1 (edited by Saracen 2004-08-20 20:16:25)

Topic: Weird Kid things....

Montalk wrote:

I've been looking at my own childhood experiences and interests to glimpse significant patterns

Interesting...I think this would be a good subject considering the aforementioned "spike" in STS activity this week. It's bound to be interesting as well as humorous...kids do the darndest things ya know.

Here's my list:

4-5 years old
Telling the neighbor kid that closing your eyes and seeing colors was "magic"
3-4 years old
Pointing to the moon and telling my mom that "people lived up there" because my "teacher" told me so
5-9 years old
I was known to crack dowsing sticks that were nearly as big around as my arms at the time
4-6 years old
Directing my father to "turn here" when searching for his brothers house in another state (Right on the money)
3-15 years old
Detesting church and actually hiding to get out of going

Edit: Forgot one...Always knowing I'd never live a normal human lifespan. Only know do I know it's either Armageddon (shorter) or ascending to 4d (shorter here, longer overall)

All manner of scientific things...mostly lenses and drawing designs in the dirt

Perhaps I was a witch, alchemist, shaman or maybe even Galileo!!

Saracen

"We will not go quietly into the night, We will not give up without a fight...."

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Here's one, Saracen. When I was 11, for absolutely no reason, I suddenly decided to get some lead ingots at the hardware store, an old saucepan, and a 3 gallon glass jar 2/3 full of water. I began melting the lead in the saucepan and when it liquified, I poured it into the water. This resulted in the lead taking some interesting shapes as the molten globs cooled in the water. I wasn't looking for anything in particular in this process, i just felt like doing it. Decades later I came upon information describing this process as an ancient act of divination. Apparently, certain shapes were interpreted as having particular meanings. I didn't study the information, but I was struck by the similarity of process. It never occurred to me that I might have been doing what came naturally to an adept of sorts from a previous life, or an alternate timeline. Was I an oracle?
I used to get out of going to church by insisting that I be allowed to watch the nba playoffs which were shown on Sunday mornings. I don't remember anything as boring to me as attending church. Boring old minister droning, itchy wool suit and tie in summertime. My parents did all they could to make me hate church. It's too bad, really, as church could be something instructive and enjoyable if children were heeded (like the Bible says).

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I was always able to know things intuitively.  I thought this developed as a survival technique in a dysfunctional home, but now I feel I came equipped that way.  Along with it I have the ability to arrive at a logical conclusion without consciously going through the steps. 

When I was having a bad time at home I would imagine if I opened the closet door it wouldn't lead to inside my closet but to another realm of existence to which I could escape and live out my dreams.

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I was always conducting microbiological experiments by the age of 6. Made the garage my laboratory. Took a stab at chemistry but not the same fascination as the world of microbes. Grew all sorts of cultures and creatures in water etc, raised colonies of wasp etc. Once my aunt and uncle were visiting with my completely un-relatable cousins. One cousin went to my “laboratory“? and let one treasured group of wasp out, promptly getting stung. Remember my uncle pitching a fit and drowning the nest…carrying on in a loud voice that this was JUST NOT NORMAL. Another time neighborhood girls wanted to borrow my bike. They never wanted to play with me, just wanted my bike. They offered a trade of a dead rat’s location in exchange for the bike. Absolutely took that trade and put the rat in a cigar box that had been for crayons, like who the hell cares about crayons when you can have a dead rat.
Intended to do a dissection at a later time. Can you imagine my mom’s surprise when she was tidying up my lab, opened the box and screamed at the top of her lungs…what ever happened to Baby Jane lol.

So, I was probably a vivisectionist or some other evil doer…hum…

Oh yeah, all sorts of premonitions and 4d experiences…that was the norm, but then I find that to be the case for many, many kids.  It is always there, just depends on if it is effectively suppressed or not by mainstream programming.

And at 7 wanted to learn Chinese. Back in those days it was Red China and you did not talk about "them". Having no luck in finding any teacher cked out a book on Japanese but did not have the same fascination.

That's it, I was a commie vivisectionist...

It's all mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter...

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Oh boy, just started to remember all the weird stuff me and my sisters did together.  We are all very close in age and played a lot together.  Coming from a very strict upbringing, the usual play time consisted of different tatics-usually designed in some way to annoy parents, teachers, or each other. 

We'd dress up our younger sister in rags and go door to door around the neighborhood requesting monitary donations for our poor adopted sister from Arabia.  We would usually manage to get something, split the money, and go to the local mom and pop store to buy candy.  When this didn't work we tried it on the younger neighbor boy and gave him a piece of the "cut".  Trips to the mall with mom frequently embarassed her to no end.  While she was brousing ect., we would rearrange the mannequins to our own liking-sometimes stuffing extra socks in the torsos displaying male briefs.  We figured if we were already on restriction why not go for the gold!  Those were fun times, now I see why the babysitters would quit so often.

In grammer school we'd have seances and mess with the ouija board a lot.  Got kinda scary when unexplainable things happened (probably poltergeist activity).  All of us were absolutely convinced of the reality of levitation, but were somewhat disappointed when it never worked . 

Remember at about age 5 or six being convinced that people lived under hills and wondered why no one ever talked about them.  Was about the same time the family (and neighbors) had a sighting (not an airplane).  Remember feeling really agitated about it and started running around all fidgety.  Funny how many of us were not the usualy "brady bunch" cookie cutter types-more like "sliders" family huh?

If there is no time
      Then you have time for everything.
   You're never in a hurry.
That's true freedom.

