Do any of you have any experience with Ouija Boards?

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Umberger

Originally posted by: ironwing
Now you know your friend is dumb, use it.

G-I-V-E
A-C-C-R-U-E-D-E-X-P-E-N-D-I-T-U-R-E
F-I-F-T-Y
D-O-L-L-A-R-S

"Damn, this thing really does work."

FTW!

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I was always the first one to claim they were a bunch of BS but I really do not know after a personal experience. When I was in graduate school I bought a house and lived there by myself in a neighborhood of families. The family across the street kind of adopted me and my dog as one of the family and I spent a lot of time with them. Their 13 year old daughter would come over to my house when her parents were out and she got scared. One afternoon her and her friend were playing with an Ouiji board and they came over to my house because they were scared because they had been talking to seceral different spirits and one was acting rather strange. I just laughed and told them to go watch TV in the den if they wanted to wait until the parents came home. They wanted me to come over to their house and witness it since I didn't believe. Like people say, with mutliple people having hands on the gizmo who knows who is moving it or not. I figured the only way to get some truth out of this obvious deception the 13 year olds cooked up to mess with me I would ask a question where the board had to provide a specific answer, and one the girls had no way of knowing. They didn't even know I hve a brother in CA and I asked the board to provide my brother's middle name. It is not a commone name at all but the board hit the nail on the head with no mistaken letters or pauses. I got up and walked out. I won't mess with one of those things now even though I still tend to believe they are BS, but my experience is hard to explain.....an NO, there is no way the girls could have even found anything in my house with his name on it even if I let them rumage through the whole place.

The real test is to ask it a question that even you don't know the answer to. Have someone who doesn't have their hands on the board ask the question and see if you get an answer that isn't idosfuljlkendu849hn4yestnow0nlk

 

[shilala]

When I was of Ouija board age, I always enjoyed the opportunity to squeeze a bewb in the dark.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: Savij

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I was always the first one to claim they were a bunch of BS but I really do not know after a personal experience. When I was in graduate school I bought a house and lived there by myself in a neighborhood of families. The family across the street kind of adopted me and my dog as one of the family and I spent a lot of time with them. Their 13 year old daughter would come over to my house when her parents were out and she got scared. One afternoon her and her friend were playing with an Ouiji board and they came over to my house because they were scared because they had been talking to seceral different spirits and one was acting rather strange. I just laughed and told them to go watch TV in the den if they wanted to wait until the parents came home. They wanted me to come over to their house and witness it since I didn't believe. Like people say, with mutliple people having hands on the gizmo who knows who is moving it or not. I figured the only way to get some truth out of this obvious deception the 13 year olds cooked up to mess with me I would ask a question where the board had to provide a specific answer, and one the girls had no way of knowing. They didn't even know I hve a brother in CA and I asked the board to provide my brother's middle name. It is not a commone name at all but the board hit the nail on the head with no mistaken letters or pauses. I got up and walked out. I won't mess with one of those things now even though I still tend to believe they are BS, but my experience is hard to explain.....an NO, there is no way the girls could have even found anything in my house with his name on it even if I let them rumage through the whole place.

The real test is to ask it a question that even you don't know the answer to. Have someone who doesn't have their hands on the board ask the question and see if you get an answer that isn't idosfuljlkendu849hn4yestnow0nlk

That's a good point, Ronstang doesn't clarify whether or not he had his hands on the board. I'm betting the answer would be a;kfa;jkjaga for your example.

 

[FleshLight]

Originally posted by: enyce2k9

Originally posted by: Kipper

Originally posted by: enyce2k9
wow i was amazed when i saw this thread on the first page, i just finished waking up and before i went to sleep i was thinkin ok if there is no god there is no devil but wtf is up with the ouija board, hmmm maybe i should google it tomorrow or somthn...

and look today i find it in AT something is going on here! wtf u guys did

HERE is why the Ouija board is bunk:

http://skepdic.com/ideomotor.html

can u please translate that definition to me

Sure.

English:
The ideomotor effect refers to the influence of suggestion or expectaton on involuntary and unconscious motor behavior. The term "ideomotor action" was coined by William B. Carpenter in 1852 in his explanation for the movements of rods and pendulums by dowsers, and some table turning or lifting by spirit mediums (the ones that weren't accomplished by cheating). Carpenter argued that muscular movement can be initiated by the mind independently of volition or emotions. We may not be aware of it, but suggestions can be made to the mind by others or by observations. Those suggestions can influence the mind and affect motor behavior.

