Poll: Are ouija boards dangerous?

[colourcodedchaos]

An ouija board is no more dangerous than any other board game, and considerably less dangerous than psychics, mediums and other such examples of fraudulent dickweasels conning the bereaved into acts of intellectual surrender whilst paying for the privilege.

 

[manaman]

I swear, kids these days will believe anything.

Now get off my lawn!

Youngins these days. Acting like old people. Despicable. In my day we where so happy to live past 35 we went out and plowed anything that moves.

AND PEOPLE LOVED IT!

*cocks shotgun*

Now get off my lawn before my friend here decides to give your lungs some lead shot as a gift.

 

[El_Chubba_Chubba]

Well they have pretty sharp corners, and that little triangle thing you move with your fingers .....I mean control with voodoo ballcrap could poke an eye out.

Is that what you meant?

By the way, I'm free on weekdays to offer spiritual guidance and foresee you future by reading the formation of stars and fruit bowls.

 

[WolfThomas]

Nope, but you'd never get me doing one. I had very religious grandparents and I got lectures on how magic and witchcraft made you vulnerable to possession. Now I don't believe in any of it (magic or possession), but I still get uncomfortable around stuff like ouija boards.

 

[SilentCom]

A ghost might leap out of the board and kill you in your sleep. No they are not dangerous. It's just a game board.

 

[Communist partisan]

Compared to 4chan... no. For the rest.... no.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Ouija boards are fucking dangerous. By using them, you're basically making your house a lighthouse for unfriendly spirits to come into and haunt. That's a fact.

Btw I love the disproportionate number of No's on this poll.

 

[MoriyaMug]

By using them, you're basically making your house a lighthouse for unfriendly spirits to come into and haunt. That's a fact.

You have a very shaky grasp on the definition of the word, "fact."

 

[William Ossiss]

If you make me one from real wood and mail it to me I will burn it or poop on it or whatever other thing you think will anger the spirit realm and post the video of all the nothing that happens afterwards on youtube.*

(cue I WOULD NEVER DO THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WOULD BEFALL YOU WOE BETIDE YOU OH UNBELIEVERRRRRRRRRR)

* I can't guarantee that nothing would happen, my cat may jump into the field of view briefly, he likes to jump on things. Also the air conditioner might turn on.

if this is how you carry on a conversation, im done with you. your asinine, "satirical", not even willing to consider my point of view post is just ridiculous. i like how you immediatley jump to proof. but i guess that is like being a bible thumper. so adamant to prove your side, yet here i am having a mild conversation.

Typical. You claim they're dangerous and a gateway to real power. The burden of proof is on you. Get cracking.
You do see why I'm not taking you seriously, right?

please read above. what do i have to prove to people i do not know? i don't know you. your not my friend. im just giving my advice on something i BELIEVE is dangerous, and then you demand evidence that these things exist. if that is truly your point of view, then woe be to all god believers that try to debate the existence of god with you. whereas they try to make a wise point, you demand evidence. well then, you haven't exactly proved he DOESN'T exist, yet.


also, please note that it is only in MY KNOWLEDGE about this stuff. i do not make or participate in any such things. i merely STUDIED THEM. I'm sure KNOWLEDGE is OK to know/have.

 

[standokan]

If I recall corectly, Ouija is owned by Hasbro and originally was a family game.

WeAnd no they aren't dangerous, people who believe might piss themselves out of fear, but that's about it.

 

[MoriyaMug]

if that is truly your point of view, then woe be to all god believers that try to debate the existence of god with you. whereas they try to make a wise point, you demand evidence. well then, you haven't exactly proved he DOESN'T exist, yet.

I don't have to prove he doesn't exist, just as I don't have to prove Bigfoot, Nessie, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, the Flying Spaghetti Monster or that fire-breathing mastodons made of blue cheese and sandpaper don't exist. It's mathematically and scientifically impossible to prove the NON-existence of anything.

This is why the debate about spirituality and mysticism isn't really a debate. The burden of proof is on the believer, not the skeptic. You must provide evidence to support your proposition, and your evidence has to be metaphorically sandblasted to see how it holds up to the abuse. That's how the scientific method works. Your belief in the supernatural is pure superstition; meaning, no empirical scientific evidence has ever been found to support anything remotely akin to what you claim. It's folklore, ritual and hoax.

