Ouija Boards

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Upinflames

Original Poster:

1,583 posts

165 months

A friend caught his kids with one recently, he's gone batst over it.

What do you think? What happens if everyone is blindfolded and a camera records it?

colin_p

3,965 posts

199 months

Zoon

6,149 posts

108 months

Upinflames said:
A friend caught his kids with one recently, he's gone batst over it.

What do you think? What happens if everyone is blindfolded and a camera records it?
Have you asked the fairies at the bottom of the garden?

guitarcarfanatic

1,360 posts

122 months

Upinflames said:
A friend caught his kids with one recently, he's gone batst over it.

What do you think? What happens if everyone is blindfolded and a camera records it?
I read about a Dad who heard his kids upstairs playing with one during a sleepover. He had some fun by flipping the upstairs lights on and off a few times using the fuse board biggrin

spookly

3,437 posts

82 months

Your friend is mental. Unless you're a tub thumping dyed in the wool bible basher then why would it cause you the slightest concern?

K87

3,008 posts

86 months

The 16 year old brother of a friend of mine used a ouija board, sent him completely and dangerously insane.

Upinflames

Original Poster:

1,583 posts

165 months

K87 said:
The 16 year old brother of a friend of mine used a ouija board, sent him completely and dangerously insane.
Yeah its this kind of thing he's worried about rather than actual bogey men

J4CKO

38,739 posts

187 months

K87 said:
The 16 year old brother of a friend of mine used a ouija board, sent him completely and dangerously insane.
Hmm, there is always a story like that with Ouija boards, remember messing about with one as a kid and it directed us to go tot he local graveyard and the grave of some bloke, and to be fair, it existed but we did all walk past it daily so suspect we had subconsciously clocked the name as unsurprisingly it was one of the ones at the front, not six graves deep.

Alorotom

11,103 posts

174 months

K87 said:
The 16 year old brother of a friend of mine used a ouija board, sent him completely and dangerously insane.
Well, no it didn't really did it. I expect if there was a major shift in behaviour there was something real and actual that caused the change, else it's just a convenient excuse.

I remember as kids (probs 13/14ish) we messed around with a Ouija board after pooling monies and buying a board and planchette from Durham Book Store in Sunderland (now there's a blast from the past!) ... utter bks but I do remember out parents going collectively ape-st when they found out (and none of them at all were remotely religious!)

MesoForm

8,425 posts

262 months

Upinflames said:
A friend caught his kids with one recently, he's gone batst over it.

What do you think? What happens if everyone is blindfolded and a camera records it?
It's self-hypnosis, I know it was big when I was in college and some people would swing pendulums around asking themselves questions. It's similar to divining for water where your subconscious thinks there's water there and the sticks cross.

Charlie Foxtrot

3,000 posts

202 months

I used a Luigi Board when I was younger, was only good for getting in touch with dead Italians though...

WelshChris

1,102 posts

241 months

Charlie Foxtrot said:
I used a Luigi Board when I was younger, was only good for getting in touch with dead Italians though...
hehe

dundarach

4,248 posts

215 months

Whenever I explain I'm a Christian on here, people always pipe up with 'sky fairies'

Where's all the 'board fairies' then?

It's either all bullst, or we just can't be sure.

Dan_1981

16,955 posts

186 months

dundarach said:
Whenever I explain I'm a Christian on here, people always pipe up with 'sky fairies'

Where's all the 'board fairies' then?

It's either all bullst, or we just can't be sure.
Post 3 I think.

Zoon

6,149 posts

108 months

dundarach said:
Whenever I explain I'm a Christian on here, people always pipe up with 'sky fairies'

Where's all the 'board fairies' then?

It's either all bullst, or we just can't be sure.
Don't forget garden varieties!

bigpriest

1,136 posts

117 months

Wasn't Ouija Board originally a game for all the family to play? Also a poor choice of single by Morrissey.

cheesejunkie

638 posts

4 months

I had a Christian upbringing. I vaguely remember the fear of the forbidden when it comes to ouija boards.

Vaguely as I’m an adult now and don’t fall for it any more.

Honestly, if someone is going to believe in something with no evidence to back it up you’re not going to win the argument with facts.

Ouija boards are silly. Fear of them is very silly. Some will still believe however.

Milkyway

6,577 posts

40 months

I knew a few people who used them & got in ‘contact’ with some nasties... was advised to steer well clear of them. rolleyes
It must be really difficult if the ‘contacted’ have spelling difficulties though.. Apart from just answering ‘ Yes or No’.

MikeM6

4,454 posts

89 months

Considering that the dead are just that and that you can not more contact a dead person than you can teach a table to speak English, it does seem odd to be fearful of Ouija boards.

However, they are dangerous in the sense that if someone can convince themselves they experienced something through them, which is entirely likely for anyone gullible enough, they might go on to believe in any number of things. So it might reinforce stupidity, and that is dangerous.

Pitre

3,881 posts

221 months

MikeM6 said:
.... they are dangerous in the sense that if someone can convince themselves they experienced something through them, which is entirely likely for anyone gullible enough, they might go on to believe in any number of things. So it might reinforce stupidity, and that is dangerous.
Like religion generally, then. silly