FourWinds
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Re: What is dowsing?
Sep 23, 2003, 16:39
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"Q:What is dowsing?, A:It's magnetic,
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Q: what is magnetism?, A: something you can blame phenomena on."
Very true, but that doesn't make dowsing a phenomenon does it. That kind of reverse logic is very floored ...
I have a phenomenon here. It's magnetic. Dowsing is magnetic, so this must be dowsing.
Erm .... nope ..... doesn't work. Sorry.
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Hob
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Re: Andy Goldsworthy . . .
Sep 23, 2003, 16:39
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!!! nice.
I never got the thing about the lack of footprints etc. He knows his stuff.
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Hob
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Re: What is dowsing?
Sep 23, 2003, 16:41
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Moderated or not, this forum is a damn sight more polite than the peer-review system.
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FourWinds
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Re: What is dowsing?
Sep 23, 2003, 16:41
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It's an unmoderated open forum so feel free to abuse me if you so desire.
Sometimes it's necessary, don't be shy.
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treaclechops
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Re: Andy Goldsworthy . . .
Sep 23, 2003, 16:41
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He most certainly does! Always good to have something to aspire to, I feel!
Love,
treaclechops xx
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Hob
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Re: What is dowsing?
Sep 23, 2003, 16:47
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I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect the point I was trying to make, albeit cackhandedly, is that magnetism is a phenomenon in itself, and as such not really a reason for things to happen. When we invoke E.M. fields, we don't really know what they are (I don't anyway).
Yet we know that we can infer their existence from their effects.
There was somene in Fortean times trying to come up with a succinct method of quantifying "realness" and things that are inferred by their effects on other things were only deemed real if they were within an accepted paradigm.
What the fuck am I going on about?
I dunno, I know what I mean, I'm just not coherent enough to express it. Spent too long in scienceland I think.
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Hob
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Re: What is dowsing?
Sep 23, 2003, 16:50
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No need. I'm still in a state of unabashed wonder at the fact that there appear to be other entities out there who can think beyond football, soap operas and suchlike.
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Hob
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Re: Ferrari's and Flesh
Sep 23, 2003, 16:51
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You said synapse.
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Hob
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Re: Anthroposophising
Sep 23, 2003, 16:53
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Are you the electric monk from Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency?
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FourWinds
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More about magnetism
Sep 23, 2003, 16:53
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This is realy quite good:
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Imagnet.html
It was first proposed around 1600 that the Earth was a giant magnet ... cool. You learn something everyday ... well those that want to do anyway.
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