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Imagine my disappointment after seeing on the news this morning that 'The Duchess of Cambridge in ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 23, 2018:

LOL!

Nene's philosophy is, if no blankie is available, a kitchen towel will serve the purpose.

birdingnut comments on Apr 23, 2018:

Aaaaaw!!!!

The "Grotesque Caricature" of the White Evangelical is real

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

I posted the link to Twitter

It's things like this that draw people together. What draws you closer to someone?

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

Shared love of nature and birds.

Hello

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

Hi! If you answer the profile questions and write your profile, you'll earn points, and members can get to know you. Then start commenting on posts and writing your own to earn more points, and when you reach level two you can private message people.

Some puppies and rainbows for today's post.

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

Willets on beach, Caladesi Island, FL. That was a wonderful day of birding.

What’s the longest you’ll allow dirty dishes to be in the sink?

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

I am living in Thailand and don't have a sink, but if I leave a dirty dish anywhere for over ten minutes, I'm asking for an army of almost invisble ants to emerge from the walls and take over. I've learned to add a dollop of cooking oil to my scrubbing water, which seems to repel them for several days. Ordinary soap also seems to work, if I leave a soap film. They also crawl over my clothing, looking for skin flakes and can sting me relentlessly if I don't the right kind of body wash, or add a few drops of cooking oil to the container.

Are there any ladies with a sense of humor?

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

Someone has to laugh at men's jokes! But you're right, I also find cis hetero women seriously lacking in humor..unless, like me, they have a generous dose of male traits. My cis hetero female friends and relatives used to laugh at some jokes, but ones that relate to them. But my mom didn't get most jokes. Like men do with women, I constantly crack jokes, and as it does with men, it attracts women. I suppose a strong humor instinct is an indication of levels of testosterone, since all my life it seemed to inspire even straight women to get crushes on me, and I'm a demisexual with no sexual attraction for anyone or any gender.

It is a start... [pix11.com]

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

Great idea!

Marriage is like a yard sale.

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

LOL! So true! But the lure of having a companion, and hopefully someone who will care if you die or not is tempting.

Death and the massive expense involved with the funeral.

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

There are many cheap and environmentally friendly alternatives, including cremation, having the ashes turned into a tree or melted into jewelry, as some companies do, or burying people in cardboard coffins without embalming, and letting them decay normally. Here in Thailand, each Buddhist temple as a cremation furnace building to take care of the dead.

Must be nice to have someone to love.

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

At least for now...

What are some of the things you've mastered that were worth it, but that took real time and effort ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

Things I worked hard to learn, but love doing it: 1.playing the piano 2.playing electric bass 3.speaking Thai and Japanese, since I learned Spanish, French and Creole just from growing up in Haiti. 4.jumping rope 5.ballroom and jitterbug dancing 6.practiced using a lasso, until I could rope half grown wild boars in the mission corn from my Haitian mustang stallion 7.throwing a knife. I became a deadly aim 8.playing ping pong, until few could beat me. 9.using advanced bird photography equipment

Any bilingual agnostic here?

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

I was born of American parents but grew up in Haiti, where half the island speaks Spanish, and the other half speaks Creole and French, so I grew up speaking all four languages, plus I learned Thai after I moved to Thailand in 2010. I even picked up Japanese, because my daughter learned it when she lived in Japan, and I started to become fluent in Japanese, until I realized it was overwriting my Thai and stopped using it.

When I was much younger, I took a girl on a date to the movies.

birdingnut comments on Apr 22, 2018:

YES. No woman who starts to think some guy actually likes her for herself, wants to find out his entire goal of taking her to the movies and paying attention to her in the first place was to satisfy his body urges.

How NOT to shoot a gun.

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

Ouch! It hurts even if you don't brace it against your shoulder firmly enough.

Silliest belief of religious people?

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

When people pray their team will win. Or that they'll win the lottery. They forget that if there's a god who answers prayers, what about all the other people praying the same thing?

Sometime someone is talking about beauty of the univers being god’s creation.

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

What is annoying is that with any random photo of nature or an animal on Facebook, some religious person will start praising god for creating such a creature..even if it's a Belgian draft horse, that would never occur in the wild. Their glaring ignorance is irritating to me.

