--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TOTAL POSTS** 10/1-13: 1960 *** 10/14: 125 > > -------------------------------------------- > > Don't you mean 9/1-13 and 9/14? Or is this some vedic > jyotish thing that I don't understand? :)
Excellent point. :-) You know what they say about there being three kinds of people in this world -- those who can do math and those who can't... Consider the October 1st followup post header changed in advance to read: TOTAL POSTS** 9/1-13: 1960 *** 9/14-30: ???? ---------------------------------------------- :-) I think it'll be fascinating to see what those followup statistics show. Will anyone actually change their posting habits, or not? This "experiment" is very Buddhist in origin. Their view of behavior is that it is very much based on free will. An individual is of course influenced by his past trends and habits, but can transcend them at any moment, and decide to DO SOMETHING ELSE. Therefore, if anyone looks at their post totals and their corresponding percentage of total posts on the list and thinks that they're either posting too much or too little, they have the opportunity to change that. They have the *opportunity*, but will they take advantage of it? THAT is the question. Some of the heaviest posters will realize that they've allowed their egos to run a little rampant and that they've basically been subjecting the other people here to their own need to hear themselves talk (at least in cyberspeak), and they'll cut down the number of posts they make. Others, also among the heaviest posters, will decide instead that they have no need to cut down on their posts, and in fact may subject everyone else to even *more* of their egorants. I don't really predict who will do what (although I think we all have our suspicions about who will fall into the latter category). I'm just inter- ested in what the statistics themselves will show. As I said, I plan to post followup statistics for the rest of September at the beginning of October, and then I'll probably keep posting similar stats every month, just to keep track of who is posting the most and who the least. For the first half of September, if everyone were posting with equal frequency, they'd have made 45 posts or so each. The fact that some people feel that it is their right to regularly post five to six times that often is interesting, n'est-ce pas? Traditional Buddhists would say that if this trend continues over time (and it has -- the "top two" posters have maintained the same averages for all of 2006 so far), it demonstrates an ego and degree of self-obsession that is as out of balance with normality as their percentage of personal posts is with normal levels of posting. For me, seeing these stats made me realize that I've posted far too much here, and that I should stop doing that and post only when I've really got some- thing to say. To that end, I'm going to try to avoid obvious attempts to draw me into head-to-head ego arguments (as new.morning is doing lately, and as others *always* do), and limit myself to saying what I've got to say and allowing it to stand on its own. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
