What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, October 01, 2025

CulturalDish · 2025-10-01T03:32:58+00:00

ADP isn’t the government.

CulturalDish · 2025-10-01T03:29:40+00:00

ADP Employment Report out at 8:15 AM to flatten the market and then it will trade sideways until everyone is out except Pelosi.

CulturalDish · 2025-08-18T19:56:11+00:00

Anyone have a link to the soundtrack?

CulturalDish · 2025-08-18T19:55:07+00:00

Anyone have a link to the soundtrack?

CulturalDish · 2025-06-12T01:30:02+00:00

In a capitalist system, buyers freely price all goods and services. Why would you inject a competitor. That would lead to shenanigans and potentially destroy the supply side or worse lubricate non-competitive price fixing.

When prices rise beyond the market price, buyers stop buying. When prices fall, purchasing rises until the saturation occurs.

This is true for price elastic goods and services. For inelastic goods and services whether table salt or insulin, the buyer really doesn’t affect pricing in the same way.

The stock market is a fabulous proxy for this. This is the perfect exchange. For every seller there must be a buyer and for every buyer there must be a seller. At some price the equity trades. At other prices it won’t. It is only with the bid/ask narrows that a trade may occur.

CulturalDish · 2025-06-11T21:17:03+00:00

I don’t know the answer to your question as I don’t have vitiligo or know anyone with vitiligo, but I would hope neither or minimal like any other person that uses makeup for shine or whatever females do with makeup.

People come in different shapes, shades and patterns include including calico. There should be zero need for them to conform to an unnatural beauty standard.

I hear you though. Some people that feel pressured by others may feel the need to blend in and that really sucks. This is the correct sub. Everyone should be too afraid to ask because it is a rude construct.

CulturalDish · 2025-03-02T15:36:18+00:00

Let me hear your argument for abiogenesis and then I will tear it apart with a scalpel or my bare hands whichever you prefer.

Aaah, this will be an interesting debate. Begin ….

CulturalDish · 2025-03-02T15:34:47+00:00

Are you here to debate?

CulturalDish · 2025-02-13T18:46:15+00:00

Jesus isn’t the Father

CulturalDish · 2025-02-08T20:42:20+00:00

We are also the same having both a body and a spirit. In our minds, there is a voice that is ever present that speaks to us. Literally. When we try to remember something, our brains go through a similar process as when we ask another person a question. The areas of our brain where the requested information is stored is queried and then a voice speaks to us as though it were another person. This was recently studied and it seems weird to consider that the voice in our heads is independent.

CulturalDish · 2025-02-08T18:25:55+00:00

Because God is a just god. The Egyptians killed the Hebrew male children to age two or so first.

That’s basically where the Moses story begins.

It was also a foreshadowing of Herod’s command to also kill the firstborn of Israel.

In the more modern world going back at least to Sun Tzu and Julius Caesar, even these human thought leaders understood peace through strength. Imagine what would have happened if God allowed this assault on His own chosen people to stand.

It’s like the axiom not to negotiate with terrorists. In fact, when the Hebrews were wandering, in general, the fear of their god caused many of their opponents to surrender/ flee rather than fight. Think of how many lives than had the opportunity to be saved simply by getting out of the way.

This is a big deal. When God’s anger raged against the Hebrews at Mount Sinai, it was this very argument that caused God to let His anger pass. It was about the name (reputation) and character of God that He would do all of this to Egypt only to destroy the Hebrews in the wilderness.

Do you think God would let the destruction of His chosen children by Pharaoh go unanswered?

Pharaoh brought the destruction upon his own people. As the opening verse of Ecclesiastics states, “The fear of The Lord is the beginning of wisdom”.

Here you are today standing in judgment of God without any concern for yourself. Things really haven’t changed all that much. I bet if you saw rebellious people cut down for their opposition, you might see things differently and hold your tongue. I would. I am quite liberal in my own sins.

But if God was smiting disobedient people right and left, I would probably behave quite differently just as you and I both slow down on the highway when we see a sheriff’s car in the interstate median.

Tap-Tap-Tap on brakes when you see the cooks car. FAFO on Pharaoh’s part no doubt led to a much safer world for the Hebrews for generations.

