Ouija Board - Sold in toy stores.

[Lonny"Ruffeon"]

What caused you to direct that question to me and not to others?

You were the first to respond in the negative that's all. Just curious. Nothing offensive meant.
Lonny "Ruffeon"

[Da Blonde]

You were the first to respond in the negative that's all. Just curious. Nothing offensive meant.
Lonny "Ruffeon"

No offense taken. That seems reasonable enough. You asked "Just curious, would you try a spirit board better known as the ouija board?" By "try" I guess you mean to play the game. I don't know. It doesn't interest me particularly. Since I believe such things are silly and they don't interest me, probably not, unless our kids wanted me to or something. But only after giving them a long lecture about how such things are silly first, I suppose.

[Meribast]

Hmm. Responded to this thread but didn't show up.

Personally, tried once as an adult, no results. I had no one I wanted to contact. Reporting a story that someone heard from someone who hear is kind of like a rumor.

Those who reported their own experience a different story. Personally I don't think all spirits/disembodied souls are the same just as people are not the same. Some are good and some are bad. If you want to call the easy way to self-indulgence at the expense of others "Satan" go ahead. I'm not so inclined either by acts or letting those who do take the easy way avoid the responsibility of their evil (not good) actions. Even the terms in English are corruptions d/evil and go-od.

I believe I may have had contact with the soul of my dead cat. She covered me with warmth and love. In life she looked after me and in death I think she tried to reassure me of her love even beyond death. I took this feeling into my day and it was a good day. I may have deluded myself, but it was a nice feeling all the same.

[Meribast]

Btw I didn't "try" to contact my dead cat's soul/spirit through any sort of ritual it just happened perhaps by unconscious wish.

Even as a neo-Pagan I don't think that one should open doors as you never know what you are going to get.

I don't believe that this toy should be sold in toy stores either (and again I reiterate, not a Christian!). I certainly believe in the possibility of spirits, souls, angels and the like. I don't claim to have the power to discern the difference. Something that seems negative probably is. Something that seems positive, might be or it might not. I am not going to go looking for it.

Yeah this was sold during a time when you could not publicly advertise that you were a spirit medium or fortune teller as a result of religious beliefs dominating government action. Nevertheless seances were all the rage. This toy was an attempt to play off that phenomenon for the not-so-well-connected. Because they did not allow open occult shops it was marketed through a toy company as a novelty. Really should they be selling playing cards for poker and blackjack in a toy store either? Kind of encourages gambling or the acceptance of it at an early age. We probably have more gambling addicts than any other time in known history.

[Lonny"Ruffeon"]

No offense taken. That seems reasonable enough. You asked "Just curious, would you try a spirit board better known as the ouija board?" By "try" I guess you mean to play the game. I don't know. It doesn't interest me particularly. Since I believe such things are silly and they don't interest me, probably not, unless our kids wanted me to or something. But only after giving them a long lecture about how such things are silly first, I suppose.

That's interesting, can you be sure that it is just a silly game and not something which could open a door to the other side. I know what my girlfriend suffered and her friend too. I wouldn't fool with it.

[Da Blonde]

That's interesting, can you be sure that it is just a silly game and not something which could open a door to the other side.

I believe a reasonable person can.

I know what my girlfriend suffered and her friend too. I wouldn't fool with it.

That's what's known as a "friend of a friend" story or urban legend.

[Chrs]

That reminds me of a good joke.

"What's the best way to stop spirits and homoeopathy working?"
"Do them in the lab."

[Hamster]

Yeah I've always found it funny that Parker Bros. makes the Ouija Board. You're just as likely to open a doorway to hell with Monopoly. Maybe more so. Have you ever been involved in a monopoly dispute? Very heated, very ugly. What is the Parker Bros. agenda, anyway?

[CodewordConduit]

ha! Satanic Panic, funny name. was that really a period?

I believe so. Through the 80s, and waning in the 90's. Satanic child abuse allegations in nurseries were rife for a while, and later discredited. Dungeons and Dragons, iirc was suppsoed to be demonic, and rock music had subliminal Satanic messages worked into the songs... what a time!

I have not the slightest interest in those boards and not because i think it actually works, truth is, i don't absolutely discount all stories in which negative energy was released in some form or another when summoning the dead. Some people are more intuitive(?) than others and with the right motive to contact the dead (a loved one) and the right 'summons' [oh i know i sound nutty now] I don't believe nothing ever happens. I wonder how different this board is from the spirit boards someone else mentioned or if all it takes is someone to sit in the middle of their yard at night and made a circle with candles and started summoning the dead with enchantations, fluttering eyelids and a deep yearning and belief that they'll contact the spirit realm.

Well I think if you're a Christian the Bible says that you can't contact the actual dead people you're after (there was an exception made for Samuel appearing to Saul when Saul consulted the witch of Endor, iirc), so I suppose you'd have to believe that demons impersonate the dead person. Depending on your eschatology you either believe that Satan et al. are either currently restricted (to some degree or other) from being naughty, or if you're premillenial then I suppose they could be more prolific than Starbucks. What do you think?

(And to all readers: forgiveness is begged in advance for any massive errors made here, I'm cool with being corrected s'long as I'm not being yelled at )

[Darth Executor]

I believe so. Through the 80s, and waning in the 90's. Satanic child abuse allegations in nurseries were rife for a while, and later discredited. Dungeons and Dragons, iirc was suppsoed to be demonic, and rock music had subliminal Satanic messages worked into the songs... what a time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylf_n...eature=related

Edit: the problem with rock and roll wasn't that it was satanic, it was that it mostly sucked.

[CodewordConduit]

Edit: the problem with rock and roll wasn't that it was satanic, it was that it mostly sucked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7o9g...feature=search

Nah, I can definitely see what all the fuss was about.

(Side note, great choreography, love this era)

[Darth Executor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7o9g...feature=search

Nah, I can definitely see what all the fuss was about.

(Side note, great choreography, love this era)

All I see is a great setting for a dystopian video game/movie, and the main appeal of that is that those people would be getting shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCY09s-c41A

[CodewordConduit]

All I see is a great setting for a dystopian video game/movie, and the main appeal of that is that those people would be getting shot.

...

[Darth Executor]

I'm so stealing that picture.

[Rational Gaze]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7o9g...feature=search

Nah, I can definitely see what all the fuss was about.

(Side note, great choreography, love this era)

Makes me wonder what would happen if someone sent Meshuggah back to the 1950s.