Posted on 02/28/2017 10:21:14 AM PST by simpson96
MILWAUKEE — An outraged mother is calling on Milwaukee Public Schools officials to fire a kindergarten teacher who introduced the young students in her class to a Ouija board.
The mom, who asked to not be publicly named, said the game was used on Friday in her 5-year-old's classroom at Zablocki Elementary.
"They were shutting off the lights and making it dark and talking to spirits. That's not something that should be at school," the mother said of the game, which is said to be able to channel spirits.
In an email to the mother, the teacher said the Ouija board had been in the classroom since Halloween.
"The kids have been asking for a scary story and I got the board and moved the paper clip to answer some of their questions. They asked about scary characters in movies. I did not say there were spirits. It was all done in fun. I understand your concern. It was silly and I'm sorry. I will take the board home and this won't happen again," the teacher said.
The family said the children are too young to be exposed to the concepts of Ouija boards, and they believe the teacher should just stick to curriculum.
The 5-year-old is now having nightmares, the mother said.
"He's scared now to go to bed at night, to be in the dark, anything alone," she said.
MPS officials have not responded to a request for comment.
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This is the whole and necessary truth. Field tested.
That board is park of the dark arts, witchcraft, a religion of sorts. Isn’t that against the rules to use at a public school?
And yet we never hear from a janitor from beyond the grave. Or we never hear from some barista with coffee recipes. Are spirits only capable of speaking while touching a pointer? Do they all speak English? Spirits can only “speak” from beyond the grave to seeing people? If blind people use the pointer and the spirits are so powerful over us do they move the hands? If a Russian asks questions but only non Russian speakers touch the pointer will correct Cyrillic Russian be spelled? How about Chinese? How are all the spirits able to speak English and move muscles of English speakers but would the spirits be smart enough to move a English speakers muscles to Chinese script? Korean? Japanese?
It’s bogus.
Do you believe in demons?
If a demon is going to get me, you or anyone it’s not going to happen because of a ouija board invented by a huxter. I can learn as much from them as I can a “seer stone” thrown in Brigham Young’s hat. Tarot cards, crystal balls, astrology. All the same cooked up by the same type of people.
Or we never hear from some barista with coffee recipes.
We asked for and received recipes.
Are spirits only capable of speaking while touching a pointer?
No, I can transcribe them with pen and paper. Sometimes they implant thoughts that I do not hear, but understand. I was warned about a specific vehicle in traffic, ignored the warning, and got creamed.
If blind people use the pointer and the spirits are so powerful over us do they move the hands?
None of us were blind, so I can't help you with that question. Yes, they move the hands to point at the sequence of letters they are sequencing into words. They are not capable of overriding your muscles unless you permit them to do so.
If a Russian asks questions but only non Russian speakers touch the pointer will correct Cyrillic Russian be spelled?
Again, I have no experience upon which to base an answer. I would assume Cyrillic Ouija boards have been fashioned. They would work the same. Ouija board operation is a "brute force" technique that allows the spirit to point at letters. There is no direct transfer of thought. Direct transfer of thought will eventually develop. That, I assure you, can be pretty scary. I had to pray really hard for protection through Christ's Mercy in order to get that under control. Please notice that it is not I who protects me from this stuff.
How about Chinese? How are all the spirits able to speak English and move muscles of English speakers but would the spirits be smart enough to move a English speakers muscles to Chinese script? Korean? Japanese?
The spirits would presumably use whichever Ouija board was set before the users. They saw through the human eyes, and move the pointer based upon what they could see. People attract whichever spirits are capable of communicating with them. Some are terrible at spelling. Some did not appear to be native English speakers. Some had speech mannerisms typical of the 1800s.
It’s bogus.
No, it most certainly is not bogus. Be HAPPY!! There really is a life after death! Do not commune with spirits; for, you don't know the rules.
I didn’t know you could state/measure IQ as a percentage?
98-102 IQ means that the person is normal. 0-68:mental
Phew! I’m glad you are like most peeps. :)
Every time a test is performed a new parameter and limitation is added to support the hypothesis. Just like AGW. If I approached my aircraft designs (yes, I am an experienced aircraft engineer) the way people approach something like a Ouija board test I would be laughed out of the industry and not a single plane I worked on would fly.
Occam's razor would dictate a simple blindfold would be test enough. If a spirit has the time, the interest, the power to cross in to our world from the afterlife, if it ever lived, why does it need our eyes, our muscles, our alphabet, our language, and why are they all people "someone" touching knows or always some amazing powerful spirit that knows the future but can't pick a lottery number? Wouldn't Juan the sinister janitor want to talk to someone too if he is walking aimlessly in the afterlife?
I have a Ouiji keyboard.
Makes everything simpler.
Oh well. Not everyone knows how things work. Perhaps you could Google the concept.
"Well, the spirits need to summon the English language of the people touching the magical pointer."
You conjured this up all own your own. I presume that they were English speaking people before they croaked or can learn it after death. Hey you either believe in life after death or you don't. I didn't invent the idea, I experienced it.
Do the spirits only speak English?
Dude! They didn't speak, they spelled. In my case we only had an English board, entirely due to two facts: Wal-Mart carries only English boards, and I only speak English. Pose your question to someone whose native language is not English if you want a useful answer.
If a spirit has the time, the interest, the power to cross in to our world from the afterlife, if it ever lived, why does it need our eyes, our muscles, our alphabet, our language...
If a spirit spelled out French words for me, it would not be communicating with me. Isn't that easy enough for you? It also seems fairly straight forward that s spirit can directly sense the language of those that beckon, being that they beckon in a particular language and all. I don't have any idea why they communicate using a Ouija board. On the other hand, if you read my last post, you would know that they are NOT limited to using that medium.
Oh, time is a temporal concept.
Just don't do that. I really don't think it is safe.
It would be a bad move to discuss this at work. But the same goes for discussing the Death, Descent into Hell, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ. Odd that both topics are supernatural. Do you believe in God? Would you deny Him in a public gathering? This is all under the same tent, you know.
Perhaps you should try your own test. I went about mine carefully and came out convinced that there is something unusual going on. It was that message that made it 500 miles from one board to another that clinched it for me. Yes, there were ample controls on message content and the test was conducted long before cell phones existed.
And the parameters always have to change to protect the hypothesis.
Yes I believe in God. I do not believe a human invented parlor game from the 1850s is more powerful than God to summon demons and spirits across a mass produced printed boards. Nor do I believe people are consulting spirits reading their gypsy ball, tarot cards, or astrology.
Also, consider prayer. That is simply thought directed at another entity. If you believe that prayer works, then it isn't much of a leap of faith to consider the notion that prayer is "addressable". People can call upon the power of Satan, and become entangled with some scary stuff.
Here are a few of the things I learned from my experience:
1 - The spirits derive something they need through suggestive control of your life.
2 - They are liars, and don't know as much as they claim.
3 - They can see the future and the past; however, not clearly. They will seldom report it truthfully.
4 - There appears to be no time in their existence.
5 - They appear to change temporal locations instantly.
I've got to scoot now. It is best to leave "them" alone, so your stance is good protective philosophy. It was encouraging to me to discover that the spirit realm actually exists. Their motives in communicating with people are suspect.
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