Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: July 17, 2019 11:03AM
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2242894,2242908#msg-2242908I had a very strange conversation with my middle child right before they left for the Provo MTC. We were talking about Ouija boards. I told her the story of when I was a teenager and I played with them. Now thinking about it I failed to mention I was high as a kite those times. I don't think it would have changed much the arc of our conversation.
My child was adamant that I never dabble with them again.
It was strange how concerned she was about playing with them. I asked her about it and she didn't have a good answer. She said that they were evil and that anyone playing with them was inviting evil influences into their life.
In retrospect I guess she was probably just all hyped up on mission feelings and good spiritual juju and logically was contemplating the bad spiritual stuff out there and focused in on Ouija Boards.
I said to her that Hasbro or some such company makes them. It isn't like it isn't mainstream. But that just made her more upset about them.
I don't know. She wouldn't come clean on why those particular things bothered her. Maybe she did play with one though she denied ever having done so. Strange. But are Ouija boards like something Mormon have a strong aversion to? I remember in the 80s they were considered part and parcel with D&D and Satanism but today?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2019 11:04AM by Elder Berry.