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Originally posted by D J 1 3 8:
I had a rare opportunity to hang out with the artist/musician/geniuis Laurie Anderson last year. She had recenlty wrapped up an artist in residency at NASA. Being a visual artist herself, she told me that she was particularly interested in the way NASA artists colored the images form the Hubble telescope.

The colors you see in those images are very very subjective interpretations by NASA artists, and the true color of these celestial bodies is much more likely to be a lot less colorful to the human eye.

Mrs. Anderson spent months trying to track down the people within NASA who actually made the decisions on coloring photos. She felt that the "Disney pallette" they were using was dangerously optimistic and reinforced the human need for the heavens to be beautiful and godlike.

When she finally spoke to the artists in question, there only response as to why they chose such bright happy colors was that "the public likes it". She asked them if they would ever choose a different pallette, such as reds and greys, for instance. Their response was "That might look like a vision of Hell. Nobody wants to see that".

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What must I have internalized in order to do so?

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That herpes looks like an eye.

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Thank You!

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Did you have to "internalize" anything about blue eyes belonging to white (males!?) to see that it looks like an eye?

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Get a fucking grip will ya. What I can't laugh. It's not funny to you that you use a religious nuts picture of a STD to try and get me to get all
fuckin deep with you in a discussion about how a religious deity is plastered into our lives. From the time I was 7 yrs old this is all I was bombarded with from all around me.

What gets me is why are you making such a big fuss over this shit. (Juana )

You said this to Shalewa, "I assumed you were more intelligent than that..."

Internalize this, when you ASS-U-ME...

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Why do you think I am making a big fuss over anything? And I'm not asking you to get all deep about anything; quite the opposite: I'm making the simple point that it's quite easy to understand how someone can make a connection without internalizing anything. Someone says David Mancuso looks like Jesus in a photo; I get the joke, and I needn't have internalized a thing. SO: it would be unwarranted for anyone to infer that I had internalized anything. Mutatis mutandis for calling an image 'God's eye' when it looks like an eye in space.

If you want to make a point about some people have internalized such things, or that their doing so is a bad thing, feel free, but don't think you're making any point that I'm in disagreement with, or making a "big fuss" about. I'm not.

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Originally posted by Eddie Rivera:
ya.. and Jesus was a tall white european..

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He was a Midget.. opps Little Person..

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Your statement is closer to the truth than you might think MYOR.

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Of course, it has come to my attention since my time on this board that a great deal of you feel like there is nothing to struggle with at all.

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You need to travel (out of america) more,or have joined dhp, when their wasn't so much back patting.

God bless America hey myor

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I have no idea what you mean about the "back patting." I will say this . . . I posted this 3 weeks ago! Something I said must have really stuck in your craw.

I like to believe that we often agree more than we disagree - but the slight contrast in our ideas (and how we express them) gets more attention. With that said, you're absolutely right, I do need to travel, broaden my horizons. My view is admittedly narrow, but (and I could be wrong) I doubt if America is the only racially pathological speck on the globe.

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i was being Provocative again
, we do agree a fair bit, better put a stop to that, people will talk.

I'de invite you to England but it's a pretty shitty place

Happy New Year

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Can't be that bad if you're there
although off hand I can't think of anything I'd like to do or see(other than hitting one of those late night curry houses after a hard night of partying - I here they are tha bomb! anyone that knows me well, knows I love indian food!)

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Originally posted by D J 1 3 8:
Something to consider:

The images from the Hubble telescope are basically NASA's best source of PR. NASA wants to ensure that the govt keeps funding them with your tax money, so they put out these beautifully doctored images to show the voting public that space is as wonderous and beautiful as we have always imagined it would be.

They're no dummies. They are, after all, "rocket scientists".

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And, i think, this eye of god edit helps propagate creationist ideas

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