Ouija Board
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*************TheERK said:
M*W: My point was that it was MY card table in MY apartment. I knew it wasn't rigged in any way. I never said it was a heavy card table, in fact, it was one of the cheaper ones. Sure, someone could have used his knees to do that, but that wasn't the case. We were all sitting on low stuff like bean bags and low chairs. Hey, I was in college, I didn't own any real furniture. It wasn't anyone using their knees, because when it lifted, we all kinda panicked and let go. It seemed like our hands in a complete connected circle acted as a vacuum. When we separated our physical connection, the table fell. The power of the mind can do strange things, especially in consort with others who believe in strange happenings. All I can say is that I'm not afraid of anything anymore, but I never want to experience that again.
Medicine Woman said:
I still don't see why this rules out using knees. If people were situated too low to use their knees, perhaps their feet would do. Also, just because you believed everyone was holding hands doesn't mean they were. In fact, it would be even easier to fool people if two people were in on the prank.
So much for critical thinking.
TheERK, round these parts they call criticalt hinking "Closed mindedness". Its nessisary to assign a derogotory word to critical thinking, because if you don't then no one gets to have any fun around here via trying to convince themselves and others that they are special through some sort of supernatural power or event.
In highschool, my brother and I and some friends got one and tried it out. We asked all kinds of goofy questions: Am I good-looking? Is he a dork? What are you up to tonight? I guess they weren't that goofy, maybe just straight-forward. Anyway, it spelled out various phrases, sometimes highlighted yes and no. We asked if it knew Jesus Christ and their view on him (probably fear if I remember correctly).
Then one of us got it into our heads (not me) to go to our local cemetery (we resided in a town of about 300 living residents). Naturally it was late at night, hence my reason for opting out of this ouija board venture.
Eventually, the board led them to a little boy's grave, spelling out the name, date of birth/death, the whole kit and kaboodle. They ran out of there yelling. We never used the crazy thing again. And, still (it's been at least 10 years), none of the five of us has said we were making it up.
Perhaps one of us glanced at the gravesite once and it came up subconsciously. Or one of us deliberately did it. Or not. No one's fessing up.
Then one of us got it into our heads (not me) to go to our local cemetery (we resided in a town of about 300 living residents). Naturally it was late at night, hence my reason for opting out of this ouija board venture.
Eventually, the board led them to a little boy's grave, spelling out the name, date of birth/death, the whole kit and kaboodle. They ran out of there yelling. We never used the crazy thing again. And, still (it's been at least 10 years), none of the five of us has said we were making it up.
Perhaps one of us glanced at the gravesite once and it came up subconsciously. Or one of us deliberately did it. Or not. No one's fessing up.
What a load of bollox. If your convinced that there is anything " spiritual" in ouija boards, then do one blindfolded. Have someone take notes of the gibberish your "evil spirits" spell out. "Look" you all scream , " the spirit world has spelt out xn,3w,f945jgmcjfn" " " We have found a dyslexic spirit".
Ouija boards were invented in the US in about 1890 as a palour game. Its just the ideomotor effect at work and yuo`ve been suckered by it if you believe this dross.
Ouija boards were invented in the US in about 1890 as a palour game. Its just the ideomotor effect at work and yuo`ve been suckered by it if you believe this dross.
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slotty said:
From the net:
The earliest known patent for a talking board in the patent offices in London, England was filed by Adolphus Theodore Wagner, a professor of music and resident of Berlin of the Kingdom of Prussia. Wagner described his device as a “PSYCHOGRAPH, OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING PERSONS THOUGHTS BY THE AGENT OF NERVOUS ELECTRICITY” on January 23, 1854. This patent goes on to describe the device and identify it as a talking board. “The apparatus consists of a combination of rods or pieces of wood joined so as to permit of free action in all parts. From one of the legs of the instrument hangs a tracer; on one or more of the other extremities is fixed a disc, upon which the operator is to place his hand, and from this extremity or these extremities depends another tracer. The other parts of the apparatus consist of a glass slab or other non-conductor, and of an alphabet and set of figures or numerals. Upon a person possessing nervous electricity placing his hand upon one of the discs the instrument will immediately work, and the tracer will spell upon the alphabet what is passing in the operator’s mind.”
In 1861 a Frenchman, Allan Kardec, described ouija boards (or talking boards) in his Le Livre des Mediums.
That voodoo that you do.
I'm considering doing a ouija board later tonight.
Seriously! I've never done one.
I am, however, going to do it alone, with only a dv camera for company.
What sort of shite can I expect to happen?
(A rare serious question from The Flemster!)
The Flemster.
I'm considering doing a ouija board later tonight.
Seriously! I've never done one.
I am, however, going to do it alone, with only a dv camera for company.
What sort of shite can I expect to happen?
(A rare serious question from The Flemster!)
The Flemster.
tell me how it goes. I'm kinda curious myslef
My Sexy Blue Feet said:
Suprise suprise!
A whole night's worth of taping with just me and a ouija board and bugger all happened!
I'm really rather sceptical about the whole thing...
The Flemster.