiti for a while, from a chick. It had already fledged when it wedged into a corner of its nest box while sleeping, and suffocated. No wonder nests are round.
DharmaBum50 comments on Feb 5, 2018:
My brother is actually the birder in the family, but I recently went out with him to the Audubon-protected Corkscrew Swamp area in Florida and got some wonderful pictures of anhingas, limkins, and a red-shouldered hawk devouring a catch up on a high branch. I was the one who spotted the limkin, but...
birdingnut replies on Feb 7, 2018:
@Varn I hand-raised a baby Limpkin in Haiti for a while, from a chick. It had already fledged when it wedged into a corner of its nest box while sleeping, and suffocated. No wonder nests are round.
Any Birders..? If so, what last caught your eye.?
birdingnut comments on Feb 6, 2018:
I've been an informal "birder" since I was seven and began rehabbing baby birds in Haiti.
When digital photography became a thing, I began buying Canon camera equipment and documenting sightings with photographs.
I even moved to Thailand in 2010 because one of my Thai university students showed ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 7, 2018:
@Varn Nah..I prefer the more scientific Sumerian text version of Bible stories. They were written 2000 years before the Bible, but tell similar stories, with slightly different names of characters. In their version, aliens genetically engineered humans using their own DNA mixed with human apes, to work in the mines.
A planet was going to approach too close to the earth, break off an ice shelf, and flood a third of the earth, so the head god, Anu, told his people to withdraw from the earth a ways on their spaceships to wait it out, letting the slaves drown in the mines
Two of the gods, the main genetic engineers, saved their favorite human, Noah, and his family, by showing him how to build a submarine, and they put the animal DNA on board, instead of real animals.
Makes more sense than the Bible version, that every animal species on earth fit into a 150 ft boat, and somehow made their way to Noah in a few weeks time.
The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/origins-human-beings-according-ancient-sumerian-texts-0065?
birdingnut comments on Feb 6, 2018:
I've been an informal "birder" since I was seven and began rehabbing baby birds in Haiti.
When digital photography became a thing, I began buying Canon camera equipment and documenting sightings with photographs.
I even moved to Thailand in 2010 because one of my Thai university students showed ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 7, 2018:
@Varn Nah..I prefer the more scientific Sumerian text version of Bible stories. They were written 2000 years before the Bible, but tell similar stories, with slightly different names of characters. In their version, aliens genetically engineered humans using their own DNA mixed with human apes, to work in the mines.
A planet was going to approach too close to the earth, break off an ice shelf, and flood a third of the earth, so the head god, Anu, told his people to withdraw from the earth a ways on their spaceships to wait it out, letting the slaves drown in the mines
Two of the gods, the main genetic engineers, saved their favorite human, Noah, and his family, by showing him how to build a submarine, and they put the animal DNA on board, instead of real animals.
Makes more sense than the Bible version, that every animal species on earth fit into a 150 ft boat, and somehow made their way to Noah in a few weeks time.
The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/origins-human-beings-according-ancient-sumerian-texts-0065?
Any Birders..? If so, what last caught your eye.?
DharmaBum50 comments on Feb 5, 2018:
My brother is actually the birder in the family, but I recently went out with him to the Audubon-protected Corkscrew Swamp area in Florida and got some wonderful pictures of anhingas, limkins, and a red-shouldered hawk devouring a catch up on a high branch. I was the one who spotted the limkin, but...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
You can try it. If the photo is cropped, it might post.
DharmaBum50 comments on Feb 5, 2018:
My brother is actually the birder in the family, but I recently went out with him to the Audubon-protected Corkscrew Swamp area in Florida and got some wonderful pictures of anhingas, limkins, and a red-shouldered hawk devouring a catch up on a high branch. I was the one who spotted the limkin, but...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
You can try it. If the photo is cropped, it might post.
Any Birders..? If so, what last caught your eye.?
birdingnut comments on Feb 6, 2018:
I've been an informal "birder" since I was seven and began rehabbing baby birds in Haiti.
When digital photography became a thing, I began buying Canon camera equipment and documenting sightings with photographs.
I even moved to Thailand in 2010 because one of my Thai university students showed ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
@Varn Don't encourage me, or I'll trot out more photos of exquisitely exotic Thai pigeon species. Actually, too late! Pic is of a Pied Imperial Pigeon, also found breeding on the Mu Ko Similan islands
birdingnut comments on Feb 6, 2018:
I've been an informal "birder" since I was seven and began rehabbing baby birds in Haiti.
When digital photography became a thing, I began buying Canon camera equipment and documenting sightings with photographs.
I even moved to Thailand in 2010 because one of my Thai university students showed ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
@Varn Don't encourage me, or I'll trot out more photos of exquisitely exotic Thai pigeon species. Actually, too late! Pic is of a Pied Imperial Pigeon, also found breeding on the Mu Ko Similan islands
What is the non-theist replacement for "I'll pray for you?"
OutlawJosie comments on Nov 12, 2017:
Wow! I am continually amazed at just how religious you Americans still are!? I think I would say "I really feel for you my friend and only wish that I could do more to help you, any time you need a chat, I'm here .
It's not as off pat as I will pray for you but it is more genuine because praying ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
Yeah, you British seem much more more practical and level headed in many aspects than Americans, but remember that we were the hothead flotsam that were sent off, or who escaped to the "New World" due to being criminals, indentured servants, religious dissenters, or greedy businessmen.
The only people who survived the new country were the ones who could think independently, take care of themselves, and fight like bobcats to survive.
OutlawJosie comments on Nov 12, 2017:
Wow! I am continually amazed at just how religious you Americans still are!? I think I would say "I really feel for you my friend and only wish that I could do more to help you, any time you need a chat, I'm here .
It's not as off pat as I will pray for you but it is more genuine because praying ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
Yeah, you British seem much more more practical and level headed in many aspects than Americans, but remember that we were the hothead flotsam that were sent off, or who escaped to the "New World" due to being criminals, indentured servants, religious dissenters, or greedy businessmen.
The only people who survived the new country were the ones who could think independently, take care of themselves, and fight like bobcats to survive.
What would you say are your highest aspirations in life?
KKGator comments on Feb 6, 2018:
To have a positive impact on my nieces and nephews that will be remembered long after I'm gone.
To leave my little corner of the world better than I found it.
To enjoy my life as much as possible.
To be worthy of my dog.
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
I don't know about my ever being worthy of my dogs..the purest spirits ever.
KKGator comments on Feb 6, 2018:
To have a positive impact on my nieces and nephews that will be remembered long after I'm gone.
To leave my little corner of the world better than I found it.
To enjoy my life as much as possible.
To be worthy of my dog.
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
I don't know about my ever being worthy of my dogs..the purest spirits ever.
What would you say are your highest aspirations in life?
stinkeye_a comments on Feb 6, 2018:
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women.
J/K. Full-on liberation from the wheel of birth and death, Buddhist-style; perfect compassion for all beings; a spotless heart of unlimited, unconditioned loving kindness.
I'm a hateful little troll, so ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
I agree with the middle paragraph.
stinkeye_a comments on Feb 6, 2018:
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women.
