Our eyes and our visual cortex that sees colors is a wonderful thing. But did you know that only the cones on our retinas perceive color? When night comes and there is no sunlight with its color spectrum, we only perceive light with the rods on our retinas. We only see black and white at night. (except in artificial light mimicking sunlight). But we are so used to it, that we don't realize that we are not seeing color.
I recall going to a touted showing of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, when the movie started, a guy shouted, "What! This movie is in black and white! I'm leaving," and he stormed out of the theater. From the time the silent movies came out around the turn-of-the-20th century until the 1930s when Technicolor came along, everybody was satisfied with black and white depictions of stories large and small.
Yes, color is a wondrous thing. But we can get along without it even though we find that it reveals wonders, especially in nature. Those that are blind, see nothing at all, but imagine colors like you or I.
I think most animals - dogs and cats - only see our world in black and white, and yet most of them seem to be happy all the time. I think if I were born only to see the world in black and white, I would not have known a world with colors anyway. Yes, I can be happy about what I see and its beauty!
Although I love when someone does a paining in black and white I can certainly see your point. Actually I'm a batter fan of red and black in the arts. But sure, it would be a dismal world indeed if all there where was black and white. I'm sure that eventually become suicidally depressed for many.
Intuitively, I know I've lived many lifetimes, and none more interesting than the one I'm living now. However, being born an old soul somehow did not excuse me from the same job I share with you and that is learning to craft a positive attitude about
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I recall going to a touted showing of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, when the movie started, a guy shouted, "What! This movie is in black and white! I'm leaving," and he stormed out of the theater. From the time the silent movies came out around the turn-of-the-20th century until the 1930s when Technicolor came along, everybody was satisfied with black and white depictions of stories large and small.
Yes, color is a wondrous thing. But we can get along without it even though we find that it reveals wonders, especially in nature. Those that are blind, see nothing at all, but imagine colors like you or I.
Ron
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