Ouija boards...What's up with them?

Question

I am a morbid person. But a believer in the Lord and the Holy Spirit. But other spirits too. I really don't believe that Ouija boards work though. I've never tried one, personally, but I think I would like to, just to prove people wrong. But what if they are real? I don't want to have to live with a bad experience forever. As they say, ignorance is bliss. If you would like, please share your personal experiences with me. I want to know.

Answer 1

There's a reason why they are sold in the toy department.

Answer 2

First, "ignorance is bliss" is not a very good philosophy of life. Would you like your surgeon to be blissfully ignorant? Would you like to be ignorant of the other cars on the freeway when you are driving. Knowledge is bliss.

Second, Ouija boards are a simple psychological trick. And it is easy to prove. Get some people together who want to seriously try the board out. Now ask it a question that nobody at the table could possibly know like the headline in tomorrow's newspaper. Next ask it a question that somebody at the table knows. Watch what happens.

Answer 3

I'm sorry, but I know of a situation that proved to me that Ouija boards do contact spirits or at least beings that know more than the people who are using the board. I will not go into detail here, but I would suggest you not take Ouija boards lightly.

Answer 4

Ouija boards have as much to do with contacting the spirit world as Monopoly money has to do with being rich.

Answer 5

ARE teenagers really interested in the occult? A group of researchers sought to find out by surveying students in 115 middle and secondary schools. The survey yielded these revealing statistics: Over half of those surveyed (54 percent) said that they are interested in the occult and the supernatural, while a quarter (26 percent) said that they are "very interested."

Researchers for the University of Alaska at Anchorage write: "Newspaper and magazine stories about the supposed explosion of satanic cult activity . . . have proliferated in recent years." Experts say that there is little hard evidence to support claims of widespread Satanism among youths. Even so, there is no question that many young ones are interested in aspects of Satanism and the occult, even if such interest is only casual.

'What's the harm in dabbling in the occult?' some youths might therefore ask. In answer, let's look at some of the ways youths get involved in the occult in the first place.

The Lure of the Occult
An article in U.S.News & World Report observes that "children and teenagers today have access and exposure to a bewildering—often disturbing—array of imagery and information that would have been unimaginable even 20 years ago." Curiosity drives many youths to read books and magazines, watch videos, or surf Web sites on the Internet that feature occult material.

According to BBC News Online, popular TV programs that feature witchcraft and vampirism "encourage an interest in witchcraft among children, it is claimed." Some heavy-metal music likewise features violent or demonic themes. Columnist Tom Harpur wrote in the Toronto newspaper The Sunday Star: "I must issue the strongest possible warning about what is happening [in music]. . . . I have never seen anything so depraved. The songs are obsessed with madness, possession, demons, blood, curses, violence of every kind, including rape, self-mutilation, murder, and suicide. Death and destruction, prophecies of doom, the denial of all that is good and the embracing of all that is hideous and evil—these are the themes."

Does listening to such music really contribute to destructive behavior? It evidently did so in at least one case—that of a 14-year-old youth in the United States who stabbed his mother to death and then killed himself. The walls of his room were covered with posters of heavy-metal rock musicians. His father pleaded afterward: "Tell parents to watch what music their children listen to." He said that the week before his son killed his mother, he kept singing a rock song "about blood and killing your mother."

Please enjoy the rest of the article right here. http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2002/1/22a/article_01.htm

Answer 6

They are the fakest thing in the world. The only way they work is if one person moves them around or else, when everyone touches it then it would just sit there.