J/K. Full-on liberation from the wheel of birth and death, Buddhist-style; perfect compassion for all beings; a spotless heart of unlimited, unconditioned loving kindness.
I'm a hateful little troll, so ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
I agree with the middle paragraph.
Anyone ever been in a large earthquake?
Buddha comments on Feb 6, 2018:
6.9 in Taiwan..
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
Another earthquake hit Taiwan last night, a 6.4, that killed two people, some buildings collapsed. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/world/taiwan-earthquake/index.html
Buddha comments on Feb 6, 2018:
6.9 in Taiwan..
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
Another earthquake hit Taiwan last night, a 6.4, that killed two people, some buildings collapsed. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/world/taiwan-earthquake/index.html
If your life were a story, who would be the antagonist?
resserts comments on Feb 6, 2018:
I'm the antagonist in my life story, I think. I suspect that's true of most people, whether we admit it or not.
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
YUP...
resserts comments on Feb 6, 2018:
I'm the antagonist in my life story, I think. I suspect that's true of most people, whether we admit it or not.
birdingnut replies on Feb 6, 2018:
YUP...
Purpose
ChrisR comments on Feb 5, 2018:
I've never felt a "purpose" and I don't believe that we have any high moral of philosophical reason for being either. I just live by the 3 principles:
- Try to be happy and enjoy life - you're lucky to be alive so don't waste it
- Try to leave the world a better place than when you arrived - ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 5, 2018:
My answer is like yours, except for the part about not upsetting anyone along the way. ;)
ChrisR comments on Feb 5, 2018:
I've never felt a "purpose" and I don't believe that we have any high moral of philosophical reason for being either. I just live by the 3 principles:
- Try to be happy and enjoy life - you're lucky to be alive so don't waste it
- Try to leave the world a better place than when you arrived - ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 5, 2018:
My answer is like yours, except for the part about not upsetting anyone along the way. ;)
Aggressive, angry and violent Christian?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
My theory is that Christianity doesn't change people at all, one way or the other, but jerks often use it as an excuse to be even worse, and good people continue to be good people as Christians, although others might give their beliefs the credit for it.
People who tell stories about being ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@NoMagicCookie By "change" I meant in the way it is used by religious people..for the better. As in, "I was saved and now I'm changed, and I love everyone and everything is great!"
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
My theory is that Christianity doesn't change people at all, one way or the other, but jerks often use it as an excuse to be even worse, and good people continue to be good people as Christians, although others might give their beliefs the credit for it.
People who tell stories about being ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@NoMagicCookie By "change" I meant in the way it is used by religious people..for the better. As in, "I was saved and now I'm changed, and I love everyone and everything is great!"
Do you believe in love at first sight?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Apparently, males are capable of "love at first sight," if the female doesn't blow it by acting too needy and aggressive.
I found that out the hard way when my male side fell head over heels in love with a transwoman about five years ago, who had been one of my American friends in Union School, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@Castlepaloma Sounds like you landed on your feet!
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Apparently, males are capable of "love at first sight," if the female doesn't blow it by acting too needy and aggressive.
I found that out the hard way when my male side fell head over heels in love with a transwoman about five years ago, who had been one of my American friends in Union School, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@Castlepaloma Sounds like you landed on your feet!
Is this true for you?
birdingnut comments on Feb 4, 2018:
I agree. Many LGBTQ couples have open relationships because of being bisexual, and feeling attraction for both genders.
From what I've read, "swinger" couples can improve their relationships, if they follow ground rules.
For example, if the relationship seems stale and either of the couple are ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@SilverDollarJedi
LOL! From an evolutionary point of view, that's so. And that's what religious people have always said also - they used to preach that one only has sex to procreate.
But I already reproduced my husband and I..a boy and girl, so the rest is for fun.
birdingnut comments on Feb 4, 2018:
I agree. Many LGBTQ couples have open relationships because of being bisexual, and feeling attraction for both genders.
From what I've read, "swinger" couples can improve their relationships, if they follow ground rules.
For example, if the relationship seems stale and either of the couple are ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@SilverDollarJedi
LOL! From an evolutionary point of view, that's so. And that's what religious people have always said also - they used to preach that one only has sex to procreate.
But I already reproduced my husband and I..a boy and girl, so the rest is for fun.
What are some of your favorite (relatively clean) jokes?
Stevil comments on Feb 4, 2018:
A local joke. Roy Rogers got a new pair of boots. He jumped on his horse trigger and goes for a ride with his new boots a mountain lion comes up out of the bushes knocks him off his horse and eats them. Roy hope back on trigger and heads back to his Ranch. He sees his wife Dale Evans and tells her ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@Stevil I didn't think the pun resembled the original quote enough for five stars!
Stephan Pastis, of "Pearls Before Swine" comics fame, comes up with some fantastically convoluted ones...mostly groaners!
Stevil comments on Feb 4, 2018:
A local joke. Roy Rogers got a new pair of boots. He jumped on his horse trigger and goes for a ride with his new boots a mountain lion comes up out of the bushes knocks him off his horse and eats them. Roy hope back on trigger and heads back to his Ranch. He sees his wife Dale Evans and tells her ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@Stevil I didn't think the pun resembled the original quote enough for five stars!
Stephan Pastis, of "Pearls Before Swine" comics fame, comes up with some fantastically convoluted ones...mostly groaners!
Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders
engineer_in_nj comments on Feb 3, 2018:
because they cant fight back well. Humanity looks for a victim that they can attack and torture. Like a well fed housecat with a mouse to gnaw and swat and keep alive for days.
Most groups if you attack them: they attack back, they die, they enlist allies to defend themselves, or they leave.
...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@icolan I've posted that link several times during other arguments. I'm glad you remembered that statistic.
Several years ago there was a study where, after being assured of complete anonymity, 85% of people answering a survey admitted to at least some same-sex attraction, in varying percentages.
Like they say, we're all on a gender spectrum, both for gender identity and sexual orientation.
engineer_in_nj comments on Feb 3, 2018:
because they cant fight back well. Humanity looks for a victim that they can attack and torture. Like a well fed housecat with a mouse to gnaw and swat and keep alive for days.
Most groups if you attack them: they attack back, they die, they enlist allies to defend themselves, or they leave.
...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@icolan I've posted that link several times during other arguments. I'm glad you remembered that statistic.
Several years ago there was a study where, after being assured of complete anonymity, 85% of people answering a survey admitted to at least some same-sex attraction, in varying percentages.
Like they say, we're all on a gender spectrum, both for gender identity and sexual orientation.
Want to know what percentage of the community believes in free will?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
If you subscribe to "we create our own reality," then you must take responsibility for your life and outcomes. If you want something different, then think differently.
If you just believe in free will, then you can only choose among the available choices presented, but you are otherwise helpless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@JeffMurray LOL! Here's the deal..you believe whatever you want and I'll do the same.
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
If you subscribe to "we create our own reality," then you must take responsibility for your life and outcomes. If you want something different, then think differently.
If you just believe in free will, then you can only choose among the available choices presented, but you are otherwise helpless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@JeffMurray LOL! Here's the deal..you believe whatever you want and I'll do the same.
