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Ouija boards?

  • 05-05-2005 01:41PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭


    i was thinking of using one with a few friends some time but i'm not sure about it just yet. I've heard alot of people are scared witless by them and weird **** happens afterwards and then again i heard that its just a simple way to tap into your subconcious. does anyone have any experience with them


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    no, but I think it would be a great activity for a 21st or something


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭fletch


    Was in a house once when there was a group using the Ouija board, I am hugely sceptical of all things paranormal but even I to this day, can't explain the way the house shook.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭fletch


    Oh we got a nice glow in the dark one from Toys-R-Us in Times Square in New York.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭daithimac


    are you kidding about the house shaking. one of my friends was saying that he did it with a few lads whan they were kids and one of them started babbleing to himself and that his aul lad came down and totally distroyed the thing and went beserk with him for doing it in his house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    Appearently, it's a very dangerous way of communicating. A secence is ment to be safer.

    Then again having never tried either, I can't say. I'm curious to do it sometime.

    Has anyone ever used a glass?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭daithimac


    theres a link here for a web based one at

    http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/WebOuija.html

    i'm not trying it till i know more about it though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    daithimac wrote:
    and then again i heard that its just a simple way to tap into your subconcious
    And this would be a pleasant way of passing the evening why exactly?
    I've given my views on the Ouija [post=2222580]recently[/post] so I won't repeat myself, but tapping into your subconcious is something to do in psychoanalysis or a supportive environment with people you trust and preferably done relatively slowly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    daithimac wrote:
    theres a link here for a web based one at

    http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/WebOuija.html

    i'm not trying it till i know more about it though
    I asked it "Is this a pile of crap?" It said "Yes" :D

    Spirits communicating through Javascript's Math.random() function? There are some things I'll remain sceptical about :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    My sister and 3 of her friends were staying over one night in 2002, her 3 friends did the Ouiji Board, she didn't. Her 3 friends are dead now, they all died within a 6 weeks of each other, all aged 24.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    is that true sjones?

    Talliesin, great post on the other thread. You really killed that discussion ;)

    Taking a slow and steady approach, how does one become experienced in these things? I assume it takes a year of ten?

    Personally I like to keep an open mind but can't help my skepticism creeping through at times.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    Yep. Freaky eh? One was suicide, other two were murdered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    You will get answers with one, but everybody agrees that the 'communication' that comes through is useless gibberish usually, and they can often have negative psychological effects on certain types of people.

    If you're really interested in the paranormal, I'd say reading and research is the best way to go about developing an understanding - if any of us will ever truly understand much of it in our lives.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    sjones wrote:
    Yep. Freaky eh? One was suicide, other two were murdered.

    Are you serious? Like come on now? Really? :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭r3boot


    what does the word ouji comefrom ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    A friend of mine did a Ouija board on his own while on LSD when he was younger. The next day he came to school scared ****less and told me that he asked "When will I die" and the whole room, the whole building shook. He was so freaked out. Then I told him that it was most likely the earthquake that happened at the same time that night.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija

    Ouija is apparently a trademark, didn't know that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    r3boot wrote:
    what does the word ouji comefrom ?

    Originally they were sold as children's toys and the word was a mixture of 'oui' and 'ja' both words for yes in French and German respectively.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Kernel wrote:
    Originally they were sold as children's toys and the word was a mixture of 'oui' and 'ja' both words for yes in French and German respectively.


    Rather inglorious isn't it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    gordon wrote:
    A friend of mine did a Ouija board on his own while on LSD when he was younger. The next day he came to school scared ****less and told me that he asked "When will I die" and the whole room, the whole building shook. He was so freaked out. Then I told him that it was most likely the earthquake that happened at the same time that night.
    wondering do I know you in RL..same thing happened to a friend of mine. We were on school tour, don't think he was on lsd but as it was holland there was an abundance of other things he could have been on.
    The room we were in started shaking and the boys came running through our room screaming that they had knocked the glass over.
    It was na earthquake..not that they get many in holland, just happened at exactly the same time.

    <edit> what country was the earthquake in Gordon?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Listen, a lot of people think that it is a load of nonsense and I myself is sceptical of a lot of all these paranormal things like mediums,reincarnations, UFOs blah blah but I have done the Ouija Board.

    I did it when I was 15 with a few friends in one of the girl's house and believe me it works! I dunno how or whatever but it can! At one stage only two of us were using it and I would ask a question in my mind about the other girl (I suspected she had an eating disorder) and it started answering my questions and I could see on the other girls face that she knew what I was asking. It was really freaky. I can't remember want we used to put our fingers on (for spelling), some small object, but I could feel the pull of it and I definately wasn't pulling or pushing it and as their was only two of us, itwould have been harder to manipulate it.

    After, i swear their was a funny presence in my room at home. For a good two years. There would be strange smells in parts of the room, things of mine would disappear and reappear. Fair enough the last one could be me just forgetting, but it happened on numerous occasions and the smell was pretty nasty and would come and go.

    Wheather its real or not, it fecks you up in the head and I wouldn't suggest you trying. But probably most people will now want to go and do and see if it works. Simple case of telling child, 'don't touch that' and they burn themselves.

