Mmmmm, john glassman is a forum member right? Is this a clue to who's setting up the test? I need an Early Unintelligible to English translation widget.
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Mmmmm, john glassman is a forum member right? Is this a clue to who's setting up the test? I need an Early Unintelligible to English translation widget.
EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
A follow up.
Here's how scared the skeptics are on this Forum.
A test set up AND CONDUCTED by one of the members for a dowser.
Note that both the dowser and the Forum Member did this on their own initiative.
Which indicates that there are dowsers and skeptics who are not afraid to put their money where their mouths are.
LightningStrike
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Hi John Glassman Old Bob and everyone else,
Here is a story to put a bit of brandy in your bottle. It is the story of the man who found a load of treasure with a trusty metal detector.
Quote from the BBC news:
" Mr Herbert, 55, of Burntwood in Staffordshire, who has been metal detecting for 18 years, came across the hoard as he searched land belonging to a farmer friend over five days in July. The exact location has not been disclosed.
"I have this phrase that I say sometimes; 'spirits of yesteryear take me where the coins appear', but on that day I changed coins to gold," he said.
"I don't know why I said it that day but I think somebody was listening and directed me to it. "
He of course is refering to a paranormal helping hand. Isn't this comforting to dowsers that this metal detector guy was utilising a 'sixth sense' in combination with his scientific technology to locate by chance the biggest haul of buried Anglo-Saxon gold ever found?
I think so, being a dowser myself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm
Here is a story to put a bit of brandy in your bottle. It is the story of the man who found a load of treasure with a trusty metal detector.
Quote from the BBC news:
" Mr Herbert, 55, of Burntwood in Staffordshire, who has been metal detecting for 18 years, came across the hoard as he searched land belonging to a farmer friend over five days in July. The exact location has not been disclosed.
"I have this phrase that I say sometimes; 'spirits of yesteryear take me where the coins appear', but on that day I changed coins to gold," he said.
"I don't know why I said it that day but I think somebody was listening and directed me to it. "
He of course is refering to a paranormal helping hand. Isn't this comforting to dowsers that this metal detector guy was utilising a 'sixth sense' in combination with his scientific technology to locate by chance the biggest haul of buried Anglo-Saxon gold ever found?
I think so, being a dowser myself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm
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madurobob
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Dowsing with a metal detector - brilliant! Kinda take out a lot of the guesswork, huh?EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
But of course what you're really doing is excavating, not dowsing.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!!
This is obvious from the description of your method of "dowsing" in this post of yours,
So basically, you go to a site known to you (obviously known, otherwise how would you know you were going "to locate old well's and privie's and dump's and even coin's at this site.." ) and then excavate 4ft x 4ft scrapes to see what is buried there.
This is not dowsing, it's just rooting around to see what might be buried, and then claiming that you dowsed the objects.
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Mojo
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EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
In Aussie slange rooting has a different meaning, in short it means f....ahem. So rooting around is the equivalent in Aussie terms as f*cking about, or basically wasting energy and time.
I was amused, when googling a dictionary definition to explain this, to find this entry for rooting (i.e. the context in which I used it in my post).
I was delighted to find the "and use it in a sentence" as it is so apt to this thread. (my bolding)
root 2 (rt, r
t)
v. root·ed, root·ing, roots
v.tr. To dig with or as if with the snout or nose: Even a blind hog can root up an acorn.
v.intr. 1. To dig in the earth with or as if with the snout or nose.
2. To rummage for something: rooted around for a pencil in his cluttered office.
Yes. Being a forum run by a skeptical foundation and populated mainly by skeptics, that shouldn't really come as much of a surprise.
Yes, a rather sad story really. Someone uses a metal detector to find metal, but still feels the need to claim some paranormal nonsense while he's at it.
It actually reminds me rather a lot of some crop circle nuts I saw on a documentary. Unlike the usual ones who just believe aliens or ghosts or whatever make them, these people actually made crop circles themselves, but still somehow managed to believe there was something paranormal about them. Even having spent the night stomping around a field with a board and a piece of string, they'd say something about having felt a presence and go right on believing that crop circles couldn't be made without alien interference.
Some people just need to believe, no matter how ridiculous the contortions they have to go through in order to do so.
arthwollipot
Limerick Purist
Not quite. Like most words, it can have more than one meaning. One can root around in the attic looking for that old photo album. If one does actually find it, then the time was not wasted.
Sideroxylon
Featherless biped
Absolutely, so whatever way you look at it dowsing is a whole lot of rooting around.
arthwollipot
Limerick Purist
"Root" is a good word, isn't it?
Adin I just looked up your public profile. We are 20 years apart. And I hate Kevin "Bloody" Wilson.
AdinDraco
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Adin I just looked up your public profile. We are 20 years apart. And I hate Kevin "Bloody" Wilson.
Agreed. I only know his name and the one line from the song but I couldn't resist. I thought that even knowing the name would date some of us because I have adult friends (and a young daughter) who have never heard (and may never hear) many of the (pop) culture references that I take for granted. My daughter never knew a world without internet or mobile phones. For the record, I'll take Tripod over Kevin or Rodney Rude anyday...the nerdier the better.
EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
OK, so I should have said, "one" of the meanings... But in the context of my post, I amused myself.
Since the dowsers aren't responding, I'll continue with a rooting anecdote.
While travelling in Malaysia we had a quick bite at a fast food joint called A&W. Their preferred tipple is root beer (something I generally knew as Sasparilla). The local clients gave the two Aussie tourists some genuinely confused looks when we spotted a promotion for childrens parties with the A&W mascot - the Great Root Bear.
Or as this link advertises, "It's FunTime with Great Root Bear"
The anecdote really only works in Oz, I guess.