Ouija Boards

A light in my room went on and off without a reason the other day.

I guess the only logical conclusion is that God is pissed at me.

Superstition ftw.

About Ouija boards, I'm not sure if I were a ghost I'd go "oh lol someone is hailing me through a wooden plank, I must go an haunt them cuz it says so in my ghost contract rofl!!11".

And it's odd that so many people seem to have "bad experiences" with them, yet no scientist has ever picked up that golden chance for world fame and proved it. Oh wait, ghost would probably be like "hes got a camera, no haunting tonight lol".
 
I just got a great idea that this myth can be solved on Mythbusters! Someone send them an e-mail asap! :naughty:
 
lePobz said:
It's all in your head. That's not to say what's in your head isnt capable of some freaky sh!t though. Telepathy, telekinesis, it's all in there.
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Just what I was thinking. Some of it must be related to the fact that you expect something bad to happen, so maybe your mind exaggerates stuff. I'm not saying that it can all just be explained away though.

I'd like to try it to see what actually happens but if big hard man Pi wouldn't sleep in his house for a few weeks after having a scary experience, I'd probably end up having to leave the country or something.
 
The Ouija boards act as primitive Scalar Wave emitters.

Mystery solved, with science!
 
Its simple really. The only people it works on are people who believe in it beforehand. People who dont question it want it to happen, or want to believe it can happen. If someone is a pure skeptic then it will not work on them because they refuse to believe it.

Even if you are "just playing around" you still want to believe it works. Because you want it to work... your beliefs will allow it to work. You will see and feel things that arnt real, that dont exist... and only exist in your mind because you allow it to and dont question it.

Watch this:
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/M/mindcontrol/trick/doll.html
 
So is anyone actually willing to share an experience that they've had here?
 
Bullshit.

A combination of Lies, exaggerations and halucinations.
 
Would you please ellaborate Pi.
It sounds like you have an interesting story to tell.
 
Krynn72 said:
Its simple really. The only people it works on are people who believe in it beforehand. People who dont question it want it to happen, or want to believe it can happen. If someone is a pure skeptic then it will not work on them because they refuse to believe it.

Even if you are "just playing around" you still want to believe it works. Because you want it to work... your beliefs will allow it to work. You will see and feel things that arnt real, that dont exist... and only exist in your mind because you allow it to and dont question it.

Watch this:
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/M/mindcontrol/trick/doll.html
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/nods

It's funny how all the stories told have the characteristical second-hand account of it, or they were doing it with a friend who was the real cause of the supposed phenomina.
 
Meh.

My older brother first got me into them when I was about 15 - he was in the garden shed with 3 of his friends doing one. They used a deck of cards with the alphabet written on the back, plus a card each for "yes", "no", "hello" and "goodbye" and a wineglass for the pointer.

Obviously, I was sceptical. I assumed someone was pushing the glass. When I joined in, it definitely didn't seem that way. However, it was all highly amusing - asking the "spirit" questions about each others etc.

Then I started doing them with my friends, in the house while my mum was out. We did loads. Seriously lots. And that's how I discovered that I could influence where the glass went. I don't mean by pushing it - not consciously at least - but I could control what was said. That was far more fun. I was particularly - deliciously - evil, making things up that the "spirit" said to my friends. It stopped being so light-hearted and all seemed far more serious, but we didn't stop doing them.

Until the last night I ever did one - at my house, with 3 friends. It started off as usual, me controlling the responses and generally sataning the place up. But then I stopped being able to control it. The responses weren't coming from me, they weren't saying particularly pleasant things, they knew stuff about me that I doubt my friends knew and the glass was moving fast. It scared the ever-living **** out of me, and my friends. So I grabbed the glass, grabbed the cards and we all left the house. I dumped them in a bin far away and would not go back to my house for the rest of the week.

I know it seems like bullshit, and it seems likely that my friends set me up, but in that place, at that time, definitely not.
 
you succumbing to surperstition? say it isnt so ..actually I played with a ouija board ..had tons of fun manipulating people ..there were a few times I was sure it wasnt me influencing the board ..could have been one of 3 girls I was with at the time ..but meh ..I dont hold on to such silly superstitions


/me makes sign of cross, throws salt over shoulder and kicks black cat trying to cross my path
 
I don't know whether it was subconscious trickery, telekinesis, someone pissing about or satan himself moving the damn glass. The end result was the same.
 
It's interesting indeed.
Even as a purely psychological phenomenon, it's quite interesting.
Gives me a thread idea for tomorrow.
 
Pi Mu Rho said:
I don't know whether it was subconscious trickery, telekinesis, someone pissing about or satan himself moving the damn glass. The end result was the same.
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scared the bajebus outta you didnt it? that's what you get for consorting with satan

try doing a hit and jumping on a ouija board ..wont be trying that again (not that I would cuz that was almost 15 years ago)
 
Jintor said:
I wonder how they work?
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Participants are subconsciously making small, involuntary, physical movements using a well-known, and well-understood, phenomenon called the Ideomotor effect. Experiments consistently suggest that, at best, the messages are received involuntarily from the participants themselves, and, at worst, by a manipulative player, possibly with the connivance of confederates within the group present.