When religious folks casually “bless us” or “pray for us,” is it better to say “thanks, ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

Depends. If it's a random stranger just thank them and move on, but if it's someone in your life, adding that you're not religious might discourage them from doing it again. At least, that's what I started doing with my well-meaning relatives who sometimes post religious themes on Facebook. My hope is that at least they'll make such posts "private" so I don't have to see them.

I know there are some supporters on here, so this is asked honesty, I want to hear your opinions.

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

He's inspired more people to get involved in politics for change, including transgender people, women, and young people.

How about Synchronicity?

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

That we caused it, since physics indicates we are participating in creating our own universes/reality. "For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -Einstein. :“I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

School bus driver removed from route for leading young passengers in prayer | Fox News

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

Sheesh. Religious people can be so annoying.

I enjoy a quiet life with my dogs.

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

Hi! On this website, you write your profile, answer your profile questions, which will give you points, then start commenting on other people's posts and making your own posts to gain more points. When you reach the second level you can privately message someone.

What are you binge watching this weekend?

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

I've just rewatched my favorite Netflix series after giving up on several new series that bored me, but last night I stumbled across an old favorite.."Misfit" It's a hilarious British spoof of mutant teenager type movies. Plot: a group of five teenagers doing communtiy service are caught in a violent, weird lightning storm that gives each of them a different superpower. Many other people in the town were also mutated, but usually in a bad way.

Is it biologically possible to mate a cow and a stallion together aside from some differences in ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

I don't know, but at least you could milk your transportation. But, seriously, you can't mate them naturally, but of course you can with genetic manipulation in a petri dish. They even put jellyfish DNA slice bits in rabbits, to make them glow in the dark.

We all know that it is not uncommon for people to post pictures 15-20 years old as current.

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

I only have photos I put in the cloud since I moved to Thailand in 2010, so none from 20 years ago. Photo from 2018 on far left, Songkhla, Thailand, at 65 years old. Photo from 2009, my Kentucky farm, showing the new Christmas hoodie and slacks I designed and made. Photo when I was 14 years old, on my horse, Lightning, Cap Haitian, Haiti

I AM NOT HIGH, this really happend.

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

I had a male Pekin duck once who used to drown female ducks trying to mate with them. I called an old Kentucky vet and he gave him a shot in the wing, and after that, the drake left the other ducks alone. But of course, you want fertilized eggs.

Hi I'm new. Is this free?

birdingnut comments on Apr 21, 2018:

You can send payments to my address...

I thought I’d be married before level 6 or a date or something.

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Are you actually asking women out? Private messaging them? Or just waiting for the more aggressive male-ish women to chase YOU?

Is this a Warbler or a Goldfinch? Can any of you help? Taken today in north-central Indiana, USA.

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Breeding female American goldfinch

Do you have nicknames for your pets?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

I never use nicknames for either people or pets, but when I was five in Haiti I had a beautiful American tuxedo cat named "Bootsie" that we began calling "Momma Cat" after a couple of litters. In Haiti, the stringy feral tabby cats are eaten by locals so they are rare. Because of this, any cats the white missionaries could manage to get were highly valued, especially ones with different coloring, and there were always waiting lists for Bootsie's kittens.

I scream, you scream!

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

I can't eat it anymore, but when I could, I loved it!

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birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

That's what I keep thinking..I am still alive and haven't decided yet to cashed it in, so that's success.

Is someone truly openminded if they block those with differing perspectives, without even having a ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

I block religious people who post hate memes and religious themes. On this website, if someone keeps attacking me, saying "fake news!" with everything I say, I only reply a couple of times before blocking them.

Which is worse?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

If a guy is hanging with old friends and running around with them instead of paying attention to his girlfriend or wife, he'll soon be single again. Women expect the undivided attention of the men, or they toss their stuff on the lawn, change the locks and move on to a more attentive lover. Unless the woman is heavy in masculine traits..then she might join the guys in drinking and watching sports. When I was growing up I didn't understand the angry behavior of some of my girlfriends when I got a boyfriend. One close friend never spoke to me again. It wasn't until later that I realized she was probably bi and had crush on me. Since then, that has been a frequent occurrence, and I observed that far more woman react that way than I'd realized. As a demisexual, I don't experience sexual attraction, so I'm blind to it.

What our educational system does to our children: [ideapod.com]

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Yup. A study that was famous in the 1980s showed that when there were only five students per teacher, students were able to advance to a new grade every two weeks, only working two hours a day. The rest of the school time is just kids being warehoused, doing "busy work" to spare parents childcare costs and provide a feeding trough for the NEA from tax money.

