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Ed Ouija

Caroline13 said:
Good grief, I didn't even notice the date and YES I'm a new member. And as I mentioned the Ouija Board was mentioned in a discussion the other night on coast to coast but maybe I didn't mention that, but so many love to make mountains out of mole hills, like make something out of such a little thing...Yikes...

Chill out people
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You are aware the Ouija board is a board game, a game to be played in the better parlours of the world? It was never anything to do with the supernatural beyond marketing.
 
Caroline13 said:
None of these are nonsense. Just because most of you big time skeptics want to believe it and do your best to discredit, many people use all of them and with success.
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Are you aware of where you are posting this nonsense?
 
Darat said:
You are aware the Ouija board is a board game, a game to be played in the better parlours of the world? It was never anything to do with the supernatural beyond marketing.
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Well, what we now know as the Ouija board game (patented in the late 1800's) did derive from ancient methods of divination/speaking with the "spirits." The Ouija itself gained popularity with spiritualists and even Aleister Crowley, who used it in his "magick" rituals. So, while it's inventor may not have necessarily believed that it was supernatural, it's first users and major proponents clearly did. To this day, people still think there's something to it.

To be clear, it's quite obviously a result of the ideomotor response, the same thing that is responsible for dowsing, pendulum swings, etc. Have you ever tried holding a pendulum and getting it to swing in different directions without you conciously trying to move it? If you don't know about the ideomotor response, it looks and feels like genuine telekinesis. Even when you know it's minute, unconcious tremors in your muscles that is causing the phenomenon, it's still pretty dang cool. So is Ouija, which explains it's popularity to the present day. Few things are more enjoyable than sitting for a session with a true believer and subtly guiding the planchette to say horrible things about them -at least I used to get a kick out of it back in the day.
 
xjx388 said:
Few things are more enjoyable than sitting for a session with a true believer and subtly guiding the planchette to say horrible things about them -at least I used to get a kick out of it back in the day.
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The best is when you can feel the believer shoving it away from the damning response. veins start to bulge on the forearms of people who are "not at all" exerting pressure on the poor planchette.
 
Dr. Keith said:
The best is when you can feel the believer shoving it away from the damning response. veins start to bulge on the forearms of people who are "not at all" exerting pressure on the poor planchette.
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It might be interesting to equip a planchet with piezoelectric pressure sensors to record how much force each person is using.
 
I've never had the opportunity to use a Ouija board - in my Christian days it was satanic, and in my neo-pagan days my friends told me that it could only contact elementals who are only interested in messing around with you. But if I did today, I think I'd probably just press down on the planchette and not let it move.
 
arthwollipot said:
I've never had the opportunity to use a Ouija board - in my Christian days it was satanic, and in my neo-pagan days my friends told me that it could only contact elementals who are only interested in messing around with you. But if I did today, I think I'd probably just press down on the planchette and not let it move.
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I’d try to make it spell “Drink more Ovaltine”.


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Caroline13 said:
applied kineosology
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Not heard of this before so decided to check it out.

"Applied kinesiology (AK) is a pseudoscience-based technique[1] in alternative medicine claimed to be able to diagnose illness or choose treatment by testing muscles for strength and weakness.[2]

According to their guidelines on allergy diagnostic testing, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology stated there is "no evidence of diagnostic validity" of applied kinesiology.[3] "Another study indicated that the use of applied kinesiology to evaluate nutrient status is no more useful than random guessing,"[4] and the American Cancer Society has said that "scientific evidence does not support the claim that applied kinesiology can diagnose or treat cancer or other illness"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appli...y (AK) is a,muscles for strength and weakness.

Well that's 10 minutes I'll never get back.
 
Caroline13 said:
Good grief, I didn't even notice the date and YES I'm a new member. And as I mentioned the Ouija Board was mentioned in a discussion the other night on coast to coast but maybe I didn't mention that, but so many love to make mountains out of mole hills, like make something out of such a little thing...Yikes...

Chill out people
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OK, then.
Thread necromancy is frowned upon as a behaviour in general for obvious reasons.

You have 65 posts. How many have I? This should not be a difficult question for you. I have a feeling that you cannot work that out. I could be wrong, but I await your reply.

You have presented a hatload of claims accompanied by NO EVIDENCE OF ANY SORT. Why would any reasonable person find this even vaguely convincing of anything?

I eagerly anticipate your coherent answers.

Moist regards.
 
RolandRat said:
Not heard of this before so decided to check it out.

"Applied kinesiology (AK) is a pseudoscience-based technique[1] in alternative medicine claimed to be able to diagnose illness or choose treatment by testing muscles for strength and weakness.[2]

According to their guidelines on allergy diagnostic testing, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology stated there is "no evidence of diagnostic validity" of applied kinesiology.[3] "Another study indicated that the use of applied kinesiology to evaluate nutrient status is no more useful than random guessing,"[4] and the American Cancer Society has said that "scientific evidence does not support the claim that applied kinesiology can diagnose or treat cancer or other illness"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appli...y (AK) is a,muscles for strength and weakness.

Well that's 10 minutes I'll never get back.
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I can demonstrate the trick to anyone who's interested. Make no mistake - it is a trick. It verges on being a magic trick.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
If Ouija boards were really all that effecatious for contacting the spirit world, why can't you just place the planchette on the board and sit back while the spirits moved it and spelled out words.

Why do so many things paranormal have to befacilitated by humans? At least Poltergeists can move stuff on their own...

Damn lazy spirits...
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It's funny you should say that, the new CBS version of "The Stand" has Nadine's friends -- instead of a Ouija board-- pull a plastic object out of a box labeled "Planchette" into which they mount a pen, receiving "spirit" messages that way, via automatic writing. I wonder if it's an older version of the famous consumer "ouija" board?

EDIT: Holy Thread Necromancy! The spirits of 2003 are among us!
 
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...or anyone who has been within earshot of TV tuned to a major broadcast station within two months of Christmas.
 
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