Recently I had to send my beautiful cat, Appollo, to the Rainbow Bridge.
birdingnut comments on Feb 4, 2018:
You are wiser than most, to replace your beloved pet with young ones.
In my case, my heart was so broken after pets died of old age, I wouldn't replace them, to avoid more pain.
I still cry when I think of them.
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@IAmLove Right now I'm living in an apartment, where no pets are allowed, and when I did sneak an Asian Fairy-bluebird in as a pet, I had to sell him because I'm supposed to be leaving Thailand soon.
birdingnut comments on Feb 4, 2018:
You are wiser than most, to replace your beloved pet with young ones.
In my case, my heart was so broken after pets died of old age, I wouldn't replace them, to avoid more pain.
I still cry when I think of them.
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@IAmLove Right now I'm living in an apartment, where no pets are allowed, and when I did sneak an Asian Fairy-bluebird in as a pet, I had to sell him because I'm supposed to be leaving Thailand soon.
How mobile are you?
MrLizard comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I'd love to travel more. I'm planning to do so. But I have limitations once I get there.
* Must have a comfortable and clean hotel. Must have two beds if I'm traveling with my friend.
* Must have activities with minimal walking and waiting in lines. My back can't take it.
* Must have some ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
That's why I love being single..I always travel alone, and can see and do whatever I want.
MrLizard comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I'd love to travel more. I'm planning to do so. But I have limitations once I get there.
* Must have a comfortable and clean hotel. Must have two beds if I'm traveling with my friend.
* Must have activities with minimal walking and waiting in lines. My back can't take it.
* Must have some ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
That's why I love being single..I always travel alone, and can see and do whatever I want.
What are some of your favorite (relatively clean) jokes?
Stevil comments on Feb 4, 2018:
A local joke. Roy Rogers got a new pair of boots. He jumped on his horse trigger and goes for a ride with his new boots a mountain lion comes up out of the bushes knocks him off his horse and eats them. Roy hope back on trigger and heads back to his Ranch. He sees his wife Dale Evans and tells her ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
Mmmmm...meh!
Stevil comments on Feb 4, 2018:
A local joke. Roy Rogers got a new pair of boots. He jumped on his horse trigger and goes for a ride with his new boots a mountain lion comes up out of the bushes knocks him off his horse and eats them. Roy hope back on trigger and heads back to his Ranch. He sees his wife Dale Evans and tells her ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
Mmmmm...meh!
What are some of your favorite (relatively clean) jokes?
AxeElf comments on Feb 4, 2018:
I was reading an article on Ghandi and his vegetarianism--leeks and onions--and speculated that his diet probably left him both undernourished and sporting exceptionally bad breath. So he had to travel around a lot--barefoot--which took its toll on his feet.
In short, Ghandi was a ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that there's funny, I don't care where yore from.
AxeElf comments on Feb 4, 2018:
I was reading an article on Ghandi and his vegetarianism--leeks and onions--and speculated that his diet probably left him both undernourished and sporting exceptionally bad breath. So he had to travel around a lot--barefoot--which took its toll on his feet.
In short, Ghandi was a ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that there's funny, I don't care where yore from.
Is this true for you?
GipsyOfNewSpain comments on Feb 4, 2018:
To each its own... I don't even know what that is. Couples can do whatever they please on doing.
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
"Vanilla" means, bland, conventional.
GipsyOfNewSpain comments on Feb 4, 2018:
To each its own... I don't even know what that is. Couples can do whatever they please on doing.
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
"Vanilla" means, bland, conventional.
At what point?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
To this point, my age has been irrelevant.
I began a restricted diet in my 20s to save my life, and had to continue due to my immune system being trashed by extreme exposure to DDT in Haiti, thanks to the well-meaning SNEM program that sprayed our homes every year, killing our pets, and ants, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@EllenDale
Easy to say, but it wasn't fun dropping that stuff out of my diet. Stopping white sugar was the worst of all..like kicking crack. I shook, got splitting headaches, felt panicked, then had denial (I'll take one little bite of candy).
I didn't stop craving sugar until I'd passed cold turkey and suddenly the taste of sugar was revolting. Besides, I almost died on my former diet, no doubt from the DDT taking out my immune system, so had no choice but to change.
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
To this point, my age has been irrelevant.
I began a restricted diet in my 20s to save my life, and had to continue due to my immune system being trashed by extreme exposure to DDT in Haiti, thanks to the well-meaning SNEM program that sprayed our homes every year, killing our pets, and ants, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
@EllenDale
Easy to say, but it wasn't fun dropping that stuff out of my diet. Stopping white sugar was the worst of all..like kicking crack. I shook, got splitting headaches, felt panicked, then had denial (I'll take one little bite of candy).
I didn't stop craving sugar until I'd passed cold turkey and suddenly the taste of sugar was revolting. Besides, I almost died on my former diet, no doubt from the DDT taking out my immune system, so had no choice but to change.
What are some of your favorite (relatively clean) jokes?
ollieberry comments on Feb 4, 2018:
A U.S. Marshall drives into an Indian Reservation. He sees an elderly Indian mending a fence and says, "I'm here to see if there is any illegal marijuana being grown on this here reservation". The tribal elder says "ok, but don't go in that field over there." The Marshall gets in the Indians face...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
LOL!
ollieberry comments on Feb 4, 2018:
A U.S. Marshall drives into an Indian Reservation. He sees an elderly Indian mending a fence and says, "I'm here to see if there is any illegal marijuana being grown on this here reservation". The tribal elder says "ok, but don't go in that field over there." The Marshall gets in the Indians face...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
LOL!
Did you notice Bernie Sander's did not say "god bless America" in his response to the state of the ...
HippieChick58 comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I worked for the Bernie campaign, and I'd love to do so again.
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
My hero!
HippieChick58 comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I worked for the Bernie campaign, and I'd love to do so again.
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
My hero!
“Christianity Free School Zones”, Iceland’s New Leader Creating
Dougy comments on Feb 1, 2018:
### Controversy
Prime Minister Canard may be the leader of Iceland. However, she is taking the heat from fiscal conservatives. The price tag to the Christianity Free School Zones has not yet been calculated. Regardless, no one thinks the cost will be cheap.
### Prime Minister Canard issued a ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
Hilarious!
Dougy comments on Feb 1, 2018:
### Controversy
Prime Minister Canard may be the leader of Iceland. However, she is taking the heat from fiscal conservatives. The price tag to the Christianity Free School Zones has not yet been calculated. Regardless, no one thinks the cost will be cheap.
### Prime Minister Canard issued a ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
Hilarious!
Favorite instrumentals?
WilliamCharles comments on Feb 3, 2018:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXZF60EPdM
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
Twins!
I spent the week after his death crying and playing his music day and night.
I'm a big fan, and loved his autobiography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, as well.
WilliamCharles comments on Feb 3, 2018:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXZF60EPdM
birdingnut replies on Feb 4, 2018:
Twins!
I spent the week after his death crying and playing his music day and night.
I'm a big fan, and loved his autobiography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, as well.
Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders
engineer_in_nj comments on Feb 3, 2018:
because they cant fight back well. Humanity looks for a victim that they can attack and torture. Like a well fed housecat with a mouse to gnaw and swat and keep alive for days.
Most groups if you attack them: they attack back, they die, they enlist allies to defend themselves, or they leave.
...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan Yup.
20% of millennials identify as LGBTQ, according to new GLAAD study https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/20-percent-millennials-lgbtq-glaad-study_us_58dd140be4b05eae031d8f9c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
engineer_in_nj comments on Feb 3, 2018:
because they cant fight back well. Humanity looks for a victim that they can attack and torture. Like a well fed housecat with a mouse to gnaw and swat and keep alive for days.
Most groups if you attack them: they attack back, they die, they enlist allies to defend themselves, or they leave.
...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan Yup.
20% of millennials identify as LGBTQ, according to new GLAAD study https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/20-percent-millennials-lgbtq-glaad-study_us_58dd140be4b05eae031d8f9c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
Want to know what percentage of the community believes in free will?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
If you subscribe to "we create our own reality," then you must take responsibility for your life and outcomes. If you want something different, then think differently.
If you just believe in free will, then you can only choose among the available choices presented, but you are otherwise helpless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JeffMurray I don't care what others believe, as long as they let me do the same.
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
If you subscribe to "we create our own reality," then you must take responsibility for your life and outcomes. If you want something different, then think differently.
If you just believe in free will, then you can only choose among the available choices presented, but you are otherwise helpless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JeffMurray I don't care what others believe, as long as they let me do the same.
Do you believe in love at first sight?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Apparently, males are capable of "love at first sight," if the female doesn't blow it by acting too needy and aggressive.
I found that out the hard way when my male side fell head over heels in love with a transwoman about five years ago, who had been one of my American friends in Union School, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Castlepaloma Yeah..your femme traits are even attractive to my own male side (but always without lust, as I'm demisexual).
My ex was 6' 1," a former Navy and airline pilot, gorgeous as a Las Vegas male stripper, and his body was rock hard muscle. But he was vegan, ironed his clothes, liked to attend family events, and I had to watch him or he'd finish my housework if I turned my back to put something away. He was PERFECT..except for insane (female?) jealousy of anything that took my attention off him, even my job!
And he came out as a bi nonbinary female last year.
Like many French, I also was open to threesomes, but we only discussed it and never followed through. But you will have a great time! My ex was the only one I was with who enjoyed all the wild stuff I like to do. Most cis straight men only like "rabbit" sex (sigh).
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Apparently, males are capable of "love at first sight," if the female doesn't blow it by acting too needy and aggressive.
I found that out the hard way when my male side fell head over heels in love with a transwoman about five years ago, who had been one of my American friends in Union School, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Castlepaloma Yeah..your femme traits are even attractive to my own male side (but always without lust, as I'm demisexual).
My ex was 6' 1," a former Navy and airline pilot, gorgeous as a Las Vegas male stripper, and his body was rock hard muscle. But he was vegan, ironed his clothes, liked to attend family events, and I had to watch him or he'd finish my housework if I turned my back to put something away. He was PERFECT..except for insane (female?) jealousy of anything that took my attention off him, even my job!
And he came out as a bi nonbinary female last year.
Like many French, I also was open to threesomes, but we only discussed it and never followed through. But you will have a great time! My ex was the only one I was with who enjoyed all the wild stuff I like to do. Most cis straight men only like "rabbit" sex (sigh).
Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Easy..it's the only "sin" they can condemn that they don't do themselves...from being born heterosexual.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan That's so true..a Harvard study showed that ALL homophobic men reacted with sexual arousal to gay porn, when tested.
I'm used to being on Facebook forums, and was just automatically trying to avoid alt-right rage by ignoring that.
Harvard study reveals that all homophobic people are gay https://youreadygrandma.com/2015/04/16/harvard-study-reveals-that-all-homophobic-people-are-gay/
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
Easy..it's the only "sin" they can condemn that they don't do themselves...from being born heterosexual.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan That's so true..a Harvard study showed that ALL homophobic men reacted with sexual arousal to gay porn, when tested.
I'm used to being on Facebook forums, and was just automatically trying to avoid alt-right rage by ignoring that.
Harvard study reveals that all homophobic people are gay https://youreadygrandma.com/2015/04/16/harvard-study-reveals-that-all-homophobic-people-are-gay/
At what point?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
To this point, my age has been irrelevant.
I began a restricted diet in my 20s to save my life, and had to continue due to my immune system being trashed by extreme exposure to DDT in Haiti, thanks to the well-meaning SNEM program that sprayed our homes every year, killing our pets, and ants, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Stevil LOL!
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
To this point, my age has been irrelevant.
I began a restricted diet in my 20s to save my life, and had to continue due to my immune system being trashed by extreme exposure to DDT in Haiti, thanks to the well-meaning SNEM program that sprayed our homes every year, killing our pets, and ants, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Stevil LOL!
How mobile are you?
richiegtt comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I definitely like to travel but never to the same place twice. The world has too many interesting places to visit .I am lucky in that my 29 year old daughter always asks me to go on trips with her
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
My daughter has been more places than I have..she's lived in Austria, Mexico, and Japan long enough to become somewhat fluent in the local languages, and backpacked all over Europe, as well as spending two months with me in Thailand in 2016, and went with me to Haiti in 2000.
richiegtt comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I definitely like to travel but never to the same place twice. The world has too many interesting places to visit .I am lucky in that my 29 year old daughter always asks me to go on trips with her
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
My daughter has been more places than I have..she's lived in Austria, Mexico, and Japan long enough to become somewhat fluent in the local languages, and backpacked all over Europe, as well as spending two months with me in Thailand in 2016, and went with me to Haiti in 2000.
How mobile are you?
icolan comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I love to travel, a friend gave me the bug. He moved to Malaysia and invited me to visit.
So far I have been to Penang,Malaysia; London, England; and Oslo, Norway. Penang was a week, London was 3 days and Oslo was less than a day. I though I was going to freeze in Norway, and did not have ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
I love Penang Island..sort of one of my "stomping grounds" and I still keep in touch with friends I met at the guesthouse I usually use.
The pic is me posing next to a wall mural in Penang, holding a tourist notebook featuring the same mural.
icolan comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I love to travel, a friend gave me the bug. He moved to Malaysia and invited me to visit.
So far I have been to Penang,Malaysia; London, England; and Oslo, Norway. Penang was a week, London was 3 days and Oslo was less than a day. I though I was going to freeze in Norway, and did not have ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
I love Penang Island..sort of one of my "stomping grounds" and I still keep in touch with friends I met at the guesthouse I usually use.
The pic is me posing next to a wall mural in Penang, holding a tourist notebook featuring the same mural.
What is your good news and bad news?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan If you like Thailand, there are plenty of LGBTQ people here. Many/most people seem to be "bi" and most are a gender mix, with women typically having the figures of ten-yr-old boys into their 30s and most men are slender and graceful into their 40s.