I most certainly respect your right to believe in such things; however, I do not respect the belief, itself. Science applies to everything in existence, and it doesn't go on holiday for the occasional treasured topic, no matter how many people may believe in it. Religion, spirituality and superstition are not exempt from critical examination.

 

[Bassik]

Shocker: It's not real. Nothing can happen, except that you can scare eachother a bit. So go for it, although I recommend a good Call of Cthulhu RPG if you want to scare your friends, much more... cosmic.

 

[universaltraveller]

Ouija boards are literally toys- in fact the Hasbro company still own the trademark for them.

They were used as fun board games in the past, the idea was you were talking to your 'future self' not ghosts. They only become 'occult' when The Exorcist came out.

Listen to this guy, for he speaks the truth... As he has watched QI!

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

@ first post: Uhh.....No it's not dangerous. I'm convinced the whole thing is just based on the ideomotor response (where your body moves but you are so convinced it's not your own action that your brain sends the signal direct to the fingers and not through the normal path). So the back of your mind thinks of what the "ghost" will say, and send the signal to the fingers and makes it feel like the board is sliding on its own.

I've experienced the ideomotor response personally, and I can attest to the fact that it CAN AND WILL FOOL YOU IF YOU DON'T PAY ATTENTION. Trust me. It totally bamboozled me when my science teacher made us experience it.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

yeah of course and if you dont post this 20 times in your networks and messangers you will be eaten by panda-zombies tonight.



...seriously are you 12 or dumb if you believe in this?

 

[Saikonate]

if this is how you carry on a conversation, im done with you. your asinine, "satirical", not even willing to consider my point of view post is just ridiculous. i like how you immediatley jump to proof. but i guess that is like being a bible thumper. so adamant to prove your side, yet here i am having a mild conversation.

It makes sense that you'd prefer "mild conversation" since once the conversation progresses beyond that it becomes patently obvious how ridiculous your beliefs are. If your viewpoints don't hold up to even the simplest rigor - and yours do not - then having a discussion about them is pointless. It'd be like me suggesting that we have a discussion about the fairies that live inside the moon.

Also, it's telling how defensive you got at my suggestion that I put your beliefs to the test. When I was religious, I'd do the same thing, because despite my purported convictions, I knew what I believed wasn't true. If that's the case with you, I hope you resolve that conflict soon - it's awesome on the other side!

also, please note that it is only in MY KNOWLEDGE about this stuff. i do not make or participate in any such things. i merely STUDIED THEM. I'm sure KNOWLEDGE is OK to know/have.

I have to imagine one "studies" phenomena that do not exist the same way I study Ray Bradbury short stories.

 

[uzo]

lol .. nice place to raise a thread about the supernatural. You might as well go to a forum for AFL and ask them if they think DnD reached perfect at 2nd edition.

I dabbled throughout my teens, and speaking from experience I would generally discourage anyone from trying ouija. I sound like a prude (been-there-done-that-but-you-shouldn't-because-i'm-wise-enough-to-know-better-now), but it's like those people who get angry about dope as being a 'gateway' drug. Dope itself ain't gonna hurt anyone, but it has the potential of opening more doors to places you perhaps shouldn't go.

It's a long dark road, starting on the occult, and it bares more than a passing resemblance to all those things you've heard about Cthulu - not world-shaking, lightning-bolt hurling stuff. It's far more insidious, and it gets under your skin and into your being. People go nuts on that road for a reason.

Although whether they were nuts before starting on that road .. ?

 

[Gamer_152]

No, ouija boards are toys. Simple experiments debunked the ouija board a couple of hundred years ago and people have been able to consistently and repeatedly prove that without a shadow of a doubt these things are not controlled by some mysterious other-worldy presence. The movement of an object over a ouija board simply occurs due to tiny subconcious movements which come about as part of what is known as the ideomotor effect.

 

[Cabal_Therapist]

Listen to this guy, for he speaks the truth... As he has watched QI!

All hail the grand and mighty Stephen Fry. I have learned more from QI than in all my years of education.