What's in a name?

Bob Wright

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The thread about drug names reminded me of the old Ouija boards that were so very popular among the women folks years ago.

What was the origin of its name?

The name was a combination of "Oui", French for yes, and "Ja", German for yes.

I remember some women had "seances" in which the Ouija board was consulted.

I remember what happened to King Saul for consulting with a fortune teller. Basd business!

Bob Wright
 
I recall as a boy we were preached to in church about the spiritual danger`s of playing with a oujja board.
 
Many believe it is all funs & games
However I believe it invites demonic activity to yourself that may not ever be broken

It IS negative in all shapes & forms
 
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Just silly superstition. I guess if you believe the world is filled with invisible beings that would bother to move an object around a board held by a human, as a means of pissing him off, then maybe you could put some credence into using a ouija board. Just like the "magic" 8 ball. Not something, in my opinion, to get worked up about.
 
Ale-8(1) said:
Are Ouija boards any different than the seances held by "mediums"? Or how about "fortune tellers" with crystal balls?

When I was about 13 or so, my parents had a friend. This lady introduced us to table talking. You get three or four people sitting around a smallish wooden table and they place their hands on it palms down. They then recite the Lord's prayer silently to themselves until some spirit shows up.

The table will move when that happens. You can ask the spirit questions. The table will lift up on one side and clunk down to tap out the messages. You can ask it to tap once for yes and twice for no. Or if it has a message for you, it will tap out the alphabet starting with "A" and stopping at the appropriate letter. It keeps repeating this until you get the whole message.

Now before anybody thinks I'm nuts, let me say that this does work. I did it with my friends and I know they weren't moving the table. It's kind of hard to lift the table when your hands are palms down on it. Of course this is done in the dark.

This absolutely does work. But before anyone tries it, I would warn you not to do it. I was a dumb kid then but I know better now. I now see no logical reason to make contact with the departed. You never know who is going to come around. Of course I won't mess with a Ouija board either.
 
Harry Houdini spent a lot of time debunking "mediums' with their moving tables and rapping. The words coming form a Ouija board reflect what the operators are thinking. Evil? Superstitious nonsense!
 
toysoldier said:
Harry Houdini spent a lot of time debunking "mediums' with their moving tables and rapping. The words coming form a Ouija board reflect what the operators are thinking. Evil? Superstitious nonsense!

Well, Harry Houdini didn't come to my house. So, tell me how my table was moving? I experienced it myself so don't tell me it was fake. It was at my house and three of my best friends. It wasn't just that one time either. I must have done it ten times or so. It was also with different people that I knew. No one was getting paid and no one had any reason to try to fake anything.

Believe what you want...I don't care.
 
Its not that hard to move a table with your knees underneath it. Contact all of your old friends that participated in this fun and I would not be surprised if one admits now that they were the one moving the table. If dead spirits could move a table, they could move the keys on a keyboard and send us emails.
 
vito said:
Its not that hard to move a table with your knees underneath it. Contact all of your old friends that participated in this fun and I would not be surprised if one admits now that they were the one moving the table. If dead spirits could move a table, they could move the keys on a keyboard and send us emails.

:lol: :wink:

iu
 
It's easy to make wise cracks about it right? But, you were not there were you? Normally I'd just say try it yourself and see what happens but in this case as I said, I advise against it.

Continue on with your childish crap but there is a reason I don't do it anymore.
 
The Bible records that Saul consulted a medium, or necromancer. She did conjure up a spirit posing as Samuel.

And Saul paid a dear price for that.

Bob Wright
 
Ouija boards are evil?
Oh my goodness.
I touched my keyboard and stepped into the 17th century.
I guess I better get rid of that "magic 8-ball" that answers questions for me.
I'm positive the devil is living inside that thing.
I wonder how he can breathe in there................ :roll:

The reason a Ouija board works is called the "ideomotor effect" on which the
first paper was published on it around 1852.
It isn't ghosts or the devil folks. Might as well blame that chili you had for dinner.
 
gasbag said:
Ouija boards are evil?
Oh my goodness.
I touched my keyboard and stepped into the 17th century.
I guess I better get rid of that "magic 8-ball" that answers questions for me.
I'm positive the devil is living inside that thing.
I wonder how he can breathe in there................ :roll:

The reason a Ouija board works is called the "ideomotor effect" on which the
first paper was published on it around 1852.
It isn't ghosts or the devil folks. Might as well blame that chili you had for dinner.

Well Mr. Bag, I did a little reading and I saw a lot of "scientists believe" and "it was his theory". I didn't see any proof of anything.

