[If you are in a hurry, the main point of the discussion is in the 3rd paragraph]
Yes yes yes I know what you are probably thinking. "Don't mess with that stuff it's dangerous!" or "It's totally fake and you are and idiot for even starting this discussion" or "Nah bro people should have fun with the stuff" or "I like to dress up as a flower and pretend I can photosynthesize".
Ok well maybe not the last one, or at least I hope not. The thing is, I heard a discussion some old woman was having with teenagers about these "ouja boards", the supposed links to communicating with the dead. I didn't really take it seriously but it is my belief that if something is to be denied as fact then it must be done PROPERLY which lead me to quickly googling around to find out just how the stuff works. What it comes down to is that two or more people hold a piece of glass or something on a board containing the words "yes, "no", the alphabet and numbers 0 to 9. They then press gently against it without deliberately trying to manipulate the letters or numbers it lands on. After "warming it up" for a while the users ask questions, let the spirits "guide" their hands on the piece of glass or whatever and spell out words.
What quickly googling has not managed to answer is if the board ALWAYS spells out actual English words or words in whatever language the users grew up with, that if this board is fake and works purely on random muscle movements then wouldn't the board occasionally spell out something in the lines of "aeuhg645ujn" as the characters would be selected completely at random and thus rarely give actual words and sentences as results? Or is the outcome of the characters chosen less involuntarily than the users are claiming to be? Are users actually deciding what letters to land on and what gets spelled out? If so then why the hell would people be so fascinated by it and why has this not turned up on the first page of the google results I quickly looked over?
Have you ever used/seen someone use one of these boards? And please give proper reasons for your interpretation of these boards that explain why you are certain that they are or are not real.
I do not feel I worded this whole thing properly but I'd like to see a response before I edit it a little to be more clear on what I want to know.
Yes yes yes I know what you are probably thinking. "Don't mess with that stuff it's dangerous!" or "It's totally fake and you are and idiot for even starting this discussion" or "Nah bro people should have fun with the stuff" or "I like to dress up as a flower and pretend I can photosynthesize".
Ok well maybe not the last one, or at least I hope not. The thing is, I heard a discussion some old woman was having with teenagers about these "ouja boards", the supposed links to communicating with the dead. I didn't really take it seriously but it is my belief that if something is to be denied as fact then it must be done PROPERLY which lead me to quickly googling around to find out just how the stuff works. What it comes down to is that two or more people hold a piece of glass or something on a board containing the words "yes, "no", the alphabet and numbers 0 to 9. They then press gently against it without deliberately trying to manipulate the letters or numbers it lands on. After "warming it up" for a while the users ask questions, let the spirits "guide" their hands on the piece of glass or whatever and spell out words.
What quickly googling has not managed to answer is if the board ALWAYS spells out actual English words or words in whatever language the users grew up with, that if this board is fake and works purely on random muscle movements then wouldn't the board occasionally spell out something in the lines of "aeuhg645ujn" as the characters would be selected completely at random and thus rarely give actual words and sentences as results? Or is the outcome of the characters chosen less involuntarily than the users are claiming to be? Are users actually deciding what letters to land on and what gets spelled out? If so then why the hell would people be so fascinated by it and why has this not turned up on the first page of the google results I quickly looked over?
Have you ever used/seen someone use one of these boards? And please give proper reasons for your interpretation of these boards that explain why you are certain that they are or are not real.
I do not feel I worded this whole thing properly but I'd like to see a response before I edit it a little to be more clear on what I want to know.
