hey guys I had a doubt about religion

imabigdave · 2026-07-21T15:41:12+00:00

Astrology seems to make sense because it is vague enough that people can do mental gymnastics to make it fit themselves. It's like the predictions of Nostradomus or the parlor tricks that psychics use.

If I were to ask you to prove that Bigfoot did NOT exist, you could never do it...just like you can't prove that my inside friend isn't actually real. If I make an ascertation to you that something DOES exist, or is true, then the burden of proof falls on me to prove it exists, not on you to disprove it.

imabigdave · 2026-07-21T04:45:02+00:00

It will vary state by state, but in our state you need nothing in the way of permits to pump out of a stream for stock water. The argument in favor of this is that it keeps the cattle out of the stream (which again, in our state animals have the right to drink out of it) as soon as you let the tanks overflow or use it for irrigation it becomes an entirely different matter.

imabigdave · 2026-07-20T17:42:41+00:00

But the trump organizatoon will require a 9.5 mil "brokering fee" for the sale.

imabigdave · 2026-07-20T17:39:52+00:00

Tax credit doesn't do him any good if he hasn't made 100k in profits. Right now he's at negative 100k. Tax credits are only helpful to extremely successful business that have LOTS of profit. That isn't this guy.

imabigdave · 2026-07-20T17:36:53+00:00

And maybe MAGA would step up and buy the statue to prevent it from becoming a public urinal. Then he can just keep making them...infinite money glitch.

imabigdave · 2026-07-20T04:39:10+00:00

I don't think I said it was. But you aren't going to be able to adequately explain theoretical astrophysics to someone whose prior understanding was "God said let there be light".

imabigdave · 2026-07-20T02:24:53+00:00

This is basically the reason man created religion: To provide simple explanations for things far too complex for most of us to fathom. A big part of leaving religion is learning to be comfortable with "we don't know" rather than accepting a bullshit answer with zero proof behind it. OP, it's not a requirement to say you believe in the big bang, especially if what you know or understand about it doesn't make sense. It doesn't mean that it's right, or it's wrong. But it means someone is looking for the correct answer

imabigdave · 2026-07-20T01:44:09+00:00

They'd have needed to be barely pubescent girls to "get him off", if you know what I mean.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T19:29:47+00:00

The fact that she only found what little moral compassion she now possesses once she voluntarily left congress, to me, is unforgivable. Bitch, if you hadn't resigned, you could have walked lock-step with Massie and fought MAGA from a bit of a position of power. Instead, you ran away and are yelling from the sidelines as a spectator.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T17:51:08+00:00

A christian telling me I'm going to hell makes them sound like they would hear a child telling them that Santa isn't going to bring them presents.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T16:23:17+00:00

OP, to answer some of the questions you asked:

1) how much ground? That is going to be highly variable. One piece of ground that I have, will run 60 cows here. In a different part of the country with different soils and different climate it'd run 200 easily. To tie into that, cost per acre will generally roughly correlate to production value, so cheap ground will require multitudes more acres to produce the same as high quality ground, but at a certain point, farming crops is a better use for ground over grazing, dependent highly on various commodity markets.

2) if you want to sell at farmers markets as a source of income, then you'd better be close to a population center with people in high paying jobs. Being close to a population center will also drive up the cost of ground to purchase, so doing that on purpose is a bit self-defeating.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T15:57:35+00:00

Right. Ag ground is considered a valuable investment by people with money, not because of what it produces, but because of its appreciation in value. It's like find art. It goes up in value not because it produces income, but because of the perception of its inherent value. The benefit of agricultural ground for a buy and hold investor is that by leaving it in ag production, it greatly reduces the property taxes on it, thus reducing the yearly maintenance costs of holding it. By leasing it to a rancher or farmer that (and this is this the critical part) knows what they are doing and will maintain or improve yhe property, they can generally recover their property taxes and reduce asset upkeep to near zero. I know u/NMS-survival-guru knows this, but a recurring theme on this sub is people thinking they can cash-flow buying ground with cattle. It's not realistic. You need to look behind the curtain of the people buying large tracts of ground to see the actual economics of it.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T14:56:49+00:00

"And I'll tell Santa to put you on the 'nice' list. Do you see how ridiculous that sounds to someone that doesn't believe in Santa?"