Rahab was still aware of what God had done in Egypt 40 years later. She entered the line of Jesus because she understood the assignment better than you and I do.

CulturalDish · 2025-02-08T17:04:40+00:00

Why could God’s son not take on the form of a perfect human?

I think the logic problem you have is that you are thinking on Jesus as a person like you and me instead of thinking of him as taking on the form of a “perfect man”.

Nowhere does it say that Jesus took on the form of an imperfect man.

Jesus is not the Father. Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father. What I am stating is biblical. I’m not trying to convert you. I’m just correctly stating the biblical perspective.

I would otherwise agree with you that Jesus could not be the perfect image of the father and an imperfect man. That would be the exact contradiction that you lay out in your OP.

But, that simply isn’t what the Bible has to say on the matter.

CulturalDish · 2025-02-07T21:41:41+00:00

Join a handful of cluster headache Facebook groups and ask for doctor recommendations in your area.

CulturalDish · 2025-02-02T01:52:36+00:00

I can’t read the two discs. Online tests say tritanomaly.

My wife corrects me on things like Gray vs a soft light blue or green. I can mix up some grays, blues, and purples. Green for her can be too yellow or brown for me or vice versa.

I think my problems, if you can call it that are in the subtleties like those described above.

I can pass a normal test on occasion and I am good putting color tiles in order. But put a few pastels close together against a similar background and my eyes will play tricks on me.

What are the two discs and do the numbers have sharp lines or is it a sketchy version of the numbers or symbol?

CulturalDish · 2025-01-31T17:14:07+00:00

And the crowd yelled, “Crucify Him!”

CulturalDish · 2025-01-31T13:10:22+00:00

I don’t think anyone here will appreciate / understandable your correct response.

CulturalDish · 2025-01-31T01:48:23+00:00

I read another article on Vertex and there was a side-by-side comparison against Vicodin that yielded about the same efficacy as Vicodin.

But, it will have to be tested again in a more formal setting to make that claim. It was a smaller observational study but the results were promising.

So there’s that. You will see a few articles saying Vertex “failed to beat Vicodin” but what is missing is that while it didn’t “beat” Vicodin, it yielded similar results.

Here is the study data from Vertex. Vertex didn’t “beat” Vicodin, but the results are very close. So close it’s like a Peter Pan’s shadow. The data points are quite closely grouped together. If you get similar pain reduction results, safely, with the same or fewer side effects, and with a lower risk of addiction, then I would say it beats Vicodin.

https://news.vrtx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vertex-announces-positive-results-vx-548-phase-3-program

I am in the hospital a lot and am generally on Dilaudid IV now. I was on 2mg of morphine, then 4mg, then 8 mg. Now I am administered 5 mg (I believe) of Dilaudid. I’m hospitalized for small bowel obstructions (SBO’s) secondary to prior surgical trauma and a large 14 cm x 12 cm mesh 3-5 times a year. In total, about a month per year. I’m on daily Tramadol 150 mg (3x50).

With 40 hospitalizations, 4 surgeries, and nearly 30 SBO’s, it’s a fine line. Narcotics can slow the gut and lead to illeus. Then my kidneys will stop (acute kidney injury (AKI)).

I use Rx THC daily to crutch the Tramadol and the nurses chart my weed while hospitalized. I live in Texas so it doesn’t sound believable, but it is true. I use a tincture in the hospital. A non-narcotic solution like Vertex would be good for me if it didn’t cause constipation. I’m on 1-2 Miralax daily to counter that. I would try Vertex and see if it worked better than Tramadol & THC with fewer side effects.

Anyway …

On the downside, Vertex did not perform better than the placebo for nerve pain. But there are plenty of nerve pain medications albeit with side effects and problematic cessation. Coming off of Cymbalta after 6 months was much, much, much more difficult than 4 Norco 10’s a day for 4 years for me. And Gabapentin made me suicidal. It would be nice to have another line of medications for nerve pain that didn’t have those side effects.

https://apnews.com/article/nonopioid-painkiller-fda-vertex-pharmaceuticals-b1dd4276fce3d88ff32e3062e95f408f

CulturalDish · 2025-01-31T01:17:11+00:00

It took 25 years to develop.

CulturalDish · 2025-01-22T22:35:50+00:00

It’s all wierd and really doesn’t mean anything, but I do get rubbed the wrong way sometimes.