Let me ask you and all those making fun of this, what do you think about Jesus rising from his tomb? I guess none of you believe in God either.
 
90% of the people that say they don't believe in ghost or sprites will sit in a building on Sunday morning praying to an invisible guy to save them from eternal damnation.
 
Rook said:
90% of the people that say they don't believe in ghost or sprites will sit in a building on Sunday morning praying to an invisible guy to save them from eternal damnation.

Kind of like there being no atheists in a foxhole !
 
caryc said:
gasbag said:
Ouija boards are evil?
Oh my goodness.
I touched my keyboard and stepped into the 17th century.
I guess I better get rid of that "magic 8-ball" that answers questions for me.
I'm positive the devil is living inside that thing.
I wonder how he can breathe in there................ :roll:

The reason a Ouija board works is called the "ideomotor effect" on which the
first paper was published on it around 1852.
It isn't ghosts or the devil folks. Might as well blame that chili you had for dinner.

Well Mr. Bag, I did a little reading and I saw a lot of "scientists believe" and "it was his theory". I didn't see any proof of anything.

Let me ask you and all those making fun of this, what do you think about Jesus rising from his tomb? I guess none of you believe in God either.


I am sitting here wondering how we went from a simple parlor game that functions
using a psychological phenomena to not believing in God.
Ahhhh.........another mystery of the universe unfolds............. :roll:
 
There is a world of difference in believing in a supernatural being that created the universe (even the Big Bang theory does not have any idea where the initial tiny dot of matter came from which supposedly exploded into the current universe) and the belief that individual non corporeal spirits roam the earth and communicate to us through shaking tables and moving pieces of a ouija board. And it is certainly true that one can believe in the existence of a single God as the creator of everything without also believing in the Christian theology involving Jesus of Nazareth.

The origins of our reality, our universe, as well as the origin of life itself can be seen as rationale for the existence of God, in whatever form he/she/it may be. Nothing in my experience would point to the existence of ghosts, or fairies, or angels invisibly floating among us. Personally, I believe in the reality of God, but do not see him/her/it being involved or determining the course of individual lives. Something like the beliefs of some of our Founding Fathers, who believed in the image of God as the "Great clockmaker" that created everything, and set the universe into motion, but then has been uninvolved in what has resulted. And since as thinking beings we have a degree of free will, how the universe and our earth evolved was not all pre-ordained by the actions of God. I also would like to believe that there is a conscious existence that we will experience after our physical death, but for the most part I think that when we die our brain, and consciousness, and what some call the soul, just quietly goes out of existence as we return to the earth from whence we came.

So a ouija board may be fun to play with, but I would not attribute any supernatural events to what it tells us.
 
vito said:
There is a world of difference in believing in a supernatural being that created the universe (even the Big Bang theory does not have any idea where the initial tiny dot of matter came from which supposedly exploded into the current universe) and the belief that individual non corporeal spirits roam the earth and communicate to us through shaking tables and moving pieces of a ouija board. And it is certainly true that one can believe in the existence of a single God as the creator of everything without also believing in the Christian theology involving Jesus of Nazareth.

The origins of our reality, our universe, as well as the origin of life itself can be seen as rationale for the existence of God, in whatever form he/she/it may be. Nothing in my experience would point to the existence of ghosts, or fairies, or angels invisibly floating among us. Personally, I believe in the reality of God, but do not see him/her/it being involved or determining the course of individual lives. Something like the beliefs of some of our Founding Fathers, who believed in the image of God as the "Great clockmaker" that created everything, and set the universe into motion, but then has been uninvolved in what has resulted. And since as thinking beings we have a degree of free will, how the universe and our earth evolved was not all pre-ordained by the actions of God. I also would like to believe that there is a conscious existence that we will experience after our physical death, but for the most part I think that when we die our brain, and consciousness, and what some call the soul, just quietly goes out of existence as we return to the earth from whence we came.

So a ouija board may be fun to play with, but I would not attribute any supernatural events to what it tells us.

I don't believe anything can go "out of existence". Things can only change form. If you drink a glass of water, it doesn't go out of existence, it simply changes form. But that is for material things. When you are talking about the soul, what are you talking about? It's not a material thing. So what happens to the soul when we die? It can't just go out of existence. The soul is something so what is it? Nothing just goes out of existence.

Your theory about the soul just going out of existence is just as ridiculous to me as my believing in spirits is to you.
 
vito said:
I truly hope you are right, but my brain tells me that I am right.

You can't see a broadcast radio wave, yet it is something. It changes into a radio program in your radio. My brain tells me you're wrong.
 

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