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by Analytics
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
Replies: 33
Views: 1114

Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.

Analytics DCP seems to take the fact that some people believe in irrational things as a license to believe in those things, too. He then goes down the rabbit hole of searching out books that justify what he wants to believe rather than figure out the truth. Very interesting. That is definitely the ...
by Analytics
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:49 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
Replies: 33
Views: 1114

Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.

Where are the philosophers of logic here? Another: If it rains the grass will be wet. The grass is wet. Therefore, it has rained. I think this is a trick question. Following strict deductive logic, the grass being wet doesn’t mean anything. In contrast, if your second assumption was the grass is no...
by Analytics
Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: If not Biden, who?
Replies: 44
Views: 3982

Re: If not Biden, who?

I imagine Gavin Newsome would have a great chance to beat Trump. I think Republicans have so thoroughly and effectively given California the "Hillary Clinton" treatment, to where anything or anyone associated with California would have a hard time overcoming the negative connotation propaganda tain...
by Analytics
Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:32 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Daniel dodges a dilemma by substituting his own
Replies: 73
Views: 4531673

Re: Daniel dodges a dilemma by substituting his own

I have always wondered about those who manufactured the relics, the pious frauds, as some call them. How did they justify their actions? What makes a sacred relic sacred if it can’t be its authenticity as the item in question? Is Joseph Smith more in touch with that world than we might ordinarily s...
by Analytics
Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Anderson's Venezuela bakery story...as a lever to get you to pay tithing
Replies: 51
Views: 2832

Re: Anderson's Venezuela bakery story...as a lever to get you to pay tithing

As a personal anecdote, when I get my hair cut short, a noticeable scar on the top-back of my head becomes very visible and the barber always comments on it. Getting that scar is one of my earliest memories. I was at my cousins’ house, which at the time was a single-wide trailer, and at the time the...
by Analytics
Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:34 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done
Replies: 22
Views: 6820

Re: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done

If John Dehlin sexually harassed someone it’s not their fault for being susceptible. That’s just victim blaming. Responsible businesses put caution tape on steps like that all the time. In my opinion Dehlin’s affair should be similarly public as a warning to any women around him who aren’t already ...
by Analytics
Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:26 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done
Replies: 22
Views: 6820

Re: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done

So, your point is that if the victim can be defined as being "freakishly susceptible" to sexual harassment, that should mitigate the charge of sexual harassment? Not in the least. What I am suggesting is that if you have a fling at work and lose your job over it, the financial harm you suffer is la...
by Analytics
Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:51 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done
Replies: 22
Views: 6820

Re: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done

This reminds of a lawsuit I saw once. A woman was walking out of a small retail store in a strip mall. The sidewalk was about an inch lower than the floor in her store, which causes a minor tripping hazard. One day, a woman was walking out of the store and she tripped. She fell, broke several bones,...
by Analytics
Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: DCP doubts the church has even 50 billion dollars
Replies: 20
Views: 8966

Re: DCP doubts the church has even 50 billion dollars

$50 billion is not “unconfirmed.” That much in liquid (publicly traded) investments is disclosed in the SEC 13F, which is a regulatory disclosure for large holders of certain publicly traded securities (stocks, options, ETFs, convertible stock and warrants). I just checked the latest 13F and it’s $...
by Analytics
Tue Aug 15, 2023 11:41 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: How Good is the MTC at Teaching Foreign Languages?
Replies: 13
Views: 1236

Re: How Good is the MTC at Teaching Foreign Languages?

https://www.newsweek.com/cias-next-generation-200766 WASP from Yale used to be considered the ideal spy for the old-boy network of the CIA. Now agency recruiters jump at the chance to snare a Mormon. Young Mormons tend to have squeaky-clean backgrounds and, thanks to their work as Third World missi...