My first post relates to pool "practice." I suggest you study it to the point of understanding.
Learn the technique then practice it? Got it. When will you learn how to use CTE so you can practice it?
Yes. Ever realize that it's intended to be used pejoratively?
Of course but it also contains truth as in someone may be quite happy and
productive without knowing "the truth" about the world.
That's right. I only know what people have said. From that, it doesn't work.
As opposed to the people who have said it works? Those people being ones who actually use it.
You mean...."IT WORKS!" ??
That's indirect evidence. One doesn't favor indirect evidence in place of direct evidence. All direct evidence supports the inference that it DOESN'T WORK!
Which direct evidence do you have that CTE does not work? You don't know how to use CTE. Where is the video showing a person who learned CTE or some similar system which claims and shows that it does not work?
You have your assertions based on your incomplete knowledge. That's all.
I don't know how to do an astrological chart; but I know astrology doesn't "work." I'm certainly NOT going to take the time to learn how to make astrological charts. In fact, actually LEARNING how to make them wouldn't put me in any better position to claim whether or not they "work."
Fair enough. However we are talking about something measurable here. Making pool balls go into holes.
Something within your realm of control and something you can learn and subsequently debunk with far less effort than you put forth here. If you make nice with Dave (under another name I'd suggest) then he will probably help you to learn CTE. Then you can apply that knowledge at the table and come back with better data to continue your quest. At the moment you lack critical information.
Primitive peoples knew enough to know when to plant and harvest because they made an EFFORT to understand seasonal periodicity (i.e., to do the SCIENCE, even before people had a name for "science")--not because they had Pagan holidays.
Um, not quite, the observed the changing of the seasons and assigned those changes to the "will of the gods" and did all sorts of rituals to gain favor of the gods so that the growing season would be longer, the harvest more plentiful, the winter not so long and harsh etc, etc..... the pagan celebrations at particular times of the year were made to MARK the changing of the seasons and allow them a way to keep track of when to plant, move, hunt, etc....
In other words they used a method to do something useful and concrete based on an erroneous belief about the cause. Still, although they did not understand geophysics they managed to get corn in the ground at the right time.
Anyone who can regularly make medium difficult shots (which includes most serious players) DOES have "a little readout in their brain which is measuring and plotting the ball locations with millimeter precision." They couldn't be consistently making the shots if they didn't.
No, they are not doing it precisely, they are doing it holisticly by taking in the whole shot picture at once and making a split-second best guess as to where to get down on the ball and how to address it.
However, if we accept your statement that the couldn't consistently be making shots if they aren't calculating to millimeter precision then how do you explain success with CTE? Subconscious calculation to milllimeter precision? Pretty good if a system brings a player to that level when the player wasn't there pre-CTE.
Those people are using machines that HAVE a basis in physical fact. CTE does not.
CTE has a basis in physical fact. Two balls are sitting on a table with the pockets in fixed positions. Start with the cueball and line it up to the object ball and pivot to the right line. Doesn't get much more physical than that.
All evidence so far suggests that no one CAN say how CTE works or what it is (and lots of evidence suggests that "CTE" means different things to different people). What evidence DOES exist about what CTE is implies that it would NOT work...so why would I go to someone for them to tell me about it? Would you suggest that people spend their lives chasing down every CLAIM made by every PERSON? Doing that would make for a completely WASTED LIFE. It's necessary to use discernment in order to best utilize one's opportunities to learn new things.
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No. There are people who can tell you HOW it works. But they won't do so at your demand on the open forum.
If you honestly think that CTE has zero merit then why are you wasting so much time here to attempt to discredit it? Wouldn't your time be better spent learning more about things you find useful?
Do you think that you are somehow saving people from disappointment when they try to learn CTE?
I mean it's a method to aim balls. If you want to get down to it it's one technique espoused by some people who feel it works well. No matter who tries it the proof is in the shotmaking. If a person tries it and they don't get better then that will be apparent to them in very short order.
So what on Earth is your motivation for all this energy to "debunk" something you don't even know how to implement?
All you have really achieved is a rehashing of the same debate that has gone one for years. And you are continuing to pique people's interest in this mysterious underground aiming system.
You would have achieved far more had you just remained silent on the subject.
