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DivasToy · 06-28-2008, 02:31 PM

i think that how you see something and how i see something can be different based simply on where we stand. All perception is relative, isn't it?

i, for one, am color blind. i have Red/Green color blindness and your red binoculours might appear orange, brown or black to me. i've also found that if i am standing in shadow and looking at something in the light it will appear a shade or too darker than if i were standing in the light.

When i look at something in the dark and know that it is red, i still also know that i am not seeing red. But imagine what it was like when they first started to surmise that the earth was round when the going consensus was that it was flat.

or...that there are may be 7 more dimensions around us that we can't touch or see.

Is that different? Knowing they are there but being unable to physically "see" them?

Here's a scenario i was in last summer. my friends and i were out at the lake and climbing down the side of a low cliff (maybe 200 ft or so). The grade was not straight up and down but near to it.

We started climbing roughly about 9pm. It was still fairly light out at the time. Within 30 minutes that had drastically changed and we were now climbing in the dark. I had a flashlight between my teeth and could see a few feet in front of me so i wasn't in much danger than before. The last i could actually see, the bottom was no more than 30 feet below me. However, because i couldn't see it anymore i found that i had to fight down a growing fear that i would fall.

Is that the same thing?

06-28-2008, 02:31 PM	#7 (permalink)
DivasToy Upright Location: pretty much directly in the center of North America	i think that how you see something and how i see something can be different based simply on where we stand. All perception is relative, isn't it? i, for one, am color blind. i have Red/Green color blindness and your red binoculours might appear orange, brown or black to me. i've also found that if i am standing in shadow and looking at something in the light it will appear a shade or too darker than if i were standing in the light. When i look at something in the dark and know that it is red, i still also know that i am not seeing red. But imagine what it was like when they first started to surmise that the earth was round when the going consensus was that it was flat. or...that there are may be 7 more dimensions around us that we can't touch or see. Is that different? Knowing they are there but being unable to physically "see" them? Here's a scenario i was in last summer. my friends and i were out at the lake and climbing down the side of a low cliff (maybe 200 ft or so). The grade was not straight up and down but near to it. We started climbing roughly about 9pm. It was still fairly light out at the time. Within 30 minutes that had drastically changed and we were now climbing in the dark. I had a flashlight between my teeth and could see a few feet in front of me so i wasn't in much danger than before. The last i could actually see, the bottom was no more than 30 feet below me. However, because i couldn't see it anymore i found that i had to fight down a growing fear that i would fall. Is that the same thing? __________________ SHE is my religion. i serve no other!