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News Briefs 13-12-2005

Is it Xmas yet?

  • Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) comes under fire for criminal charges laid against archaeologist who bought looted Dead Sea Scroll fragments and then donated them to the organisation.
  • ‘Conspiracy of five’ in the Jesus bone-box fraud case becomes a conspiracy of four.
  • Study finds that the Americas were settled by two distinct groups of early humans, re-igniting the controversy over the first settlers.
  • The world’s first private spaceport will be at….Roswell, New Mexico. Doesn’t that place have a bad air-safety record?
  • Good thing we’ve now got the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup.
  • Hopes fade for Japanese asteroid probe.
  • US group proposes Neptune mission.
  • Intelligent Design is a war on materialist science: “But supernatural forces would be beyond the ability of scientists to control, repeat and predict.” Insert long philosophical rejoinder on the error of scientism being its origin in an underlying need for humanity to feel in control (I’ll spare you the details).
  • Big cat sighted in Ohio (with vid).
  • More on those whacky Indigo Children.
  • Taking a look inside C.S. Lewis’s mythological mash-up that is Narnia.
  • After psychic helps solve a murder-case, the D.A. doesn’t know whether she believes in psychics…but says she can’t dispute the results.
  • Wikipedia faces coming-of-age crisis, as the offending ‘vandal’ comes forth.
  • Researchers admit they have no cure for procrastination. Well, stop talking to the press and get back to work!
  • Perhaps a good cure would be to unplug? Internet Addiction: anatomy of a problem.
  • Farming now covers almost half of all the land on Earth.
  • Hold the front page! Bio-presses may produce life-saving organs.
  • Exploring caves with hopping microbots.
  • New research finds buckyballs could disrupt functioning of DNA. I’m guessing that’s a bad thing?
  • Titanic actually split into three pieces and sank much quicker than originally thought. In related news, movie-goof geeks jam chat rooms and giggle at James Cameron…
  • Public Domain Torrents has bitorrents of 500 public domain movies available for download, including Plan 9 From Outer Space and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.
  • How many things have you been sold recently without knowing it? Every show’s an infomercial these days.
  • April Fools? Freaky murder coincidence weirds out police.
  • From the headlines you can’t make up department: Alien egg given to psychic Uri Geller by Beatle John Lennon goes on display in London record store.

Thanks Haufoldos.

Quote of the Day:

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst… In other words, I had a life.

Richard Pryor

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  1. Indigo Outigo.
    Indigo? I’m more of a pale silvery-blue. Who wants a bunch of snotty-nosed Harry Potters telling us muggles what to do, anyway?

    Seriously though, I’ve noticed that many parents of Indigo Children are New Agers, Left-Wing and/or spiritually inclined. I’ve spoken to one lady on another message board who teaches her son New Age ideas, and now miraculously her son is displaying Indigo Child abilities! I think parental influence is a big factor in the increasing number of Indigo Children. Parents see what they want to see. It’s very much like parents of atheltic children.

    Aren’t these kids meant to be distinguished from other psychics by an indigo-coloured aura? None of the kids in these articles are mentioned as having indigo auras.

    Personally, I think it’s a Generation X type label. There are no more nor less children being born with psychic abilities today than there were in previous generations — it’s just with the instant communication we have access to these days (media and internet), and the hype, we’re hearing about them more, so it seems as though there numbers are increasing. In past generations, most kids would have remained unknown and isolated, and we just would never have heard of them.

    And it doesn’t make non-Indigo children any less special either.

    And adults have the ability to turn indigo too. It’s easy for kids, they live in the “now” and aren’t restricted by the constraints we adults shackle ourselves with. I’m more in awe of adults who’ve managed to shake off the restrictions of mundane unimaginative materialistic 9-5 day-job society, and step outside the square, seek new paths and learn.

    I’m not denying psychic abilities. I’m a believer (well, I believe in the possibilities), but I think this whole Indigo Child hype is a case of parents painting lightning bolts on their kids’ foreheads and claiming them to be Harry Potter. It’s not unlike the fake claims of reincarnated Buddhas that go on throughout Asia. There are no more nor less kids developing psychic abilities today than there has been in the past: it’s OUR awareness of psychic possibilities that is making it seem like there’s a sudden increase.

    And is it limited to the latest generation? From this quote, obviously not:

    “They are highly sensitive individuals,” said Virtue, a Laguna Beach, Calif., resident. “These kids have a temper, but the temper seems geared toward philosophical and existential issues. Everyone I interview says (Indigo children) are angry at the state of the world.”

    Sounds a lot like the flower children of the 1960s and 1970s! Peace and love, man.

