Mobyseven, you're welcome to join in. I think, however, that what you are saying has already been tried, but I won't be surprised if you continue. It has been pointed out several times that something cannot be both objective and subjective, yet BF persists in stating that it can. Further, it is not possible to pin him down on exactly what he means by 'objective' and 'subjective'. In fact, when you can get anything close to a coherent response on the question, he'll switch between definitions from one sentence to the next. And he will not admit he's wrong, even, or perhaps especially, when it is clear.
I've been in the same situation as you, seeing the obvious flaws in BF's postings, and thinking I just needed to point them out for the scales to fall from his eyes. The sad fact is that it's all been said before, many times, and BF is either unable or unwilling to understand. He has stated that 'success' for him is a massive thread which people give up responding to. To all intents and purposes, he is a troll, since he is provoking responses and not taking any notice of what those responses say, except to reply to them in a way to provoke more responses. He is either not interested in or not capable of any debate that involves comprehending the points put to him. He uses the wrong words, and sticks by those words when the error is pointed out to him, claiming that we are the ones who do not understand.
He will introduce claims into the discussion, which he then fails to back up (E.g. Pythagoras killed the person who invented 'zero'), and which collapse under investigation. He will reply to refutations of an argument with a whole lot of links which he has plainly just googled; these links very often oppose his case, since he has not read them, but when this is pointed out he ignores this.
He varies the tone and style with which he addresses each participant, apparently in a deliberate way, supposedly echoing the poster, but in practice he has insulted various posters without provocation. He refers to 'tit for tat' frequently, by which he means this matching of response style, but also the line by line addressing of a poster's reply which he has stated is essential for us to 'get it'; until just now, when it's not so important since he doesn't have the time.
The underlying 'theme' of the thread is his 'OS012'. If you read this thread, the previous threads here and on badscience, and his website, I think you will be none the wiser as to what it is. About all we know is that it involves classifying ideas as 'true', 'false' or 'mystery', assigning the numbers 0, 1 and 2. We have his definitions of these terms, but they are not usable by anyone who uses English in the normal way. We do not have a simple worked example of how to do this classification. We do not have any information on what you do once you have made this classification. It seems that any time we get close to focussing on this, a tangent is introduced.
Really, the best thing is for everyone to ignore him, but he has a knack of posting such obviously incorrect statements in way that draws people in, and manages to irritate them, and sometimes suggest that he might possibly be understanding, just enough to keep them posting for a while. And, once, he did pay out on a promise to pay $100 if proved wrong.
Hmm, this seems to be my summary post. I guess I should stop posting after this.
I've been in the same situation as you, seeing the obvious flaws in BF's postings, and thinking I just needed to point them out for the scales to fall from his eyes. The sad fact is that it's all been said before, many times, and BF is either unable or unwilling to understand. He has stated that 'success' for him is a massive thread which people give up responding to. To all intents and purposes, he is a troll, since he is provoking responses and not taking any notice of what those responses say, except to reply to them in a way to provoke more responses. He is either not interested in or not capable of any debate that involves comprehending the points put to him. He uses the wrong words, and sticks by those words when the error is pointed out to him, claiming that we are the ones who do not understand.
He will introduce claims into the discussion, which he then fails to back up (E.g. Pythagoras killed the person who invented 'zero'), and which collapse under investigation. He will reply to refutations of an argument with a whole lot of links which he has plainly just googled; these links very often oppose his case, since he has not read them, but when this is pointed out he ignores this.
He varies the tone and style with which he addresses each participant, apparently in a deliberate way, supposedly echoing the poster, but in practice he has insulted various posters without provocation. He refers to 'tit for tat' frequently, by which he means this matching of response style, but also the line by line addressing of a poster's reply which he has stated is essential for us to 'get it'; until just now, when it's not so important since he doesn't have the time.
The underlying 'theme' of the thread is his 'OS012'. If you read this thread, the previous threads here and on badscience, and his website, I think you will be none the wiser as to what it is. About all we know is that it involves classifying ideas as 'true', 'false' or 'mystery', assigning the numbers 0, 1 and 2. We have his definitions of these terms, but they are not usable by anyone who uses English in the normal way. We do not have a simple worked example of how to do this classification. We do not have any information on what you do once you have made this classification. It seems that any time we get close to focussing on this, a tangent is introduced.
Really, the best thing is for everyone to ignore him, but he has a knack of posting such obviously incorrect statements in way that draws people in, and manages to irritate them, and sometimes suggest that he might possibly be understanding, just enough to keep them posting for a while. And, once, he did pay out on a promise to pay $100 if proved wrong.
Hmm, this seems to be my summary post. I guess I should stop posting after this.
