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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as a board game?! was real young then.
“Have you ever ‘tried’ the board?”
I did but, I did not inhale :-)
Have you seen “Paranormal Activity”? I don’t want to spoil it, but there is a creapy Ouija board scene.
Oh yeah, and the whole movie sucked! Big time!
You need a refresher in logic. I knew a great priest who had tried heroin in the 1960s. By your logic, the heroine turned him into a wonderful priest. He would certainly tell you that trying heroin was stupid.
Playing Russian Roulette is harmless to five out of six players.
Messing with a talisman is very dangerous.
From Wikipedia...
The first historical mention of something resembling a Ouija board is found in China around 1100 B.C., a divination method known as fuji 扶乩 "planchette writing".[citation needed] Other sources claim that according to a Greek historical account of the philosopher Pythagoras, in 540 B.C. his sect would conduct séances at "a mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs, which the philosopher and his pupil, Philolaus, interpreted to the audience as being revelations supposedly from an unseen world."[2] However, other sources call both claims into dispute, claiming that fuji is spirit writing, not the use of a spirit board, and that there is no record of Pythagoras or his students actually having used this method of achieving oracles or divinations.[3] In addition, the claim of Pythagorian use is called into doubt by questions of historical accuracy, as Philolaus was never the pupil of Pythagoras, and indeed was born roughly twenty-five years after Pythagoras's death. The first undisputed use of the talking boards came with the Modern Spiritualist movement in The United States in the mid-19th century. Methods of divination at that time used various ways to spell out messages, including swinging a pendulum over a plate that had letters around the edge or using an entire table to indicate letters drawn on the floor. Often used was a small wooden tablet supported on casters. This tablet, called a planchette, was affixed with a pencil that would write out messages in a fashion similar to automatic writing. These methods may predate modern Spiritualism.
During the late 1800s, planchettes were widely sold as a novelty. The businessmen Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard had the idea to patent a planchette sold with a board on which the alphabet was printed. The patentees filed on May 28, 1890 for patent protection and thus had invented the first Ouija board. Issue date on the patent was February 10, 1891. They received U.S. Patent 446,054. Bond was an attorney and was an inventor of other objects in addition to this device. An employee of Kennard, William Fuld took over the talking board production and in 1901, he started production of his own boards under the name "Ouija".[3] The Fuld name would become synonymous with the Ouija board, as Fuld reinvented its history, claiming that he himself had invented it. The strange talk about the boards from Fuld's competitors flooded the market and all these boards enjoyed a heyday from the 1920s through the 1960s. Fuld sued many companies over the "Ouija" name and concept right up until his death in 1927. In 1966, Fuld's estate sold the entire business to Parker Brothers, who continues to hold all trademarks and patents. About ten brands of talking boards are sold today under various names.[3]
I have tried these things. They will "connect". It is not really the board that does the connection, it is the intent of those who play. So, cardboard indeed. That has no bearing on the fact that there is a spirit world and a bridge to that realm can be opened. The connection is through the mind/soul/body. It works.
Didn’t they say this kind of stuff about video games?
Look into what he Exorcist is based on. It is based on a real case of paranormal activity that took place in the Wash DC area in the late 40’s but involved a young boy rather than a girl. The History channel did a show on the story behind the “Exorcist” and interviewed at least one priest who claimed to have been involved. The whole series of events seemed to have been put into motion when the boys’ aunt bought him a Ouija board. The family was Lutheran and only turned to the Catholic church out of desperation when the situation was getting out of control and no one seemed to be able to help.
When I was young, I asked an Ouija Board whom I would marry and it told me “Splrff”.
Still looking.
We had one as kids backin the 1950s.
We thought it was neat at telling our future till I did some private tests. (Hey I was just a kid but still had doubts).
We asked, “who will I marry?”, then placed our hands ont he pointer. It spelled out a name of a girl I was sweet on in the 5th grade. I didn’t marry her.
We asked “Where will we live next?” It named a town my brother liked and always wanted to go back to live.
I had secretly kept my fingertips off the pointer and it still spelled out the name of the town. We never lived there and lived in many other towns. I later moved there for a few years in the 1970s.
We got bored with it and lost the game a few years later.
One shouldn’t play with things as it can cause all sorts of problems. When the Ouija board first hit the market, there were quite a few lawsuits by buyers against people because the Ouija board said they had stole or committed theft against other family members.
It is all in the power of suggestion.
I understand that it has been around for a long time,just not as an item to be bought like monopoly.
OM gosh, I used it at the same ages - 6th, 7th & 8th grade. We always asked it, “Who will ______ marry?” “Does ______ like _______?” Freaked us out, but none of us as far as I know, ever became devil worshippers, mediums, witches, etc. We were all classmates at a Catholic school in NJ, and this was around 1979-81-ish.
We had no clue how it worked - but we had fun with it and it entertained us for those jr. high years.
Lol!
They were around when I was a young kid and that was years before the Exorcist movie.
Let satans fingers do the typin!
The Ouija Board pre-dates electronic video games. It is a portal to a very dark world. I didn't believe it. "Just a game", I kept telling myself, until ....
Call me a naysayer, but I don’t buy the mind/soul/body thing.
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