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What is your favorite genre of music?
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I like many genres of music..jazz, classical, bluegrass, rock, K-pop, Thai-pop, Latin pop, rap, hip-hop, R&B, Caribbean, Cuban salsa, Thai traditional instruments, reggae, swing, soul, etc.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I like many genres of music..jazz, classical, bluegrass, rock, K-pop, Thai-pop, Latin pop, rap, hip-hop, R&B, Caribbean, Cuban salsa, Thai traditional instruments, reggae, swing, soul, etc.
How do you tell someone, with diplomacy that you don’t want to have a prayer with you?
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
People do that to pregnant women, also..putting their hands all over their bellies and asking personal questions. Also people with young children of a different race, etc. People can be rude.
When someone starts reacting to your leg like they're about to do something religious, catch their eye, frown and shake your head.
If they start to blather on anyway, look annoyed, then turn away and pay them no further attention, but start talking on your phone, or to someone else, as though they aren't there, going on about your business.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
People do that to pregnant women, also..putting their hands all over their bellies and asking personal questions. Also people with young children of a different race, etc. People can be rude.
When someone starts reacting to your leg like they're about to do something religious, catch their eye, frown and shake your head.
If they start to blather on anyway, look annoyed, then turn away and pay them no further attention, but start talking on your phone, or to someone else, as though they aren't there, going on about your business.
Religious niece asked to pray with her.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Just tell her to do the praying and then silently meditate, or agree with her, since positive thoughts are effective, as the placebo affect shows.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Just tell her to do the praying and then silently meditate, or agree with her, since positive thoughts are effective, as the placebo affect shows.
I find it odd that there aren't a bunch of religious people on here trying to convert us to ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Yeah, it's like the peace and quiet after banging your head against a wall all your life.
By the way, there are a few alt-right people here who sometimes troll people, but you can just block them.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Yeah, it's like the peace and quiet after banging your head against a wall all your life.
By the way, there are a few alt-right people here who sometimes troll people, but you can just block them.
Hello everyone! I have recently joined this group and I'm looking forward to interesting chats and ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
You get to second level just by filling out your bio!
Nice photo of you on your boat, and interesting bio, by the way.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
You get to second level just by filling out your bio!
Nice photo of you on your boat, and interesting bio, by the way.
Well, I guess this will fit in here.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
??? Is this the teaser page of a new novel? It seemed interesting at first, then became somewhat cluttered, so maybe do a few edits?
I'm always up for a new Indie novel.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
??? Is this the teaser page of a new novel? It seemed interesting at first, then became somewhat cluttered, so maybe do a few edits?
I'm always up for a new Indie novel.
Theater vs home movie?
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I like to do both, since there's a new EGV theater multiplex within quick walking distance of my place, at the Songkhla Tesco-Lotus mall. New hit movies for $6.33 are shown in English a few times a day for the first week or so.
For movies and TV series at home, I use Netflix on my smart Samsung flat screen TV.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I like to do both, since there's a new EGV theater multiplex within quick walking distance of my place, at the Songkhla Tesco-Lotus mall. New hit movies for $6.33 are shown in English a few times a day for the first week or so.
For movies and TV series at home, I use Netflix on my smart Samsung flat screen TV.
I'm an open book so ask me anything.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
It would be more helpful if you filled out your bio and started participating in conversations.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
It would be more helpful if you filled out your bio and started participating in conversations.
None of This Really Happened | And no, this time I’m not talking politics, although that does ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I don't get it.
Why do you care?
It's their business if they want to believe a lie..until they form a voting block that negatively affects us all, that is. Then just VOTE them out of the way, since they voted for Trump out of racism, according to studies.
Trump won because of racial resentment https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study?utm_campaign=vox=entry=social=twitter
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I don't get it.
Why do you care?
It's their business if they want to believe a lie..until they form a voting block that negatively affects us all, that is. Then just VOTE them out of the way, since they voted for Trump out of racism, according to studies.
Trump won because of racial resentment https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study?utm_campaign=vox=entry=social=twitter
Do you have a family member (or person in your life) that you just don't want to deal with?
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I'm guessing that I'm the one my family doesn't want to deal with, with my health food habits, tendency to work overseas just for the adventure, my coming out to them (in a brief email in 2014) as nonbinary androgyne and partially transmale.
But when my parents were still alive, my dad used to make outrageous accusations against my young daughter every time we visited, claiming that she was stealing this or that, while my mom said nothing.
I decided to use behaviorist tactics on them. When we visited, each time my dad started in on us, I'd ignore him, glance at my watch and say, "Look at the time! We gotta go, but it was great seeing you! Love you! Bye!" and we'd leave immediately.
It only took a week of doing this before my mom would start rounding on my dad and telling him to "shush!" every time he started accusing us of something.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
I'm guessing that I'm the one my family doesn't want to deal with, with my health food habits, tendency to work overseas just for the adventure, my coming out to them (in a brief email in 2014) as nonbinary androgyne and partially transmale.
But when my parents were still alive, my dad used to make outrageous accusations against my young daughter every time we visited, claiming that she was stealing this or that, while my mom said nothing.
I decided to use behaviorist tactics on them. When we visited, each time my dad started in on us, I'd ignore him, glance at my watch and say, "Look at the time! We gotta go, but it was great seeing you! Love you! Bye!" and we'd leave immediately.
It only took a week of doing this before my mom would start rounding on my dad and telling him to "shush!" every time he started accusing us of something.
Heres my bestie?
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Nice sheltie! They are sweet, intelligent dogs.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Nice sheltie! They are sweet, intelligent dogs.
Do you read you read books for your significant other?
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
My husband and I read to each other during trips and during the day when together, and continued this with our two kids, who quickly assumed their own reading turns by the time they were four and five.
When my daughter visited me here in Thailand for two months in 2016, we read the entire Harry Potter series aloud to each other. She had never read it before, and I had only recently discovered it after buying the first Harry Potter book at a book shop on Petang Island, Malaysia, during a four-day visit in 2014.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
My husband and I read to each other during trips and during the day when together, and continued this with our two kids, who quickly assumed their own reading turns by the time they were four and five.
When my daughter visited me here in Thailand for two months in 2016, we read the entire Harry Potter series aloud to each other. She had never read it before, and I had only recently discovered it after buying the first Harry Potter book at a book shop on Petang Island, Malaysia, during a four-day visit in 2014.
I decided to give the community a little more insight into myself.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
?? I'm not sure why you wrote this treatise, but if you want to impress the ladies, try humor, listening to them, asking relevant questions to show interest, and if you live nearby, inviting a lady who attracts you to meet for coffee.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
?? I'm not sure why you wrote this treatise, but if you want to impress the ladies, try humor, listening to them, asking relevant questions to show interest, and if you live nearby, inviting a lady who attracts you to meet for coffee.
Looking for advice on fasting .
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
There are many ways to fast. You can google fasting for examples and instructions, or just do it on your own.
Remember that you have to take as long to resume normal eating habits as you fasted..i.e., if you fast for 24 hrs, take 24 hrs to get back to normal food. Skipping steps can make you sick.
I used to fast one to two days weekly, and then ate every other day for a while.
Now I just eat breakfast at 6 AM, and my next meal at 6 PM, so I go 10-12 hours a day without eating.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
There are many ways to fast. You can google fasting for examples and instructions, or just do it on your own.
Remember that you have to take as long to resume normal eating habits as you fasted..i.e., if you fast for 24 hrs, take 24 hrs to get back to normal food. Skipping steps can make you sick.
I used to fast one to two days weekly, and then ate every other day for a while.
Now I just eat breakfast at 6 AM, and my next meal at 6 PM, so I go 10-12 hours a day without eating.
I don't know if I fit in here.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Sounds like my current beliefs; sort of Buddhist-ish, with plenty of quantum physics thrown in.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Sounds like my current beliefs; sort of Buddhist-ish, with plenty of quantum physics thrown in.
I think I’d like to live in a nudist colony.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
You could move south, or just go nude indoors.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
You could move south, or just go nude indoors.
Do you think my position is too extreme? (Warning: graphic descriptions inside)
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Weird that you give credit to Christianity at all.
Who cares?
Anyone who reads the Bible can see it's filled with violence against women, children, animals, brutal cruelty to anyone who isn't totally obedient to some blood-thirsty "god."
Of course, I consider the Bible just a poor copy of the Sumerian texts, written 2000 years before the Bible, where the obvious inspiration for the "Hebrew god" is the blood-thirsty alien leader, Anu.
birdingnut comments on Feb 22, 2018:
Weird that you give credit to Christianity at all.
Who cares?
Anyone who reads the Bible can see it's filled with violence against women, children, animals, brutal cruelty to anyone who isn't totally obedient to some blood-thirsty "god."
Of course, I consider the Bible just a poor copy of the Sumerian texts, written 2000 years before the Bible, where the obvious inspiration for the "Hebrew god" is the blood-thirsty alien leader, Anu.
Hugs & kisses.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I don't even want to shake anyone's hand..eew! I don't know where that hand has been.
