Quija Boards

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Greg00:
Scott has it right. I realize that they are bad and I should stay away from them, but would like to hear of some peoples’ experience with them. But if no one feels like it, then okay. Thanks for answering my question though, everyone. THey are dangerous and I will stay away from them.
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When I was young and foolish the Ouija Board, was marketed as a game. One of the ‘racier’ girls in our 7th grade Catholic-school crowd had bought one against her parents’ wishes. At a party one night she pulled it out and we all read the instructions and tried to use it. Unbeknownst to any of us, the Dad in the house had spotted her trying to smuggle the box into the house and had hooked up this huge hose he used to vacum the pool so that it went from the window of the livingroom to the back bedroom. So there we are, not trying to conjure up a spirit but following the directions and asking the stupid board questions (Does Tommy like me? Will I get married someday?) Someone asked something like, “Will I grow up to be famous?” and from the window we hear an eerie voice intone “NOT UNLESS YOU PUT THAT STUPID BOARD GAME AWAY AND STOP FOOLING AROUND WITH THE FUTURE!”

Needless to say that was the last time this group of young, foolish Catholic 7th Graders tried to predict the future…
 
my mom has had a personal experience with a ouija board. when she was young and with some friends they decided to play with one. the board began to shake on its own.
 
I played with them twice in my life and both times I “succeeded” in attracting some evil entity or other. It even identified itself as Beezelbub as in the article.

The second time was more serious as I was older (13) and I had made the “board” myself with a sheet of drawing paper and a petri dish. The thing moves on its own, that is for sure. I wasn’t getting anything but nonsense out of the board, but while I was using it I began to have a series of “dreams”. I would begin to awaken from sleep but I could not open my eyes or breath or move. It was completely dark and I was struggling to come the rest of the way to consciousness but it was as if something were sitting on my chest AND sucking me down from below. I would eventually succeed in taking a breath and the “spell” would be over. It happened several times, each time scarier than the last.

I wasn’t Catholic or even Christian at the time, but I knew that it was because I was playing with that board. And I knew unequivocally that the thing was a “door” for the Devil. I had invited evil and It had come… I destroyed the board and although I had some very intense, strange dreams after that I never had a repeat of what I just described.

It’s easy to dismiss it unless you feel it move in your hands.
 
A friend of a family member had used one and suddenly had all these terrible things happening to her family, including a death. She contacted a priest who told her to go in her basement and burn the thing immediately. She put it in her wash tub by the washing machine set it on fire and it started to scream. She was freaked out!! :eek:
 
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Greg00:
Has anyone actually used one or know anyone who’s used one? I’m surprised that you can buy them at toy stores, also. Btw, thanks for the article, Annunciata.
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hi Greg, yeah i have had an Ouija board around me about all my life, my mother used one twice a week or so. i still have an old one as well as a couple of spirit and talking boards ;

but i agree with Liberian when he told you to stay away from them. all i’ve ever had were bad experiences with these boards, i’m afraid i had a knack for them and i was never sure of what i was calling out, i tried automatic writing and that was almost as bad so i stopped that too.

now the boards are in an attic collecting dust. someone told me to dispose of them by salting them and burying them near an ash tree at a dark moon, but that seemed like a pagan thing again and that’s what i want to get away from at this point so i dunno.

-horab
 
Simply dumping them in the trash will do. 😃 Although altering them by putting ink on them would be wise as it will discourage someone from pulling them out of the trash and using them.
 
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magdelaine:
It was completely dark and I was struggling to come the rest of the way to consciousness but it was as if something were sitting on my chest AND sucking me down from below. I would eventually succeed in taking a breath and the “spell” would be over. It happened several times, each time scarier than the last.
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This is what is known as sleep paralysis or night terror. Which I happen to know all too well.
 
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cocot:
This is what is known as sleep paralysis or night terror. Which I happen to know all too well.
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Yes! Night terrors. I didn’t know what they were called then, but I remember reading a description of them later and I realized that’s what they must have been. Only happened to me during this time I was messing with something I shouldn’t have been; and for that I’m thankful.
 
I am bothered by the New Age “Catholics” in this thread. They are no good for the Church so I see no reason why they participate in Catholic forums. Repeatedly in this thread I have seen them argue that people can simply “believe” things into existence.

You are a heretic if you disbelieve in the predernatural since the Church recognizes its existence and it is found in the Bible. It is nonsense to try to explain away every testimony. The saints have attested to it. St. Pio encountered the devil and even fought with him many nights, sometimes even in the day (strangely demons smell of sulfur, as St. Pio attests to). I myself have had a “Night Terror” and when I prayed to Jesus, all the symptoms vanished immediately. Is it just coincidence?

Sure, there are people that hallucinate. However when two or more witnesses see the same thing at the same time, you can’t lightly dismiss it. It would be absolute nonsense. My mom and her friends once played with a ouija board and the board shook and spun on its own and all of them saw it. Is it just a coincidence that they all hallucinated/saw the same thing at the same time? Or could it be that it wasn’t hallucination?

If you lightly discredit the witnesses then you don’t understand the reason why we as Christians believe in God. We believe in God primarily through witnessing; through the witnesses God sends us. For us to believe in Him we must first believe in the testimonies of His witnesses. We accept His witnesses because they are good honest people. If you reject those whom He sends you, you reject Jesus Himself. You risk judgment upon yourself if you dismiss all His witnesses as frauds. And if you believe they speak the truth but think that this is merely natural phenomena and not the demonic, then you are a New Ager and should stop misrepresenting the Church.

