Comments on: Correlation: An Uncorrelated History (Part 8 — The Rise of Correlation)

By: Carl Youngblood

Carl Youngblood — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:08:31 +0000

Danithew #8, I think this is related to humans’ knack for pattern recognition. We want so much meaning to be in everything that happens that we find it, even when it isn’t there.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:42:02 +0000

CChrissyy, I have to admit it was very nice to attend priesthood at Berkeley and sit beside a burning fireplace. But I don’t think there is an other chapel like that one anywhere else in the world.

By: DavidC

DavidC — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:28:43 +0000

Is the 72 item hierarchal list representing the mind of the ideal Mormon available somewhere?

By: Steve G.

Steve G. — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:24:18 +0000

I know that the church building is true, all corners are exactly 90 degrees and all pictures are mounted at exactly 60″ above the floor. I also know the foundation to be sound, the walls moisture free, and the insulation asbestos free. The church specifications are true as long as they are copy/pasted correctly.

By: Daymon

Daymon — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:23:03 +0000

what we need is a definition of truth that includes adherence to system-internal building codes, intellectual property adherence, and carpet installation standards, assuming, of course, such isn’t found in the D&C.

By: cchrissyy

cchrissyy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:56:25 +0000

funny, these building examples help me “know” to keep attending the Berkeley ward.

By: dug

dug — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:41:04 +0000

last sunday, in testimony meeting, a woman spoke of travelling around the world, and attending various wards and branches in far flung places. she mentioned the fact that all buildings looked the same, and that all wards and branches around the world taught the same lessons and sang the same hymns, no matter where she was.

all demonstrably true.

however, what startled me was that she said all that “correlation” had an incredibly strengthening effect on her testimony. it helped her “know” the church was true.

so i guess it’s working.

By: Samurai

Samurai — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:18:34 +0000

My Dad’s first job was tuning and maintaining the pipe organs and pianos in church buildings around the country. I’m now going to blame (give credit to) correlation for correlating him out of a job when they stopped putting pipe organs in buildings and started sourcing piano tuners locally which indirectly forced me to grow up in Idaho.

I’m sure I’ve learned lots of other things from this series as well…

By: mjp

mjp — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:54:19 +0000

Part of the correlation effect is to reduce loyalty to any particular ward building so ward boundaries can be changed, buildings can be sold, and members can be shifted from building to building without any sense of loyalty to a particular building.

This doesn’t work perfectly, some buildings end up a little nicer than others and there are handful of lovely historic chapels, but in general, the aesthetics of the church builiding has very little impact on where a particular member chooses to attend church.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:51:31 +0000

Alex (67), alas–not anymore. The Cambridge, MA stake is about to get a new building with a completely inadequate organ, despite having a fairly high concentration of excellent organists and regularly sending its alums to MoTab.

Sigh.