Indigo

[realisticphish]

A du poster:

"It's too bad that unwell people use the "indigo" label as a crutch
I'm an indigo, and I wouldn't dream of flying off the handle in a discussion forum (or anywhere else, for that matter). Just wanted to say that not all indigos are like that. :hi:"

Well, since it's all self-diagnosed bullshit, I don't think you can claim anything of the kind...

[moggie]

1. Wow

How conceited do you have to be to not only label yourself as indigo (the next evolutionary step in humankind), but claim you're better than other indigos?

[realisticphish]

2. not only am i better

I'M BETTER THAN BETTER! AND I SHALL RULE THE WORLD! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[varkam]

3. Yeah - no shit.

:scared:

[trotsky]

4. Well I'm a Crystal, and they BY DEFINITION are better than Indigos.

So that poster can suck it.

[TZ]

5. Dude.

I'm a fucking quartz..I can break you in half....:P

[lizerdbits]

6. I am a giant turkey that eats turtles

Thursdays at 7:30. :P

Though based on the season so far, I may have to switch to crow.

[Orrex]

9. I'm a laser that fires a beam of pure anti-matter

[moggie]

10. ...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Close, but no cigar.

But I'd expect paper to make that sort of stupid mistake.

I know all. I see all.

I am the great and powerful OZ!

[moggie]

14. Incoming message from the Big Giant Head!

Zardoz beats Oz. Two zeds are better than one.

[Orrex]

15. I've zed the same thing for years

[moggie]

8. I'm paper

That beats rock!

Where will this end? Once everywoo was claiming their brats were indigo, it wasn't special enough any more (wikipedia says that the originator of the term claims that 97% of kids under ten are indigo), so crystal children had to be invented. I wonder what's next?

Perhaps we should push the theory that indigosity is caused by vaccines.

[onager]

12. 97% ???

Does that apply to kids all over the world, or just Americans? Here in Egypt, nearly 50% of the population is under 14. (About the same as Afghanistan when the Taliban took over. But I try not to think about that.)

I guess the poor kids I see doing hard manual labor all over Alexandria must be Advanced Indigos. They don't need school or anything. Already out helping support the family.

Then there's the Egyptian Demon Child. Maybe she's Indigo.

She doesn't act possessed or anything. In fact, she seems like a perfectly pleasant little girl, about 9 years old, I would guess.

But she seems to just pop up out of nowhere, almost every time I'm walking to the neighborhood grocery store. She walks along beside me, grinning and chattering away in Arabic and occasionally pointing at me.

I just nod and smile, since I only speak a little Arabic. For all I know, I could be agreeing to marry her older sister next Thursday.

Recently I was out of the immediate neighborhood, walking back from my favorite Chinese restaurant. Sure enough, up popped the Demon Child, this time towing her unwilling and annoyed little brother along. I guess she was on a Mission From Mom. She just smiled and waved and kept going. Probably to vanish into the Aether a few feet away...

[NoodleBoy]

18. wtf do you even do in egypt?

You keep describing it as this weird little place, but I don't think I've ever seen you say what you do.

It better be something awesome, like consulting with local governments on children's health issues.

Or extra super awesome, like laying the groundwork for the local resistance in preparation of Saudi Arabia's impending secret invasion.

[onager]

19. Sorry, not awesome.

Or extra super awesome, like laying the groundwork for the local resistance in preparation of Saudi Arabia's impending secret invasion.

:rofl:

Thanks, I needed that. Yes, that's what I'm doing. Weird Note: during the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Egyptian government sent trucks arounnd the country, throwing out crates of Russian weapons and ammunition. Mostly SKS semi-automatic rifles and AK-47s. Every once in a while, I still see Egyptian farmers carrying those guns out in the villages. I pass thru a whole string of farm villages twice a day, on my commute.

Those villages are also home to at least fifteen 1955 Chevies and a few Fords of similar vintage. And one bright-blue 1949 Chevy that is still used every day as a local taxi. And lots of goofy vintage Russian farm tractors.

What I do is pretty mundane. I'm a Field Engineer for a big aerospace company. That mostly means computer geekery, maintaining equipment, etc. etc.

[NoodleBoy]

21. that's cool, I almost chose aerospace engineering as a career

until I found out that the first twenty years of my career would consist of designing backup toilet pumps on airliners, and the second twenty years would consist of designing backup door handles for cargo planes.

must be weird-- do you think any of those old rifles even work? AK's are legendary for outlasting anything, but 50 years of being dragged around a dusty farm might do one in.

[onager]

23. I often wonder myself.

And not just about the farmers' guns.

I often see soldiers and police here carrying AK-47s so old that the wooden stocks are split, or the barrels visibly bent and metal parts rusty. They are mostly on guard duty at checkpoints, so those weapons are just for show anyway.

OTOH, the weapons of the Riot Police are always in top condition. (Pump shotguns and H&K automatic rifles, mostly.)

And occasionally, I see a guy in a natty suit whose jacket moves the right way, exposing the small H&K copy of the Uzi on his belt. Those are in good condition, too. That's either the "intelligence service" (secret police), or one of the special Tourist Police units that guard foreigners.

[realisticphish]

13. ok, seriously

when 97% of kids under ten are "indigo," the term is even more meaningless than it was to begin with

[mr blur]

7. "I'm am indigo"? WTF does that mean?

Have they no self-respect at all?

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Hey, there's nothing wrong with dingos

Turns out they came with seafarers to Australia just a few thousand years ago: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/plantsanimals/TheDingo.htm

Oohh, indigo. Meh. Made up as a spectral colour for hocus pocus reasons then, made up for self-indulgent hocus pocus reasons now.

[Orrex]

17. Incidentally, there was a farmer had a dog, and dingo was his name-o.

[onager]

20. But it ate his baby.

:hi:

[FM Arouet666]

22. Indigo?

And what in the hell is an indigo. I gather from reading the replies that it has to do with the next step in human evolution? It astonishes me that anyone could think that a new strata in human evolution has taken place when 50% of this nation is poised to elect an angry delusional nursing home reject and a mentally challenged moose in lipstick. :puke:

[cosmik debris]

24. Here's the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_children

[FM Arouet666]

26. There is no scientific support for these claims

Or so the Wikki page states. LOL thanks, another bat shit crazy idea from the new agers. Wonder what my aura looks like, very gaseous today after all the mexican food last night, probably a subtle brown. I hope that doesn't offend the übermenschen indigos. :woohoo:

[realisticphish]

25. it's bunch of morons

who seem to think that evolution has something to do with magic powers, rather than natural selection

[FM Arouet666]

27. Morons for sure, as we all know only jesus has magical powers.

:evilgrin: