Question about ouija boards?

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This might sound totally ridiculous, but I’m going to be hanging out at a friends house in a couple of days, and they want to use a ouija board. Is it really a bad idea to use one? Is it a mortal sin? And, lastly, can you really get posessed if you use one?

My mom is adamant on saying that they’re evil, but my dad just laughs and says it’s simply a game. What do you all think?
 
Tess_marie said:
This might sound totally ridiculous, but I’m going to be hanging out at a friends house in a couple of days, and they want to use a ouija board. Is it really a bad idea to use one? Is it a mortal sin? And, lastly, can you really get posessed if you use one?

My mom is adamant on saying that they’re evil, but my dad just laughs and says it’s simply a game. What do you all think?
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whne you ever see one of those YOU RUN AS FAST ASYOU CAN!!! don’t even think of going near it!!! It is a sin yes.
 
I am serious it is a sin in so many ways channeling sourcery (sp?) opening doors that we don’t even know of what power. Pleae listen to your wise Mother!! She is so right. I used tobe your age when I knew everything and my Mom and Dad teachers etc knew nothing!! It is amazing that the older you become the more your parents know:D
 
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I am serious it is a sin in so many ways channeling sourcery (sp?) opening doors that we don’t even know of what power. Pleae listen to your wise Mother!! She is so right. I used tobe your age when I knew everything and my Mom and Dad teachers etc knew nothing!! It is amazing that the older you become the more your parents know:D
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Haha, you’re right. Just to clarify though, my dad doesn’t condone them or anything. He just laughs about them and says the player is the one that moves the thing on the ouija board.

But, I definitely won’t be partaking in that activity. The more I research this, the more creeped out I get. Thank you for your advice! 🙂
 
Yeahhh :sad_yes: The Bible condemns stuff like that (Lev 19:31, Deut 18:1, Gal 5:20-21).

Sorry buddy 😦
 
You know the movie “The Exorcist?” That was based on a true story, about a young boy who was possessed. The boy, in real life, used a ouija board, which more or less “invited” the demon into the boy’s body.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Mannheim
 
Well, I’m not going to go into a long story.

I didn’t even use it. I just thought it was pretty. So I hung it on my wall.

My life turned into a living hell afterwards.
Maybe it was a coincidence.
But the very sight of one horrifies me now.
 
The ouija board invited all kinds of nastiness unto a member of my family. They are really bad. The ouija board is indiscriminate about what kind of spirts that it’s being used to channel. Thus, you are leaving yourself wide-open to whatever spirit that happens to hear the call - maybe a demon (shuddering). Why not pray to saints? Have all your friends sit around and ask for Mary’s intercession. She is better than whatever spirit that comes along with the ouija board. I mean come on, she is MOTHER OF GOD and was ASSUMED INTO HEAVEN! 😃
 
kesa82 said:
Well, I’m not going to go into a long story.

I didn’t even use it. I just thought it was pretty. So I hung it on my wall.

My life turned into a living hell afterwards.
Maybe it was a coincidence.
But the very sight of one horrifies me now.
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Oh wow. My gosh, I can’t believe I even considered using one. If I didn’t know any better I’d say I was under spiritual attack or something. Firstly, I’ve been doubting the existence of God (I still believe though, and I’m getting better), and now this. I think I’m going to pray the rosary tonight…
 
kesa82 said:
Well, I’m not going to go into a long story.

I didn’t even use it. I just thought it was pretty. So I hung it on my wall.

My life turned into a living hell afterwards.
Maybe it was a coincidence.
But the very sight of one horrifies me now.
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An old friend of mine was atheist nearly all of his life. He was extremely anti Catholic, too. One day he went into a “haunted house” which was probably a posessed house. The next day I saw him and he was very unsettled. In no short terms, he said, “I saw evil.” That same day he asked me for a rosary. After that incident he believed in God. He never converted but as far as I know he still carries around a rosary. I always that it was interesting that a man saw evil and infered the existance of God. Kind of fascinating.
 
I was 12 when I first used a ouija board. That, I believe was the beginning of 20 years of opening the wrong doors, darkness. Those in darkness would not recognize it.

Stay away. Stay far far away. Pray a rosary for each of those who are involved. That would be a wonderful way of turning away the darkness, dear one.

The demons hate the Blessed Virgin Mary. That’s one of the reasons we love her so much.
 
