Some people do have direct channels to their departed loved ones. But like broadband and Verizon, there are procedures to follow and a price to pay for such communication.
It’s absurd to think that it can’t be rigged because it’s in your house. Whatever gave you that notion?
Well you either are stupid (not in the name-calling sense; I am referring to the literal sense of the word) or you are the naive victims of a trick. These are not mutually exclusive.
If you got yerself a board that gives legit answers which supercede scientific law, hurry and ask it one question: “What’s the big gainer stock for tomorrow’s market?”
Prior to asking the question leverage every dime you have and buy the stock suggested on the following day.
Repeat until filthy rich. Then do what you want for the rest of your life.
I am certain someone (whoever is rigging the board, usually) will produce some sort of bs answer why proximately testable questions aren’t the right type. Take that as your first clue. Right now it appears you have no clue at all.
The best test for nitwits believing in the paranormal is not to try to talk them out of it. It’s to ask why Mrs PalmReader Fortuneteller lives in a trailer about to be repo’d.
I had to look up this word. I cannot believe there is a word for just this.
I no longer involve myself with such communication with demons, it was miserable breaking away from that.
Why does this seem like what Satan might say:
“Yes, it’s just a toy, there are no demon, just people with their hands on the planchette.”
…wait, did you just pull a supernatural yo’ momma-joke on me?
Didn’t she play the wife on the Bob Newhart Show?
Because in your construct, everything is part of the demonic conspiracy.
This is how all conspiracy theories thrive.
Devilishly clever.
So, you wouldn’t even consider there might be a simpler explanation in that it might be a friend or two deceiving him; but automatically conclude it’s from spirit guides in the form of demons based on what little he has told us, and not even being there?
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Put me down in the "one or more of your friends probably played a elaborate prank on you’ category. In all likelihood, that person or persons is laughing at how gullible you and / or others in the group were.
I’m sorry about that, and I don’t say it to be insulting. Just working backward from the basic premise that Ouija boards don’t actually work.
As an additional point, who suggested this activity for the evening? Often that’s the best place to look for your prankster. Maybe it’s just me, but my circle of 30 somethings would have to be pretty drunk in order to suddenly get out the Ouija board.
If it were a attempt to deceive, I would suspect that attempt was not done in a spirit of Love of God, as such that would have it’s origins in the demonic.
Thank you, I got a great laugh at that.
I see. Practical jokes are demons at work. But if you’re a Christian, the scriptures show where the biblical god deceives as well, so how to you determine the origins of where it is from your God or a demon?
When I was about 12, we asked the Ouija when my friend would die. It said 1969. She is alive and well, and that was 40 years ago.
I think confirmation bias is a factor as well; users forget all the bad readings, and focus on what they can constue as accurate.
What a sad, pathetic little paranoid world you live in. I can just imagine the potential friends you’ve driven away with accusations of them being either possessed by demons or actually being demons themselves.
Your choices are:
A) Your friends are goofing with you.
B) The only person the board worked for when you all were closing your eyes wants to appear special/mystical and so deliberately or subconsciously moved the planchette.
C) Powerful spirits from another realm that we can only communicate with through a plank of wood or cardboard have decided to play parlor games with you.
Personally, I would pick A or B because to think that the afterlife consists of waiting around and hoping to answer inane questions or scare preteen girls via the medium of Hasbro is depressing. If it’s some demonic force I can only imagine what kind of shit duty that must be. The other guys are all off sowing seeds of famine and pestilence while you’re stuck chatting with a bunch of suburbanites through a mass produced piece of cardboard covered in chip crumbs. It’s just silly.
I think it’s interesting that no one has thought of a THIRD option, besides practical joke or real spirits. The third option is deliberate deception by the OP, toward us.
Not that I’m outright accusing the OP of lying. I’m only noting that it IS a viable third option in this scenario.
You can buy Ouija boards at Toys R Us. Do you really think that tools used to contact the deceased could be mass produced by the same people who make Scrabble and purchased for $12.99 in the game section of any store? If it really were that easy to contact the dead we would be able to talk to them all the time whether or not we had a cheap piece of plastic and some particle board. Step back from the spooky experience and think about this logically for a moment. Does the board game Clue allow you to solve actual murders? Does the board game Life predict how many children you will actually have? Why would this particular board game be any different?
If you want you could use a chicken with it’s head cut off, though some media seem to have more consistent ‘results’ then others. Also step back once again and could you think of a better place for Satan to put such a thing?