>> Ouija boards..

[nik0tine]

I sincerely doubt that Matel has the capability to communicate with spirits.

[Loony BoB]

Wikipedia apparently knows the score. I don't like them at all.

[Cz]

Ouija boards, mediums and the like are all utterly hilarious.

[Mittopotahis]

You'd be an idiot to believe that you can talk to the dead through a piece of cardboard/wood.

and

I sincerely doubt that Matel has the capability to communicate with spirits.

sums up my opinion.

Oh, and they are evil

[Anaisa]

They can work, but that's not to say that their going to work everytime you use one.

[~SapphireStar~]

Ive never done one and I never will. My stepdad did one with his mates when he was a teenager.

[bipper]

I beleive they could work, as I beleive very much in demonic forces and the tensions of the spiritual as per mentioned via my religion.

I think tampering with the dead is retarded though, and pointless. If I wanted to hang out and chill with dead people I woulda been a politician.

Bipper

[Old Manus]

I think tampering with the dead is retarded though, and pointless. If I wanted to hang out and chill with dead people I woulda been a politician.

Win

[DarkLadyNyara]

I'm very skeptical about demons and spirits in general, (there is a reason why I'm agnostic ) and I would think that they'd have better things to do than move a piece of cardboard around. :rolleyes2

The accepted theory among psychologists and skeptics is that the participants are subconsciously making small, involuntary, physical movements using a well-known, and well-understood, phenomenon called the Ideomotor effect. Experiments consistently suggest that, at best, the messages are received involuntarily from the participants themselves, and, at worst, by a manipulative player, possibly with the connivance of confederates within the group present.

Yep, that about covers it. Never underestimate the ability of humans to deceive themselves.

I think tampering with the dead is retarded though, and pointless. If I wanted to hang out and chill with dead people I woulda been a politician.

Bipper wins this round.

[FallenAngel411]

Well, I'm no politician but I did try it once for fun. We all had our eyes closed and the thing did start moving, but I thought it was just someone being stupid. When I opened my eyes, I was the only one with my hands on it, and everyone else was just kinda standing around and staring at me, and it was still moving...it stopped when I jumped away from it. So...I don't know.