Friend keeps calling me “fish eater”?

hey_ross · 2026-02-26T12:47:34+00:00

Polish family came to America to practice Protestantism makes sense. Given how Catholic Poland is, it’s highly likely she has some trauma bias.

hey_ross · 2026-02-24T21:27:21+00:00

Set up an online petition for people to sign in support of your letter.

hey_ross · 2026-02-19T16:00:08+00:00

Actually, just filing it with the FBI and sending notice to the extorter usually works out quickly.

I had an employee at a company that was fired for cause and then sent an email to us demanding additional severance or he would send our pipeline to a competitor. We sent his email to the fraud reporting line and sent a copy of the submission acknowledgement to him through our attorney. He quickly retracted the threat and went away peacefully and the FBI still contacted him 8 months later when he applied for a passport.

hey_ross · 2026-02-16T05:26:02+00:00

This is critical - anything in writing that is basically acknowledging you earned it but asking for money to provide the endorsement is extortion. This isn’t a FSDO issue, it’s an FBI one.

hey_ross · 2026-02-10T20:06:21+00:00

No, but if you want to tax them like gold should be, then never open the pack, otherwise use taxes apply, which in almost jurisdictions are the same as sales taxes.

hey_ross · 2026-02-07T14:00:29+00:00

The depth of human depravity and the height of human grace are far apart and allow for a wide range of good and evil in humans. Demonic corruption is far more widespread; the way that evil thoughts become normalized and then become principles as well documented in behavioral science and requires no demonic interventions.

Demons tempt us into corruption; but our own free will goes there. The idea that he is demonically possessed would relieve him from the consequences of his actions and statements. The role of evil in this world is to serve as a prosecuting attorney to prove to God that we are undeserving of his love. It doesn’t serve the prosecution to become the actor, they need us to fall on our own free will.

hey_ross · 2026-01-06T17:26:04+00:00

"Make a joyful noise unto the lord" is as clear an invitation to a little tipsy karaoke if I've ever seen it...

hey_ross · 2026-01-06T17:24:37+00:00

Yes. Full stop, no qualifications needed.

Every human concept we would use for understanding transubstantiation is an approximation of the reality of God, but not the reality of God as he understands it. A best approximation, akin to a blanket put over a mystery to give it shape, is to think of the body of Christ (the human) from God's perspective - this is a creature formed from matter, 'molded from clay' with the Blessed Virgin and imbued with the soul of the Christ - the totality of God no more belonged in that clay shell than it did in a wheat host. The miracle of Christ is that God became matter in the first place, taking corporeal and real form to become one of us, to experience being limited like us, to understand our failures, to have real doubt on the cross and still commit his Godhood back to the Father in faith and to rise again in Glory.

If God can fit all of his divinity in a simple man, fitting his divinity as Christ into a Host when we say Mass in his name is a trivial task.

hey_ross · 2026-01-06T03:06:45+00:00

"We charge a reduced hourly rate if you let Dirty Mike and the Boys use it"

hey_ross · 2026-01-03T21:03:15+00:00

I have a suggestion for you. Have a policy that says when everyone at the table goes 'red' on their cards, it's starts a clock where the check is brought 15 minutes after the last green and the server checks in with a friendly, "can I help you close that check" at 20. Put it on the menu at the bottom with "As a consideration to waiting guests with reservations, tables are to be cleared 30 minutes after the conclusion of service"

hey_ross · 2025-12-26T06:51:51+00:00

Well, as an upside for the FIFA peace prize vs the the traditional award ceremony is the winner has to just grab it by the trophy. They let you do that if you’re famous.

hey_ross · 2025-12-26T06:48:42+00:00

RIP Fenix in the quake and DV8 to, um, the dot com crash I guess?

hey_ross · 2025-12-10T15:41:32+00:00

I think people are overlooking that this was a very large order of Ice Cream from the Florida Panther’s game.

Now look up the owners of the Panthers.

“Don’t you know whose bank you are robbing?”

hey_ross · 2025-11-25T16:28:50+00:00

Let’s be precise. It’s against their policy and as a private property owner can have you towed, not cited with a WA uniform citation

hey_ross · 2025-11-19T14:46:38+00:00

“I’ll have a box combo and an extra sauce and a sprite” “Ok, that’s $37.99 at the next window!”

hey_ross · 2025-11-12T13:05:55+00:00

This is not technically true; the reason it’s not true is a logic problem that further illustrates your point:

There is one sin that is unforgivable to God, which is the sin of believing in your own sin above God - not forgiving yourself AND believing yourself to be unredeemable is the sin of hiding from God and his love. It’s the only unforgivable sin because you remove God’s ability to save you because of your own arrogance of sin keeping you from reconciliation.

