No. People's ADVOCACY of CTE is useless because they fail to provide information. If nobody shared their information about physics, then hearing someone babble on about it would have NO MEANING OR VALUE to anyone other than the babbler.
"OH, this physics is just GREAT!!!" "Really? What is it, what does it do?" "Hey! What do you want me to do, SPOONFEED IT to you? I already TOLD you, it's GREAT! Find out for yourself!"
What does it do?.............. Well physics helps us to build things like cellphones and satellites and cars.
Wow that's awesome, will you teach me physics? ........ Um, no but there are places you can go to learn physics.
Well then I think you're full of BS about physics if you won't teach me. Obviously physics is a sham and you're a con-artist.
First, your claim ignores the fact that there are people who HAVE "learned it" and WISH to describe it to others on the forum--yet are apparently unable to do so. Second, from the above, we have reason to doubt that a man pocketing balls is using an inexplicable (but instructable, for a fee) method to pocket them.
No one said that they are unable to do so in a practical matter. Those who really know CTE have been asked NOT TO try to provide a step-by-step instructional on the forums and so far they respect that.
And that means what, exactly?
Obviously the conclusion you draw is that if it's not free to you then it's a sham. Pity because if you tried to be nice to those who know it then maybe they would share what they know and you could argue from a position of intimacy.
Huh? So CTE works with climate issues too!! We may have to alert the government about this! This could be bigger than I thought! This is NOT just some AIMING system! Why didn't you tell me?!?!
That is correct. CTE and like methods work in all climates.
The system is judgment. The judgment is the system. Repeat that 500 times. $500 please.
Are you losing it a little?

Maybe you should make another chart to calm down.
No. What I want is a HINT that it's something that makes any sense or, absent that, perhaps someone with a NAME and REPUTATION to lose coming forward and saying "Yeah, this is great."
Stevie Moore.
Are there any other plausible reasons to purchase something from a seller?
I don't understand your question? Stan Shuffet offers a money back guarantee I think. So you can go to him with your prejudgment and your mind made up and get all the information he has to give and when done ask for your money back if you don't think you learned anything of value. What's easier than that?
Oh I know, making charts to disprove something you know nothing about.
Testimonials? Sorry but, even the TESTIMONIALS are hopelessly vague. Show me even one person who says "I can usually only run about a rack a week. The day after learning CTE I ran FOUR RACKS!"
Is that your measure? Going from a rack a week to four packs? Well I can't give you a concrete example like that but I can tell you that about two weeks after learning a fractional system from Hal Houle, which has been equally derided by several of the same folks in this thread, I won a decent sized tournament in Colorado against the best players in the state.
As for my labels, they come from my (long) experience. When people are vague about something, then that something is usually ineffective or non-substantial. At least, that's the way I've found things to be on THIS planet. What planet are you from?
So you rely on your own experience to come to conclusions? Yet at the same time you call people who also have long experience in the game of pocket billiards delusional because they are relating their positive experiences with CTE and like methods?
In your whole life you have never found that someone just didn't WANT to tell you something? I'd probably be vague dealing with you as well given the short interaction we have had so far. Why would I care to share anything of value with a person who is so close-minded as you appear to be? In fact if I were a mean-spirited person I might even lead you on just to see you blow up even more.
I am not sure what planet I am from. Earth is the only home I have known. In my life on the Earth I have learned that the world has a lot to teach me and that we as a species are never done discovering things we did not know the day before.
When I go to the Chinese pharmacy and he gives me some nasty tasting natural pills to calm my gassy stomach I don't ask him how he knows that they work. I trust that he has given them to others before me without killing them and I try them. When they work I don't have the feeling that these pills came into existence because some huge company figured out the exact chemistry to produce them. I have the feeling that Chinese pharmacists and doctors over the past 5000 years have done enough trial and error to figure out what concoctions of naturally available plants and minerals work to relieve my gas. Now if YOU want to know HOW the pills work then you will have to analyze them and figure out the chemistry of the ingredients.
For me it's enough that the pharmacist I trust recommends the medicine. By the same token people I respect in this game, who also play at moderate to high levels, trust the aiming systems enough to teach them and that's enough for me to want to try them.
There was a time when I thought it was all BS. Before Hal showed up in Denver and asked to see me I thought I knew how to aim and I was quite happy with my game. I had skipped all the threads about his aiming systems - preferring no opinion because I thought it was all something I did not need. And when I met Hal I thought it was nonsense at first and tried to find a way to excuse myself and go find some action during the first 30 minutes.
But no action was there so I was stuck and when I settled down and started listening I started making some ridiculous shots. Shots that I knew were LOW percentage for me, shots that I normally tried everything to avoid when playing for real. Suddenly I am splitting the pockets and all the time feeling like I was lined up wrong.
Well the fact was that I was lined up RIGHT but it FELT wrong because before when aiming my way I was wrong.
So I became a convert. When I went home I kept using the system that stuck with me and tried to get it to fail me. It didn't and as a result a few weeks later I won that big event.
Did it make me into a world beater? Not even close. I have too many other bad habits to correct and unfortunately I learned Hal's method at 32 as I was winding down my pool playing. Now I play a few times a month of I am lucky. But when I do play I feel pretty good that I can still get applause from the rail for some of the ridiculous great shots I can make thanks to Hal's methods.
So I feel bad for you if this is something you might need in your game and you can't get it. Because the feeling of running racks is awesome and the feeling of coming with great shots to do it is even better.