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I could chase down the studies on dowsing (which have been done)
I could explain about confirmation bias, gambler's paradoxes and the workings of the human mind.
I could enter the debate.
I don't want to do this.
The interface between the mythical and the material can be porous in our minds. Pretending that this isn't the case is a kind of self delusion.
But if there is a hypothesis that can be tested, as with dowsing, I don't have much tolerance for the myth.
We need to let it go.
I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing. Not only is dowsing alive and well, it's wormed its way into the work of police departments and water sanitation.
Likewise many people swear up and down that the experience of dowsing is intrinsically compelling and if I'd just try it I'd feel this and maybe be a bit less certain that it is nonsense.
After all we do not know everything about the world.
And maybe it works in some logical way we have yet to fully understand. etc.
These men would be so much happier and things would be better generally if there were some way to enforce a rule so that all wars had to be fought only with technology from before the industrial revolution.
There is no sensible way to do this. And too much is at stake. So warfare will continue to "modernize" that is we find ways to make each other dead for a lower cost, more efficiently.
Why is there graffiti of ships in particular?
@Em @Alice_Swaggen @gnomon @lmorchard @nev
Japan is more likely.
OK but I get "blown away" when I do my magic spell to find things even though I know exactly how it works.
@thestrangelet@beige.party I have a magic ritual to find a lost object. 1. Carefully draw the lost object, every detail, think about it carefully and render it as best you can on paper. 2. Hang up the paper with the words "has anyone seen this? I can't find it." 3. You will soon find the object. (And it may not be because someone finds it for you. You will be better primed to spot it by doing the drawing exercise.) magic!
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
@Oma_Trisha_F @quinn @MisuseCase
I think you are badly misreading Quinn's tone, meaning and responses. I'm a little confused.
Is "dowsing" just a way of not teaching everyone how to do the thing you make money doing for themselves?
I'm not just being annoying and making fun of spells. This works and it FEELS like magic. Whenever I can't find something at school I start drawing it. Then I find it a moment later.
I have a magic ritual to find a lost object.
1. Carefully draw the lost object, every detail, think about it carefully and render it as best you can on paper.
2. Hang up the paper with the words "has anyone seen this? I can't find it."
3. You will soon find the object.
(And it may not be because someone finds it for you. You will be better primed to spot it by doing the drawing exercise.)
magic!
I think this was the thing that made me a dowsing hater.
I forgot about the event but the hate remained. Charging people MONEY to feel safe from bombs over this BS.
Throw them all in a pit.
"tactical black" dowsing rods. I'm so mad.
OMG
I read about this. I remember reading about it *now* but I was so annoyed and upset about it that I blotted it out of my memory.
Yes they have depth perception.
(found a better link where you can see a pdf of the paper which is very cool... not just the abstract)
However I was pretty confident this would be the case because of the way some ants can jump over gaps. How could you jump over a gap without knowing how wide it is?
So maybe not the best word choice. But her eyes are specialized.
Not really? I think most of them can get both eyes on you at once, it's more that her eyes are bigger and better positioned to target things in-front of her rather than just providing a general sense of what's around her.
