Toys R Us is selling Ouija boards, promoting them as acceptable for children as young as eight years old.Posted on 02/03/2010 3:44:51 PM PST by NYer
Toys R Us is selling Ouija boards, promoting them as acceptable for children as young as eight years old.
The pink edition of the Ouija board is listed for girls eight-years-old and up while the regular version is designated for all children eight and up. Stephen Phelan, communications manager of Human Life International, checked the website and reports that the findings are disturbing.
"It is just troubling that these things are treated as casually as any other game, like Monopoly or anything else on this Toys R Us site -- and I think it's something Christians should be aware of and really not support," he states.
He further believes that Christians have an obligation to fight against it. "If you go to the comments section on the Toys R Us [web]site, you'll read comments from people who talk about being obsessed with it, talk about missing school for it, talk about the spirits they spoke to on the other side and how creepy it was," Phelan describes.
The communications manager adds that the primary groups that deny the evils of the Ouija board are the ones who deny the spirit world entirely. He goes on to say Christians have a biblical mandate.
"We're supposed to deal with the truth only," he notes. "We're supposed to have nothing to do with dark spirits. We're not supposed to dabble in anything that would compromise our souls, and that's exactly what this does."
The manufacturer of the product is Hasbro.
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Exactly.
James Randi is an interesting guy. He has devoted his life to exposing fraudsters who pose as having “supernatural powers.”
“Someone was pushing it. Gee, hard to figure out.”
RRRRREEEAAAALLLLLYYYY???
How detailed will one be in a post such as this? We were careful; and, I'm not some ordinary fool. If you doubt this, how about trying this out for yourself? Nothing like refuting someone without any standing in the issue. That is totally blind, young-un.
So, did I type a summary, or a detailed report? To the truely intelligent, a few paragraphs spanning two or three years would be regarded as a summary.
I suggest that you conduct your own experiment. With no experience whatsoever in this matter, your assumptions taken in place of knowledge have no standing. Much less so than mine, wouldn't you expect?
That was over thirty years ago, and took nearly three years to develop. I have no further interest in that stuff, and money doesn't convince me to reexpose myself to dangers of which I am ignorant. It is pretty easy to perform that with a sufficient number of people who will spend that much time messing with it. Perhaps you should go for the prize.
I can't imagine why I would bring this story to you just for the sake of a story. I generally don't give a crap what people think. I don't run with a croud, and have no need to impress anyone. I do think there is is a high probability of danger associated with this particular unknown, and warning people about it seems like the right thing to do. I am sufficiently satisfied with the evidence to feel justifyed in posting it with the warnings.
By and large, I think most stories of spiritual encounters are merely the power of suggestion, and I think it's important we not underestimate how strongly that can influence us to think "no, no, this was real." But I have a friend who I've known since high school who had some strange occurences, some to this day she doesn't like to be reminded of because they scare the bejeesus out of her. One involved a seance where "something" named itself.
Obama: Let’s not get all wee-gee’d up over this.
I’m with you.
I was naive myself and played around with one of these a long time ago. Needless to say, it was a gateway to other things that I should not have been involved with. Those were some very, very dark and disturbing times for me.
God is merciful, and he pulled me back out of that evil. I thank the Lord for every day that I am in the world of truth and light and not in the world of darkness and lies.
Packaging these horrible things to look like they are harmless toys and presenting them to children is a horrible thing to do on the part of the manufacturers and retailers. Children honestly do not know what they are getting into whith this stuff!
I had one when I was a kid. Never had anything happen. In fact, I don’t think it even worked when my sisters and I tried it.
LOL
“By the way. I believe those things open you to spiritual invasion. You don’t have to be a believer for that danger to be real either.”
That’s a fact.
“none of us as far as I know, ever became devil worshippers, mediums, witches, etc.”
That doesn’t mean that none of you was ever subject to some influence.
A butcher knife would be less ambiguous.
I heartily agree with you. That is why I try to warn people away from these things. Many are attributing the Ouija board itself to the communications. They are wrong, it is the intent.
I also practiced autowriting for a few years. There was nothing but me holding a pencil or a pen in that setup. The dangers inherent with opening oneself to this cannot be overstressed. We have no understanding of what is going on, but those unseen contacts do. That gives them advantages we can't even imagine.
Contact is not made through the Ouija board. Contact is made through your mind. You mind is "slaved" to move the pointer in an involuntary fashion. Often on person cannot be controlled with sufficient strength to make the pointer move. Several people can be influenced at once, the sum of their influences are then sufficient to move the pointer. With practice, even a single person will move the pointer; and it feels quite strong. That is when you are treading on dangerous ground.
Have you actually tried it? It sounds like you have made up your mind in absense of facts.
It makes no difference, especially if you do not expose yourself to something you are not able to handle.
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