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Indigo advocates believe that many children born after 1975 possess an Indigo-color aura around them and unique almost supernatural traits. To the rest of the world, these kids may appear to be unruly and their parents may have gone overboard in the coddling of their children. Indigo kids bristle at authority and have little patience. Their advocates say they act like royalty and have no guilt. Simple acts, like waiting in lines, drive them crazy. Their parents are sure they can see the future and talk to angels.
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The orange example is stupid. Did the mom ever consider that maybe the birthday girl had already told her daughter that she liked oranges?
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As far as I'm concerned, they're just the new version of Goths. It's just a new generation of kids that want to be special and different from the rest of the kids. This time, it's just that they have some sort of super power.
If one can win me the Powerball lottery, then I'll believe it. Until then, the verdict is out.
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Why is always "We need to bring an orange" or "We shouldn't take that route"?
Why is it never "We need to play 7-12-26-27-52 and 45 for the Powerball." ?
Yeah, your kids are special. So are mine. So are everyone's.
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1) What happened in 1975 to cause children to be born with these so-called "gifts"?
2) Why indigo?
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I am somewhat reminded of Strauss and Howe's generational theories. A few years off, but these correspond to what they would call "the millenial generation". Who are supposed to be the answer to the GI (WWII) generation.
Indigo is a color that many occultists correlate with spritual awareness. So I would imagine an indigo aura would indicate special spritual powers.
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I'm a little confused about the magical 1975 date, too. Is it after that because Gen-X, Y, and the latter tend to be spoiled brats and therefore fit the mold?
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1) What happened in 1975 to cause children to be born with these so-called "gifts"?
A momentous event occurred - my sixth birthday.
quote: 2) Why indigo?
So that afterwards, outdecome.
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Damn it! As I was born late in 1974, I miss out on being an indigo child by "that much"!
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2) not quite as funny but there was an adventure game released pretty recently called Indigo Prophecy, and one of the characters was called the indigo child, so it may have come from there.
Spoilers:
there were angels and some people could see the future, but I dont think the child ever said anything much less told the future.
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Does anyone else get the feeling reading the article that its "positive parenting" gone slightly mad?
I don't doubt anyone who 'believes' in auras and stuff, but it seems to be an excuse not to discipline your children Posts: 64 | From: Perth, Australia | Registered: Sep 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Dobers: The orange example is stupid. Did the mom ever consider that maybe the birthday girl had already told her daughter that she liked oranges?
The other example is stupid, too:
quote: Kaufman offered another example. One day, Ariel found out that a family friend had died. Without knowing the cause of death, Ariel speculated that the friend's blood was sick. As it turns out, the friend had died of complications from lupus and problems related to her blood.
quote: Kaufman grew up among a hodgepodge of faiths and beliefs. (...) She developed cancer at 23 and lupus a year later. Traditional medicine didn't have an answer for her illness, she says.
So, the kids mother suffers from lupus, an illness that is connected to "problems related to the blood" in more than half of cases. When a family friend dies, the kid speculates that "the friend's blood was sick" (like her mothers) - and happens to be right. Actually, the kid may even have known that the friend suffered from the same illness as her mother, the one that "makes your blood sick".
That's some prediction indeed!
Don "coulor me indigo" Enrico
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Yea.. It sounds like the new excuse for bad parenting is "my child isn't misbehaving! She is forcing out her negative spiritual energies!".. Either that or, like this man said so well:
quote:Skeptics say some parents want so badly for their kids to be special that they may mischaracterize their children's behavior.
Parents (well, many of them) want their kids to be special in some way, whether it be smart, strong, athletic, popular, etc.. What we have here is simply a new excuse to say "my kid is special!".
And like others said, why are all the examples of being psychic always something really vague and essentially useless that can be explained fairly easily.. Its never something that would be extrmely hard to impossible to predict (such as an extremely unusual event, or an extremly specific event)...
Mickey "I'll tell ya why.." Blue
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I wonder when in 1975 this occurred? Did a kid born in March miss it by a couple months? How about April 12th? When's the cutoff?
Also, if it's "many" kids, that (to me) implies a strong percentage. So why is it always older folks who win the Powerball, and not these indigo kids? Why isn't the world erupting in chaos because of their shenanigans? Why haven't they offered their services to end the war early? Predicting the location of a terrorist would be quite helpful.....
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: Their advocates say they act like royalty and have no guilt.
