John Dehlin Translations

It started with church history questions. It ended in a budding business. Your spiritual demise is my financial gain.

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@FBI

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@extradeadjcb "Your" inheritance. Why is it yours?

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@BillAckman @Harvard @RepStefanik The upside to litigation is that Harvard will have to sleep in the bed they made for themselves. Hire qualified candidates and they won't sue because you will never need to fire them! This is the way...

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Translation: In trying to sound smart, I often expose my lack of intellect. Case in point...

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@ExmoCringe Be better. Delete.

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@marksfamof8 Is gun violence centered in areas like rural Oregon, or in densely populated cities? 99.9999% of guys in pictures like this will never shoot anything but a milk jug with their ARs. So, who cares?

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@crazyus Thankfully he's cheap. Oh, wait...

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@johndehlin @TimBallard I couldn't care less about Tim Ballard. But I do care that there is a bishop that would give you this info. Brutal.

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@Bemorte A very progressive question. Let's frame it differently.
Do all people from the south really speak with that southern accent or are they coached? Do all blacks speak with the same intonations? Etc.

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@DehlinMillstone If he treated Microsoft co-workers the way he is alleged to have treated OSF "members," he wouldn't have lasted a day there. Him being an "exec" at a tech company like MS with his educational background has never added up.

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@johndehlin @BallardMRussell @TimBallard @KSLcom @timmarchman "speak ill of the Lord's anointed." I hope your "source" is more accurate than your memory.

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@OliverCowd A very respectable, and difficult thing to do.

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@OliverCowd The null hypothesis starts with an assumption to test. It does ask someone just "follow the data". My null hypothesis is that "the church is true." I have yet to be convinced from the data I've seen (and the experiences that I've had) that that is not (null) true.

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@OliverCowd Ever heard of "the null hypothesis?"

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@OliverCowd That's also the carrot that keeps people in happy marriages, despite a rough patch. Alma 32 has always spoken to me. What I see as a conscious effort to have faith, you (likely) see as me ignoring irrefutable data to stay a believer.

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@OliverCowd I think the point is that "conflicting" data doesn't mean your conclusion is wrong. It could (and often does) mean that your understanding of the data is wrong, or you don't have all the data. We all try to "weigh" the evidence.

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@OliverCowd Unless one's empirical (posteriori) experiences have led them to believe in something. If they see data conflicting with that, they have to make choices: Throw the baby out with the bathwater, or "sidestep" the data by choosing to wait for more data.

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@OliverCowd It means "data" is always coming in. Sidestepping data from today could well lead to looking like a genius in the future. The example regarding the COVID vax was to illustrate that those that didn't get it were pilloried as conspiracy theorists. They look pretty smart now.

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@OliverCowd Or maybe, apologetics are aimed to prevent believers from throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I'm glad I "sidestepped" the initial data on the COVID vaccines. Had I not, I would have been jabbed 5 times and have gotten COVID 3 times.

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@sltrib Nice.