No need to ease up for me jimmy. You obviously believe name calling serves your purpose.
No need to be passive aggressive. In fact, it tends to work better if you just say what you want and why. I’ll say the same thing this time without calling you a dingbat, but I have to warn you, asking for the removal of any and all humor does not make the resulting bitter pill any *less* harsh on you. “Dingbat” is simply the nice way of saying it.
Let’s say you have a question about heart disease and I respond with, “Here is three pages of google results.” I respond by asking if you could narrow it down by picking the most relevant or a relevant article out of the links provided.
Every single one of the links given is extremely relevant, and has been selected for relevance, and you know this.
You know this because I didn’t say “here are three pages”, I said “here are the *relevant results* from the first three pages”, and then posted far less than three pages of material. You know because I told you “I just posted several, you dingbat”, when you asked for studies I had read that contradict your statement. You also know full well that the rational “presumption of value” when I post something saying “in ten seconds you can have undeniable proof that you’re wrong” isn’t “it’s certainly not actually what he says, and my time is too valuable to check even though it’s not too valuable to defend not checking”. You know this because your own presumption is that when I challenge you, you will experience cognitive dissonance out of inability to address how damn solid my points tend to be. You know this because in every single interaction we’ve had where I’ve had to correct you, this has been the result. I have backed up everything I’ve said, and you’ve lied, obfuscated, and distracted in vain until you can run away and I consider the point to have been made. Again, examples available at request.
You know this all, and you are simply pretending not to, even though you know full well that you aren’t convincing anybody. You pretend because you’re afraid that admitting that you can read the abstracts will make people realize that you know you were wrong, and you don’t know how to handle that.
You don’t know how to handle that because you don’t know how to admit that you know you were wrong and still speak confidently on these matters without pangs of shame for not updating towards humility on a topic you have much to be humble about.
And you don’t know how to speak humbly without also feeling not-okay as a person for not being “experty” enough.
This is extremely embarrassing for you, and you are right to be embarrassed. At least if you had the fortitude to joke about it, it would feel “okay”. At least if you had the courage to say “I messed up” and stop digging, people would be able to look at you without *pity*. And being pitied is about the least comfortable thing to experience.
Again, I know this is harsh, and that’s why I originally just said it as a playful “dingbat” comment. I would like to be able to joke with you about this, and to show you how it can be okay to be a “[redacted]” sometimes.
Again, if there is a particular peer reviewed study that demonstrates hypnosis results in permanent eye color changes, please post it....regardless if it is clickable or not. I would be interested to read it.
Nice try, but you know that’s not the subject that you’re wrong about.