Royalty? As in the pampered, self-indulgent, self-important, self-deified, inbred, power hungry, ruthless, Machiavellian eccentrics of history?
No guilt? Isn't that one of the traits of a sociopath?
And that's just what their advocates call them.
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Ignore all this.. wrong end of the stick grabbed!
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Sociopaths are also good at making very confident educated guesses. I guess to parents turning blind eyes, this looks like evidence of being psychic.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: To the rest of the world, these kids may appear to be unruly and their parents may have gone overboard in the coddling of their children. Indigo kids bristle at authority and have little patience. Their advocates say they act like royalty and have no guilt. Simple acts, like waiting in lines, drive them crazy. Their parents are sure they can see the future and talk to angels.
When I read this the first thing I thought of was APD (antisocial personality disorder.) Act like they are the only ones that matter, no guilt (or emapthy?) no respect for rules, low frustration tolerance... Are these kids psychic or psychopathic!?
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Wow, I can't stand to wait in lines and I was born in 1976. On top of that I can't stand when things don't go my way or I can't get what I want. That probably means I'm the next messiah.
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quote:Originally posted by NobbyNobbs: I wonder when in 1975 this occurred? Did a kid born in March miss it by a couple months? How about April 12th? When's the cutoff?
Also, if it's "many" kids, that (to me) implies a strong percentage. So why is it always older folks who win the Powerball, and not these indigo kids? Why isn't the world erupting in chaos because of their shenanigans? Why haven't they offered their services to end the war early? Predicting the location of a terrorist would be quite helpful.....
There seems to be no cutoff, it just keeps getting higher and higher. Apparently, (according to wikipedia), in 1992 there were 85% which rose to 95% in 1994.
Children that are born after the year 2000 are called "Crystal Children", and are suppose to have stronger powers and act more warrior-like in their nature.
Damn, theres a really good story in there somewhere!!
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quote: Tomy has broken five VCRs in the family home using only his energy force, Kaufman said.
Energy force *snerk* Is that what they call it nowdays. We used to call it a "ball", and we used to play cricket with it. Never broke a VCR though
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quote: Tomy has broken five VCRs in the family home using only his energy force, Kaufman said.
Of course an electrician couldn't help here could they?
quote: Energy force *snerk* Is that what they call it nowdays. We used to call it a "ball", and we used to play cricket with it. Never broke a VCR though
LOL Right on Mad Jay. I used to break windows by using my energy force = throwing a cricket ball too far and said ball sailing through the garage shed window.
Mum seem to have the same mystical power of punishment through energy force as well, commonly called swinging a hand/broom at my backside.
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quote: Tomy has broken five VCRs in the family home using only his energy force, Kaufman said.
Energy force *snerk* Is that what they call it nowdays. We used to call it a "ball", and we used to play cricket with it. Never broke a VCR though
In my house, we call it "my shoe," and it's part of a delicate process known as "Sicilian Repair." (1 pt)
Seriously, though, I echo the concern of above Snopesters. It sounds to me like these parents are either oblivious to or in denial of the fact that they may be raising some very dangerous people (and perhaps some future congressmen) and even cultivating their psychopathic traits with this mumbo jumbo. I'm curious, though, if this is just some sort of new "movement" of loosely assembled parents of potentially psychotic children, or if there really was some sort of "event" in 1975 (for whatever reason) that led to the birth of a generation of psychopaths.
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quote:Originally posted by MisterGrey: Seriously, though, I echo the concern of above Snopesters. It sounds to me like these parents are either oblivious to or in denial of the fact that they may be raising some very dangerous people (and perhaps some future congressmen) and even cultivating their psychopathic traits with this mumbo jumbo.
Even if they really do believe they are psychic, they need to teach their children social skills. What kind of life lessons are these kids learning? I can get what I want, I can break what I want, I can say what I want, I can do what I want. I am superior to my fellow man. I am ruled by my whim.
These kids are going to be rejected by their peers and hated by their coworkers. No one is going to like them, and they are not goiong to understand why. This is a recipe for disaster, and extremely shortsighted on the parents' part. They are setting their children up for loneliness at best, and crime at worst.
Poor kids.
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Have, by any chance, any of the predictions met scientific criteria? Somehow I have this feeling that this self-important ressource gobbler talks the whole way through, and up to now two things were close to making sense, so yeah, right, he's the next Nostradamus.
Too bad I'm too old to be indigo
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