Skeptic and magician James Randi, in his book An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, points out that when blindfolded, Ouija board operators are unable to produce intelligible messages. Magicians Penn & Teller performed a similar demonstration in an episode of their television show Bullshit! in which the operators moved the planchette into what they thought was the positions of "yes" and "no" without knowing that the board was turned upside-down, which caused them to moved the planchette into blank spaces on the board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija
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It can be a fun game, I guess.

However, without the supernatural actually existing it kind of takes the fun out of it for me.
 
I've never actually used a weegee board. How does it work? There's a little glass that moves around, doesn't it do that by itself?
 
Our perceptions and beliefs and language and culture shape our very reality.
So if it's real as far as we can see...who's to say it is or isn't real? Who's to say the difference is even relevant?

WoooOOOOoooOOO!
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Que-Ever said:
I've never actually used a weegee board. How does it work? There's a little glass that moves around, doesn't it do that by itself?
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Everyone puts their fingers on it. It moves to certain letters/numbers/words on the board. As you can see this can let anyone easily influence it and everyone else would think it's real if they're gullible.
 
Vegeta897 said:
Everyone puts their fingers on it. It moves to certain letters/numbers/words on the board. As you can see this can let anyone easily influence it and everyone else would think it's real if they're gullible.
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I think it's a mistake to call people who 'fall for it' are guillible.
Ever walked home alone through some kind of feild and shit your self, or hear a weird bumb in the night. We might like to think about ourselves as logical, but really the silliest things can scare us and decieve us.

Ouji boards are primarlly easy to 'fall for' becuase of the expectations risen by stories told to you by thing people who have done it have told you. + darkness, maybe outside somewhere strange at night and candles, and thats scary enough already. Try and contact the dead while your at it, and thats a recipe for hallucinations right there.
 
You'll only have an experience like that with a Ouija board if you already think the shit is possible. Back to the article posted earlier.

Being scared of irrational things like you mentioned in your post has nothing to do with this.
 
Watched this one for a bit... without sound, I preferred my music... five minutes of stupid looking kids sitting in a circle, putting their fingers in a thing... it didn't even move at all :/ Lol at that one idiot with his hat perched up right on top of his head.

I saw the one thing marked steve irwin's stingray video... don't watch it, it's a screamer D: It wasn't even a very good one... the scream was lame, and the timing was off, so I had about a second to think, "wtf was teh camera man doing looking at a dead girl's face for?"
 
hool10 said:
:p
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A couple of beers are not even enough to make people tipsy, much less hallucinate. My dad was never the type of person to get drunk. But they had BOTH seen the same thing.
 
Raziaar said:
A couple of beers are not even enough to make people tipsy, much less hallucinate. My dad was never the type of person to get drunk. But they had BOTH seen the same thing.
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"Hey, help me pull a trick on my son, etc"
 
Que-Ever said:
Watched this one for a bit... without sound, I preferred my music... five minutes of stupid looking kids sitting in a circle, putting their fingers in a thing... it didn't even move at all :/ Lol at that one idiot with his hat perched up right on top of his head.

I saw the one thing marked steve irwin's stingray video... don't watch it, it's a screamer D: It wasn't even a very good one... the scream was lame, and the timing was off, so I had about a second to think, "wtf was teh camera man doing looking at a dead girl's face for?"
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Vegeta897 said:
"Hey, help me pull a trick on my son, etc"
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This had all happened when I was really young. I wasn't told until later.

As I said though dude, me and my dad are like best friends. He doesn't do that sort of thing with me. You'd have to know my dad like I do to know that he has never pulled anything like that on his sons. My uncle on the other hand... he'd do that sort of thing all the time. Heh.

I'm not saying there actually was a skeleton dancing in the corner, but they had seen something that scared the crap out of them.
 
It's funny how vegeta is so utterly sceptical of something he has no personal experience of, yet he'll blindly believe every word that some people tell him...
 
Vegeta897 said:
You'll only have an experience like that with a Ouija board if you already think the shit is possible. Back to the article posted earlier.
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Why? If it was your subconcious controlling it, it would do so whether you belive in ghosts or not.

Being scared of irrational things like you mentioned in your post has nothing to do with this.[/quote]
It has everything to do with it.
 
Pi Mu Rho said:
It's funny how vegeta is so utterly sceptical of something he has no personal experience of, yet he'll blindly believe every word that some people tell him...
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The hell? I've used Ouiji boards before. And if you mean had an "experience" with them, I wouldn't be very sceptical then now would I? Besides, do I actually have to have experience with something to be able to apply simple logic to it? No. I think I just have the power to randomly piss you off every time my opinion happens to conflict with yours. That's a nice outlook Pi.

And I wasn't blindly believing Ikerous, almost all of what he told me was true, confirmed by you. Why are you bringing that up anyway :sleep:

Solaris: Did you read the article? It said that if you believed in the stuff, your mind will interpret anything towards that belief. If I go in to it with complete doubt there will be no such trickery.

Also, how exactly does the second thing in your post have to do with this?
 
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