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Post by 1dave on Sept 24, 2016 6:55:41 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Sept 24, 2016 7:43:21 GMT -5
I do not believe in dowsing. Here's a good video about it. It's 45 minutes though.
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Post by 1dave on Sept 24, 2016 8:23:21 GMT -5
I've shown a lot of people how to do it. it has worked for most of them. Never for a doubter.
one electrician I was working with had just buried a 4" conduit. I bent some nearby scrap wire and showed him how they worked, then handed them to him and said "Give it a bit of a go." As he walked over the pipe the wires swung together over the buried conduit and he jumped back with his hair standing on end.
He exclaimed.
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Sept 24, 2016 8:30:56 GMT -5
Post by Jugglerguy on Sept 24, 2016 8:30:56 GMT -5
I've shown a lot of people how to do it. it has worked for most of them. Never for a doubter. I'm always surprised at how many intelligent people believe in dowsing. When you have taught people how to dowse, how do you know they've learned? What test do you do? If you can prove that you know how to dowse, I think James Randi still has $1,000,000 up for grabs.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Sept 24, 2016 8:35:08 GMT -5
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Post by snuffy on Sept 24, 2016 8:42:24 GMT -5
I've made many skeptics believers over the years. I would go to their houses where I had never been and find their water and other lines for them.I only use the two wire rods.Still do occasionally when I need to find water lines! First saw it done when I was a kid. It was on a local tv show.
It does work folks!!
snuffy
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Sept 24, 2016 8:59:12 GMT -5
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Post by orrum on Sept 24, 2016 8:59:12 GMT -5
I can dose for waterline buried in yards. Works amazing!
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Post by braders on Sept 24, 2016 9:59:07 GMT -5
Back in my housing days , we were on hold to start work on a retaining wall due to waiting on a locate for utilities. That's when a older fella told us he could tell us if there was anything on the lot with just two wires and with what he called "witching " ... I watched this guy walk around for about ten minutes thinking "this guy did some serious drugs in his days , or still does! " After all that he rubs a line in the dirt with his foot and says that there is something running right here ... So we laugh and pretend to agree or believe this nonsense...... Till about a hour later the one call lady shows up and sprays out a water line with in inches of his foot mark Yep would of lost the farm on that bet folks !! Seeing is believing and I've seen this done as crazy as it sounds
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 24, 2016 10:03:30 GMT -5
I have no reason to believe in it, but I do. There are just some things we will never understand.
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Post by mohs on Sept 24, 2016 10:25:32 GMT -5
I had strange experience with dosing at Az. Mining & Mineral Museum. bought rods later to try & replicate the results. The gold as remained elusive.
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 24, 2016 12:06:24 GMT -5
Being a scientist, I thought this was BS until I watched a guy looking for a waterline in a huge empty asphalt parking lot where I worked. He walked back and forth with those rods until they pointed to the "spot", he dug, and there was the freaking waterline. Definitely a WTF moment for me. Still don't get it, but plainly there is something to it......Mel
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Post by grayfingers on Sept 24, 2016 12:51:25 GMT -5
I guess this would be a form of dousing... My mom raised all manner of poultry when I was a kid. She sexed chicks by holding a needle suspended on a length of thread over the chick. Starting with the needle centered motionless over the chick, it would begin to move within a couple seconds. If the needle moved in any circular pattern it indicated a female while movement back and forth indicated a male. It was over 90% accurate,
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Sept 24, 2016 13:37:41 GMT -5
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Post by orrum on Sept 24, 2016 13:37:41 GMT -5
Hold a day old chick with your index and middle finger clamping the chick suspended. Male will flap and flap. Female will hang motionless. The hatcheries do it this way on non sex linked chicks.
Guy from the power company that was going to bury a electric line to my barn witches the waterline leading to the barn with two coat hanger wires. It worked!!#
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Sept 24, 2016 13:38:44 GMT -5
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Post by orrum on Sept 24, 2016 13:38:44 GMT -5
Mel it is not magic but instead simply science we do not yet understand.
