Well, I don’t know about divinity, but he definitely matched it up with the 7 intervals of the musical scale. Dorian mode, apparently, since orange and indigo are the semitones.
As to how many bands there actually are, I think it really depends what you are primed to see. Ancient Greeks listed the rainbow as just having three bands – red, green, and purple – which I notice correspond roughly to our cones. Aristotle gives 7 “primary” colors in total, the others being white, yellow, blue, and black. It’s weird to me he didn’t notice yellow and blue are also in the rainbow, but I guess he just sort of saw them as the overlap of other bands. And personally I would have considered orange much the same way…to me there are only 5 major bands, all grading into each other.
Newton was really interested in the physics rather than perception, so considered the whole thing as actually infinite colors with any division arbitrary anyway. That said, his choice seems reasonable to me…the difference between blue jeans and the sky looks about as much as between red and orange. With indigo forgotten, it leaves an awkwardly large range of blue like @PurpleCat said, and we’re stuck fumbling around with trying to adopt some kind of cyan or teal or turquoise instead.
Hello everyone. I had no idea this place existed, but I am exceedingly glad to have somehow stumbled upon it.
I was banned at the other place (I can guess who probably did that) for the last few days before it closed, for expressing my disappointment in multiple and persistent ways. Quelle surprise! So I’m very, very happy to see quite a few handles here that I recognise and would have badly missed if I’d been limited to whatever they are trying to do on Substack (which was severely bumming me out) so I’m excited to have arrived. Thanks to whoever is behind all this.
I only changed three letters from my former handle at the other place - a change that makes my part-new handle here even more appropriate, I guess. Not sure I shouldn’t have taken the chance to try out a whole new handle but I figured some of you might want to know who I was (as if the toast icon would not have given the game away to those who might recognise it). Still wondering if I should replace it with a new name. Will sleep on that, but the toast will remain so you’ll know it’s still me, if I do adopt a new name.
Anyway, I guess the vibe here may be a little different, so I’ll probably lurk for a bit to get a feel for the place and what goes on and how this new (to me) community works (and all the brouhaha at the other place made me realise I perhaps need to spend less time online for a while, too).
Ramble, ramble, blah, blah - enough said. I hope it’s ok for me to take my coat off and sit quietly in the corner for the time being.
I’m guilty of recently “continuing” a few topics from the BBBBS. It’s comforting to find (or be invited to) a familiar-feeling place, especially in uncertain times.
But I also try to keep in mind that Elsewhere is its own world, with its own history, and although it might look and feel like a direct continuation of the old place, there are some critical differences. (In fact, isn’t that why Elsewhere was created?)
I think this is the reason that, instead of opening a Touron thread, i opened a “just silly memes for now” one.That and the fact we have enough rage for now. Maybe some silly grins are more needed than more reminders that the world is a shitty place.
Anything specific you want to discuss? Because rather than making vague statements, be very clear in what’s bothering you so we can work it out. There is no reason not to do that here.
Still trying to get a sense of what @RAvery is concerned with, but yeah, that… we NEED this place to be safe for ALL of us, especially now. Now is not the time for respectability politics, which general works to silence marginalized voices.
If multiple people state that they don’t like a problematic expletive, like the word “c*nt,” then just don’t use it in this forum; as a sign that one has respect for the community here.
Mel speaks truth and wisdom, as always. Yeah, our forum here is cross-cultural, and instead of the c-word, one could employ the functionally identical “twat” and maybe offend 30% fewer people.
Or, one could choose an insult (if one must employ an insult at all) that is not gendered, nor bigoted in any way toward a race, religion, culture, disability, or any protected category. “Dipshit” comes to mind. You won’t accidentally offend anyone but turds with that one.
I don’t think anyone is asking anyone to be uncomfortably stiff and formal, just reasonably considerate. I could try to start a thread of Acceptable Epithets if I thought it would help, but jeez, just use your imaginations, folks, and try to be somewhat more sensitive than your typical gas station restroom wall.
That is not the consensus here. And I’d hope that people can recognize we’re all dealing with this traumatic shit in our own way. I haven’t been posting at all, I don’t know how to say much that feels productive right now, and every time I try I get more sad and afraid. I haven’t seen you cut anyone down. Passionate defense of yourself and others isn’t a problem, IMO.
Because rather than making vague statements, be very clear in what’s bothering you so we can work it out. There is no reason not to do that here.
