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Hey all! I just launched OpenTheo, a free collection of transcribed Bible teachings and other Christian material. So far, I've transcribed over 10,000 hours of content for the firs…

JP Moreland has written at length on this topic (see his book "The Soul" and many interviews/talks he's done). In short, he distinguishes between the brain and the mind (consciousn…

I think we agree, but I think you misinterpreted what I said. "Mystical experiences" isn't the problem. It's that the things commonly described in "near death experiences" are over…

It's worth pointing out that the notion of "near death experiences" is not Biblical. These are modern, Western fantasies superimposed on Christianity.

Say what you want about the tax bill on net, the elimination of the SALT deduction is very good for the country. There is zero reason for the Feds to subsidize and distort incentiv…

Oh. The answer here is actually straightforward. It's because the tax bill needed to pass through reconciliation (which has special rules related to the deficit). Generating artifi…

From a technical perspective sure. From a statistical perspective, the point is a distraction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/18/the-u...

Fathers can't be involved if they aren't around. Single motherhood rate in 1950: 5% Single motherhood rate in 2010: 41%

"not an option for most Americans" OK.

This is plainly false. Most households have multiple internet providers.

In what way are customers "held hostage"? If you sign up for an internet plan that promises not to throttle certain sites and then that provider throttles those sites, you can sue …

"Net neutrality" is one of the most Orwellian terms in modern usage. It's a corporate welfare play by large tech companies to "solve" a "problem" that nobody can identify. It's pre…

Of course Google takes building effective teams seriously (and rightly so, it's People Ops org does good work), but that doesn't really have anything to do with the dynamic here.

I made a mistake. It turns out that there are actually 9 articles as part of that series, so I have to make a correction: There is not a single piece of useful data in any of those…

Ridiculous puff piece & PR job. There is not a single piece of data in that entire article. The way this works is: 1/ Google crunches some data 2/ The company leadership looks at t…

The point is that the questions I outlined become increasingly less scientific. There are genuine scientific questions, but there are lots of others that are kind-of scientific, an…

The problem, as your comment beautifully illustrates, is the scope of what is considered a "scientific" question. You left that ambiguous, and in that ambiguity lies the problem. F…

Among the conservatives/libertarians/etc in my life, who I broadly consider among the smartest people I know, there is a broad unwillingness to have a real discussion for fear of b…