divining rods work (page 4)

hillbilly

Well they do seem to work... Has to do with magnetic interference of the object your looking for and the chemistry of the operators body.

You can find vacant (empty) metal pipe and plastic pipe with rods also. Energized electric cable will show up with them to.

"A hillbilly thing", or the body doing the will of the mind---Maybe, however I know of several facility locators working at major, big city electric, gas and water companies that will use rods with good sucess. That bums me out because part of my "day job" is to teach 'em how the high tech locating equipment works. Having a partner that could witch has saved me from going back to the shop for locating equipment or digging up and damaging a buried facility more than once.

The folks I was working with were not pagans, witches or nut jobs either. A couple of them were atheist. So I don't see a "Spiritual" connection.

Never could do it myself with any consistency, however I have worked with several people who could. Back to feilds and chem --I screw up FM radios at certain Freqs and stop wristwatches when I wear 'em (have a drawer full of cheap to mid-priced ones that seized right up. Seems that soil type and chem will affect the results also. (it affects some electrical fault locating equipment too)

DannyBear

Stephanus,

I understand your response. My father had Parkinson's desease so no need to explain body tremor's. Bad deal, sorry for your misfortune.

I suppose your little comment about Uncle's daughter, riled me enough to give you 'what for'. You of all people should know, when wandering around in the bush, there may not always be a regiment of trained scientific oberserver's available, and one must resort to the nearest willing participant in the experiment...why not his daughter? Now we probably will never hear about 'hippie' Nevel's try at it. You silly sod you.

Well after reading Mommie Darks post, Iam more intrigued by the whole diving process than I was already. So I guess my neighbor's will be laughing at this big bear, who will very soon (this weekend) be wandering around my septic tank, and other suspect areas of my property, with two coat hangar antanea dangling from my outstreched paws! Thanks Uncle and Mommie.

DannyBear

target

Ouija boards are not always "involuntary" movements. Many years ago, before the "Truth", I had a ouija board and it told things I had no way of knowing. Example: A new neighbor kid was over and saw the board and asked about it and when we told him what it was for he said he would believe it if it could tell what his middle name was. Now mind you, we had never seen this kid before. It spelled out "Lwood". You should have seen the look on his face. His middle name was Elwood. Ouija boards spell the way things sound. I had never heard of that name before and neither had my husband, who was working the board with me. Now how was that "involuntary"? The kicker was some time later when I was using it with some friends and we asked it a question but instead of answering it, it spelled "Murder" and gave the next day's date and a name. Well guess what we read in the paper the next day? When we asked who we were talking to it said "Devil" That is when we decided to get rid of the thing. There were many other experiences but those were the two most striking ones. I have no explanations but I know it wasn't me moving the thing.

I think I will try the divining rod thing. I have an open mind and like to see things for myself, not just read about someone else's double blind studies. Studies often contradict each other. I will probably get myself into some sort of trouble, as usual.

Target

mommy

I lived in the backwoods of North Carolina, and I heard many a tale, some I chose not to believe I was friends with a man who actually made a little living by waterwitching. Mostly he worked for the old timers, or old timers kids who were building homes. I went with him one day and he let me try his "rod" which was actually a peice of twig...lol I can't remember the type of wood it was now, sorry. I walked around for 5-10 minutes and after getting an very strong tug on the stick, I dropped it like it was on fire. Very scary to actually see that it worked. I never touched the stick again...lol That stuff is just to crazy for me.

So I believe ya Unc! Glad to see you got a few nails or scrap metal for your efforts.
wendy

Blind faith can justify anything.~Richard Dawkins

DannyBear

Joel,

Ok 'TITs' for tat. All of them were devine to me!

Farkel

Uncle Bruce, you silly twit,

Divining rods are nothing more than a demonized Communist-inspired Illuminati conspiracy cooked up by the Trilateral Commission.

(I had a friend whose father was a genuine water-witch. I saw him in action, too. In one case a guy paid a geologist $1,500 to find the best place to dig for water. They dug there and found 5 gallons per minute at 800 feet. Unacceptable. My friend's father told them to dig in another spot on the same property. They found 30 gallons per minute at 300 feet. Amazing!)

When are you gonna drop me a line, dummy?

Farkel

"When in doubt, duck!"

Nathan Natas

Hey Unc, I say if you're having fun and not trying to "convert" anyone, go for it.

You're in pretty good company - an acquaintance of the great physicist Niels Bohr visited Bohr’s home and was surprised to see a horseshoe hung above his door. "I would not have expected a scientist like yourself to believe in horseshoes," he said. Bohr replied, "I understand they bring you luck whether you believe in them or not."

JosephAlward

Divining rods only work if the user thinks they will work. Uncle Bruce, I suggest you conduct the following test: Blindfold yourself and have someone walk you in an irregular manner to some position far from the site at which "positive" results were earlier obtained. Let them then guide you in a straight line toward the "hot spot." If there is nothing special about the terrain where hits were earlier made, you won't know you're passing over it, and if the person guiding you remains silent, and doesn't touch you as you walk, you will find that you will pass right over the spot without the divining rod twitching; I guarantee it. Report back to the forum, please, to let us know if I'm right.

Joseph F. Alward
"Skeptical Views of Christianity and the Bible"

* http://members.aol.com/jalw/joseph_alward.html

Satanus

Bro Joe

I guess the unanswered question is: what exactly is that force that twists the rods. Could it be a part of the conscious or unconscious? Some would preferr to see it as an exterior entity. If what uncle says is true, and what you say is true, then whatever force that is responsible for those rods to twist works through the eyes of the participant.

SS

Grout

I don't know who this "Stephanus" is, so he's probably not me. My real name is right there in my signature.

As for my attitude ... well, I have no patience for those who can't even do a little basic research. Don't you hate it when people spread urban legends because they can't even bother to check for the story in urban legend archives like http://snopes.com ? I do. And the whole dowsing delusion is just another such urban legend.

Don't you think that any scientist would LOVE to be able to attach his name to proof of a genuinely new natural phenomenon? The fact that people have been claiming to dowse for decades (centuries?) yet no such proof has been forthcoming is evidence enough for me to dismiss the possibility of its truth as negligible.

Now maybe you have plenty of time to waste on fairy tales. But I already gave a few decades to the JW fairy tale, and now I'll have no more truck with them.

--
Chip Salzenberg: Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

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