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Boy, after reading everybody's stories, I feel so boring!   I didn't do anything terribly unusual or interesting as a kid, didn't display knowledge of things relating to esoteric stuff, alchemy, secret society leftovers, never felt like an alien who's visiting.   Nothing!   Boring!   sad   big_smile   Oh well.  Definately not an Indigo, that's for sure.  I was born in 1974, too early for that.  I had weird things happening to me, I know that, (MILABS stuff from an early age and who knows what)  but I didn't display knowledge of the kinds of things people here have mentioned.  At best, I had leftovers from my most recent past life, which I wasn't able to shake off  because I came back "too soon."  I was in a big ol' hurry to get back apparantly.   So, I always had that hanging over me as a kid.  But I was a relatively normal kid in every way.  Boring!!!   haha big_smile

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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Well, you're not boring now! By the way, isn't it possible that, before the advent of indigos, there may have been "prototypes"?
PS Your new signature reminds me of Neil Young's line "it's better to burn out than it is to rust" from rust Never Sleeps.

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manyeagles wrote:

We'd dress up our younger sister in rags and go door to door



OMG, that brought to memory when I was in a once a week, what was it called, can't remember, oh wait, JUNIOR ACHIEVERS, where a businessperson would mentor a group and we would make a product and sell it door to door...I was 15.

Sales were slow, always, so I got the bright idea to pose as blind, so my partner led me from door to door, I was Mary(an alias of course) the blind girl(no sunglasses but still pulled it off)...I would give the spiel and watch as the folks were so nervous talking to me…a wonderful experience in seeing how the differently constructed are related to.  Asked one person for the time and they almost feel over themselves stuttering to get it out, and did not notice I had a watch on (hey, I forgot to take it off, we laughed about that).  Got to the point that folks were waiting at the door for us and we sold a lot that night.  What were we selling, wine bottles melted down into ashtrays, a must have item(they had been very hard to sell, wonder why?????)  When we were picked up by our advisor he was getting all these calls about a blind girl…fortunately he was not a heavy and just carefully explained that it was misrepresentation.  Gee we said, but look at the sales we got.  I should have gone to work for Wal Nam…or a pharmaceutical company.

It's all mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter...

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aaronfirebrand wrote:

  Well, you're not boring now!

Thanks.  I try.  wink   haha

aaronfirebrand wrote:

   By the way, isn't it possible that, before the advent of indigos, there may have been "prototypes"?

You know, I don't know, but that's an interesting idea.  I've looked at those lists of Indigo traits, and I have more than half of them, but I still wouldn't call myself an Indigo.  I always picture Indigos as being such magnificent, positive, wonderful happy talented humanitarian "Renaissance" type people, actively involved in 5 million projects to save the planet, persuing creative artistic endeavors that would shame most artists.   Then there's me.  Perfectly happy to stare a wall for an hour and do nothing.   Ill tempered at times.   Spent half my life scowling.  big_smile  hehe   I don't know, I can't figure it out. 

aaronfirebrand wrote:

PS Your new signature reminds me of Neil Young's line "it's better to burn out than it is to rust" from rust Never Sleeps.

Thanks, as soon as I saw it I laughed, and I knew I had to use it.  I found it over on David Icke's headlines page.  smile

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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"Ill tempered at times. Spent half my life scowling." You just described me!
I'm no expert on Indigos, but I'd guess there are all kinds, not just "renaissance" types. Besides that, many renaissance figures were absolute curmudgeons, not social folks at all.

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palulukon wrote:

That's it, I was a commie vivisectionist...

big_smile Hehehehehe....

lyra wrote:

Boy, after reading everybody's stories, I feel so boring!

Don't worry Lyra...all my "abilities" have disappeared in my old age. I'm often a bit distressed about it. No 4d bleedthroughs, no blinding flashes of intuition, nothing much that seems to be happening to most people. Maybe our higher selves got us in "Stealth" mode eh?

Was that you that said you should have been dead a few times by now? Somebody did. Whoever that was then we have that in common. I can count 4 times without even trying, probably 2 or 3 more if I really think about it. People ask me why I seem to be fearless(or foolish). Besides the whole reincarnation thing I tell them "By all rights I should have been dead years ago...the fact I'm not just makes this life a bonus". smile

Saracen

"We will not go quietly into the night, We will not give up without a fight...."

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Here's one I rarely share, for obvious reasons.
     In first grade, the game of marbles was what we played at recess. The teacher's son was an aspiring bully, and "T" would cheat by knocking the marbles out of the "pot" with his hand as he shot. He would claim "butterfingers" and scoop up his booty, knowing it was unlikely he'd be ratted out to his own mother. He was right; how do bullies know these things? Well, after he'd pretty much cleaned everyone out, I started to really resent his actions. Our first grade class was split in two because of small portable classrooms. I attended mornings, but our teacher taught both sessions, and her son stayed there through both. I had been to his house with him when his parents were at work, and I knew where the housekey was hidden. So one fine afternoon, I decided to relieve him of his ill-gotten gains. I didn't plan it so much as I spontaneously determined that, there and then, justice would be served. I wasn't thinking of stealing the marbles, just depriving him of them. I sneaked into his garage, got the key and let myself in. I went straight to his room and loaded all his marbles into the jar I'd brought with me. I took them all, including those he came by honestly, and went out back to the creek and started throwing them in. A little decoration for the crawdads. Suddenly I realized that "T" would probably spot them there someday. So I retrieved them and took them to a remote spot and hid them. And promptly put the whole thing out of my mind. I never heard "T" say a word about it, all the way through high school. I have no idea how he explained it to himself. I felt like a crusader, but in retrospect, it would have been better if everyone could have gotten their marbles back. I didn't know how to accomplish that without buying trouble, so I just kept my little secret.
I suppose, at age 5, I was a "burglar prodigy", maybe an "anti-indigo". I eventually, after being busted for shoplifting, got over it, though, with help from my father's belt. That damned belt.