Originally Posted by Bilyclub (Post 2186142)

Here's the scorecard thru 16 pages.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2185967)

I am trying my best to be informative. The problem is that MY point of view and questioning of status quo items are NOT what the average resident and the Villages Chamber of Commerce wants to hear. (if there is a Chamber here?)[/QUOTE]

You mean, you don’t know?

Originally Posted by Kenswing (Post 2185985)

You’re not trying to be informative. You’re trying to cram your views down everyone’s throat by your incessant posting. There is no reason to reply to almost every post in a thread to make your point. It just comes across as you believing that your opinion matters more than everyone else’s. You have 30 posts in this thread, twice as many as anyone else. You either feel that you’re more important or you’re not very good at getting your point across.

Originally Posted by Bilyclub (Post 2186142)

Here's the scorecard thru 16 pages.

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2186135)

Lol!

Gotta love what Mark Twain had to say about the three kinds of untruths: "Lies, damned lies, and statistics".

I remember something similar some years back. Couple of decades, maybe. Anyway the discussion involved the death penalty, and the state of Texas was getting mercilessly raked over the coals for LEADING THE NATION in executions the previous decade. Lots of hand-wringing over that. As I recall the hand-wringers didn't like it at all when it was pointed out to them that the state with actually the most executions per capita (which is what really matters, after all) was not Texas at all but DELAWARE.

Same kind of "reasoning" that was used regarding TV and STDs.

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2186145)

True. Isn't overpopulation what leads to lemmings hurling themselves en masse over cliffs? At least that was the going theory back when in was in High School.

The problem with that line of reasoning (and I don't entirely disagree with it, by the way) is that we just don't have the data to say that such is true about humanity. I recall back in the early 1960s, as a junior-high student, we were being told that the planet was being maxed out vis a vis total population: that the population of the world at the time (about 3 billion as I recall) was already more than the earth sustain and that the coming years and decades would surely see mass starvations, border wars over food and water, etc. etc. Didn't happen, of course. According to Hunger Explained, "Bread for the World" , "In 1960, 1 in 3 people was hungry. Today, chronic hunger affects 1 in every 8 or 9 people". Pretty much blows the doom-and-gloomers of the 1960s totally out of the water.

We don't seem to be anywhere near the point where our knowledge of science is no longer capable of maintaining the status quo regarding world hunger. If anything, history proves the exact opposite.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2186003)

I'd tend to doubt that statistic... Just based on the number of golf courses vs the number of bowling alleys...

Originally Posted by Michael 61 (Post 2186027)

My post sure got hijacked, didn’t it.

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 2186296)

Update…

imjamuser 37
JMintzer 22
coffeebean 20
ThirdOfFive 11

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2186311)

And is the scorekeeper at a professional baseball game PAID MORE than the starting pitchers? Just asken!

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2186266)

1st of ALL I would like to see someone like yourself increase their postings to 30. This IS a forum. That's how we LEARN BY READING other peoples' points of view.I believe that a lot of posters on this Forum do NOT want to hear DIVERSITY OF OPINIONS. Isn't diversity of opinions and ethnicities the American dream and our ancestors left Europe and other countries IN ORDER to have free speech. I don't really think that thinking Americans in TV Land REALLY want even me to be silenced. What would be gained by THAT ?
........These REALLY are my HONEST opinions.....honest injun........do I NEED to take a lie DETECTOR test?