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davidmash · #1 02-06-2010, 09:44 AM

The dangers of Ouija

Who would have thought Hasbro has cornered the market on the portal to the spirits.

I guess if you believe in fairy tales, believing in the ability to talk to spirits via a Ouija board os not to far fetched. I wonder how many live have been destroyed by this horrible thing.

elchivito · #2 02-06-2010, 10:13 AM

The people who believe in fairy tales are the ones complaining about it. These folks have way too much time on their hands.

#3 02-06-2010, 10:40 AM

That's funny, they could take that story (exactly as written) and record it as a onion news parody.

aklim · #4 02-06-2010, 11:16 AM

"dangerous spiritual game" that opens up anyone, particularly Christians, to attacks on their soul.

Why Christians in particular? Because their god isn't powerful enough to protect the young ones?

Hatterasguy · #5 02-06-2010, 11:22 AM

Wow, so I wonder if these guys beleive that getting your picture taken steals your soul?

aklim · #6 02-06-2010, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Wow, so I wonder if these guys beleive that getting your picture taken steals your soul?

Maybe not but a lock of your hair means they can control you.

JEBalles · #7 02-07-2010, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

That's funny, they could take that story (exactly as written) and record it as a onion news parody.

HA, I love the onion. You're right too. Ridiculous. Isn't believing that it could actually have an effect believing in the Ouija board? HERETIC!

I think that if any part of you wants to believe that it works, it will. You'd force yourself to believe that it's moving on its own. I can't believe that there's any spiritual connection with a board game made by Hasbro in 1967. It's a joke/a game/psychological.

HuskyMan · #8 02-08-2010, 10:47 PM

as in it matters whose behind the wheel of an F1 formula race car, it matters who operates the Ouija board. flat liners will never understand.......

WVOtoGO · #9 02-06-2010, 11:26 AM

Speaking of, “The dangers of Ouija”. One of those “games” all but cost us the business a few years back. We look back and laugh now. But then, it wasn't so funny.

We have a “prep room” that we do our preflight weather briefs, flight plans, etc. from.
It has two large tables, often covered with charts and sectionals in it and three computers with ADDS (Aviation Digital Data Services) for looking up route weather, plotting course/weather stuff and such on. All in all, a rather “mission control” looking place.

For some time, Darby and Shelby (and some of the other crew) thought that an Ouija board would make for a nice addition to the room. So, we had one set up off to the side on its own little stand. It was quite the conversation piece for many of the flight crews and clients that came through and checked out/used the room.

Clients that were also pilots, like Ford and Cruise, found it quite amusing and got quite a chuckle out of it. Some though, didn’t quite get it. We explained that it was for making flight decisions for us when conditions were marginal. Good for a laugh.

Then one day, we had our facilities inspection with the FAA. He was quite the AHole and with no sense of humor whatsoever. We didn’t think much about removing the “game” as everyone would know it was just a joke.
Not this guy. It took about three months, two lawyers and a dozen or so conference/hearings to get his report edited and his Ouija related statements off our records.

We're hoping the "spirits" catch up with and haunt that guy for sure.

aklim · #10 02-06-2010, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by WVOtoGO

Not this guy. It took about three months, two lawyers and a dozen or so conference/hearings to get his report edited and his Ouija related statements off our records

And this is the guy who is there to make sure our planes don't fall out of the sky? Wow! I feel safer already

KarTek · #11 02-06-2010, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by WVOtoGO

For some time, Darby and Shelby (and some of the other crew) thought that an Ouija board would make for a nice addition to the room. So, we had one set up off to the side on its own little stand. It was quite the conversation piece for many of the flight crews and clients that came through and checked out/used the room.

Clients that were also pilots, like Ford and Cruise, found it quite amusing and got quite a chuckle out of it. Some though, didn’t quite get it. We explained that it was for making flight decisions for us when conditions were marginal. Good for a laugh.

That's brilliant! You could supplement it with a magic 8-ball...

Too bad about the inspector. People like that ruin life for the rest of us...

cmac2012 · #12 02-07-2010, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by KarTek

That's brilliant! You could supplement it with a magic 8-ball...

Too bad about the inspector. People like that ruin life for the rest of us...

I can't explain it but Ouija boards strike me as far more fascinating that a magic 8 ball. When I was in high school at some point, I forget how, but we had one in the house unexpectedly and my mother and I tried it out.

Perhaps there's some physiological explanation but it really felt like the little searcher thingy was moving on its own. The only time I've tried one.

I'm not down with the link in the OP but it could be there's something bizarre about Ouija boards. If not metaphysical perhaps just the act of believing that some occult device can know things that we cannot has a deleterious effect on one's state of mind.

aklim · #13 02-07-2010, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

If not metaphysical perhaps just the act of believing that some occult device can know things that we cannot has a deleterious effect on one's state of mind.

And that, in principle differs from religion, how? In religion, you believe the deity knows the answers and sends a sign that is loosely interpreted from some events. In the board, the spirits send a message thru the movement of the board.

cmac2012 · #14 02-07-2010, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

And that, in principle differs from religion, how? In religion, you believe the deity knows the answers and sends a sign that is loosely interpreted from some events. In the board, the spirits send a message thru the movement of the board.

A lot of what passes for religion doesn't strike me as real beneficial either.

#15 02-06-2010, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by WVOtoGO

Speaking of, “The dangers of Ouija”. One of those “games” all but cost us the business a few years back. We look back and laugh now. But then, it wasn't so funny.

We have a “prep room” that we do our preflight weather briefs, flight plans, etc. from.
It has two large tables, often covered with charts and sectionals in it and three computers with ADDS (Aviation Digital Data Services) for looking up route weather, plotting course/weather stuff and such on. All in all, a rather “mission control” looking place.

For some time, Darby and Shelby (and some of the other crew) thought that an Ouija board would make for a nice addition to the room. So, we had one set up off to the side on its own little stand. It was quite the conversation piece for many of the flight crews and clients that came through and checked out/used the room.

Clients that were also pilots, like Ford and Cruise, found it quite amusing and got quite a chuckle out of it. Some though, didn’t quite get it. We explained that it was for making flight decisions for us when conditions were marginal. Good for a laugh.

Then one day, we had our facilities inspection with the FAA. He was quite the AHole and with no sense of humor whatsoever. We didn’t think much about removing the “game” as everyone would know it was just a joke.
Not this guy. It took about three months, two lawyers and a dozen or so conference/hearings to get his report edited and his Ouija related statements off our records.

We're hoping the "spirits" catch up with and haunt that guy for sure.

Similar story; nuclear power plants have a group of engineers who perform risk assessments based on probabilities of specific accidents and equipment failures. This is really geeky stuff with complex computer models. Anyway, in one of the plants I visit these folks have a whole bookshelf full of tarot cards, magic 8-balls, dice, chicken bones, etc. It's pretty funny.