herb
brain's right hemisphere
I thought fortune telling was nonsense, but I saw a fortune teller some years ago and, dammit, he was unnervingly prescient.
Joe
Are you lying? Where does this cartoon come from?
Fortune telling
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Are you lying? Where does this cartoon come from?
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
did she own one of the mansion flats in Cheyne Court by any chance
Ali T
pfm Member
Yes agree, I have used it myself on occasion to find buried services.
mansr
Objectionist
Too bad the Zodiac killer couldn't be part of the study.
mansr
Objectionist
Dowsing "works" through the same mechanism as do Ouija boards, i.e. not at all.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dowsing
Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
It’s also the key to a new level of consciousness according to this book. YMMV, I seem to remember mine did. It took me five minutes to find this on my bookshelves owing to the rather unique Towers’ library system, but considering it was last read over forty years ago that’s not bad.
graystoke4
pfm Member
Hi joker do you mean the michael Bentine from Michael Bentine's Potty Time 
,
now that was a blast from the past,
http://www.thechestnut.com/potty.htm
,now that was a blast from the past,
http://www.thechestnut.com/potty.htm
Rockmeister
pfm Member
It's in that 'there are more things under this sun Stanley' category.
My Great granny was an irish Romany who made a living from telling fortunes. I never met her so no idea what she said or did, but the iChing proved be be so easy to interpret as I wanted to hear that I did that for a few years and ...it led me here, so?
My Great granny was an irish Romany who made a living from telling fortunes. I never met her so no idea what she said or did, but the iChing proved be be so easy to interpret as I wanted to hear that I did that for a few years and ...it led me here, so?
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
My mother told us she saw a fortune teller in New Brighton years before she was married. The fortune teller said that she would marry quite late in life, then have four children, two girls and two boys, in that order. Which is what happened.
Where I used to work, a young woman used to read people's fortunes using Tarot cards (just for fun, she never charged anything). When one of her co-workers was having the cards 'read', the young woman suddenly gathered up the cards and said words to the effect that she wouldn't go on with the reading, but wouldn't say why. Needless to say, the co-worker was terrified, thinking something dreadful must have come up in the cards. Work got round to management, who told the card-reader in no uncertain terms to cease and desist from the readings.
Where I used to work, a young woman used to read people's fortunes using Tarot cards (just for fun, she never charged anything). When one of her co-workers was having the cards 'read', the young woman suddenly gathered up the cards and said words to the effect that she wouldn't go on with the reading, but wouldn't say why. Needless to say, the co-worker was terrified, thinking something dreadful must have come up in the cards. Work got round to management, who told the card-reader in no uncertain terms to cease and desist from the readings.
Arkless Electronics
Trade: Amp design and repairs.
I knew a mechanic who was just the same!
A quote from the link - "The majority of UK water companies confirm that some of their engineers use dowsing to locate leaks, although most companies claim they do not encourage the use of dowsing."
There is also a total load of hogwash in the linked article about the duff metal/bomb detectors sold all over, not least Iraq. That made UK national radio and details of the case were discussed, and they were nothing like reported on the link.
Might I be a party pooper here and gently and politely point out what is known as ‘reporting error’? When you hear that predictions (dowsing, readings) are accurate you should bear in mind that cases where prediction, dowsing etc didn’t work and you didn’t hear about them....
Derren Brown did a program a couple of years ago where he made an incredible series of predictions and convinced a group of people that it was genuine. At the end of the programme he revealed the dozen or so previous attempts that failed and the participants told not to reveal the outcome.
Derren Brown did a program a couple of years ago where he made an incredible series of predictions and convinced a group of people that it was genuine. At the end of the programme he revealed the dozen or so previous attempts that failed and the participants told not to reveal the outcome.
mansr
Objectionist
Yes, it's quite embarrassing.
herb
brain's right hemisphere
60 years ago my aunties invited me to one of their seances, a very popular pastime back then with little TV. The board was very simple and yes or no was used most of the time, I was never invited again after the glass shot across the room and one aunt started speaking in a man's voice and falling over. I assumed that this was a communal subconscious thing, nothing to do with the dead or the future. That is a very interesting subject, though no doubt you will take the piss...
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
herb,
I found it on the Internet, and I'm starting to think my posts should come with HTML tags to indicate intended humour ahead.
Joe
I found it on the Internet, and I'm starting to think my posts should come with HTML tags to indicate intended humour ahead.
Joe
