• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

Dowsing it work for me!!

Maybe it's like how chiropractic can 'help' with all kind of conditions in a way that doesn't cause them to get more better more quickly than placebo? It helps stimulate the bodies natural finding process, but obviously that can only be of any good for objects that the dowser can actually find by normal means.
 
I wish we could keep John Glassman engaged here and not get derailed by old bob. Isn't there already an old bob dowsing thread?

We've not heard from John in a week. You out there john? What do you think about a simple test? You know, so you can win and gloat and "prove guy's and gal's on this website wrong". Pixel42 outlined a simple test that can eliminate all the bad skeptic vibes. Can you do it?
 
Old Bob said:
I thought I have made it clear, most of the list is welcome to call in but to have a "Dick Smith" mob invading. Dick Smith who claims to be all Aussi destroyed the fledging eletronic industry by making his fortune importing cheap stuff from Hong Kong so he and his sceptics can ping off. As I have said a number of times not interested in the half baked tests. If you come here I will spend time showing you dowsing with coffee and a laugh. As for that other brave person don't bother sending address as I already know.
Click to expand...
You're not interested in any test, regardless of how well baked it is. A demonstration is not a test.
 
I see you guy's are left out!!

Dowsing is a wonderful art of using your mind and locating lost object's and nature thing's!! I see in here you are very doutful people and very closed minded and need test to make you feel better!!!!! I not going to be long winded like some other's in here name's not mentioned!!:p
 
Is it just me, or do john glassman's posts look somewhat like what The Professor might post if he were hiding behind an illiterate persona? Excessive smilies, multiple exclamation points, fake bad writing skills, and deliberate avoidance of points brought up by others.
 
Last edited:
john glassman said:
Dowsing is a wonderful art of using your mind and locating lost object's and nature thing's!! I see in here you are very doutful people and very closed minded and need test to make you feel better!!!!! I not going to be long winded like some other's in here name's not mentioned!!:p
Click to expand...
*Sigh*

So why not put us doubters to the sword by proving you ability?

Put up or shut up.
 
Actually, Glassman, we're extremely open minded. Provide solid evidence of your claims and we will accept them. It really is that simple.

ETA: May I be allowed to offer you a helpful hint? Plural words in English do not require an apostrophe. In other words, the word words is not spelled word's. Removing that unnecessary ' from all your plurals will make your typing smoother and your posts make more sense. Thanks.
 
Last edited:
There really ought to be a mod function where people are allowed to keep posting, but have their smiley privileges revoked for a given amount of time. Alternately, just like being able to post links etc, there should be a post count minimum before you get emoticon privileges... For one thing, it would force trolls to write actual words for a while before they can start to get really annoying.

Deliberate misspelling and smiley-abuse is really the cheapest form of trolling - I demand more of my trolls than that. This is a classy forum, and it deserves classier trolls.
 
john glassman said:
Dowsing is a wonderful art of using your mind and locating lost object's and nature thing's!! I see in here you are very doutful people and very closed minded and need test to make you feel better!!!!! I not going to be long winded like some other's in here name's not mentioned!!:p
Click to expand...

Well, color me surprised. Seems just a week ago, in your last post in this thread, you felt otherwise:
john glassman said:
The prize i get is to prove guy's and gal's on this website wrong .
Click to expand...

So, what changed your mind? What scared you off? Did you, perhaps, try that simple at-home test suggested to you?
 
john glassman said:
Dowsing is a wonderful art of using your mind and locating lost object's and nature thing's!! I see in here you are very doutful people and very closed minded and need test to make you feel better!!!!! I not going to be long winded like some other's in here name's not mentioned!!:p
Click to expand...
An incorrect assessment of many here.

I have *tried* dowsing on at least two occasions when a dowser has come back with the "dare", "try it yourself". Additionally, I have spent the last 20+ years making discrete enquiries in the industry I am in on whether ANYONE has ever seen anyone dowse for ANY type of well in the field. In even the most "tired and emotional" bull sessions around a kegs in all contintents of the world, barring Antarctica, I have yet to find anyone even HINT that dowsers have been used in industry to locate wells.

The fact that I have never come across any valid evidence for dowsing to work is not being close-minded.
 
john glassman said:
Dowsing is a wonderful art of using your mind and locating lost object's and nature thing's!! I see in here you are very doutful people and very closed minded and need test to make you feel better!!!!! I not going to be long winded like some other's in here name's not mentioned!!:p
Click to expand...
No, dowsing is only an art of fooling oneself, with oneself. It has nothing to with the nature of thing's, it only has to do with the nature of how some people continue think when all evidence points has to why it does work. Again, you are the one with a closed mind, because tests are used for all those toys that you play with, like computers, TV, and things you use like cars, trucks etc, it is the only way to find out if ideas work or not, because without tests it is so easy to fool oneself.

Also, what do you think you put out to find things, some energy, and if so, how does the brain receive this energy. You show no real mechanism for dowsing to work.

Paul

:) :) :)
 
john glassman said:
Dowsing is a wonderful art of using your mind and locating lost object's and nature thing's!! I see in here you are very doutful people and very closed minded and need test to make you feel better!!!!! I not going to be long winded like some other's in here name's not mentioned!!:p
Click to expand...

Well it is a skeptics' forum after all. :p:p
If the JREF posters were close minded, they would not even tolerate a dowser's (hey, that is a correct apostrophe, folks!!!) posts and just not respond. Our open mindedness is evidenced by the fact that we are encouraging you to demonstrate your abilities. I would call that being very open to your claim. Please try to understand that we just don't believe that dowsing works since we have never seen it work, nothing personal about it. It is up to you to prove your claim, not up to us to accept it without proof. Hope that is not too long winded.

PS. Actually, as I posted previously, about 40 years ago, my pal Jesse taught me how to dowse. I remember the phrase "getting a helluva pull", when holding a forked willow stick. I actually experienced the "helluva pull"! But I remember thinking, well, how do I know there is water down there though? I pretty much blew it all off thinking I'll file this away for later as, well, unexplained.
 
Last edited:
john glassman said:
Hi there guy's and gal's i have dowsing for twenty year's now i do it for fun locating lost items' and finding old bottle's in the ground from the 1860 through 1900. I have to dig them out and can ask the rod's for unbroken bottle's i just dig them only. I was taught by my uncle to locate water as a kid using a stick i was hooked on it ever since .Are there any dowser's in this website !! ps here's a pic of the some of the bottle's found dowsing!!
Click to expand...

Well, how do YOU suppose it works?
 
I see skepticism in this forum is very abundant to me and Old Bob are only one's to have skill the you guy's and gals are scared of . I will you use my dowsing skill next week in NH. to locate old well's and privie's and dump's and even coin's at this site!! I have never been too this site one of forum member's set up this Test site!!:jaw-dropp
 
Last edited:
john glassman said:
I see skepticism in this forum is very abundant to me and Old Bob are only one's to have skill the you guy's and gals are scared of .
Click to expand...
No. You and Old Bob merely have empty boasts backed by anecdotes (in Old Bob's case, 3rd hand and misrembered at best).

No one here is scared of dowsing. It would be illogical to be scared of something that doesn't exist.
I will you use my dowsing skill next week in NH. to locate old well's and privie's and dump's and even coin's at site!!
Click to expand...
No you won't, you'll just return here with the same dowser's unverifiable anectodes of some old bottles you found.
I have never been too this site one forum member's set up Test!!:jaw-dropp
Click to expand...
I have no idea what you are saying here. Are you claiming to be visiting a site in New Hampshire to demonstrate your skills to one of the Forum members?

ETA: Nice trolling so far though...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom