(October 5, 2017 at 10:20 pm)Godscreated Wrote:(October 3, 2017 at 1:28 am)Arsoo Wrote: Ok, so usually I completely reject the idea of ouija boards being anything, but I had a question based on an experience that I had.
My parents, myself and my sister made our own ouija board with cardboard, and we drew an arrow on a plate and moved the plate around (all of us)
we began asking questions like "What is your name?" and we got an answer that the name of the so called "spirit" we were talking to was Carvel.
We asked Carvel where he was from, and he said Qatar. We were laughing about this. However, at one point, my mom kind of jokingly asked, if I will ever get married. We received the answer yes. Then we asked where would my future wife be from, and we got Sweden as an answer. Then we asked about the name, and got the answer "Hilvy". At this point, we are laughing, as none of us had ever heard of that name before. We thought it wasn't a real name. Today I was bored and I just typed down "Hilvy" in google, and the first thing that came up was: "Swedish female name". I am surprised. I had no idea that the name existed, let alone that it was Swedish. What do you think happened here?
Playing with fire will get you burnt.
GC
Doesn't it seem curious to you that people who believe in ghosts and paranormal stuff see them everywhere they look, but people who don't believe in them never see them at all? You could say that the people who don't see any of that are not 'receptive'... and that is often what is suggested by fans of woo... but why not go with the much simpler and obvious explanation that people's perceptions are influenced by what they expect to see? I've never seen anything paranormal or ghostly in my life, but then again, I don't expect to... coincidence?
As to this, as far as I'm concerned, you're freaking out over nothing. I'm tempted to get one now just to show you that it's peoples expectations of the effect that influence the perception of the effect. Since I have no such expectations, if I get one and it starts jumping around the room, then I'd be the first to say there might be something in it... and maybe become a theist or whatever. But why should my 'receptiveness' to it (which to me just sounds like a backwards/obfuscating term for expectations) make any difference to whether it happens or not? And if 'receptiveness' is all important to fans of woo, then what's the problem with non-receptive people using these things... not like the spirits should be able to get through in that situation, right?
