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Old 04-20-2007, 09:23 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by pelagius View Post
It has a doctrine, but I think it is best to think about LDS doctrine as a normally distributed random variable with mean = mu and standard deviation equal to sigma. As long as you are within maybe one standard deviation of mu, then your belief is consistent with LDS doctrine. For some topics the sigma is large and for some topics sigma is very close to zero.
I am glad you pointed this out. At least now I know why I don't understand it. Who knew that may failure to excel in Trig and calculus would eventually imperil my eternal salvation? Now when my kids ask me why they will ever need advanced math, i will give them a copy of this post.
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