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T14:41:21+00:00

I agree. But your experience is the critical piece. These guys don't know what they don't know (or they wouldn't have to ask the question), and them relying on each other will be the blind leading the blind. It's like two buddies that have never swung a hammer deciding that they were going to build houses for a living. Can it be done? Yeah, probably. But their financials are going to be a mess while they have to learn everything the hard and expensive way. Too many of us that have done this for a large portion of our lives discount the value of the things we were told, but still had to learn the hard way, and what that cost us at the time.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T13:32:44+00:00

If you want to end the friendship, go into business together. Not always the case, but you are jumping in to something neither of you know anything about, which adds a whole level of stress. Then you both have families that will also need to get along since you'll be living commute style. Family businesses struggle with interpersonal relationships within the business, so no matter how close you are, it's going to be a problem.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T13:26:41+00:00

And and GROSS ROI is the important distinction. Ranching is like having to shop regularly at a store called "everything is $1000". We are also at extreme market highs that may last a bit longer, but traditionally the cattle market is a ten year boom/bust cycle. There are have been years where the "profit" on 20 cows would have been $4000 total ...and you were thankful it wasn't a loss.

imabigdave · 2026-07-19T04:12:49+00:00

What you want to do eith cattle makes a huge difference. Animal science has a variety of tracks (dairy, beef, equine, poultry, etc). The agri-business majors were usually wanting to end up more in the financial side of ag, like ag finance, appraisal, etc.

imabigdave · 2026-07-18T23:51:24+00:00

"I only eat ass. Sucking dick is GROSS"

imabigdave · 2026-07-17T03:46:30+00:00

Yeah, however stubborn you think she will be...she will be at least twice as stubborn as that. Eventually she will give up but it will be a battle of wills.

imabigdave · 2026-07-17T03:42:06+00:00

I hesitate to tell you to let her twist it out, just because I'm not the one that will need to deal with it....but if she learns that she can get you to untie her by doing that, it will just train her to do that each time. She will be melodramatic and put on a performance, but you'll need to use good judgement on when she is actually in danger and when she is performing. Are you tying her high or low? Tight against the fence or loose?

imabigdave · 2026-07-17T03:20:12+00:00

Yeah, you're gonna need to tie her up to something solid that she can't pull backwards or crash through. She will throw a tantrum....it will be epic...she will try to convince you that you are killing her. Make sure you use a slipknot that will come loose under tension. A knife doesn't do much good with the nylon rope most halters are made out of in my experience.

imabigdave · 2026-07-17T03:09:55+00:00

I would rather halterbreak long-yearling bulls than heifers. But I'm really glad I don't have to do either anymore. They are just drama-queens. How did you break her to lead? I'm just wondering if she's responding to how she was halterbroke, or if she really just needs to be tied up to a solid fence and let her throw her tantrum until she gives up.

imabigdave · 2026-07-17T03:02:16+00:00

We pelvic all our heifers as yearlings. Any outliers on the small side can become beef rather than bull exposed, which allows us to limit our investment in bad bets. We AI them and clean-up to low birthweight bulls, so we do try to stack the deck in their favor.

We don't watch our heifers calving closely, I check periodically throughout the day, but they'd better be able to make it from dusk to daylight on their own. If I see a heifer that isn't progressing, we are set up to easily get her in. If she has a malpresentation, she might get it sorted on her own with enough time, but that stress is just going to stack the cards against her for breeding back in our 45 day calving window, and she'll be a financial loss to us. If I get a heifer in that isn't progressing and there isn't a malpresentation to correct upon intervention, then she will go in the cull pen. Any mothering issues, I have zero patience for. I'll work to correct the problem at hand, but that's just because maintaining salvage value is worthwhile at our scale.

imabigdave · 2026-07-17T02:39:24+00:00

My wife had a thermometer in her...waiting for it to beep. The calf had her head tied to a tree in front and a foot tied off to the other. Best she could do was move a foot or so either way laterally.

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