Quick Response
This is just a very quick response to a reply I received to my "Your God and My God" post from several months ago. It was made by the Rev. Danny Alger, a former staff member of Camp T. This will all make much more sense if you go back and read his reply first, but even if you don't I think the point is fairly clear. Enjoy!
Dear Dan,
A couple of thoughts on hair color: 1) Did you know that 90% of brown hair is actually a VERY dark shade of red? So while you may say you have brown hair, someone who says that it is actually red is equally correct. 2) If I say I have sandy blonde hair, and someone else says a have light brown hair, isn't that just a question of perception? Just because someone else perceives my hair to be a different color then I happen to think it is, that doesn't make them wrong.
Case in point - the Seattle Seahawk's uniforms. Now you're probably thinking 'Huh? Where the heck is this going?' Well let me tell you - take a look at the Seahawk's uniforms the next time you see them on TV (this Sunday would be a good opportunity actually) and tell me what color they are. I'll tell you right now, the most popular response is gonna be 'blue' or 'sea blue' or 'blue green'. This is a debate I've been having w/ a friend of mine who is a Seahawks fan, and it's been going on for sometime now. As it turns out, the OFFICIAL color of the Seahawk uniform is Seahawk Blue. Great. Apparently they couldn't figure out what color it was either, and just made up their own. Anyway, my point is just because the Seahawk organization SAYS it's Seahawk blue, does that make void any other description of the color of these uniforms? Could they not ALSO be described as blue/green or sea green, steel blue or dark aqua, etc. etc. etc.? No two people see colors the exact same way - that's why it's so hard to agree on anything more then very general shades most of the time. Now, back to the hair...
Your analogy actually supports a point I was trying to make - I don't like the fact that so many of our religious leaders deal in such glaring absolutes. The fact is, you DON'T have blonde hair. You have hundreds of thousands of different color hairs on your head, some lighters, some darker, some longer, some shorter, and they all work together to produce what YOU call blonde. Your definition of blonde and my definition of blonde may not even be the same thing - why do YOU (not you specifically of course) get to decide what qualifies as blonde and what doesn't?
Yes, you may be MUCH more knowledgeable then I am in the area of hair color, and you may have studied hair color for years, and even have a book that your great, great, great grandfather gave you that says 'The ONLY REAL blonde is this exact shade...', but I'm sorry, in the end your blonde could just as easily be my very light brown.
So my question is, instead of spending so much time trying to convince EVERYONE that there is only ONE shade of blonde in the ENTIRE WORLD, why not accept that everyone perceives their own hair color a little differently? You don't make your definition of blonde any less valid by allowing someone else to have a different definition. Just realize that in the end we're all talking about the same thing - hair. And as long as we all agree that we do in fact have hair, and that it does have color, then we're doing ok.
Dear Dan,
A couple of thoughts on hair color: 1) Did you know that 90% of brown hair is actually a VERY dark shade of red? So while you may say you have brown hair, someone who says that it is actually red is equally correct. 2) If I say I have sandy blonde hair, and someone else says a have light brown hair, isn't that just a question of perception? Just because someone else perceives my hair to be a different color then I happen to think it is, that doesn't make them wrong.
Case in point - the Seattle Seahawk's uniforms. Now you're probably thinking 'Huh? Where the heck is this going?' Well let me tell you - take a look at the Seahawk's uniforms the next time you see them on TV (this Sunday would be a good opportunity actually) and tell me what color they are. I'll tell you right now, the most popular response is gonna be 'blue' or 'sea blue' or 'blue green'. This is a debate I've been having w/ a friend of mine who is a Seahawks fan, and it's been going on for sometime now. As it turns out, the OFFICIAL color of the Seahawk uniform is Seahawk Blue. Great. Apparently they couldn't figure out what color it was either, and just made up their own. Anyway, my point is just because the Seahawk organization SAYS it's Seahawk blue, does that make void any other description of the color of these uniforms? Could they not ALSO be described as blue/green or sea green, steel blue or dark aqua, etc. etc. etc.? No two people see colors the exact same way - that's why it's so hard to agree on anything more then very general shades most of the time. Now, back to the hair...
Your analogy actually supports a point I was trying to make - I don't like the fact that so many of our religious leaders deal in such glaring absolutes. The fact is, you DON'T have blonde hair. You have hundreds of thousands of different color hairs on your head, some lighters, some darker, some longer, some shorter, and they all work together to produce what YOU call blonde. Your definition of blonde and my definition of blonde may not even be the same thing - why do YOU (not you specifically of course) get to decide what qualifies as blonde and what doesn't?
Yes, you may be MUCH more knowledgeable then I am in the area of hair color, and you may have studied hair color for years, and even have a book that your great, great, great grandfather gave you that says 'The ONLY REAL blonde is this exact shade...', but I'm sorry, in the end your blonde could just as easily be my very light brown.
So my question is, instead of spending so much time trying to convince EVERYONE that there is only ONE shade of blonde in the ENTIRE WORLD, why not accept that everyone perceives their own hair color a little differently? You don't make your definition of blonde any less valid by allowing someone else to have a different definition. Just realize that in the end we're all talking about the same thing - hair. And as long as we all agree that we do in fact have hair, and that it does have color, then we're doing ok.
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