Tess, I hope you take the wise words of the people posting here to heart, and do stay far away from that party! There is a “veil” between our earthly plane and the spiritual realm for a reason. As Catholics, we do believe in the existance of the spiritual realm. Terrible, terrible things can happen when people open doors to there, either intentionally, or “just playing around”. Please, please stay away. And you might want to tell your friends that they should stay away, too. Stay strong, and don’t give in to peer pressure on this one.
 
First of all,sorry for my poor English,it’s not my first language.
If you want to have mental desorder and have to be place in hospital for mental care
you can go on.You can play with your life with ouija boards,if it’s your choice,but be awared
that, one time the door is open,it’s too late.It is DANGEROUS,it is not only a sin,but as catholics,we have two doors in front of us,one to be trapped by evils,bad angels and lost spirits,and the other open on the world of God,Saints and our blessed mother.
What door you choose?You have all the free will,liberty,what do you want to do with your life here and now?
 
I received an ouija board as a young child, maybe around seven years old. This opened the door to so much. If I had realized that all that was out there, I probably would have burned the stupid board. As it was, no one really told me anything about it, I did not ask. It was only too late before I realized what was going on in my life. I was raised Church of Christ, in time I soon renounced all belief in God at around age 9-10 and turned to very Anti-Christain, and Anti-Catholic religions. It has taken many years to get past this, and I am still suffering greatly becuase of the use I had of the board as a child and in my teenage and early adult years. If my descriptions of the horror that I lived through for many years can deter others to stay away from things of this nature, I most grateful.

Thanks be to God, I was called into the Catholic Church and I am being set free from all those years of horror and darkness and oppression. God working through His Church has saved me in every way a human being can be saved. For that I am truly eternally grateful.

I shudder when I see these topics posted becuase much evil is out there, but thanks be to God, he is MUCH bigger than any evil out here, INFINTELY bigger.

All the posters I am most pleased have offered good advice.

God bless.
 
Tess_marie said:
This might sound totally ridiculous, but I’m going to be hanging out at a friends house in a couple of days, and they want to use a ouija board. Is it really a bad idea to use one? Is it a mortal sin? And, lastly, can you really get posessed if you use one?

My mom is adamant on saying that they’re evil, but my dad just laughs and says it’s simply a game. What do you all think?
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Hi Tess,

Not ridiculous at all. I am so glad that you were inspired to ask. As a Youth Minister running a Youth Retreat, the topic of the ouija board came up during a question and answer session. At that point some of the young participants gave the greatest contribution: Some of them had “played” with a *ouija board until the “fun” *had gotten out of hand. In their testimonies, they shared horrified how the supernatural experiences had escalated to the levitation of the table upon which they were playing, accompanied by an unexplicable sense of a dangerous evil presence in the room.

These young kids soon realized that this was not a game. Horrified they stopped, but the nightmares and the sense of an evil presence remained with them for a long time. You could observe their fear as they shared. They were now glad to be at a Catholic retreat and before the Divine healing radiation of the Eucharist. Their honest testimonies were an eye-openning opportuny for all the participants present.

Best advice… do not go near it and pray very hard for those who do. It is not a game, even though it is promoted as such. You might want to take a look at: Ouija Board, Just a Game?

To Jesus through Mary 👍
 
I’ll be honest, I used to use the Ouija board all the time starting from a young age of 7 till I was around 15 or so. Not only did I use that, but other things as well. I think what scared me the most was just how good I became at it, I could make a board out of a strip of cardboard and use really anything as the moving piece. But one day I saw it for what it truely is, a very strange almost supernatural thing happened not only to me but those with me. That was when I stopped using it, but often the idea creeps back into my head to use it again, I feel almost drawn. It is a very dangerous, powerful thing, and for me I will never escape its effects. Don’t use it if you care about yourself.

God Bless
 
The Ouija board, like other forms of divination, has been used in an attempt to contact the dead (necromancy), which is clearly condemned by the Bible:
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Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God. The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so (Deut. 18:10-14).
All other forms of sorcery are clearly denounced in Scripture as well. Those that refuse to listen to God regarding this command are mentioned in the follow Scripture:
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death (Rev. 21:8).
 
I would suggest that you stay away and discourage your friends. Whatever the source of the disturbancies I have known the use of Ouija boards to have disturbing consequences. Personally I am not sure whether or not personal evil beings are involved but certainly I have known that the psychological consequencies for young people (eg fear and hysteria) can be very undesirable .
 
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