Do you Believe in Angels?

[moot]

Wijis of Mass Destruction

[Angus]

Also referred to as a Witchboard. Maybe you can find your guardian angel there

[Angus]

Originally posted by Leslie
Ouija board.  It was sold as a game but is serious business.  I would stay as far away as I could from a ouija board.  Just don't play around with it, or even be there when it's in use.  That's exactly what they do, call up ghosts.  I know it sounds silly, but better safe than sorry.




Les

Had my share of the stuff without ever being close to one
A friend of mine had been into this when younger. It seemed to work, and scared the crap out of him. He won't ever do it again.

[Leslie]

About the limit of my experience was Kresken's ESP at the age of 5.  That one used a pendulum that you held that swung over a board...perhaps a novelty item.  Never have seen a Ouija board except in haunted house movies.




Les

[Angus]

FAQ's answered:
http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/Witchboard.html

Online Ouija in German:
http://www.lilith-kartenlegen.de/witchboard/indexie.htm

[Nilsen]

The missus and her twin used to look like angels, so I used to belive in them. Now im not so sure anymore. It has to be awfully dark and the angle would have to be just right.

[FBplmmr]

The fact that I am still alive is all the proof I need.

[Vudak]

Despite the fact that I am often critical of Christianity and religion in general, and despite the fact that I certainly do not take the Bible literally, I definately believe in angels.

Of course, I believe these angels are the people I loved who have died, and I truly think that they've come to save me and my friends on numerous occassions...

This is going to sound corny or fake as hell, but when I was 16 I lost a good friend unexpectedly.  For a few weeks before he died, he often talked of death and what he'd do to show us if anything was "there" afterward.  One thing he promised to do was to turn on this one particular lamp in my other friend's house.

Now this was kind of a big deal, because I'd known that friend for a number of years, and I'd known that lamp for just as long - the damn thing never, ever worked.  You could change the lightbulb, change the socket, do whatever you wanted, it wouldn't turn on.  Why the hell he decided to keep it, I have no idea, but he did.

Well, wouldn't you know it, the very same night my friend died we were all sitting in the other friend's room, faces towards the floor, and what happens?  That light flickers on.  And the lamp has worked ever since.

Can I prove my friend turned that on?  No.  It could have been some strange coincidence.  But, for me, the timing and the result are all the proof I need.

(Course, I've got plenty of other signs over the years.  You wouldn't believe the ways I or my other friends have been saved from death or deep, deep trouble by the most random occurances).

So, yeah, anyway, I don't believe in the Bible but I definately believe my buddies and family are still around waiting for me.

[Booz]

no

 but i guess it'd be nice to ensure my lamps all work.

[Vudak]

Originally posted by Booz
no

 but i guess it'd be nice to ensure my lamps all work.

You're an bellybutton

[cpxxx]

I don't believe in angels. But I do believe in ghosts as a concept. What a ghost actually is, I don't know but I believe one day a scientific explanation could be found.

On the point of angels, warning us. I think we underestimate our own instinctive and intuitive abilities and a certain psychic ability to forsee danger. It's well known that dogs can sense things we can't. That's because dogs have a better sense of smell and hearing. In all probability we too have subconscious abilities we are not fully aware of. We've all had 'a bad feeling about this' or anticipate danger when nothing is obvious. I personally have had many experiences like that. I suspect it's a form of survival instinct.

A lot of this could be investigated scientifically but I suspect that a scientist would be put off by the whole hocus pocus aspect of all this. Scientists would probably feel (instinctively and intuitively:rofl ) that they would lose credibility with their peers if they ventured into this realm of spooks and goblins.

But maybe there are angels. If so my guardian angel has been far too effective. I have led a charmed and it has to be said boring life until now. That is in spite of living in a country which suffered 30 years of terrorism, been a soldier, a pilot, a motorcyclist, travelled to exotic places and did one or two other slightly risque:t  things in my life. Despite all this I have ended up spending too much time sitting in front of the telly with a cup of tea in my hand.  My fate is to be boring!

[storch]

it's in the middle of november I'm asleep on the couch in the family room in the middle of the day, my wife is in our home office doing some paper work.  just outside of the family room there is a door that leads to a hallway.  the hallway leads back to rest of the house or to the garage.  the door to the garage is a steel door mounted on a steel frame.  it's a heavy door.  

anyways I'm sound asleep enjoying an afternon nap.  WHAM!!!! the sound brings me to my feet with my heart pounding.  I'm thinking she's pissed because I'm napping so she slammed the door to the garage.  about that same time she comes running down the long hallway with a miffed wtf look on her face.

I tell her to sit still in the family room and give her the shotgun, I draw my .357 and head for the garage,  no one there. hmmm.  we check all of the locks and all of the doors leading to the outside of the house are locked.

fast forward about one year.  

I'm sitting on the same couch.  it's about 0200 and I'm watching TV.  out of the corner of my left eye I detect movement towards the garage on the same hallway.  WHAM!!!  I jump to my feet go into the garage ready to dress down the offender, there is no one in the garage.  the family is all asleep in their rooms.

fast forward to last week.  

I get a random call from a familiarly named man.  he's having problems with a residential gate operator.  as we converse it turns out he's a guy I went to high school with and knew but weren't really friends.  instead of sending out one of my techs to see about his problem I go myself.  I diagnose and repair his operator.  being late in the day he offers me a beer.  we sit out on his back porch chatting about this and that, he asks where I live so I tell him.  he grew up in this community and asks me for my address so I tell him.  his highschool sweetheart used to live in the house we currently own.  she had a brother which I remember, the guy was creepy, sullen and a very unsympathetic person.  a few years after highschool the brother took his life in what is now our family room.

I wish someone had gotten that creep laid.  now he's probably still here slamming doors in my home.

If I could go back in time I'd kick his ass.  

[Vudak]

Now that right there, Storch, freaks me out hahaha...

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Halo
Do you Believe in Angels?

Yes.

[deSelys]

Storch, have you thought that maybe the guy was gay and couldn't live with it. Now he is trying to communicate with you (WHAM -> George Michael...) because he probably likes you....

If I was you, I wouldn't pick up the soap (or anything else) EVER again in this house...


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