In this week's Chat magazine there is an article featuring allo the woes connected to Ouija Boards. Everybody knows what a Ouija board is - years ago they were actually selling them in a television advert as toys aimed as Christmas presents of all things! The problem is, for every story of woe, there are five people wanting to go out and buy one to see if it actually works! People just love being scared! If you don't believe me, look at the number of Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing-type films that have been around. Even Dennis Wheatly puts a tongue in cheek warning about dark forces in his Black Magic books. The more people you have participating the better.
"Hello, is anybody there?" is usually the first - and most ridiculous, question ever asked. Ridiculous because the upturned tumbler or pointer will automatically go to "Yes" - it's not likely to go to "No", is it? 
"Who are you?" is usually the next question, and then you're away. Spirits of the other kind usually give the game a highly spirited, family atmosphere.
Asking whether John will fail his exams is asking for trouble - it'll obviously play on his mind, to such a degree, he will fail!
My own crowd are too scaredy-cats to get involved, but like being told not to smoke or not to venture into a disused graveyard after dark because "dark forces abound" makes it all the more tempting to see if it really does work
I messed about with it once and there was no Bogey Man waiting at the door for me. My cousin came out with a box of chocolates.
"Black Magic anybody?" He asked, before the fun began.
The Bible strongly advises us against getting involved in stuff like that and Spiritualism, but I genuinely feel if you're level-headed about the whole thing, and not take it too serious, no harm will come to you. After all, any "Evil" forces out there are totally powerless against the single force of good.
Over to you - have any of you come unstuck fooling about with a Ouija board.
We used to do this at school in the 1970's, when it would descend into the utterly crude 
We also used to do levitation
And, later, strip poker .. ..
I feel exactly the same as saasher, don't believe, no way, load of rubbish.. but I wouldn't play with one..................just in case!
It's a bit like God really, don't believe, athiest through and through, but I still spell His name with a capital letter, don't want to offend him .............just in case
Ya don't believe in Heaven, but you pray there ain't no Hell!
One of my distant relatives was a Hindu who had had four heart attacks in one year. His wife said that she prayed to their local God (but in all seriousness) she also prayed to God "just to be on the safe side!"
@5129frederick wrote:In this week's Chat magazine there is an article featuring allo the woes connected to Ouija Boards. Everybody knows what a Ouija board is - years ago they were actually selling them in a television advert as toys aimed as Christmas presents of all things! The problem is, for every story of woe, there are five people wanting to go out and buy one to see if it actually works! People just love being scared! If you don't believe me, look at the number of Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing-type films that have been around. Even Dennis Wheatly puts a tongue in cheek warning about dark forces in his Black Magic books. The more people you have participating the better.
"Hello, is anybody there?" is usually the first - and most ridiculous, question ever asked. Ridiculous because the upturned tumbler or pointer will automatically go to "Yes" - it's not likely to go to "No", is it?
"Who are you?" is usually the next question, and then you're away. Spirits of the other kind usually give the game a highly spirited, family atmosphere.
Asking whether John will fail his exams is asking for trouble - it'll obviously play on his mind, to such a degree, he will fail!
My own crowd are too scaredy-cats to get involved, but like being told not to smoke or not to venture into a disused graveyard after dark because "dark forces abound" makes it all the more tempting to see if it really does work
I messed about with it once and there was no Bogey Man waiting at the door for me. My cousin came out with a box of chocolates.
"Black Magic anybody?" He asked, before the fun began.
The Bible strongly advises us against getting involved in stuff like that and Spiritualism, but I genuinely feel if you're level-headed about the whole thing, and not take it too serious, no harm will come to you. After all, any "Evil" forces out there are totally powerless against the single force of good.
Over to you - have any of you come unstuck fooling about with a Ouija board.
Hi frederick. glad you're OK.
I used to mess around with them with school mates, not really thinking they were anything to be concerned about, it was surprisingly easy to make the glass move to where you wanted it to go to put the wind up some gullible nice geeky friend. We all had a right laugh, but never came unstuck though.
Now though, as I do take notice of what the bible says, I steer clear. Like you I know the Bible warns us of the bad practices of spiritism and not to leave ourselves open to such things. Although wicked spirits (demons) do really exist they will use any means at their disposal, not just Ouija Boards to attack the spiritually weak. We are warned to stay away from mediums too. The wicked spirits know and can read people and get to know what things are important to them, so to make someone believe they are talking to their long since deseaced loved one is a really good way of getting to someone.
I personally do believe It is very dangerous to meddle in such things and many just don't understand how strong these wicked spirits are.
