Dunno, but the frame would be a Spooky.
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Anybody done a ouija board???
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They would appear to work due to something caled ideomotor action, whereby the people involved in the seance are actually moving the glass or planchette incrementally, but are convinced, due to a little psychological tic known as subconcsious fraud, that in fact it is moving due to paranormal activity.
Interesting to read the other threads, I think most people have similar stories about using ouija boards, generally from their schooldays.
Dont get me wrong, I'm not a total sceptic, and would dearly love to believe that in some way, we go on after death, but to my knowledge, hard scientific facts have so far been in short supply. I used to be a member of a paranormal research group (the ghost club of Great Britain), and have spent more nights in supposedly haunted buildings than I care to remember, and sadly, never saw or heard anything that supplied measurable, scientific fact. Generally, if you're alone in an old building that has a reputation for being 'haunted', you're going to attribute any old creak or bump in the night as 'paranormal'- I'd put most of what I experienced down to dodgy plumbing and the noises a house makes when it's 'settling down'. Haunted pubs and hotels are big business now, due in no small part to Most haunted, a bigger pile of sh**te I have yet to see. You may have noticed that I said 'most of what I experienced' - there have been a couple of experiences (most noticeably at Chillingham castle in Northumberland, and a pub called the White hart in Ludgvan, Cornwall) that I had no rational explanation for, but again, other than a couple of 'odd' photographs and strange noises on digital recorders, there is little scientific evidence. Anybody interested in this sort of thing should read 'tricks of the mind' by Derren Brown, or 'Six feet over' by Mary Roach. Busting makes me feel good!Posted 2 years ago # -
Did it with an ex years ago, neither of us 'believed' in it to begin with then it kept 'telling' us things that only I could possibly know and considering I only did it to see if it worked I was definitely not pushing/pulling the glass. It was all to do with the previous owners of the house where I lived who had built it, it even spelt out the surname of the builder/previous occupier which was a very strange name that the ex couldnt possibly have known. Lots of other info that only I could know, it was an eye opener. Previous owner had died from alcohol abuse (only I knew this) and the last words spelt out very clearly were 'leave the lid off the whisky bottle'. Interesting
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I remember doing one of these at school, started out as a laugh, and then it all went a bit weird, people got a bit freaked out, noises and stuff and then when a couple of guys who were up to no good startin making trouble in my neighborhood, I got in one little fight and my mom got scared, She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'
Load of tosh I reckon
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Derek's a ****t, and while I have no belief in the supernatural and all the w@nk, I do beleive that there are some things that can't be explained. Just like showing someone from the 1920's a laptop and the internet, they would think it was 'magic' as they do not have the knowledge\understanding of the concepts behind it. To me space and quantum theory etc is just as mind bending, but at least I sortof understand some of the concepts behind it, so i know it not to be 'magic'
Our species might develop enough to understand all the strange phenomena before we're extinct, although I doubt it.
It's all probably aliens taking the p1ss if you ask me
Or God's been smoking too much reefer
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it kept 'telling' us things that only I could possibly know
Just like Old Gypsy Lee does when reading your palm or doing your tarot. Or when you read a horoscope. It is simply your mind filling in gaps to make a story. Post-rationalisation of the 'facts' given.How on earth can any reasonably-minded person believe that something occult happens when using a board? Just what force could possibly spell out names/facts by using your body as a vessel to communicate with the living world?
IMO it is madness to consider it could be anything other than utter rubbish.
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That's brilliant mastiles! Now can you tap out how many spirits are in the room with us, or throw something? Tell them to step back Sam.
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MF - I hear what you're saying, I used to think along those lines that how can it be anything else other than rubbish and people grasping at the slightest hint given by the 'board'. I didnt want it to work, I was urging it not to work but it spelt out very definite facts that only I knew. Have you tried it yourself?
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I have never tried it but I would love to give it a whirl. I would be incredibly surprised at myself if I came out of it thinking any differently than I do now.
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Tried it a few times at college.
It's like acid - if there's nothing trapped in a dark little corner of your mind, just waiting for the opportunity to pop out and scare you, you'll be fine.
On the other hand, if your brain is full of repressed memories, nastiness and evil thoughts, your cerebral cortex will turn against you
How do you know if you have the right kind of mind to handle it? You don't until you try.
Good innit?Posted 2 years ago # -
Agreed, it does have a high 'whooo factor'.
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Considering that there is a $1,000,000 prize for anyone who can prove that their is a genuine psychic phenomenon under experimental conditions why has not one passed yet?
Attempts include Ouija boards clearly, eyeball energy, Magnetic Hands, Pendulum Chiro -Dowser (No I dont know WTF it is either) and my personal favourite Paranormal Urination where Rosemary Hunter - no relation thankfully) claims to be able to make people wee with just the power of her mind....she claims this is a gift from God who is , in this case, clearly working in a very mysterious way
lady makes you wee with the power of her mind
I dont want to spoil it for anyone so I wont say whether she was succesful or not
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I just peed myself laughing at her claim that she can make me pee.
So she can do it!
Burn the witch!!!
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I'm nearly weeing just reading about it - where do I sign up?
I have the gift of getting the horn with the power of my mind, assisted only by a few old copies of Razzle, and am willing to pass on this mysterious gift to those prepared to cross my (hairy) palm with five of the queens english pounds.Posted 2 years ago # -
Look at the second one on the list. TFT and Mojo should enter!
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