by free will 55 Replies latest jw friends
It would be interesting to record a ouija session where the participants touching the planchette are blindfolded while a bystander watches. If it's really spirits talking, then it should not matter whether the planchette holders can see the board. Experiments of this type have shown that the board only writes gibberish when the planchette holders are blindfolded. This does not give me much reason to believe spirits are involved.
rem
Haunted houses are just a glitch in the matrix.
btt
Hey rem,
"It would be interesting to record a ouija session where the participants touching the planchette are blindfolded while a bystander watches."
It would indeed! I wish I had of thought to have some fun with the Ouija board in this way, back when I was fluid with it. Although the following experience may not have been very scientific, it does somewhat demonstrate the test.
A friend of mine, who was a skeptic, decided to bring by a friend (under the guise of disproving the Ouija), who said he was interested in playing the Ouija board. I picked up on the ‘test’ right away. As my skeptic friend sat and watched, I asked the young fellow a few questions. He barely had time to get comfortable much less memorize the entire layout of the board. When I asked him if he had ever played a Ouija board before he said, "No". I asked him if he had ever had a favorite pet (something I believed the board would ‘know’). He said he had. He had had a dog as a young boy, which had died many years pervious. Realizing the test was ‘on’, I instructed him to close his eyes and lean his head all the way back so that it would be impossible for him to see the board. He complied. I asked, "What was the name of the dog?" the Ouija board spelt out, "H-A-U-S". With his head still back, I asked him if Haus was the dog’s name. I realized fairly quickly that this must have been accurate by response that followed. His speech became so staggered he could only stutter. He could only answer by nodding his head in the affirmative. When I asked my friend what he thought of what had just happened, he just shook his head.
I suppose he could have ‘memorized’ all the locations of all the letters on the board in just a few moments. But that’s not too probable. Or, maybe I unconsciously and unintentionally read his mind. But that would a paranormal activity, and I don’t think that’s very probably either as I have never had that ability then or since. Maybe he ‘sneaked a peak’ as the planchette moved to the letters. But I watched him closely and his eyes remained tightly shut and his head never wavered. And besides, he was there in concert with my skeptic friend to disprove the Ouija. So that’s not too logical. I realize I’m not a research scientist, but this seems fairly conclusive to me, as well as it was to my skeptic friend (Although he would never admit to it).
To be honest with you rem, I really don’t know what the fuck moves that little thing on the board, and that’s the truth. But by my experience, it’s not a psychological phenomenon. It ‘knows’ stuff that you can’t possibly be knowledgeable of at the time you ask it the question. But for argument sake, if it were a sub-conscience phenomenon, why (how) would the mind display such power(s) as to have two people move the planchette so precisely and so accurately? No, that doesn’t wash for me. I just don’t buy into the whole ‘mind trick’ thing when comes to the Ouija. Something else maybe? If not spirits or ghosts or demons, could there be another possibly we haven't considered?
I realize that this was MY experience and not yours. If I were you and I had never had any personal experience with the Ouija board and someone told me about these fantastic things, I may find it interesting but I probably wouldn’t believe it.
Steve . . .
have you steve, or anyone else asked the board what is the purpose of life or is the bible accurate or if jehovah is the only true god? just curious.
Free,
During the time I played the Ouija board, I was pretty much anti-religious. I had just broken away from the Watchtower a couple of years earlier and I was experimenting with life on many levels, but not the religious. Ergo, such questions (purpose of life, Bible, Jehovah/true God) about matters like you asked just weren't on my mind then.
I mean, if I ran out of rolling papers back in those days, I would simply tear a sheet of paper out of a bible to roll a joint. It used to freak my girlfriend out. Smile
I just couldn’t care less about God and all that. But now that you mention the ideas, it would be interesting to see the "answers". If I had to guess, the ‘answers’ would be what ever it is you would probably want to hear. With the exception of past events, I found the Ouija board to be somewhat lacking for true information. It ‘told’ me a bunch of stuff that just wasn’t true. I don’t know if that is because it doesn’t know the answers or because it dose and it just wants to play mind games. But whatever it would answer to your questions you mentioned here, I probably wouldn’t put much stock in it.
Steve
Keep the stories coming, Steve. They're interesting.
couldn't you just imagine the lot of us, having a ouiga session? no, i'm not initiating one, but it would be funny.
What finished up my Ouija board experience was an entity named "J". This particular entity was on the board from the very beginning, but stayed in the background for the most part. I became familiar with it’s ‘personality’ characteristics and knew when it was manipulating the planchette. It was often crude and could also be offensive. It once spelled out, "I L-I-K-E W-H-O-R-E-S" on a first date with a new girlfriend. She had no experience with the Ouija and it kinda made it look like I was the one saying it (Oh, I could just see the ‘psychological phenomenon’ people salivating at this sentence. LOL)
Anyway, as time progressed, "J" would become the more and more dominant entity, and finally in the end, to the exclusion of all others. From the very beginning, "J" would ask/make the comment on the board, "BE MY FRIEND". I would have to agree, or the board would not work after that. It became a kind of starting point of a session, most of the time. Toward the end of my experience with the board this comment from "J" became more and more prevalent throughout any given session. Finally one evening "J" was ‘speaking’ and said, "BE MY FRIEND . . . FOREVER". When I refused to comply, the planchette moved with uncommon speed and force to the ‘word answer’ on the board, " YES". However, I wasn't comfortable with this latest comment (FOREVER) so I refused again. Again the piece moved swiftly to "YES". It was as if it was insisting I must agree. It was weird. I was with a woman I had dated of and on for a while at the time, and it startled both of us how the planchette moved to "YES" so strongly. We could take our hands of the planchette and ‘fling’ it across the room with one finger, but the moment we would attempt to use the planchette in the way you would normally use it, it would fly to "YES" and we wouldn’t be able to move it off the word. It was strange as hell. It was if it became glued to the word.
I decided I had had enough of the Ouija, so I drove to Biscayne Bay that evening and hurled it into the water. I guess this where I’m supposed to say I heard demons screaming or wailing or something like that as it went sailing. But that didn’t happen. LOL. However, it is kinda funny that I never heard it ‘splash’. But I know it did. When I told my old girlfriend how I had thrown the board into the bay, she said sometime later she wished she had thought to buy a Ouija board and get some seaweed and put it all on my doorstep. We both had a good laugh about it.
I guess the Ouija is probably a little like gambling. Most people seem to be able to do it as a mild form of entertainment with no adverse effects. But for others, it can consume. I honestly don’t know what it is that moves that little piece of plastic on that board, but it concerns me. My suggestion is to stay the hell away form it.
Steve . . .
wow! i'm speechless.
