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It so happened to me one day that a sadhu (A hindu godman) once showed up at my doorstep and supposedly started telling about my fortune. I was about 8-9 years old then (I am 23 now) and my mother was with me. He said that I would become an engineer, I would get to travel abroad and other assorted claims I vaguely remember. My mother doesn’t usually entertain mendicants tried to turn him away by paying him, however, he did not want money. Also, she was intrigued when he started telling the good stuff about me, so she listened to him. Among other things he said, he said not to put on black clothes on me.

To this day, my mom does not let me wear black clothes and my dad supports her. I see it as a total restriction to my freedom. Also, it is not practical because I will have to wear something black some or the other time depending upon the occasion.

However, I now live away from my parents, but I am still confused. I have taken to wearing black t-shirts, but I am confused if it will really have some adverse affect on me or something. My mom still rebukes me for wearing black. What shall I do?
 
Why would wearing black clothes have any adverse effects? The most adverse effect might not be honoring your mother’s wishes. Your best bet is to convince her that Christians aren’t supposed to be superstitious.

For example, I refused to wear a Hindu good luck charm because it is superstitious. My parents eventually relented.
 
OP, are you an engineer? Have you traveled abroad? Did anything else come true?

Wear black, there’s no power to colors.
 
Well considering the superstition in the event. I would pay no attention to his readings. I myself do not believe in humans’ reading another one’s future. Since Jesus Christ does those things, i find myself against those readings since they are sinful. Correct me if I’m wrong, but yeah i find no reason you shouldn’t wear black.
 
desmond27 said:
I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this. Mods, feel free to move this thread if you deem necessary.

It so happened to me one day that a sadhu (A hindu godman) once showed up at my doorstep and supposedly started telling about my fortune. I was about 8-9 years old then (I am 23 now) and my mother was with me. He said that I would become an engineer, I would get to travel abroad and other assorted claims I vaguely remember. My mother doesn’t usually entertain mendicants tried to turn him away by paying him, however, he did not want money. Also, she was intrigued when he started telling the good stuff about me, so she listened to him. Among other things he said, he said not to put on black clothes on me.

To this day, my mom does not let me wear black clothes and my dad supports her. I see it as a total restriction to my freedom. Also, it is not practical because I will have to wear something black some or the other time depending upon the occasion.

However, I now live away from my parents, but I am still confused. I have taken to wearing black t-shirts, but I am confused if it will really have some adverse affect on me or something. My mom still rebukes me for wearing black. What shall I do?
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With so many colors why wear black?
 
confucius said:
With so many colors why wear black?
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I don’t wear black. It has nothing to do with superstition. It’s simply a color that does not look good on me. With my complexion, it makes me look like a ghost. I wear other neutrals like navy and grey.
I had a mother-in-law who did not like grey because of her upbringing. The Southern forces during the War Between the States wore grey while Union soldiers wore blue. Of course, I was born in Texas.
 
Don’t where black if you’re riding a bike or walking at Night!
 
desmond27 said:
I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this. Mods, feel free to move this thread if you deem necessary.

It so happened to me one day that a sadhu (A hindu godman) once showed up at my doorstep and supposedly started telling about my fortune. I was about 8-9 years old then (I am 23 now) and my mother was with me. He said that I would become an engineer, I would get to travel abroad and other assorted claims I vaguely remember. My mother doesn’t usually entertain mendicants tried to turn him away by paying him, however, he did not want money. Also, she was intrigued when he started telling the good stuff about me, so she listened to him. Among other things he said, he said not to put on black clothes on me.

To this day, my mom does not let me wear black clothes and my dad supports her. I see it as a total restriction to my freedom. Also, it is not practical because I will have to wear something black some or the other time depending upon the occasion.

However, I now live away from my parents, but I am still confused. I have taken to wearing black t-shirts, but I am confused if it will really have some adverse affect on me or something. My mom still rebukes me for wearing black. What shall I do?
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It’s interesting that, years later, your mother is still under the power of this sadhu. As parents, our job is to protect our children from harm, but in this case, your mother failed to protect herself and you from the words of this man.

However, it is not the sadhu’s words that are powerful, but the fact that your mother chose to believe his words, instead of looking to herself. In anything (even religion), we have to work it out for ourselves and not be so easily led. God gave each of us the ability to think for ourselves and the Holy Spirit to guide us and it is when we fail to utilize these God given gifts that we tread in dark waters.

I am glad that, by choosing to wearing black t shirts, you have not fallen under the power of the sadhu’s empty words. God Himself does not really care whether you wear black or not and that’s all that should matter.

Our minds our like an open door and we should be very careful what we let in. If we don’t actually reject a thought or opinion, there is acceptance and that thought or opinion now becomes part of your belief system.
 
losh14 said:
OP, are you an engineer? Have you traveled abroad? Did anything else come true?

Wear black, there’s no power to colors.
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My questions exactly. Why would you think that black clothing warning was important? :confused:Did anything else he said come true?
 
I wonder if he consider black to be unlucky for you specifically, or just bad in general. If he thinks no one should wear black, I’d be in a heap of trouble, haha!
 
JHow said:
Priests wear black. So did Johnny Cash. Worked fine for them.
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Works fine for Joan Jett too, and for me. :cool:

But hey, if it’s not your color, it’s not. As someone else asked, did other things this sadhu said come true?
 
Izdaari said:
Works fine for Joan Jett too, and for me. :cool:

But hey, if it’s not your color, it’s not. As someone else asked, did other things this sadhu said come true?/QUOTE

Add to list CoCo Chanell the ‘inventor’ of the little black dress.👍
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Oh you can’t possibly just wear white all the time. You’d run out of bleach in no time, and water too because you’d have to wash it all the time.

Don’t worry, it’s mere superstition.
 
losh14 said:
OP, are you an engineer? Have you traveled abroad? Did anything else come true?

Wear black, there’s no power to colors.
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Although red is considered a power color. Of course this is a matter of wearing a particular color in order to affect how other people might see you versus giving color power that it does not have in affecting your life.
 
DebChris said:
Although red is considered a power color. Of course this is a matter of wearing a particular color in order to affect how other people might see you versus giving color power that it does not have in affecting your life.
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In my office, blue is the “standard issue color” to the point that there’s jokes about how many of us wear blue on a Monday (one day it was all 9 in my group … scary). So I took to wearing purple, yellow and orange just to not be confused with the analyst who sat next to me (and resembled me other than facial hair and color of eyes).
 
losh14 said:
In my office, blue is the “standard issue color” to the point that there’s jokes about how many of us wear blue on a Monday (one day it was all 9 in my group … scary). So I took to wearing purple, yellow and orange just to not be confused with the analyst who sat next to me (and resembled me other than facial hair and color of eyes).
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Blue Monday. I often wear blue because it is a good color on me. I seldom wear orange, but yellow and purple are also nice.
Might want to avoid black on Friday;)
 
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