Anyway, I've been working on this addendum post for a long time now. Here it is finally. It will be a bombshell and clincher.
Addendum: Logical reasons #8, 9, 10
Here are three more logical reasons to add to my OP of 7 reasons, which I will notate in the OP for a total of 10 logical reasons:
8. Everywhere in Taiwan, I see everyone MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS. No guy is cold approaching girls or trying to meet them, except at parties of course. Rock is the ONLY guy I see trying to cold approach girls. So, if picking up girls in Taiwan is as easy as picking up flies for 99/100 guys, as Rock insinuates, then WHY aren't others trying to cold approach girls here? Yet I NEVER see anyone in public trying to meet new girls or chatting them up. Not even young handsome tall guys in Taiwan are cold approaching any girls! They just mind their own business, similar to how it is in the USA. Again, the fantasy image of TW that Rock portrays does not fit the Taiwan I see in reality at all.
The thing is, if everyone around you is minding their own business, it feels kind of creepy and inappropriate to approach girls, because you will get nasty stares from guys who are minding their own business and expect you to too. That's what makes it so difficult. No one denies this, except a bunch of white guys and anonymous people, besides Rock. So how can 99/100 guys be picking up girls like flies here? It doesn't add up again.
9. If Taiwan is such a dating paradise for Rock, then WHY isn't he dating any hot girls here himself?! Instead, he's been going to Thailand and the Philippines to seek another home to relocate to!
This is perhaps the most auspicious one, and speaks volumes, since "actions speak louder than words". All the girls he showed me before in his private album that he's bagged are either unattractive or BBW's. None of them are thin. They are women that no one else wants. So if he has the pick of the litter here, why isn't he choosing any ATTRACTIVE women? You gotta wonder. Could it be that he can't get any attractive girls in TW? If so, how can it be a dating paradise to him?
Also, his long time girlfriend here that he still lives with, is likely not attractive either, for several reasons. First, Rock doesn't usually choose attractive girls. He tends to pick chubby/BBW types. That's been his pattern. Second, he refuses to show me her picture. If she was hot and he was proud of her, then he would at least show me a picture, either digitally or by hard copy. The fact that he won't, indicates that he's probably ashamed of her. (Come to think of it, an old friend of mine in Oregon who married a wealthy BBW also will not show me any pics of her lol) Third, I heard her voice on the phone and it does not sound like that of an attractive woman. Now I'm not saying that "judging attractiveness by voice" is an accurate science, but my impressions from voices tend to be right over 50 percent of the time at least. Fourth, Rock claims that his live-in girlfriend was very possessive and calling him all the time to check on him. Attractive women aren't usually possessive - they don't have to, because everyone is trying to possess them while they are trying to keep their freedom and options open. This is especially true of attractive middle class women, which he claims she is.
So these four reasons make it unlikely that she's attractive. So you gotta wonder, why would someone who can get anyone here pick someone that's not that attractive?
Furthermore, Rock says he's banged 100 women here, all for free. Ironically, he claims that he slowly worked them up to intimacy through chatting and relationship building. Huh? Who has the time to gradually work up 100 women into bed?! LOL WTF? That sounds odd. Not impossible, but improbable.
But anyway, if he can bag 100 women that easily here, then now that he's single again (he says he and his live in girl are just friends now), you gotta wonder, WHY isn't he bagging another 100 women or starting on it? If one can bag 100 women, surely one can continue doing it? You'd think so.. But instead, he has been flying to Thailand, and even the Philippines, to look for property and scout out new areas to relocate to. He's said to me and on this forum, that he is considering moving out of Taiwan cause it's getting boring.
Now that also doesn't add up. If he can easily bag high quality middle class women in Taiwan, why would he want to bag lower quality women in poorer countries? Or try to relocate from here? Again, it doesn't make sense.
Btw, on a side note: Forum member "dragonboy", told me before he left Taiwan that he just had sex for hours with a girl he met at a Halloween party last year. But he said he couldn't meet me as we planned, because he was in a rush to get to Thailand. His reason was this: He was tired of having sex with girls who got attached to him, as he was doing in Taiwan. He felt it was better to PAY for sex in Thailand, so that it will be no strings attached! WTF? Do any of you buy that?! LOL
What kind of a guy would PREFER to PAY for sex rather than getting it free, just because they want it with no strings attached?! LOL I've never heard of a guy in real life that prefers that, unless of course, it's another typical BSer who prefers to remain anonymous. LOL Go figure. After he told me that, he was on a plane to Thailand the next day, so I never got to meet him. Gee, I guess all the free sex he was getting in Taiwan was too scary for him, so he had to rush to get on a plane to Thailand instead! LOLOLOL These guys are unbelievable!
In addition, this dragonboy also told me that he had a successful website, but he didn't want to tell me what it was! Yeah right. That's so credible. I'm sure I'll believe everything this anonymous guy with an anonymous website says... Sure! LOL
But of course, Rock will buy and believe any story about Taiwan, as long as it's positive, due to his strong confirmation bias, which I will elaborate more on in the next section.
