A lIttle Help, Please...

[Kimpatsu]

Greetings, all.
As some of you know, over on e-budo, I've been debating a woo-woo who believes in no-touch KO (i.e., using telekinesis to knock down an opponent). I have challenged him to prove the existence of his power under laboratory conditions, and he's come back with "prove your imagination exists". Does anyone have a good rebuttal to this apples-and-oranges comparison?
Thank you in advance.

 

[Badger]

Don't fall for his redirection. Haul him back on topic.

 

[BillyJoe]

Tell him that you are not claiming that your imagination interacts with the real world whereas he is claiming that his does.
Syou have nothing to prove and he does.

alternatively...

Tell him your imagination is all in your head just like his telekinesis.
(He can't back away from this because HE made the comparison)

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Greetings, all.
As some of you know, over on e-budo, I've been debating a woo-woo who believes in no-touch KO (i.e., using telekinesis to knock down an opponent). I have challenged him to prove the existence of his power under laboratory conditions, and he's come back with "prove your imagination exists". Does anyone have a good rebuttal to this apples-and-oranges comparison?
Thank you in advance.

Easy. Tell him to put $100,000 in a suitcase. You do the same. Then you stand on top of the suitcases, one under each foot. If he can you knock you off without touching you, then he gets to pick up the suitcases. If he can't, they are yours.

BTW, he won't agree to this.

 

[Martin]

I just took another look at that thread. Seems to me it isn't the woo-woo that made the point. It's someone else. And the woo-woo just made yet another really stupid post. So I'd say concentrate on that. If you want to respond to the other guy, something along the lines of 'I don't claim that my imagination can knock people out' might do the trick.

 

[Kimpatsu]

Just to bring you up to date. In addition to the psychic powers, this woo-woo started arguing some very strange religious convictions, leading several people on e-budo to conclude that he's a grade 1 nutcase.
He was also certainly a troll, making egregious posts in which he further revealed his complete and total lack of scientific knowledge. Despite my repeatedly asking him to take the JREF challenge, he just kept assailing us with his woo-woo theories of how this miraculous power of his worked. Several other readers waded into the fray, denouncing his twisting of science, and now he's gone and deleted all his posts and resigned from the board. I guess this counts as a victory for the forces of rationality.
Thank you once again to all those whose input helped me argue against this fruitcake.
Best,