Sorry everyone for this long admonishment but I’m shocked by the misrepresentation in this thread. :mad:
 
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johnben:
I am bothered by the New Age “Catholics” in this thread. They are no good for the Church so I see no reason why they participate in Catholic forums. Repeatedly in this thread I have seen them argue that people can simply “believe” things into existence.

And if you believe they speak the truth but think that this is merely natural phenomena and not the demonic, then you are a New Ager and should stop misrepresenting the Church.

Sorry everyone for this long admonishment but I’m shocked by the misrepresentation in this thread. :mad:
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johnben. i wasn’t trying to misrepresent anything, i just thought the poster should stop using the board coz of my bad experiences using them…

later on i thought they were demonic things and i’ve had the planchette spin on me when i was alone on the other side of the room.

yep i guess i am/was a pretty hard-core new ager, but i want to get away from it now. i don’t think Catholicism blends with new age at all. -Horab
 
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Horab:
johnben. i wasn’t trying to misrepresent anything, i just thought the poster should stop using the board coz of my bad experiences using them…

later on i thought they were demonic things and i’ve had the planchette spin on me when i was alone on the other side of the room.

yep i guess i am/was a pretty hard-core new ager, but i want to get away from it now. i don’t think Catholicism blends with new age at all. -Horab
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Horab, (and johnben forgive me if I’m wrong), I think that what was meant by “new ager” was not what you think–the criticism was being leveled at those who dismissed this stuff as “a bunch of hooey” instead of acknowledging it as the evil it is. Knowing that it is dangerous and demonic is not what makes you a new ager; poo-pooing it does. 😉
 
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Greg00:
I don’t understand how Parker Brothers makes them. Do they just put letters and numbers on a board an all of a sudden it’s a Quija board with the ability to contact spirits?
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I believe that it’s not really the cardboard and ink itself that makes it evil it’s the way people believe it to be used. So yeah, I think that they just make these pieces of card board and stuff with the idea that it conjuring up spirits may make a cool game but then people use it and take it very seriously (not that it shouldn’t be taken seriously) and that’s when it turns into something demonic.
 
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magdelaine:
Simply dumping them in the trash will do. 😃 Although altering them by putting ink on them would be wise as it will discourage someone from pulling them out of the trash and using them.
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I had a friend who owned a Ouija board and one day she realized that the reason her life was bad was because she failed to recognize God. When she decided the throw out the Ouija board she drew a cross accross the top of the box in Sharpie marker and when she turned back around from putting the Sharpie away she claimed to see it disappear before her eyes. She said that she threw it out the window and into the back bushes and as far as she knows thats where it is, soggy and decomposing. I wasn’t sure whether or not to believe her given that it’s quite likely that something like that might happen but she’s a very overly dramatic person.
 
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marvin:
If there is God then there is the devil. If God can act within the physical world then so can the devil. Its really that simple.
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It’s interesting that you say that but you have to remember that the Devil is not God’s equal rather, the Devil is more equal to St. Michael.
 
well i dont know about quiji boards except ill stay away from them because i didnt have a quiji board but i had this wheel of some sort i cut out of j14!!! they should be ashamed for puttin it there. all i know is i had a necklace with a charm oin it and was asking a question and dangling it above the wheel and it swung around and landed above something that normakly would have been impossible had it not been for what i consider the devil. so u nonbelievers go ahead and do it and face judgment but me, ill stay away
 
I’m gonna have to side with wabrams. I just got done reading this whole thread, and i was not in the least suprised that most of the stories start out with “My friend…”.

Quiji boreds are harmless fun. And i find it amazing that so many of you are so quick to claim its the work of Satan. Or that its “evil”.
 
Ouija boards require either solicitation of spirits for purposes of divination, which is forbidden for obvious reasons, or deceit of your friends…sometimes, both. In other words, it is a parlor game that is either ridiculous or dangerous, and people who have tried it will tell you that it is not certain that anyone can predict which one it will be under a given circumstance.

Furthermore, I have never in my life heard of a good experience coming from one of those things. The game has no redeeming features, let alone irreplaceable redeeming features. That the wiccans, whose religion revolves around becoming attuned to (if not in outright manipulation of) “energies” and “powers”, warn against them should tell you something.

Even if you don’t take them seriously, you give scandal to those who do. Avoid the game. If you own one, destroy it.
 
Greg00 said:
I don’t understand how Parker Brothers makes them. Do they just put letters and numbers on a board an all of a sudden it’s a Quija board with the ability to contact spirits?
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Actually, I have one, and it is my fave past time. As I understand it, the actual board is only like a key. it is regardless what it looks like. you have to make the connection. BTW, evil spirits only enter if you allow them. now I am not accusing any-one of letting evil spiritss into their home, but while you were maybe using one, didn’t you sort of, even if subconsciously, wish to meet a malevolnt spirit, and live to tell the tale?
Cya,
Wammy
 
Wammy101 said:
Actually, I have one, and it is my fave past time.
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If you think it’s harmless fun, then you are being decieved (no surprise there). If you pay attention, and ideally pray over it, you will come to see who or what is really on the other end of that thing.

It is one of many tools the Dark One uses to manipulate us. But don’t take what the Church says about it or thousands like me seriously… You are so much smarter, you know, not believing in that mumbo jumbo, you are just going to have to find out for yourself.

Good luck!
 
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