Ouija Board

Gazza22

I mentioned to my friends the other day that some night we should get together and use an ouija board.

To my surprise most chickened out!!! And guess who were the only ones up for it, the men! As usual the women are very spiritual and believe that something evil is bound to happen. :rolleyes:

Well anyway, i will get around to them sometime and we will try it together but just wondering if anyone has ever tried an ouija board before and what was the experience like? What are your beliefs on the whole witchcraft ect. thing? Oh and just a mini-debate here, are there any men out there who believe in the occult?...or are we the same old tough non believers? Women, and i'm generalising here, why are women more likely to believe in the occult?

Oh by the way, i just want to do it for the scare factor/laugh and i believe absolutely nothing will happen! I don't believe in the occult.

aidan_walsh

The occult might believe in you though.

Stark

If we were to look at this logically:

You don't believe in it, therefore no point in doing it.
You do believe, bad things will happen, so big no no.

So by reasoning, the best option is not to do it.

Gazza22

Stark wrote:

If we were to look at this logically:

You don't believe in it, therefore no point in doing it.
You do believe, bad things will happen, so big no no.

So by reasoning, the best option is not to do it.

Well my point in doing it would be to entertain myself for a night watching the women scream!

KdjaCL

I dont believe in anything after death but have seen something which i cannot logically explain happen whilst using a Ouija board. (my religion is logicalist ie there is a reason for everything )

Go for it nothing really to lose.

EXCEPT YOUR SOUL !!!!!!!!!!!!! MUHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

kdjac

Stark

Well my evil side is screaming in my ear right now "Go on, tell him to do it. It'll be a total skit if he gets possessed by something nasty!".

So yeah, go for it.

Stark

KdjaC wrote:

I dont believe in anything after death but have seen something which i cannot logically explain happen whilst using a Ouija board. (my religion is logicalist ie there is a reason for everything )

Sounds interesting.

Larianne

There's already a thread on the Ouija Board in the paranormal Forum.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=252849

Should answer a few of your questions.

Some people never listen Mods...

Gazza22

Oh well if i did do it and something did happen...honestly that would be great!
Because i don't believe in any religion or anything paranormal so if i did see ( even though i won't :rolleyes: ) a spirit or something like that, i would turn my life around.

Rew

Iv heard a few stories that invlove people commiting sucide straight after using one and another about a guy going mad and going for his friends with a sword. Its odd that they sell somthing like that in to shops.

funky penguin

Rew wrote:

... and another about a guy going mad and going for his friends with a sword.....

Thats what you get for inviting a Knight to a seance.

Gazza22

Rew wrote:

Its odd that they sell somthing like that in to shops.

Hum i was just wondering about that, if i wanted to buy an ouija board, has anyone seen these on sale anywhere??? I haven't, but i could get one on ebay.

Con9903

I take it you haven't seen the new fisherprice ouija board range?

Gazza22

Con9903 wrote:

I take it you haven't seen the new fisherprice ouija board range?

LOL are you joking! Wouldn't be surprised it was only a childs game afterall

Larianne

Ya dont have to buy a board ya can just write the symbols/letter/numbers on a page and you;re away.


Wouldnt advise though!!

funky penguin

Why?

Con9903

Some people are nervous about that stuff as there are so many accounts of people that use the ouija board die prematurely in the weeks following

Gazza22

Larianne wrote:

Wouldnt advise though!!

Same answer i got when i asked one of my friends (female)!

KdjaCL

Witchcraft on Dame street sell them . theres a good few places you can buy them.


kdjac

Only Human

I would advise you do it! Infact I would advise that you research some of the rules of ouiji boarding and make sure to break them. It would be good for a laugh if you want to be scared sh1tless. I've done a few ouiji boards and they used to scare the crap out of me before I realised they were a load of crap.


For anyone who doesn't know how ouiji boards work (don't read if you're going to do a ouiji board and want to be scared) :

You're subconciously moving the glass across the ouiji board. The more you're expecting paranormal things to happen the more you pick on normal everyday things happening that you wouldn't have noticed normaly. Any subconcious thoughts will come out on the ouiji board. The Spirits controling the glass thing is complete and utter bullsh!t.

funky penguin

Con9903 wrote:

Some people are nervous about that stuff as there are so many accounts of people that use the ouija board die prematurely in the weeks following

:eek:

Gazza22

I am going to do it only human, but your spoiler is nothing new for me! lol i don't expect or believe anything would happen

Only Human

gazza22 wrote:

I am going to do it only human, but your spoiler is nothing new for me! lol i don't expect or believe anything would happen

LOL, then do it with the knowlege to keep you scare free and watch all your friends sh!t themselves. It's important to calm them down after if the experience is bad because it might do some mental damage or something. I always explain how it works when ever I do a ouiji board with mates.

Gazza22

Did you buy a board or do you make your own?

tinkerbell

funky penguin wrote:

Thats what you get for inviting a Knight to a seance.

Hahaha, that's hilarious!!

