What's a "Dowsing Claimant"?
Art, you need a crash course on what it means to be a "dowsing claimant".
A "claimant" is a dowser/LRL'er who claims he can do this and do that, but can't back it up with anything besides more claims he can do this and do that. You know the pattern well.
The nongullibles here also know the pattern well. We don't believe you can do diddlysquat, and it's the things that you say that convince us of that. We've been listening to blowhard braggarts since we were kids, you're nothing new to us.
I'll tell you a Monday evening bedtime story. You decide whether it's fact or fiction. Lose some sleep over it if that's what it takes.
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Growing up, "Jerry" noticed that sometimes he seemed to have hunches that were unusually lucky, and sometimes dreamed things that later came true in detail. In his late teens he took up an interest in "treasure hunting" as many young fellows do, and tried his hand at dowsing with a coat hanger. And by golly, now and then he seemed to get results just too good to explain by chance.
He took up dowsing as a hobby, and as it turns out he actually had a bit of talent.
Then he met other more experienced dowsers who claimed to get really good results with fancier equipment, and had all kinds of tips on why bad dowses happen. And that was the beginning of Jerry's downfall.
He started bragging how good he was.
And his new friends trained him in an alabi system that stopped him cold from being able to learn from his mistakes. The alabi system kept improving instead of his skill.
Since every failure could be attributed to something or someone besides himself, he became even more sure of his dowsing ability, bragging even more, even while his ego investment in outcomes was ruining the ability of his subconscious mind to be able to manifest itself through the rods.
He got so proud that he sunk big bucks into a fancy LRL so he wouldn't have to be seen with the lowly dowsing rods any more. His LRL buddies complimented him. The LRL came with an even more elaborate alabi system. And LRL'ers are supposed to deny that they're even dowsing. It's some sort of fancy technology, right? right? right?
And thus did Jerry become like his mentor buddies. Zero dowsing ability, in so much denial that he didn't even know he had lost all dowsing ability, claiming to be able to do this if only and that if only and this other thing if only, demanding to be believed, and bewildered that nobody with a lick of common sense would take him seriously. And his friends and family wondered what had happened to the reasonably level-headed kid they once knew.
At least his LRL buddies were still there to keep him pumped up.
And that's the story of how "Jerry" became a "dowsing claimant".
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--Dave J.
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