But dating a Thai of either gender is problematic..they often see foreigners as "marks," using sexual attraction to extract money, or at least try for a green card. You must prove your love by helping them pay for a sick relative, etc.
But I am now too old for a work permit here, as Thai law changed for foreign teachers, so am planning on leaving asap.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan If you like Thailand, there are plenty of LGBTQ people here. Many/most people seem to be "bi" and most are a gender mix, with women typically having the figures of ten-yr-old boys into their 30s and most men are slender and graceful into their 40s.
But dating a Thai of either gender is problematic..they often see foreigners as "marks," using sexual attraction to extract money, or at least try for a green card. You must prove your love by helping them pay for a sick relative, etc.
But I am now too old for a work permit here, as Thai law changed for foreign teachers, so am planning on leaving asap.
Widow/Widower
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
I've never lost a spouse by death, but have lost both parents, an aunt, and a sister-in-law and it took me a long time to recover.
Losing a spouse sounds difficult.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@NFAguy53 Yup..you're right.
Women often assume they can't compete with a dead spouse's memory..assuming that widowers are only looking for a plug-in replacement.
When I was dating, this usually was the case. Widowers often obsessed about their wives, and their homes were often a shrine to them. Women want men to love them for themselves, not as replacements, so tend to avoid widowers.
It's the opposite with divorced women..many/most men tend to assume they are sex-starved cougars looking for fun with anyone, and have money from the settlement, to boot.
Perhaps just saying you are single on your profiles is wiser, and what I do.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
I've never lost a spouse by death, but have lost both parents, an aunt, and a sister-in-law and it took me a long time to recover.
Losing a spouse sounds difficult.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@NFAguy53 Yup..you're right.
Women often assume they can't compete with a dead spouse's memory..assuming that widowers are only looking for a plug-in replacement.
When I was dating, this usually was the case. Widowers often obsessed about their wives, and their homes were often a shrine to them. Women want men to love them for themselves, not as replacements, so tend to avoid widowers.
It's the opposite with divorced women..many/most men tend to assume they are sex-starved cougars looking for fun with anyone, and have money from the settlement, to boot.
Perhaps just saying you are single on your profiles is wiser, and what I do.
Marriage... Are there any divorcees out there who actively hope to get married again?
Rugglesby comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I am very happily divorced, to be honest, I see marriage as a religious thing, even though I wasn't married in a church. Being so set in my ways, I find co-habitation hard to imagine.
Living apart together I think they call it now? Having a partner (s) but not living together.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Now THAT sounds like my kind of relationship..
Rugglesby comments on Feb 3, 2018:
I am very happily divorced, to be honest, I see marriage as a religious thing, even though I wasn't married in a church. Being so set in my ways, I find co-habitation hard to imagine.
Living apart together I think they call it now? Having a partner (s) but not living together.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Now THAT sounds like my kind of relationship..
What unusual sports do you follow/participate in?
ChrisR comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Not sure it is classed as a sport but I run around on an army live-firing range amongst unexploded ordnance, trying to find interesting insects without getting blown up :D
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ChrisR Whoa! mentioning those birds is like throwing a bucket of chum into the sea behind a boat, and ringing a bell to summon sharks. I've never even seen a Great Bustard! I'm just greedy, though, since I see new, previously unseen species almost every week here in Thailand. Sometimes, several a day.
ChrisR comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Not sure it is classed as a sport but I run around on an army live-firing range amongst unexploded ordnance, trying to find interesting insects without getting blown up :D
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ChrisR Whoa! mentioning those birds is like throwing a bucket of chum into the sea behind a boat, and ringing a bell to summon sharks. I've never even seen a Great Bustard! I'm just greedy, though, since I see new, previously unseen species almost every week here in Thailand. Sometimes, several a day.
Favorite quotes.
WilliamCharles comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Will post a lot of my quotes as graphics because that's how they're saved.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And SOOO true..
WilliamCharles comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Will post a lot of my quotes as graphics because that's how they're saved.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And SOOO true..
What unusual sports do you follow/participate in?
ChrisR comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Not sure it is classed as a sport but I run around on an army live-firing range amongst unexploded ordnance, trying to find interesting insects without getting blown up :D
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ChrisR The Thai aren't that organized. The soldiers even let me cut through their restricted military bases on my motorbike, but wouldn't let me take photos if I tried it within sight of anyone. They use such vast areas of land, though, that I could ride almost all the way home from work using the military base back roads. Because there was no hunting allowed, birds were less wary.
ChrisR comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Not sure it is classed as a sport but I run around on an army live-firing range amongst unexploded ordnance, trying to find interesting insects without getting blown up :D
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ChrisR The Thai aren't that organized. The soldiers even let me cut through their restricted military bases on my motorbike, but wouldn't let me take photos if I tried it within sight of anyone. They use such vast areas of land, though, that I could ride almost all the way home from work using the military base back roads. Because there was no hunting allowed, birds were less wary.
Religion and the internet.
Trajan61 comments on Feb 2, 2018:
The religious idiots will use anything to get you to give them some money! They are desperate for money! If you don’t support them and give them money you will go to hell!
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Trajan61 True, but 85% of white evangelicals voted for Trump. I bear a grudge.
Trajan61 comments on Feb 2, 2018:
The religious idiots will use anything to get you to give them some money! They are desperate for money! If you don’t support them and give them money you will go to hell!
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Trajan61 True, but 85% of white evangelicals voted for Trump. I bear a grudge.
Religion and the internet.
Kojaksmom comments on Feb 2, 2018:
And no where in the Bible does it cover computers. Maybe God hates computers and does not believe any of his followers should be using them. How is a Christian supposed to know for sure.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@El-loco The only sexual sin Jesus commented on (contrary to homophobic alt-right Christians) was that of adultery, which he said happened whenever men looked at women with lust.
Since most hetero, cis men feel lust when they look at most women, this would also include porn. But of course Christians ignore this and harp on the one "sin" they don't commit-homosexuality, due to being born hetero.
Kojaksmom comments on Feb 2, 2018:
And no where in the Bible does it cover computers. Maybe God hates computers and does not believe any of his followers should be using them. How is a Christian supposed to know for sure.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@El-loco The only sexual sin Jesus commented on (contrary to homophobic alt-right Christians) was that of adultery, which he said happened whenever men looked at women with lust.
Since most hetero, cis men feel lust when they look at most women, this would also include porn. But of course Christians ignore this and harp on the one "sin" they don't commit-homosexuality, due to being born hetero.
Want to know what percentage of the community believes in free will?
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
If you subscribe to "we create our own reality," then you must take responsibility for your life and outcomes. If you want something different, then think differently.
If you just believe in free will, then you can only choose among the available choices presented, but you are otherwise helpless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JeffMurray I know the first one is true but since I don't like what I am creating (since it allegedly works on subconscious ideas, not just conscious ones), I would LOVE to go back to believing I'm a victim, or to being passive and letting "God" do His will. Every time I complain to my daughter about something, she annoys me by asking why I wanted that to happen, since we choose things that have some benefit for us, even we're in denial about it.
