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A corollary to Peterson's First Rule for the Study of Other Religions and Worldviews could be called Analytics' First Rule for the Introspection of Your Own Religion and Worldview: if a substantial number of number of sane, intelligent, and informed people believe that your own religion is utterly w...

Wow I have those kind of return to mission dreams also. I am always back in St. Louis in the slums and bad places. In one I told my companion as we were studying that I wasn't going tracting, I was going to study, he went back to bed. I actually had a companion like that! Many of my happiest missio...

Does focusing on the good in your mission help to relieve any of the PTSD? I've certainly been blessed by encountering you online, Analytics. Had you not gone on mission and I had not encountered you on the website which ultimately led to my registering and participating on ZLMB, I don't know where...

The topic has come up before and I was surprised I wasn't the only one. Was this reliving the mission as a new missionary or forced to return at the time in your life you're at now? I had these occasionally for a while but can't remember the last one. Maybe over 10 years after returning. Mine were ...

I wish I had done this when the temple speaker voice told me I could leave the cult like ceremony. But my wedding was on the line, family was all around, and I was a captive victim. If I could go back in time I would have stood up for myself and my beliefs. I wonder if anybody has had to guts to ta...

Ever since I returned from my mission 30 years ago, I've had dreams about being called back on a mission. Even before I left the Church, these dreams were hellish nightmares. They continued like that for 20 years, maybe. But then, the dreams gradually became better--I was still a missionary in these...

Does the anti-Russian language policy justify invasion? Of course not, but it should make one skeptical of the simplistic Russian vs. Ukrainian framing on which Western propaganda relies.... Thank you for sharing your thoughts on all of this, Symmachus. You provide more questions than answers, and ...

Yet one wonders what the other essays that scored lower were like if this was the winner, because if young Peterson's sub-erudite pessimism is justified, then it suggests a paradox resulting from one of the core ideas in classical economics: the free market functions on the assumption that individu...

That $4 billion in hush settlements sounds less a stretch.... $4 billion is a lot of money. For example, 8,000 payoffs that averaged $500,000 each. If that had really been paid out over the years, I would expect: 1- There would be a lot of rumors going around of people getting chunks of it. 2- If i...

What I have seen is that Bayesian analysis can’t fix a deficit of knowledge and poor reading skills. I don’t consider that a win on the question of methodology. Exhibit B: Kyler Rasmussen. Bayesian analysis isn't a magic wand that nullifies a deficit of knowledge. Nobody claimed it was. Bayesian an...