I prefer the Thai custom of giving a "wai" and, even better, because I'm usually the oldest person present, I don't have to greet anyone first, or even reply to a younger person if I prefer not to.
The sooner Americans dump the germy handshake custom, the better, and forget about hugging..I'd just step back if someone tried, or do a shoulder-hug.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I don't even want to shake anyone's hand..eew! I don't know where that hand has been.
I prefer the Thai custom of giving a "wai" and, even better, because I'm usually the oldest person present, I don't have to greet anyone first, or even reply to a younger person if I prefer not to.
The sooner Americans dump the germy handshake custom, the better, and forget about hugging..I'd just step back if someone tried, or do a shoulder-hug.
How open are you with others about your lack of religious beliefs?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Only if it's relevant. In the rare event I'm asked, I usually just shrug and say I am "Christian and Buddhist-ish" and do the "whatever" hand wiggle.
That seems to satisfy most Thai.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Only if it's relevant. In the rare event I'm asked, I usually just shrug and say I am "Christian and Buddhist-ish" and do the "whatever" hand wiggle.
That seems to satisfy most Thai.
Have you read the Bible?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Unlike my more liberal parents and siblings, I read the Bible cover-to-cover more than anyone I knew, starting when I was eight. I read my KJV Bible constantly until the new paraphrase Bibles started coming out, then read them, then bought a 4-version Bible so I could compare. When I learned to speed read I'd casually zip through a few books each day.
In all fairness I also read every other book I came across, and even borrowed books from other missions, if I had a friend there.
I had no trouble with the supernatural Bible elements, since I could do most of that miracle stuff myself since I was a baby, being born with psychic powers, like my mom and sister, This is common for "two-spirit" (mixed gender) people in the Cherokee tribe, who are often trained as shamans.
I also uploaded Strong's Concordance, so I could read the original Bible manuscript Hebrew and Greek, and that's when I saw that 98% of what I'd been taught in church wasn't even in the Bible, due to translation spin.
I then began morphing my "religious" beliefs into quantum physics, since it best matches the best Bible elements and my experience.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Unlike my more liberal parents and siblings, I read the Bible cover-to-cover more than anyone I knew, starting when I was eight. I read my KJV Bible constantly until the new paraphrase Bibles started coming out, then read them, then bought a 4-version Bible so I could compare. When I learned to speed read I'd casually zip through a few books each day.
In all fairness I also read every other book I came across, and even borrowed books from other missions, if I had a friend there.
I had no trouble with the supernatural Bible elements, since I could do most of that miracle stuff myself since I was a baby, being born with psychic powers, like my mom and sister, This is common for "two-spirit" (mixed gender) people in the Cherokee tribe, who are often trained as shamans.
I also uploaded Strong's Concordance, so I could read the original Bible manuscript Hebrew and Greek, and that's when I saw that 98% of what I'd been taught in church wasn't even in the Bible, due to translation spin.
I then began morphing my "religious" beliefs into quantum physics, since it best matches the best Bible elements and my experience.
I dared to ask to have the radio switched to a different station from a Christian station today in a...
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Good heavens! Just get earphones and listen to your own music, and/or choose your trip mates more carefully next time.
I would never deliberately choose to travel with pushy religious fanatics of any religion.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Good heavens! Just get earphones and listen to your own music, and/or choose your trip mates more carefully next time.
I would never deliberately choose to travel with pushy religious fanatics of any religion.
Does anyone feel a sense of compunction when they are instrumental in the apostasy of another, in ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I leave people alone in their mistaken beliefs. Not my business.
I have, however, corrupted my ex's prudish upbringing. He was a fussy, conventional, religious person when we started seeing each other, but I eventually got him drinking wine, going skinny dipping, and doing mild B & M, with all the trappings and costumes. He didn't seem to mind being corrupted, though.
At that time, I still attended church, but eventually I began pulling away from it because our church rebuked us for going ballroom dancing. I thought it was none of their business and that they were nutty control freaks, but I don't know how much my ex agreed with me.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I leave people alone in their mistaken beliefs. Not my business.
I have, however, corrupted my ex's prudish upbringing. He was a fussy, conventional, religious person when we started seeing each other, but I eventually got him drinking wine, going skinny dipping, and doing mild B & M, with all the trappings and costumes. He didn't seem to mind being corrupted, though.
At that time, I still attended church, but eventually I began pulling away from it because our church rebuked us for going ballroom dancing. I thought it was none of their business and that they were nutty control freaks, but I don't know how much my ex agreed with me.
I haven't verified this but, I know I'm more likely to believe this than anything out of the Bible.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I love the slim, ten-year-old-boy figures of Thai women under 40 yrs old. They are almost flat chested, with impossibly narrow thighs.
They naturally have the figures that Caucasian runway models usually must have to starve themselves and take Cocaine to get.
I only weight 100 lbs, but my figure still looks like a rounded Caucasian (sigh).
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I love the slim, ten-year-old-boy figures of Thai women under 40 yrs old. They are almost flat chested, with impossibly narrow thighs.
They naturally have the figures that Caucasian runway models usually must have to starve themselves and take Cocaine to get.
I only weight 100 lbs, but my figure still looks like a rounded Caucasian (sigh).
Do you try not to think about religion at all?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I'm long over it. What people believe is none of my business, as long as they leave me alone.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I'm long over it. What people believe is none of my business, as long as they leave me alone.
Did ya’ll have a childhood hero and do they still influence you?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
My grandmother and LGBTQ aunt, who sent us Haiti missionary kids National Geographic children's nature books, National Geographic magazines, Boy's Life, Highlights magazine, etc.
Thanks to them, we were hysterically excited whenever we heard the drone of the DC-3 mail plane approaching the Cap Haitian airport, and someone would get a car and start off for town, 8 km away, to get the mail.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
My grandmother and LGBTQ aunt, who sent us Haiti missionary kids National Geographic children's nature books, National Geographic magazines, Boy's Life, Highlights magazine, etc.
Thanks to them, we were hysterically excited whenever we heard the drone of the DC-3 mail plane approaching the Cap Haitian airport, and someone would get a car and start off for town, 8 km away, to get the mail.
What age is too old for a woman to get pregnant?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
When she says so, up to a point, and depending on her health.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
When she says so, up to a point, and depending on her health.
I am seriously considering building a "church style" building on my place complete with steeple and ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
?? Why bother? I leave them alone and don't really care what others believe as long as they let me do the same.
I seldom see Christians in Thailand, and I also don't care what the Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists believe.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
?? Why bother? I leave them alone and don't really care what others believe as long as they let me do the same.
I seldom see Christians in Thailand, and I also don't care what the Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists believe.
I think many people on this site are very capable of analysing the effectiveness of preaching.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
LOL!
His converts are likely a good part of the 85% white evangelicals who voted for Trump and champion the NRA. I've never seen anyone change for the better after "conversion" except maybe for certain Haitians, who gladly exchanged Christianity for voodoo, since it allowed them to prosper.
The Haitians even read the Creole New Testaments for themselves, and many took it literally-raising the dead, seeing people healed from deadly diseases, seeing miracles.
The missionaries, of course, went to doctors because they could, and didn't do miracles.
I don't think "god" had anything to do with the miracles, but the people sure did. Jesus himself said that "ye are gods" and told people that if they told a mountain to fall into the sea, it would obey them, never mentioning that it should be "god's will" or stipulating a pious act. In fact, the Greek word translated "whosoever" includes all declensions, thus including non-humans in that promise.
According to physics, we participate in creating our own universes/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 21, 2018:
LOL!
His converts are likely a good part of the 85% white evangelicals who voted for Trump and champion the NRA. I've never seen anyone change for the better after "conversion" except maybe for certain Haitians, who gladly exchanged Christianity for voodoo, since it allowed them to prosper.
The Haitians even read the Creole New Testaments for themselves, and many took it literally-raising the dead, seeing people healed from deadly diseases, seeing miracles.
The missionaries, of course, went to doctors because they could, and didn't do miracles.
I don't think "god" had anything to do with the miracles, but the people sure did. Jesus himself said that "ye are gods" and told people that if they told a mountain to fall into the sea, it would obey them, never mentioning that it should be "god's will" or stipulating a pious act. In fact, the Greek word translated "whosoever" includes all declensions, thus including non-humans in that promise.
According to physics, we participate in creating our own universes/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
Companionship
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Well, DUH. Dogs love you no matter what, are always happy to see you, always up for anything, will cuddle as long as you like, etc.
On the other hand, if you want a dance partner, someone to go to the movies with, intellectual conversations, people are better. No reason why you can't have both, though.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Well, DUH. Dogs love you no matter what, are always happy to see you, always up for anything, will cuddle as long as you like, etc.
On the other hand, if you want a dance partner, someone to go to the movies with, intellectual conversations, people are better. No reason why you can't have both, though.
If a guy or girl straight up asked you to have sex with them, how would you respond to it?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I would refuse, but it would it would depend on the person, and how it was asked, as to whether I would feel offended, just amused, or worried.
So far, here in Thailand, three Thai married women bosses (stunningly beautiful, young) have asked me to stay over, or openly propositioned me. In those cases I had to be very careful to help them save face. In two cases, I politely explained that I don't take lovers, and in one, I simply acted "dense" and pretended not to understand the point after my boss asked me on a birding trip to see "nesting hornbills," by Krabi.
I went to Krabi with her (she had me at "nesting hornbills") ), but didn't allow anything to happen afterward.
By the way, despite my being demisexual, many men could date me if they asked me on a birding trip, and that's how I started dating my ex. He didn't particularly like birds himself, but went with me on a rock-climbing/birding trip and sat with me high on a cliff for hours to observe wildlife and birds below and take photos.
He was a busy airline pilot flight instructor, but carefully courted me for over a year, despite my lack of encouragement.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I would refuse, but it would it would depend on the person, and how it was asked, as to whether I would feel offended, just amused, or worried.
So far, here in Thailand, three Thai married women bosses (stunningly beautiful, young) have asked me to stay over, or openly propositioned me. In those cases I had to be very careful to help them save face. In two cases, I politely explained that I don't take lovers, and in one, I simply acted "dense" and pretended not to understand the point after my boss asked me on a birding trip to see "nesting hornbills," by Krabi.
I went to Krabi with her (she had me at "nesting hornbills") ), but didn't allow anything to happen afterward.
By the way, despite my being demisexual, many men could date me if they asked me on a birding trip, and that's how I started dating my ex. He didn't particularly like birds himself, but went with me on a rock-climbing/birding trip and sat with me high on a cliff for hours to observe wildlife and birds below and take photos.
He was a busy airline pilot flight instructor, but carefully courted me for over a year, despite my lack of encouragement.
Soooo.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Yikes! Well, good luck!
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Yikes! Well, good luck!
Who is the most eccentric person in your family?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I certainly am. The rest of my siblings are sober, conventional workaholics. My oldest brother is a nuclear physicist, my next older brother is an electrical and fiber optics engineer, my youngest sister is a bank coding consultant who makes a ton of money, and my next younger sister is a registered nurse.
I ran off to teach ESL and go birding in Thailand. Furthermore, I eat health food, came out to them in 2014 as an androgyne partial transmale, said I don't believe the same way as they do, etc.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I certainly am. The rest of my siblings are sober, conventional workaholics. My oldest brother is a nuclear physicist, my next older brother is an electrical and fiber optics engineer, my youngest sister is a bank coding consultant who makes a ton of money, and my next younger sister is a registered nurse.
I ran off to teach ESL and go birding in Thailand. Furthermore, I eat health food, came out to them in 2014 as an androgyne partial transmale, said I don't believe the same way as they do, etc.
Flirting, what are your tactics when implementing this strategy?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I don't know how to flirt with men, always taking what they say at face value.
But before I started taking the Thai derris scandens herb, as my female hormone levels waned past menopause, I became more gender fluid, moving back and forth between male and female perspectives.
When in male mode, my male side could pick up women effortlessly simply by listening to them, remembering what they said, noticing things about them..a new bag, complimenting their new hair color, etc. In no time I'd have a gaggle of beautiful giggling girls on my arms, and that's about when my female side would wake up and get rid of them before the male side could buy them all drinks, and waste her money.
It's a relief to take the herb and just be androgyne..a gender blended person who doesn't chase anyone. But I do know how, apparently.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I don't know how to flirt with men, always taking what they say at face value.
But before I started taking the Thai derris scandens herb, as my female hormone levels waned past menopause, I became more gender fluid, moving back and forth between male and female perspectives.
When in male mode, my male side could pick up women effortlessly simply by listening to them, remembering what they said, noticing things about them..a new bag, complimenting their new hair color, etc. In no time I'd have a gaggle of beautiful giggling girls on my arms, and that's about when my female side would wake up and get rid of them before the male side could buy them all drinks, and waste her money.
It's a relief to take the herb and just be androgyne..a gender blended person who doesn't chase anyone. But I do know how, apparently.
What's the strangest question you've been asked on this site?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
This one.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
This one.
Tonight I enjoyed a wonderful evening of Strauss and Brahms courtesy of Arizona Musicfest.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I stream accuradio.com online and listen to Chopin as often as pop genres.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I stream accuradio.com online and listen to Chopin as often as pop genres.
Explain what intimacy means to you, in 20 words or less than that.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Snuggled up peacefully together.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Snuggled up peacefully together.
Are there any ballroom dancers out there? :)
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I danced advanced ballroom and jitterbug, but been in Thailand since 2010.
Are you really 95 yrs old, as it says on your profile?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I danced advanced ballroom and jitterbug, but been in Thailand since 2010.
Are you really 95 yrs old, as it says on your profile?
Christian Wife Swappers Preach The Word Of God Through Swinging - YouTube
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Looks like a bunch of white trash to me. Who cares?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Looks like a bunch of white trash to me. Who cares?
Near-death experiences: inside the scientific search for the afterlife
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
You don't have to be near death to experience that. I was stressed because I didn't want to get married, but as my wedding day approached I had a sort of "dream" where I left my body and floated up through the ceiling, went off with my friends I'd known forever, into a peaceful, wilderness place. When I came back into my body I was very reluctant to return to my life.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
You don't have to be near death to experience that. I was stressed because I didn't want to get married, but as my wedding day approached I had a sort of "dream" where I left my body and floated up through the ceiling, went off with my friends I'd known forever, into a peaceful, wilderness place. When I came back into my body I was very reluctant to return to my life.
Dallas official asks NRA to consider another city for annual convention - ABC News
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
HAHAHAHA! I just tweeted that link.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
HAHAHAHA! I just tweeted that link.
What do you remember about your first day of school?
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I was four years old, in Haiti and when my mom started my older brothers in the CA Calvert course I begged my mom to teach me also. So I was reading, and writing cursive stories at four, but safely at home, and mostly saw it as fun play.
I also home schooled my kids, since they started reading even earlier. Several weeks before she was three, my daughter bugged me to show her the phonic sounds of the alphabet, then started reading right away..during a TV commercial!
I didn't see a public school until I was nine, going into sixth grade in the US, when our family was on furlough. I was held back because of my age, so I got stacks of science fact cards from a box in the back to read during the teacher's boring, time-wasting stories of his trip to Mexico on his motorbike. He sure didn't know much, and all the school did was waste my time. I did discover what a library was, though, to my delight.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
I was four years old, in Haiti and when my mom started my older brothers in the CA Calvert course I begged my mom to teach me also. So I was reading, and writing cursive stories at four, but safely at home, and mostly saw it as fun play.
I also home schooled my kids, since they started reading even earlier. Several weeks before she was three, my daughter bugged me to show her the phonic sounds of the alphabet, then started reading right away..during a TV commercial!
I didn't see a public school until I was nine, going into sixth grade in the US, when our family was on furlough. I was held back because of my age, so I got stacks of science fact cards from a box in the back to read during the teacher's boring, time-wasting stories of his trip to Mexico on his motorbike. He sure didn't know much, and all the school did was waste my time. I did discover what a library was, though, to my delight.
How many meals a day do you need. ? I'm living on one
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Dunno..doing two a day right now.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Dunno..doing two a day right now.
Nightmare
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
All my life I was aware of a baby crying in the background. I thought it was a leftover from my childhood since my mom didn't believe in picking up her babies. But one day I was reading a book on past lives, where a psychologist was doing hypnotherapy with her patients, and suddenly people were remembering trauma from their past lives. She had them fix the past lives and their present problems vanished.
So I followed the book's suggestion, and simply decided to "see" the past life that originated the particular problem. I saw myself as a newborn Shawnee Indian baby that my mother, a teenager, had on the trail as a captive of a Creek raiding party that had already killed her family. The Creeks made her abandon the baby by the trail, and the crying was me.
So, I used some NLP techniques (used by the military for ptsd soldiers) and simply replaced the bad scenario with a good one..I imagined my mother returning to get me, nursing me, and raising me to have a happy life.
Afterward, the crying never returned.
I tried this for other puzzling behaviors, like an unreasoning terror of checking my finances, as I somehow thought it would get me killed.
The past life memory that appeared when I asked for the origin was when I was betrayed and killed when I withdrew money from my bank account before trying to escape with my Jewish family in the 1940s, in Belgium.
We were gunned down when we tried to reach the river to take the boat to escape, but when I googled the event, I found that our Belgian government had already sold us out to the Nazis, and all the people on the boat were gunned down anyway.
Anyway, I imagined no way or shooting and the fear went away.
I didn't care if it was "real" or not as long as it worked.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
All my life I was aware of a baby crying in the background. I thought it was a leftover from my childhood since my mom didn't believe in picking up her babies. But one day I was reading a book on past lives, where a psychologist was doing hypnotherapy with her patients, and suddenly people were remembering trauma from their past lives. She had them fix the past lives and their present problems vanished.
So I followed the book's suggestion, and simply decided to "see" the past life that originated the particular problem. I saw myself as a newborn Shawnee Indian baby that my mother, a teenager, had on the trail as a captive of a Creek raiding party that had already killed her family. The Creeks made her abandon the baby by the trail, and the crying was me.
So, I used some NLP techniques (used by the military for ptsd soldiers) and simply replaced the bad scenario with a good one..I imagined my mother returning to get me, nursing me, and raising me to have a happy life.
Afterward, the crying never returned.
I tried this for other puzzling behaviors, like an unreasoning terror of checking my finances, as I somehow thought it would get me killed.
The past life memory that appeared when I asked for the origin was when I was betrayed and killed when I withdrew money from my bank account before trying to escape with my Jewish family in the 1940s, in Belgium.
We were gunned down when we tried to reach the river to take the boat to escape, but when I googled the event, I found that our Belgian government had already sold us out to the Nazis, and all the people on the boat were gunned down anyway.
Anyway, I imagined no way or shooting and the fear went away.
I didn't care if it was "real" or not as long as it worked.
The Atheist Pig
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHA! Good one!
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
HAHAHAHAHA! Good one!
Hi guys, I am new here and I am finding it difficult to upload my pictures
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Sometimes it helps to post first, then upload the photos with the edit feature, but only if you're adding photos to comments.
birdingnut comments on Feb 21, 2018:
Sometimes it helps to post first, then upload the photos with the edit feature, but only if you're adding photos to comments.
Does your ideal partner exist?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I think our ideal partner shows up when we are ready for him or her.
Trouble is, studies show that people are not attracted to the kinds of people they claim they want to meet.
For instance, people would write long lists of great characteristics they said they considered to be necessary for prospective love interests, then pick someone the exact opposite.
What the researchers found was that people attract, and are attracted to, people of the same emotional "vibration." That's why it's wise to be emotionally free of an ex before dating, or you'll just grab another copy of the ex, or someone as sad and messed up as you are.
I suspect one reason I moved to Thailand was to remove pressure to start dating again after my divorce in 2010. Nobody bothers me here, and there's no single person stigma.
Besides, it was while I was in Thailand, in 2014, that I realized I'm androgyne and partially transmale, which was what was messing up my other relationships, unknown to me. My male side resented taking a female wife role, causing internal stress. No wonder I hated marriage, even if I liked my spouse as a fun pal.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I think our ideal partner shows up when we are ready for him or her.
Trouble is, studies show that people are not attracted to the kinds of people they claim they want to meet.
For instance, people would write long lists of great characteristics they said they considered to be necessary for prospective love interests, then pick someone the exact opposite.
What the researchers found was that people attract, and are attracted to, people of the same emotional "vibration." That's why it's wise to be emotionally free of an ex before dating, or you'll just grab another copy of the ex, or someone as sad and messed up as you are.
I suspect one reason I moved to Thailand was to remove pressure to start dating again after my divorce in 2010. Nobody bothers me here, and there's no single person stigma.
Besides, it was while I was in Thailand, in 2014, that I realized I'm androgyne and partially transmale, which was what was messing up my other relationships, unknown to me. My male side resented taking a female wife role, causing internal stress. No wonder I hated marriage, even if I liked my spouse as a fun pal.
The best way to become an atheist.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Yup. I have.
And I read the Sumerian texts.
Then I decided the Bible, written 2000 yrs after the Sumerian texts, was only a poor copy of the texts, and most of it nonsense, so ditched it.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Yup. I have.
And I read the Sumerian texts.
Then I decided the Bible, written 2000 yrs after the Sumerian texts, was only a poor copy of the texts, and most of it nonsense, so ditched it.
How do you deal with disappointment in life?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I try to look at it objectively. Could I have avoided the problem if I'd done things differently, or is there something I can do now to make sure it doesn't happen again?
Do I need to make some changes, such as defriending or blocking someone, moving on from a relationship, changing jobs, changing website hang outs, etc.?
If it's not worth the effort, I just go for a walk, or watch Netflix.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I try to look at it objectively. Could I have avoided the problem if I'd done things differently, or is there something I can do now to make sure it doesn't happen again?
Do I need to make some changes, such as defriending or blocking someone, moving on from a relationship, changing jobs, changing website hang outs, etc.?
If it's not worth the effort, I just go for a walk, or watch Netflix.
Perspective
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I doubt anyone thinks about me much at all, except when our lives intersect, and that's the way I like it.
People who have had obsessed stalkers and revengeful enemies would probably agree!
My youngest sister used to be jealous of me, and angry that I hung with my other sister, so took constant revenge on me, which I never saw coming, being clueless.
My dad was also jealous of me, resenting me due to my being born eleven months after my older brother. He constantly blamed me for everything, even when I'd been gone to a friend's house when the deed happened. He would even punish me for things he heard of other horses doing, assuming it was my horse, even if the offending horse was a completely different color.
Luckily, my siblings usually helped by letting me get lost in the crowd of kids and sometimes my mom went behind the scenes to get my dad to relent on some arbitrary punishment, and my dad was at the radio station transmitters most of the time anyway, working on the diesel engines.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I doubt anyone thinks about me much at all, except when our lives intersect, and that's the way I like it.
People who have had obsessed stalkers and revengeful enemies would probably agree!
My youngest sister used to be jealous of me, and angry that I hung with my other sister, so took constant revenge on me, which I never saw coming, being clueless.
My dad was also jealous of me, resenting me due to my being born eleven months after my older brother. He constantly blamed me for everything, even when I'd been gone to a friend's house when the deed happened. He would even punish me for things he heard of other horses doing, assuming it was my horse, even if the offending horse was a completely different color.
Luckily, my siblings usually helped by letting me get lost in the crowd of kids and sometimes my mom went behind the scenes to get my dad to relent on some arbitrary punishment, and my dad was at the radio station transmitters most of the time anyway, working on the diesel engines.
What was a fact taught to you in school that has been disproven in your lifetime?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
That the US is the "good guy" in world politics. That all our wars were for peace, freedom, and the American way, which is, of course, the best way in the world. That our nation is a Christian nation, and that's why we conquered our enemies.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
That the US is the "good guy" in world politics. That all our wars were for peace, freedom, and the American way, which is, of course, the best way in the world. That our nation is a Christian nation, and that's why we conquered our enemies.
This fascinates me because they try to explain certain things that most here consider supernatural ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Oh, for Pete's sake. Only Westerners trained to ignore all such things, or trained to mock them, don't know these things.
It's not that way in countries where such things are accepted, such as Haiti and Thailand, where many of my rural Thai students had such strong ESP they would speak English words before I could start to write them on the board...even when the students didn't know any English.
We are matter, which is another form of energy, and all energy is connected.
In Haiti, we didn't have telephones, so we MKs (missionary kids) routinely used ESP to call each other to make plans. My mom used esp to wake us up on the morning, standing in the bedroom doorway and thinking "Wake up!" in our heads, startling us all straight up in bed.
I used esp to control my horses, seldom using a bridle or saddle when riding, or using the lines when driving horses on a cart. I could even think to my Walking Horses which gait to use when pulling the cart; i.e. rack, running walk, pace, trot, etc., and they would change to the gait as I was still thinking it.
While driving the Daniel Boone National Park access roads in the horse cart with my husband, whenever I'd feel the need for a "nature call," the horse would already be pulling over to the side of the road in the field I'd just decided to use.
When someone's pet went berserk with strange behavior, people knew to call me, and I'd just pretend I could "talk" to the animal, letting it explain the problem and what it wanted done about it, then relay the message. The animals would be instantly satisfied, and stop the behavior.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Oh, for Pete's sake. Only Westerners trained to ignore all such things, or trained to mock them, don't know these things.
It's not that way in countries where such things are accepted, such as Haiti and Thailand, where many of my rural Thai students had such strong ESP they would speak English words before I could start to write them on the board...even when the students didn't know any English.
We are matter, which is another form of energy, and all energy is connected.
In Haiti, we didn't have telephones, so we MKs (missionary kids) routinely used ESP to call each other to make plans. My mom used esp to wake us up on the morning, standing in the bedroom doorway and thinking "Wake up!" in our heads, startling us all straight up in bed.
I used esp to control my horses, seldom using a bridle or saddle when riding, or using the lines when driving horses on a cart. I could even think to my Walking Horses which gait to use when pulling the cart; i.e. rack, running walk, pace, trot, etc., and they would change to the gait as I was still thinking it.
While driving the Daniel Boone National Park access roads in the horse cart with my husband, whenever I'd feel the need for a "nature call," the horse would already be pulling over to the side of the road in the field I'd just decided to use.
When someone's pet went berserk with strange behavior, people knew to call me, and I'd just pretend I could "talk" to the animal, letting it explain the problem and what it wanted done about it, then relay the message. The animals would be instantly satisfied, and stop the behavior.
"Try to be happy while living, for you're a long time dead."
Old Scottish proverb
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I dunno. We're ultimately made of energy according to Einstein's formula, and since energy can't be created or destroyed, we have always existed and will always exist in some energy form. I think we're just on to another life.
I was born with past life memories, as was my younger sister, who kept referring to "when I was a boy.." Careful research of young children 2-6 yrs old, all over the world, remembering details, conversations, and recognizing people from recent past lives show the accuracy of their memories.
Many children remember being on other planets, being animals, even ghosts, etc. They didn't publish any stories that weren't verified, so even checked out the details the kids said they observed when inbetween incarnations, when they were ghosts.
The people studied all agreed that they themselves chose which babies in the womb to enter and inhabit, and when to incarnate. Many studies showed that people reincarnate in clusters..entire villages of people sometimes incarnating together, and sometimes remembering each other, especially under mild hypnosis, and the accuracy of the remembered details were verified.
They speculate that's what's behind the common feeling that you're already good friends with someone you just met, and maybe even for the feeling of "deja vu."
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I dunno. We're ultimately made of energy according to Einstein's formula, and since energy can't be created or destroyed, we have always existed and will always exist in some energy form. I think we're just on to another life.
I was born with past life memories, as was my younger sister, who kept referring to "when I was a boy.." Careful research of young children 2-6 yrs old, all over the world, remembering details, conversations, and recognizing people from recent past lives show the accuracy of their memories.
Many children remember being on other planets, being animals, even ghosts, etc. They didn't publish any stories that weren't verified, so even checked out the details the kids said they observed when inbetween incarnations, when they were ghosts.
The people studied all agreed that they themselves chose which babies in the womb to enter and inhabit, and when to incarnate. Many studies showed that people reincarnate in clusters..entire villages of people sometimes incarnating together, and sometimes remembering each other, especially under mild hypnosis, and the accuracy of the remembered details were verified.
They speculate that's what's behind the common feeling that you're already good friends with someone you just met, and maybe even for the feeling of "deja vu."
Have you ever been around people that would suddenly bring up something in the past and it start an ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
That's why Abraham Hicks advises people to live in the present, for peace of mind. What happened is gone, let it go.
I use quick NLP techniques (used by the military to treat ptsd) to get rid of old painful feelings; I imagine negative key incidents from my past, but as they would have happened in a perfect world. After a while of reimagining bad memories as peaceful, happy events, my emotions change to match those of the imagined events, and old resentment and anger vanishes.
I remember what really happened, but the corresponding bad emotions are gone.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
That's why Abraham Hicks advises people to live in the present, for peace of mind. What happened is gone, let it go.
I use quick NLP techniques (used by the military to treat ptsd) to get rid of old painful feelings; I imagine negative key incidents from my past, but as they would have happened in a perfect world. After a while of reimagining bad memories as peaceful, happy events, my emotions change to match those of the imagined events, and old resentment and anger vanishes.
I remember what really happened, but the corresponding bad emotions are gone.
I am an animal lover, especially dogs, but others as well. What about you? What ones do you like?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I love 'em all, but have an especially soft place for birds..and horses!
Photo I took of Willets on Caladesi Island, FL.
2005 pic of me jumping a log with my Walking Horse, Banjo, near Soldier, KY, rescue chow mix, Shaney, behind us.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I love 'em all, but have an especially soft place for birds..and horses!
Photo I took of Willets on Caladesi Island, FL.
2005 pic of me jumping a log with my Walking Horse, Banjo, near Soldier, KY, rescue chow mix, Shaney, behind us.
My best girls! They're making sure those deer don't try anything funny.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Aw! You're making me miss the Australian Blue Heelers of my past.
2004 I am riding my TN Walking Horse, Banjo, with new Blue Heeler pup, Naomi, Soldier, KY.
I thought the homemade coon hunting sign was hilarious. Many people in that area owned Walker coon hounds and regularly went hunting all night with them, following the slobbery yelping sounds through the woods-even women!
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Aw! You're making me miss the Australian Blue Heelers of my past.
2004 I am riding my TN Walking Horse, Banjo, with new Blue Heeler pup, Naomi, Soldier, KY.
I thought the homemade coon hunting sign was hilarious. Many people in that area owned Walker coon hounds and regularly went hunting all night with them, following the slobbery yelping sounds through the woods-even women!
Second day in a row that the weather was perfect for a bike ride! I love the wind in my hair, the ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Walking/hiking while doing bird photography. I'm what I call an "extreme birder." I hike, climb cliffs, wade swamps, crouch in thickets, ignore bad weather, take trips and even move to other countries (like Thailand!) to get desired bird photos.
Here I am in 2009, with birding camera equipment, camo clothing I designed and made myself, after climbing Lockeegee Rock, Rowan CO, KY
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Walking/hiking while doing bird photography. I'm what I call an "extreme birder." I hike, climb cliffs, wade swamps, crouch in thickets, ignore bad weather, take trips and even move to other countries (like Thailand!) to get desired bird photos.
Here I am in 2009, with birding camera equipment, camo clothing I designed and made myself, after climbing Lockeegee Rock, Rowan CO, KY
If you could just pick up and move today where would you move to?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
If I could, or if I "should?" I should move to Lexington, KY, as planned, but I only want to live here.
Sidney, if I had the income/means.
Belize, if I had a birding companion, for safety.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
If I could, or if I "should?" I should move to Lexington, KY, as planned, but I only want to live here.
Sidney, if I had the income/means.
Belize, if I had a birding companion, for safety.
Since joining this site I have had an ongoing question that I ask myself.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I remember the day I became a birding "expert."
When I lived near Morehead, KY, I attended two years of the Beginner Birding Weekends at Jenny Wiley National Resort Park, 1998-99, to learn from the attending birding experts. I was in awe of their abilities and constantly practiced at home identifying birds by ear and from quick glimpses, using field guides and CDs.
In 2000, when attendants were boarding little pontoon boats for the usual birding trip on Dewey Lake, I protested that my own boat didn't have a "expert" onboard. The staff member launching the boat looked puzzled and said, "Sure we do..YOU."
I looked around and all the beginner birders were looking at me expectantly. I then realized that an "expert" is sometimes the most knowledgeable person present.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I remember the day I became a birding "expert."
When I lived near Morehead, KY, I attended two years of the Beginner Birding Weekends at Jenny Wiley National Resort Park, 1998-99, to learn from the attending birding experts. I was in awe of their abilities and constantly practiced at home identifying birds by ear and from quick glimpses, using field guides and CDs.
In 2000, when attendants were boarding little pontoon boats for the usual birding trip on Dewey Lake, I protested that my own boat didn't have a "expert" onboard. The staff member launching the boat looked puzzled and said, "Sure we do..YOU."
I looked around and all the beginner birders were looking at me expectantly. I then realized that an "expert" is sometimes the most knowledgeable person present.
Today is their Happy Day.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Aaw!
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Aaw!
Do you save seeds from your veggie garden to plant next year?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I used to get a lot of "volunteer" plants from my (eastern KY farm) compost pile..tomato plants, pumpkins, watermelon, and sunflowers under the bird feeders, etc. But I usually bought organic seeds from my food coop.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I used to get a lot of "volunteer" plants from my (eastern KY farm) compost pile..tomato plants, pumpkins, watermelon, and sunflowers under the bird feeders, etc. But I usually bought organic seeds from my food coop.
If man doesn't exist does the the universe exist?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Well, according to quantum physics, nothing exists that isn't imagined first. So in that dimension, the universe doesn't exist.
Your entire life is an ILLUSION ..nothing exists until it's observed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3107996/Our-entire-lives-ILLUSION-New-test-backs-theory-reality-doesn-t-exist-look-it.html
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Well, according to quantum physics, nothing exists that isn't imagined first. So in that dimension, the universe doesn't exist.
Your entire life is an ILLUSION ..nothing exists until it's observed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3107996/Our-entire-lives-ILLUSION-New-test-backs-theory-reality-doesn-t-exist-look-it.html
Soar high angry bird!
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Cool! A Loggerhead Shrike!
They fly with rapid bursts of wing beats that shoot them forward like arrows, much as woodpeckers do.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Cool! A Loggerhead Shrike!
They fly with rapid bursts of wing beats that shoot them forward like arrows, much as woodpeckers do.
Sometimes my internal monologue is the only thing that saves my ass when I feel like I'm in over my ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I call it my "higher self," although I used to assume it was "God." If we are our own gods, then this is correct.
The inner voice has saved my life outright several times, suddenly telling me to "get on the sidewalk NOW" and "get off the horse!" an instant before a disaster. It would tell me where the migrating warblers were in the woods, explain bird "flyways" to me, tell me exactly where to wait in the woods for the next flock to pass, and how many minutes until their arrival, etc.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I call it my "higher self," although I used to assume it was "God." If we are our own gods, then this is correct.
The inner voice has saved my life outright several times, suddenly telling me to "get on the sidewalk NOW" and "get off the horse!" an instant before a disaster. It would tell me where the migrating warblers were in the woods, explain bird "flyways" to me, tell me exactly where to wait in the woods for the next flock to pass, and how many minutes until their arrival, etc.
