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New Testament scholar Jeremiah Johnston explains why he believes the Shroud of Turin is authentic, tells story about how Jewish technical photographer Barrie Schwortz became convinced it was authentic.
"If you're a medieval forger, how are you gonna know about AB blood?"
"I believe that based on the evidence in the 102 academic disciplines that have studied over 600,000 research hours in it... I believe that because I'm not irrational."
"I went from skeptic to believing in it based on the science..."
"It is an itemized receipt of how much Jesus loves you."
Remarkable.
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Marc Andreessen says don’t ever do diamonds in the rough. Only do diamonds.
"This is actually an investor ego thing, I think, which is you basically say, 'Wow, I'm the investor that's gonna go find the thing that nobody else knows about... I'm going to go do the thing nobody else can think of.'"
"The general pattern is... if it's got merit to be investable for venture, there are a lot of really smart and hungry VCs out there, and they are working extremely hard to sniff these things out, and it's their full-time job, and it's all they do."
"I think it's really unusual to have the diamond in the rough, and usually if it's the diamond in the rough, it usually means two things... a company that's offside in some fundamental reason, it's in the wrong place, or it's structured wrong."
"There's a reason why it's a diamond in the rough that actually ends up becoming a big problem."
@pmarca with @HarryStebbings