    As for Aslan in CS Lewis’s Narnia, he’s more Mithraic. And I also think Philip Pullman’s criticism of Narnia is arrogantly harsh.

    “Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.” – Philip Pullman

    1. Seeing red
      [i]I’ve noticed that many parents of Indigo Children are New Agers, Left-Wing and/or spiritually inclined.[/i]

      Where in the article does it identify their parents as left-wing? What makes you an expert on left-wing politics? What makes you an expert on New Age ideas, or spirituality?

      1. Red means Stop
        Do you think parents like Carolyn Kaufman vote Republican, Lee?

        Get a bloody grip on what I’m actually saying, Lee. It’s pretty simple, and I’m NOT having a go at people who are Left-Wing AT ALL. I just made an observation, and I did emphasise “many” and “and/or”, I was NOT blanketing ALL Indigo Parents as Left-Wing New Agers.

        From the articles and interviews I’ve read about Indigo children, the majority of parents are very left of center, politically and spiritually. The very fact that these parents are claiming their Indigo Children are angry at the state of the world and want us to change it is a bloody obvious indication that they’re left-wing. Which makes me question their objectivity, and how much of the Indigo Child’s abilities are influenced by their parents’ politics, beliefs and biases, rather than developing without such interference.

        This is the part of Kaufman’s story that makes me doubt her objectivity:

        About eight years ago, she learned about Indigo children after reading a book on the subject while caring for Rueshaun, who was 2 at the time.

        So she had read up on Indigo Children two years before having Ariel, the psychic child she talks about in the article.

        Kaufman grew up among a hodgepodge of faiths and beliefs. She attended and worked at psychic fairs, co-owned an alternative healing center

        This is what I based my opinions on, Lee.

        And it’s a bloody opinion, not ONCE did I claim to be an expert. Read things more thoroughly before you go off half-cocked and wrongly accuse me.

        1. More Special Than Indigo
          In my world, the people who are truly special are ordinary people who do extraordinary things.

          Doctors, nurses, teachers, human rights campaigners. There are also decent politicians and lawyers out there too. Free thinkers and spiritual leaders.

          People who work tirelessly, unselfishly, to help others. People who put the disadvantaged first, before their own lives.

          People who work for organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières, World Vision, Amnesty International, Drop The Debt, UNICEF, Greenpeace.

          None of these people have psychic abilities. None of them glow indigo. They’re just ordinary people, who do extraordinary things. They’re the ones making the world a better place. I think it’s the most offensive insult to them that we ignore their passion, their hard-work, the blood sweat and tears they shed to help others, we ignore them in favour of fawning over a small child who may be able to predict the future.

          Indigo Children? Until they actually do something, they’re just kids with psychic abilities. It’s the people without psychic abilities who are out there, actually doing something, and doing it so bloody unselfishly, that are special.

          And to our shame, they do it without our thanks because we’re too busy oohing and aahing over kids who can predict fruit.

          That’s where I’m coming from, Lee. I hope that makes it clearer for you why I’m so against the Indigo Children hype. I’m not against the kids, but I’m against the irrational hype and the fawning parents.

          We’re looking for special saviours, but they’re already here, right under our noses. Ordinary people, who do extraordinary things — they’re the real Indigo Children.

        2. Still seeing red
          Indigo children are not motivated by anger, but by compassion.

          Get a bloody grip on what I’m actually saying…

          … is a bloody obvious indication that they’re left-wing.

          And it’s a bloody opinion …

          Bloody, bloody, bloody. It’s you who is motivated by anger.

          1. Don’t look back in anger
            …these kids may appear to be unruly. Indigo kids bristle at authority and have little patience. “These kids have a temper …(Indigo children) are angry at the state of the world.”

          2. Seeing indigo
            You are quite right, Rico. They are angry, and they have every right to be. Authority needs to be stood up to, and the world needs changing, although I doubt if they have a plan. But if they do develop a plan, I will join them.

          3. cool colours
            Don’t get me wrong, Lee. I want these kids to develop into future Dalai Lamas and Ghandis and peace leaders and compassionate negotiators, I truly do. But I want this for all kids, whatever colour their aura is.

            I just can’t help but see the bulldust on both sides of the fence. I also want these kids to be allowed to be kids. Just let them grow up at their own pace, let them make their own decisions and choices. I see some Indigo parents as being no different to overbearing athletic parents who push their kids to be professional athletes, when all the kid wants to do is kick the ball around and have fun.

            I’m not a parent though, so perhaps I am being too harsh.

            And anger isn’t just limited to Indigo Children (wink wink). 😉

            I’m not an angry Indigo Child, I’m just a grumpy old man …

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