I have NO idea why that reply has such a HUGE number of line returns below my quote of Phil's words.

In case you missed it, my comment was:

"Really? Then they're doing better than the vast majority of humanity, over the course of civilization. :)"

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:34 PM Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:11 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
2/3's - 3/4's of those who 'went west' on the Oregon Trail were such abysmal failures that, even if they made it, they eventually vanished from the records.

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Really? Then they were doing better than the vast majority of humanity, over the course of civilization. :)

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Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein
"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville
"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester (fictional monster hunter portrayed by Jensen Ackles)
"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.


--
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein
"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville
"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester (fictional monster hunter portrayed by Jensen Ackles)
"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.