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Ed Ouija

Cosmic Yak said:
It's also rather elitist.
If you were a Chinese spirit, or an Arab spirit, then the western alphabet is useless to you. How do you communicate on such a board? Even if you were a French ghost, where are the accents?
Ouija boards only work for spirits who speak modern English. To me, this seems, as I say, elitist and rather odd.
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This is my #1 pet peeve.

I do have a cool Ouija Board story where it answered in Spanish, and the two people guiding the planchette were blindfolded, and neither spoke Spanish. The guy asking the questions was bilingual.

The problem is that I could never recreate this event. The responsible thing to do from there is to write it off as one of those weird things. Plus, during the session we should have had a fourth observer to ensure everything was kosher. It was possible our Spanish-speaker had his finger on the planchette but since we were blindfolded we never knew.

Either way, Ouijas are just silly, and a waste of money and time.
 
Axxman300 said:
This is my #1 pet peeve.

I do have a cool Ouija Board story where it answered in Spanish, and the two people guiding the planchette were blindfolded, and neither spoke Spanish. The guy asking the questions was bilingual.

The problem is that I could never recreate this event. The responsible thing to do from there is to write it off as one of those weird things. Plus, during the session we should have had a fourth observer to ensure everything was kosher. It was possible our Spanish-speaker had his finger on the planchette but since we were blindfolded we never knew.

Either way, Ouijas are just silly, and a waste of money and time.
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Is it possible that since you were blindfolded, you didn't see what the planchette spelled out, and the bilingual observer just made up whatever he liked?
 
Cosmic Yak said:
It's also rather elitist.
If you were a Chinese spirit, or an Arab spirit, then the western alphabet is useless to you. How do you communicate on such a board? Even if you were a French ghost, where are the accents?
Ouija boards only work for spirits who speak modern English. To me, this seems, as I say, elitist and rather odd.
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The planchette is the first ever 'universal translator'. Literally.
 
steenkh said:
These arguments are of course also known to real believers who can counter them with the argument that the spirits do not move the planchette by themselves, but through us. This is then why we need to touch the planchette, and why it has the English alphabet: the spirits use our subconsciousness for their purposes.
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Then why not reverse the process?
Have the ouija board in Farsi or Chinese, something no-one present understands, let the spirits say what they want to say, and then have it translated to check.
Easy-peasy.
 
arthwollipot said:
Is it possible that since you were blindfolded, you didn't see what the planchette spelled out, and the bilingual observer just made up whatever he liked?
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That’s the sort of sneakiness that got Randi involved in the debunking of claims made by scientists in labs that were testing people for so called ESP and the like. The scientists were too trusting and weren’t used to dealing with people who were experienced tricksters.
 
Cosmic Yak said:
Then why not reverse the process?
Have the ouija board in Farsi or Chinese, something no-one present understands, let the spirits say what they want to say, and then have it translated to check.
Easy-peasy.
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Good idea. To guard against the argument that spirits only know the language of the place where they once lived, you should conduct the test in China or Iran to ensure a plentiful supply of Farsi or Chinese-speaking spirits.
 
steenkh said:
Good idea. To guard against the argument that spirits only know the language of the place where they once lived, you should conduct the test in China or Iran to ensure a plentiful supply of Farsi or Chinese-speaking spirits.
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I'm not that well-versed in these things, but, from what I know, there don't seem to be any geographical restrictions on spirits. Native Americans, for example, pop up all over the place, far from the confines of North America.
Also, again from what I know, mediums don't tell their audiences that they've got no chance of getting a message if they're not local to the area.
Perhaps someone here with more knowledge of these things could clarify?
 
Cosmic Yak said:
I'm not that well-versed in these things, but, from what I know, there don't seem to be any geographical restrictions on spirits. Native Americans, for example, pop up all over the place, far from the confines of North America.
Also, again from what I know, mediums don't tell their audiences that they've got no chance of getting a message if they're not local to the area.
Perhaps someone here with more knowledge of these things could clarify?
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It’s because souls know no language. Soulspeak (which I’m trademarking so back off!) knows no nationality. When one soul speaks to another it transcends all human understanding. Why are questioning basic knowledge?
 
Caroline13 said:
What kind of evidence do you want? I do the work I do for curosity, some fun and a diversion from the drag of serious life stuff. Come visit me and we can do some pendulum work.

What are moist regards?
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The international society for the extremely gullible is --------> that aways.
 
xjx388 said:
It’s because souls know no language. Soulspeak (which I’m trademarking so back off!) knows no nationality. When one soul speaks to another it transcends all human understanding. Why are questioning basic knowledge?
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If souls know no language, then they can't communicate with us via a ouija board.
Good luck with that trademarking. :D
 
Cosmic Yak said:
By the way, is 'soulspeak' another way of saying 'jive talking'?
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No, no no...it’s the universal language of the soul. Their soul speaks to ours in Soulspeak. Our souls influence our brains to move the planchette.

I’ll be announcing Soulspeak workshops soon; only $1995 for a half-hour session -Ouija board not included.
 
Pah, save your money, everyone, I'm selling Soulspeak-N-Spells for $50 a pop.
 
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