Friday, February 26, 2021

Friday Bullets: The willingness to revise

• Facebook image I: Photo- 1935 Auburn Supercharged Boattail Speedster Classic Cars & Trucks.

• I suppose I am not a 'car guy', but this automobile strikes me as unique. 

• The design and the way the black and red paint is displayed is unique.

• Facebook image II: I am definitely not an 'anti-masker', but this theme made me laugh inside.

• If the effects of COVID-19 are so bad people need to double mask, the pandemic has been mishandled in your region, IMHO.

• Too many ignoring social distancing, IMHO.

• I do not enjoy wearing a mask, nor do I want to receive any injection. But, I can accept I need a VGH/UBC eye injection for my eye at times, based on medical science.

• I can also accept that I will require a COVID-19  vaccination based on medical science.

• Apart for the medical reasons, even just to be able to reasonably participate in western economies, travel, etcetera, I will require a vaccination (s).

• One should admit he/she lacks certain expertise. I am not a scientist or medical scientist. I am reliant on medical science in regards to the existence of a pandemic and any required treatment.

• Yes, using the education and common sense I do have,  I should consider evidence from sources within medical science, and in prayer seek (John 14) reasoned truth.

• I should admit I need to revise thinking at times. For example, years ago, I thought that Las Vegas may flop as an National Hockey Language franchise, because it had a small fan base according to Google searches: first link. Similar views were documented:



Cited from FiveThirtyEight.com, second link.

• Teams in markets with fewer than 300,000 hockey fans, however, have tended to lose money, and that’s where the wisdom of adding franchises in Seattle and (especially) Las Vegas gets iffy. We estimated that Seattle contains about 240,000 NHL fans — fewer than that of Phoenix and Florida’s Tampa Bay, home to two franchises that have struggled to turn a profit for many years. And if Seattle is an enigmatic choice by this metric, Las Vegas would be a disaster. According to our estimates, there are only 91,000 hockey fans in the Vegas media market, which is nearly 40 percent fewer than even Nashville, Tennessee, the least-avid current NHL city, has.'

• Even with a lack of a traditional, large, hockey, fan base, the Vegas Golden Knights have done, decently well attendance and profitability wise, so far.

• Granted they have had a Stanley Cup contender from the beginning, due to newer, favourable, expansion draft rules, and the exclusion of Seattle and/or Quebec City as an expansion partner, and therefore more better players available.

• Vegas Golden Knights: Forbes

• There is something to be said for Las Vegas being a wealthy city where significantly, non-hockey fans can financially support their local team and some may become hockey fans.

• A statement (proposition/conclusion) and premises and conclusion (argument) accepted as leading to truth, at times should be reconsidered in light of other information.

• Theologically, a biblical Christian seeking truth (John 14) should consider that God will at times sanctify (move towards holiness) him/her, as an aspect of New Testament salvation, through a changing of the mind and accepted statements and arguments.

• The willingness to revise. In regards to overall worldview (yes there are biblical essentials) and views held to within, ranging in degrees of importance.

• Example of sanctification: 1 Thessalonians 5:23 English Standard Version (ESV): Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.