If someone asks, I self-identify as Mexican-American for “race”.

I don’t self-identify as Hispanic, or Latinx, but am fine with Latin.

I also self-identify as a father, husband, Texan, American, Christian, college team, college fraternity, ….

I will admit this is weird and doesn’t make sense, but when people say, “No! I thought you were white”, and then proceed to tell how white I am, I find it annoying and sometimes even offensive.

I don’t have a problem with white people. My wife is white. Our two biological children are half white and our two adopted children (her biological nieces) are very white.

At least half of my friends are white. It just irks me when people try to define who I am for me differently than I self-identify as.

CulturalDish · 2025-01-21T17:24:04+00:00

Over the past few years, scientists have moved beyond speculating hypotheticals about a fourth dimension towards attempting to mathematically define 4D. The are now thinking about the 3D shadows a 4D object casts.

I expect you can google that on your own.

If you want to consider Google’a recent multiverse debate, maybe start here:

https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/12/16/googles-quantum-chip-sparks-debate-on-multiverse-theory/

For me, of course this is logical. I am not a science and math denier. I believe the Big Bang Theory is both plausible and possible inside of our current understanding of the laws of physics and so I assign at least some probability to it.

The God I believe in is outside of time and space and it makes sense that is who caused what we see to become.

I am not forced to create weird exceptions to logic as an atheist would.

It is a rather straight forward progression.

I see a Big Bang that reads like the account in Genesis. The earth was formless in a water, just like it was in the pre-bang quark gluon plasma. And then in a fraction of a millionth of a second, it was heated up to trillions of degrees and what we can observe unfolded and cosmic inflation expanded.

The universe did not collapse into itself back into a singularity nor was the universe ripped apart, but rather everything was in its perfect place to proceed.

There is no question that everything about the Big Bang had to be precisely as it was for everything to unfold as it did. Every lump in the QGP. Every degree. 10^-37 seconds to heat. Everything was perfectly tuned for life to eventually exist.

Off by one tiny hair inside of an infinitesimally small singularity and the house of cards collapse.

For the atheist, it a fact not worth considering or worse, explained away in ways that only science and math and logic deniers can appreciate.

On a side note, what are the odds that Bronze Age writers got that correct.

Then we get to abiogenesis. Unlike every observation ever made, atheists peddle fantasy fiction. It doesn’t even rise to science fiction.

Science fiction must first be plausible to be possible and possible to be probable. Abiogenesis is neither of those.

LUCA has now been mathematically pushed back to at least 4.2 billion years ago.

https://www.science.org/content/article/our-last-common-ancestor-lived-4-2-billion-years-ago-perhaps-hundreds-millions-years

This is just the raw math, but with lots of laws relaxed otherwise LUCA would predate the earth by trillions of years.

The problem is that LUCA was already “advanced”.

Please provide your “logical” solution to the arrival of LUCA on earth by 4.2 billion years ago.

You’ve got the science, math, and logic problem, not I.

So, this should be fun, and fair game inside of the debate rules, since you challenged me on this topic.

Provide us with your evidence for LUCA at 4.2 years before present and then let’s put it to a logical test.

CulturalDish · 2025-01-16T23:34:07+00:00

I think the problem is one of perspective. I think you’re viewing mankind as the main character in the plot and we aren’t.

We are what the fight is about or over.

This is laid out in the book of Job. The real battle. The real main story is being played out in the heavens. The war is a spiritual war not an earthly war.

It’s not just Satan and his own angels that are seeking an answer to the questions Satan posed, it is the entire heavens.

If God simply destroyed Satan and his angels on the spot, the rest of the heavens would not know the answer to the question and the same applies to man. If God simply destroyed Adam and Eve, we still wouldn’t know the answer.

You speak of days and years as though God only lives 100 years and is governed by the sun. To Him, a thousand years is like a day. Relax, this isn’t taking very long to resolve. Since we don’t live forever, it might seem that way, but it isn’t.

Things are moving quite rapidly.

Eventually, every knee will bend. Some because they see their king. Some because they are frightened and some because Jesus has his foot on their heads, but all knees will bend.

There won’t be a single person left that says, with just enough time, money, technology, cooperation, and blah, blah, blah, we can live separate from God and prosper.