Shouting to everyone for no reason at all.... How cool is that ?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Don't worry..I am already.

What’s your version of Hell?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

For me, it would be having to listen to country music continuously.

I wonder if skeptical, atheist and progressive thinkers are more open to polyamorous situations, ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

It has more to do with your gender traits than your beliefs. I was raised a strict Christian but I never saw a problem with polyamorous relationships, perhaps because as a demisexual I feel no lust for anyone, except after over a year of a close relationship and then only with that one person. To me, sex is functional, like the digestive system. Yet I have learned that such multiple person relationships usually don't last long and jealousy tends to get involved, even though I seem incapable of getting jealous myself. If someone cheats on me, I just shrug and leave them. I used to think I stayed a virgin growing up because I was obeying my mom's rules, but now I see that I'd have been that way anyway, as sex is revolting to me without the bonding element.

How do you decide whether it's worth arguing with a religious person?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

I used to skip any argument but for some reason lately I've been leaving comments on religious posts on my Facebook page from the feeds of friends. I usually give a paragraph saying there's actually no god, mention the Sumerian texts and explain how the Hebrew god is really copied from "Anu" the Sumerian leader, leave a link to info on it. I don't expect a response, just leaving a hint for them to extricate themselves from that Christianity lie, if they are so inclined. My attitude is that if they defriend me, I couldn't care less.

If a tree falls in the woods, can I stand under it so I don't have to go to work tomorrow?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

But if a man says something in the woods and a woman isn't around, is it STILL wrong? (hint: of course!)

Very open minded

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Um...sure, Kug. I don't know what you mean, but if would help people get to know you better if you wrote a profile and answered all the profile questions. Plus you get points for it. You can then make comments and post questions to win more points. When you reach second level, you can privately message people.

Was Buddha a dead beat dad?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Me'thinks you misunderstand Asian culture. Even the concept of the daddy, mommy, children living happily in a nuclear family is only a recent western paradigm..since the 1830s. Before that, vast, extended families, with fathers having little to do with child rearing, was the norm. In other cultures, especially here in Thailand, which is similar to that of the Nepal area, married couples often don't even live together, and the women prefer it that way. Marriage is for inheritance and children, but most people have side lovers, often of both genders since many seem to be bi.

Life as we know it.

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Gracious! Watch the documentary "Unacknowledged," seen on Netflix and YouTube, with videos of US presidents, leaders, astronauts, NSA agents, and scientists talking about the US involvment with aliens and using alien technology since WW ll, but keeping it classified to avoid sharing the technology. Plus I've seen countless UFOs since childhood, usually with one or more witnesses, even crowds, yet the US govnernment works too hard to suppress all UFO reports and stories to be trusted.

I am not bashing but I find it odd when theists say "You have to worship something.

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

LOL! Well, I built a shrine to James Cameron for Avatar, and Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada...in my heart.

What makes a man?

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

LOL! The US male stereotype is different from that of the Asian male. Asian men are usually androgyne, and although expected to be strong and stoic, here in Thailand men are usually also graceful, talented in music and art, highly emotional, love color and ceremony.

You can keep your bible and pious sayings.

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

Awesome! I tweeted the links.

A Message From Women Everywhere - The Mash Report via BBC One

birdingnut comments on Apr 20, 2018:

I couldn't have said it better myself! I hit "share" to put it on my Facebook page.

Will we elect a self-professed non-believer for president in our lifetime?

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Probably. In fact, I'm guessing that most, if not ALL, our past presidents were actually agnostic, but played the game, because "The Prince" advises politicians to seem religious to get votes. Trump is almost certainly agnostic.

My Border Terriers

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

SOOOO cute! I used to always own small terriers..Feist, rat, toy fox terrier, soft-coated wheaten, Yorkie, Jack Russell, West Highland..half of them rescues.

Does anyone else love casual blasphemy?

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

LOL! I like watching the Ponty Python movies and specials that skewer theists. Yesterday I nearly injured myself laughing at The Life of Brian and theh Holy Grail..both having fun mocking religious beliefs.

Perfectly good classic joke changed forever by my morbid teenager and Instagram.

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Jeeeeez..that's too dark for me. You're right..I'll never see that joke as funny again. Sure enough, Wikipedia agrees that is the alternate meaning of the joke. Link:Two meanings to the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke..one very dark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_road%3F

A sweet litter Springer spaniel pups that came into work today.

