tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post1020568771242372816..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Dowsing, SLIders, and Portuguese Water DogsGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-3327314138279933972012-07-27T05:36:56.126-07:002012-07-27T05:36:56.126-07:00has anyone been able to cause a reading on a voltm...has anyone been able to cause a reading on a voltmeter simply by holding the leads one in each hand? i can and it seems that my right is positive and left is negative when held in this manner i get a positive reading upon switching them around i read in the negatives i cant wear watches eventually the watch doesn't just stop working.... on more that one occasion the hands fly around wildly in either direction and yes i have witnesses to this as well ...light bulbs literally explode the touch pad on my laptop feels like the static buildup on the old tv's and i am death to electronics. Joking around with my grown son on a humid summer day in a department store i went to playfully push him away and 2 blue arcs shot out of my index and forefinger when i was about 2 inches away form contact with him at which point he ylled in pain and it felt like the ends of my fingers had blow out....yes i can douse wells as i believe i am able to feel the current or magnetic feild generated by underground rivers. i also have the effect on street lights and get wild jolts of shock fron kitchen sinks my car and just about anything metal i walk up to cashiers in stores and the cash register will either freeze up or completely shut off..usually when i am in a hurry or anxious about things or even happy and excited the frequency of these events increases. no i cant control it but its interesting that its only been the past 6 months to a year that i have been able to have any effect on a voltmeter. I always tried to make them move in an attempt to see if i could figure out how to control this but could never get any reading positive or negative but i noticed that all of a sudden when testing normal 1.5 volt household bateries the readings were totally out of whack i was getting readings of almost 3 volts with a single used AA battery thinking the voltmeter needed it battery changed maybe i did so but still inaccurate redings usually double the 1.5 volt...so asking a master electrician to make sure i wasnt just messing something u he got me to test the same batteries using his precision meter and same result anywhere from 1.7-3 volts on a used AA battery. it was at that time that i discovered that now i was actually causing a reading on the volt meter of anywhere fro .03 volts right up to 1.0 and the variation and fluctuation was very erratic and random then my buddy suggested one day that maybe i actually had a positive and negative polarity and that is 100% consistant left hand negative reading if holding the positive lead...and right hand positive when holding the positive lead but the readings are still not consistant as to amount of volts. needless to say i buy light bulbs by the large case cant have touch lamps and my kids wont allow me to touch any of there electronics and my laptop is the slowest running 700mg HD 6 GB ram on the face of the planet i also cause things like my cell phone and laptop to heat to seriously abnormal temps the cell so hot when talking or txting on it i cant touch it to my face and /or my hands and have to set it down and let it cool off. i also blow up and reverse polarity on batteries ihope this sheds some light on this odd and somewhat expensive 'gift' lol . Princeton University has a quantim physics/mechanics research facility dedicated to this phenomenon its called the P.E.A.R Research.<br />Sincerely<br />PatriciaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10438947058169458716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-64277690959421028552012-02-06T04:46:56.548-08:002012-02-06T04:46:56.548-08:00There's also the flip-side to this coin: not a...There's also the flip-side to this coin: not all plausible explanations are true. A true believer of the scientific method knows that the first plausible explanation of an event is usually not the one that stands up to scrutiny. Having a "mechanism" of explanation doesn't necessarily mean squat.<br /><br />And for the record, it's not my dog's bum that is the magnet; it's the other side that has an unbelievable, magnetic attraction to the grossest things possible. My dog isn't a water dowser, he's a road-kill specialist.Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16941410200329848382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-84547518014321133792012-02-06T04:35:11.654-08:002012-02-06T04:35:11.654-08:00I can't explain it, I don't believe it, an...I can't explain it, I don't believe it, and I can't reproduce it, but I swear it happens to me! I will walking (or driving) and the streetlight next to me will go out. And it happens often enough, despite being random, that it has to be more than coincidence. <br /><br />Many years ago, a friend pointed out that we only consciously use about 20% of our brain power. Even with all the unconscious actions like heartbeats and breathing, there's probably another 20% left over. Where does that power go? (Sorry, I don't have a favorite woo-woo theory to go with it.)GeeDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13936973877500218856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-20948924435183944892012-02-06T02:49:25.245-08:002012-02-06T02:49:25.245-08:00I have a friend who got banned from the computer r...I have a friend who got banned from the computer room at Edinburgh University because he was deemed a human virus for computers. He only had to go in to crash systems. All the years I knew him, he was a disaster area when it came to electricals. His Masters and his Phd were in materials science related fields, and he never dared do any research on why he had this effect.<br />The dowsing thing is an odd one. I've seen it work to find lost objects, have in fact done it myself to locate a pendant my daughter lost in a vast area of parkland where she spent a whole morning. I have no idea how it works, can offer you no proof or explanation and would be unable to replicate it for James Randy's Million $ challenge (my dad suggested I try)<br />I remain skeptical but open, I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com