The Ouija Board: A Game, or a gamble?

Envoy Magazine ^ | By Father Robert Allgaier

[Larry Lucido]

Was that house on a street named "Amity" by chance? :-)

[Larry Lucido]

All signs point to "yes."

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

H I L L A R Y C L I N T O N
W I L L B E P R E S I D E N T

MU-HAHA, MUHAHAHAHA!!!

[lastchance]

From personal experience I can tell you that the OUI JA board is dangerous, it is a way to open doors which had best remain closed. I thank God that He warned me away from the board. He did this through a dream after I had asked for and received the ouija board for a b'day present. I used it maybe 2 times before I had the dream.
The next morning I broket that thing in 1/2 and tossed it in the garbage.

The spirit world is not alway benign.

[Nihil Obstat]

a former girlfriend of mine had one. She was using it one night and the answers she was getting scared her so much that she threw it into the fireplace and burned it. (She never told me what it was telling her though.)

the kid's reviews and stories on Amazon are interesting too.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000524NG/103-1669220-8147864?v=glance

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

anyone remember a movie from about 20 years called WITCHBOARD?

[Coleus]

An invitation to invite evil into your home and life. I would stay away from it and put ALL my trust in God.

[lowbridge]

"....spelling out the word “B-E-E-L-Z-E-B-U-L.”

So, in addition to all of his other faults, the devil can't spell?

There are no spellcheckers in hell.

There are, however, early versions of Windows 95.

[samiam1972]

I played this once with my roommates in college. It was a very scary experience and one I don't ever care to repeat. You may call it harmless but I know better. This is one game I won't be buying for my kids!

[lowbridge]

My Father was an occultist and Satanist and was a personal friend of Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan. As I understand it, he was kicked out of (or left of his own volition) the Church of Satan. He was either too evil even for them or not evil enough. He also once owned an occult store. Sold all sorts of occult items. Ouija boards, crystal balls, decks of Tarot cards, amulets, homemade magic potions, etc. The works.

I worked there for a couple of weeks one summer. The most normal looking people would walk in and buy the weirdest things, including my Father's hommade magic potions. One time, out of sheer boredom (long time between customers), I tried to use one of the ouija boards in the store. My choice of contact was Marilyn Monroe to find out the real details of her mysterious death. After a bunch of giberish, she (ASSuming I actually reached her. But what did I know? I was only a kid) told me that she was NOT murdered. (I'm inclined to believe her). I tried to get more specific details, but then I got a bunch of more gibberish. I put the board back on the shelves. Never have bothered with the occult since. Today my Father is a multi-millionaire and I'm penniless.

[RepubMommy]

I've done the Quija board, as a kid. I'm talking like 9 years old, it said i was going to be a nurse. it was correct. Otherwise, it was retty innae back then but I wouldn't advocate it for my girls.

[RepubMommy]

The only thing I remember from those sessions was it predicted that Romania would win World War 3

Are you sure that wasn't supposed to be the World Cup?

[lowbridge]

My Father was an occultist and Satanist and was a personal friend of Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan. As I understand it, he was kicked out of (or left of his own volition) the Church of Satan. He was either too evil even for them or not evil enough. He also once owned an occult store. Sold all sorts of occult items. Ouija boards, crystal balls, decks of Tarot cards, amulets, homemade magic potions, etc. The works.

I worked there for a couple of weeks one summer. The most normal looking people would walk in and buy the weirdest things, including my Father's homemade magic potions. One time, out of sheer boredom (long time between customers), I tried to use one of the ouija boards in the store. My choice of contact was Marilyn Monroe to find out the real details of her mysterious death. After a bunch of giberish, she (ASSuming I actually reached her. But what did I know? I was only a kid) told me that she was NOT murdered. (I'm inclined to believe her). I tried to get more specific details, but then I got a bunch of more gibberish. I put the board back on the shelves. Never have bothered with the occult since.

Today my Father is a multi-millionaire and I'm penniless. What was that they said about the "wages of sin"?

[lowbridge]

My personal favorite is lust.

Played by Raquel Welch in the 1967 Dudley Moore/Peter Cook movie: Bedazzled.

Good choice :-)

[Barnacle]

The Ouija board is as harmless as a plastic pointer and a painted cardboard sign. It works by involuntary muscle motion and by playing little games with the imagination. There is nothing supernatural about it.

And cigarettes don't cause cancer. Go ahead and light up. Their just for fun.

[lowbridge]

My child, be not a lustful one. for lust leads to fornication.

Buncha nonsense.

I've been lustful ever since I first hit puberty and nothing has happened yet.

Shut up ;-)

And besides, without fornication, how else does the church expect us to multiply?

[Zeroisanumber]

And cigarettes don't cause cancer. Go ahead and light up. Their just for fun.

Science can prove that cigarettes are a cancer-causing agent, and science can prove that an Ouija board is just a simple mind trick. You can find out for yourself at home with three friends and three blindfolds.

[Zeroisanumber]

I played this once with my roommates in college. It was a very scary experience and one I don't ever care to repeat. You may call it harmless but I know better.

You moved the planchette yourself using involuntary muscle action and let your imagination scare you silly.

You want proof? Have two friends over and let them use the Ouija board for a short while. Then ask them to put on blindfolds, and before letting them start again invert the board without telling them. I guarantee you that the planchette will be drawn back to where they think the letters are, not where they actually are.

[Pro-Bush]

Play with fire, burn your fingers.

[PetroniusMaximus]

You're dead right about this. Many people I have known who were involved in the occult got their start with "harmless" stuff like this.

Do some research on how the "game" was invented - the farmhouse story. It will raise your hair.

This "toy" is straight from hell.