So, in fact, Satan has won with his devilishly clever schemes to deceive us?
I thought your position was that God has already won…
I’ve never heard a “theory”, from a supernatural perspective, as to why the board would have this ability. Does anyone know how it came to acquire more occult street cred than, say, a Magic 8 Ball? Is there something about the design of the game itself which supposedly triggers the magic, or would I be able to get the same effect if I drew letters on cardboard?
Does Satan post on message boards? Can you think of a better way to mislead naive souls?
Firstly, I have to confess that I tend to be skeptical of any stories that have to be conveyed with multiple question marks and exclamations points ending each sentence.
To play along, however, I’m highly disappointed that the spirit world hardly ever seems to do much that has any practical point. So spirits, or whatever, told the OP what the content was of some drawings. Big deal. Tell me which stock’s going to triple in value over the next six months; that’s some info I could actually use. (sorry, upon writing this, I see that Chief Pedant has already said much the same thing).
Anyway, the OP may think he is giving a detailed rendition of his story, but there is actually next to no useful information on which to make any kind of judgement. How many people were involved in his story? What were some of the drawings of (in other words, were they things that people could easily guess)? How many people actually made drawings, and did any of them operate the board after having done so? Was there any chance at all that some of the people present were communicating the content of the drawing with each other, and how does the OP know for certain they weren’t? What date, time and general location (city and state) did this occur? Was strong drink involved? You know, stuff like that.
The use of a letterboard and planchette to supposedly contact the spirit world predates the marketing of the Ouija board by Parker Brothers. Planchettes and letterboards were used in seances during the Spiritualist movement in the 19th Century. Of course, they no more really worked then than they do now that Kaybee sells them.
This is a ‘god exists, prove me wrong’ kind of problem. We really can’t explain this definitively without more information. And we can’t rule out deliberate deception until it’s been shown there wasn’t any. All this info has to come from you. So, you’ve claimed there wasn’t any deception, how do you know? You claim to have read up on the ideomotor effect. Exactly what did you see that can’t be explained by it? And if you had your eyes closed, how do you know that the board told you it couldn’t see?
Oh, and to all those yammering on about spirits and Jebus and Jah and lurve, put up or shut up. Every damn time there’s a thread like this we have to spend page after page arguing against meaningless platitude and empty assertions. This is a debate, not a new age circle jerk. You wanna claim weejee boards can talk to spirits, you’re going to need more than ‘I know it in my heart’ or ‘it obvious’ or ‘I’m right, you’ll see! you’ll all see!’. Please, just once, try to form a coherent argument.
Good people go to heaven. Bad people go to hell. Internet trolls become spirits.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
Wasn’t Satan’s whole thing that he was SO proud he stood against God? Somebody that proud, and his equivalent of the emergency Bat-phone is a piece of shoddy cardboard from walmart?
I’m sorry but if I’m the Lord of Darkness and you’re trying to get in touch with me through a ouija board it better be something nice. Maybe some polished ebony or something. Put some onyx on there somewhere and some nice spidery calligraphy. Not something you found sandwiched betweend Chutes and Ladders and Cranium. I’d like to know you’re making an effort.
Then and only then will you gain access to my evil might. Then and only then will I tell you if Scott from Algebra I thinks you’re hot, if Miss Kitty misses you and has plenty of catnip on the other side, or if you are going to win the JV girls volleyball tournament next week. Go Tigers!
It’s a intro to the occult device, once they are hooked he can use that very device to have them buy the onyx encrusted one.
Has anybody ever actually gotten hooked on ouija boarding? I mean damn, suddenly I feel good about my internet and porn addictions!
This statement of yours is a loud, giant, screaming clue. It says “I AM COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT AT SPOTTING ANY SORT OF TRICKERY!!!” If you think that its being in your house somehow rules out trickery, that the whole setup was rigged, then you really need to learn a little about how simple stage magic is.
Demons are not the spirits of dead people. Demons will Identify themselves as your grandma to descieve you. Messing with Ouija boards can be dangerous. It is not messing with the afterlife but with the spirit world.
I didn’t realize the Ouija board had such a powerful effect on people nowadays. Kanicbird, lekatt, and Friar Ted (where’s ITR Champion?) have convinced me to go out and buy one for my 12 year old son and his friends, right away. It promises to be fun and a learning experience.
Has anyone outside of dedicated Spiritualists or have-to-look-good-for-the-yokels scam artists ever bought a fancy onyx and malachite type ouija board? I can only imagine that especially fancy letterboards and planchettes are fairly rare, given the market for a luxury item of that type has to be tiny.
Satan or God? Isaiah 45:7
Oh come on, how many of these do you think they’ve sold? Tens, hundreds of thousands? And is there some epidemic of occultists sweeping the nation? Kids buy these, play with them for a sleepover now and again, asking it silly questions, and then it winds up in the closet. Maybe if they go really crazy with the thing they’ll turn goth for a year or two and write terrible poetry. If this is Satan’s great plan he’s not being very efficient about it.
Actually, wait, I’ve seen goth kid poetry before. Maybe Satan does have a hand in this after all…
It’s a way for kids to play pretend and scare themselves and their friends. It’s sad to see adults playing the same game.
Only if you’re deathly allergic to making a fool of yourself on message boards.
To answer your question yes.
No one gets one day and descides I have descided to serve the Devil. It starts one step away from the Lord. Until it one has turned their back completly to the Lord. The danger is that they will not turn around. That is why I say it is dangerous to play in the spirit world. Demons are not here to help
I will admit if you have no Faith then it would be hard believe it what is being said.
You know what’s even sadder? Over here in Germany, there’s a show called ‘The Next Uri Geller’ (no, that’s not it), hosted by Uri Geller (that’s not it still), where they’ll have an at-home audience participation conjuring trick, no wait, AMAZING EXPERIMENT PROBING THE LIMITS OF THE UNKNOWN – the one time I saw it, apparently because I thought I was suffering from critically low blood pressure or because Satan compelled me to, that home experiment was basically a cheapskate ouija board made from a turned over glass and two cards with ‘yes’ and ‘no’ on them. Participants were to place their hands on the glass in order to receive a little schooling in confirmation bias, beg your pardon, ASTONISHING MESSAGES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. And that’s still not the sad thing. The sad thing is that it was presented as absolutely, unquestionably real, with wide-eyed astonishment over the inexplicably moving glass.
Sounds like that’s the plant. It’s not the board doing it, it’s that guy. If there’s any psychic power, it rests in him most likely.