The Second

While hiking I "saw" an analogy between statistics and morality.  All (and more) of what follows occurred to me in a moment, and it made me chuckle.  God is truly amazing; the things of Life are remarkably simple in a way that is terribly complicated to explain. Both settings, hypothesis testing and moral behavior, contain evaluations that appear to involve opposites that are not strict opposites. Hypothesis testing looks at the quality of a decision, being concerned with whether a decision was correct or not.  The two commonly discussed error types are these: Accepting as “good” what isn't Rejecting as “bad” what isn't Because good and bad are direct opposites (complements) these two error types appear to be opposites, but they are not.  In fact, I can take actions to reduce my chances of making the first mistake which at the same time increase my chances of making the second.  I can take actions that reduce chances of BOTH mistakes.  So, while...

Well, well, Here I am again (again).  My last blog entry was in 2016 ( www.theo-fan.blogspot.com ), and from that last entry, I'm glad I took a hiatus. I had reached a point where I had said THE THING I needed to say.  I write best when I am simply working to give form to something that has fixed in my mind as needing to get out.  In my case such a thing is not a collection of things, but a view on creation that has settled in, and has held up through time, time and again. It took 5 years to work through that last THING.  What do I have to say now?  Well, that will be the task going forward, to SAY IT.  If I am to give it a few tags, in advance, these work well enough: Simple, Solid, Full, Jesus, Life, Deep, Plus The title of this blog, I hope, will unfold through the entries to come.  The Second is a simple word, but full of meaning in many dimensions, angles, and settings. May the Lord of Life bless the words I write, and may His message c...