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She seemed reasonable enough.... UNTIL SHE OPENED HER MOUTH!!! :D

"Do not believe all the answers..." :rolleyes:
 
When she "asks" for a the yes and no response from the pendulum, she clearly moves her arm/hand. This woman is absolutely deluded.

I cannot believe she "thanked" her pendulum! Twice, even!
 
Math Maniac said:
When she "asks" for a the yes and no response from the pendulum, she clearly moves her arm/hand. This woman is absolutely deluded.

I cannot believe she "thanked" her pendulum! Twice, even!
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You just beat me to saying that! Unbelievable that she thinks her body energy is moving it. :rolleyes:

She did introduce herself an "Dr." didnt she? I wonder what type of DR. she is?
 
JeffJ said:
She did introduce herself an "Dr." didnt she? I wonder what type of DR. she is?
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On her web site she is Rev. Dr. ... I think that gives you some idea.

BTW, Sydney Skeptics in the pub this Wednesday night will hold a mass spoon bending and post the video online. :)
 
Richard said:
On her web site she is Rev. Dr. ... I think that gives you some idea.

BTW, Sydney Skeptics in the pub this Wednesday night will hold a mass spoon bending and post the video online. :)
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Absolutely thrilling, Richard. Is there a similar group in Melbourne? Seems to me the pub's an excellent environment in which to pooh-pooh someone's cherished woo beliefs. :D

M.
 
I particularly like the part where she says to not ask too many questions of your pendulum...you may learn too much and lose your free will. Could you imagine the tiny little warning label that the government would have to mandate if everyone started asking questions of pendulums.

Seriously, I think it would be easier to talk yourself into believing in a pendulum than a magic 8 ball because the pendulum is going to answer your questions in the way you think they should be answered. Duh!
 
Wow - didn’t she provide so much compelling evidence? No stone (pardon the pun) was left unturned in her pursuit for facts.

Yet another leech ready to pray on societies unthinking zombies.

Did she do this under her own free will, or has she relinquished that to the higher power. “Feet flat on the ground” of course!

Simon
 
SimonJ1966 said:
Wow - didn’t she provide so much compelling evidence? No stone (pardon the pun) was left unturned in her pursuit for facts.

Yet another leech ready to pray on societies unthinking zombies.

Did she do this under her own free will, or has she relinquished that to the higher power. “Feet flat on the ground” of course!

Simon
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Actually she did a poor job of it by "Muscle Testing" standards.
The way you "calibrate" for the muscle test where the woman is standing with her arm outstretched is to first ask her to tell the truth when asked a question. Bop the arm as expected. Then you ask the person to answer with a lie to another question. Bop the arm. it might give this time, but then again.

What it's based upon is muscle tone. Muscle tone is easily influenced by psychological factors. (Ever gotten "weak-kneed" or had "butterfies in your stomach" or your heart done the "pitter-pat.")

So it makes for a very crude test of emotional reaction, and since you lose confidence and with it some muscle tone when you lie, it's a very crude lie-detector. However, suppose the question you aske makes the person uncomfortable? Then true or fale answer, tone is lost. Also it's easy for the person being tested to fake it. I was tested by an "Applied Kinisiologist" some years ago, who determined that I was a "space alien hybred" and had children in a previous marrage. I asked her, "Are you sure I wasn't faking the answers." She answered that that wasn't possible, "The body doesn't lie."
I then told her the truth that I'd not been married and had kids, and that I'd held my arm ridged for both answers, especially the silly one.

Anyway, the woman on the vid clip doesn't seem to me to know her subject.
 
Hyparxis said:
What it's based upon is muscle tone. Muscle tone is easily influenced by psychological factors. (Ever gotten "weak-kneed" or had "butterfies in your stomach" or your heart done the "pitter-pat.")
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It's not even that. With the arm outstretched like that, a person is very weak compared to the other person who could easily push the arm down with even only two fingers pushing on it. They feel strong when you ask a "yes" question because you're not pushing so hard. Ask a no, and push just a bit harder, barely enough to overcome their strength/leverage threshold and they feel weak. I've done this trick to a few people, not with questions, but by "robbing their energy" as a presentation.
 
thaiboxerken said:
It's not even that. With the arm outstretched like that, a person is very weak compared to the other person who could easily push the arm down with even only two fingers pushing on it. They feel strong when you ask a "yes" question because you're not pushing so hard. Ask a no, and push just a bit harder, barely enough to overcome their strength/leverage threshold and they feel weak. I've done this trick to a few people, not with questions, but by "robbing their energy" as a presentation.
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"Nekrexobiaht,"

Aren't you in the Necrononican as the "Great Energy Leech?" :)
 
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