Weird?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Yeah, I'd delete that guy's phone number right now. Dating many/most southern men are sort of like dating many foreigners..they are mostly totally patriarchal, and usually looking to upgrade socially, i.e. from broke trailer trash to an educated woman with an income.
I was married two weeks before I turned 20 yrs old, to an old MK (missionary kid) friend I'd known in Haiti since I was eight years old, and my brother's best friend. I only married him because we'd been pen pals for a few years, then dated in college, but only after I made him promise he'd never propose, since I couldn't say "no" to a pal (I didn't know at the time I'm partially transmale, with an active "bro" code), something I'd observed about myself, but didn't know why.
I didn't have my son until I was 27, and my daughter when I was 30.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Yeah, I'd delete that guy's phone number right now. Dating many/most southern men are sort of like dating many foreigners..they are mostly totally patriarchal, and usually looking to upgrade socially, i.e. from broke trailer trash to an educated woman with an income.
I was married two weeks before I turned 20 yrs old, to an old MK (missionary kid) friend I'd known in Haiti since I was eight years old, and my brother's best friend. I only married him because we'd been pen pals for a few years, then dated in college, but only after I made him promise he'd never propose, since I couldn't say "no" to a pal (I didn't know at the time I'm partially transmale, with an active "bro" code), something I'd observed about myself, but didn't know why.
I didn't have my son until I was 27, and my daughter when I was 30.
How's meetup.com?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I plan to move to Lexington, KY, asap, and just now googled several Lexington atheist groups and meet-ups. But few people there are religious, or they attend highly liberal churches, so most people I meet at ballroom dances, operas, ballets, etc., will likely be agnostics or atheists.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I plan to move to Lexington, KY, asap, and just now googled several Lexington atheist groups and meet-ups. But few people there are religious, or they attend highly liberal churches, so most people I meet at ballroom dances, operas, ballets, etc., will likely be agnostics or atheists.
Do you try to avoid chemicals in products you use?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I buy white vinegar by the gallon and use it for cleaning toilets, sinks, for pouring into water for soaking fresh vegetables to remove pesticides. I use baking soda to clean sinks also.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I buy white vinegar by the gallon and use it for cleaning toilets, sinks, for pouring into water for soaking fresh vegetables to remove pesticides. I use baking soda to clean sinks also.
The bats are back! 7 of them snuggling in my straw hat during the day again :)
the pics are of a ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Microbats in your hat! Grey honeyeaters in your dutch oven! You live in animal paradise!
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
Microbats in your hat! Grey honeyeaters in your dutch oven! You live in animal paradise!
Would you want to be famous?
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I have been, to many people, over much of my life, as a radio singer and personality growing up in Haiti, being in bands as a young adult, recording two records, one of which had a hit song for three months in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and being an actor in a famous Thai pop hit song video a year ago.
In Haiti I couldn't go anywhere without people yelling my name and running after my horse, car, or public bus, and in Thailand, during the song's heyday, people would yell out my lines to me as I passed their houses on foot.
But mostly I just live my life and pay no attention.
birdingnut comments on Feb 20, 2018:
I have been, to many people, over much of my life, as a radio singer and personality growing up in Haiti, being in bands as a young adult, recording two records, one of which had a hit song for three months in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and being an actor in a famous Thai pop hit song video a year ago.
In Haiti I couldn't go anywhere without people yelling my name and running after my horse, car, or public bus, and in Thailand, during the song's heyday, people would yell out my lines to me as I passed their houses on foot.
But mostly I just live my life and pay no attention.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the more religious someone is, the more they seem to fear death?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Because, according to the current Bible, "God" could throw them into eternal fire when they die for any random reason..even leaving out some good deed they should have done.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Because, according to the current Bible, "God" could throw them into eternal fire when they die for any random reason..even leaving out some good deed they should have done.
Chris Rock - Black People VS. Niggaz (Bring the Pain 1996) - YouTube
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Wow.
You sound like a Trump-loving white evangelical southerner, like where I lived in eastern KY for 27 years. Bet you own a MAGA cap, LOL!
I love Chris Rock, and what he says on this video applies to white trash Americans as well, as he said. He has a right to complain about his own race, because many of them are embarrassing him with their attitude, but so do many white trash people. You, however, just seem racist. KKK level even.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Wow.
You sound like a Trump-loving white evangelical southerner, like where I lived in eastern KY for 27 years. Bet you own a MAGA cap, LOL!
I love Chris Rock, and what he says on this video applies to white trash Americans as well, as he said. He has a right to complain about his own race, because many of them are embarrassing him with their attitude, but so do many white trash people. You, however, just seem racist. KKK level even.
I notice that this site is mostly made up of people from the U.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Good for you! I think Americans are intimidated by the British because most of them seem to "know stuff." They even travel to other countries!
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Good for you! I think Americans are intimidated by the British because most of them seem to "know stuff." They even travel to other countries!
Would you deny someone a date if they were wearing something you didn't like?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
If I was on a blind date and the person showed up in GOP or Trump-themed clothing of any kind, I would say that something came up, apologize, and say I had to go. If they asked for an explanation I'd just say that, going by your clothes, I don't think things would work out for us.
Then I'd leave. And block their number.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
If I was on a blind date and the person showed up in GOP or Trump-themed clothing of any kind, I would say that something came up, apologize, and say I had to go. If they asked for an explanation I'd just say that, going by your clothes, I don't think things would work out for us.
Then I'd leave. And block their number.
When a person cheat, do you look for revenge or do you just let it go?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Sadly, I have so many male traits, including being a partial transmale, I have trouble reacting to cheating partners. I just don't care. This is a bad thing, as female usually get jealous, take revenge on partners with roaming eyes, and keep them honest, while I did nothing. So my partners were soon acting out so badly, I'd grow annoyed and dump them.
My androgyne/transmale self is somewhat amoral and panromantic..possibly pansexual (sexually attracted to all genders/things), if I weren't demisexual (no lust).
Even while my husband was turning on the charm and hitting on someone's wife at a dinner party, both the husband and wife would usually be signalling interest in me. I was aware of their sideways looks but didn't care, and even though I noticed my husband's efforts to flirt I didn't care. I thought of him as too ugly to attract anyone, so good luck.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Sadly, I have so many male traits, including being a partial transmale, I have trouble reacting to cheating partners. I just don't care. This is a bad thing, as female usually get jealous, take revenge on partners with roaming eyes, and keep them honest, while I did nothing. So my partners were soon acting out so badly, I'd grow annoyed and dump them.
My androgyne/transmale self is somewhat amoral and panromantic..possibly pansexual (sexually attracted to all genders/things), if I weren't demisexual (no lust).
Even while my husband was turning on the charm and hitting on someone's wife at a dinner party, both the husband and wife would usually be signalling interest in me. I was aware of their sideways looks but didn't care, and even though I noticed my husband's efforts to flirt I didn't care. I thought of him as too ugly to attract anyone, so good luck.
I liked Jesus, in fact I spent my whole childhood in love with him.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
True. I don't know if Jesus ever really existed, especially as told by the church, but if any of the teachings ascribed to him are true, many of them match quantum physics and Buddhist ideas that I agree with.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
True. I don't know if Jesus ever really existed, especially as told by the church, but if any of the teachings ascribed to him are true, many of them match quantum physics and Buddhist ideas that I agree with.
To the happily childfree: What were your reasons?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I didn't want kids, no doubt because I'm an androgyne and partial transmale and saw myself as male. I hated the idea of reproducing my ex so badly that once when I thought I was pregnant, I actually considered suicide.
But later, the subliminal messages in Johnson & Johnson ads of "Having a baby will make you happy!" got to me (I knew about it because our TV once froze on the subliminal message). I began thinking that having a baby would make me happy and got pregnant. It was a horrible pregnancy during which I was so sick I wished I was dead.
But I did have two kids, although I wondered later what I was thinking.
My kids are androgyne, like I am, and my daughter is also partial transmale. Neither of my kids seem to want children or marry, and my daughter breaks up with any men who hint about kids, or who proposes.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I didn't want kids, no doubt because I'm an androgyne and partial transmale and saw myself as male. I hated the idea of reproducing my ex so badly that once when I thought I was pregnant, I actually considered suicide.
But later, the subliminal messages in Johnson & Johnson ads of "Having a baby will make you happy!" got to me (I knew about it because our TV once froze on the subliminal message). I began thinking that having a baby would make me happy and got pregnant. It was a horrible pregnancy during which I was so sick I wished I was dead.
But I did have two kids, although I wondered later what I was thinking.
My kids are androgyne, like I am, and my daughter is also partial transmale. Neither of my kids seem to want children or marry, and my daughter breaks up with any men who hint about kids, or who proposes.
Those of you who enjoy science fiction and fantasy and would like to take a gander at my first ...
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Read the first two paragraphs, but not my style or genre. I prefer more John Scalzi, Robert A. Heinlein style, but congratulations on your first novel!
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Read the first two paragraphs, but not my style or genre. I prefer more John Scalzi, Robert A. Heinlein style, but congratulations on your first novel!
Been there!
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
That reminds me of something that happened at a Baptist mission in Haiti. I was there participating in a week of some missionary kid activity that involved Haitian Bible school students. The Bible school cafeteria meals were all Haitian food; rice and black beans, boiled plantain bananas, red sauce, but no meat. It would go right through us since we were used to eating meat, and we felt "starved" by the next meal.
One Bible student, to impress the white visitors, went off on a lengthy, flowery prayer before the meal that tortured us for about five minutes. After the prayer, the Haitian Bible school students boo'd, threw bits of vegetable at him, and never let him "say grace" again. Furthermore, they gave him a new nickname..an insulting term for "long winded."
The next person to pray before a meal said a two-sentence prayer, and was cheered.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
That reminds me of something that happened at a Baptist mission in Haiti. I was there participating in a week of some missionary kid activity that involved Haitian Bible school students. The Bible school cafeteria meals were all Haitian food; rice and black beans, boiled plantain bananas, red sauce, but no meat. It would go right through us since we were used to eating meat, and we felt "starved" by the next meal.
One Bible student, to impress the white visitors, went off on a lengthy, flowery prayer before the meal that tortured us for about five minutes. After the prayer, the Haitian Bible school students boo'd, threw bits of vegetable at him, and never let him "say grace" again. Furthermore, they gave him a new nickname..an insulting term for "long winded."
The next person to pray before a meal said a two-sentence prayer, and was cheered.
Stalkers?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I was stalked by my ex until I threatened to tell his current girlfriend!
I knew that would work because several married women he'd stalked while we were still married told me they could get rid of him by threatening to tell me.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I was stalked by my ex until I threatened to tell his current girlfriend!
I knew that would work because several married women he'd stalked while we were still married told me they could get rid of him by threatening to tell me.
How do you feel about buddbism ?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I think most Americans, liberals at least, adhere to many of the Buddhist concepts and many practice yoga and meditation.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I think most Americans, liberals at least, adhere to many of the Buddhist concepts and many practice yoga and meditation.
Kids
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I have two grown kids living in the US. My son is in LA and my daughter has an art gallery in Lexington, KY.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I have two grown kids living in the US. My son is in LA and my daughter has an art gallery in Lexington, KY.
Favourite Book Genre?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Sci-fi, of the John Scalzi, Robert A. Heinlein kind, where there is a fun plot and plenty of character in the characters.
Next favorites, autobiographies/biographies of interesting people, including slave narratives, American Indian captive stories, LGBTQ people, famous people, fictional historical autobiographies, etc.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Sci-fi, of the John Scalzi, Robert A. Heinlein kind, where there is a fun plot and plenty of character in the characters.
Next favorites, autobiographies/biographies of interesting people, including slave narratives, American Indian captive stories, LGBTQ people, famous people, fictional historical autobiographies, etc.
What’s a petty reason you won’t date a man/woman?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I have MANY.
If they dress like a low class person with slovenly grooming habits.
If they golf or hunt.
If they make a crude sexual remark to me, or about another woman in my presence.
If they own a large dog that they allow the run of the house.
If they own cats.
If they eat junk food, or think of food as the highlight/goal of any event.
If they are flabby or lazy.
If they don't read very much.
If they have never traveled and don't want to.
If they have no curiosity.
If they are (most) ethnicities, because their attraction is often because I'm white.
If they are poor and/or homeless, such as living with their mothers or friends.
If they are Conservative and/or religious, unless they aren't serious about it.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I have MANY.
If they dress like a low class person with slovenly grooming habits.
If they golf or hunt.
If they make a crude sexual remark to me, or about another woman in my presence.
If they own a large dog that they allow the run of the house.
If they own cats.
If they eat junk food, or think of food as the highlight/goal of any event.
If they are flabby or lazy.
If they don't read very much.
If they have never traveled and don't want to.
If they have no curiosity.
If they are (most) ethnicities, because their attraction is often because I'm white.
If they are poor and/or homeless, such as living with their mothers or friends.
If they are Conservative and/or religious, unless they aren't serious about it.
Is it normal or strange someone wouldn’t like French kissing?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I used to feel the same way until a few years ago, when I realized I'm partially transmale.
The next time my ex kissed me, I thought of myself as a male kissing another male, and suddenly I was really into it.
For the first time in my life.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I used to feel the same way until a few years ago, when I realized I'm partially transmale.
The next time my ex kissed me, I thought of myself as a male kissing another male, and suddenly I was really into it.
For the first time in my life.
Atheist & Christain Marriage
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Most likely because atheists are more likely to treat each other with mutual respect than the evangelical Christians, who teach that women are supposed to obey men.
The same survey showed that liberal churches like Unitarians and Lutherans had the same divorce statistics as that of atheists.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Most likely because atheists are more likely to treat each other with mutual respect than the evangelical Christians, who teach that women are supposed to obey men.
The same survey showed that liberal churches like Unitarians and Lutherans had the same divorce statistics as that of atheists.
How do you socialize?
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I don't pay any attention here in Thailand because most people are Buddhist, and leave other people alone. The only time I've even been harassed is by Christian foreigners, and the moment they started, I distanced myself from them and canceled our plans together.
I haven't yet been in the US as an official agnostic since I only totally rejected Christianity after the hate memes hit my Facebook page during the recent election..all childhood friend white evangelicals, who I defriended.
I plan to return to Lexington, KY, which is urban and mostly secular.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
I don't pay any attention here in Thailand because most people are Buddhist, and leave other people alone. The only time I've even been harassed is by Christian foreigners, and the moment they started, I distanced myself from them and canceled our plans together.
I haven't yet been in the US as an official agnostic since I only totally rejected Christianity after the hate memes hit my Facebook page during the recent election..all childhood friend white evangelicals, who I defriended.
I plan to return to Lexington, KY, which is urban and mostly secular.
I’ve noticed something on here.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Liberals typically have a higher IQ, manifesting in the ability to see things from different perspectives.
Do Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand? | Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/millennial-media/201304/do-racism-conservatism-and-low-iq-go-hand-in-han
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
Liberals typically have a higher IQ, manifesting in the ability to see things from different perspectives.
Do Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand? | Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/millennial-media/201304/do-racism-conservatism-and-low-iq-go-hand-in-han
Anyone else seen black panther yet? It was awesome!
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
It's currently showing here in Thailand at the EGV theater in the Songkhla Tesco-Lotus mall, but after reading the reviews, it sounded like another simplistic smash-the-bad guys Marvel comic hero film.
I get that it's an important milestone for black kids to have a hero at the movies that looks like them, but I'm not a kid, and I don't like those types of movies even when hunky, white Chris Hemsworth is in them.
I did like Marvel's X-Men movies though because of the mutation of normal people/children element, tolerance themes, etc. but I outgrew the simplistic, melodramatic smashing of bad guys by bulked up superheroes when I was 13.
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
It's currently showing here in Thailand at the EGV theater in the Songkhla Tesco-Lotus mall, but after reading the reviews, it sounded like another simplistic smash-the-bad guys Marvel comic hero film.
I get that it's an important milestone for black kids to have a hero at the movies that looks like them, but I'm not a kid, and I don't like those types of movies even when hunky, white Chris Hemsworth is in them.
I did like Marvel's X-Men movies though because of the mutation of normal people/children element, tolerance themes, etc. but I outgrew the simplistic, melodramatic smashing of bad guys by bulked up superheroes when I was 13.
CDC Scientists Plea to Congress: Let Us Research Gun Violence
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
The GOP are getting huge NRA bribes, so why should they care?
Secret Service To Save Millions By Protecting President With Thoughts And Prayers Instead http://www.breakingburgh.com/secret-service-save-millions-protecting-president-thoughts-prayers-instead/
birdingnut comments on Feb 19, 2018:
The GOP are getting huge NRA bribes, so why should they care?
Secret Service To Save Millions By Protecting President With Thoughts And Prayers Instead http://www.breakingburgh.com/secret-service-save-millions-protecting-president-thoughts-prayers-instead/
Names can be tricky things.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
In Thailand, people's names are so long, everyone has a non-gender-specific nickname. But when they speak, the Thai insert a reflexive pronoun indicating their current gender identity, which can change during the day, according to the mood.
Besides, so many people are trans or androgynous, you frequently can't tell what bio gender people are, so it doesn't matter. I have given up trying to guess, and just let them identify themselves.
Luckily, the Thai language doesn't require the speaker to identify the gender of the person being spoken to, so they are ahead of the western world in that aspect.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
In Thailand, people's names are so long, everyone has a non-gender-specific nickname. But when they speak, the Thai insert a reflexive pronoun indicating their current gender identity, which can change during the day, according to the mood.
Besides, so many people are trans or androgynous, you frequently can't tell what bio gender people are, so it doesn't matter. I have given up trying to guess, and just let them identify themselves.
Luckily, the Thai language doesn't require the speaker to identify the gender of the person being spoken to, so they are ahead of the western world in that aspect.
I am the beloved choice of mate for an umbrella cockatoo and an african grey parrot.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
For a few years in the late 1980s I bred exotic birds, and bought a pair of wild-caught African Grey Parrots.