Scientific tests by American psychologist William James, French chemist Michel Chevreul, English scientist Michael Faraday (Zusne and Jones 1989: 111), and American psychologist Ray Hyman have demonstrated that many phenomena attributed to spiritual or paranormal forces, or to mysterious "energies," are actually due to ideomotor action. Furthermore, these tests demonstrate that "honest, intelligent people can unconsciously engage in muscular activity that is consistent with their expectations" (Hyman 1999). They also show that suggestions that can guide behavior can be given by subtle clues (Hyman 1977).

The movement of pointers on Ouija boards, of a facilitator's hands in facilitated communication, of hands and arms in applied kinesiology, and of some behaviors attributed to hypnotic suggestion, are due to ideomotor action. Ray Hyman (1999) has demonstrated the seductive influence of ideomotor action on medical quackery, where it has produced such appliances as the "Toftness Radiation Detector" (used by chiropractors) and "black boxes" used in medical radiesthesia and radionics (popular with naturopaths to harness "energy" used in diagnosis and healing.) Hyman also argues that such things as Qi Gong and "pulse diagnosis," popular in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine as practiced by Deepak Chopra, are best explained in terms of ideomotor action and require no supposition of mysterious energies such as chi.

 

[Juice Box]

http://www.randomimage.us/files/418e72a772c05.jpg

lol

 

[enyce2k9]

fleshligh copy paste doesnt help, and juicebox link doesnt work

 

[DrPizza]

Wow, I can't believe some of you are so daring that you would even open the package for a ouija board.

I tried a magic 8-ball once. I won't go into details about the incident, but it's left me emotionally scarred. After that, I vowed to never mess with the occult again.

 

[FleshLight]

Originally posted by: enyce2k9
fleshligh copy paste doesnt help, and juicebox link doesnt work

Read the first sentence. It's all in there. Involuntary means "not voluntary". Unconscious means "not conscious", as in you are not aware of it.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Triumph
Ouiji boards are made of a super secret government-made material for the fighter jets of the future. It can't be burned, bent, exploded, cut, or drilled. In fact, because of this, Milton Bradley cannot actually make a Ouiji board. They are bred! :Q

I guess that's why the fitness nuts avoid them: high carbs! :laugh:

 

[enyce2k9]

so i can conclude the following, its all subconscious, the movement, the thoughts, the outcome its all within yourself.

 

[Perknose]

It's the internet that I don't believe in.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: sao123
ever tried to burn one?

It wont burn.

try using lighter fluid . . . burns quite nicely:Q

err tried gasoline. sold it 3 days later and it wasnt even singed.

You do realize you have to actually light the gasoline with something, right? Oh wait, its a Ouija board so it should've spontaneously combusted into flame and burned down your house...

It was in the middle of an 8 foot tall woodpile soaked thoroughly in gasoline.
The bonfire laster for over 10 hours.
tho box burnt completely. The board and Triangle were unsinged.
No melting, no deformation, no discoloring, just a slight smell of smoke.

 

[enyce2k9]

i dont know i tend to not believe in the spirits stuff... wa ya peeps think

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: sao123
ever tried to burn one?

It wont burn.

try using lighter fluid . . . burns quite nicely:Q

err tried gasoline. sold it 3 days later and it wasnt even singed.

You do realize you have to actually light the gasoline with something, right? Oh wait, its a Ouija board so it should've spontaneously combusted into flame and burned down your house...

It was in the middle of an 8 foot tall woodpile soaked thoroughly in gasoline.
The bonfire laster for over 10 hours.
tho box burnt completely. The board and Triangle were unsinged.
No melting, no deformation, no discoloring, just a slight smell of smoke.

I'm sure it did. I have a certified check in the amount of $1,000,000 addressed to sao123, all you have to do is give me this Ouiji board so that I may study it and learn its groundbreaking material properties.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: Dabappa
If anyone can demonstrate that it works under controlled conditions (agreed to beforehand by both parties) the James Randi Educational Foundation will award them $1,000,000.00..

No, they won't. Read the link. Ouija boards are not considered supernatural by the Randi Foundation.

 

[Accipiter22]

<----catholic. so I can't use one.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: sao123
It was in the middle of an 8 foot tall woodpile soaked thoroughly in gasoline.
The bonfire laster for over 10 hours.
tho box burnt completely. The board and Triangle were unsinged.
No melting, no deformation, no discoloring, just a slight smell of smoke.

Riiight.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: habib89
i believe it.. here's my story:

in 8th grade, the entire 8th grade class went on a retreat to some campsite place.. it was pretty creepy when we went. dark woods... like a scene from some horror film.. anyway.. so all the boys split up into two cabins..

that night, in my cabin, no one wanted to sleep, so we pushed the bunks together and sat around in a circle.. we had a homemade ouija board, so i thought "yah right, how the hell is that supposed to work".. they were asking questions and "babe ruth" was answering all these questions that we asked.. blah blah blah.. i put my finger on it, but i just figured one of the other kids was moving it... we asked if he was really there, he said yes.. we asked him to prove it by turning off a flashlight... keep in mind, this is a flashlight with brand new batteries put in that morning.. it was really bright, and right when we asked "babe ruth" to turn off the light, the flashlight dimmed out till it was completely out.. the switch still in the on position... i've never played with it again.. it was pretty damn freaky...