    [I]You've been warned!!![/I]

    Also, I wasn't drunk or stoned etc.. and I ain't some looper.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    Larianne wrote:
    Wheather its real or not, it fecks you up in the head and I wouldn't suggest you trying. But probably most people will now want to go and do and see if it works. Simple case of telling child, 'don't touch that' and they burn themselves.
    The friend I was referring to has been on medication since. (15 years) Not a pretty sight tbh.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    solas wrote:
    The friend I was referring to has been on medication since. Not a pretty sight tbh.

    Yeah, I can fully believe it!! Not nice thing to hear. Hope he/she can sort themselves out. I could see how it can take hold of you.

    Be careful folks! :o


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Larianne, my experience was really similar to yours, including being aware of a presence. Ive posted about it before. I wasnt getting involved in this thread up to now, because of exactly your point, itll encourage others!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭smidgy


    This kinda stuff is very real. I have read in church literature that it is always the devil that communicates through this medium, you may think you are communicating to someone else but it is always satan. I knew a 3 lads who were communicating with some 'spirit' and crazy @~** started happening to them. They had to give it up, it just opens up a whole world of $H!T.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    smidgy wrote:
    This kinda stuff is very real. I have read in church literature that it is always the devil that communicates through this medium, you may think you are communicating to someone else but it is always satan. I knew a 3 lads who were communicating with some 'spirit' and crazy @~** started happening to them. They had to give it up, it just opens up a whole world of $H!T.

    In fairness, I haven't heard anything from the Church or a lad that went to school with a lad down the pub, I've dabbled, and mentioned before what happens. You do get words spelled out, but the jury is still out as to what causes this (it can most possibly be the subconscious). The information you obtain is fairly general, useless and trivial. Afterwards you feel uneasy and unable to sleep, as though you are not alone (again could be psychological effects of thinking about what you have done, or even tapping into a part of your brain/subconscious. My advice, nothing bad has happened to me, or anyone else that did it, but it isn't unheard of to happen to others, so why bother playing with it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Garibaldi


    I dabbled with that when I was in college. Never. Again.

    In a nutshell:
    4 friends of one of the guys in on the session were mentioned by name, and not in a happy story either. They were killed in a car crash that night.
    Glasses, and I mean big tankards here, exploded into a million pieces where they stood. As I walked home from the house where it took place, every street light switched off as I passed it (I actually stopped and waited to see if it was some sort of cooling cycle, but they didn't come back on). Not much sleep (read: none) was had that night.
    I did speak to a priest about it a coupla years ago, but he just reckoned it was a load of old cock. Ah well, maybe we were masters of telekinesis and we just didn't realise. ;) Just thinking about that night still scares me 11 years later. :(
    Bottom line: If you're going to do it, who am I to tell you not to. Just be as prepared as you can for the possible consequences.
    BTW, I actually had attended a couple of sessions in other locations prior to this one, and nothing happened. Nada. Nothing at all. I guess we were just "lucky" that night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭goin'_to_the_PS


    daithimac wrote:
    theres a link here for a web based one at

    http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/WebOuija.html

    i'm not trying it till i know more about it though
    how does this work i type my q in and nothing happened


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    Garibaldi wrote:
    I dabbled with that when I was in college. Never. Again.

    In a nutshell:
    4 friends of one of the guys in on the session were mentioned by name, and not in a happy story either. They were killed in a car crash that night.
    Glasses, and I mean big tankards here, exploded into a million pieces where they stood. As I walked home from the house where it took place, every street light switched off as I passed it (I actually stopped and waited to see if it was some sort of cooling cycle, but they didn't come back on). Not much sleep (read: none) was had that night.
    I did speak to a priest about it a coupla years ago, but he just reckoned it was a load of old cock. Ah well, maybe we were masters of telekinesis and we just didn't realise. ;) Just thinking about that night still scares me 11 years later. :(
    Bottom line: If you're going to do it, who am I to tell you not to. Just be as prepared as you can for the possible consequences.
    BTW, I actually had attended a couple of sessions in other locations prior to this one, and nothing happened. Nada. Nothing at all. I guess we were just "lucky" that night.

    Jaysus, that's bad. The more i hear about the whole thing the more it seems like it's equivalent to playing russian roulette to figure out how a gun works. But as we all know, nothing stops the curious! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Kernel wrote:
    Jaysus, that's bad. The more i hear about the whole thing the more it seems like it's equivalent to playing russian roulette to figure out how a gun works. But as we all know, nothing stops the curious! ;)

    Yep, if someone wanna try drugs they're gonna do it.

    I don't know if it's your sub-concious or spirits or the devil. But it did start off with a young boy contacting us. blah blah..

    Can't explain the weird smell in my room though. And it would change in location. ANd it wasn't just me who could smell it.

    Anyway, you've been warned. Luckily nothing really bad happened me like those people in the car crash. Jaysus that's terrible!! :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Garibaldi


    Believe me, those were just the highlights.

    As a matter of interest, anyone know if any studies have been done regarding the correlation between Ouija sessions and deaths, or is it all just considered to be, as the aforementioned priest might say, a load of old cock by the scientific community? Not necessarily saying that one may be directly responsible for the other, but with regard to prediction of deaths/accidents/significant events (no need to restrict it to deaths, I guess). Has anyone ever heard of positive outcomes of Ouija sessions?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    I don't know of any studies done, but it sounds lke an interesting idea.


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