Posted on 12/02/2014 6:43:29 PM PST by lowbridge
Believe it or not, but the Ouija Board — a game that some believe opens the door to the spirit world — is one of the top trending toys that is “making a comeback this season,” according to Google.
And it’s a development that has some faith leaders warning of potentially disastrous repercussions.
Attributing the recent resurgent rise in popularity of the Ouija Board to the October release of a movie called “Ouija,” Google reported on its commerce blog that online searches for the board game are up 300 percent since the film reached the big screen.
An Irish priest who serves as an exorcist spoke on condition of anonymity recently, telling Ireland’s Independent that this development is anything but positive.
“It’s easy to open up evil spirits but it’s very hard to get rid of them,” he said.
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I’ve never used one. I’ve seen it in college, no thanks.
“Satan’s iPad”
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Yes, that is a good point. Not worth fooling around with at all.
Memories of youth...
Bkmk to show my daughter this thread who was asking
for one of these just the other day.
The answer was No...for all the same reasons listed above
“Magic 8 Ball is way more fun”
And a FAR more effective and efficient decision-making tool than a Ouija board.
“Anyone who buys a Ouija board for their kid might as well buy him or her LSD or dynamite.”
I messed around with both LSD and dynamite as a teen, but never a Ouija board. Guess that’s why I survived.
“If it worked, I could ask it a question”
Yep. I’d ask how I could get filthy rich in a legal and ethical manner in a couple of weeks, but somehow I kind of figured I wouldn’t get an answer so never bothered to buy one and ask.
Can’t explain this. My mother was an avid user of the Ouija board, I was in my late teens when she and I were on the board, I found that I could concentrate on the board and make the planchette spell out my thoughts without consciously moving he planchette. Subliminal motor activity or actual mental force? Go figure. Never owned a board or used one since.
Well, that’d never work.
You’re too dang’d honest.
Good luck on food stamps and section 8 housing!!!
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LOL
Neither was I.
This BBC article sounds like complete nonsense.
The ideomotor effect has been recognized since it was named 1852 by the scientist William Benjamin Carpenter. Faraday conducted some of the early experiments, and it has been proven over and over again in experiments and studies.
Knowledge of the phenomenon has led to "spiritualists" and "mentalists" using it to their advantage. Knowing it exists makes one much less able to be taken in by those people who want to convince you of their alleged powers.
So, if you have an issue with it, take it up with science.
It still doesn't make the Ouija board a good idea. Wanting to engage evil is a very bad idea.
I’ve heard enough stories to believe that there very well could be something demonic to this “game” at least in some instances but I just don’t get why evil spirits need a wooden game board to gain access? Seems ridiculous on the surface.
They don’t “need” a wooden board game, what they need is to be invited in. Automatic writing, seances, etc will also work. The Ouija board is just the most common method people use to attempt to contact the dead.
It’s probably not the board but the submission of the user to allow control of the user’s body and mind. It is probably just a foothold in the beginning but then progresses. Like any addiction or any sin, it starts out innocently enough but it is still breaking a law of God. Why not just trust God to answer questions because you know He loves you as the perfect Father?
Every item in our house should be glorifying. Hard to find a movie without someone’s skin or adultery or murder. What does America glorify today? Do we use the Bible as a guide as to what to think about?
I had one when I was a kid. Boring after the first few uses. I do remember that we ended up laboriously spelling out dirty jokes.
If you say so.
With us it moved, but I was a kid and that was before the evil side of the board was revealed. Since I now know, I would NOT be “playing” with it as an adult.
Why would you present what appears to be a scientific explanation for movement of the Ouija board, but then turn around and warn people not to mess around with evil?
If kids think “there’s a scientific explanation for it,” then they’re far more likely to try this stuff. Thus exposing themselves to the evil entities associated with it.
Speaking of seances this reminds me of when I was a teen and we use to play around with this, pretending to put people into “trances” and trying to summon spirits. Well one time in the basement of a friend we are doing this and their German Shephard starting whining and booked up the stairs. Friend’s mother then yells down asking what we are doing because the dog is calling something to her attention in the basement. Pretty weird.
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