you are and i' say the best restaurant in America is in suburban Chicago and they just laugh you know and then I'd already wager like find to fly out here and we'll see you know and uh one day uh my wife's birthday gr had made an amazing meal first time we eat init there and it was amazing because unlike
Life is conflict, right? But I would wager that some of that conflict has intensified since, say, the year 2016. We're more polarized than we've ever been before.
Ah! Ow! But you are on the right track. Anybody else want to wager ? Are yams from Asia?
may be an afterlife. There may be Hell to pay literally, or there may be rewards in some kind of Divine sense. So, there may be nothing also, but let's just hedge our bets and do this wager and do it the right way and be good." Because, certainly, most of Scripture and most of religions have been teaching us to try to be good and compassionate, despite or notwithstanding, all of the dreadful and horrific things that have been done in the name of religion. And I had to grapple with that as well because I realized that
I had to slip that in in case you forgot I was Catholic. But that's a risky wager .
Or there could be an oracle that's tracking NBA scores. And if I have a wager between me and somebody else, automatically it's going to check the scores, and whoever wins, then the money will be transferred automatically, all invisibly by just putting the rules in, and as soon as the game is over,
Moreover, I may end up having to trust the pieces to fly and fall as they may. But I'm willing to wager that in the end, the truth, told well enough is a good thing. I call my book "The Bite in the Apple" and not "out of the Apple" because I wanted to recover wholeness of all that had been shattered.
But if you're looking at, let's just say, the general health markers of, let's say, total cholesterol to HDL, triglyceride, fasting, glucose, hemoglobin A1c, things of that type. In these particular instances I would wager they've all been improved. For most of the case studies, certainly for myself, I've done thousands of line item blood tests over the last few years; most of those have been improved longitudinally overtime.
We hoisted all five crew members into our helo and returned them to the ship. Apparently there had been some spirited wagering among the crew concerning whether it had been me who crashed the helo.
She's calculating the likelihood of different cards that people are holding, and that doesn't have much to do with personal intelligence. She's also calculating different wagers , the value of different wagers she's making. But here's where the personal intelligence comes in.
The Ontological Argument , The Classical Teleological Argument , the arguments from Miracles, Moral Truths, and Mysticism , Pascal's Wager , and William James' Argument from Pragmatism . He had analyzed the new batch of arguments recently whipped up by the intelligent design crowd, to wit, The Argument from Irreducible Complexity ,
desperate so imagine two hundred dollars a year coming in I think their average donation is twenty-five dollars so you children along that path Christians often talk about Pascal's wager which argues that it's a good bet to believe
desperate so imagine two hundred dollars a year coming in I think their average donation is twenty-five dollars so you seems to me to indulge in Pascal's wager you actually have to believe in Christ the Lord would know if you were faking I
She's got to form a model of each of those five people, and as she said, I hope I'm not giving it, So I know that if that person starts wagering , they've got a good hand.
simply doubt and you don't know, or you say, "I don't know." And Atheists find it, in many instances, contemptible because you are hedging your bets and taking what Pascal, Blaise Pascal, the philosopher, called The Pascal Wager . Pascal, who was a mathematician, but also a philosopher, said, "The best thing to do is to live a good, virtuous life because there may be an afterlife. There may be Hell to pay literally, or there may be rewards in some kind of Divine sense. So, there may be nothing also, but let's just hedge our bets
I don't know woodchucks, what lives in the ground? And so what happens is when you eat meat you make a wager like, "I think this is probably good enough," or "I don't think it's good enough." And we don't have nearly enough information
uh, I will be eager to answer what I hope are questions as provocative of some of the comments I'm gonna make- uh, today. Umm, I have a lot of passion for this subject of leadership. And I would wager that, uh, anybody who works in organizational life has an opinion about leadership. If you ask people to name great leaders, often you hear the names, uh, Churchill, for David I'll say
Our revenues were up. Instead of being a business that relied solely on the revenues from wagering , we became a business that made most of our money from food and beverage because the younger, the concerts, people came and they ate and they drank.
50-50 at best I suspect, and I'd wager that odds are at least 90% that its profit margins and growth rate will be materially lower five years from now.
And I especially appreciated the nature of the bet, the wager that sends a Verne's character, Phileas Fogg, racing around the world.
If I were to go to Shanghai, could I go to cricket battle arena and wager on some crickets?
And some people know pieces of what's happening behind the glass, but very few-- and I'd wager basically nobody knows everything that's
Tim Ferris: Yeah. So the health is like success in the sense that it's defined differently by different people. So we would have to sit down and actually look at the actual markers. What I would say is that in her particular case, certainly by improving insulin sensitivity and so forth I would wager that her life span would be extended. If you take anything to an extreme with physical performance like power lifting; I mean I know, a friend of mine is 145 pounds and he can bench press 600 pounds, as an example. Or
I don't know woodchucks, what lives in the ground? But maybe should we think one out of three, one out of two, everyone has his or her own calculus. What I know is when I don't eat meat I don't get involved with that wager .
I'd be like, no way, and I'm a big wagerer.