Quija Boards? Real, not Real??

[Gamergirl80]

Has anyone ever played a quija board, if so what happened? and can you play one on your own?? I would like to do one, but no one i know will do it with me, i very much believe in spirits, and would love to contact one, but i do not want to purchase a board, if i cant do it alone!

[bodylice]

Could you explain the joke? I thought you were being serious.

[GYMRAT]

read this-


http://www.wirenot.net/X/Articles/2006/U-W/war ningouijaboardisnojoke.shtml

[terambulan]

don't read too much into all this - or we'll all get possessed and/or invite poltergists to live with us.

[Harry-Wragg]

bodylice - what an unlovely name - and I was being deadly serious about the joke.

[naomi24]

Octavius, when I said they do work, I meant the glass, or whatever moves the glass, spells out words. Have you ever tried it?

[bodylice]

Sorry HW, but I was confused there for a minute.
I would have thought it would have made more sense for the spirit to keep quiet and just move a few bits of furniture.

[Harry-Wragg]

bodylice
A - there was no seance - I made it all up
B - there was no spirit with a deep voice
C - what makes you think I could afford furniture?

[Octavius]

And besides, don�t you need friends to have a s�ance!

[sarahcadogan]

Bodylice is right, that's what it really means, but it's used in the Bible as a way of showing where 'bad' people end up. Hell itself doesn't exist, and there's nothing in the Bible to say it does. Only that the bad will go to 'gehenna', or the bin.

[Harry-Wragg]

Octavius - no friends required for a seance - any collection from the local loony bin will do nicely - how do you get the thingmy above the 'e' in seance by the way?

[sarahcadogan]

In answer to gamegirl80's Q, the only spirits out there are nasty, deceptive creatures who want to mess with you. Leave well alone, as once they know you're easily fooled, you'll end up being played with like an rat in a lab.

[Octavius]

I agree wiz. If these spirits are prodding people around an alphabetic dartboard, why don�t they just appear and say, �oh for crying out loud, it�s Brenda, not Bredna�!?

[naomi24]

Maybe you got the illiterate spirits that Ethel was on about, Wiz. ;o)

[chakka35]

The movement of the glass (or whatever) on a ouija board has long been explained by what is caled the ideomotor effect, whereby subconscious thoughts are unwittingly transmitted to the glass by the participants. (It's the same effect that explains dowsing.)

A simple test is to blindfold the group (and maybe turn the board around if possible), whereupon all that emerges is gibberish, thus showing that it is the people, able to see where the letters were, who were producing the words, not some outside spirit.

[chakka35]

Sorry, wiz, hadn't seen your bit about the blindfolding when I posted mine.

[tigwig]

I have never done one but my hubby did years ago and said it was frightening!
I do believe in them but wouldn't mess with one especially in my house. (we live in the grounds of an old mental hospital and know we have spirits in the house already!!)
A clairvoyant once told me that they contact the very lowest of the low spirits which are evil and haven't been allowed to go to the normal planes that 'good' people would.
Sounds like crap doesn't it but I do actually believe it.