Ouija boards - don't mess with them

Did one once with a few friends when I were a young teenager. We did it in the shed at the bottom of one of our gardens. When we were mid way through doing it, the shed door (which was on a latch) flew open and slammed back on itself with an almighty bang. None of us were close enough to have kicked it open and it was obviously wind, but we all absolutely crapped ourselves :D Not done one since!
 
Django x2 said:
Ouiji boards are for losers who can't get girlfriends, council estate inhabitants, poor people and/or morons. Which one are you OP?
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Gosh, what a jolly good question. Hmm, well, I live with my girlfriend, own my home completely mortgage free in london, and it's not an ex-council house either. I guess that just means I must be a moron. :)
 
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Merlin5 said:
Seeing as how it's Halloween, I thought it appropriate to post this. When I was a kid, probably about 12 years old, myself and my two older brothers (3 years older), created a Ouija board by simply writing out the letters of the alphabet and putting them in a circle. And then we put a tiny drinking glass in the centre. Lights turned down and we all put our finger on the glass.

What happened scared the living **** out of me. :eek: After a slow start, the glass started moving faster and making sentences. It got to the point where it was saying " I.. WANT.. YOUR.. SOU.." at which point I panicked and turned the lights back up.

I absolutely 100% know that I wasn't pushing the glass and I absolutely know my brothers wouldn't have either. But it stopped me ever messing around with this stuff again. I'm genuinely not making this up. When I eventually saw the Exorcist movie, it reminded me of this experience, as that whole movie is about possession started by playing with a Ouija board. I'm mostly a sceptic about ghosts and the like, but often think back to that experience and it reminds me that there is something to it all.
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This might be the best Halloween thread every. :D
 
Ouija boards don't do anything (law of physics)
Ghosts aren't real. (Law of thermodynamics)
Old properties make noises bc of expansion/contraction.
Placing individuals in unfamiliar places can lead to your mind overanalyzing the situation and creating aborations. It's no different to seeing an oasis in the middle of the desert.

We live 2018 not 1518. You shouldn't be so naive.
 
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The single take away I have from this thread, is that Ouija boards are real I swear down on my Nan's grave. Or something.
 
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My sister was heavily into buck fizz (the band) late 80s pictures all over the bedroom etc etc.

She did a Ouija board with friends next day all the pictures of buck fizz were pulled down, no trace of the land of make belive picture anywhere, Apparently the board told her first born was to be the re-incarnation of Elvis...

I am yet to see any musical ability from the little turds apart from tantrums, although they do make a huge mess on toilets.
 
iamtheoneneo said:
Ouija boards don't do anything (law of physics)
Ghosts aren't real. (Law of thermodynamics)
Old properties make noises bc of expansion/contraction.
Placing individuals in unfamiliar places can lead to your mind overanalyzing the situation and creating aborations. It's no different to seeing an oasis in the middle of the desert.

We live 2018 not 1518. You shouldn't be so naive.
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1) Ouji boards do do something. They are a "Wisdom of Crowds" machine. Of course the people using them are pushing them. But they all have to push in the same direction to make the glass move coherently. The thoery is that the "Spirits" influence the players unconscious movements

2) To my mind, there might be a hard physics explanation for "Ghosts" and indeed, at least some other "Supernatural" phenomena. Back to that later.

3) and 4) Yes, We are hard wired to create models based on data provided via our senses. Particularly WRT possible dangers. Fleeting shadows and bumps in the middle of the night will be interpreted as hazards until such time as they can be dismissed.

Back to #3

If we consider the "Many Worlds" model of a multiverse (As described in David Deutsch's Book "The Fabric of Reality" and used as source background for Creighton Sc-Fi "Timeline") then

Just possibly,

"Some" supposed supernatural phenomena might be as a result of information bleeding over from parallel universes and influencing our brains at a quantum level somehow in the same way that (According to the theory) Single electrons can generate a diffraction pattern as a result of being influenced and interfered with by electrons in parallel universes.

EG What we might experience as a fleeting Ghost might well be an actual event occurring in a parallel universe that somehow somebody in this universe manages to get a fleeting glimpse of..

And so on.
 
I wish there were parallel universes, with different versions of us. I also wish there were ghosts, werewolves, vampires, wraiths, ghouls, zombies, dragons, wights, wyverns, kraken, fairies, leprechauns, magic and so on. Would make life SOOOO much more interesting.

However, I don't believe in parallel universes, or heaven or hell, or an afterlife, or gods or any supernatural creatures etc. We're just another animal, albeit one with higher intelligence and just like other animals, we live, die and rot. We aren't special or soul-imbued (beyond the degree of special that we have in being of a higher intelligence than other animals), indeed I even go so far as to say its a sign of the arrogance of humanity that we think we are so special as to have souls and an afterlife. That or its a feature of the inherent fear of death and unwillingness to accept that once we are gone that's it.
 
Orionaut said:
1) Ouji boards do do something. They are a "Wisdom of Crowds" machine. Of course the people using them are pushing them. But they all have to push in the same direction to make the glass move coherently. The thoery is that the "Spirits" influence the players unconscious movements

2) To my mind, there might be a hard physics explanation for "Ghosts" and indeed, at least some other "Supernatural" phenomena. Back to that later.

3) and 4) Yes, We are hard wired to create models based on data provided via our senses. Particularly WRT possible dangers. Fleeting shadows and bumps in the middle of the night will be interpreted as hazards until such time as they can be dismissed.

Back to #3

If we consider the "Many Worlds" model of a multiverse (As described in David Deutsch's Book "The Fabric of Reality" and used as source background for Creighton Sc-Fi "Timeline") then

Just possibly,

"Some" supposed supernatural phenomena might be as a result of information bleeding over from parallel universes and influencing our brains at a quantum level somehow in the same way that (According to the theory) Single electrons can generate a diffraction pattern as a result of being influenced and interfered with by electrons in parallel universes.

EG What we might experience as a fleeting Ghost might well be an actual event occurring in a parallel universe that somehow somebody in this universe manages to get a fleeting glimpse of..

And so on.
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Or we just go with Occam's razor and assume that the human brain is able to convince us of anything when put under the appropriate cocktail of circumstances. It always amazes me that people are perfectly willing to accept the act of dreaming as purely scientific, but then convince themselves anything similar happening consciously MUST be paranormal.
 
We can easily prove that Ouija boards don't work if the players are blindfolded, and that it's the players who push the glass (by placing a stack of coins between the glass and the fingers).

To my mind, any spirit that needs the players eyes and muscles to communicate with us isn't trying very hard and is therefore a crap spirit that is best ignored.
 
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