Where do you go with this statement from the Duggars?

[lukkadairish]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/duggars-overpopulation_n_1387640.html?ref=mostpopular

I don't even know where to begin.......

[RadiationTherapy]

1. I refuse to forcefully re-educate a person, so, live and let live I guess.

I suppose by increasing the relative education/knowledge of the US in general, there will be more social peer pressure on this sort of thinking, but that's all I can think of.

[lukkadairish]

2. the thing

that gets me is the statement that the population of Earth can fit into J'ville FL......I am being exceedingly kind and guessing she has never been to Hong Kong or Mexico City...

[Wait Wut]

8. Of course you can.

It just depends on how high you stack them.

[immoderate]

22. Single layer -- shoulder to shoulder. Sounds about right.

It is also the observation of an air-head.

--imm

[MrsMatt]

48. Human Jenga! n/n

[Wait Wut]

50. LOL!!

That visual cracked me up!

[tsuki]

44. Or read a book, or seen a picture, or had a synapse jump...nt

[calimary]

24. She's probably completely unreachable.

Useless even to try, methinks.

[monmouth]

3. She strikes me as a very naive person who never questions the rules..n/t

[Arugula Latte]

25. The way she talks, with that breathy little girl voice, unnerves me.

She's subservience personified.

[KansDem]

4. "...the entire population of the world could fit inside of Jacksonville, Florida."

Over 6 billion people can "fit" inside of Jacksonville, Florida?

Yeah...sure... That says it all for me: she's wacko!!!...

[Arkana]

6. They might, if you put everyone ass to ankles--but apparently since the Duggars have

eight million kids they're used to that.

[Canuckistanian]

11. It's possible

If you remove all that useless space between our individual atoms.

[kestrel91316]

23. + 5 brazillion

[quakerboy]

19. Gotta love numbers

Wikipedia says 7.004 billion people. Figure that people are at least 2x1.5 feet, when standing up, so 3 sf/ person. 21 billion square feet.

A square mile holds 27,878,400 square feet. Jacksonville has 767 square miles. 21 billion square feet.

Technically, she is correct. If you tore out all the buildings, and no one were larger than average or had to sit down. But I am pretty sure that no fire marshal would approve Jacksonville for 7 billion occupancy.

I wonder if that density of people would result in people in the center suffocating, even if it were all open air.

[Hugabear]

20. Technically, that might be possible - but it's also a very misleading stat

For one thing, the city limits of Jacksonville, FL basically encompasses the entire county - which by land area makes Jacksonville one of the largest cities in the country.

Taking that into consideration, it might be possible to squeeze 6 billion people inside Jax. But that's it. There's absolutely no way in hell that 6 billion people could live inside Jax - just the very thought of that should be ludicrous.

[XemaSab]

5. They believe that the first and main commandment is "be fruitful and multiply"

If God wants us to have as many kids as possible, he would never make the earth too crowded with people.

Therefore, overpopulation is a lie.

This is totally their logic.

[FSogol]

7. Why read Huffington Post? There are most certainly more important

things to read about than the tabloid drivelings of a pseudo-celebrity.

[Marrah_G]

9. It's her own beliefs.

That's the thing about beliefs... they do not have to be based in fact. I doubt anyone could change her mind. She lives in a bubble where that is what she has been taught.

[snooper2]

10. There is a reason that studies show the more religous one is the more ignorant they are

And on edit, since somebody is going to ask for said studies, I'll just link to the entire wikipedia page on the subject-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence

[dembotoz]

12. stupid is as stupid does

and they have a show on cable

[liberal N proud]

13. Airhead

[Vincardog]

14. Bless her heart

[Taitertots]

15. I don't understand why everyone fitting into Jacksonville would matter

If everyone did, we would starve on a mountain of shit and dead bodies.

The problem with overpopulation is that we need to feed everyone, take care of their waste, provide health care, support quality of life, and all of that takes resources.

[yellerpup]

16. She's first generation home schooled, I take it....

[Raine]

31. No you're wrong, both her & her husband JimBob were educated in public schools

it's their kids that are being home schooled.

