water divining

forget dowsing....


you just need big spades so you can dig yourselves in bigger holes...

 

Most sensible suggestion I've heared all day.

 

No, the scepticism is no problem Paul.

Perhpts this link (agan I think highly regarded amonst dowsers) will answer your questions.

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://...t&cd=1&usg=AFQjCNFxX772Vd12ouCXBkWzLSU3MV685A

 

(IMO) Not everything the human mind can do is readily explained.

e.g.

1) A research student a worked with ten years or so ago said she is telephathic....especially with her twin sister. She certainly wasn't boasting about it. She said it caused more unhappiness than it was worth.

I have no reason to disbeleive her.



2) A Polish lady who talk to over skype said in the last few weeks she is a medium......can communicate with the dead (or more to the point they communicate with her.....and have done since she was small).

Again, she says it causes her many problems.

Do I tell her shes a liar!?



3) A slightly different tack - the house my parents strove so hard to acquire last year (and there were a LOT of difficulties....)

Their new telephone number is one digit out from the number used by my Grandparents in north wales.

My sister noticed first (and she is a top scientist lecturing at a university).

A complete coincidence?

You decide.

 

talking of coincidences...

http://listverse.com/bizarre/top-15-amazing-coincidences/

http://www.listverse.com/bizarre/another-10-amazing-coincidences/

of all the trillions of events that are occuring this moment - I think there bound to be the odd scarey coincidence...

as for telephathics and mediums...I'm not sure what to think - my lady believes in them a bit and I think until I expereince enything like then then I will be a sceptic...but even some of them have been known to be scams...

 

Undoubtedly (unfortunately) some of them ARE scams.

A classic example were...or were...the D*r*s St*k*es books of the 80s.

She was exposed after she died.

A great pity but it happens

 

You guys can't possibly know the trouble the transaction.......and the old property.......caused.

Im very happy to beleive in coincidences. I've learned to accept them long ago.

That goes just a shade too far for me.




The research student was a quiet (then/pre '97) 24/25 year old.

She was doing a phD in plant pathology.

Why would she make it up?

 

once - must have been about 10-15 years ago...

was lying on my bed waiting to go out and having a beer...
on my bedside cabinet was a pack of cards and I confidently* cut the pack and knew it was the king of clubs... and I was right..!

* I say confidently as I doubt I would have done it had my mates have been there as they would have took the p*ss had it not of been that card...

anyway, I did mention it to some of them - and months later we were playing cards and I told them the story again...some cards were already dealt out but I decided to cut the remaining (more than half a pack) and guess what..? it was the king of clubs..

you should have seen their faces!

I vowed not to try that trick again (tho, I did a couple of times and failed) and i see that as my lucky card now

 

David F
You do realise you can name Doris Stokes quite freely don't you?
The dead can't sue.

 

perhaps he's afraid in case he gets haunted..?

 

Her son/daughter/who ever might though.

Knowing my liuck..probably would.

Thanks thoiugh.

 

I doubt if ms stokes has much interest in me.

 

What happens if you lose your divining rods (before or after work)? One assumes they stay lost forever.

And why is it, DavidF, that lost things ALWAYS turn up in the last place you look for them?

 

well, one assumes that you'd stop looking when you do find them....if there are people who do continue to look, who are they and why do they do it..?

 

Well, I try not loose these as use them sooooooooooo much...

 

I suppose you could have a spare set of rods, kept safe. I manage to find my car keys 100% of the time (before work) without the aid of divining rods.

It would have been very strange if your parents had exactly the same phone number as your grandparents in north Wales. The fact that theirs was different is less surprising.

And now "mediums who communicate with the dead". What next?

 

DavidF
You seem to know more about loopy psedo science than you do about the law.
Doris Stokes relatives cannot do anything about anything you say about her because you cannot slander or libel the dead in English law.

 

Fairly predictably you have twisted my words to sound ridiculius, which I think is a shame.

ok, I suspect this thread has probably run its course.

(There is nothing terribly new about mediums btw......have you not heared of spiritualism before?)

 

No, but her off spring might be able to.....thanks again for your concern.

Loopy psuedo science?

Bob your going on a bit mate.....its all you've been saying for the past 4 (5?) pages

What a pity these things can't be discussed without resorting to petty insults, twisted meanings and the like.

I thinkit gives a poor impression of the forum?





AS I said above, I think the thread has run its course.

 

Your words are ridiculous enough untwisted. Of course I've heard of spiritualism. That's ridiculous, too.