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Upinflames said:
A friend caught his kids with one recently, he's gone bats
t 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 t over it.What do you think? What happens if everyone is blindfolded and a camera records it?
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.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 b
ks but I do remember out parents going collectively ape-st when they found out (and none of them at all were remotely religious!)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.t over it.What do you think? What happens if everyone is blindfolded and a camera records it?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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