Their powers of mimic are legendary, but this was ridiculous.
We almost called for an exorcist when, after the first day we heard cars of my piano students arriving, footsteps on the deck,
knocking on the door-but when my son, Nathan, ran to answer, nobody was there!
My kids were wide-eyed.
Then we heard the school bus arrive, the hiss of brakes, the laughter of their cousins coming to the house..but nobody was there. No bus either.
I noticed these sounds came from incidents that happened the day before, but the times were being heard 15 minutes early.
The dog barked the first time someone seemed to be at the door,
but didn't react again.
I then remembered reading an article by an African Grey Parrot owner who thought she was losing her mind because her parrot was making the sound affects of someone breaking into her house at night, yet her alarm system showed no intruder.
The only way for us to tell if something was real, and not the African Greys, was to look at Fergie, our Toy Fox Terrier.
The mantra in our house became; "It's only the African Greys."
We hung the flight cage under the eaves outside away from us, by the bathroom window, but soon
loud elimination sounds echoed through the house,
as well as entire conversations replayed in the middle of the night..
footsteps running up and down the hall, my kids calling for us at midnight. We could be standing in the the hall and hear the voices and thump of footsteps going past us, like invisible people.
It made my hair stand on end, and when we moved the cage even farther away,
we began hearing conversations being replayed from our neighbors across the road!
One day while my kids were at the neighbors, I heard the parrots replay an entire "conversation" between my 8 yr old son
and a friend discussing smoking by the cellar, and
when my son got home I confronted him. He thought it poor sport to be ratted out by birds.
Eventually, I sold the pair of African Greys to an eager parrot breeder for a high price, and we all breathed a sigh of relief.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
For a few years in the late 1980s I bred exotic birds, and bought a pair of wild-caught African Grey Parrots.
Their powers of mimic are legendary, but this was ridiculous.
We almost called for an exorcist when, after the first day we heard cars of my piano students arriving, footsteps on the deck,
knocking on the door-but when my son, Nathan, ran to answer, nobody was there!
My kids were wide-eyed.
Then we heard the school bus arrive, the hiss of brakes, the laughter of their cousins coming to the house..but nobody was there. No bus either.
I noticed these sounds came from incidents that happened the day before, but the times were being heard 15 minutes early.
The dog barked the first time someone seemed to be at the door,
but didn't react again.
I then remembered reading an article by an African Grey Parrot owner who thought she was losing her mind because her parrot was making the sound affects of someone breaking into her house at night, yet her alarm system showed no intruder.
The only way for us to tell if something was real, and not the African Greys, was to look at Fergie, our Toy Fox Terrier.
The mantra in our house became; "It's only the African Greys."
We hung the flight cage under the eaves outside away from us, by the bathroom window, but soon
loud elimination sounds echoed through the house,
as well as entire conversations replayed in the middle of the night..
footsteps running up and down the hall, my kids calling for us at midnight. We could be standing in the the hall and hear the voices and thump of footsteps going past us, like invisible people.
It made my hair stand on end, and when we moved the cage even farther away,
we began hearing conversations being replayed from our neighbors across the road!
One day while my kids were at the neighbors, I heard the parrots replay an entire "conversation" between my 8 yr old son
and a friend discussing smoking by the cellar, and
when my son got home I confronted him. He thought it poor sport to be ratted out by birds.
Eventually, I sold the pair of African Greys to an eager parrot breeder for a high price, and we all breathed a sigh of relief.
This is a Bush Stone Curlew I found on the road on North Stradbroke Island in November.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Aaaaw!
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Aaaaw!
Can someone recommend a good movie to watch on Netflix or Hulu tonight.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Yesterday I started watching the new Netflix show "Everything Sucks!" for a little light entertainment, but it was surprisingly good..almost as good as "Atypical."
I ended up binge-watching through it last night and it was good to the end.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Yesterday I started watching the new Netflix show "Everything Sucks!" for a little light entertainment, but it was surprisingly good..almost as good as "Atypical."
I ended up binge-watching through it last night and it was good to the end.
To whomever is responsible for the site....Thanks I am so glad to be here.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Agreed.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Agreed.
Dating after 50
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Sounds perfect to me!
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Sounds perfect to me!
A couple of red-browed finches feeding, & one making peek-a-boo!
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Oooh! Ooooh! Pretty!
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Oooh! Ooooh! Pretty!
A pastor told me today that he is sorry that I have not felt the love of god.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Three proofs that Jesus was Jewish
1. He went into his father's business
2. He lived at home until the age of 33
3. He was sure his mother was a virgin, and his mother was sure he was God.
birdingnut comments on Feb 18, 2018:
Three proofs that Jesus was Jewish
1. He went into his father's business
2. He lived at home until the age of 33
3. He was sure his mother was a virgin, and his mother was sure he was God.
This could go for either gender. :) Just a great one liner, had to share
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
Hahahahahaha! Good one.
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
Hahahahahaha! Good one.
So I posted something earlier that I took down because my intentions were being misunderstood.
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
Aux contraire, this place isn't at all like a dating website but people are still finding like-minded partners here through conversation and mutual interests.
Dating websites: men sending crude dick pics, making sexual propositions, scammers piling on with fake identities and copy/pasted flowery pick-up speeches, Asian women asking if they can move in with you, most of the "people" are bots, so no, this website isn't like any dating website I've tried before.
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
Aux contraire, this place isn't at all like a dating website but people are still finding like-minded partners here through conversation and mutual interests.
Dating websites: men sending crude dick pics, making sexual propositions, scammers piling on with fake identities and copy/pasted flowery pick-up speeches, Asian women asking if they can move in with you, most of the "people" are bots, so no, this website isn't like any dating website I've tried before.
He's nothing fancy or exotic by any means, but this was the best, coolest, funniest, most loyal bird...
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
They are loving, and highly intelligent. With better observation and memory skills than humans, apparently.
I once tried to keep our (fancy) pigeons off our deck by putting a realistic, head-bobbing Great Horned Owl on the deck railing. But despite my constantly moving the fake owl's location to make it seem alive, the pigeons would observe it for about 20 minutes, then resume their activities as before.
The rest of us didn't fare so well, however.
The parrots went berserk screaming alarms if they glimpsed it, the dogs would go crazy barking when they came onto the deck, and we'd all jump in alarm each time we came out the front door, despite being the ones who put the fake owl there in the first place.
Finally, the pigeons won..they were the only ones not being traumatized, so I took the owl down.
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
They are loving, and highly intelligent. With better observation and memory skills than humans, apparently.
I once tried to keep our (fancy) pigeons off our deck by putting a realistic, head-bobbing Great Horned Owl on the deck railing. But despite my constantly moving the fake owl's location to make it seem alive, the pigeons would observe it for about 20 minutes, then resume their activities as before.
The rest of us didn't fare so well, however.
The parrots went berserk screaming alarms if they glimpsed it, the dogs would go crazy barking when they came onto the deck, and we'd all jump in alarm each time we came out the front door, despite being the ones who put the fake owl there in the first place.
Finally, the pigeons won..they were the only ones not being traumatized, so I took the owl down.
How long did it take you to get over your divorce?
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
Depends on what you mean by "get over." If you mean when should you start dating again, the rule of thumb is that when you no longer care who your ex is with, then it's OK to date again.
Otherwise, you might find yourself in the role of complaining, angry divorcee who spends every date bashing her husband, or trying to spy on him.
After you've passed through the stages of grief; shock, denial, pleading, playing victim, and anger, and move on to indifference, then you'll feel OK with the divorce, and may or may not start another relationship.
Some studies show that if women go more than five years without remarrying, they probably never will, due to discovering how freeing it is to live independent lives, without answering to anyone.
birdingnut comments on Feb 17, 2018:
Depends on what you mean by "get over." If you mean when should you start dating again, the rule of thumb is that when you no longer care who your ex is with, then it's OK to date again.
Otherwise, you might find yourself in the role of complaining, angry divorcee who spends every date bashing her husband, or trying to spy on him.
After you've passed through the stages of grief; shock, denial, pleading, playing victim, and anger, and move on to indifference, then you'll feel OK with the divorce, and may or may not start another relationship.
Some studies show that if women go more than five years without remarrying, they probably never will, due to discovering how freeing it is to live independent lives, without answering to anyone.
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Topic of the day
92481 members
Just for Laughs
3270 members
50s +
1644 members
Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
661 members
Mental Health Support
634 members
"Positive Vibes"
323 members
Online Dating: The Reality
318 members
Abuse Survivors(Emotional, verbal, physical, sexual, toxic relationship)
294 members
Bookwurmz
208 members
Pet pictures and discussion
207 members
General Topics
154 members
Action Advocates for our Environment and Ecology
138 members
Treehouses, tiny homes and natural building
132 members
Earth Preservers
118 members
FEATHERED FRIENDS
114 members
Marriage & Long-term Relationships
101 members
Albuquerque Atheists and Agnostics
36 members
Harry Potter fans
34 members
Community Senate
386 members