[nubly]

i couldnt play with one. i stopped believing in ghosts when i stopped believing in the tooth fairy, god and santa clause. id rather buy something else like monopoly or battleship

 

[radames]

My sister and her friends did one and they were freaked by it. It answered a few questions like who was in the room, and who had a dark secret, and stuff. I don't think they ever tried it again.

 

[njodis]

 

[UltraShy]

Never used one. They don't have much point to those like me who don't believe in anything supernatural.

 

[strawberryjulius]

i couldnt play with one. i stopped believing in ghosts when i stopped believing in the tooth fairy, god and santa clause. id rather buy something else like monopoly or battleship

I want to play Battleship...no one will play with me.

 

[SilentLoner]

I had a nice glow in the dark one. I just never had anyone to use it with. And even if I did I probably wouldn't have trusted them not to mess with it while playing.

 

[millenniumman75]

You know that you are inviting a spirit which could be anything, anyone, to act through you and other people. That really is not normal. Also whatever it says, yes or no, or spells out etc. you are giving power to affect your mind and think it means something and you will keep wondering. It is nothing but mental trouble. You aren't thinking with logic, nor values, or with your senses.

I agree with this.
Should you buy an Ouija board.....beware of "Captain Howdy"*. He'll make your head spin!

*reference to the Exorcist.

 

[flapjacker]

Ouija boards are nonsense.

 

[RockNRoll Dream]

I've never tried one, and I'm not sure I want to. The Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta scared me off them a bit.

 

[strugglingforhope]

Man these things are weird the thing moves on it's own. I'll tell you a story about it Me and my best friend when we were little we asked the 'spirit' questions, and I recall that when we asked if we'd be best friends forever, it said no, and spelled out this weird word. After that we asked if it was marijuana it was referring to, it said yes. Funny a couple years later he kind of got into drugs(weed) and stopped hanging out with me.. coincidence? who knows. Also one of the spirits said it's name was lazarus and we looked it up (neither of us knew who the heck that was or even had heard the word) and after we looked it up and it's sure enough the name has biblical connections. I would be skeptical too of the thing if i never had these experiences too. Some people have experiences with the supernatural, and they're not crazy or irrational people by any means.

 

[IHeartSteveMcQueen]

I wouldn't mess with it.

 

[Zephyr]

Contrary to what some have said here, the planchette doesn't move on its own. It only 'works' when someone is touching it...which, if you think about it, should be a major clue. In fact, it's a great example of the ideomotor effect.

But like ghosts and gods and whatnot, they show more about human psychology than anything magical.

Some people have experiences with the supernatural, and they're not crazy or irrational people by any means.

Right, they're simply mistaken. It happens a lot with humans.

 

[Zeddicus]

Right, they're simply mistaken. It happens a lot with humans.

And sometimes it doesn't.

 

[slyfox]

I also have a glow in the dark model I've tried it a few times alone. I wasn't able to get the planchette to move without cheating. Most people would say you have to try it with another person, but I don't know if I would trust that the other person wouldn't cheat. Not that I have a 2nd person to try with anyway

If you wanted to pretend to get in touch with the supernatural you could do so with anything. Nothing about the game makes it more special then anything else.

I agree with everything except for the pretend part I've had much better luck using two differently colored dice than using a ouija board. You just correspond the different combinations to different letters and messages. (1,1) = A (1,2) = B (1,3) = C, etc. I can't say the experience left me terrified like many people report with ouija boards.

 

[Conquistador]

Also one of the spirits said it's name was lazarus and we looked it up (neither of us knew who the heck that was or even had heard the word) and after we looked it up and it's sure enough the name has biblical connections.

That's funny 'cause it further proves these spirit creatures are demons, since Lazarus was a close friend of Jesus whom Jesus ended up resurrecting from death (John 11:11-44), and the Bible clearly states on several occasions that the dead are "conscious of nothing at all" and that when a man dies, "his thoughts do perish" (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10; Psalm 146:4). Plus in that Lazarus account Jesus describes Lazarus as having "fallen asleep in death" and nowhere does it mention anything about Lazarus, after being resurrected, describing anything about an afterlife or about the spirit coming outta the body or anything like that. Therefore, the only spirit creatures on earth capable of communicating with humans through divination and spirit mediums are the demons, who along with Satan were "hurled down to the earth" (Revelations 12:9,12).