Crazy, man

[lexin]

Courtesy of metaquotes I findjackandahat commenting on the inadvisability of occult smartphone apps:

"What in the name of shiny blue fuck would make you think it's a good idea to put a ouija board on a communication device?

"Seriously, what crosses a person's mind? When this person shows up missing I am having no sympathy for them."

So obviously I look up the ouija board app on my iPad, entirely in a spirit of scientific discovery, and find that there is not one but a shedload of them. Some paid for, many free.

Not only that, there's an app which promises to "detect ghosts and spirits".

Man, that is some crazy shit right there.

Comments

[legionseagle]

Not so much Pascal's wager as Pascal's Russian roulette.

[lexin]

Very much so.

[legionseagle]

Me and my sister tried ouija once, when I was very small using letter cards from some card game and a wineglass. I'm not at all sure what happened but I know my sister was badly scared by it (I strongly suspect that she was trying to contact our late grandma and I shudder to think what grandma's spirit would have said about the folly of doing any such thing, had communication been made.)

[lexin]

It has crossed my mind that if, in fact, contact after death was possible my late father would be so annoyed to have his eternal rest disturbed. He didn't take kindly to being woken up on a Saturday afternoon, even.

[gattagrigia]

I just got smartphone, and have had a fun time finding apps, but I haven't looked for apps like these. My former self (a millenium ago) would have gleefully loaded them all - ouija boards, i-ching coins, tarot cards, handly palmistry references, etc. Now I have to go look!

[lexin]

:-) Needless to say, I don't believe in any of this stuff...