[Ciaphas Cain]

I agree. A Ouija board is cardboard with weird alpha-numeric characters printed on it and a cheap plastic “pointer” that moves because it’s players/users/whatever are subconsciously maneuvering it according to their own predelections. If that is supposed to be an attraction for the forces of darkness, I’d like to know how. There IS evil in this world, and a lot of it is beyond our mortal understanding. But that it imbues a party gimmick? I doubt it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The problem is not with the "instrument," which could be a Ouija board, a bird feather or bent twig or any silly nonsensical thing.

The particular "party gimmick" is nearly irrelevant. What is relevant is the attitude of the occult dabbler or would-be medium, who is foolishly trying to manipulate unseen entities.

I believe it was Nietzsche who said, "When you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

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