Great, let's get the truth out of a bunch of 8th graders.....that happens on a regular basis. :roll:

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
<----catholic. so I can't use one.

Why?

 

[jinduy]

i played with it with some high school friends who knew nothing about my past... they asked some personal questions like the initials of the person i had a crush on in 4th grade and it was right on the money... i was shocked and kinda freaked out... lookin back on it i wonder if it was some sort of subconscious doing on my part

 

[habib89]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb

Originally posted by: habib89
i believe it.. here's my story:

in 8th grade, the entire 8th grade class went on a retreat to some campsite place.. it was pretty creepy when we went. dark woods... like a scene from some horror film.. anyway.. so all the boys split up into two cabins..

that night, in my cabin, no one wanted to sleep, so we pushed the bunks together and sat around in a circle.. we had a homemade ouija board, so i thought "yah right, how the hell is that supposed to work".. they were asking questions and "babe ruth" was answering all these questions that we asked.. blah blah blah.. i put my finger on it, but i just figured one of the other kids was moving it... we asked if he was really there, he said yes.. we asked him to prove it by turning off a flashlight... keep in mind, this is a flashlight with brand new batteries put in that morning.. it was really bright, and right when we asked "babe ruth" to turn off the light, the flashlight dimmed out till it was completely out.. the switch still in the on position... i've never played with it again.. it was pretty damn freaky...

Great, let's get the truth out of a bunch of 8th graders.....that happens on a regular basis. :roll:

dude, dont' be retarded... this happened when I was in 8th grade.. i am now a 26 year old college graduate with a BSME... i'm not in 8th grade, nor was this story passed onto me by any 8th grader...

i'm not saying they're real.. you all have the right to believe what you want.. i don't blame you guys for not believe that it's real.. it's pretty wacky to believe that a cardboard "game" made by milton bradley can communicate with the dead or demons or whatever.... all i know is that the fvcking flash light turned off.. all this subconscious movement of the triangle to answer questions can explain a lot.. but it can't explain the god damn flash light... can you? i can't... fresh batteries (energizer).. completely bright until right after we asked it to turn off the flash light, and bam.. darkness..

 

[meltdown75]

you know what boggles me the most (about Ouija boards)?

how people pronouce Ouija.

"Weejee" board

i'll never understand that one. well, never heard anyone pronounce it like it appears anyway. hmph

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: Triumph

Originally posted by: Savij

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I was always the first one to claim they were a bunch of BS but I really do not know after a personal experience. When I was in graduate school I bought a house and lived there by myself in a neighborhood of families. The family across the street kind of adopted me and my dog as one of the family and I spent a lot of time with them. Their 13 year old daughter would come over to my house when her parents were out and she got scared. One afternoon her and her friend were playing with an Ouiji board and they came over to my house because they were scared because they had been talking to seceral different spirits and one was acting rather strange. I just laughed and told them to go watch TV in the den if they wanted to wait until the parents came home. They wanted me to come over to their house and witness it since I didn't believe. Like people say, with mutliple people having hands on the gizmo who knows who is moving it or not. I figured the only way to get some truth out of this obvious deception the 13 year olds cooked up to mess with me I would ask a question where the board had to provide a specific answer, and one the girls had no way of knowing. They didn't even know I hve a brother in CA and I asked the board to provide my brother's middle name. It is not a commone name at all but the board hit the nail on the head with no mistaken letters or pauses. I got up and walked out. I won't mess with one of those things now even though I still tend to believe they are BS, but my experience is hard to explain.....an NO, there is no way the girls could have even found anything in my house with his name on it even if I let them rumage through the whole place.

The real test is to ask it a question that even you don't know the answer to. Have someone who doesn't have their hands on the board ask the question and see if you get an answer that isn't idosfuljlkendu849hn4yestnow0nlk

That's a good point, Ronstang doesn't clarify whether or not he had his hands on the board. I'm betting the answer would be a;kfa;jkjaga for your example.

My hands were not on the board. The two girls didn't even know I had a brother until that moment and the board produced his middle name (uncommon) without any mistaken letters on the first try. I have no explanation and my sceince background says these things are bunk but I can't explain what happened. It was a little creepy.

 

[nakedfrog]

Played with one back in 96 with a couple girls... we asked it who was going to win the presidential election that year. It said "Dole"
How's that for ya?