10. Taiwanese consider America to be more open and expressive. Use some basic logic here. Taiwanese and Japanese consider Americans to be more open and expressive than their own people are. Given what we know about Americans not being open with strangers and being cliquish and not talking to their neighbors, how can this be? Think about it. You won't find a Frenchmen, Italian, Spaniard or Mexican saying that Americans are more open and expressive than people in their own culture. No way. They usually say that Americans are LESS open, not more. So how come only Taiwanese and Japanese think this? The reason is obvious: Because THEY themselves are among the most closed and nonexpressive in the world. That's why they would see Americans as more open. This fact by itself SPEAKS VOLUMES. And of course, it is HUGE evidence against Rock's claim that most guys in Taiwan are able to cold approach women successfully.
Question of credibility
If you read all of Rock's posts about Taiwan, you will notice that he has hundreds of stories of guys who picked up girls like flies in Taiwan, but only 1 or 2 stories of guys who couldn't get any girls or dates. What this infers is that something like 99/100 guys can get dates/sex/romance/girlfriends easily here anytime, as long as they try. This is improbable for the reasons I cited above.
Suppose I told you all that 99/100 guys in Los Angeles could get chicks easily there, and that you were the only ones who couldn't. Yet this contradicted what you saw all around you. Would you believe me? What if I told you that I was honest and credible and was all about facts?
You gotta understand that just because a guy is intelligent and articulate and a great talker, does not mean that he is totally credible and factual and objective. President Obama is intelligent, articulate and claims to be honest too. But the facts about his birth certificate just don't add up. And like Rock, Obama has an anonymous past that no one knows about. No one at his schools or college remembers him, for example, which is very suspicious. So there is no logical reason to believe that Obama is credible since he has no references or track record to look at.
Rock claims that he is all about facts and truths, and tells it like it is. But how can that be when what he says doesn't add up, and doesn't match the facts, common sense and everyday experience around you?
Furthermore, how can you know how credible he is? He won't even tell anyone his real name, and when he checks into hotels, he uses a fake name! Do you know anyone who does that, unless he's a fugitive? Obviously that's not normal and is indicative of someone with something to hide. What do you think? What do you make of that?
Moreover, since he won't tell anyone his real name, he obviously doesn't have any references either. No personal or professional references. This means that no one knows his past, how he became financially independent, nor can anyone verify anything he says. All they can do is take his word for it that he is "honest and truthful". On the other hand, I have many personal and professional references, which can be verified here: http://www.happierabroad.com/References.htm
Now how credible do you think someone is who is anonymous, will never tell you his real name, (even if you are his friend) and checks into hotels using a FAKE name?! Is that a sign of credibility? I don't know. You tell me.
It could be that Rock is a credible person. But we simply can't know, since he has no references, no past, and no proof. But what he says about Taiwan doesn't add up, and there is a strong indication that he filters out all contrary data that doesn't fit into his "everyone gets laid in Taiwan" paradigm, which is like a religion to him when you look at it.
Rock, do you even have an old friend who's known you for years, that we can contact as a reference? Or a neutral source? Everyone has some, so why wouldn't you? (Unless you have some dark horrible past that you don't want to be unveiled)
Strong evidence for Rock's confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance
It would seem that Rock treats Taiwan like a religion, in that all contrary data to what he says about Taiwan is filtered out. It's similar to how you can show a Christian preacher a mountainful of Bible contraditions, but he will filter them all out. It's cognitive bias. But in this case, Rock's religion is that "everyone gets laid in Taiwan because it is a dating/sex paradise" and he is VERY adamant about it, to the point of filtering out all contrary data. I wonder why. Perhaps he has too much stock or emotion invested in TW? It's odd though, that he takes it personally everytime I attack Taiwan for something, such as in that article I wrote about the myth of Taiwan youth being open.
You could give him 10 examples or testimonials of guys who disagree with him about Taiwan, or who say that I'm right (such as the Chicago guy and German guy I brought up), and he will filter it out of his memory.
Here is one clear incontrovertible example where he clearly erased his own memory, which I experienced firsthand:
In Taichung, at a pub, the waitress sitting with us told Rock that the reason women here are more open to him is because he is white. She agreed that they are not as open with Asian men. This is common sense and known by everyone. Even Rock's date that night agreed with this. So that's two women! But for some reason, Rock, a Taiwan expert, does not know this or doesn't want to.
Since she was in effect saying that I was right, I told her to REPEAT it again to Rock. I wanted to make DOUBLY SURE that he heard her this time, so that he wouldn't try to deny it later. So she did. There, it was settled, or so I thought.
