Justin39640
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TL,
I agree with the others. Heiwa's strange beliefs are not due to a language barrier. If it were, I'd still be really patient with him.
Like everyone else who has interacted with him for any length, I've become very disillusioned with his behavior. He has behaved in an extraordinarily dishonest manner. He promotes nonsense. When you attempt to pin him down with the simple request that he answer a couple of pointed questions, he simply ignores you. (He believes that this is amusing. Or some alpha dog tactic. Or whatever...)
I've got LOTS of patience with people who are simply wrong, but are trying to learn. (Hell, I'm a prime member of that group regularly.) Also, I taught for years, mostly in industry and, for a bit, college engineering. You learn to love seeing your "students" picking up the concepts.
But I have zero patience with someone who is dishonest in their debate.
Illustrating this point, I offered a wager on a particular point. The pot on this wager was "If he lost, he had to answer, not ignore, questions. And answer them honestly. For 2 weeks." In other words, he would have to behave, for a brief period, exactly like every other honest person on this board behaves every day.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=4939790
Tellingly, he declined, and continues to decline, to make the wager.
You'll figure it out in time.
Tom
he seems to act as though hes learned everything there is to learn and all others are beneath him
he seems quite closed minded and childish in his responses
trying to get through to someone like that will be close to impossible
hes not mature enough to admit he might be wrong (IMO)