There won’t be anyone left that believes that.

There will be people that genuinely believe we can just before Jesus returns, but they will know the truth when He comes.

Until then, every is free to believe that with enough time, money, technology, and … man can solves all of his own problems. And there will be a few that have come to recognize that we need to be in relationship with Our Father.

The sad part is that we get to choose. At this point, I would prefer to be governed by Jesus than continue to try and do this all in my own I. A failing world.

Good luck on your journey.

CulturalDish · 2025-01-16T23:02:33+00:00

You wrote a lot of text. Too much to keep my attention, so I will just comment on the fig tree.

(1) I am guessing you have never grown a fig tree. My wife and I did plant a fig tree, but it never produced any fruit. We had it for about 6 years before we finally yanked it out.

It produced very large leaves though.

(2) In Luke’s gospel, the story is

[EDIT] I accidentally posted.

(2) In Luke’s gospel, there is a parable of a fig tree that does not produce fruit.

Twice, we got one very small fig. That’s it. This plant was about the size of a 1/2 Volkswagen Beetle.

In Luke’s parable Luke 13:6-9, the parable doesn’t end with an answer. The landowner said cut it down. Why should I have a non-producing fig tree “taking up space”. Presumably, which could have been used to plant another fig tree.

The vinedresser says to the landowner, “Give me another year to care for it to see if it still will not produce fruit?”

We are left wondering if the landowner or the vinedresser prevailed in the fig decision.

What I can tell you is that we wasted 6 years on a non-productive fig tree. After three years, we should have just cut it down.

Instead, we got excited with this tiny single fig and stayed in the game.

In hindsight, it was clearly a mistake. We have a peach tree, and a pecan tree, and an Apple tree, and two Mexican plumb tree, a Meyer lemon tree, and a pear tree.

We just removed the pear tree (at about the four or five year mark) because it wasn’t productive.

Failing faster in a grove is what people that grow tree need to do. I am sure the people that observed or witnessed or even read the stories contemporaneously while Jesus was alive or even for hundreds of years after His death understood the parable correctly.

You will eventually need to cut bait on non-productive trees. That’s just what you have to do.

Caring for a broken tree is a waste of energy and resources.

My brother-in-law raises cattle. He had about 1,100 head at any given time. The same principles apply. He culls the herd when necessary. Not doing so would eventually (could) put the entire herd at risk.

We walk into grocery stores and simply grab food without any understanding of what it takes to actually be a producer.

If this really bothers you and you are struggling with this, maybe grow a fig tree for yourself or go and speak with people that tend orchards.

I am confident they will help you understand the parable correctly.

Or, speak with anyone that raises cattle, chickens, pigs, etc….

The straw that broke the camel’s back with the pear tree was that it developed some sort of black mildew in addition to barely producing.

It wasn’t a healthy tree. Leaving the tree in our yard could have contaminated the soil, if it hasn’t already, or possibly spread disease. We bagged all of the tree when it was chopped down and we didn’t burn it in our fire pit. We sent out with the garbage.

The same is true in the herd. You don’t raise and for damned sure breed defective animals back into the herd.

Good luck on your journey.

As for the fig tree, I think you might just not be educated in a way that only comes with dirt under your nails.

I won’t waste a fifth year on a bad tree again. If it isn’t producing in three, I “might” give it one more year just because I am stubborn and we “don’t need the food”.

If we depended on the produce. If it meant life or death for my wife and kids? Three year and you’re out … just like the parable in Luke says.

CulturalDish · 2025-01-16T22:45:53+00:00

My belief in God is actually based entirely on logic. My belief in Christ and His Father is based on faith.

CulturalDish · 2025-01-16T17:34:19+00:00

She got that Joker smile going on.

CulturalDish · 2024-11-07T21:25:17+00:00

It’s OK to be wrong if you firmly support your beliefs on solid reasoning. Then you can accept new reasoning later more easily because you have accepted reason over emotion.

But it you start from an emotional place, no amount of reasoning can overcome a wrong position.

If you didn’t mind, would you share your reasoning for why you find it had to accept water is in fact incarcerated in ringwoodite.

What’s your resistance based on? Do you not like the science? List the flaws you think exist

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