She's right, but playing victim is easier, and more fun, than self-reflection.
birdingnut comments on Feb 3, 2018:
If you subscribe to "we create our own reality," then you must take responsibility for your life and outcomes. If you want something different, then think differently.
If you just believe in free will, then you can only choose among the available choices presented, but you are otherwise helpless, ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JeffMurray I know the first one is true but since I don't like what I am creating (since it allegedly works on subconscious ideas, not just conscious ones), I would LOVE to go back to believing I'm a victim, or to being passive and letting "God" do His will. Every time I complain to my daughter about something, she annoys me by asking why I wanted that to happen, since we choose things that have some benefit for us, even we're in denial about it.
She's right, but playing victim is easier, and more fun, than self-reflection.
I wonder if they wear a boot on a neckchain?
JackPedigo comments on Jan 31, 2018:
So does this implicate we are "roaches"?
Actually reminds of growing up in Dallas. It is a very humid city and our house was full of roaches. One night we were watching TV and a roach appeared on the wall. My mom told our shocked guest "Oh that's just George, he always watches TV with us at this ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@GareBear517 My apartment here in Songkhla, Thailand, also has House Geckos, since the sliding doors don't seal, and they can come and go at will. They scamper around the walls, make their weird clicking sounds, get into fights, chase each other, munch on my sprouts, leave their sticky dropping along the bottoms of the walls..gross!
But they're so cute!
JackPedigo comments on Jan 31, 2018:
So does this implicate we are "roaches"?
Actually reminds of growing up in Dallas. It is a very humid city and our house was full of roaches. One night we were watching TV and a roach appeared on the wall. My mom told our shocked guest "Oh that's just George, he always watches TV with us at this ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@GareBear517 My apartment here in Songkhla, Thailand, also has House Geckos, since the sliding doors don't seal, and they can come and go at will. They scamper around the walls, make their weird clicking sounds, get into fights, chase each other, munch on my sprouts, leave their sticky dropping along the bottoms of the walls..gross!
But they're so cute!
I wonder if they wear a boot on a neckchain?
JackPedigo comments on Jan 31, 2018:
So does this implicate we are "roaches"?
Actually reminds of growing up in Dallas. It is a very humid city and our house was full of roaches. One night we were watching TV and a roach appeared on the wall. My mom told our shocked guest "Oh that's just George, he always watches TV with us at this ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo I used to use an anticoagulant rodenticide, warfarin, which prevents blood clotting. It causes internal bleeding, and effects don't appear for several days, thus doesn't alert the other rats to the danger of the bait. It only affects rodents, so won't kill predator animals.
JackPedigo comments on Jan 31, 2018:
So does this implicate we are "roaches"?
Actually reminds of growing up in Dallas. It is a very humid city and our house was full of roaches. One night we were watching TV and a roach appeared on the wall. My mom told our shocked guest "Oh that's just George, he always watches TV with us at this ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo I used to use an anticoagulant rodenticide, warfarin, which prevents blood clotting. It causes internal bleeding, and effects don't appear for several days, thus doesn't alert the other rats to the danger of the bait. It only affects rodents, so won't kill predator animals.
What is your good news and bad news?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo Sounds beautiful, and the perfect place for someone who loves that type of area. You are also the sort of interesting person most women say they want to meet. Or maybe you prefer someone who matches you intellectually, which could be trickier. Most men seem to only want someone pretty who will cook and take care of them, so maybe you are choosier.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo Sounds beautiful, and the perfect place for someone who loves that type of area. You are also the sort of interesting person most women say they want to meet. Or maybe you prefer someone who matches you intellectually, which could be trickier. Most men seem to only want someone pretty who will cook and take care of them, so maybe you are choosier.
What is your good news and bad news?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan Well, I am a male version of a female, being partially transmale. But mostly I live as an androgyne. But, thanks! My ex came out as both bi and nonbinary female last year, so even though we didn't know it when we were married, we were sort of a reverse gender couple. I was the wild one and he was in the background being fussy and cautious. I talked him into all kinds of crazy adventures, instead of the other way around.
But if you like the kinds of activities I do, it seems that men would be more likely to enjoy similar things. Here in Thailand, the only women who joined me in motorbike trips, climbs, and riding waves at the beach were occasional Caucasian South Africans. After living in Africa, not much fazed them.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan Well, I am a male version of a female, being partially transmale. But mostly I live as an androgyne. But, thanks! My ex came out as both bi and nonbinary female last year, so even though we didn't know it when we were married, we were sort of a reverse gender couple. I was the wild one and he was in the background being fussy and cautious. I talked him into all kinds of crazy adventures, instead of the other way around.
But if you like the kinds of activities I do, it seems that men would be more likely to enjoy similar things. Here in Thailand, the only women who joined me in motorbike trips, climbs, and riding waves at the beach were occasional Caucasian South Africans. After living in Africa, not much fazed them.
I wonder if they wear a boot on a neckchain?
JackPedigo comments on Jan 31, 2018:
So does this implicate we are "roaches"?
Actually reminds of growing up in Dallas. It is a very humid city and our house was full of roaches. One night we were watching TV and a roach appeared on the wall. My mom told our shocked guest "Oh that's just George, he always watches TV with us at this ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo I have no qualms about poisoning rats, but only with rat poison that isn't toxic to other animals. One of them I used to buy affects their hearts only, and only after a few days, so that the other rats don't get suspicious of the bait, and it also dries the dead rats out without them stinking. They say that if you hear or see a rat, there are a hundred you don't see.
JackPedigo comments on Jan 31, 2018:
So does this implicate we are "roaches"?
Actually reminds of growing up in Dallas. It is a very humid city and our house was full of roaches. One night we were watching TV and a roach appeared on the wall. My mom told our shocked guest "Oh that's just George, he always watches TV with us at this ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo I have no qualms about poisoning rats, but only with rat poison that isn't toxic to other animals. One of them I used to buy affects their hearts only, and only after a few days, so that the other rats don't get suspicious of the bait, and it also dries the dead rats out without them stinking. They say that if you hear or see a rat, there are a hundred you don't see.
What is your good news and bad news?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo Yes, I can see where your location could be a factor. Women are typically the ones who decide where a couple lives, and they often like to live near family. You might have to meet someone from your area, or someone adventurous enough to want to move to an island. But someone that restless, might later want to keep moving.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo Yes, I can see where your location could be a factor. Women are typically the ones who decide where a couple lives, and they often like to live near family. You might have to meet someone from your area, or someone adventurous enough to want to move to an island. But someone that restless, might later want to keep moving.
Does everyone know their nationality, or are some of you unsure?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Technically, your nationality is your citizenship. You can be any genetic background and still be a U.K. or American citizen.
But all people are a mix of every race, if they go far enough back. Still, I know I have part Cherokee, part Aztec, Spanish, English, and Italian relatives in the past ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@stomato Yeah, I would spring for a DNA analysis, except for some news story I heard last month that certain DNA labs were selling the information to third parties, but I've not followed the story. They could have stopped it already.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Technically, your nationality is your citizenship. You can be any genetic background and still be a U.K. or American citizen.
