I think unfortunately you have proved sechels point quite well, that you are just not open to really learning and listening.
how insulting and naïve. really! you have the chutzpah to call a room full of people not open to listening because they wouldn’t use your own sources to prove the validity of those same sources. You have gotten much respect and response from too many people for you to start degrading us with the title of closed minded. Perhaps we are just not hearing anything in your lectures that speaks truth or Torah true. Is it okay for us to open our minds to your lectures and come out understanding that we don’t believe it to be correct? How open minded are you really if you think that our disagreement can only be from not listening?
Your statement reminds me of the crook and his accomplice who were caught by the police. The police said to the first crook, “do you have an alibi?” and the crook responds, “I’m innocent sir”, and he points to the accomplice and said, “just ask him, he’ll tell you”,
Before you jump, I am NOT (NOT NOT) comparing your derecho to crooks, I am trying to illustrate that asking the source to give his own reference report is not valid.