Heisenberg
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[video=youtube;cma5Zn7xrWU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cma5Zn7xrWU[/video]
Sad but true
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Ifrit
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I don't think Spirit Boards can be fully explained. There are hundreds if not thousands of stories about people getting poltergeists or other malevolent spirits from using this type of channeling tool. There is also so much stigma about this type of divinatory tool that there has to be a reason. Even practitioners of dark arts stay away from this tool because of the types of things that can come from the board.
Heisenberg
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The Ouija board is not a divining tool, it's a board game. When it was patented in 1890 it was seen as a novelty. If you want to believe in things simply because there is a lot of testimony behind them, then you also have to make room for alien abduction, Bigfoot, and leprechauns. There is much stigma about the numbers 13 and 666 too, but no evidence either causes harm. The reason is superstition.
The thoery that Ouija boards are being controlled by the people who use them can be tested. It makes predictions. The video I posted takes 5 minutes to watch and performs a test which supports the prediction that the ideomotor effect is at work. We can also test the thoery by blindfolding the participants and then turning the Ouija board upside down without them knowing it. They will still try to go to where they think the letters should be. If some outside intelligence is influencing the board, why is it foiled by a simple blindfold?
So when we control for the ideomotor effect, the phenomenon disappears.
[video=youtube;JA5uYhXpa-E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA5uYhXpa-E[/video]
Ifrit
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How do you explain sudden movements of objects in a persons house after they used a spirit board?
Heisenberg
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How do you establish that sudden movements of objects in a persons house after they used an Ouija board has occurred? Hearsay?
tyler.durden
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When I first hooked up with my second wife yy best friend started dating my wife's best friend. It was awesome and we used to have game night where we'd play Cranium, Pictionary, cards, etc., and got nicely drunk and high. One night the girls suggested taking out the Ouija Board to do some channeling. My friend and I are skeptical atheists, and that fact irked these girls with their magical thinking, and they wanted to show us. We all put our hands on the thing and my friends and I simply laid on hands on it without moving. It was hilarious! You could feel the girls pulling it this way and that, trying SO hard to form words with it. I suggested we all close our eyes, and they said it wouldn't work that way. 'Why not?' I asked. Finally, I told them to be completely honest: that they were consciously attempting to fool us and that there was no supernatural force at work. To their credit, they admitted it, and reiterated that they hated the way we acted superior to them and thought we knew it all. Too bad more people don't take the opportunity to be honest as they did...
Zaehet Strife
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People hate being called out, lol.
BustinScales510
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Toys R Us does a pretty good job fully explaining them on their website, just look in the item description box. I dont know about it's stigma or dark arts,but they are made by Hasbro,the same company that makes My Little Pony and Tonka Trucks.
http://www.toysrus.com/buy/games-puzzles/board-games/kids/favorite-tv-movie-book/ouija-board-glow-in-the-dark-0600s5-2266493
tyler.durden
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^^ I know for a fact that practitioners of the dark arts steer clear of My Little Pony. That shit is spooky...
BustinScales510
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Beefbisquit
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[video=youtube_share;l8BRbM52gpc]http://youtu.be/l8BRbM52gpc[/video]
One starred for the misleading title.
JK
Now, please rock- err, talk, on!
One starred for the misleading title.
JK
Now, please rock- err, talk, on!