But all people are a mix of every race, if they go far enough back. Still, I know I have part Cherokee, part Aztec, Spanish, English, and Italian relatives in the past ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@stomato Yeah, I would spring for a DNA analysis, except for some news story I heard last month that certain DNA labs were selling the information to third parties, but I've not followed the story. They could have stopped it already.
Since you have revealed to others that you're an atheist how has it effected your love life and ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 1, 2018:
On dating profiles, it's best to be up front about the kind of person you want to meet.
The last time I put up a profile, I stated clearly that I "don't do casual sex," which should have eliminated most men, and my detailed list of things I wanted in a partner was supposed to drive the rest away,...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@FrayedBear I remember once some guy asked me out, but made the mistake of mentioning that he loved "Gospel music." I suddenly remembered that I was going to be busy for the next year or so.
birdingnut comments on Feb 1, 2018:
On dating profiles, it's best to be up front about the kind of person you want to meet.
The last time I put up a profile, I stated clearly that I "don't do casual sex," which should have eliminated most men, and my detailed list of things I wanted in a partner was supposed to drive the rest away,...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@FrayedBear I remember once some guy asked me out, but made the mistake of mentioning that he loved "Gospel music." I suddenly remembered that I was going to be busy for the next year or so.
What unusual sports do you follow/participate in?
ChrisR comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Not sure it is classed as a sport but I run around on an army live-firing range amongst unexploded ordnance, trying to find interesting insects without getting blown up :D
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ChrisR Looks like a heavenly birding place as well. I actually did routinely go birding on the Thai military practice grounds near Saraburi, Thailand, because it was in a beautiful desert area with many species of rare Thai birds. I often thought about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I never was.
ChrisR comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Not sure it is classed as a sport but I run around on an army live-firing range amongst unexploded ordnance, trying to find interesting insects without getting blown up :D
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ChrisR Looks like a heavenly birding place as well. I actually did routinely go birding on the Thai military practice grounds near Saraburi, Thailand, because it was in a beautiful desert area with many species of rare Thai birds. I often thought about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I never was.
Are you going to be single for Valentine's Day?
Duke comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Single but, if anyone wants to change that, I have dark chocolate and I know how to use it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Duke Just the thought can gross out some demisexuals.
Duke comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Single but, if anyone wants to change that, I have dark chocolate and I know how to use it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Duke Just the thought can gross out some demisexuals.
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birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Since having sex with women is their main contribution to the human race, and women have babies and drive civilizations, men need to be proud of something.
The Y-chromosome - the ultimate symbol of machismo - is in a bad way. But, asks Bryan Sykes, apart from breeding, what real use is the male ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@RavenCT The argument was that the usefulness of male humans consisted in fathering children, and assisting women and children in their survival, since his success depends on numbers of surviving progeny.
Imagine if there were no women, or babies. Men left to themselves would likely fight and kill each other and die out pretty quickly. Women are the ones who typically tame the lawless places where mostly men lived before, such in the wild west, when the arrival of women brought schools, libraries, civilization, etc.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Since having sex with women is their main contribution to the human race, and women have babies and drive civilizations, men need to be proud of something.
The Y-chromosome - the ultimate symbol of machismo - is in a bad way. But, asks Bryan Sykes, apart from breeding, what real use is the male ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@RavenCT The argument was that the usefulness of male humans consisted in fathering children, and assisting women and children in their survival, since his success depends on numbers of surviving progeny.
Imagine if there were no women, or babies. Men left to themselves would likely fight and kill each other and die out pretty quickly. Women are the ones who typically tame the lawless places where mostly men lived before, such in the wild west, when the arrival of women brought schools, libraries, civilization, etc.
Do any members here believe in reincarnation?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Yup!
I was born remembering the time before I was conceived, and my sister also remembered a past life.
I remember many past lives, and googled a few of the incidents I remembered, and found the details I remembered to be true. But I can't "prove" anything about it, and don't want to, or care. I ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ArashL You could just google a list, but here are some of the Kindle books I already have: Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, second edition, Ian Stevenson, M.D., Reincarnation: Exceptional of Past Life Memories, by Eirik Leivsson, The Laughing Cherub Guide to Past-Life Regression: A Handbook for Real People, by Mary Elizabeth Raines, 12 Real Life Reincarnation Stories in the News: Global Evidence of Reincarnation and Past LIves, edited by Richard Bullivant
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Yup!
I was born remembering the time before I was conceived, and my sister also remembered a past life.
I remember many past lives, and googled a few of the incidents I remembered, and found the details I remembered to be true. But I can't "prove" anything about it, and don't want to, or care. I ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@ArashL You could just google a list, but here are some of the Kindle books I already have: Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, second edition, Ian Stevenson, M.D., Reincarnation: Exceptional of Past Life Memories, by Eirik Leivsson, The Laughing Cherub Guide to Past-Life Regression: A Handbook for Real People, by Mary Elizabeth Raines, 12 Real Life Reincarnation Stories in the News: Global Evidence of Reincarnation and Past LIves, edited by Richard Bullivant
Are you going to be single for Valentine's Day?
Duke comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Single but, if anyone wants to change that, I have dark chocolate and I know how to use it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Duke You'd have to work that out with women for yourself. I was married to him, and let's say he wasn't complaining, but I don't do casual sex. GROSS
Duke comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Single but, if anyone wants to change that, I have dark chocolate and I know how to use it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@Duke You'd have to work that out with women for yourself. I was married to him, and let's say he wasn't complaining, but I don't do casual sex. GROSS
What is your good news and bad news?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan Do you mean a date in general, or with someone like me? Most women I know love gay male friends, and my ex came out last year as bi, so in a way, that's what I had.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@icolan Do you mean a date in general, or with someone like me? Most women I know love gay male friends, and my ex came out last year as bi, so in a way, that's what I had.
Humour.. What are the worst things you could say or have said after sex?
Rugglesby comments on Jan 31, 2018:
Reminds me of an old joke, I hope nobody gets offended.
A young guy and his sister were both dateless one night, unusual because they both had plenty of action normally. Eventually one suggests to the other that they alleviate their frustration and get it on. Afterwards, the girls asks her Brother,...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@phxbillcee You know you're trailer trash if your 14-year-old daughter lets her kids smoke at the breakfast table.
Rugglesby comments on Jan 31, 2018:
Reminds me of an old joke, I hope nobody gets offended.
A young guy and his sister were both dateless one night, unusual because they both had plenty of action normally. Eventually one suggests to the other that they alleviate their frustration and get it on. Afterwards, the girls asks her Brother,...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@phxbillcee You know you're trailer trash if your 14-year-old daughter lets her kids smoke at the breakfast table.
Religion and the internet.
Trajan61 comments on Feb 2, 2018:
The religious idiots will use anything to get you to give them some money! They are desperate for money! If you don’t support them and give them money you will go to hell!
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Well, DUH..
That's the whole point of religion anyway..to teach people to check their brains at the church door, suspend disbelief and rational thought, teach unquestioning obedience to old white men to gain power over them. More people = more money, so the more you give, the more "blessed" you are. Hell is used to frighten people into giving even more money!
Even Jesus said so, and he also made a whip and drove cheating money lenders out of the temple for exploiting the people.
