Illusions Of Light

Do not think that just because you can see with your natural eyes, that you can really see.

You see the stick bending in the water. ...It is not bending.

You see magenta and you see purple and you say these are 'colors' - but they do not have their own wavelengths but instead are combinations of red, blue, and violet, each of which of those do have their own discrete wavelength ranges that define their color 'labels.'  

And it is not as simple as suggesting that the label 'purple' is a cultural phenomenon because it is actually not - there is such a thing as purple, but only as a combination of very different wavelengths and not something existing in its own band. So, fair enough, it is not an 'illusion.' It is just not a spectral color, that's all.

Are these two tiles the same shade/color
or not the same?
What say you?

Adelson's checker shadow however, is an illusion.

What we literally see, and are entitled to see and to perceive, is not what is really there at all...

Huh?

Oh yeah.

We see 'white' things or 'lightness' in terms of variations in intensity against backgrounds or immediate surrounding other intensities - and this allows us to make out edges of things where all the 'faces' are in fact the same 'whiteness' or the same 'grayness.'

If I jump to a related subject, but which appears radically different - the movie 'The Burnt Orange Heresy' my personal view is that you are not missing the most life-altering thing ever, if you never watched the movie. It is a film somewhat about art and artists and how society and modern culture deals with these things, but deep down - well there is no 'deep down' in it at all.

It is cynical, shallow, interesting and engaging to an extent because of our own cultural programming as seasoned movie-watchers to believe that 'story-line build ups' such as what we can see in this movie at its beginning, will end up with some revelation, whereas instead, it's just simplistically hard-bitten and cynical and outside of Mick Jagger's outstanding portrayal of a money-motivated old hand at serial exploitation, it 'holds nothing' of any value, moral or otherwise.

Donald Sutherland is himself and the younger actors are passably okay.

And that's that about it.

What do you say?
Same or not the same?

If we go to something that has been claiming to be 'morally deep' for many thousands of years, the Hebrew religious scholars can tell you, that when Leonard Nimoy took a peek at the Shekinah, when the Kohen (intermediaries between God and Man) were 'shining' their Holy Blessing upon the people - what we will find is that the Hebrew exegetic texts all say the Kohen are 'praying to God' at that moment, even though they are actually not verbally doing that nor are they looking at 'up there,' but instead addressing the people directly (who are all supposed to have their eyes closed).

So what is going on? Or at least, meant to be going on? Did Nimoy actually see the 'Glory of God?' Well, I am not sure from his interviews on it, seems like maybe, might have been, something - but what he certainly knows he did see, of course, was the famous 'Spock hand sign' which he then gave to the world in Star Trek.

Okay, so the 'secret' teaching is that God intended for the whole thing to, not so much just 'depict' a two-way interchange, but to actually be that: but literally to be about two-way interchanges between people.

The 'prayer' is the two-way engagement between people... 

I get that as a separate idea, same as I get there is a color 'purple.' Even though there isn't one; even though there is.

I get that.

How about now?
Same shade or not the same shade?
(Answer is they are the same shade. 100%).

I don't like that this 'God' claims that He is 'standing in with the Kohen' (okay, you can call them 'priests,' Jews don't like that you say that, but hey, we're gonna say it still).

I want Him to be literally there, not 'invisibly' there or 'non-spectral color' there, but there, of course there; because well 'purple,' right?

Otherwise what makes this still not 'just an idea' that Moses and co went out earnestly looking for God over, and but coming back with a brilliant idea in place of?

Yes it's a great 'God' idea - aka: God is Love expressed, actually expressed between two parties... ...I get that. Brilliant. But not God. Maybe from God, or something like that. But not actual God.

Sorry God, don't tell me you are there, invisibly with the Kohen guys. Not good enough.

When you say 'Glory' I want to see that. When you say 'Thunder' I want to hear that.

Okay you know what...? I'll make a compromise though. Maybe was okay, when people were mostly all idiots and ignorant and violent and destructive (well, they still are that...); while you were getting this great idea to seep into human consciousness. But right now?

No. Not good enough for right now.

And yes I still get the first point, but no, not for right now.

See, a good idea is self-contained within itself isn't it? It can have been back then, and still remain a good idea now and yet not be actual 'God' outright. Doesn't need to be 'God' to be a really good idea. 

Was a good enough idea but now what makes it that 'we' the human race though are still running around giving military equipment and killing thousands and sending money to kill more thousands and lying to the public and stealing from them and acting like little, no - not acting - being conniving petty little tyrants?

After many thousands of years of lots of 'good ideas.'

Hope the factory is totally
robotic, so that we can have these new still...
Afterwards.

I understand the latest 'conspiracy theory' is that with these vaxxes, everyone who took them will be dead in five years - and then, the 'elites' will just have... ...well, I'm not sure what the point of killing so many people off is. But I guess then the 'elites' will have the place to themselves.

Will they need to have a few otherwise useless eaters around to do the 'clean up,' though? I don't know what the conspiracy theory says about that side of it.

The conspiracy theory doesn't sound quite right to me, because if they can have killed off so many, why would they even care about 'avoiding being blamed because it didn't happened instantly?'

As it is, the Supreme Court judges know damn well the voting is crooked but they are obviously bought and owned and they are not going to do anything about egregious criminality and corruption. And that's because they are that themselves! The Depp Trial absolutely proved one thing -, which is that you can suppress crucial evidence in a supposed honest and fair trial.

The FBI are the biggest joke on the planet. That was made abundantly clear this last week.

So. Interesting.

Where does that leave us, now that we have seen that 'white' is a pretty gray area...

Some of you haven't yet 'seen the light.' But you sure as heck have seen the shadier sections versus the lighter parts.

And that's good enough in many ways.

It will help you to 'see the edges' and keep away from the cracks. And that will be well good enough for what is coming towards us down the turn-pike not too far ahead, let me tell you!

'Someday' is coming real soon.