I am emminently teachable, but that presumes that whatever you are pumping is worth knowing and that I would be a willing student, but simply garnering votes is not a valid measure of truth. In fact, that is what gave us a bastard socialist for president. Honest Abe Lincoln even once said "you can fool all of the people some of the time."
The market is a non-deterministic composite of statistical behavior, random/event driven behavior, and I would suspect a fair amount of manipulation by those with an agenda and the power to do so. The last two just have to be dealt with as they occur, but the statistical behavior can be reasonably determined with appropriate analysis techniques. However, that does not extend in any provable scientific or mathematical way to a pattern theory that is defined "a priori". Why is it that EWT has to be "revised and extended" so much? The market isn't always right, and in fact, is constantly getting it wrong. Just witness all the back and forth. Overshoot and adjust, just like with naval gunnery. The only thing it does is to reflect the mood of the herd in the moment, and how many times have we seen the herd charge right off a cliff?
Re: faith, you make the same falacious, circular arguments that have been made throught the ages, i.e. by equating truth and faith or using them interchangeably, when there is nothing at all in common between them. Faith is by defintion (look it up) believing in that which cannot be proven, so to speak of truth and faith (or "true faith"???) in the same breath is an oxymoron. Simply believing that something is true does not in any way make it true, no more than not believing in it makes it false, and therein is the conundrum, i.e. disproving a negative. Faith may not be a bad thing if it gives a person a moral center and any personal reassurance they may need of their place in the universe, but in and of itself it is neither here nor there. I suppose it would not really make a difference if you believed in the tooth fairy if you derived personal satisfaction and fulfillment from it.