If he were to show up at most churches today, they'd not let him in anyway..a middle eastern guy wearing a robe, who speaks out against organized religion.
Trajan61 comments on Feb 2, 2018:
The religious idiots will use anything to get you to give them some money! They are desperate for money! If you don’t support them and give them money you will go to hell!
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Well, DUH..
That's the whole point of religion anyway..to teach people to check their brains at the church door, suspend disbelief and rational thought, teach unquestioning obedience to old white men to gain power over them. More people = more money, so the more you give, the more "blessed" you are. Hell is used to frighten people into giving even more money!
Even Jesus said so, and he also made a whip and drove cheating money lenders out of the temple for exploiting the people.
If he were to show up at most churches today, they'd not let him in anyway..a middle eastern guy wearing a robe, who speaks out against organized religion.
Religion and the internet.
Kojaksmom comments on Feb 2, 2018:
And no where in the Bible does it cover computers. Maybe God hates computers and does not believe any of his followers should be using them. How is a Christian supposed to know for sure.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Since Christians are making up everything "God" is saying to them, no problem adding computers. Except that would mean no more internet porn, so they won't do it. At least, the men won't.
Kojaksmom comments on Feb 2, 2018:
And no where in the Bible does it cover computers. Maybe God hates computers and does not believe any of his followers should be using them. How is a Christian supposed to know for sure.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Since Christians are making up everything "God" is saying to them, no problem adding computers. Except that would mean no more internet porn, so they won't do it. At least, the men won't.
Religion and the internet.
Rugglesby comments on Feb 2, 2018:
The internet is full of porn. Listen to your pope, "Stop it or you'll go blind!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZnBPU3YK-s
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Hilarious! I put the link on Twitter
Rugglesby comments on Feb 2, 2018:
The internet is full of porn. Listen to your pope, "Stop it or you'll go blind!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZnBPU3YK-s
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
Hilarious! I put the link on Twitter
At about the same time as I discovered this site I closed my Facebook account.
ScienceBiker comments on Feb 3, 2018:
As old as Facebook is, I'm amazed at the number of people who still don't know how to use it.
When you accept a friend request from someone you don't care to contact with but don't want to seem rude, you put them in the "restricted" group. Then you unfollow them so their updates don't appear in ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
That's what I SHOULD do, but in reality, after a few white evangelical rants and hate memes, after I have PMd them to desist, I just defriend them. Done.
I have many conservative religious friends in my list, but I never see their posts and they don't bother me, so I assume they also "unfollowed me," to avoid my liberal posts, so I'm grateful for that!
ScienceBiker comments on Feb 3, 2018:
As old as Facebook is, I'm amazed at the number of people who still don't know how to use it.
When you accept a friend request from someone you don't care to contact with but don't want to seem rude, you put them in the "restricted" group. Then you unfollow them so their updates don't appear in ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
That's what I SHOULD do, but in reality, after a few white evangelical rants and hate memes, after I have PMd them to desist, I just defriend them. Done.
I have many conservative religious friends in my list, but I never see their posts and they don't bother me, so I assume they also "unfollowed me," to avoid my liberal posts, so I'm grateful for that!
My brother recently died, and I can't help but notice the stupid comments, "ill pray for you"?
orange_girl comments on Feb 2, 2018:
@RandyWells, Something that has always frustrated me is trying to buy a sympathy card that doesn't suck. After much searching, I found cards by Emily McDowell. I hope you enjoy the link. My favorite is the 3rd one down. I have several on hand for when I need them.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@RavenCT True! Best to say nothing, or say "I have a health issue."
orange_girl comments on Feb 2, 2018:
@RandyWells, Something that has always frustrated me is trying to buy a sympathy card that doesn't suck. After much searching, I found cards by Emily McDowell. I hope you enjoy the link. My favorite is the 3rd one down. I have several on hand for when I need them.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@RavenCT True! Best to say nothing, or say "I have a health issue."
Are you going to be single for Valentine's Day?
Duke comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Single but, if anyone wants to change that, I have dark chocolate and I know how to use it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
You're hilarious! But, besides chocolate, you will have women lining up if you do long foot massages. My ex was licensed in foot massage, and used to insist on rubbing my feet for two hours each night (!!!)
When we went to ballroom dances and he'd remove my shoe and start massaging my foot during intermission, even if we were back in a corner, word would get out and women would start lining up. They were disappointed and almost frantic to learn it wasn't something being done for all, but it did show me how men could get any woman they wanted, ;-) !
Duke comments on Feb 2, 2018:
Single but, if anyone wants to change that, I have dark chocolate and I know how to use it.
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
You're hilarious! But, besides chocolate, you will have women lining up if you do long foot massages. My ex was licensed in foot massage, and used to insist on rubbing my feet for two hours each night (!!!)
When we went to ballroom dances and he'd remove my shoe and start massaging my foot during intermission, even if we were back in a corner, word would get out and women would start lining up. They were disappointed and almost frantic to learn it wasn't something being done for all, but it did show me how men could get any woman they wanted, ;-) !
Since you have revealed to others that you're an atheist how has it effected your love life and ...
NicThePoet comments on Feb 1, 2018:
Now that you mention it, I'm fairly surprised this hasn't been much of an issue for me. It may be location related - people seem to be more lax about religion (or lack thereof) where I'm from. Though I do tend to avoid men who seem too invested in whatever god/gods/flying spaghetti monster they ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
I dunno..if they have a flying cheese or chocolate ice cream god, with plenty of ceremonies, I might indulge. Here in Thailand I constantly get invited to Buddhist temple feasts, Buddhist dances, and meditation sessions, and I love it! In this photo, I'm doing a Thai dance with my students, on the way to the Buddhist temple for a meditation ceremony and feast afterward..YUM!
NicThePoet comments on Feb 1, 2018:
Now that you mention it, I'm fairly surprised this hasn't been much of an issue for me. It may be location related - people seem to be more lax about religion (or lack thereof) where I'm from. Though I do tend to avoid men who seem too invested in whatever god/gods/flying spaghetti monster they ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
I dunno..if they have a flying cheese or chocolate ice cream god, with plenty of ceremonies, I might indulge. Here in Thailand I constantly get invited to Buddhist temple feasts, Buddhist dances, and meditation sessions, and I love it! In this photo, I'm doing a Thai dance with my students, on the way to the Buddhist temple for a meditation ceremony and feast afterward..YUM!
What is your good news and bad news?
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo Men are typically more in demand than females, so if you are looking, you should find. Also, you don't seem super picky about culture and ethnicity, so have an even larger choice than many.
birdingnut comments on Feb 2, 2018:
LOL! That would be me, also.
Good news for dating prospects!
I exercise, am very fit, have multiple hobbies, am multicultural, multilingual, a musician, an artist, an inventor, have a high IQ, am a voracious reader, eat only healthy food, spend my free time riding ocean waves, or wading ...
birdingnut replies on Feb 3, 2018:
@JackPedigo Men are typically more in demand than females, so if you are looking, you should find. Also, you don't seem super picky about culture and ethnicity, so have an even larger choice than many.
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