“Your Problem Is That You Speak for People Who You Have No Business Speaking For. You Say: ‘People Don’t Believe What You Say.’ No. YOU Don’t Believe What I Say. You Can Say That Much. You Cannot Speak for All Others.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

Your problem is that you are only focused on your views and perceptions. People don’t believe what you say and have long grown tired of you. Even when given evidence contrary to your views, you ignore it or twist in a way you think suits your view. You need to correct your own errors rather than asking others to bend to your will.

I don’t ask anyone to bend to my will. I would not want anyone to bend to my will because I asked them to. I seek to persuade. If people are persuaded, that’s good. If they are not, that’s good too. So long as I gave it my best effort, I did my part. In cases in which people are not persuaded, there’s always the chance that they will persuade me. Which leaves me better off if I needed to be persuaded of that thing. So that’s a good way for things to turn out too.

Your problem is that you speak for people who you have no business speaking for. You say: “People don’t believe what you say.” No. YOU don’t believe what I say. You can say that much. You cannot speak for all others. There are lots of others who, like you, don’t believe what I say. But there are also lots of others who do believe what I say and who want to hear more and who want to ask questions and who then might want to share what they have learned with still more others. That’s how it is done. That’s how a community engages in a learning experience.

I am focused on what makes sense to me. And the idea that market timing might not be required when buying stocks makes precisely zero sense to me. Market timing is price discipline. Price discipline is what makes markets work. Without it, they become dysfunctional. A dysfunctional stock market hurts all of us. So I am going to continue to say that market timing is 100 percent required for those buying stocks.

I wish you all good things.

Evidence-Twisting Rob