But amazingly, after that, Rock erased his memory about what she said and claimed to not remember it! WTF?! I couldn't believe it! I made DOUBLY SURE that he understood what she said. And he just forgets it like that?! WTF?!?! CLEARLY that was a case of cognifitive dissonance. Rock didn't want to believe it, so he filtered it out of his memory! Sheesh!
Yet in spite of this, he claims to be factual and objective?! LOL RIGHT!!!
Several Taiwan girls have told him that I'm right, but he seems to convenient forget that EVERY TIME!
I don't know. But it seems like Rock, although seemingly sincere, has warped views about TW and only sees what he WANTS to see. He is obviously not neutral or objective and filters out the info he doesn't like. We all do to some extent, but he has a strong confirmation bias about TW for some reason. I don't know why. All I know is what I see and experience.
He also believes that anyone who doesn't enjoy Taiwan has an attitude problem. My German friend that I talked about in another thread, had some very valid reasons why he felt alienated in Taiwan, despite the hospitable attention he was getting. He did not have an attitude problem. His Couchsurfing profile has many positive references from others. So, Rock seems to have a victim blaming mentality here, another indication that Taiwan is a religion to him.
He won't even admit that Taiwanese are repressed, which is something that everyone here knows. How can Rock not know something that every average person here knows?
Also, Rock is a good writer, but how come he couldn't figure out the card tricks I did, including the simplest one, yet the cocktail waitress could figure them all out?! LOL Ok well Rock figured out one of them, but only after I did it many times over because I couldn't believe that he couldn't figure out such an obvious trick.
It was the one where I guess the cards accurately as I picked them up. What I did was I bent the cards quickly for a fraction of a second, as I picked each one up in order to see the corners. This is an obvious trick and nearly every Asian person figures it out at first glance. White people don't seem as good at figuring them out for some reason. (I've noticed this ever since doing these tricks since I was 13) I guess it's true that East Asians have higher IQ's. lol.
So, I would say that seeing through BS, deceit and lies is not Rock's forte. Catching BS doesn't appear to be one of his strengths. Therefore, he is likely to believe any guy who BSes to him, or at least give him the benefit of the doubt, esp in regard to Taiwan.
Anyway, it ticks me off when I'm struggling here, depressed and frustrated as hell, with all these cold repressed faces around me ignoring me, in an environment where everyone is minding their own business and not trying to talk to any strangers, and here Rock is claiming that 99/100 guys can pick up girls in TW like flies, and offering no proof. Yeah right.
I see no proof or evidence of his over the top claims. Instead, I see a ton of evidence to the contrary, for the reasons I cited above.
Therefore, the bottom line again is that overall, his claims are HIGHLY IMPROBABLE, when you look at the big picture and 10 reasons above, and furthermore, he seems to have a STRONG CONFIRMATION BIAS and cognitive dissonance that FILTERS out all contrary data to his religious belief that "anyone can get laid in Taiwan" or at least 99/100 or 9/10 can.
I'm not saying that he's dishonest, nor am I saying that he's honest either. Just that what he says does NOT match what I see all around me, and does NOT match what genuine down to earth people here say. Nor does it match basic common sense either. And he definitely has a strong BIAS toward a certain view of Taiwan that FILTERS out contrary data. Most revealing is that the critical questions under reason #10 above about him not getting any hot girls in TW himself are very telling, and perhaps speak volumes, since "actions speak louder than words".
He tries to sidestep this by saying that "some" do well in Taiwan and others don't, which is vague and can apply to anywhere, but he never gives a percentage of this "some". However, from the sheer volume of his testimonials on Taiwan, he definitely is claiming that the majority of men in Taiwan can easily pick up chicks.
I can believe that people like Rock have a knack for getting Taiwanese people to open up to him. That I can buy. But his claim that 9/10 or most guys are able to cold approach Taiwanese girls is definitely NOT TRUE, for the many reasons that have been elaborated on so far. It just doesn't work that way here.
All in all, there is a mountain of evidence and reasons against what he claims, which he religiously sticks to despite all contrary data.
PS - Ok let's say my 99/100 or 9/10 claim by Rock is an exaggeration. But even if Rock claimed that 5/10 or even 1/10 guys he knew in Taiwan could cold approach women successfully, I still wouldn't believe it, because if you come here and look all around you, you will see that NO ONE is doing that. If they are, it's extremely rare. 1 out of 10 is not rare, so even if Rock claims 1 out of 10, it would still be unbelievable. Come here and experience the real Taiwan, and you will see. Everyone minds their own business. Cold approaching or flirting is considered creepy, inappropriate and out of flow. It isn't part of the matrix here. Sure some can get away with it, but it's NOT part of the everyday flow of things. You are definitely walking AGAINST the tide if you try to do it. Even other white guys in Taiwan don't do it, which says a lot. I will show you some letters from them in the next post.
These 10 logical reasons are like Photon Torpedos that obliterate Rock's illusion about Taiwan, turning it into an exploding Death Star. lol
