Ouija Boards

[Bloodsoul]

This seemed appropriate, considering the topic:
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I believe my mom said she used one before, but I don't recall what her reaction to it was. I've thought about buying tarot cards to use as a D&D "Deck of Illusions/Deck of Many Things," but I think sticking with my Devil's Panties playing cards would be more humorous in that regard.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I used one once at school; never again. Wasn't a hot pink one XD but a home made board. I and a few other girls sat down on the floor of an empty classroom, put some pieces of paper with the letters and "yes" and "no" in a circle and put our fingers on a glass stolen from the canteen. At first, it just spouted a lot of garble, but then the glass started moving all by itself. We took our fingers off it, and it still moved. O_o

We freaked out and smashed the glass, but ever since that day, that classroom had a really weird feeling. The teachers wouldn't believe us, but we could sense something watching us, and it was always really cold in there. Some people even saw stuff falling to the ground when there wasn't anyone close enough to knock it over.

I don't think they're a good idea; and they certainly shouldn't be sold as a toy to little girls, any more than you'd paint an AK47 hot pink and sell that as a toy.

[IDrinkaRum]

I went to TRU on Valentine's Day with the family. There, in one of the game board aisles of the store was the infamous Pink Ouja Board! OoO!

Didn't buy it. Though I was highly amused.

I just want it 'cos it's pink.

Wouldn't use it though. Oh well.

I'm weird like that.

[Fryk]

I wonder if pink ouija boards only connect with the really frilly froo-froo spirits.

[Arcade Man D]

One of my books describes a ouija board as akin to a phone- you have no idea who you are dialing, and they can come crawling back through the phone line to you.

We used one at a girl guide sleepover- the thing went nuts when the other girls used it, but fell silent when I touched it. The other girls thought it was the ring I was wearing- "take it off, ouija doesn't like it". So I took it off. And still, nothing.

I believe in spiritual things. I'm an urban animist, after all. But ouija boards STFU when I have tried to use them.

It could be whichever spirit was communicating through it was trying to cause trouble, but when it saw it was going to be dealing with someone who actually knew that the spiritual/paranormal/occult can be really dangerous, not some giggly teenage girl, decided to try its luck somewhere else.

Which brings me to my thought about Ouija boards, which is similar to that already expressed by others.

"Leave the occult to those who know what they're doing."

Because it can be really dangerous. Especially Ouija boards and other communication devices like those. I had a friend (she's Wiccan, just to mention it) say that if the only occult-related item in your house is a Ouija board that it was a lot like locking all the doors and windows, but leaving the keys hanging on the newspaper hook under your mailbox.

[Boozy]

I'm amazed at the number of professed atheists here who believe in Ouija boards.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I believe my own eyes and what I experienced. I don't believe in devils or gods, but something moved that glass. Being an atheist doesn't mean that you can't believe in ghosts, you know; in fact, seeing as religious people believe that everyone goes to either heaven or hell, surely they shouldn't believe in ghosts?

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Every night I lie down and fly through alien skies, talking to people who died years ago. It's called dreaming.

The mind is a funny thing, put that together with all the neat tidbits of physics and such that most people don't know and nearly anything can 'happen right before your eyes' for completely mundane reasons. In my senior year of highschool all the doors in the english wing slammed shut by themselves... because the AC was turned up.

Unexplained things happen, doesn't mean ghosts did it.

[Nyoibo]

But it doesn't mean they didn't either.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

But it doesn't mean they didn't either.

And?

At best that means that the assumption ghosts exist is on equal footing with that they don't exist. Given scientific explanation's terrific track record in disproving things that people believed were magical/mystical, I'm going with science as the likelier candidate

[Lace Neil Singer]

Whether it's the mind or ghosts, it's still not something little kids should be messing around with.

[Boozy]

Whether it's the mind or ghosts, it's still not something little kids should be messing around with.

Why not? I played with a Oujia board when I was a kid. My sister and I used to ask who we were going to marry, silly things like that. Completely harmless.

[elsporko]

Quija boards are only dangerous in the hands of those with over active imaginations

[smileyeagle1021]

Why not? I played with a Oujia board when I was a kid. My sister and I used to ask who we were going to marry, silly things like that. Completely harmless.

Quija boards are only dangerous in the hands of those with over active imaginations

Boozy, as elsporko said, it's the people with over active imagination that you have to worry about. You went into it thinking that you were playing a silly little game.
Someone who goes into it thinking that this is a serious thing and is at the age when the imagination runs wild... that could easily turn ugly.

[elsporko]

Turn ugly in the sense that they might get scared. Its almost on the level of scary stories in the danger department.