[yellerpup]

35. I should have added a 'sarcasm' emoticon.

By all evidence, she didn't get any of the history lessons the rest of us learned at school.

[Raine]

45. :-) she must have slept thru class

she sure got nothing out of it.

[yellerpup]

47. She has an anal retention problem.

[Walk away]

17. These people are members of the Quiverfull cult. They are Fundies who endorse constant breeding.

They actually believe that women should be pregnant at all times and that husbands and wives only have sex to procreate.

Their women are basically cows and the older children raise the younger ones.

They are discouraged from any form of critical thinking and almost always home schooled. News and information from the world outside their church and family is almost completely filtered.

[laundry_queen]

26. Yep, it's a cult and she's part of it.

Generally people in a cult will defend it, even while they are still victims of it.

[get the red out]

18. Well, I agree on one point

If all those animals fit into the ark, you know all the people on Earth could fit into Jacksonville. Seriously, they even had to get dinosaurs on the ark, didn't they?

[kentauros]

32. But not ducks

[JNelson6563]

34. Lolz Love him! Thanks for posting!

[LiberalArkie]

21. Point 1: why is she wearing an upside-down cross, Second over-population isn't the problem,

the problem is we don't have the resources for a growing population, not enough clean water, or air or food or fuel. Land, yes there is enough land. That is what people think of when they think of over population. That is what I used to think when I looked around here in rural Arkansas and only saw 1 person for every 10 or 15 miles. Sure we could fit 1000 times more people here, could we feed them or give the clean water to drink, or provide fuel for their cars?

Nope.

[provis99]

27. Idiocracy is real.

The morons are rapidly outbreeding the thinkers.

[MineralMan]

28. Ignore it completely.

Who cares what they say?

[spanone]

29. well, there are a lot of climate deniers too, what the f*ck can you do?

stupid is as stupid does

[jmowreader]

30. Not very far

Michelle Duggar is only about three kids away from her "ah, get that, would you Deidre?" moment. (Watch the "Every Sperm is Sacred" sketch in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.&quot Either that, or she's going to die during childbirth, which is God's way of saying "when I said to go forth and repopulate the Earth, I didn't mean you had to do it all by yourself."

There's really nothing you can say to Michelle Duggar to convince her God didn't really mean for her to have 22 kids or whatever it is now, so I don't worry about it.

[arthritisR_US]

33. You cannot argue with a bread making machine.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

36. Since this human baby factory likes to quote

Mother Teresa, how about a "Duggars Go To India" episode.

Then maybe she can rethink that Jacksonville statement and
get a clue as to what overpopulation and poverty can look
like.

[Ikonoklast]

38. Mother Theresa was a monster. She loved human suffering.

Instead of doing anything to alleviate it, like advocating for birth control, she made a business out of it.

[Snake Alchemist]

39. Notice no one had ever seen Hitler or Mother Teresa in the same room.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

40. Agreed. But I'm referring to the quote

made in the article.

She also grew up the daughter of a wealthy doctor and never knew a
day of the circumstances those she supposedly advocated for knew.

I'm no fan, trust me.

[The Genealogist]

37. The woman's part of a religious group whose way of spreading is to outpopulate the others

It would be hard for me to disbelieve any ignorant, off base thing the woman says, especially when it comes to population control issues.

[lonestarnot]

41. I'm not going to bother to read that, so nowhere I guess.

Who are the litter makers parasiting off now?

[hatrack]

42. You hop on board the Night Express to Dumbfuckistan . . .

Seriously, what else is there to say?

[Johnny Rico]

43. Um...shrug at it?

They can say whatever they like...

[Ilsa]

46. College-educated Conservatives are rejecting Science.

I saw the graph on Up With Chris Hayes this morning. The number has gone from about 35% to 50%, more or less. If a scientific finding doesn't fit their dogma or belief system, Conservatives just reject it.

[Initech]

49. As the Dude Lebowski would say "Well that's just like your opinion, man..."

doesn't even begin to describe that statement.

[KG]

51. they are lunatics, reality is off their radar...