[buzzy]

Originally Posted by Bilyclub

Here's the scorecard thru 16 pages.

How do you get that list?

[jimjamuser]

[QUOTE=Bogie Shooter;2185972]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

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?

I don't care about ANY Chamber of Commerce........they are useless to me and are oriented toward the RICH companies and corporations. Besides, they don't support Unions.......they try to KILL them.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

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.

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?

[jimjamuser]

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?

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Bilyclub

Here's the scorecard thru 16 pages.

Ever think that MAYBE we ALL have TOO much time on our hands........that's why we post on this forum. if you want to limit the exercise of free speech to just 5 posts........then maybe we are as a country becoming more like China and Russia. Personally, I don't want that, but there are young segments of the US that DO want that. I am just SURPRISED that sentiment like that exists here in the la la land bubble?
........And as a matter of record.....I was fine with the original thread...... I went in the direction of defining the difference between competitive sports and yoga activities. Of which BOTH are valuable. I went that way when I answered another poster's question or post subject. ......
..........Again, I was just trying to be informative. Not trying to be controversial, just expressing honestly felt viewpoints.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

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.

Some people would say that talking about Texas coming in 1st or 2nd about executions would be a DEVIATION from the original thread. I would NOT. Ever HEAR the OLD expression about........... what's good for the goose is also good for the gander?

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

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.

I would think that currently there are more than 1 out of 8 people in the world experiencing hunger. We have a hunger problem in the US. Ask any teacher about kids coming to school without having breakfast. The fed gov. is trying to stop that currently.
...... As far as WARS go, unless I am interpreting world events incorrectly........currently Russia and China are FIGHTING BY PROXIE with the free world (Europe and the US) in the Ukraine. China has invaded US airspace for surveillance purposes.
..........And masses of economic migrants are crushing over the US southern border and masses are trying to enter Europe.
........I am just answering a post on this subject. I have NO problem going back to talking about STDs and what people prefer "up North" to the TV Land BUBBLE. But, I DO consider it BORING. But, it has some merit, better than "what person can BEST fix my misaligned GARAGE DOOR"?

[jimjamuser]

I would think that currently there are more than 1 out of 8 people in the world experiencing hunger. We have a hunger problem in the US. Ask any teacher about kids coming to school without having breakfast. The fed gov. is trying to stop that currently.
...... As far as WARS go, unless I am interpreting world events incorrectly........currently Russia and China are FIGHTING BY PROXIE with the free world (Europe and the US) in the Ukraine. China has invaded US airspace for surveillance purposes.
..........And masses of economic migrants are crushing over the US southern border and masses are trying to enter Europe.
........I am just answering a post on this subject. I have NO problem going back to talking about STDs and what people prefer "up North" to the TV Land BUBBLE. But, I DO consider it BORING. But, it has some merit, better than "what person can BEST fix my misaligned GARAGE DOOR"?

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

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

I tend to agree with you.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

My post sure got hijacked, didn’t it.

I call it an evolution of a discussion.

[Bogie Shooter]

Update…

imjamuser 37
JMintzer 22
coffeebean 20
ThirdOfFive 11

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Update…

imjamuser 37
JMintzer 22
coffeebean 20
ThirdOfFive 11

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

[tvbound]

Personally, I've never bothered to try and "defend" anywhere I've chosen to live...and I'm not about to start now.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

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

Pitchers get traded……..scorekeepers not so much!

[Kenswing]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

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?

NEVER gonna happen. I have too much of a LIFE to try to post that much. I doubt I post 30 times in a week.

You don't provide a DIVERSITY OF OPINIONS. You provide the same ones over and over and over and over and over again. But feel free to keep on being diverse. I think I'll finally place you on my ignore list.