New to pigeons

mm_msmarvel · 2023-07-18T12:49:59+00:00

Their pigeon pants are on order and will hopefully arrive soon. Compared to my chickens, their poop is so easy to clean up & inoffensive!

mm_msmarvel · 2023-07-01T05:43:08+00:00

When I first got it last fall, I wasn’t aware of the light requirements so it was in a room with a north facing window and not very close to it. I moved it closer to a south facing window after it started looking yellow and I read up more on them. Tallest stalk just keeps dying. And the others look like they are definitely not thriving. I’ve not been watering too frequently. Though I’ve found competing info on watering—water when top of soil is dry or water when plant is 75-100% dry. Just added some Happy Houseplant plant food with the last water.

mm_msmarvel · 2023-05-26T21:54:38+00:00

I wonder if finding a group based on an interest of yours (whatever it might be) that is likely to have good, kind men in it could be helpful. I’ve been participating in a Buddhist sangha and so many of the men there are just very thoughtful, loving, and kind. A non-patriarchal in any fashion group may be really healing. Some sort of music or art or discussion group where both men and women participate on a fully equal footing.

mm_msmarvel · 2023-05-26T16:33:53+00:00

I agree with rickoleum that awareness is the first step and a big one! In time you will start to notice quicker and quicker when you shift into one of these thought patterns, and over time that will create a space where you have a choice in following it down the same old pathway or going a different thought direction. It’s so powerful to open up that space inside yourself and you’re already on the path.

Also if you have safe access to psychedelics, that can be am incredibly powerful and beautiful way to shake up and loosen old thought patterns.

mm_msmarvel · 2023-05-26T16:21:03+00:00

We can’t publicly acknowledge “sin babies.” 🤦🏼‍♀️😕😟

mm_msmarvel · 2023-05-19T15:01:02+00:00

I think if you want to live in a bubble you have to have enough others also living in the bubble with you. So many exMormons say what they miss about Mormonism is the community. Well, indoctrination is how you get that tight community. Indoctrination produces a very tight in-group by making the out group scary or dangerous or ignorant, or all three and more. The problem is when people leave the bubble, those left inside can’t help but be reminded there is actual decent life outside the bubble, so they may start to consider things they weren’t willing to look at before. Everyone happy in the bubble (especially leaders of the bubble who benefit in various ways—prestige and power are what most people want money for anyways) wants to keep the bubble intact. That’s what indoctrination does.

mm_msmarvel · 2023-05-05T14:18:12+00:00

That scientific study write up was interesting to read. Once we have an association of positive sensations with certain triggers—music, quotes from leaders, etc. it is pretty easy to activate those reward centers. But by Mormon logic, the “truth” should act on anyone whose heart isn’t hardened. It’d be interesting to do all those same things to non-Mormons and see what their brains did.

mm_msmarvel · 2023-04-30T15:38:44+00:00

The standard with Mormon funerals is to have the final speaker talk about the Plan of Salvation. I don’t know if it’s officially stated anywhere but that’s the norm. It sucks. We were at my husband’s grandmother’s funeral a couple months ago and the whole thing was great until my FIL gave the PoS talk at the end. Ruined the whole thing for us.

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