I'm always interested to hear about what happened to people with this, although I would never ever take part in one myself, I'm too afraid! :eek:

When I was in Junior Cert, I was sitting in my maths class, and one of my friends took out a sheet of paper and started drawing out a board, and I was like Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop it! So I moved my desk away from her! I don't think she tried it though, she was just drawing it, but I wasn't taking any chances! Hehee, I'd say the teacher thought I was gone mad by moving my desk in the opposite direction, lol

By the way, on all paranormal matters, your best bet is to ask KatieK, she knows her stuff - there's a lot of stuff on this sorta thing in the Paranormal forum so you should check it out (quite a recent thread on this whole matter as well in the last day or two).

funky penguin

tinkerbell wrote:

When I was in Junior Cert, I was sitting in my maths class, and one of my friends took out a sheet of paper and started drawing out a board, and I was like Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop it! So I moved my desk away from her! I don't think she tried it though, she was just drawing it, but I wasn't taking any chances! Hehee, I'd say the teacher thought I was gone mad by moving my desk in the opposite direction, lol

Maybe it wasn't you that moved the desk.......................

Only Human

gazza22 wrote:

Did you buy a board or do you make your own?

I've done it once on a purchased board but most of the other times it was on a home made board. I wouldn't bother purchacing a board because it's a bit of a waste of money. I supose you'd be more inclined to expect something to happen if you've bought a ouiji board.

Gazza22

Thanks, but im still taking notes that all the females are afraid!! hum maybe except your friend

tinkerbell

funky penguin wrote:

Maybe it wasn't you that moved the desk.......................

Hehehe, I didn't think of it that way :eek:

:eek: :eek:

!!!!!!

Hehe, no she had only started drawing the thing when I spotted her, so I was getting as far away from her as I could!!

NotMe

I can't believe some people over the age of 10 are still scared of ghosts. :rolleyes:

LadyJ

Maybe we women are just natural pessimists............... I blame men for that!

Talliesin

Only Human wrote:

For anyone who doesn't know how ouiji boards work (don't read if you're going to do a ouiji board and want to be scared) :
You're subconciously moving the glass across the ouiji board. The more you're expecting paranormal things to happen the more you pick on normal everyday things happening that you wouldn't have noticed normaly. Any subconcious thoughts will come out on the ouiji board. The Spirits controling the glass thing is complete and utter bullsh!t.

Why do people keep saying that as if it therefore follows that the Ouija is safe?

Maybe this attitude is the influence of the fluffy self-help pop-psychology stuff, but really your subconcsious is not something to play with for grins and giggles.

Myself I believe that both spirits and your subconcious affect the pointer, but it's tapping into the subconcious that's most likely to do you damage.

joejoem

Larianne wrote:

There's already a thread on the Ouija Board in the paranormal Forum.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=252849

Should answer a few of your questions.

Some people never listen Mods...

* makes a big slurp lick arse noise

Sarky

gazza22 wrote:

Well my point in doing it would be to entertain myself for a night watching the women scream!

Can't you just be good in bed like the rest of us?

Only Human

Talliesin wrote:

Why do people keep saying that as if it therefore follows that the Ouija is safe?

Maybe this attitude is the influence of the fluffy self-help pop-psychology stuff, but really your subconcsious is not something to play with for grins and giggles.

Myself I believe that both spirits and your subconcious affect the pointer, but it's tapping into the subconcious that's most likely to do you damage.

Presuming spirits exist, how can a spirit interfere with something physical like human brain neurons etc.?

Sure sure your subconcious isn't for playing atound with if your going to be getting into serrious stuff like hypnotism or telepathic programing or somehing like that but were talking about a ouiji board here.

Talliesin

Only Human wrote:

Presuming spirits exist, how can a spirit interfere with something physical like human brain neurons etc.?

Presuming spirits exist the strictly materialist view of how the brain works is wrong (since that view doesn't allow for spirits). In the other views it's not impossible for spirits to interact with your subconcious, from that point on the rest of the process is as you've described it.

Only Human wrote:

Sure sure your subconcious isn't for playing atound with if your going to be getting into serrious stuff like hypnotism or telepathic programing or somehing like that but were talking about a ouiji board here.

Anything that's bringing stuff from the subconcious to the concious level can cause trauma.

Sarky

Only Human wrote:

Sure sure your subconcious isn't for playing atound with if your going to be getting into serrious stuff like hypnotism or telepathic programing or somehing like that but were talking about a ouiji board here.

When did attempting to speak with the dead stop being "serrious" and become a bit of a laugh?

Nevyn

funny how they say they dont believe in spirits or speaking with the dead
yet they all want to try make it happen. No logic in that at all.

Only Human

Talliesin wrote:

Presuming spirits exist the strictly materialist view of how the brain works is wrong (since that view doesn't allow for spirits). In the other views it's not impossible for spirits to interact with your subconcious, from that point on the rest of the process is as you've described it.

But for some of those views to exist some of the physical evidence and laws would have to be ignored.

Nevyn

Define the occult ?

more men pratice occut matters then women.
Women are more ily to believe in other things, as they are usaully more intutive.

Nevyn

Only Human wrote:

But for some of those views to exist some of the physical evidence and laws would have to be ignored.

No they dont, but how we take in the world arround us does.
Once upon a time the smallest thing was the atom, and then it was elelctrons
and now it is quarks; if that isnt unceartain and changing enough. :rolleyes:

Sarky

Women are more ily to believe in other things, as they are usaully more intutive.

Doesn't stop them getting possessed by the Devil every month or so...

Nevyn

cheeky git :P

Only Human

What I mean to say is that what if these other views have logcal scientific explinations that just havn't been fully under stood. The inability to understand leads to speculation. e.g. God creating the world in 7 days vs. Evolution.