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How Ouija boards work

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Leigha Offline
If you’ve never used a Ouija board, the concept is pretty straightforward. With a group or by yourself, you place your hands lightly on a triangular pointer called a planchette. The planchette rests on the board itself, which has the words “yes” and “no” in its top corners, an alphabet in the center, and the word “goodbye” at the bottom.

The idea is to summon the spirits you want to communicate with, and they’ll move the planchette around the board to spell out answers to the questions you ask — until they or you finally say goodbye and the spirits go back to wherever they came from.

It all sounds pretty harmless, but there’s a long tradition of people believing that Ouija boards are dangerous occult gateways that can lead to demon possession or worse. After all, what happens if it’s a non-friendly spirit that’s moving the planchette without your control?



https://www.vox.com/2016/10/29/13301590/...tor-effect

An interesting article, but it always comes back to...if you believe in ghosts and paranormal activity in general, you'll likely have a much creepier experience than a skeptic, who'll just think of it as a silly board game. lol
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Zinjanthropos Offline
MR might like this….Remember as a kid, my friends and I were playing with the Ouija board on the kitchen table. At one point we said “Ouija, Ouija, show us a sign” and the next thing you knew, sparks started flying out from the back of the electric range. My dad had to shut power off and pull stove out to fix some melted wiring. Incredible coincidence or what?
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Leigha Offline
Perhaps, a friendly warning that your family’s stove needed repair. Maybe, spirits are a friendly bunch, after all. ; )
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Magical Realist Offline
(Sep 17, 2021 02:21 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: MR might like this….Remember as a kid, my friends and I were playing with the Ouija board on the kitchen table. At one point we said “Ouija, Ouija, show us a sign” and the next thing you knew, sparks started flying out from the back of the electric range. My dad had to shut power off and pull stove out to fix some melted wiring. Incredible coincidence or what?

There are no coincidences when playing with the paranormal and magick...
Which is to say there are nothing BUT coincidences...Smile

We played around with Oujia boards and seances as kids. One session of ours was abruptly interrupted when my brother said he got bit on his shoulder. Think we quit doin it after that.
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C C Offline
(Sep 17, 2021 06:39 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [...] There are no coincidences when playing with the paranormal..
Which is to say there are nothing BUT coincidences...Smile [...]

The lawful-like or regulated appearance of this universe might itself be an extremely long-lived sequence of changes/differences made probabilistically possible by googolplex number of other realms with haphazard events that don't adhere to any pattern or semblance of governance.

The world would still be reliable for science and technology. I.e., if the cosmos has figuratively "pretended" to have a non-personhood type stewardship for eons, then that level of predictability is likely to continue into the future.

But in that alt scenario, just as a "natural administration" would be parsimoniously construed by the mainstream as supervening on this prolonged fortuity for billions/trillions of years (IOW, a cosmo-generative version of "monkeys typing Shakespeare")... So the less grand coincidences and shorter-lived chains of them (subordinated under the former) could be construed by anomaly enthusiasts as having the preternatural supervening on them (anonymous and sporadic transcendental intrusions).

The paranormal interpretations of coincidences would seem to persist for believing non-conformists despite either of the rival options' objections: A strict management by biased, literal physical laws; or existence exhausting itself with the instantiation of all possible rolls of a pseudo-infinite faced dice, spitting out this "lucky, deceptive" domain as one of the outcomes.
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