Answer 7

Satanism is what. See below:
The subject is; what happens to us when we die. It’s a hard subject. Why does it matter what we believe about what happens to a person when they die? Well, it was Satan’s first lie to Eve in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:4 “And the serpent said to the woman, ye shall not surely die.” Is there a question as to who the serpent is; reference Rev.12:9 “That old serpent called the Devil, and Satan.” Could this subject be more important than we think? Why is this important now? Let’s go back to the beginning. What is “a living soul”? Genesis 2:7 Dust and breath, that is what we are dust and breath. Please turn to Genesis 3:19 Dust you are and to dust you return. Let’s look at a controversial text. The book of Ecclesiastes chapter twelve and verse seven, dust to the ground, spirit to God who gave it. So one might ask what is the spirit if not what we commonly call a ghost? First we’ll turn to James it’s a little book right after Hebrews. We’ll read in chapter two verse twenty-six. This chapter is mostly talking about faith without deeds being dead, but here in verse twenty-six it states, “The body without the ‘spirit’ is dead.” Not much, we didn’t already know, but what is this spirit? The book of Job sheds some light on the fact in chapter 27 verse three; Job is talking to his friends about God. He states that as long as he has life in him the breath of God in his nostrils he will not…deny his integrity. It goes back to dust and breath again. So what does happen to a person when they die? Ezekiel 18:20 states that the soul that sins, it shall die. In first Timothy chapter six verses 15 and 16 Paul is talking to Timothy and says God is the only one who is immortal. Let’s see if we can find out where the dead are. What is it like for those that have died? Does the Bible give us any indication? Ps 115:17 “The dead praise not the Lord neither any that go down into silence.” And again in Ecc 9:5, 6 & 10 “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.” “Whatsoever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” God says the dead know not anything. In the gospels, John chapter 11, when it talks about Lazarus death, in verse eleven Jesus calls death sleep. How many of you, when you get a good nights sleep realize anything that goes on around you between the time you fall asleep and when you wake up? That is what it is like to be dead. Look up at the light. shut those off for one moment? Okay where did the light go? Where did it go? It doesn’t go anywhere. It takes two things to create light, the bulb and electricity. Without both things, there is no light. You can turn them back on now. When a person ceases to breathe the breath goes out of the body and the body; it goes where we bury it to await the resurrection.
Turn to Matthew chapter twenty-four we’ll begin in verse twenty (read through verse twenty-seven) If someone claimed to have a visitation of a much beloved relative and the relative told you to do something that was against God’s principles what would you do? But, what about those mediums who help people, are they bad too? How can we know if someone is from God or not? God says through Isaiah in Isaiah 8:19 & 20 “If they speak not according to This Word, it is because there is no light in them” God does not use the dead to “help” the living. This is a deception of the devil. I want you to write down the following texts to study them when you get home because I will not take the time right now to read them all. Exodus 7:11, 1 Samuel 28:3-25, Daniel 2:2, Acts 16:16-18, Revelation 18:23, and 2 Corinthians 11:13 Satan has used sorcery all throughout the Bible to deceive people and it is predicted that he will continue to do so. Rev. 16:14 and Rev13:13 & 14 What did God command the children of Israel to do to those people who claimed to do sorcery? Let’s read Leviticus 20 verse 27 Now lets turn to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 13 start in verse one (continue to verse five then skip to verse ten) When giving the punishments for various “sins” to the Israelites the Lord reserved stoning for the most serious of offences. Sometime read the book of laws, or Leviticus but especially chapter twenty.
Are we really sure that our loved ones are not in heaven now? Let’s close with reading a couple more texts. The first text is found in Acts 2 (read); Peter is talking to the crowd about Jesus resurrection. The part of the dialogue I want us to concentrate on begins in verse twenty-two and ends in the first part of verse 34. David, the King David, is dead and buried and has not ascended to heaven. When will we expect to see our loved ones again? First Thessalonians chapter four verses 15 though 18 answers this question for us. One minute a person is alive and what will seem to them as the next minute God will call them from their graves. And finally, Revelation chapter twenty-one verses one through five, we go to heaven together with our loved ones when Christ comes again and there will be no more death or crying. Won’t that be a glorious day? I can hardly wait. Won’t you wait with me today?

Answer 8

i did it once and now i wish i didnt. it has nothing to do with witchcraft but it does attract evil spirits to your home.

Answer 9

It's a simple parlor game.

Answer 10

No good, in my opinion, is "up" with a Quija board.