Question about ouija boards after strange experience

[Edwardo Piet]

As Neo already explained, it's not the physical object itself, it's what people are doing when they "use" it. They are attempting to communicate with the supernatural, and that can open themselves up to demonic entities.

Where do the nasty bastards come from in the first place?

Moreover, Scripture reveals that God is sovereign over these evil spirits and has always limited the expression of their sin and its devastating effects. He allows it for only a finite time between Satan’s fall and His coming judgment. Further, He controls the magnitude of Satan’s evil even within that time frame

So the advice from god is; don't fuck with demons.
Q. Why did god make them?
A. Oh look, a squirrel!

The advice from God is don't fuck with demons????

And yet... the blue part shows that it's HIM who fucks about with demons. 'he controls the magnitude of Satan's evil'. What a tosser. It's all his fault. What a wanker. Fuck God in the ass with a screwdriver.

[emjay]

Listen, even if you don't believe in the stuff why would you invite it into your life?

When I see the thingy on one of them move on it's own without being touched, that's when I might start thinking there was something in it. Till then, it's just a bunch of people communally exerting subconscious influence over its movement. That said, I have no interest in trying it except perhaps as a psychological study/experiment of some kind. But the thing itself holds no wonder for me... and just fits into the same category of biased, pattern-completing, and self-fulfilling psychological effects as horoscopes, tarot cards, and the like.

[vorlon13]

Ouija boards are not supernatural, they don't open dangerous doorways to the other side or any of that crap, they sell them at Toys-R-Us for christ sakes.

Curious to mention Toys-R-Us there as they circle the drain to oblivion . . .

[Aegon]

Listen, even if you don't believe in the stuff why would you invite it into your life?

Huh? If I don't believe it, then it's no different than having a Monopoly board in my house.

[The Grand Nudger]

If the money demons get you, your cattle die and your penis shrivels up, and, you'll have to pass go without collecting 200 dollars.

[Godscreated]

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

[chimp3]

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

Fixed for you. If you play with a Ouija board that is on fire you will get burned.

[Succubus]

The wooden ones are dangerous, you could drop one on your toe.

[The Grand Nudger]

The fumblefingers demon is what makes that happen.  Gotta be careful with your hands, they're the devils playground. Hands, eyes, mouths, noses, peen....and board games. There's probably an evil spirit under every rock, hiding in every tree...too.

[emjay]

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?