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Aaaaaaw! You must have a wonderful workplace!

Standup comedy

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

I love it and watch several a night on Netflix to get through my dinner chores. Lately, I've been loving the Middle East comedian shows. Here's few I just watched: Aditi Mittal: Things They Wouldn't Let Me Say Vir Das: Abroad Understanding Ahmed Ahmed: Just Like Us

In what way(s) has your cat trained you?

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

All my pets train me.

Immortality

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

NO

So, I'm listening to one of the guys who tried to help pull that woman back in through the plane ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Well, duh. But I suppose he was traumaized and using religion to try to make sense of it, and stay in denial.

Curious - worst break up line you ever heard? I'll start. "I'm bored with you."

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

We've been married for so long I want to try other women.

New term "Apatheist".

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Me, 2, except that I believe in Source energy and our Higher Consciousness.

Passenger from recent plane mishap in Texas.

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

We are the ones in control, and contributing to creating our own realities: “I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

I say oh hell yes.

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

We call it our Higher Self. Or Source Energy. It's part of the universal consciousness mentioned in quantum physics..that all energy is connected, and it is intelligent.

Ran across this a while back, and is the best end of discussion statement I've run across.

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

I just copy/pasted this meme to Facebook.

When you are dating someone, at what point in the relationship do you feel you can trust them with ...

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

How about never. Men aren't for sharing "feelings" with..they'll only feel uncomfortable and try to humor you. That's what girlfriends are for. I'm only a partial transmale but I also try to avoid small talk and emotional revelations, as it annoys me. This makes hanging with typical females difficult at times.

"How Would We Know If Intelligent Life Existed on Earth Before Humans?" [livescience.com]

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Well, according to the documentary "Unacknowledged," found on Netflix and YouTube, humans have always had contact with aliens, and there are videos of interviews with US presidents, leaders, NSA agents, and astronauts talking about it. The Sumerian texts, written 2000 years before the Bible, has the same stories as the Bible, but told from the perspective of the Sumerian race, who described how they genetically engineered humans by mixing their DNA with that of human apes, in the garden of Aiden.

Who would you like to go back in time and meet?

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

I'm not the least interested in people. I would only like to go back in time to see prehistoric jungles, see the flocks of passengr pigeons, the dodos, etc.

Do you believe in Karma?

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

No, I don't. I wish it did, but of course the bad people are often the rich, successful people, and researchers who studied past lives never found a karma effect from one life to another.

Do you think an atheist can make a relationship with a religious person work for the long hall?

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

NO

Just out of curiosity, does anyone have any thoughts on quantum consciousness?

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Sure..I believe in it. Anyone who has messed with LSD or magic mushrooms already knows this.

Feeling adventurous, I bought a 24lb.

birdingnut comments on Apr 19, 2018:

They grow those here in Thailand and they had them in Haiti also. It's considered an expensive delicacy here. Photo is of a jackfruit tree near my place, Songkhla, Thailand.

A friend of mine and I were talking about music the other day.

birdingnut comments on Apr 18, 2018:

I agree that's a beautiful song, and I also love Appalachian music, especially bluegrass, and Negro spirituals, which often have religious content. Still, I don't like the religious references at all.

I couldn't agree more!

birdingnut comments on Apr 18, 2018:

My mom used to make me eat meat and I couldn't leave the table until I did. At least that's one childhood thing I still agree with.

I couldn't agree more!

birdingnut comments on Apr 18, 2018:

LOL! SOOOOOO true...

My face when students ask me if we're doing any work today teacherproblems

birdingnut comments on Apr 18, 2018:

LOL! I write the day's assignment on the board and the first morning activity, so the students know to come in and get busy, on their own. When their work is finished they are rewarded by being allowed to choose one of the many cool illustrated books I brought to class daily..nature, jets, animal, etc. to read during the rest of class. They can either draw one of the beautiful nature pictures, or write a paragraph about one of the books or articles for extra credit.

Name THREE things about yourself and one not true. Let me guess which one's not true.

birdingnut comments on Apr 18, 2018:

1.I recorded two records, one in three languages, in the 1960-70s. 2.I had a top tune hit on the top Port-au-Prince hit radio station in 1970 for three months 3.I sang my first live solo on Haiti radio when I was four and a half years old.

Is there a word or phrase that makes you say "ew"?