http://www.theshadowlands.net/ghost/ouija.htm

So are they really that dangerous or are these people simply crazy? Why would a mass marketed toy be that powerful and dangerous?

I'm pretty sure a Ouija board isn't any more or less dangerous than any other piece of cardboard with letters painted on it.

Yeah, it's common sense. Also, if that didn't work, the website should have tipped you off. Nothing anyone says on such a horrid text/background combination is ever true.

My Ouija board keeps spelling out dirty words.

Truth

What's funny is the "proof" they have about how Ouija boards are dangerous. The National Examiner? C'mon. That's like The National Enquireror only worse.

I hate Ouija boards. A waste of good wood (or plastic...or whatever lousy factory material that is somehow "spiritually enhanced" by machines..)

Ugh...I know too many people that believe in them. My friends and I used one once to contact the spirit of Gene Kelly. Me and some other girl pushed the thing around and freaked out the other three. 'Twas fun

People spell out what they want to hear with those things.

Wasn't Geb's sister named using an Ouija board?

If they did work, they'd cost several thousand dollars. I rest my case.

WTF? Gene Kelly? Why?! I can't imagine sitting around a Ouija board saying, "Who should we contact?" and getting the response "Gene Kelly!"

Oh my! Evil boards!

Never played with one, have always wanted to just so I could screw around with other peoples mind. That's what it's all about isn't it?

Indeed. And Geb himself was named by picking random letters of a Scrabble board.

It's fun to have 2 strong magnets, one under the table and board and the other under the little moving piece thing and then freak people out. The magnets have to be fairly small though (the one under the piece mainly) for it to look convincing. I used it on my friend and pointed to the letters "IMDEADANDYOUWILLSOONBETOO"...he flipped out. The key is to go along with the act and not crack up until later.

If we assume that nothing exists but what we can see and touch (naturalist philosophy), and there are no spirits or ghosts, then Ouija boards are harmless silly toys. However, that's a philosophically unprovable assumption, since we can't prove a negative, only positives.

If there is more to this world than what we are currently able to prove exists, and there is some element of the 'supernatural' that exists, then it is unimaginably foolish and arrogant to play around with entities of unkown disposition and power. There's a reason human beings have an instinctive fear of the unknown -- self preservation.

It's like playing around with a handgun and betting it isn't loaded. If it's not, then it's harmless. If it is, though, it's possible that there could be serious consequences.

It just sounds to me like some of you are a little too sure the handgun's empty.

Let's put it this way --- I'm willing to place the handgun to my temple and pull the trigger. Anytime, anywhere.

I think it's that most people see it more like a watergun, or a toy gun, than a real-but-empty gun (not that this comparison is any comfort to some). And if they are real guns... well, they seem to be selling a lot of them empty, as I've never heard anyone talk of them working, save apparently the tabloids and conservatives who don't use them because they feel they do work.

As for Geb & Los's names: hehehe. How NeSi slinks around.

We're still waiting...




(Just kidding, I have no quarrel with you, I just had to pounce on the opportunity.)

This is why personal experience can be misleading. I've never met anyone who was struck by lightning or attacked by killer bees, and if I based everything I know on what I personally have experienced, I would be forced to conclude that those things never happen.

I have close friends, who I trust not to lie about something like this, who have seen some inexplicable things, like the pointer moving on its own. Were there magnets or some other trickery involved? I don't know, I wasn't there, but I'm not about to dismiss it out of hand based on an assumption that such things are impossible. It's a catch-22 -- if you start with the assumption that such stories are false, then any evidence that could be used to prove otherwise you will also assume to be false.

I'm not saying that Ouija boards definately work, or that such a spiritual element definately exists. I'm saying it's silly to assume things without proof.

It's not just personal experience. I've heard news reports of lightning strikes and killer bees. General consensus seems to concur that these things exist. While I've never seen either, I'm more likely to incline their existance. Any incident involving Ouiji boards, on the other hand, do not seem to get such coverage. Perhaps it's a mass conspiracy, perhaps evil covers their tracks real well... but in any case, it's not just personal experience.

yes, ouija boards are dangerous... you may slip and cut yourself.....
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Quoted for truth. Krig put it perfectly. As a christian I believe there is a spiritual realm that we cannot see. If you don't believe in a spiritual realm, you have to at least consider the possiblity. If there are powers outside of our realm, simply not believing their existance is not the best move. Inexpicable things happen in the physical world, things not easily explained. And while I'm sure that some have scientific explainations that we just don't uderstand yet, there are still others that escape reason. As an open minded person, you have to at least consider the possiblity of spiritual/supernatural realms influencing the physical realm. I have a very trusted adult friend that witnessed a woman under possession. Her eyes turned black, her voice changed, and she literally started throwing men that tried to subdue he. Like I said, this person witnessed it himself, is very mature, balanced and reasoning, has never lied to me and has no reason to lie about it. I know someones gonna jump on this and rip it apart, "you n00b! he's either lying or hallucinating or he's crazy!"

if you do, at least give me one good reason outside of opinion why something like this isn't possible.

when your made of puer sugar like me, thats pretty threatening(sp)

the whole idea of the ouija board is not so much that it a oh so powerful tool, just its supposed to be a convience. i'll comare being able to contact spirits to beingable to use Jed. if you cant use Jed to begin with the all the pluggins arn't going to help you. like with the ouija board, if you dont have the ability to begin with the board is, well just a board with a bunch of letters on it.

I know it, too, and I can even foretell who!!!

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WRA!

Exactly how it all went...

Well, that's probably because most Ouija board incidents don't result in a shocking death, unlike lightning or killer bees. I can see it now: "Earlier this evening, two teenagers reported that their Ouija board was moving on its own. Story at 11."

The sad truth is, most people have a preconceived idea in their head of what the world is like. Anything that doesn't fit is rejected, often without even the smallest attempt to determine its validity. Case in point: the radar operators at Pearl Harbour. They had the incoming Japanese airplanes on screen, but since such a thing didn't fit their world-view, they dismissed it as a glitch, resulting in disaster. The idea that the gun might have a bullet in it is so inconceivable to them that they don't even think of it as a potential danger, much less check the chamber to see if it might be true.

Mind you, I'm not saying I'm not guilty of this, we all are to a degree in one area or another. I just feel that we should be constantly striving to revise our worldview so that it is as close to reality as possible, no matter what reality may be. Believing something without knowing whether or not it's true seems silly to me.