I think part of the problem may be that you consider yourself to be “educating” anybody.
You’re offering your opinion. Your opinion may or may not be correct. But you think that anybody who disagrees with you displays a “lack of intellectual capability on my questions.” You’re so certain that your opinions are correct that you don’t perceive somebody who doesn’t listen to your “education” uncritically as merely someone who disagarees, you see them as an unruly student who refuses to agree that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
“When I must do this with a seasoned investors or long-time piggington readers, it’s just repetitive and I lose my patience.”
I can’t speak for any other long-time pigginton readers, but I don’t consider what you dole out here as education at all. Let alone something you need to repeat. I see it as lots of research followed by what its sometimes very questionable analysis. I, personally, am happy to read what everyone posts, including you, look at it as objectively as possible, try to analyze the strength or weakness of the argument, and see if there’s anything I can learn. Sometimes I learn from what you post. Sometimes it’s a waste of my time. Which is fine. Every poster here (I don’t count Rich as a poster), including me, posts both solid and questionable material. I’m willing to go through chaff to get wheat. The problem is when you consider everything you write to be golden wheat and start saying that a perfectly reasonable man like Docteur is “(bringing) around a bunch of BS.” All that does is expose your possible emotional issues with your position in both the housing market and this forum.
I’ve been suspicious of such issues for quite some time, and wasn’t going to say anything until you failed the lady test horribly and removed most of the remaining doubt that I had about your issues. So many people here, especially the women, defer to you so uncritically. And some of the men seem to be in a bit of a cat fight with you. I’m neither, and I thought I’d offer my perspective on the issue. Read every post I’ve ever posted, and you’ll see that I’ve never called anyone a name, nor have I gotten emotional about anything. I’m trying to offer you advice from a calm, hopefully rational place. Of course you can take it or leave it.
I think you need to take a deep, close, open-minded look at yourself and see exactly why this forum and your situation make you feel the way you do. Learn to meditate, if you haven’t already, and meditate on it. (Meditation, for anybody who reads this, is a relaxation technique that changed my life. Anyone can benefit from it, and everyone should, in my opinion. It will most likely make you a calmer, happier person.)
And I think you need to understand that you are not always right. Intellectually, you may already understand that you are not always right. But emotionally, it seems to me that you’re struggling with that issue. Perhaps its part of a larger issue involving your confidence. Perhaps you really are certain you’re always right, in which case you need to somehow learn, deep down inside, that you’re not. Or perhaps you’re actually insecure, and the thought of being wrong horrifies you.
Perhaps it’s none of the above. Perhaps it’s nothing at all. But, from my perspective, is seems like there are probably changes that could be made for the better.
If you’re not honest with yourself about all this, then you can’t help yourself. Keep that in mind.
