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i kinda knew this guy. one day he was wearing a baseball cap with the korean letter "m" (looks like a square) embroidered on it. since it was a square, i asked him about his hat.

he told me it was a korean "b" for "Bep-da." his korean freinds game him the nickname "spicy"

i said "oh, you mean "mep-da." that's an "m."

"no, BEP-da."

i asked him if he spoke korean, he said no, but his friends would say bep-da. i explained to him i spoke, read, and wrote korean, having lived there a year and gone briefly to Yonsei University. i told him the korean word for spicy is "mep-da" and that was an "m" on his hat.

he insisted it was a "b" for beb-da.

a third friend joined in, explaining that i actually spoke korean, he didn't not, he should probably believe me. he would not.

this stuck with me over the years, it fascinates me. his belief was so strong, the fact that he had no idea what he was talking about, and the fact that i actually did, didn't matter to him. he knew i went to korea, he knew i studied the korean language, he knew i spoke, read, wrote it. but he would not believe me.

without this getting into a discussion on religion...belief and faith vs. science.....

have you ever dealt with people like that? have you ever known something for a fact and had to argue with someone who admitted they didn't know the subject as well as you but you were wrong and they were right? have you ever had overwhelming proof and evidence to suggest one thing, and the other person through sheer will of personal belief argue with you?

what makes someone do that? how does that happen? how can someone looking at the truth deny it?

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