• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I know a utility locator that swears by it and demonstrate it. It worked for them, not me. My powers of skepticism kept the witchcraft at bay.

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      I have had just the MOST frustrating conversations with people I know to be incredibly intelligent lol.

      Im normally very live and live. Like so long as your not convincing/have been convinced to go for reki as a substitute for cancer treatment… Whatever makes you happy. You feel happier holding a quartz rock? Then technically it is working, cool rocks make me happy to, you do you.

      I have no idea why dowsing just gets under my skin lol.

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        5 months ago

        It’s the difference between “this (placebo) makes me feel better” vs “this is real factual (magic)”.

        One is a lie they tell themselves, the other is a lie they tell you.

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        It was pvc and they only locate power and other cables, so it’s not like we had any confirmation. I stay skeptical.

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        No, people swear by this, honestly. It’s not like asking someone for a “left handed smoke shifter” as an initiation right. People rural and metro genuinely think this is a real thing. At a few hundred a pop I would wager there’s ~$50k in these things that will be purches by various contractors out of the new infrastructure build in the US. It’s wild.

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      5 months ago

      I tried it once and it was a neat experience. I could feel some sort of force crossing the rods as I slowly walked along. Almost felt like horizontal gravity.