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1. 4 Mar 2010 07:37 | ||
since new theme 'beads ' has started i want to know wat is ur fav colour |
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2. 4 Mar 2010 07:38 | ||
my fav colors r green and bottle blue and sea green |
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3. 4 Mar 2010 13:57 | ||
red but not to wear |
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4. 4 Mar 2010 13:59 | ||
purples and reds |
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5. 4 Mar 2010 22:02 | ||
All shades of blue |
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6. 22 Mar 2010 02:44 | ||
translucent amber and off-beat but not-too-intense blues... deep bloody crimson red... sap green (a real tree is far more beautiful and alive than any picture of a tree because the green chlorophyll in the foliage is backed up by red (rh---something) and yellow (xy---something) pigments, so you're really seeing three colors - but there's a pigment called sap green that comes close. My favorite of all is Indian yellow, which used to me made by feeding mangoes (or mango leaves maybe) to cows, not allowing them enough water, and then collecting and dehydrating their urine; I just know the laboratory equivalent. Colors on computer screens are generally more beautiful than in print because they're lit from behind, like a stained glass window... I could go on... and on... but that'll do. |
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7. 22 Mar 2010 04:00 | ||
WOW CHELYDRA... you DO know lots about color... that's why your pics are so beautifully colorful. |
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8. 22 Mar 2010 06:01 | ||
thanx |
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9. 22 Mar 2010 15:35 | ||
wishing you had gone on, Chelydra! |
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10. 22 Mar 2010 16:35 | ||
Hmmm... Okay Shanley |
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11. 22 Mar 2010 16:57 | ||
sorry for all the typos i missed - too many to list/correct here. |
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12. 22 Mar 2010 17:27 | ||
Very interesting ideas there, Chelydra. Leaves me wondering about that third dimension in terms of dark and light. As far as I know, light has been seen as a symbol of fertility by many thinkers. |
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13. 22 Mar 2010 17:32 | ||
As for the light theories....yes, i suppose it's true, colors are beautifully 'dragged' on the scene by wavelength. and even more, there are devices that measure 'health aura' based on electromagnetic waves. As for the matter and spirit thing....i believe it's too complicated to discuss, although fascinating! |
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14. 22 Mar 2010 18:01 | ||
You are a facinating person chelydra, I somehow think you would be a very interesting person to have sitting at your table in a coffee house discussion or at a quiet party with lots of free thinkers. Your comments have a lovely blend of science and spirituallity. |
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15. 22 Mar 2010 19:49 | ||
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16. 22 Mar 2010 22:52 | ||
Q: That would be the one you said (elsewhere) had a Jungian archetype folded up inside? I'd been trying to figure that comment out before I saw this. After seeing it, I still am. How did you know I've been daydreaming and writing about a delicious Anima showing up in this dump and hanging around until she can't stand it and goes back to living in the streets of north London? (She's a streetwalking Muse, musing any guy who strikes her fancy whether he's up for it or not. Women of course have male muses, according to Jung and my wife.) Am I that transparent (or are you that close a reader) that you could tell all this from what you've seen of me here? |
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17. 22 Mar 2010 23:20 | ||
Hi Dragon — I guess you don't get a lot of long-winded autodidacts up on the Canadian prairies, huh? If that's an invite, count me in. My elderly cousin, a defrocked sea captain, got by quite comfortably holding forth at Palm Beach dinners. When he ran out of fascinating made-up war stories (too many other WW2 vets within earshot to get away with it forever), he switched to becoming a Titanic survivor, even finding a photo of himself with his nanny on the deck for that purpose. He never backed down, never yielded an inch, even when publicly confronted by recognized experts in his chosen field, and he won in the end — Titanic Survivor was in the headline of his obit! |
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18. 23 Mar 2010 00:21 | ||
Hi again Shanley — I thought the bog-standard (I'm practiicng Britishisms but still can't figure out either US or UK spelling of practicisng) symbol of fertility was always dark earth, the blacker the soil the better. Light (or spirit) is animating when it penetrates (is devoured by) darkness, but only then. By itself it's useless. So is matter, but in the opposite way, just cold sterile rocks and dust The whole matter-spirit thing is as simple as a granola box illustration of a seedling emerging from the earth, rooted in wet black soil and basking in the sun. If you got the combination, you got life. Otherwise you got speedy death or no germination/birth to start with. (This applies to us at least indirectly, since the whole animal kingdom is one big parasite, mooching off plants and even breathing their exhalations.) It's also as simple as the clichéd phrase 'keeping body and soul together'. Body + soul = living organism. (animal is from anima meaning soul, and so is animation). Matter + spirit = life. Molecules (what the earth's surface is made of) plus photons (what sunlight is made of) = life. Materialism and spirituality are equally (although oppositely) wrong-headed; either alone is dead. Favoring one over the other is plain dumb. I'm sure everyone is born knowing all this stuff, and and are reminded of it when studying photosynthesis in 6th grade, or learning in church about how God thought He'd better get Himself a a physical body complete with real blood and spit and hair and snot (and pain and love and pride and temptations) in order to get things sorted out down here and fulfill His own purposes. (You can believe that part of it or not — I can get along without the belief, but it's a concept worth pondering.) And maybe a few people besides me have noticed that the Christian Bible opens and closes with The Tree of Life, not the Tree of Matter or the Tree of Spirit, and that became the forbidden tree after Adam & Eve ate from a DIFFERENT tree and thereby lost their right to live freely in the wild like everyone else always has. |
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19. 23 Mar 2010 09:03 | ||
Chelydra; are you Van Howell? |
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20. 23 Mar 2010 10:59 | ||
chelydra, if you came to hang out with my group of friends you would definitly find your self in the midst of spirited (& friendly) conversation rather than silent thinking (we prefer the out loud thinking hehehe). Also I'd make sure you got at least 1 biscotti to go with your coffee. |