Quote from: Cin on July 18, 2016, 08:26:30 PM
I just found out toymakers make Ouija boards and sell them, they look tiny. If it's so easy to get one, it makes me skeptical.
Being skeptical is a great way to approach almost everything. Sometimes people will deride skeptics as people who just disbelieve everything but in fact being a skeptic just means you want to gather as much information as possible before forming an opinion one way or another. But it has to be hard information, not hearsay and conjecture. I've certainly been openly skeptical about anything supernatural but I'd be absolutely giddy if by some chance some day someone or
something blows my mind.
Overall, the Ouija board is nothing but a toy and will always be nothing but a toy. Objects only have value if we give them value. A colored piece of paper with a 1 on it is only worth $1 because we say it is. That almost identical piece of paper with the 20 on it is 20 times more valuable simply because we say it is. Hypothetically, if spiritually attuned people exist, then the Ouija board is only given value if they choose to give it value. A piece of paper with letters and Yes No written on it would perform the exact same function if bestowed the same value. So, like others have said, it's not really the Ouija board that matters or has any value. It's the person using it and how much value they want to grant to the board.
One day when I was a kid I was watching my brother roughhouse with another boy, as he often did. But this one time for whatever reason I was overcome with an irrational fear that he was about to be seriously injured. So I intervened and forcibly stopped the activity (which wasn't easy as he was 5 years older and much larger than me). Was this some kind of psychic premonition? I stopped the activity prematurely. There's no way of knowing. This was the only instance I remember feeling this way as despite being a pessimist I'm usually irrationally optimistic that people I care about will be okay. So at the end of the day, did I have a premonition my brother being injured? Nope, because nothing happened. There's no other information to go on.
About 10-15 years ago I witnessed a sphere of light floating in the air maybe 2 feet front of me. I was staring directly at it and it seemed to be a real object that had real substance. But it lasted no more than 3 seconds and it vanished as suddenly as it appeared. Ball lightning? No thunderstorms within hundreds, if not thousands of miles (not to mention how rare ball lightning would be regardless). Any number of factors can go into creating brief optical illusions to play tricks on the mind. With no more information to go on and nothing to study, I just have to dismiss it. There's just not enough information to work with.
Sometimes when we lack information we try to fill in the blanks ourselves. But it's okay to not have all the answers. It's okay if sometimes the answer is
No Answer. If you want to know the depths of the Ouija board, anecdotes have to be tossed out. You have to play it yourself and find out. But if you don't want to, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with
No Answer. It's only wrong if it was a filled in blank.
