lesjcbs said:
The impression you give is you expect everyone to believe your gold finds with a MD somehow proves dowsing doesn't work. It's like comparing oranges and apples and is absolute silliness on you part. All your pictures, entertaining as they are, are irrelevant and prove nothing about dowsing. It's like saying because dogs, cats, horses, and cows don't have wings and thus cannot fly, therefore even though birds have wings, they should not be able to fly either. Your pictures of things found with a MD only are totally irrelevant to dowsing in any way and is an attempt on your part to muddy the waters.
Your
"therefore even though birds have wings,
they should not be able to fly either."
quote is utter nonsense!
As a casual observer the impression I get from tinpan's
posts is that he is finding a substantial amount of
significant finds with a metal detector, and you are finding
a very pathetic display of junk with a method you claim
is vastly superior to his metal detector.
The "absolute silliness" is on you part, with your birds
have wings but should not be able to fly analogy.
Your claim that tinpan "is loosing sleep and having nightmares",
is an even more ridiculous demonstration of your
absolute silliness, and a telling display of your weak logic.
Your wiki advice is also total nonsense.
Wiki is famous for allowing anyone to post anything
and is the lazy person's source for information. You
go ahead and use it, it demonstrates your total lack
of critical thinking and real research.
The most likely explanation for the silence you hear is
that serious people are still rolling on the floor laughing
at the pictures of finds you posted and actually took the
time to brag about.
You say tinpan's posts are just talk. Well back atcha
dowser. My impression of his posts are that he is
making real finds while you post pictures of things most
people could find in ten minutes of random diggin in
their yards.
And even though you never asked me personally, I
have dowsed, many times in the last forty years!
I learned straight away what it is.
It is someone trying to hold a rod or two straight.
When they can't hold them straight they fool themselve's
into believing there is something moving the rods
other than their inability to hold them straight.
You are fooling only yourself.
No, posting pictures of metal detecting finds does not
prove that dowsing does not work. It simply displays
that metal detectors work. Dowsers cannot prove that
dowsing works, never have, except to the easily fooled.
Isn't reality great!
I've got a test for the dowsers.
select a location, dowse it and convince yourself that
nothing is there.
Select a point in the middle of this area.
Then place four cardboard boxes in four directions 30
feet away from this point, north south east and west.
You will be required to open one box.
In one box put an item you claim you can dowse,
in the other three boxes put a bomb in each box.
Then have someone who doesn't believe in
dowsing randomly move the boxes
around while you are not there to witness the placement.
Then you can dowse your target for as long as you want.
But you will be required to open one box.
The bomb will go off if you open the wrong box.
Will you have the guts to do this?
I didn't think so............water too muddy for ya?