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Post by mohs on Sept 24, 2016 14:18:16 GMT -5
I just went out to look for my dowsing rods couldn't find ! guess I need dowsing rods to find them
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 19:32:26 GMT -5
Mel it is not magic but instead simply science we do not yet understand. I had a pendulum from Peter Kuyper. He chose it from dozens by, what else, dowsing. That pendulum worked very well. Found money, snakes, accurately sexed animals.... I lost it. Ugly story. Now I don't dowse. Wish I could get it back. I have what seems like a duplicate. So far it doesn't work.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 19:38:41 GMT -5
I have no reason to believe in it, but I do. There are just some things we will never understand. Or, we may. I feel there are many thing science has yet to explain. I think these unexplained phenomena are what many call...... wait for it.... 'God' Hell, science cannot even tell us what exactly 'gravity' is. We live it, measure it, experience it; but what is it? And from where does it originate? I'm sure Randi believes in gravity?
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Post by 1dave on Sept 24, 2016 20:07:04 GMT -5
I've made many skeptics believers over the years. I would go to their houses where I had never been and find their water and other lines for them.I only use the two wire rods.Still do occasionally when I need to find water lines! First saw it done when I was a kid. It was on a local tv show. It does work folks!! snuffy MANY years ago (1963-5?) we buried conduits for the new phone building in Provo Utah, ninety'd them up where the lamp posts would be. Came back to work next Monday and the whole area had been asphalted. They had rolled EVERYTHING flat. We had a traveler who had a name arrived at by numerology to get rid of his bad luck, and claimed to have been a confederate general in a past life. He said he could find it as he bent some wires and grabbed a broken piece of Sheetrock to make marks. We all snickered and told him to have at it. To our amazement within a half hour he had them all located! We dug them out and swiveled the bends back in place. afterwords I took his wires inthe basement and walked the hall with them. They swung together over every conduit I knew were buried in the floor. Looking back I noticed the conduits overhead. Why hadn't the wires reacted to them? I walked back thinking about them, and they swung together at each of them, nothing from the conduits under the floor! Several years later we were working on the school in Maser Utah (by Vernal) when a guy with a huge backhoe showed up to dig a new sewer line to the school. after unloading his machine from a huge lowboy, He asked us for the plot plan so he wouldn't ruin anything. We told him there weren't any. "No problem" he said. He reached in the cab and got out the fanciest set of dowsing rods I had ever seen. Steel pipes with bicycle like hand grips, ball-bearings, wire that pulled out and hinged over like the antenna on a radio. He walked where he needed to dig and marked every buried water, electric, etc. line there was. He dug up to each of the marks, and each item was right where he marked. He explained the wires came together over the pipe, etc. and stayed together for the width of the item. He would think iron, copper cement or clay. The wires would only stay together with the right subject. Then he would work around it to establish direction. Finally he would back of ten-fifteen feet and walk toward the object. The first twitch, he explained, reacted on a 45 o angle. The distance from there to the center of the first line was how deep in the ground it was. You can't tell me it doesn't work. Finding water for a well isn't so convincing. Ground water can be anywhere and can easily be luck. So HOW DOES IT WORK? I spent many years trying to figure that out. Electrical ground currents? Magnetism? Universal mind - We all know, but most refuse to admit it? I do know if you let your mind wander off subject, you can't find a thing. A friend's son tore his 22 pistol apart and scattered it all over the house. Think "part of 22 pistol" and it was found! My brothers and I tried an experiment involving a throw rug and four coins hidden under the corners. Find the penny, nickle, dime, or quarter. We were right an astounding number of times.
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Post by dottyt on Sept 24, 2016 23:29:53 GMT -5
At first I thought the "pendulum dowsing" map was saying YES to going to Camden. I was thinking that can't be right. But then I realized it was a map of TN, not NJ, so there may be something to it. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 25, 2016 0:16:38 GMT -5
I have seen it done, so know it is not a hoax. I have not tried it myself.
Why are we so quick to categorize something as fake simply because we do not understand it?
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