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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • What?

    I just want to point out that in the wedding illustration, that guy who gets thrown out it’s not because he didn’t put an effort dressing

    He was thrown out because he he could not have got inside the building without the wedding garment

    So he shouldn’t be there

    That’s why they thrown him out

    Because he was not recognized as being one of the invited AND chosen in any of the 3 rounds of invites that went out , the dude had to go.

    The whole deal is basically telling people at the time that each rejected invitation made you part of his enemies, and even then if you tried to pass as if you had been invited and chosen, you’d be found out


  • It has not to do with resentment at all

    It is about carrying their responsibilities to his kingdom with diligence

    The talents, a thing of Great value then, represent the mandate to go about preaching and making disciples

    Each of the receivers were expected to carry out their duties using the talents diligently, that is, doing said preaching/ disciples work

    That one who worked against his master interest by hiding that talent, showed bad faith and a bad spirit and is to be a warning on the need to remain diligent in multiplying that talent, basically exhorting them to do “business” with it to increase it (that is, to keep on preaching and making disciples)

    It’s not about resentment



  • Interestingly enough, right after feeding about 15k people, these same people tried to make Jesus their king. I mean, free food right?

    And the absolute Chad just went out and retreated, refusing to involve himself in politics as he was to be already king of another kingdom

    Even more interesting than that, the next day, the same people were expecting to be fed again…he clearly understood people were associating with him for material gain. He does exhort them to work for their sustenance.

    But it’s important to understand that at the time, Jesus was putting more focus on exhorting people to work on the pursuit of his father’s kingdom and excellent deeds, declaring himself the son of god, and himself (as the word of god) living bread to be fed on

    At which point most of these people lost all interest, being shocked as, as always, they suffered of literal thinking, asking themselves in disgust, “how can we eat this man’s flesh?”. This was the people who literally wanted him as King the day before.

    This was basically all it took for everyone except the 12 apostles to leave









  • The “controversy” they talk about is when He is talking about market failures and brings up the “externalities” that are the side effects (which can be negative or positive, but when talking about a market failure you are talking only about the negative) that occur when producing or consuming.

    A well-known example for externalities is pollution: I am a company, I produce, but I “externalize” the expenses associated with my production by throwing waste into the environment (something we pay as a society when in reality the responsibility is private).

    But that is an externality in production.

    He speaks of an externality in consumption that would be when the side effect arises from the fact of consuming.

    Now those are similar, but for consumption.

    For example, the case of the pandemic in the USA when the people were going to the supermarkets to stock up on toilet paper, leaving them empty. The negative externality of consumption there is that there are people who couldn’t wash their butts

    I hope that makes sense

    In this case, bringing it to the example of toilet paper, the guy is saying something like that, eventually, people are going to stink so much that they are going to look for an alternative to toilet paper. Therefore, proving that the market did not fail because it was actually part of the market discovery process.

    Now, it is one thing to think that he is wrong and another different thing to not understand what he’s referring to.

    And whatever the case, it is true that cutting the context is quite hypocritical and biased because it is talking about a hypothetical situation where he counterargues using absurdity.

    That is, regardless of what you may think about what he said or whatever his argument exactly is, it is certain that he is not referring to what we all understood when we read the subtitle of the news.