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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Son Of God Is God
Previous post. A short chapter, with a simple, profound thought: There is only God. A popular phrase in Arabic, if I am not mistaken. THAT THE SON OF GOD IS…
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Why (Scott Alexander’s) Bayesian Rationality Fails
Scott Alexander, late of Slate Star Codex, and New York Times doxee, is the subject of Curtis Yarvin nee Moldbug's latest. Rather, Alexander's (and Moldbug's? see postscript) Bayesian rationality is.…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Son Of God
Previous post. We begin with the metaphors, Son and Father. THAT THERE IS GENERATION, PATERNITY, AND SONSHIP IN THE DIVINITY 1 Let us take the beginning of our study from…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Place of Revelation
Previous post. Book Four has only 97 -- count 'em! -- Chapters. Only two more years, more or less, and we'll be done! This is the Foreward to the book.…
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Deniers & Conspiracy Theorists Disbelieve In Official COVID Science Because Of Faulty Brains
Reader Stephen Shipman found the JAMA---prestigious journal!---peer-reviewed note "Science Denial and COVID Conspiracy Theories: Potential Neurological Mechanisms and Possible Responses" by Bruth Miller. Let's don't breeze by that KGB-style subtitle:…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: On Predestination
Previous post. You were meant to be here, the last Chapter in Book Three. Part II! Onto Book Four, the last book, next week. As Wiki says "Books I–III cover…
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Disproving Kossin’s Increasing Hurricane Intensity Claims: Update — Guest Post by Greg Kent
Editor's note I have strong views on statistical "significance", confidence intervals, p-values, and all that, finding them harmful and worse. However, Kossin used these concepts, and a criticism of his…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not The Cause Of Sin
Previous post. We are the cause of all our own grief. THAT GOD IS NOT THE CAUSE OF SIN FOR ANY PERSON 1 Although God does not convert certain sinners…