Ouija board, useful information from?

I did a ouija board once.Nothing happened.Can't say I'm suprised; it's just 19th century parlour trickery used to wow the guests after you've finished the port.

The answer to this is no. If there was real evidence of spirits etc, don't you think that since the witnesses of their existence i.e. spirits' are so numerous, and dating to from since man attained conscious intelligence this evidence would be easily availible for examination?If someone really could contact the dead, don't you think the mechanism would have been understood? After all, humanity understands so many arcane concepts today that it boggles the mind.Contacting the dead remains unsubstantiated because the only evidence in existance is vague statements by vagues people with vague experiences that absolutly do not stand up to investigation. What kind of data do you think this is?Is it reliable?If it is how can you tell?Is it valid?If it is how can you tell?One could perform some really interesting qualitative research on the meanings these 'witnesses'ascribe to their experiences but the objective truth is beyond personal account. In a perfect world this would be the case. It is not a perfect world and many people are not able to behave in this way.The point is that ouija boards and spiritualists have displayed no evidence to suggest that there is a means of contacting the dead.And another thing, spiritualists only seem to pop up in western culture after the advent of radio. I can't help but thinking this is important for the introduction of the concept of invisible communication.Edited by Larni, : No reason given.Edited by Larni, : No reason given.Edited by Larni, : Fixed some spellink

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Jesus Saves! The rest of the party take full damage.

So do you want to drop the ouija board topic?I would have thought the mechanism of evolution can be easily summed up with mutation and natual selection.Any other questions?

No idea why you think that: the responses in this thread only seem to say it's a load of old bollocks and parlour tricks. No one has said this, Yreeg. No one at all. No it is not. Sigh. Go back and read this thread. I would be happy to join you.

I see you have found no research for ouijs boards: ask yourself why?The reason why is that it is bollocks. People get it into their heads that the dead can comunicate with the living and they will jump on the ideomotor effect and call it communication.Now that you know about ideomotor effects what possible reason can you have believe people who claim to have seen the planchette move unaided?Think: if dead peoples spirits could talk to us, why don't they all talk to us? Why is it only people using these silly boards? You would think they would all be shouting at us but apparently all they can must is to tell us about Lyx2no's dog Muff-Muff.

That's what I call thinking outside the box!