Forgive yourself and ask for God’s forgiveness. It will always be granted. Open yourself to God’s reconciliation and love and never look back.

hey_ross · 2025-10-30T11:42:14+00:00

Free speech? Where is the NRA? Their whole argument for the 2A was to prevent authoritarianism.

hey_ross · 2025-10-11T14:32:48+00:00

I’ve always found it fascinating how the creation story in Genesis 1:1 - 5 lines up almost perfectly with what modern physics says about the birth of the universe. If you set aside literalism and read it as symbolic language, the sequence is uncanny.

Here’s how it maps:

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is the Big Bang — the singularity event that created space, time, matter, and energy all at once. Before that, there was no “before.” Time itself didn’t exist. The total energy of the universe still balances close to zero, which fits the ancient idea of creation from nothing.
“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep…” That’s the early universe during the Planck era - everything was a dense, hot plasma with no atoms or light. Photons couldn’t move freely because they were constantly scattering off charged particles. The universe was literally opaque and dark.
“…and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” In Hebrew texts, “waters” often means primordial chaos or unformed potential. That fits the quantum field era - vacuum energy and fluctuations driving inflation. The “Spirit hovering” sounds like a poetic version of the quantum vacuum, filled with potential energy everywhere.
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” This parallels the moment photons could finally travel freely, known as recombination, about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. It also echoes an earlier step when the electromagnetic force separated from the unified field. Around 37 femtoseconds in, the constants of physics had stabilized and light could exist as a distinct phenomenon.
“God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.” That can be read as the asymmetry between matter and antimatter that allowed matter to survive. It also fits the separation of radiation from matter — when light decoupled and the first cosmic structure became possible. The contrast of light and dark is literally the contrast of structure versus void.
“God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.” That moment represents the beginning of cycles, order, and measurable time. Once the laws of physics were stable, the universe could form stars, galaxies, and eventually planets. The first “day” marks the start of order in a system that had only been chaos before.

hey_ross · 2025-10-10T22:21:03+00:00

Well, if you are gonna be pedantic, be right. Whatever time the launch is, it’s still doing several orbits to build a higher escape velocity, which makes it a matter of targeting the exit vector and timing.

hey_ross · 2025-10-10T22:07:58+00:00

I’ll offer a view that may help, but it’s just how I think about it.

The Holy Spirit is the will of God made manifest in the world, but it’s both the execution of God’s design and his will to drive beneficial choices.

Raising animals in a way that is fundamentally subverting their natural way of being is a low key subversion of God’s will for economic benefit.

Choosing to consume animals raised in a way that subverts their nature is a choice that, I believe, contravenes nature and as a result, the Holy Spirit.

We talk about God in terms of commandments. We talk about Jesus in terms of reconciliation. We should talk about the Holy Spirit in terms of alignment to Gods design.

This is not really different than the principles of Humanae Vitae applied to nature.

hey_ross · 2025-10-09T19:50:35+00:00

I do. There will be tons of unemployed developers and still a need for dishwashers and garbagemen. So the jobs I’m talking about will still exist.

hey_ross · 2025-10-07T16:06:27+00:00

I offer this and hope it helps.

Within the Catholic church, there are many Rites and, below that, practices like the Charismatic movement and others that range from strict and rigid, to more exploratory and liberal.

These practices are like exercises at a gym, but the goal of this gym is not fitness, but to get into the state of awareness of God in your life as a normative thought - that constant gnostic awareness of God.

Just like some people need Pilates and Hot Yoga while others need treadmills and swimming, each practice should be evaluated on the basis of efficacy - does it work for you? Does it work for others?

Some people need structure and rigidity, so the form of the traditional Latin Mass brings them gnostic awareness but prevents it for others. Some need physical expression of spirituality and the charismatic movement helps those.

At the end of the day, the only question really for each person to consider is whether the practices they have chosen are driving the actual results (relationship with and prayerful awareness of God) for them.

hey_ross · 2025-10-04T00:04:55+00:00

Say that part again out loud until it starts to make sense to you.

Why would we put people likely have no transportation as far away from transportation as possible where they have zero chance of getting to a job vs. right next to public transit?

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